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Effingham County.
TITLE XXVI.
SLAVES.
Sec. 1. Effingham, co.; Act of March 5th, sold for a time to person paying
1856, as to, repealed. fine, if a slave owner, indictable,
2. Warren co; Persons of color in, fine, halfto informer.
not to live on separate lot, &c. I 4. Act extended to Taliaferro county.
3. Person violating, to be whipped, 5 5. Repealing clause.
and if free, to be fined $100, and
(No. 350.)
.Rn Act to repeal an dct to compel owners of slaves on plantations
or farms in Effingham county, to keep a white man on said plan-
tation orfarm,approved March 5th, 1856.*
1. [Section I.?] The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
Act of Mar.do enact, That the above Act, compelling owners of slaves on plan-
5th, 1856. re-
pealed. tations or farms in Effingham county to keep a white man on said
plantation or farms, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Assented to December 21st, 1857.
* See Acts of 1E55-'6, p* 538.
(No. 351.)
.An.1ct to punish all owners of slaves and guardians offree persons
of color, and said slaves andfree persons of coulor in the counties
of Warren and Taliaferrofor said owners aud guardians allow-
ing said slaves andfree persons of color to live alone, and to pre-
vent the same.
Slave or free 2. Section J. Be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
person of slave or free person of color to reside on a separate lot from their
color not to
live on owner or owners, employers or guardians within the limits of the
e nrreat county of Warren.
county. 3. Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That any slave or free person
Violation of
thisAct,irby of color violating the provisions of this Act, may be arrested and
wedtob ottaken before the Magistrate or Magistrates of said county of either
moreSO lash district, and whipped, not exceeding fifty lashes, and fined not ex-
*as.
Ifbyfreeper ceeding one hundred dollars, if it be a free person of color, and sold
ton o io'd by the Constable of said district, for the shortest period of time, to
and finednot the person or persons paying said sum, one half of which shall go
s1oo. to and belong to the informant or prosecutor, and if said person of
And sold for color be a slave, the owner shall and may be indicted in the Supe-
personpay'grior Court of the county aforesaid, for a misdemeanor, and on con-
fine.
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