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AN ACT
To bo entitled an act, supplementary to, and more effec
tually to enforce an act, entitled an act, prescribing
the mode of manumitting slaves in this state, to pre
vent the future migration of free persons of color
thereto; to regulate such free persons of color as now
reside therein, and for other purposes.
Whereas the principles of sound policy, con
sidered in reference to the free citizens of this
state, and the exercise of humanity towards the
slave population within the same, imperiously re
quire that the number of free persons of color
within this state, siiouid not he increased by manu
mission, or by the admission of such persons from
other states to reside therein; and whereas divers
persons of color, who are slaves by the laws of
this state, having never been manumitted in con
formity to the same, arc nevertheless in the full
exercise and enjoyment of all the rights and pri
vileges of lice persons of color, without being
‘.subject to the duties and obligations incident to
such persons, thereby constituting a class of peo
ple, equally dangerous to the safety of the free
c itizens of this state, and destructive of the com
fort and happiness of l he slave population thereof,
which it is the duty of this legislature by all just
an<l lawful means to suppress— ■
Be it therefore nine, ted by the senate and house
of representatives of the state of Georgia, in ge
neral assembly met , and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That the act herein be
fore referred to, shall be strictly enforced, but
the penalties therein prescribed, except where
the same shall be otherwise provided for by this
act, shall be increased to five huudred dollars,
for each and every offence inhibited by the said
act, and shall, together with such penalties as are
prescribed by this act, and the proceeds of sales
directed thereby, after deducting costs, be appro
priated, one half to the use of the person suing
or prosecuting for the same, and the other half
to the use of the county in which the offence is
committed, except in the city of Savannah, where
the half of such penalties hereby appropriated to
the use of the county, shall be appropriated and
I paid over for the use of that corporation.
§ 2. Be it further enacted , That from and after
the passing of this act, it shall not be lawful for
Lany free person of color, (Indians in amity with
t he state, and regularly articled seamen or ap
prentices, arriving in any ship or vessel except
ed,) to come into this state; and each and every
person or persons offending herein, shall be liable
kto be arrested by warrant, under the hand and
Fseal of any magistrate in this state, and being
thereof convicted, in the manner hereinafter point
ed out, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
one hundred dollars, ami upon failure to pay the
same within the time prescribed by the court
awarding such sentence, and the proceeds of such
Its, shall he appropriated in the manner pro
ed for the appropriation of penalties recovered
ler this act: Provided , that any person or per
s, who shall have been convicted under this
tion, and shall have complied with the sentence
mice! against him, her or them, by payment of
penalty or penalties, shall be liable to anew
isccution, and to all the pains and penalties
ein prescribed, as often as he, she or they shall
found within the limits of this stale, after the
nration of twenty days from the time of his,
“ or their discharge from such previous prose
ion; and provided moreover , that any articled
men or apprentice as aforesaid, who may he
nd within the limits of this state, after the ov
ation of twenty days from the departure of the
p or vessel in Which he may have arrived, or
his discharge from such ship or vessel, shall
tiuble to all the pains and penalties of this act.
3. Be it further enacted , That all and every
and testament, deed, whether by way of trust
rwise, contract, agreement or stipulation,
instrument in writing, or ! v parol, mad-’
1 le\> uled for the purpose of e'Vet ting or (i
- a effect tit m.uuimi any sl.i\
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88. m; ting to allow and sc* tire, to sm h shoe
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themselves, live bom tlv control of
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profits of Ins, her or their labor or skill,
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ill be the,
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and residence, time of coining into this state, and ’
occupation or pursuit of such free person or per-,
sons of color; and such clerk shall he entitled to 1
demand and receive fifty cents for each and every
person or persons so registered as aforesaid, and
for granting a certificate thereof, which he shall
in like manner be bound to do, on or before the
first Monday in May thereafter, if no person shall
appear to gainsay the same; and to the intent that
all persons concerned or interested therein, may
have due notice thereof, it shall be the duty of such
clerk forthwith, after the said first Monday in
March, in each and every year, to cause to be
published in one or more of the public gazettes
of the county, or in counties where there are no
gazettes, in someone or more of the gazettes of
the state, a list of such free persons of color, ap
plying for registry, with notice that certificates
will be granted to such applicants, if no objections
are made thereto, on or before the second Mon
day in April thereafter; and each and every per
son desirous of objecting thereto, shall file such
his objections in the office of such clerk within
the time specified in such notice, which proceed
ings shall be by the said clerk notified to the jus
tices of the inferior court of such county, and
shall be tried and determined in the manner
hereinafter pointed out; and the said clerk shall
grant or withhold such certificate, according to
the determination thereof; provided , that the ex
pense of such publication, shall be defrayed out
of the county funds, where the moiety of the se
veral penalties prescribed by this act, is appro
priated to the county, and out of the funds of the
several corporate towns, where such moiety is
appropriated to such corporations.
§5. Be it further enacted, That all and every
person of color (Indians in amity with this state,
or regularly articled seamen, or apprentices ar
riving in any ship or vessel excepted) who shall,
after the first Monday in May next, he found
within the limits of this state, whose names shall
not be enrolled in the hook of registry, de cribcd
in the preceding section, or having been enroll
ed, who shall have been refused certificates in
the manner therein prescribed, and who snail be
working at large, enjoying the profits of his or
her labor, and not in the employment of a mas
ter or owner, or of some white person, by and in
virtue of an actual and bonafide contract, with
the master or owner of such personsof color, se
curing to such master or owner the profits aris
ing from the labor of such person of color, shall
be deemed, held anti taken to be slaves, and may
be arrested by warrant under the hand of any
magistrate of this state, and such proceedings be
ing had as are hereinafter provided, shall be sold
by public out-cry as slaves, and the proceeds of
such sales shall be appropriated in the manner
specified in the first section of this act.
§6. Be it further enacted , That all registered
free persons of color, between the ages of fifteen
and sixty years, shall be liable to do public work,
in the counties or corporate towns in which they
may reside, under such regulations and on pain
of such penalties for non-compliance, as the jus
tices of the inferior courts of the several coun
ties, and the mayor and aldermen, or intend ant
and wardens, or commissioners of such corporate
towns shall prescribe; and it shall be the duty of
such justices of the inferior court, and of such
mayor and aldermen, intendant and wardens or
commissioners, to call out such free persons o.
color, and employ them in public work, within
their respective jurisdictions, for a term not ex
ceeding twenty clays in one year.
§7. Be it further enacted, That no free person
of color within this state (Indians in amity within
this state excepted) shall be permitted to purchase
or acquire any real estate, or any slave or slaves,
either by a direct conveyance to such free person
of color of the legal title of,such real estate, or
slave or slaves, or by a conveyance to any white
person or persons of such legal title, reserving
to such free person of color, the beneficial inter
est therein, by any trust, either written or parol,
by any will, testament or deed, or by any contract,
agree ment or stipulation, cither written or parol,
and securing, or attempting to secure, to such
free person of color, the legal title, or equitable
or beneficial interest therein, but all and singular
such real estate, and each and every such slave
or slaves, shall be deemed and held to be wholly
forfeited, and the escheators in the several coun
ties in this state, shall he and they are hereby re
quired to proceed against such property, in the
manner pointed out by the several acts to regu
late escheats in this state; and the proceeds of
such forfeited property shall, after deducting ten
per centum on the gross amount thereof, which
shall be paid to the person giving information of
the same to the escheator, or to the escheator
himself, if he shall discover the same, and the
costs of the inquisition be appropriated one half to
the use of the county, except in the county of
Chatham, in which such money shall he paid to
the corporation of the city of Savannah and the
other moiety shall be paid into the treasury of
the state, and all and every person ox persons
who shall be concerned in covering or protecting
such property, so as to secure, or attempt to se
cure, the legal or equitable title therein, and such
| free person or persons of color, contrary to the
true intent and meaning of this act, shall be lia
j b!e to a penalty, not exceeding one thousanddol
| lars, which shall be sued for and recovered in the
| manner hereinafter pointed out, and shall be ap
■ propriated in the mode prescribed in the first
• section oi this act.
§B. Beit further enacted, That all and singu
lar the penalties prescribed by this act, and each
and every proceeding directed herein, except
w here it is otherwise specially provided thereby,
shall be pi’osecuted, recovered and enforced,
against all and every white person or persons,
who shaii become amenable thereto, by action of
, debt or indictment, in the superior coui'ts of the
respective counties, according to the ordinary
cou; eof proceedings therein; and the same shall
bc m\.sebuted, recovered and enforced, against
ISakkAjlryen person. •• persons of color, whether
Ace or slave, before the justices of the inferior |
courts of tne respective counties, or a majority
of them, either at the regular sessions ot such
courts, or at special sessions to be held for that |
purpose, which the said justices, or a majority
of them, arc hereby empowered to hold, and to ,
do all needful and necessary acts therein, for
giving full effect to the provisions of this act; and
the said justices shall in like manner be author
ized to bear and determine all objections which
shall he made to the registry of any person ol
color claiming to he free, reserving always to
the judges of the superior courts the constitution
al right of revising all such proceedings; tor
which purpose the said justices shall be required
to make a special record of their several actings
and doings in the premises, and of all evidence
or testimony given therein, and to transmit the
same when required, to the said judges: Provid
ed always, that in all trials which may be had un
der this act, except for the enforcement of penal
ties against white persons, the court shall be au
thorized to require the answers on oatli (to such
questions touching the same as they may deem
relevant) of all and every white person or per
sons claiming title to such persons of color, or to
any real or personal property, which shall be pro
ceeded against, as forfeited under this act, or in
whose employment such person of color may be,
or who may be guardian of such person of color,
and the same shall be read as evidence therein.
§9. Beit further enacted, That it shall be the
duty of all courts and judges, before whom any
proceedings may be had under this act, so to
construe the several provisions thereof as to car
ry the same into full and complete operation, ac
cording to the tiue spirit, intent and meaning
thereof, as declared in the preamble of the same;
and all and every such courts and judges are
hereby invested with full power for such purpose,
and are authorised and required to make all ne
cessary rules and regulations, and to adopt all
needful proreedings not herein specially provid
ed, according to the usual course of justice,
which may he at any time required, for the pur
poses aforesaid.
§lO. Be it further enacted, That all warrants
issued by any magistrate under this act, against
any person of color, whether free or slave, shall
be returned by the officer executing the same, to
the justices of the inferior court of the county in
which the same may be issued; and the said jus
tices, or a majority of them, shall proceed imme
diately to hear and determine thereon, making
such record of their proceedings as is herein be
fore provided.
Benjamin Wiliams,
Speaker of the house of representatives.
M vthew Talbot, president of the senate.
Attested to, 18th December, 1818.
William Rabun, governor.
Execution of the / tirates. —Yesterday the sen
tence of death on John Williams, Francis Frede
rick, JViles ] > e.terson, alias Niles Peterson Folger
ton, and John Bog, convicted of piracy and mur
der on board the schr. Plattsburg of Baltimore,
was executed near the burying ground at Boston
Neck.— Boston Palladium, Feb. 19.
Captain Mills, from Laguira, informs that it
was believed an important action had taken place
between the Spanish troops under Morillo, and
the patriot forces commanded by Bolivar. Ad
vices were received early in January from Mo
rillo, which were not made public, but which
caused a great despondency with the royalists.
Immediately after the receipt ol” the despatches,
an order was issued to all the Spanish vessels in
port, about twenty in number, to furnish a part
of their crews for a guard to patrol the town, and
they were kept on duty every night till capt. M.
sailed.—A*. Y. Gazette.
A St. Louis paper states that 8000 settlers have
repaired during the last twelve months to the
Arkansas country.
The New-York Commercial Advertiser of the 18tli
ultimo, gives the following summary from Paris papers
to the 22d December, received at that port by the ship
Maria-Theresa, in 45 days from Bordeaux:
The remains of lord Ellenborough arc to be
deposited in the vault, in the charter house, by
the side of Mr. Sutton, its founder, who was fil
tered in the reign of queen Elizabeth, upwards
of 200 years ago. His lordship was in the 69th
year.
A vessel, in which was the Portuguese consul
general for Odessa, and his family, has been lost
in the Black Sea. Not an individual was saved.
The king of the Netherlands has forbidden his
ministers to present him with any project, which
may involve any increase in the national expen
diture.
The duke of Wellington arrived at Brussels
on the 10th of December.
The affair of Fualdes, is again to be brought
before the tribunals of France. Madame Man
son is to be a witness.
The issue of one and two pound notes by the
bank of England, averages 30,000/ daily.
The French minister of finances is employed
in preparing the budget of 1819. It is said,
that it is totally different from the one presented
by his predecessor.
In France there are upwards of one thousand
schools on the Lancasterian plan.
Madame de Stael’s work, considerations of
the French revolution, has been prohibited in Aus
tria.
One of the first great objects to lie submitted
to the Hanoverian diet, is tue abolition oi die tor
ture in judicial examinations.
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Accounts from Lisle announce that several oj
the first commercial houses in that city, had lu -
come bankrupt.
The population of tire Prussian dominions*
amount to 10,050,000, Sweden in 1813, con
tained a population ol 55,504, more than she
does at the present clay.
Bv a letter from Ceuta, if appears that two
Spaniards had been executed at that place, who
were taken in a privateer, said to be fitted out
in America. Two Americans were taken at the
same time, who were not brought to trial.
Inquisition . —The following document we
copy from a Paris paper, of December 16. The
editor introduces it with a column of remarks,
closing with the following sentence: —“It is a
melancholy thing, while every other government
in Europe is setting its people an example ofen
lightened liberality, to see the jiLi rude nee of
Spain relapsing into worse than pVVcval barba
rism—to behold a fine people, yielcig to none in
qualities both personal and mental, flushed both
in mind and body beneath the racks, and wheels,
and scourges of a grrnd Inquisitor!—Alas! poor
human nature!”
The following decree has been issued under
the authority of the grand inquisitor, who is also
private confessor to Ferdinand VII:
ROYAD DECREE.
“In the name of the Holy Trinity, etc.
“Whereas it has been made known to ns that various
publications of a heretical, irreligious, and seditious ten
i denev are in circulation amongst the subjects of this
j kingdom—and whereas it is of the last importance that
their progress should he arrested, and the authors, pub
lishers and circulators duly punished, it has been deter
mined that such measures shall be taken, instantly, as
will most effectually accomplish this purpose.
“All persons having in their possession works bearing
the following titles, shall be brought'before the holy
office, and such punishment inflicted as the case shall
seem to require, provided it he no less than solitary im
prisonment under the authority of the holy office for
three months, and the payment of a fine of not less than
25 doubloon^ 1 The works prohibited are ‘the hiayyv
of the inquisition, l W‘rcasons why the inquisltimMdWmiltl
be abolished,’ —*a W|yemarks upon the
ment of the brother the orderof .mstri,’ —‘the
theory of the Cortes,’ —
sentation,’ —‘observations orftffij#vonduct ofseverafm
the courts of Europe,’—‘pajiidW^ongs,’—‘the difficul
ties at present to hcuao&fn\ erec “X.
The .greater vrnfmrr of these herattral and seditious
productions hsvebeen printed in in
the Spanish language, and secretly this
proportionate punishment will be inflicted upon
such individuals as have in their custody ant’ foreign
journals, newspapers, etc. containing matter against the
government and institution of Spain.
Given from Madrid, this 19th Nov. 1818.
FRANCISCO XAVIER MF.IR Y CAMPTLLO,
Grand inquisitor of the kingdom.
ANDRES FLORES PEREIRA,
Secretary.
COUNTERFEIT BILLS.
The public are particularly cautioned against receiv
ing, without careful examination, the fifty dollar bills of
the bank of the state of Georgia, as several five dollar
bills altered to fifty, have been recently discovered in
circulation.
The genuine fifty’s are known by a small letter A. or
B. between the number of the bill, and figures 50 on the
right hand end, and the words “bank of the state of
Georgia,” being in much smaller print than in the five
dollar notes.
The genuine five dollar hills have a large letter A, B,
C or TANARUS), on the right, and near the top, and to the left
of the number. The words “bank of the state of Geor
gia,” is also in large print in the body of the bill.
The alteration anpearsto have been made,by extract
ing the original engraving in the five dollar bills, and by
means of anew engraving, the words and figures fifty
inserted in lieu thereof, and it requires great care to de
tect them.
ANTHONY PORTER, Cashier.
Savannah, ► March 3, 1819.
In Chambers, March 6th, 1819.
Present James Troup, mayor, Scott Cray, H. Harford.
Armand Lefils, E. C. Grovenner, and Calvin Baker,
esquires.
It is ordered by the authority of the same, that all
male persons living in the city of Darien, and liable to
road duty, shall attend on the morning of the 13th and
20th inst. being the second and third Saturdays, at 8
o’clock, properly provided with instruments, that is to
say, w ith a hoe or axe, to work on the streets and com
mons of said city, and all persons neglecting to atteiwl
to the terms of this ordinance, shall forfeit the sum of
two dollars per day, for such neglect.
march 8 20 JAS. BURNETT, Clerk
PROPOSALS
VlTlELbc received by the clerk of council, for build
* v ing a GAOL, 30 by 40 feet, of brick; the contrac
tor to furnish a plan of the same, with an estimate of
cost of said building.
march 8 r 20
J\Totice
IS hereby given that the firm of Bullen & Young was
dissolved on the 18th ulmno. All persons having de
mands against said firm will present them immediately,
and those indebted make payment to
JOHN BULLEN.
march 8 c- 29 >
Notice.
A LL persons are hereby cautioned against crediting
j\my wife Mark Houle,, oV children, as I will not be
responsible for any contracts made by them.
WILLIAM SORLEY.
march 8 *1— —20
One Hundred Dollars’ reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber’s plantation, on Wil
liamson’s swamp, on Sunday, the 10th day of Janu
ary, a negro hoy child, about two years and an half old,
named 1SIIAM; having thick lips, the under lip not so
thick as the upper one, his eye lashes are long and curl
ed, which give him a pert and lively look, well grown
for his age, a scar on the upper part of his breast, about
the size of a six and a quarter cent piece, occasioned by
an ulcer.—The above reward will be paid to any person
who will deliver the said boy to me in Louisville, or
give such information that I can obtain him, and all rea
sonable expences will be paid besides. I will also pay
two hundred dollars for the apprehension and prosecu
tion to conviction, of the villain or villains —it is suppos
ed there are two concerned, one a chunkey, well set,
dark skin man, riding a likely dark or brown bay horse;
the other riding a likely bav mare. Any information
on the subject, will be thankfully received.
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