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• Text is exactly "Ordinances for the Town of Athens, 1831.
  1. For defraying necessary expenses there shall be laid the following taxes, viz:
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  2d. On all negro slaves, twelve and a half cents each.
  3d. On all free negroes under the age of sixty, one dollar.
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  II. For the preservation of peace and order
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  2d. Black persons guilty of riotous conduct, to be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten lashes; and for each subsequent act of like nature, to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five lashes.
  3d. Negroes shall not be allowed to collect improperly as to numbers, under a penalty not exceeding fifteen lashes each.
  4th. Negroes shall not absent themselves from their owners' premises after 9 o'clock at night, without a permit.
  5th. No negro slave shall be allowed to hire his or her time and reside within the town of Athens, unless his or her owner, or guardian shall give a bond with good and sufficient security in the sum of fifty dollars for one year for his or her good behaviour; nor shall any negro be allowed to sell spirituous liquors within said town.
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