The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-04-26

celVe like compensation and mileage Tor ser
vices heretofore rendered since their election
SEC. 10. Be 1t further enacted, That thi
Act shall be in force from and after its passage
APPROVED, April Is, 1876.
AN ACT abolish office of Lquidating Levee Commits
soner and provide for the mpton of lands in tn
Liquidatng Levee District, and for other purposes,
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By the Legislature
Of the State of Mississippi, That the office o
Liquidating Levee Commissioners as now ex
listing under the laws Of this State, be and the
same is hereby abolished, and the Auditor o
Public Accounts and the Treasurer of the State
be, and they are hereby constituted and ap
pointed Liquidatng Levee Commissioners ee
0Dfci0, with such compensation for such ser
vices as the Legislature may hereafter author
ize. They shall be responsible upon their Off
cial bonds for the safe keeping and proper man
agement of the Liquidating Levee Fund, and
discharge all their official duties, as Liquidating
Levee Commissioners, and all laws and parts Of
laws touching the Liquidating Levee Fund, and
the collection and disbursement of the tax levied
on account of said fund, shall operate and be
binding and obligatory upon them as upon
the present Liquidating Levee Commissioner
it being the intent and purpose Of this Act to
substitute the said Auditor and Treasurer ee-
O6fct0 as such Levee Commissioners, in place
of the Liquidating Levee Commissioner now
in office.
Sec. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That the State
Treasurer shall keep separate book or books
in which all the transactions and records of the
property and status of the Liquidating Levee
Fund shall be kept, and he shall be the actual
custodian OF the money and assets belonging
to the said fund, and shall bear towards the
same the same relation which he does to the
State funds. The Auditor shall act in the ca
pacity of auditor thereto, and the existing rules
regulations and accounts, as to the State funds
and taxes, shall apply, as far as practicable, to
the said Levee Fund but the said rules and
regulations may be simplifed by the said Au-
ditor and Treasurer, with the approval of the
Governor, if it can be done without removing
the proper checks which should exist on the
part of one against the other An annual state
ment Of the Liquidating Levee receipts, dis
burSements, debts, property, assets and liabili-
ties shall be contained in the official reports of
the Auditor and Treasurer to the Legislature
SEC. 3. BE IL further enacted, That the board
of levee commissioners for levee district No 2,
commonly known as the Levee District for Boil
var, Washington and Issaquena counties, be and
they are hereby required, on or before the first
day Of November next to ascertain and report
to the liquidating levee commissioners, ap-
pointed by this Act, the quantity of lands in
their districts, lying in OF the line of levee
by section, township and range, and the coun-
ty IN which the same is situate, and said report
shall be verified by the afidavits of the presi
dent of said board, and the engineer, by whom
the lists are prepared. The tax collectors of
the liquidating levee tax shall make the same
oath, when they pay in the leyee bonds taken
In payment of said levee tax, that they are
required to make, as to State warrants, re-
ceived by them on account of State taxes and
shall demand, take and receive the same COM
missions for collecting said levee tax, as are
oil rrOA e
pose of accounting with such tax collectors, the
said liquidating leyee tax collected, shall be
taken and held by the Auditor, to be part and
parcel of the State tax
Sec. 4. Be 1t further enacted, That a com
mittee of two on the part of the Senate. and
= on the part of the House, shall be appointed
who shall examine the liquidating levee commits
sioners office, and shall receive and receipt
for all books, papers and special deposits and
property of any kind thereto belonging, and
turn the same over to the Auditor and Treasu-
rer, who shall respectively receipt for such as
may properly pertain to their said offices, and
any and all uncanceled bonds held by the liq-
uidating levee fund for account of any debtor
of said fund, and turned over to said Auditor or
Treasurer, which shall not be properly paid in
before the first day of January, 1877, shall be
cancelled by the Treasurer for account of such
delinquent debtor.
SEC. 5. Be 1t further enacted, That no claim
against the iquidating levee board, which has
not heretofore been audited under an Act of
the Legislature of this State, entitled San Act
to provide for the payment of all debts and
liabilities contracted or assumed, and all scrip
DR. evidence of debt issued by the general board
IF levee commissioners, organized under an
Act approved December I'd. 1858, and also for
he payment of all debts and liabilities incurred
or assumed by any county for work and labor
lone, or material furnished, prior to the first
lay of January, 1862, in any county included
n the Levee District, created by the act of De |
,ember Cd, 1858, aforesaid, whether such debts
'r liabilities incurred or assumed before or