The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-19
AN ACT entitled an act to create Grenad;
County.

AN ACT entitled an act to create Grenada
County.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ule of the State of Mississippi. That AN
additional county shall be and is hereby
GRATED in this State to be called Grenada
comfy, to be located as follows. viz: Begin
mag at the Northwest corner of Township
twenty-five, Range two, East, thence East,
aong Township line to the Southwest cor
Ter of Section "a, Township %, Range 3
East; thence North TO the Northwest cor
Der of said Section thence East along Sec
ton line To Range line 4, thence North of
said Range line TO Township line u thence
East along said Township line TO the North
west corner of Section 3, Township %
Range 5, East; thence South to the South
west corner of Section 10, Township %
Range East; thence East along Section
line TO the Eastern boundary of Range
East; thence Sonth along said Range line to
the Southeast corner of Section Ii, Town
ship n, Range East; thence West along
section line to Southwest corner OF Section
Is, Township 81, Range , East; thence
North to the beginning.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
Governor shall appoint and commission five
(5) persons, who shall constitute Il Board of
for SAID county, who shall hold
their offices, until the next general election,
and until their successors shall be duly com
missioned and qualified, unless sooner re-
on the second Monday after the final pas
sage of this bill, or as soon thereafter as
may be practicable, at Grenada, in said
county, and organize by electing one of their
members President and another Secretary.
and after having been duly sworn by some
officer competent to administer Oaths, faith
fully to discharge the duties imposed upon
them by the Constitution, according to law.
said Supervisors or ma ority of them shall
proceed to organize said county by laying
off the same into five districts.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
Governor shall appoint and commission a
Sheriff, Coroner, Assessor, Treasurer, Sur
veyor. a Clerk of the Circuit Court, Clerk
of the Chancery Court and a competent
number of Justices of the Peace, for said
county, who shall hold their offices and dis
charge the duties thereof. until the next
general election and until their successors
removed by the governor.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That a
general election shall be held in said county
for all officers for whom the qualified cleo
tors in said county shall be entitled to vote,
a. the same time and in the same manner.
in which elections are required by law to be
held in the several counties in this State.
sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all
suits now pending, or which shall be COM
menced prior to the organization of said
county, in which the citizens of said county
are interested, shall remain in the courts of
the respective counties where such suits
have been instituted. there to be fully de-
termined.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the
seat of justice of said county of Grenada
shall be, and is hereby, located at the town
of Grenada. in said county.
SEC. z. Be it further enacted, That Moth
ing in this act shall be so construed as to
take from the officers of the counties from
which said county if formed, Jurisdiction
over said county and the Inhabitants there
of, until the officers appointed under the
provisions of this act shall have been duly
commissioned and qualified and entered
upon the discharge of their duties.
Sec. 8. Be il further enacted, That said
Grenada county shall pay its proportion of
the debts of the counties. respectively, from
which said county of Grenada is formed
said proportion TO be determined by the as
sessed value of the real and personal proper
tY within its limits. and that il shall also re
ceive its proportion of the county aud school
funds.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted. That this act
take effect from and after its passage.
Approved May 9th, 1870.
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