Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-01-30
CARROLLToN FEBRUARYl 1871.
OUR LEGISLATURE.

We regret TO learn that our Legislature in
its wisdom, has passed bill prohibiting the
publication Of Sheriff's Sales in Newspapers.
We have no doubt the Legislature, anxious to
curtail as much as possible the expenses in all
departments of State, intended bv this Bill
relief 10 debtors and defendants, by exonela-
ting them from the costs of publication, &c =
But when we say this, we are simply doing
justice to their motives. at tie expense of
their intelligence-for we are we'll assured
that upon experience, the operation of such
an act will be found far more injurious to the
best interests of both debtor and creditor, than
the paItry sum of few dollars cost for pub
LEGATION. The act provides that written noti-
ces shall be posted up by the Sheriff, in three
of the most public places of the county, thus
throwing the whole responsibility of pubica-
ton upon the Sheriff and his Deputies.
The experience of the past should have
taught the Legislature that large majority of
the Sheriff's of Mississippi, have not given
cause of graduation for the promptness and
fidelity with which they discharged the duties
of their office. In this county, it is true, we
have had no cause of complaint against the
Sheriff; but then he is acknowledged to be
one of the very best officers in the State. In
the numerous litigated actions relative to real
property, that must necessarily arise from lis
present embarrassed condition, the proof of
title by legal sale by the Sheriff, will be one of
the most numerous defences set up, and to
make that sale valid, the proof of notice. such
as was contemplated by the late statute will
be- requisite. Then 1t is clear that the produc-
ton OF the paper containing the publication
will OF course be the highest evidence of Ie-
gal notice OF sale, that the case admits Of
The effect of the recent or present act, will
be to reduce the grade and value of evidence
admissible IN such cases, and consequently to
diminish the confidence of our citizens in their
titles to real property in Mississippi and there
fore affect its stability--since no evidence of
notice OF sale can be produced, higher than
the assertion oil the officer. Again, notice OF
sale under the present act must of necessity
be more limited and partial, than when it was
published in newspaper; the attendance at
public sales Will OF course be smaller, and the
competition being less, it follows that the
prlce OF property will be less. Will not the
loss to the defendant or debtor, from the re-
duced sale of his property, be much greater
than the cost of a few dollars for publication!
We have often been asked for a Newspaper
containing notices of Sheriff's Sales. A pa
ffper that has any circulation, MUST multiply
these notices in proportion to its circulation
The bill then tends to diminish the notice Of
lSheriff $ Sales and we now ask, what was
The object in diminishing this noticeg Let
them answer who CAN.
4 But again, another consideration in connec.
tioh with this matter, forces itself upon our
1 altention. 70 making amendments or limo.