About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

An Act for the relief of Edward J. Black, Curtis Humphries, and John G. McCall. 1834 176 (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0260 and id is 1 raw text is: of laws militating against this law be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
THOMAS GLASCOCK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JACOB WOOD,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 20th December, 1834.
WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.
AN ACT ror the relief of Edward J. Black, Curtis Hum-
phries, and John G. McCall.
Whereas, Edward. J. Black of Scriven county did, in tht.
month of February of the present year, bring into this State,
from the State of South Carolina, certain negroes which
were settled on his wife,,without having made the oath pre-
scribed by the first section of the thirteenth division of the
penal code, which omission is represented and shown to
have been from inadvertence on his part,and from no inten-
tion to evade the laws of this State; and the said Edward
J. Black has sought relief from the pains and penalties of the
said law-
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa.
tives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and
after the passing this act, the said Edward J. Black be, and
he is hereby relieved and exonerated from the pains and
penalties of the first section of the thirteenth division of the
penal code incurred by him by bringing into this State, in
February, 1834, certain negroes, named old Grace,,Braner
and her children Jgf, Crusy, George, Sally, Lucy, Vicey,
Hampton, Dibilah Revanna Charity and her children
Peter and John, Linda and he childred Liza, Adeline, Polly,
Lydia, Helena, Hatkin, Moses, and Nanoy, Mitey and her

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most