The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1877-01-28
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OF THE
STATEOF MISSISSIPPI
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
OF THE

AN ACT to promote the interest of agriculture
and stock raising in Warren county, in this
State.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted by the Legislature OF
the State of Mississippi, That upon petition of
majority of the freeholders of any district or
part of district in Warren county, In this
State the board of supervisors be and they
are hereby authorized and required to pass an
order ohibiting live stock of any descrlp-
ton therein owned, from running at large.
and compelling the owners thereof to keep
the same securely confined so that they can
not tres passupon the titled lands therein sit
uated
SsC. 2. Be it further enacted, That upon pc
tition Of a majority of the freeholders in any
district Or part Of district in said county, the
said board are hereby authorized and required
to release such district or part thereof so ap-
plying from the prohibition against allowing
live stock to run at large, whether such prOhi-
btiOn was CIR may be the result OF legIs latlve
action by the General Assembly of the tate, or
by order by the said board of supervisors,
under the provisions OF this act.
Sec. g. Be it further enacted That when said
board of supervisors shall have heard and
granted any petition In accordance With the
first section OF this act, said board shall make
order requiring the construction of good
aud substantial fence around the district or
part of district so petitioning, separating it
from the surrounding territory.
Sec. f. Be 1t further enacted That such fence
shall be constructed In accordance with the
provisions laid down in sections four five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, of an act entitled
bill to be entitled act to prevent live
stock running at large, and to protect agricul-
ture in certain counties, approved, April 10,
1876, which said sections of said act after omit
ting the words Township or townships and
inserting in lieu thereof the words District
or part of district are hereby incorporated
with and made part of this act.
SEC. .. Be 1T further enacted That any
live stock running at large within any
district or part OF DISTRICT contrary
of this act, may be taken up and confined by
any person residing therein, and the owner Of
such animal shall be liable for all injury done
by 1t to the crops or property of another, dam
ages to be recovered in any court having iu-
risdietion Provided, that persons living be-
yond the bounds of such district or part of
district, shall be liable for damages under
this act, after the construction of the boundary
fence herein provided for, and not till then
and 50 long as such fence shall remain in good
repair and not otherwise; and provided fur
Their, that if said boundary fence shall not
have been constructed, or shall not be in good
repair by the first day Of September Of any
year, the pasture-fence law granted by the
SAID board of supervisors under this Act shall
thereafter be null and void and the said board
snail have no power to renew the same in g
shorter period than six months thereafter
SEC. =. Be 1T further enacted, That sections
two, three, four of an act entitled "An act to
protect crops In certain supervisors districts
in Warren county, in this State" passed
March 6, 1876, are hereby Incorporated with
and made part of this act
SEC. Z. BE 1t further enacted, That il is hereby
made the duty of the board of supervisors OF
warren county at its first regular meeting
next after the passage of this Act, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, to appoint as commits
sloners three discreet freehOlders within the
limits of any district or part of district. to
which an Act entitled AN Act to project
crops in certain supervisors districts, in
3, 1876 may apply at the time of the holding of
such meeting, whose duty it shall be to con-
struct, under the conditions of this Act good
and substantial fence, separating such dis
trlct or part thereof from the surrounding ter
rltoryi provided, thatif such fence fail of con-
structIon by the first day of January next
ehen the provisions of the said act of March
9th, 1910, shall be held as to it or them null
and void al
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted. Thatit is here
by made the duty of the SAID board of sunervi
sors under liability of trial and punishment
for misdemeanor for failure so to do to CON
vene within ten days after the passage of this
act, ana to sit from day to day. so long as il
may De necessary, to hear and determine anv
controversy which may be brought before
5 ,i by the freeholders of that part of the
3lstrlct-No. east of the Warrenton and
rort 9lbson Road-in accordance with the
proVlslons OF the hrst section of this act.
ofo. o. BE 1T further enacted That all acts
ana parts of acts in conflict with this ACT he
and the same are hereby repealed and t,b oe
In u act take effect and be in force from and
after its passage Gnu
APPROVED, January %, 1877.