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An Act to provide for the method of collecting rewards which may be offered for the apprehension of runaway slaves, who may hereafter be lodged within any of the jails of this State. 1842 166 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0324 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ACT to repeal an act the better to secure and protect the citizens of' Georgia in the possession of their slaves, assented to December cleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-one, so ftr as relates to the Port of Savannah. SECrioN 1. Be it enacted, t-c., That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed, so thr as relates to the Port of Savannah. WILLIAM B. WOFFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT A1. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to, December 27th, 1S42. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. AN ACT to provide for the method of collecting rewards wvhich may be oflered ibr the apprehension of iunaway slaves, who may hereafter be lodged within any of the jails of this State. WH1EIEMS, in niny cases iii which rewards are offered for the apprehension of runaway slaves, and said slaves are lodged in jail, the same are discharged by the jailer from his custody, without the consent of the person so appre- hendinig the slave, whereby the reward so offered becomes wholly lost to them ; lbr remedy whercof: SEcrioN 1. Be it entcld by the Senate atnd House of Rep- rerentatires of the State </ Georgia, in General Assembly net, and it is hlrchyl enicted by the aiutlioritU (f the samc, That friom and aliwr the passage of' this net, when any runaway slave for vhom a reward has been ofiered by his owner, employer or any oilier person, shall be ppwhlended and lodged in any of the joils of this State, it shall be the duty of' the jailer, and he is hereby authorized to retain possession of said slave until the reward so oflred, shaill be paid, or good security given the the payment of the snmne SEc. 2. And be it irther enacted by the authority oforesaid, That if' any jailer shall discharge a slave so apprehended, without collecting the reward so oficred, or taking good se- curity, in accordance with the foregoing section of this act, and by such refusal or neglect, the said reward shall be lost to the person so apprehending the said slave, such jailcr and his seCurit ies shall be liable in an action at common law for the aniount so lost, by the refusal or neglect of the jailer to 160 SLAVES. A

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