The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-21
L A w S
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY


AN ACT additional in this State be
called Quitman
SECTION l. Be II enacted Jy tie Legislature
of the STATE Of Mississippi, That a new coun-
ty shall be. and is hereby created in this State,
to be called Quitman, and bounded as follows,
towit: Beginning at the northeast corner o.
Coahoma county, and running thence south
with the boundary line between Tunica and
Coahoma counties to the northeast corner OF
section 80, township % range west; running
thence west with the north line Of sections So
81 and 81 to the range line between ranges :
and 3. west of the Choctaw survey; thence
south with said range line to the township line
between 26 and 20 thence east with said town
ship line to the range line between ranges
and 2 east; thence north with said range line
to the boundary line between the Chickasaw and
Choctaw cessions; thence northwest with sad
line TO the dividing line between Pamela and It.
Mica counties; thence north with said county line
to the northeast corner OF township q range
10 west Of the Chickasaw survey; thence west
with the northern line OF said township to the
northwest corner thereof; thence south with
the west line of said township to the township
line between and S thence west with said
township line to the beginning
SEC. z. BE II further e1aacted. That the
Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, five persons, who
shall constitute board of supervisors for said
county, who shall hold their office until the LIST
day of January, 1878, until their successors
are duly elected and qualified, and majority
of whom SHALL on the ID Monday after the pas
sage of this Act, soon thereafter as prach-
cable, assemble at some convenient place Of
their own selecting, and organize by electp 2
one of their members President and another
Secretary and after being duly sworn by some
officer competent to administer an oath, faith
fully to discharge the duties imposed upon
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the county site to be called Beler, at the most
suitable point on the west side of Cold Water
River, and shall proceed to lay off said county
into five supervisors district.
SEC. 3. BE 1t further enacted That the GOV
ernor shall appoint, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, sheriff, coroner,
assessor, treasurer, surveyor, one clerk OF the
chancery and circuit courts, and requisite num-
Der of justices of the peace and constables tor
said county, who shall hold their offices until
the 1st day of January, 1878, or until their
successors are duly elected and qualified !;
Pr0gided that no officer shall enter on the dis
charge of his duties until he has given bond in
such sum as the board of supervisors may
prescribe.
Sec 4. BE ii further enacted, That Il board
of registrars shall be appointed as now provld
ed by law, and a county superintendent OF
education, whose compensation shall be one
hundred dollars per annum.
SEC s. BE at further enacted, That said
county Of Qutman be and it is hereby attached
to the 9th Congressional, the 2Sth Senatorial,
and the Sd Circuit and Chancery Court Dis
tricts, and shall be entitled to one member in
the lower branch of the State Legislature in
connection with Tunica county, and that said
county shall receive its proportion of the com
mon school fund in proportion with other coun
ties of the State.
SEC g. Be 1t further enacted, That all suits
now pending which may be commenced
prior to the organization of said county against
any citizen of said county, may be trans
ferred for trial to the proper court of said
county upon the application of either party to
the court where the suit may be pending, and
upon payment OF all costs, including the trans
script of the record.
SEC. Z. BE 1t fiuther enacted. That the circuit
court Of said county shall begin on the 18th
Monday after the fourth Mondays of March and
September. and continue six days. and that the
chancery court of said county shall begin on
the 18th Monday after the fourth Mondays of
March and September, and continue six days
SEC. s. Be 1t FURTHER enacted, That the board
of supervisors shall provide and designate some
suitable buildings for a court house and JAIL
until it may be necessary to build new ones,
and shall furnish the clerk with suitable books
and office furniture, and that the Secretary of
State shall furnish to the clerk a full set OF
Mississippi Reports and all the Codes and Acts
of the Legislature, to which the officers of said
county may be entitled by law.
SEC. 8. Be 1t FURTHER enacted, That the
chaneery clerk shall keep an abstract book with
one page for each section of land in the county
in which shall be briefly noted all conveyances
which have been made of any part of each
section, and in what record book and of what
county such conveyance be found; and
this book, or a certified transcript therefrom, |
shall be Prtn,a .tacie evidence Of such convey
ance in all cases of law equity tried in said
county unless the opposing party gives thirty
days notice in writing that the original deed or
a transcript of the record thereof shall be pro
duced, and all future conveyances of land in
said county shall be noted on said abstract
book, and the board of supervisors shall make
such allowance to said clerk for completing |
said abstract book from the records of Tunica, |
Coahoma, Tallahatchie and Pamela counties as
in their judgment they deem best
SEC. 10. BE ii further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, February 1st, 1877.