The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-03-02
LAWS OF EssE
STA 3EOF MISSISSIPPI
published BY AUTHORITY


AN ACT to encourage and facilitate the
building of the Ship Island, Ripley and
Kentucky Railroad.
WHEREAS, The great need of the State is
direct communication with its sea board, and
the building up and establishments board
towns and commerce, its custom house and
merchant marine The development of the
great natural harbor of Ship Island and direct
railroad connection IN and through the State,
to other States; and,
WHEREAS. This need has been long and
urgently felt by the people, and the present
appearing lifting opportunity to encourage
this great work with assurance of success
therefore,
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State OF Mississippi, That the Ship
Island Ripley and Kentucky Railroad Com
pany, corporation originally chartered as
the Ripley Railroad Company" by Act of
the Legislature of the State of Mississippi,
and having for its object the construction,
equipment and operation of line of railway
at or near Mississippi City, in this
State, to the town of Middleton, in the
State of Tennessee, connecting with the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad and direct to
St. Louis by the present projected narrow
gauge road, is hereby authorized and empow-
cred through its officers and agents, to select
locate and enter any lands belonging to the
State af Mississippi, known as vacant lands,
or lands donated by the United States Gov
eminent, or swamp and overhowed lands !;
Provided, That nothing herein shall be
construed to cover lands heretofore purchased
from the State by bona fide purchasers, any
lands embraced in any of the Levee Districts,
or any lands held by the State as forfeited
for the non-payment of taxes, except as here
in provided; And provided further, That said
Ship Island, Ripley and Kentucky Railroad
Company shall have the power to locate the
southern terminus of said road at Mississippi
City, or such otherpeint as maybe deemed most
eligible and advantageous to said company, to
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and the action of the Board of Directors.
Sec 2. Be it further enacted That said
lands shall be selected and located and de-
scribed by proper subdivisions within six
months from the date of the approval of this
Act and such location and selection
of said lands shall be flied i'll the office
of the Secretary Of State and also that of the
Swamp Land Commissioner, and shall not
thereafter be subject to entry or purchase
otherwise than as provided by this Act; Pro-
vided however, That should said railroad CO D.
pany fail to continue the construction Of said
railroad at any time before completion, for
period of one year, then the Governor shall
by proclamation place any of said lands so
selected or located, to which patents have not
been issued as provided by this Act, in mar
ket. and they shall not thereafter be reserved
and withheld from other purchasers.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That said
Ship Island, Ripley and Kentucky Railroad
Company may become possessed of and hold
following conditions, viz: When said rail
road company shall have completed and made
ready to operate five miles of said railroad,
then said company, upon payment into the
Treasury of the State, of two cents per
acre, shall be entitled to receive a patent
to a proportion of said lands so selected
and designated not to exceed four sections to
the mile. The Auditor SHALL upon certif-
cate of the Governor that five miles of said
road have been completed, issue his recei pit
tc fau off, fa, tho
amount due by said company, and upon pre-
sentation of the Treasurers receipt to the Sec
rotary of State he shall issue patents to said
company for the number of sections of land to
which they shall have been entitled and for
which they have paid, and in like manner as
each five miles of said railroad is constructed
and made ready to operate, shall said receipt
warrant and patent be issued upon application
of said company until such selected and locat-
ed lands shall have been patented to said COM
pany; Provided That said lands SO sold shall
not be mortgaged or in any way incumbered
by said railroad company or its Directory
without the consent of two-thirds of said Di-
rectory.
SEC f. Be it further enacted, That any lands
lying within distance of ten miles ON either
side of the line of said railroad which have
been forfeited to the State fer taxes due any
unpaid thereon, said railroad company may
purchase from the State at the rate herein
fixed, upon satisfactory evidence of title to
said company conveyed by the original owner
or owners of the same, and upon presentation
of such title to said company, the Auditor of
Public Accounts is hereby authorized to con-
vey to said company said lands so decided to
them as in other cases of lands sales or re-
demption.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted That to further
aid the construction of said railroad the au-
ihorities of said company shall have the light
to contract with the Lessees of the Mississip-
pi State PeniteGtiary for as many hands as
he
road. And said Lessees shall furnish such
hands subjectto the restrictions provided by
law for taking convicts sentenced for certain
terms from the walls of the Penitentiary upon
application and upon such terms as may be
agreed upon between them and said COM
pany; Provided, That this requirement of said
Lessees shall be with their consent. Such
consent and agreement with said company
shall be made in writing and accepted by the
Governor, and filed in the office of the Secre-
tary of State with this Act, and shall thereaf-
ter be held a contract between said Lessees,
the State and said Railroad Company.
Sec. 3. Be 1T furtuer enacted, That the con-
tract for lands herein made, and authorized to
be purchased, shall not apply 10 the portion
of said railroad air ady constructed and
being now operated. But said lands are
granted and sold to said Railroad Company
to aid it's further construction, and said
Company shall in the future construction
of said Railroad begin work on each end of
said Road, and the construction of the same
from the sea shore, the Gulf of Mexico,
shall be pushed forward as rapidly as posi-
BILE; Provided, That the survey, location and
construction of said Road shall be commenced
within six months and said Railroad shall be
completed and in operation within ten years
from the passage of this Act; Provided, That
nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to
in any manner effect any lands known as the
Chickasaw School Lands.
Sec Z. Be it further enacted, that all Acts
or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, be,
and the same is hereby, repealed, and this Act
take effect and be in force from and after it's
passage.
iAPPRovED, February %, 1878.
AN ACT to regulate the sale of cotton in the
seed, and cotton ginned but not baled, in the
counties of Adams, Carroll Claiborne, Gre
NADIA, Kinds, Jefferson, Lefore Lowndes,
Quitman, Tunica, Warren and Wilkinson.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That hereafter it
shall be misdemeanor under the laws of this
State for any person to buy, either by paying