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WHEREAS Certain persons under pretence of fishing in the waters of the Great Ogechee river below Hill's bridge, and on the Savannah river from Abercorn creek to the mouth of said river, residing in vessels, covered flats or arks, are a cause of serious injury to the planters residing on these rivers by trading with and corrupting the morals of their slaves, and by their intercourse with said slaves tending to produce great disorder and immorality; and whereas their mode of fishing is calculated to impede the passage of fish up the rivers almost entirely :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for any one, other than the proprietors of the shores, islands and bars of said rivers, or such persons as shall be by them duly authorized, to catch or take fish with seins, nets or any such contrivances of the kind, on any part of said rivers below Hill's bridge on the Ogechee river, and from Abercorn creek to the mouth of the Savannah river.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person to inhabit, occupy or reside in any vessel, ark or flat on the aforesaid rivers, which shall not be engaged in the lawful commerce of said rivers in the carriage or transporting goods or produce to or from market, unless owned by the proprietors of the shores or his or her lessees.

SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That nothing heretofore contained shall be so construed as to prevent the owners of the land on said rivers, or their lessees, from taking fish in the river opposite their banks; Provided, that from sunset Saturday to sunrise Monday no net or sein shall be permitted to be used in said rivers, either by the owners or their lessees; Provided ulso, that on granting a lease to fish, said lease shall be recorded within ten days after the date thereof.

SECTION 4. Be it further enacted, That all offences against the provisions of this act, shall be punished, if committed by a white person, for each offence by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars, which fine when collected shall be appropriated to the poor school fund of the counties of Bryan and Chatham; if committed by a slave or free person of color, by whipping, not less than thirty-nine lashes for each offence.

SECTION 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for patrols or any civil officer at all times to visit and search all vessels, covered flats or arks and boats as are referred to under this act as being engaged in fishing, or trading illegally with slaves, or disseminating incendiary publications on

said rivers; and if the virtual or actual owners of said vessels, boats, &c., shall not have a lease from the owners opposite to whose shores they are lying, or if any articles are found on board which by the provisions of the act of the 19th December, 1818, it was made penal to trade for with slaves, they shall be liable to the penalties as provided for under this act.

SECTION 6. Be it further enqcted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 21, 1850.

AN ACT to alter and change the commissioners named in the fifth section of an act entitled an act to prevent obstruction in the Oconee river, from the Greene and Hancock county line on its eastern bank to its confluence in the Ocmulgee river, calculated to impede the free passage of fish,to appoint commissioners, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, approved December 26th,

1835.

WHEREAS by fifth section of said act, Gilley Moore, John Hall, Grey Credle, Y. P. King and John Coleby were appointed commissioners to keep open the Oconee river from the Hancock line to Reid and Gaston's mills.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatwes of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, James M. Kelly, Alanson Clifton, Garratt Woodham, John Smith, sen., and John D. Copeland be and are hereby appointed commissioners in place of the said named commissioners in said fifth section of the above recited act; and that the said James M. Kelly, Alanson Clifton, Garratt Woodham, John Smith, sen., and John D. Copeland are hereby vested with all and singular the powers that the former commissioners had or were invested with under the provisions of the foregoing act, appointed [approved] 26th December, 1835-any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 21, 1850.

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AN ACT to authorize William A. Carr and Peter A. Sum mey to open and keep open the North Oconee river from the Factory dam at Athens to Chandler's bridge in Jack

son county, and to vest in them their heirs and assigns the exclusive right of navigating said river between said two points on the same, for the term of fifteen years, and to fix the maximum rates of transporting lumber, wood and produce thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, William A. Carr and Peter A. Summey, of the county of Clark, and their associates be and they are hereby authorized to open the North Oconee river from the Factory dam at Athens in the county of Clark to Chandler's bridge in the county of Jackson, and to keep the same open for the term of fifteen years, to be computed from the first day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; the said Carr and Summey being allowed by this act till that time to open said river so as to make the same navigable for the transportation of lumber, wood and produce; Provided, that no interference shall be made with any bridge across said river.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said William A. Carr and Peter A. Summey, their heirs and assigns, be and they are hereby fully authorized to demand and receive from any person wishing to use the said river as a highway a reasonable compensation, not to exceed one hundred dollars per annum, for the privilege as aforesaid; and for a single trip either up or down said stream for the whole distance between the two points stated in the first section, a sum not to exceed the sum of five dollars, and a rateable compensation for any part of the distance used on said river for running boats theron.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said William A. Carr and Peter A. Summey, their heirs and assigns, shall be bound to keep open the channel of said river from the Factory dam at Athens to Chandler's bridge, in Jackson county, for the space of fifteen years, to be computed as aforesaid, so that the same. may be used by the citizens for the transportation of lumber, wood, and produce; and their neglect to do so for the space of six weeks after notice of any obstructions such as falling trees, and rafts collected from freshets and the like, by any two freeholders on said river, who are hereby authorized to give such notice, shall be a forfeiture of all the rights and privileges hereby granted.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person wilfully obstructing the channel of said river, by felling trees across the same or otherwise, shall be subject to indictment in the Superior Court, and

upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars, one half to the informer and the other half to the use of the county of Clark.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, January 16, 1850.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to alter and amend the several acts regulating Roads in this State so far as respects the operation of said act in the counties of Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Wayne, approved December 8th, 1806, and to repeal the act of 1817, so far as respects the county of McIntosh, and to provide for the filling of vacancies in the Board of Commissioners, authorized by the original act of 1803, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the above recited act, approved on the twenty-fifth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fortyseven, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the county of McIntosh.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the Inferior Court of McIntosh county have full power and authority to fill all vacancies which have occurred in said Board of Commissioners in said county; then said Board shall have full power and authority to fill all vacancies that may thereafter occur in said Board.

Approved, February 16, 1850.

AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Chatham county to pay to the Commissioners of public roads of said county one thousand dollars for constructing a causeway in said county, and to authorize the Commissioners of the Skedaway ferry and Montgomery road district to work the hands liable to road duty on the islands of Skedaway three days in each year in said district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly_met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Chatham be and they are hereby authorized to pay to the Commissioners of public roads of said county, from the funds of the county,

the sum of one thousand dollars, or such part thereof as may be necessary to enable said commissioners to establish a causeway from the point on Whitmarsh's island, known as Cabbage Landing, by the most direct and practicable route to the east bank of St. Augustine creek, opposite the point on the main land known as Greenarch.

SECTION 2. And be it jurther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners be authorized to contract for the making of said causeway, (provided they or a majority of them shall deem it to the interest of the county to build said causeway,) requiring bond and security of the contractor for the faithful performance of the work, and the said commissioners are authorized to stop all creeks over which said causeway may pass.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of the Skedaway Ferry and Montgomery road district be and are hereby authorized to summon and compel to work on said Skedaway Ferry and Montgomery road district, all the hands liable to road duty on the islands of Skedaway three days in each year on said district of road.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in the above third section shall be so construed as to exempt from road duty the hands upon the islands of Skedaway: Provided, said work be done in accordance with the law of the State.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, January 26, 1850.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to appoint Commissioners to lay out and open a new road through a part of Camden county, and to designate the hands who shall be liable to work thereon; also, to establish a ferry across the Great Satilla river, and fix the rates of ferriage at the same, assented to December twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amendatory thereof, assented to December seventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and December twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and to surrender to James Mongin Smith the land occupied by a part of said road, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly_met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the first section of an act entitled "an act to ap

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