The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-16
AN ACT 10 provide for a new Code of Laws
for the State of Mississippi, and for other

AN ACT TO provide for new Code of Laws
for the State of Mississippi, and for othel
purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
/ ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
/ Governor by and with the advice and con-
sentof the Senate, be. and he is hereby au-
thorzed to appoint three commissioners To
| revise, digest and codify the laws of this
! state, and to propose such alterations or
amendments thereof, such new laws as they
may deem expedient and such laws. regu-
| latiBg the practice in the different courts in
this State. as they may deem advisable.
| See. 2. Be il further enacted. That said
| commissioners shall in performing the du-
| ties imposed upon them by this act, reduce
| the subjects in said code into chapters and sec
| tions condensing into each chapter, As near
as may be practicable, all the laws apper-
tainmg to the subjects of such chapter. pre-
| fixing appropriate titles aud subdivisions
| of titles thereto.
code shall contain the Declaration OF indie
pence, the Articles of Confederation of 1777,
the Ordinance of 1857, the Constitution of
the United States, the Constitution of this
State, and the act for the re-admission of
the State of Mississippi into the Union.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the
said commissioners shall cause two hundred
copies of each chapter of said code to be
printed and preserved for the use of the
Legislature each chapter to be printed as
soon as it IS completed, and one copy there
of delivered to the Governor. and to each of
the Judges of the Supreme Court, and the
said judges shall examine each chapter of
said code, as early as practicable, and sug
gest, in writing, to the Governor, such
changes ard alterations therein, as major
itv of them NAV agree upon, and the Gov
ernor shall transmit said code with the writ
ten suggestions of the said Judges to the
Legislature at the first session, that may be
held after lis completion. with such recon-
mendations as he may deem advisable and
proper, and the Governor shall have power
20 convene the Legislature in extraordinary
session, to consider and adopt said code. il
he considers that the public interest so de-
mands.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That when
said code is finally considered and adopted
by the Legislature, it shall be the duty of
the said commissioners to superintend the
printing of such number of copies thereof.
as the Legislature may order, and to append
a correct and suitable index to the same,
and to add such marginal notes as may be
necessary, with references to such decisions
of the Supreme Court and the late High
Court OF Errors and Appeals, as may be ap-
plicable, and for all the services required of
said commissioners by this act, there shall
be paid to each, out of the State Treasury,
the sum of four thousand dollars, to be paid
in such installments, and at such times, as
the Governor may direct in writing, and
the Auditor shall issue his warrants for the
same,
See, 6. Be it further enacted, That should
any vacancy occur in said Board of Com
missioners, the Governor shall fill the same
by appointment.
Sec. ~ Be it further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its pas
sage.
Approved, June 1870.