admission of other states. be enrolled amongst the attornies, counsellors or solicitors of the said court, as the case may be, and shall be qualified in the usual form of qualifying officers in this state. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeMode of said, That any citizen of the United States, comof citizens ing to settle and reside in this state, who shall produce to the judges of the courts of law and equity of this state, in term time, satisfactory testimonials of his having been admitted, and having practised for three years in the supreme court of law, or the court of equity of any other state, upon taking the usual oaths, shall be commissioned in like manner as other candidates. In the Senate House, the nineteenth Day of December, in DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. An ACT to prohibit the importation of Negroes, until the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. WH HEREAS it appears to be highly impolitic to import negroes from Africa, or other places beyond seas: Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the importation of negroes from Africa, and other places beyond seas, be, and it is hereby prohibited, until the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine: And every slave who shall be imported contrary to this act, upon landing or being landed, or conducted into this state, shall be forfeited; and the governor is hereby authorized and required to sell such slave, (one half of the proceeds of the sale to be for the benefit of the state, the other half to the informer.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the person or persons who import or bring in such slave, upon being convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay to the state fifty pounds for each slave so imported or brought into this state: and the ship, vessel or other vehicle in which such slave shall be so unlawfully imported, is hereby declared responsible for paying the same, and shall forthwith be taken into possession for and on behalf of the state, unless the offender or offenders, or some other person or persons, will, before some judge or magistrate, enter into bond, with good security to the state, for payment of the said penalty, together with such costs and charges as shall be adjudged to be forfeited under or by virtue of this act. In the Senate House, the nineteenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and in the twenty-first Year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. An ACT more effectually to prevent Shop-keepers, Traders and others, from dealing with slaves having no tickets from their owners, and for other purposes therein mentioned. HEREAS it is found expedient to adopt W measures, more effectually to prevent slaves, without tickets, from dealing with shopkeepers, traders and others, to the prejudice of their owners: Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That if any shop-keeper, trader or other person, shall, at any time hereafter, by himself or any other person, directly or indirectly, buy or purchase from any slave, in any part of this state, any corn, rice, peas, or other grain; bacon, flour, tobacco, indigo, blades, or any other article whate M Permissi ver; or shall otherwise deal, trade or traffic with any slave, not having a ticket or permit so to deal, trade or traffic, or to sell any such article, from and under the hand of his master or owner, or such other person as may have the care or management of such slave; such shop-keeper, trader or other person, shall, for every such offence, forfeit not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered by bill, plaint or indictment, one half to the use of the state, and the other half to the use of the informer, in any court of this state having jurisdiction to take cognizance thereof. In the Senate House, the twentieth Day of December, in DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. An ACT to permit Miss Finwick, and the honorable Robert Barnwell, to have certain Negro Slaves brought into this State, which they heretofore sent into the State of Georgia, and for other purposes therein mentioned. W HEREAS Miss Selina Fenwick did sometime in the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, send into the state of Georgia, a number of negro slaves: And whereas the said Selina Fenwick, by her petition to the legislature of this state, prays for permission to have the said negroes, together with their issue and increase, brought back into this state: Be it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in general assembly now on to Miss met and sitting, and it is hereby enacted by the auFenwick thority of the same, That the said Selina Fenwick shall have permission, at any time hereafter, withgroes from in two years from the passing of this act, to have Georgia. the said negroes, together with their issue and in to bring her ne crease, brought back into this state, any law, usage or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding: Provided nevertheless, That the said Selina Fenwick shall make it appear, on oath, to be taken before some justice of the peace of the said state, that the negroes so brought back, are the identical negroes so sent by her into the state of Georgia as aforesaid, and the issue and increase of the said negroes; which oath shall be recorded in the secretary's office of this state. And whereas Robert Barnwell, by his petition to the legislature, states that he carried into the state of Georgia from this state, between fifty and sixty negroes, his property, which he is desirous to bring back: Be it therefore enacted, That the said Robert Barnwell be, and he is hereby authorized to bring Similar back into this state, the said negroes and their na- permissi tural increase, on condition that he, upon oath, Barnwell, identify, before some magistrate, the said negroes. And whereas Adam Tunno and B. Sanchez, on behalf of the creditors of John M'Queen, have, by their petition, stated that the said John M'Queen, some years ago, carried a number of negroes from this state into the state of Georgia, which they are desirous of bringing back: on to R. Similar M'Queen. Be it therefore enacted, That the said Adam Tunno and B. Sanchez be, and they are hereby permissi authorized to bring back into this state, the said on to the negroes, and their natural increase, on condition agents of J. that they do, by the oath of some competent person, before a magistrate, identify the said negroes, And whereas Thomas Bacon, and other citizens of this state, have applied for leave to bring negroes they have in Georgia, into this state: on to T. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Similar the said Thomas Bacon, and any other citizens, permissinow residents in this state, who may be disposed Bacon and to remove their negroes from Georgia into this others. state, be, and they are hereby permitted to remove Similar into this state such negroes: Provided they furnish a schedule, and do make oath, that the said negrocs were owned by them previous to the passing of this law, and have been in Georgia four years previous thereto, and that they are not brought here for the purpose of being sold. And whereas it is not the intention of the legislature to prohibit the citizens of this state, who may have carried their slaves into any of the other states, from bringing back into this state, such negrees or slaves, nor frem carrying out and bringing back such of their negroes us their exigencies or occasions may require, upon their being properly identified: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any citizen or inhabitant of this state, permissi- who hath removed out of this state any negro or inhabitant negroes, or slaves, to any of the other states, shall or citizen be, and he or she is hereby authorized to bring on to any of this state. back into this state such negro or negroes, being slaves, upon giving in a schedule of them, on oath, before a justice of the quorum, specifying such negro or negroes, and therein declaring that the said negro or negroes are really and bona fide his or her property, and were carried out of the state by him or her, or the person whom he represents, or the issue of such negroes; which schedule, and oath, the person or persons, shall cause to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of the district in which such person or perRegulati- sons reside. And whensoever any citizen or inhabitant of this state shall hereafter be disposed, or have occasion to carry out of this state into any of the other states, any of his or her negro or negroes, being slaves, it shall be lawful for such citizen or inhabitant to do so, and to bring them back again, together with their issue and increase: Provided such citizen or inhabitant shall previously render to and deposit with some justice of the quorum, a schedule of the negroes or slaves, ons res pecting negroes going to and fro. |