The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-03-03

box or ward, as the case may BE-, is usually
designated) in supervisors district No. -
county of Kinds, Mississippi. Given un-
der orr hands this ---day Of --- A.
D. 1873 Which certificate shall be written
immed iately under the name of the voter last
registered in the registration book of such
voting place or box. copy Of said registra
ton book or any part thereof, certified to as
correct copy under the hand and seal of Of
fee OF the chancery clerk of said county, shall
be evidence in all the courts and in all pro-
ceedngs civil or criminal, in this State the
same as If the original were produced and
their genuineness duly proven, and shall be
prima facie evidence that the voter made the
evidence under oath written opposite his
name.
Sec 5. Be it further enacted, That if at
any time, not less than forty, days prior
to S4 pdto rsf pr MGday on august seeon ISIS
of an act entitled, IAN act to incorpo-
rate the Natchez and Jackson Railroad
Company approved July q, 1870, shall be
presented to the president of the board of
pervisors of said Kinds county, election
shall be held by said board of registration,
for the purpose of voting for against
subscription to the capital stock of said rail-
road company of the amount stated in said
petition, said first Monday and Tuesday in
August 1878, and within and during said
hours of registration and contemporaneously
Herewith and in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided, the president of said board of supervi-
vided in said section Is. Said election shall
be held and con .ucted at each of said voting
places, or boxes by the board of registration
appointed thereto and therefor as hereinbe-
fore provided, and each of said boards shall
appoint two clerks to assist it in conducting
said election. 1t shall be the duty of the
board of registration at each precinct, upon
aud imm ,diately after registering each voter,
to receive and deposit his ballot in the ballot
box, and check his name upon the registration
4hnn
voting on first said Tuesday of August, 1878 it
shall be the duty of said several boards to
count the ballots which may have been cast
for or I"against" said subscription and
upon the completion of such count to make
return thereof to the county board of registra-
tion who, after compiling and verifying the
several returns, shall certify the result and
return the same into the office of the clerk of
the board of supervisors of said county, and
said result shall be entered upon the minutes
of the "a board of supervisors at any general
or called II Getting thereof. Said election and
subsequent proceedings shall be conducted in
all respects as other elections in said
county except as herein otherwise provided.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That if it shall
appear that two thirds of all the qualified
voters Of said county have voted at said cleo
ton, For Subscription" it shall be the duty
of the president OF said board of supervisors
to subscribe to the capital stock Of said rail
| road company and to execute bonds to said
company provided in section II of said
''act to incorporate the Natchez and Jackson
Railroad Company.
Sec. l. Be it further enacted, That the ex
penses of holding said registration and cleo
ton shall not be paid out of the treasury of
said county of Kinds.
SEC. 8. Be il further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force from and after it's
passage.
APPROVED, March l, 1878.
AN ACT to require the Secretary Of State to
furnish certain Mississippi Reports of the
decisions of the Supreme Court of the State
to the circuit and chancery clerks of New
| ton county.
WHERE'S .The court house of New
| ton county was destroyed by fire in the month
of September, A. d. 1876, including copies of
| the reports of the decisions of Supreme Court
| together with copies of Georges Digest and
Morris Report of State Cases, heretofore fur
nished the clei ks of the circuit and chancery
courts Of said county; therefore,
| SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the Secretary
| of State be, and he IS HEREBY, authorized and
required to furnish to the chancery and cir
cult clerks of said county for the use of said
county set of the reports of the decisions of
| the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi
| from Vol. to 81, inclusive, also each copy
of Georges Digest and copies of Morris lie
| port OF State Cases, Vol l and 2; Provided,
That this act be not so construed as to require
the Secretary of State to furnish such books
as can not be spared from his office.
Sec. z. Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force from and after its
pass age
APPROVED, February 26, 1878,
AN ACT to prescribe the mode of expanding
the interest arising from the Chic kasaw
School Fund
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
| of the State of Mississippi, That hereafter,
the interest arising from the Chickasaw School
Fund shall be paid by the County Treasures
OF the several counties entitled thereto, upon
| the school warrants issued for services rem
dered during the year that said interest is
distributed to the several counties and shall
be paid out in the same manner now pro
vided by law for expanding the Common
School Fund
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any
County Treasurer shall wilfully violate the
first section of this Act, he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be
fined not less then ten dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars, and shall be liable to the
party aggrieved for all damages sustained by
him, to be recovered in any Court having
jurisdiction.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after it's
passage
APPROVED. February 81, 1878
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.