The weekly clarion., 1876-04-12
Law S
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lines of Warren Issaquena and Washington counties
SECTION j. Be 1t enacted bg the Legislature
Of tie State Of 1fi88issippi That a new county
shall be, and is hereby created in this State, to
be called Sharkey, to be bounded as follows,
to-wlt: Commencing at the northwest corner
OF section three, township thirteen, range sew
en-, west, thence in direct line to the north
line of township fourteen, thence east along
said township line between township fourteen
and fifteen to the east line of Washington
county, the northwest corner OF township
fourteen, range four west; thence down the
west boundary of Yazoo county to where 1t
connects with Sunfower river following the
1neanderings thereof, to the south line of town
ship ten, range five west; thence west along
said township south line to the northwest cor
ner Of township nine, range seven west; thence
north on the range line between ranges seven
and eight to the east prong Of SteeFs Bayou
thence up said east prong, following the mean
derlngs thereof to section twenty-five, town
ship thirteen, range seven west; thence west
along the south line of said section tWenty-tw
to the southwest corner thereof; thence north
to the beginning point.
SEC. 2. Be ii. further enacted, That the north
boundary line of Issaquena county shall begin
at the northwest corner Of section three, town
ship thirteen, range seven west; thence along
the township line between townships thirteen
and fourteen west to the Mississippi river !;
thence down the Mississippi river to the north
west corner of Warren county, thence east
along said county line to the southwest corner
of township nine, range seven west; thence
south along the range line between range two
and three, to the YazoO river; thence along the
YazoO river to range line between ranges three
and four east; thence north along said range
line to the Issaquena county line; thence east
along the present line between Warren and
Issaquena counties, to the southeast corner of
Issaquena county; thence along the eastern
boundary Of said county to the south line of
township ten in said county; thence west along
the township line between townships nine and
ten. to northwest corner of township nine,
range five west, being the southwest corner of
Sharkey county; thence along the western
boundary of Sharl1ey county to the beginning,
towit: the northwest corner of section three
township thirteen, range seven, west.
SEC. 3. BE 1t further enacted, That the north
ern boundary Of Warren county shall be so
changed to make the Yazoo river the line in
range three east, giving to Issaquena county all
of township seventeen and eighteen, range
three east, lying north of the Yazoo river, and
in no other way to effect the boundary of said
county of Warren.
SEC. 4. BE 1t further enacted, That the
boundary line of Washington county be so
altered as to make the south boundary thereof
the line between township fourteen and fifteen,
from the east edge of said county to the north
west corner of section three, township four
teen, range seven west, and from thence south
on section lines to the southwest corner of
section thirty -four, township fourteen, range
seven, west; thence the township line to
the Mississippi river, the present boundary be-
tween Issaquena and Washington county.
SEC 5. BE 1t further enacted, That Samp
son Williams David Hunt, Thomas c. Watson,
William T. Barnart, and J. Q. Shrader be and are
hereby appointed a Board of Supervisors for
said county Of Sharkey, who shall hold their
said offices until the next general election and
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unless sooner removed by law, who shall assem-
BILE on the second Monday after the passage of
this Act. or as soon thereafter, as may be prac-
ticable, at point or place called Rolling Fork,
at the head Of the stream called Rolling Fork, |
which shall be the county site of said county |
and shall organize by electing one of their
number, president, and one secretary, and !
after having been duly sworn by some person
authorized to administer oaths, faithfully to |
discharge the duties required of them by the |
constitution, according to law said supervisors,
or majority of them, shall proceed to organ |
ize said county by laying off the same into
five supervisors districts, and shall order an
election for two justices of the peace, and one |
constable for each supervisors district and |
for said county, one sheriff, one coroner, one |
assessor. one treasurer, one surveyor, and one |
clerk. who shall be the clerk of the circuit and
chancery courts of said county; and such cleo
ton shall be held according to law; and in
order thereto. the said supervisors shall appoint
three discreet and competent persons as regis
fers who shall take the usual oath, and register
the ualifed voters of said county according to
law: and the several officers elected at such
election, shall hold their offices respectively,
and discharge the duties thereof upon giving
bonds according to law, until the next general
election, and until their successors are duly
qualified; Prov{ded. the said clerk shall give
bond as clerk of each court: and where the
amount of bond for any of said officers is not
fixed by law then the said board of supervisors
shall fix the amount of said bond or bonds.
SEC g. Be 1t further enacted, That the
State Board of Education shall appoint a COun-
tv Superintendent for said county, who shall
receive as q salary for his services, hun
dred and fifty dollars per annum.
SEC Z. Be at furt},er enacted, That general
election shall be held I'm said county for all
offices for whom the qualified electors in said
county shall be entitled to vote at the same
time and in the same manner in which elections
are required by law to be held in the several
in this State for county officers.
SEc. Z. ISl Be 1t further enacted, That all
suits now pending, or which shall be commenced
prior to the organization of said county, in
which the citizens OF said county are interested,
shall remain in the courts where instituted;
there to be fully determined unless all the par
ties both plaintiffs and defendants shall sign a
written agreement to have their cause removed
to said county of Sharkey, and in such case and
upon their filing said agreement with the clerk :
of the court where said suit commenced
and upon the filing thereof, and paying the
costs that may have accrued thereon, said 6
clerk shall send all the papers and certified :
COPY of all entries made in the case, If any :
have been made, to the clerk Of Sharkey coun- !;
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