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An Act to repeal the 1376th section of the Code of Georgia. 1865 106 (1865.2)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0570 and id is 1 raw text is: CHANGES IN CODE.-SLAvEs.-TAXFs.

Sc. N96 repeaed.-Sea. 780 amended.-Tnrd olanov 73fth Sec. aeunded.
TITLE Xll.
-SLAVES8.
An Act to repeal the 1376th section ofthe Code of Georgia.
SECTION 1. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That see-
s     *tion 1376 of the Code of Georgia, which reads as follows: It shall
be unlawful for any church, society, or other body, or any persons,
to grant any license or other authority to any slave or free person
of color to preach or exhort, or otherwise officiate in church mat-
ters, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
SEc. 11. And that the law in reference to licensing slaves and
_ ,free persons of color to preach, existing before the adoption of the
Code, is hereby re-enacted.*
Assented to April 1Sth, I S863.
For the tatute hereby revived, see T. R. R. Cobb sXew Digebt, pp. 1005 and 1006,
TITLE XIII.
TAXES.
Jn'Act to amend the seen hundred and eighth-sixth section y-the Code
qf Georgia relatice Yo tarcing Defaulters.
SECTION I. The General Assembly of this Statedo eniact, That the
seven hundred and eighty-sixth,(786) section of the Code oT Geor-
' gia, be so amended, as to provide, That if any person -shall fail to
,1 C, make a return.of taxable property, in whole or in part, under the
tax acts in force in this State, such persons so in default, shall be
double taxed for the first years default, for the second years default
four fold, and increasing in the same ratio each year, until a return
is made.
SEC. II. Iepeals conflicting laws.
Assented to Dec. 7th, 1S63.
lIMe Saction amend Jd provided only d ube turiti m on Receivers aessennit,
An Act to amend the third clause ofthe (739th) scren hundred and thirty-
ninth section of the Code y Georgia.
SECTION I. Be it enacted, That the third clause of the seven hun-
s    dred and thirty-ninth section of the Code of Georgia, be amended
by inserting the word male between the       words white and
persons ; thereby making said clause read, ,every free white
male person between the ages of twenty-one and sixty, twenty-
five cents.
SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to April 16th, 1863.
The elsuse am3nded, is the one assessing speclilf or poll tax, and siuply nakes the tax im-
posableon free white male persons between e(rtaln nges. and not on all free white persnx'-
which would include femaks.

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