The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-05-17
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PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION OF 1914.


AN ACT to authorize successors 10 execute
conveyances Of land in certain cases.
SECT. /. Be IL enacted By the LegistGtare
Of the State Of Mississippi, That in all cases
in which any sheriff or ether officer in this
state shall have sold, or shall hereafter sell,
any lands by virtue of any execution or other
legal process, and shall have died, removed
from the state, or otherwise vacated his Office,
or shall die, remove from the state, or other
wise vacate his Office, without having made
and executed to the purchaser or purchasers
of such land a conveyance therefor as pro-
vidsd by law, it shall be lawful for such pur-
chaser or purchasers, his, her, or their heirs
or assigns, to make application 10 the court
from which such execution or other legal
process issue, or may hereafter issue. BY pee
tition in writing alleging sacn sale, the pay
msnt OF the purchase money to such sheriff
or other officer, his death, or removal from
THE state, or vacation of his office by resigna
ton or otherwise, without executing such
: conveyance.
!, SECT. 2. That if it shall appear to the sat-
lsfaction of such court, from the return .of
the sheriff or other officer, that such sale
was made, and the purchase money paid by
e such sheriff or other officer, and that his Of
b fee has, from any cause, been vacated with.
il cut his having executed 4 conveyance of the
. property sold, to the purchaser or purchas.
"a ers, the court shall order the successor In
Office Of such sheriff or other officer, or the
!, incumbent Of such office, to execute and de
liver to such purchaser or purchasers, his
"a her, or their heirs or assigns, deed of con
veyance of the lands purchased, which deet
ID shall vest in such purchaser or purchasers
70 his, her, or their heirs or assigns, full an
If complete title 10 said lands as If the sam
n had been made and executed by the sheriff
: or other officer selling the same.
SECT. 3. That in all cases in which an
80 tax collector Of this state shall have sold, c
ne shall hereafter sell any land for taxes, an
~ shall have died, or been removed from Office
i, or have otherwise vacated the same, or sha
W, die, or otherwise vaCata his office, wi:hol
NJ having executed q conveyance for such lane
,st 10 the purchaser or purchasers thereof.
shall be lawful for such purchaser or purcl
!, asors, his, her, or their heirs or assigns,
ne apply to the court Of police of the county
TN which said land is situated, BY petition
70 writing, setting forth the sale, payment
No the purchase money, and the death, or 9th
as removal from efice of said tax collectc
ere without having executed a conveyance |
said land, and if the said court shall be q
-. isfed by competent evidence, of the fal
stated, they shall order the successor Of su
sn tax collector to execute acenvOyanes ofsu
eco land to the purchaser or purchasers there
It 1 his, her or their heirs or assigns, which &C
Tod veyance shall vest in him, her or them. /
ou, same title 10 said land as if the same had be
and conveyed. BY the tax collector making
fall sale thereof.
~ SEC. I. That this act shall be in force e.
and after its passage.
"a, Approved, February g, 1914.
Ali
: = AN ACT for tile protection Of Wood Var
ali SEcT. /. Be Il enacted By The LegislGt
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VIII and proprietors Of steamboats, who shall /
hey wood from any wood yard in this state, W
usl' cut paying for the same, shall jointly