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An Act Making it Penal to Sell to or Furnish Slaves or Freepersons of Color with Weapons of Offense and Defense, pt. 1, tit. 19, no. 64, § 1, 1860 Ga. Acts 54, 56 (Boughton, Nisbet, & Barnes).

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  • 1860
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"(No. 64.)
An Act to add an additional Section to the 13th Division of the Penal Code, making it penal to sell to or furnish slaves or freepersons of color, with weapons of offence and defence; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

    Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, any person other than the owner, who shall sell or furnish to any slave or free person of color, any gun, pistol, bowie knife, slung shot, sword cane, or other weapon used for the purpose of offence or defence, shall, on indictment and conviction, be fined by the Court in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the common Jail of the county not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the Court; Provided, That this Act shall not be so construed as to prevent owners or overseers from furnishing a slave with a gun for the purpose of killing birds, &c., about the plantation of such owner or overseer."

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed in Milledgeville, at an Annual Session in November and December, 1860, (Milledgeville, GA: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, 1861), 56. Part 1—Public Laws, Title 19—Penal Code, Number 64—An Act to Add an Additional Section to the 13th Division of the Penal Code, Making it Penal to Sell to or Furnish Slaves or Freepersons of Color with Weapons of Offense and Defense, and for Other Purposes Therein Mentioned, § 1. Assented to December 19, 1860.