The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07


,s-rrov /. Be II enacted By tie Legislatur.
tlIs Suite If Mississippi, That section oil
ctentitled an Act to abolish the office OF
al-aiisting levee commissioner, and to provide
H. rademption of lands in the liquidatino
-oo district and for other purposes, approved
Eli nth 1876, be and the same is hereby
AP.,anded as TO allow the lands therein de-
Nod which have not been taken up by
Iar,nfion or purchase to be redeemed at any
10 nrior to November LIST, 1877, upon the
Nc terms and conditions as are therein con
,,.re3 except that taxes due for fiscal year 1876
L,rI he paid in like manner as therein provided
49, tba navment Of the taxes for the years 1874
isis. ProriHsK, however, that the taxes
p'~isJ or to be levied for the year 1877 shall be
..I "a other State and county taxes are re-
II anjred to be paid.
SIC >. Bel further cnactea That section
ION a of said Act be amended as to
lend the operationt hereof in regard to the
. '.o5s provided for in section one 1) of this
,ctgntil November lst, 1877, when the same
b,Il be in full force and effect.
Ser ? Be ii further enUcted, That hereafter
ts commissions provided for in said Act to be
o,1 tbe Auditor shall be divided equally be
frsqn the Auditor and the Treasurer, one-half
hereof to be paid to each Of said officers.
SD I. Be II further eaacted, That in lieu
# Inc tax of five and three cents an acre now
pyIel and assessor pom Iilc iduNio III JIc SdIu
opida,ing !evee district, there is hereby levied
anil assessed Uniform tax of two and one
half cents an acre per annum on each and every
acre Of land i'm the counties Of Junlca, COahOma,
R,iyaY Washing tOn, Issaquena and that por-
lion of Sharley which was formerly included in
the counties of lssaqpena and Washington and
i, such part Of DeSOtO county as was included
N tho leven district formed by the Act approved
nacap,tar ID. 1858 and like tax Of one and
il nd
assessed per annum on each and every acre
If land living in any other county included III
said pyee district and Ola any other lands
which were subject to taxation by virtue OF
the provisions of the Act of December "a,
1855, aforesaid which tax so levied and as
sessed shall be paid in legal currency OF the
United States and collected and accounted for
in the same manner and upon like conditions,
as far as applicable. as is now prescribed by
law for the collection Of taxes for the State, and
,Ea continue until sufficient SUM is collected
with which to pay off all the interest and prln-
cjpq Of the bonds hereinafter authorized to be
issued; Py0rjded, that any lands in said dis
tfct exempted from the provisions thereof by
filing Of ailidavits or otherwise, shall be exempt
from the provisions of this Act.
Sc. s. Be II further en@cted, That the taA
levied and assessed in the preceding section, be
and the same is hereby declared to be tax IN
r.a upon the lands included therein, and
intended to create lien in all respects as
secure and perfect as the existing lien for the
tax for which this is substituted, and I'll Acts
or parts of Acts relating thereto, not ineo"-
sistent with this Act, be and the same are
hereby re-enacted and made applicable to the
tax herein levied and assessed.
SEC. g. Be 1t further enacted, That ali cut
sanding bonds, certificates or surplusage GER
tfci ties issued under the provisions of Act
entitled an Act to provide for the payment Of
all debts am liabilities contracted or assumed
and an scrin or evidence Of debt Issued by the
general board ofIev,Ne commissioners organized
andar an Act annrored December I'd, 1853, and
also for the payment of all ,tebts and liabilities
Incurred or assumed by any county lof |ofR
and labor done material furnlshe'' PIiof 10
the first day of January, 1862, in any c,uI'ty
included in the levee district created by the
Act of December I'd, 1853. aforesaid, whether
such debts and liabilities incurred or assumed
before or after the passage of the Act aforesaid,
approved February 18th, 1867, or under the
provisions of any Act or Acts amendatory there
TO- may be presented by the holder thereof to
The Auditor of Public Accounts, by him to be
registered on or before the first day of June,
1911, and all such bonds or certificates which
shall not be so presented for registratiOn within
said time shall be barred by limitation, and shall
not thereafter be receivable for taxes except for
The redemption and purchase of lands as pro
Fded in the Act to which this Act is amendato
~, and in section one of this Act amendatory
thereto, nor constitute otherwise valid claim
against said levee district; and after said first
Jay Of June, 1877, no action in law or equl ty
snail be maintained to enforce the same.
SEC. I. Be Il .fitrther enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts,
as ex-oficio levee commissioner. to give notice
Immediately after the passage of this Act for
eight - consecutive weeks in the official State
journal, printed at Jackson, in this State, IN
he Ofreenvllle Times, a newspaper published
al Greenyille in this State, and in some news
paper published at Memphis, Tenn, of the pro
VISIONS OF the fOregOing section; and 1t shall
Dc ms duty to register in book to be kept
oF that purpose. all bonds or certificates so
Presented with their numbers, description, etc,
ana to endorse the same registered with his
Signature as ex-otficio Ievee commissioner and
date thereof
oEc 5. BE 1t further enacted, That it shall
oe The duty of the State Treasurer upon the
presentation to him or or before June lst, 1917
VI tRe bonds or certificates so registered and
eho@fs2G, to issue to the holder or person pre-
sSeh'lng the same, bonds payable in eight years
rom June 1st, 1877, bearing six per cent. inter
esV per annum payable annually, with coupons
VI interest attached, the said bonds be issued
upon the basis of thirty-t three and one third
per eentum of the face and interest calculated
up to June lst, 1877, OF such registered bonds
~ certificates; and he shall keep record OF
ine new bonds SO issued in book provided for
III purpose, and in opposite columns, or IN
sepal ate book if more convenient, record the
numbers, amount etc; of the old bonds or
certificates AIKEN up, which shall be marked
"canceledn witt, the signature of the Treasurer
and filed away in his office; Proefded, that
VI when 50 desired by the holder or owner OF any
~ SAID old bonds or certln>H cafes SO PreseIteIu'