Dooly County GaArchives History .....Vigilance Committee For 6th District October 22, 1860
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6 District   Vienna, Ga  Oct 22nd 1860

Committee of Vigilance for 6th Dist.

1.     John Brown       5. Joel Hill      9. Jas H. Cobb
2.     Thos L. Cobb     6. Wm Lupo       10. John V. Brown  
3.     Bryant Wood      7. John Porter   11. D.T. Ward
4.     James Carlisle   8. Uriah Porter  12. J.B. Ham


Gentlemen,

            You have been appointed s committee of vigilance for your District 
by a meeting of the citizens of this County; to inquire into any 
insurrectionary movement that may be going on among the Negroes in your 
District. The following regulations have been adopted for the government of 
committees.

1st Resolved, That the vigilance committee have full powers and discretionary 
right to examine into all the conduct of either Negroes or white men of an 
incendiary character in all their bearing and ramifications. The Negroes that 
they may find guilty to inflict such corporal punishment as they may deem 
necessary. If a white man punish him at discretion, but not allow him to flee 
the county as atonement for his sin.

2nd, That in case any owner of Negro or Negroes should refuse to give them up 
to the committee for examination (or punishment if found guilty) that the 
committee take such negro by force if necessary and bring the conduct of such 
owner publicly before the county.

3rd, This meeting also adopts as a Law of its organization an article found in 
the Oct number of the Southern Cultivator, on the management of Negroes, to be 
of force till the fourth of March next.  The purpose of which is that all 
owners of Negroes are to keep them at home, nor is any 'pass' to screen them 
from the lash if found away from their premises, except  they are known to be 
on business of their owner, overseer, or employer.

4th, That each committee in the several Districts have power to fill any 
vacancies that may occur in their committee either by refusal to act or 
otherwise.

5th, That no action of this meeting is to have any affect upon the present 
Laws, but that use reassured the enforcement of the same.

6th, That the Secretary of these meeting furnish each of the committees of the 
several Districts with copies of said resolutions.

Shemuel N. Lasseter

James D. Lester

Chairmen

O.P. Swearingen

Secretary



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Submitted by Linda Ward Meadows, GG Granddaughter of David T. Ward and his 
wife, Sarah Ann Gamble Ward.
LINDA MEADOWS
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