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An Act to alter and amend an act entitled an act to prohibit slaves from selling certain commodities therein mentioned 1818 123 (1818)

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mayor's court for the trial of civil ca3es, the mayor shall
p reside, and he shall be allowed the same fees as is al-
lowed the mayor of Savannah, on sums of like amount;
and any person dissatisfied with the decision of the may-
or, may appeal to a jury, in the manner now provided
for in the 'intendant and council's court of the town of
])arien'; and the same proceedings shall be had on all
such appeals; and it shall be lawful for the city mar-
shall to advertise his sales in any gazette in the city of
))aien..
(4. And be itfurther enacted,. That so much of an
act, passed'on the twelfth (lay of December eighteen hun-
dred and sixteen, entitled an act, to incorporate the town
of Darien, and all other acts and parts of acts militating
against the provisions of this act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
BENJAMIN      WILLIAMS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
MATIEW TALBOT,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 18th December, 1818.
WILLIANl RABUN, Governor.
AN ACT
'o alter and amend nit act, entitled an act to prohibit
slaves from selling certain commodities therein men
tioned, passed the 18th December, 18to.
Eait enacted bg the Senate and House of Represent.
atives of the State of Georgia in Gene ra Assembly met,
That from and after the passage of tbis act, if any person
or persons shall buy or receive from any slave or slave,
any amount of money exceeding one dollar, cotton, to.
bacco, wheat, rye, oats, corn, rice or poultry, of any do-
scription whatever, or any other article, commodity or
thing, (except such as are hereinafter enumerated. to wit,
brooms, baskets, foot and bed.mats, shuck.cullars and

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