The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-04-08


SEC. Z. 1871 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 ana
uDon their filing said agreement with the clerk
Of the court where said suit was commenced.
and upon the filing thereof, and paying the
costs that may have accrued thereon, said
clerk shall send all the papers and certified
COPY of all entries made in the case, If any
have been made, to the clerk o. Sharkey coun-
ty, taking his receipt, for the same, and such
cause shall be placed upon the proper docket
and tried the same as if brought and com
menced in Sharkey county.
SEC. g. Be 1t further enactcd, That nothing
in this act shall be so construed as to take from
the officers of the, counties from which this
county is formed, jurisdiction over said county,
and the inhabitants thereof, until the officers
appointed and elected under this Act shall be
duly qualified to enter upon the discharge OF
the duties Of their offices respectively.
SEC. 10 Be 1t further enuctea, That said
county OF Sharkey shall be entitled to receive
its proportion of the Common School Fund, in
common with other counties.
Sec. IL Belt further enacted, That the Board
of Supervisors of said county shall provide and
designate some building as we'll suited may
he. in which said courts shall be held, until a
courthouse shall be erected, in said county:
and shall also furnish the clerk of said courts
with such books and furniture as may be nee
essary for the purpose Of carrying on the bust
ness of said Offices; and any person desiring to
have a record made Of any deed to real estate
which he or they may have, may have the same
duly recorded in said county; Prou5ded the
said deed has been acknowledged according to
law. And if any deed to any real estate
within the bounds of said Sharzey county
shall have been lost or destroyed, and a record
of the same shall have been made in Issaquena
or Warren county, such person may have a
copy recorded; Pr0Uided, it shall be certified
according to law, and such record shall be good
and binding in law the Same.as if the original
deed had been recorded in said county of Shar
key.
SEC. - Be 1t further enacted, That the said
board of supervisors shall appoint two com
missiOners to meet an equal number, of com
missiOners to be appointed from each of said
countless to-wit: Washington Warren, and Is
saquena, by their respective boards of super
visors who shall adjust and agree upon the
amount of debt said county of Sharlley shall
assume and pay to said counties severally OF
! The debt which they may owe at the time this
bill shall become law; and ascertaining the
several amounts, the said commissioners shall
! take into consideration the value of territory
embraced in Sharkey county, which has been
! by this bill, detached from said counties in com
parsOn with the other lands in said county
and the said county of Sharkey shall pay &c
said counties the amount agreed upon by said
commissioners and certified to by them, al
such times, and in such instalIments as may
! be agreed upon by said commissioners and in
case said commissioners cannot agree on the
amounts so to be paid, the said commissioners
shall call upon an umpire to determine the
matter Of difference.
SEC. - Be It ti"ther enacted, That the
county of Sharkey shall be entitled to one
member of the House Of Representatives, anC
the law giving one additional member to the
counties of Washington and Issaquena is here
by repealed
SEC. IA. Belt further enacted, That this Ac
shall take effect and be i'll force from and aftel
its passage.
BY LIMITATION, March 80, 1876