GA. CODE, no. 444, § 1 (R. Aitken 1800) (Law Passed 1790).
"An Act to prevent the pernicious practice of hunting deer in the night time by fire light.
I. BE it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of Georgia in general assembly met, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, any person or persons who shall hunt with a gun by fire light or kill any deer so hunting by fire light in the night time without his or their own enclosures, every such person or persons being thereof convicted, upon the oath of one or more credible witness, before any justice of the peace for the county where such offence shall be committed, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay, not exceeding the sum of five pounds, one half thereof shall be paid to the informer or informers, and the other half into the clerks office of the inferior court, and to be applied to the use of the poor of the county where such offence shall be committed."
Robert Watkins & George Watkins, eds., A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, from Its First Establishment as a British Province Down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799: in Which Is Comprehended the Declaration of Independence; the State Constitutions of 1777 and 1789, with the Alterations and Amendments in 1794, Also the Constitution of 1798; It Contains as Well All the Laws in Force, as Those Which Are Deemed Useful and Necessary, or Which Are Explanatory of Existing Laws; Together, with the Titles of All the Obsolete and Other Acts; and Concludes with an Appendix Containing the Original Charters and Other Documents, Ascertaining and Defining the Limits and Boundary of the State; All the Treaties with the Southern Tribes of Indians; the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union; the Constitution of the United States, and a Few Acts of Congress; Together with a Copious Index to the Whole (Philadelphia, PA: R. Aitken, 1800), 428. Number 444–An Act to Prevent the Pernicious Practice of Hunting Deer in the Night Time by Fire Light, § 1. Passed December 10, 1790.
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