The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO Parties Owning Lands in the Liqui-
dating Levee District.

FIRST DlsTRICT, KINDS COUNTY, STATE OF
MISSISSIPPI, AT JACKSON.
Be IT REMEMBERED, That this cause came
this day to be hea. on motion for interlo-
cutOry decree etc, upyn the bill, answer, ex-
hoits and pro cOnfsSSO entered herein, and the
Court, being thereof sufficiently advised by
consent of parties, doth order adJudge and
decree, that the defendants, Gibbs and Hem
mingway, Auditor and Treasurer, as eL-OBciO
L,Qudating Levee Commits sIOners, and pro
kGc Cice Commissioners of this Court, be, and
they are hereby directed, empowered and au-
thorized until the first day of December next,
10 permit the former owners of the lands inclu-
ded in the schedule exhi bited with their answer,
to purchase, by way OF redcemIng same, by
the payment OF all the arrearages, of Llqulda-
tirg Levee taxes due thereon, shown by said
exhibit, and all such tax may accrue there
in hereafter, in the scrip, bones or evidences
of debt issued under the act OF February 18th,
1851, referred to in the compliments bill, and
acts amenda DRY thereof, together with the
commissions of five per centum on the amount
of such taxes, and Two dollars and fifty cents
fo- each deed OF certificate Of redemption, TO
be paid in currency.
the said Commissioners will retain three
ffhs of sums collected for commissions, to be
equally divided between them, one-half there
OF to be paid 10 each, and will hold two-ftths
for the pa yment of the costs that haye accrued
or may accrue in this cause.
And it is further ordered, adjudged and de-
creed, that the said Auditor and Treas urer, as
e1-offcio Liquidatng Levee Commissioners,
and mmiSsiOnerS of this Court, from and
after the said first day Of December next, and
until the further order of this Court, be, and
they are hereby authorized, directed and re
ouired to sell and dispose of any of the lands
embraced in said schedule and exhibit, which
shall then remain undisposeJ of, for such price
and sum not less than all the LIquidatiug Le-
wee Taxes due and in arrears thereon as In
their discretion may be TO the best interest OF
the parties 10 this suit, taking in payment
hon a Y
dences of debt included in this proceeding,
and exhibited in this cause, or which may
hereafter be filed and exhibited herein, to the
extent of ninety-hve per cent of the purchase
money and FIVE per Centum thereof In curren-
CIV of the United States, and will exact IN ad'
dItion from the purchasers, commissions on
the sales At five per centum, and two dollars
and fifty cents for each deed or certificate, tC
be paid in currency They will make monthly
reports to this Court, showing the lands sold
10 whom and when sold, for what amount II
currency, or scrip, or bonds sold, and the mum
| ber date and amount OF leyee onds IN scrlI
taken up by them. They Will cancel all sucl
bonds scrip or evidences of debt taken up by
Them as aforesaid of the day of It's receipt
and return the same with their reports The.
viii proceed without delay to tabulate and ar
range lists of lands included IN SAID schedul,
and exhibit according to the counties IN whIcI
they are situate with Ithe muniments of It'll
| connected Herewith, so numbered by letter o
figure as to be readily found for inspection
and will deliver said munlments OF title TO IN
| purchasers whenever the same can be prOperl
I done They will take steps to have all tn
/ deeds, conveying said lands to them or thel
| predecessors in office, recorded in the Prope
| counties where the same has not been done, au
| will nav the costs of such registration, out g,
anv moneys in their hands realized by sal
of said lands They will give the greatest pub
licity to this proceeding, and the scope an
| extent Of this decree, by circulars and notice
| in several of the leading newspapers IN thl
| State and will pay the costs OF the same OF
| of money arising from sales of lands. The
| will strike from said list schedul- Of a.
lands which are improperly included therein
| and execute to the owners, deeds of releas
| tn .reto on their paying two dollars and hft
| cents for the cost of said conveyance. The
! NAV employ agents in several counties inclt
ded in the Levee District, created by the SAL
| Act of 1867. 10 ascertain the value of sal
| lands and the nature of the titles thereto, an
| TO aid in the sale of such lands, as well as til
taking possession thereof, and leasing til
! same and may agree upon the compensate
| 10 he maid said agents, out of the proceeds
sale of the lands disposed of by or throug
them, not to exceed five per centum of Il
same, but the said compensation shall who'll
denend upon the actual sales of land, AMI !
| no event be absolute
| Ordered adjudged and deoreed, this 18th da
of September, a. d. 1877.
E. G. PEYTON, [sEAL.1
Chancellor,