The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-03


/ Treasury at the rate of five dollars per day,
! when actually engaged in the discharge OF Their
official duties and ten cents mile gong
and returning; and said Inspectors shall re-
ceive like compensation and mileage LOT ser
/ vices heretofore rendered since their election
/ SEC. 13. Be IL further enacted, That this
Act shall be in force from and after its passage
APPROVED, April Is, 1876.
AN ACT to abolish the office of qudang Ievee Commits
sioner provide the redemption of lands in the
Liquidating Levee District and for other purposes
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By tie Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the office OF
/ Liquidating 1evee Commissioner, as now ex-
listing under the laws of this State, be and the
same is hereby abolished, and the Auditor OF
Public Accounts and the Treasurer of the State
be, and they are hereby constituted and ap-
pointed Liquidating Levee Commissioners ee-
of3ci0, 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 Liquidatng Levee Fund, and
discharge all their official duties, as Liqudatlng
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
as binding and obligatory upon them as upon
the present Liquidating Levee Commissioner.
lit being the intent and purpose of this Act to
substitute the said Auditor and Treasurer er-
offci0 as such Levee Commissioners, in place
of the Liquidating Levee Commissioner now
in office.
SEC. 2. Be 1t .futher enacted, That the State
/ Treasurer shall keep G separate book or books,
| in which all the transactions and records of the
property and status of the Equidating 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 check 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 habil-
! ties shall be contained in the official reports Of
the Auditor and Treasurer to the Legislature.
SEC. 3. Be az further enacted, That the board
of levee commissioners for levee district No. 3.
commonly known 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 district, 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 afidayits of the presi-
dent of said board, and the engineer, by whom
the lists prepared. The tax collectors Of
| the Equidating levee tax shall make the same
oath, when they pay in the levee bonds taken
! in payment of said levee tax, that they are
required to make, 10 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
allowed in case of State taxes, but for the pur
pose of accounting with such tax collectors, the
said liquidating levee tax collected, shall be
taken and held by the Auditor, to be part and
parcel of the State tax
SEC. f. BE at 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 liquidating levee board, which has
not heretofore been audited under Act of
the Legislature of this State, entitled can Act
to provide for the payment of all debts and
liabilities contracted or assumed, and all scrip
or evidence of debt issued by the general board
of levee commissioners, organized under an
Act approved December I'd, 1853, and also for
the payment Of all debts and liabilities incurred
assumed by any county for work and labor |
DONE material furnished prior to the first
day of January, 1862, in any county included
in the Levee District, created by the act of De
cember I'd, 1858, aforesaid, whether such debts |
or liabilities incurred assumed before or
after the passage of the Act aforesaid ap- |
proved February 18th, 1852 and Acts amend |
atory thereof and for which Levee bonds { +
surplusage certificates have not been issued |
shall ever be recognized allowed as levee
debt intended to be liquidated by the said Acts,
shall any levee bonds be issued therefor |
but all such claims shall be, and the same are |
hereby barred and prescribed.
Sec 6. Be 1t further enacted, That all lands |
lying within the levee district. created by an |
Act of the Legislature of this State entitled an
Act to aid in repairing and perfecting the levee
of the Mississippi river in the counties of De
Solo, Tunica, Coahoma, Bolivar, Washington
and Issaquena, approved December I'd, 1858,
and the said Act approved February 18th
raj