The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-23

LAWS OF NIISSISSIPPI

AN ACT to confer on Chancellors the RICH
to issue and try writs of habeas corpus.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legisla
ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
| several Chancellors of this State shall have
| authority, and it shall be their duty to Issue
and try writs of haDeas corpus as fully and
| to the same extent as Judges of the Circuit
| Courts of this State, are now authorized and
required to do.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this
Act take effect and be in force from ard at
ter its passage.
Approved March 10, 1871.
AN ACT to repeal section IL. of an Act
entitled "an Act to raise Revenue TO de-
fray expenses of the Government Of the
State of Mississippi, and for other pur-
pOses," approved July ., 1870.
Section /. BE it enacted by the Legsla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That Sec
ton eleven I'D of an Act entitled ian Act
to raise Revenue to defray the expenses of
the Government of the State of Mississippi,
and for other purposes. approved July 0,
1870" be and the same is hereby repealed.
| Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That his
Act take effect and be in force, from and
after its passage.
Approved, March 10, 1871.
AN ACT to amend an Act entitled an Act
| in relation to Circuit Courts; approved
April p, 1870.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
lure of the State of Mississippi That so
much Of the above mentioned Act as refers
10 the time OF holding the Circuit Courts in
| Tallahatchie County, and fixes the number
| Of days assigned to the holding of each term
Of said Court shall be and the same is
hereby amended, so as to allow for each
term of the same eighteen days or such
part of said time as the Court shall at any
lime see fit to consume.
II
Secretary of State be, and he is hereby d.
rected to furnish the clerk OF the Circuit
Court of Tallahatchie County with a GER
tiled copy of this Act within ten days alter
lbs passage.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all
Acts or parts of Acts in any way interfer-
ing with or contrary to the provisions of
this Act be, aed the same are hereby repeal
et, and that this Act take effect from and
alter It's passage.
Approved March 10, 1871.
AN ACT, to provide for the transcript OF
records for counties in this State compos-
ed or formed from one or more other
counties, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legish-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
respective Boards of Supervisors of the
several new counties i'm this State composed
or formed from one or more other counties
aIe hereby authorized and empowered to
contract with some suitable person to tran
scribe from the records of the counties out
of which the new county is formed, tran
scripts of such records as they may desire
to obtain for their respective counties drawn
i'm we'll bound books of good paper, and
certified by the custodians of such records
under their hands and seals of office which
transcripts when so obtained shall be filed
i'm the proper offices of said new counties.
and held to all intents and purposes to be of
as much force, effect and virtue as the orig
inal records; and certified Transcripts made
from said transcripts so obtained made by
the proper custodians of said transcripts
shall be held as good as certified transcripts
from the original records.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted That said
records so transcribed, and uuly certified
copies thereof shall be received as evidence
in all courts of law and equity i'm this State
in which the original would have been adj
missable evidence.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
person employed under the provisions of
this act shall receive such compensation
as may be allowed by the boards Of super
visors, payable out of the treasury of the
county.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this
Act take effect and be in force from and af-
ter its passage.
Approved, March 10th, 1871.