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An Act to amend the law prohibiting slaves from selling certain articles without license. 1824 126 (1824)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0167 and id is 1 raw text is: Sglaifes.

AN ACT
To amend the law prohibiting slaves from selling certain
articles without licence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and l-oase of Representa-
tives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met,
.and it is hereb9 enacted by the authority qf the same, That
if any slave shall sell or purchase without a ticket autho-
rising him so to do, any quantity or amount whatever of
cotton, tobacco, wheat, rye, oats, corn, rice or poultry, or
any other 4rticles except such as are known to be usually
manufactured or vended by slaves, they shall suffer the
pains provided by an act passed the nineteenth day of De-
cember eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled an act to
alter and am'end an act to prohibit slaves from selling cer-
fain commodities therein mentioned.
JOHN ABERCROMBIE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ALLEN B. POWELL,
President of the Senate).
Assented to,. )ec. 20, 1824.
G. M. TROUP, Governor.
AN ACT
To provide for the trial of claims of slaves levied on under
execution.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Heproesenta-
ives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly me4
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That
in all cases where a writ of execution from a justices court
shall have been levied gn one or more slaves, and a cl pm

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