The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1877-01-09
AN ACT to authorize suits in certain cases.
aOvED, January 4th, 1877.

SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By the LegisZature
Of the State Of Mississippi, That all receivers
appointed by any court and trustees or assign
ees running or operating railroad trains in this
State, carrying either freight or passengers may
be sued in the several courts of this State in
all matters, er cORtractee and er delict0, arts
ing after their appointments without leave of
the court appointing or controlling them being
first had and such suits may be prosecuted to
final Judgment and satisfaction may be had out
OF any property held lem in their fduciary
capacity.
SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That process
may be served on them as provided in section
(703) seven hundred and three of the Revised
Code of 1871 on railroad and telegraph com
panies.
SEC 3. Be 1t further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage
LIMITATION, January 9th, 1917
AN ACT repeal sections Sand of entitled "An
1873
WHEREAS, sections and of an Act entitled
an Act to amend the charter of the Vicks-
burg, Pensacola and Ship Island Railroad
Company, approved April the 18th, 1873,
is in violation of the spirit if not the letter of
section 5, Article -, of the constitution of this
State, which provides, "That the credit of the
State shall not be pledged or loaned in aid of
any person, association or corporation, nor
shall the State hereafter become a stakeholder
in any corporation or association; therefore
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By the Legislature
Of the State Of Mississippi, That sections and
charter of the Vicksburg, Pensacola and Ship
Island Railroad Company, approved April the
| 11th, 1873" be and the same are hereby
pealed.
| Sec. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That in con-
sderation of the withdrawal from said railroad
company, of the valuable rights and privileges
conferred by the sections of their amended
charter, repealed by this act, the State of Mis-
sissippi hereby relinquishes all claim of every
sort which she now holds or owns against said
railroad company by virtue OF any loan made
by her to said company in pursuance of an act
entitled can Act to amend the charter of the
Vicksburg, Pensacola and Ship Island Railroad
company, approved april the 18th, 1873" and
the said company is hereby acquitted and dis
charged absolutely from any obligation or in
debtedness to the State of Mississippi by rea-
son of said loans, and the State Treasurer is
hereby authorized and required to cancel the
obligation of the said railroad company, now
lheld by the State, on account of said loan, and
to deliver the same, together with the bonds
and certificates of stock now held by the State
as collateral security, to the President of said
railroad company, or 10 sucn other person as
may be appointed by him to receive the same;
proyided, That this section shall not become OPP
erative until formal REIMBURSEMENT of all
rights conferred upon said railroad company by
the sections of their amended charter of April
lis. 1873 which are by this act repealed, shall
be made by the Board of Directors of said COM
pany under certificate thereof, under the oath
of the President of said company, which certi-
fcate shall include copy of the order made
| ri of Directors W 4
such REIMBURSEMENT, filed with the Secretary OF
State, and unless said railroad company shall
construct build, finish and equip said road from
the point to which It is now completed, along
the line of survey to the point of crossing, on
the north bank of the Big Black river designa-
ted by said survey, and also construct good
and substantial bridge across said river with
such trestle work may be necessary within
twelve months from the passage of this act.
SEC. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That this Ac
take effect and be in force from and after it
passage.