Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-03-12
AN ACTto re-organize the Judicial. District
and to abolish the Criminal Court.

and to abolish the Criminal Court
SEC. / Be ii enacted By the Legislature O
the State eff Mississippi, That the State of Mis-
sisspp shall be divided into eleven iudicia
districts for the holding Of circuit courts
which districts shall respectively be composed
ofthc several counties arranged herein, as fol
lows: That the counties of Warren, Cai
borne, Washington, and Bolivar, shall const
tue the first district; that the counties of Ya
obusha, Carroll, Choctaw, and Tallanatchie
shall constitute the second district; that the
counties of Adams, Wilkinson, and Jefferson
shall constitute the third district; that the
counties Of Smith, Copiah, Simpson, Scott,
Newton, and Neshoba shall constitute the
fourth district; that the counties Of Jackson,
Jones, Green, Perry Wayne, Jasper, Clark and
Lauderdale, shall constitute the fifth district;
that the counties Of Noxubee Lowndes KEN
per, Winston, and Octibbeah, shall constitute
sixth district; that the counties of Hinds Madi-
son, and Rankin, shall constitute the seventh
district; that the counties of DeSoto Coahoma,
Tunica, Ponola, Lafayette, and Marshall, shall
constitute the eighth district; that the counties
OF Monroe, ltawamba, Tishemingo, Pontotoc,
Chickasaw, and Tippah, shall constitute the
ninth district; that the counties of Yazoo,
Holmes, Alfalfa, and Leake, shall constitute the
tenth district; that the counties of Lawrence.
Coyington, Hancock, Marion, Pike, Amite, and
Franklin, shall constitute the eleventh judicial
district.
The second section of this act, specifies the
times Of holding the Courts in each County,
and was published heretofore.1
SEC. 3. BE 1t. further enacted, That all sub.
penas, writs, and process, bonds,, recognizan-
ces, and other proceedings which may have is.
sued, been taken, or entered into; or made re-
turnable, requiring the appearance oTany per-
son or property, in the said several counties, at
the times which the courts have heretofore
been held in the said counties, shall be- and they
are hereby made returnable at the periods men
toned for the holding of the courts in the sew
eral counties in this State, and all causes and
proceedings which may remain in the courts
Of said counties aforementioned, shall stand as
if the same had been continued to the terms off
said courts, TO be holdenas hereinbelore direc-
ted and prescribed.
SEC. 4. Be IL further enacted, That an acl
entitled an act to establish, in the counties OF
Warren, Claiborne. Jefferson, Adams and Will |
kinson, an inferior court of criminal urisdc-
ton be, and the same is hereby repealed, and
that all the records, and Jurisdiction Of said
court be transferred TO thecircuit courts Of the
respective counties in which said criminal court
was established, which shall have jurisdc-
ton. $500
SEC. s. Be ifurther enacted, That this act
shall take effect, and beih force, from and after
its. passage, except as tothe sixth and ninth
judicial districts, in which it shall take effect,
and be iE force, from and after the first day OF
July next
Sec. 6. Be ii further enacted, That il shall
be the duty of the proper officers to draw and
summon Jurors for the times and terms provl,
ded in this act for their courts respectively, IN
the manner prescribed by law.
SEC. z. Bel further enacted, That all acts
and parts of acts coming within the meaning
and purview of this act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
SEC. 8 Bet further enacted, That the Gov
ernor shall issue wrts Of election as provided
by law for the election Of judges of the tenth
and eleventh judicial districts, and for the elec-
ton Of district attorneys, whenever the same
is requisite.
SEC. 8. A,ld be aJurther enacted, That, un-
iii the SEVERAL judges shall have been elected
and qualified in the said districts, the writs 10
be issued in said districts, shall be tested as {
heretofore, and in all counties, which by this
act are taken from one district and addedto an {
other, wrils shall be tested as heretofore, until
the time when the spring terms thereof are ap-I
pointed 10 be holden. le
Approved February 10, l840 Il
AN ACT requiring the several Banks in this
State TO pay specie, and for other purposes. lie
Sec. L. lie a enacted by the Legislature Tlc
the State ofDlisSiSStppi. That it shall not be
lawful for any Bank in this State to issue for, a
and keep in circulation at any one time, moreE
than three times the amount Of its specie cap I
ital. G
Sec 2. Be ii further enacted, That from S
and after tho passage Of this act, it shall not bel
lawful for any Bank in this State, TO issue any
bank-note, bill Of exchange, or other evidenced '
Of debt, for circulation, before and until theft
present circulation of such bank shall be
reduced TO an amount not exceeding three t
times the amount of specie actually in the I
vaults thereof, and bona fide belonging thereto, f
as the basis Of its crpital. Nor shall any bank S
issue any notes or bills for circulation, at any
time TO an amount exceeding such proportion a
Of its specie. basis at the time Of issuing the |
same, nor shall issue any notes or bills for cir
culation at any time when the specie in The a
vaults Of such bank shall be less than one-third 10
of its circulation: Is
SEC. 8. Beitturther snuded, That it shall d