The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-10
ACT the taxpayers of Holmes
the payment of certain warrants. u
APPROVED, April II, 1876.


IN protect
the payment of certain warrants
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted 6y the LEGISLATURE
of the State Of Mississippi, That any person
holding outstanding uncancelled warrants
against the county of Holmes, issued on or be-
fore the third day of January, 1876, and which
are required to be registered by an Act entitled
an Act to authorize the boards of supervisors to
ascertain the outstanding Indebtedness of the
several counties in this Stat and for other
purposes approved March 23d, 1876, shall
upon the presentation of any such warrants for
registration, provided in said Act, to the
clerk of the board of supervisors of said Holmes
county, make affidavit of his title to said war
rant, and shall also file with the clerk of said
board, a written statement, subscribed and
sworn to, of his title thereto, showing the name
of the party in whose favor said warrant was
issued, the date of its issuance, the amount
thereof and the names of the different persons
through whom he derives his title, and unless
such party makes said affidavit, and files said
written statement, the said clerk of the board
of supervisors shall not registerthe same, and
the same shall not be receivable in payment
of taxes due the county.
SEC 2 Be 1T further enacted, That if upon
the presentation of any such warrant for regis
tration it shall appear to the said clerk, either
from the written statement filed, or from proof
otherwise. (which proof of the said clerk is
hereby authorized to take) that said warrant
was illegally or fraudulently issued, or that the
same had been pald tome sneFlH anu tax cotfec
tor of said county, in payment of taxes, due the
county, or in payment of any other dues to said
county, or that the same had ever been paid
into the treasury of said county, or delivered
bv the sheriff and tax collector of said county, to
the Treasurer of said county, or his deputy, or
that such warrant had ever been paid by said
county. then said warrant shall not be regis
tered by said clerk, and shall not be receivable
in payment of taxes due said county.
SEC g. Be 1t further enacted, That the clerk
of said Board shall carefully file away. and
safely keen the written statements made upon
the presentation of any such warrants for reg.
istration. and shall also make out and deliver
TO the sheriff and tax collector of said county
list of the warrants that he had refused toEreg-
ister and such sheriff and tax collector shall
not receive any of said warrants embraced IN
said list in payment of taxes, nor shall ne re-
ceive in payment of taxes, or other county
dues. any warrant required by law to be reg
istered, unless the same is duly registered
SEC. L. Be ii further enacted, That all war.
rants against the county of Holmes, required
to he registered by an Act entitled an Act to
authorize the board of supervisorsst0 ascertain
the outstanding indebtedness o., the several
counties in this State, and for other purposes,
annroved March 23d, 1876, shall be registered
within two months after the order made by the
hoard of supervisors of Holmes county, Tor the
registration Of such warrants and unless regis,
tered within the said time, said warrants snail
he barred. and shall not be receivable in pay
inert of taxes, nor ever afterwards paid by the
county treasury - - -, .asa.s
take effect from and after its passage. - ~ 4
APPRevBR, April 2, 1879