The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-28

SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By the Legislature
of the State Of Mississippi, That the county
Superintendent of public education of Holmes
county, shall hereafter keep an account of the
moneys received by him as interest on the pro
ceeds of the 10th section or sections granted
in lieu thereof in the different townships of said
county. and shall further ascertain by careful
examination. the amounts collected since the
establishment of the free school system, and
the amount now in or due the treasury TO the
credit of the various 10th sections, or sections
granted in lieu thereof and the amount now
due by any person to said funds, making full
report thereof to the board of supervisors OF
said county at their regular meeting in August,
1877
SEC. 3 Be 1t further enacted, That the
county superintendent of public education for
said county, shall at the regular meeting of the
board of supervisors in August and at such
other times as said board may call upon him,
present his account of the moneys received by
him on account of the various sixteenth sec
TONS or sections in lieu thereof, and his re
ceipts from the treasurer OF said county OF the
payment of said moneys into the treasury, which
account shall be carefully compared by said
board with the treasurer's book.
SEC g. Be IL further enacted, That the in
terest accruing from the proceeds of the vari-
Gus sixteenth sections, or sections granted In
lieu thereof shall be used by the said superin
tendent and the board of supervisors in the re
par ana DulIulnS OF ScnOOI houses III IHe iONH-
ships from which said funds may be respective
ly derived.
SEC. 4. Be 1t further enacted, That the su
perntendent of public education for said
county be, and he is hereby authorized and
empowered, to employ an attorney upon
price to be agreed upon between said superin-
tendent and said attorney, rot to exceed the
sum of three hundred dollars, payable out Of
the common school fund, to examine into and
report the conditions of the 10th sections
funds, and sections granted in lieu thereof, and
upon the title to said sections in said county.
The board of supervisors of said county, upon
the production of the certificate of the said SUI
perntendent that said work has been com
pleted and report made to him, shall make an
order allowing the said attorney said sum of
money so agreed to be paid him, payable out
of the county school fund.
SEC. ). Be 1t further enacted, That the
superintendent is hereby authorized to employ
an attorney to institute suit for and recover
the money due by any party or parties for any
lease sale of said sixteenth sections, or sec
tons granted in lieu thereof, heretofore made
or otherwise due, and to bring the proper &C
tons at law or in equity for the recovery of
said lands from any person wrOnglully IN pos
session thereof and for the recovery Of rents
and mesne profits, and for use and occupation
of and damages to said lands upon terms to be
agreed upon between said superintendent and
said attorney, not to exceed ten per centum
upon the amounts so collected and upon the
value of the lands so recovered: which claim
said board of supervisors is hereby authorized
to audit and allow, payable out of the common
school fund of said county.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That this
Act shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
APPROVED, January Both, 1877.