GEORGIA - COURT - Slave Manumissions - 1801 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Barbara Smallwood Stock" Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA PASSED AT LOUISVILLE, IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1801. ACTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1801 Vol. 1 -- Page: 40 Sequential Number: 015 Type: AN ACT Full Title: To [Illegible Text] and make free certain persons of colour, [Illegible Text] names are therein mentioned. WHEREAS Richard Meriwether, and others, have petitioned the present Legislature, praying that, an A[UNK]ct may be passed, to manumit and make free Lucy Barrot, and Betty Barrot, Jim, commonly called Jim Lary, and a mulatto girl, named Nancy, late the property of Alexander Kevan, persons of colour, who -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 41 are their right and property. SECTION 1. Be it therefore ena[UNK]cted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That Lucy Barrot, and Betty Barrot, Jim, commonly called Jim Lary, late the property of John B. Lary, and mulatto girl named Nancy, late the property of Alexander Kevan, persons of colour, be and they are hereby manumitted, and made free, and entitled to the same rights, privileges and immunities, as if they were born free. SEC. 2. Be it further ena[UNK]cted, That this A[UNK]ct, shall not be so construed as to give, or grant unto the aforesald Lucy Barrot, and Betty Barrot, Jim, commonly called Jim Lary, late the property of John B. Lary, and a mulatto girl named Nancy, late the property of Alexander Kevan, persons of colour, who do appertain to the household of Richard Meriwether, and others and who are hereby manumitted and made free, any rights, prīvileges, or immunities, except such as free people of colour, are entitled to by the laws of this state. SEC. 3. And be it further ena[UNK]cted by the authority -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 42 aforesaid, That the aforesaid persons of colour, who are hereby manumitted and made free, shall nevertheless be subje[UNK]ct and lļable to any legal demands which now doth exist, against the aforesaid Richard [Illegible Text], and others. DAVID MERIWETHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM BARNETT, President of the Senate. JOSIAH TATTNALL, [Illegible Text] Governor. Approval Date: Assented to December 1, 1801. Transcribed from Georgia Legislative Documents online at http://www.galileo.usg.edu and submitted by Barbara Smallwood Stock, CGRS .