GEORGIA - COURT - Slave Manumissions - 1834 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 IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1834. [missing title] SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOUR. 1834 Vol. 1 -- Page: 229 Sequential Number: 172 Full Title: AN ACT to emancipate Sam, a negro slave. Whereas, by a concurred resolution of both branches of the General Assembly of this State, passed at the last session of the Legislature, the Governor of this State, in consideration of the important services rendered by Sam, a negro -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 230 man slave, in extinguishing the fire on the State-house, was authorized and required to purchase said negro Sam of his owner for the purpose of his emancipation; and his purchase having been effected -- Be it therefore 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, said negro man Sam, formerly the property of John Marler, be, and he is hereby emancipated and set free; and that he enjoy all the privileges and immunities given by the laws of this State to free persons of colour in such manner as if he were born free, -- any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, 20th December, 1834. ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1834. [missing title] SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOUR. 1834 Vol. 1 -- Page: 230 Sequential Number: 173 Full Title: AN ACT to manumit and set free certain persons therein mentioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this act, Fanny Hickman, who is, and has been for more than thirty years, the wife of Paschal Hickman of the county of Burke, shall be, and she is hereby declared to be free, and entitled to all the privileges and immunities appertaining to free persons of colour generally in this State. And whereas the said Paschal Hickman since his intermarriage with his said wife Fanny has had several children, ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Page: 231 and whereas by the laws of this State the said children follow the condition of their mother - - SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That all said children heretofore born, -- to wit, John, Grove, Henry, William, Hetty, Eliza, and Frank, -- by and in consequence of said intermarriage between the said Paschal Hickman and Fanny his wife, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be free, and placed on the same footing that free persons of colour are usually placed in this State, and entitled to inherit from the said Paschal, as their father, any property which by the laws of this State would go to his children should he die without a will. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1834. Transcribed from Georgia Legislative Documents online at http://www.galileo.usg.edu and submitted by Barbara Smallwood Stock, CGRS .