The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-27
APPROVED, February q, 1878.
AN ACT TO provide for maintaining thu
levees of Tunica county

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levees of Tunica county.
SECTION l. Be it enacted By the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the Board of
| Supervisors of Tunica county shall have the
county that they now have over the public
| roads.
SEC. 2 Be it further enacted. That the
| Board of Supervisors of said county may, if,
| in their opinion it is necessary, levy tax in
| each year, not exceeding fifty per centum on
| the State tax, for the purpose of maintaining
| and repairing the levees in said county, which
| tax shall be collected by the Tax Collector of
said county at the same time and in the same
manner provided for the collection OF State
| and county taxes, and shall be paid into the
County Treasury, and held as a special leyee
fund.
SEC. g. Be it further enacted That said
Board of Supervisors may contract for repair
ing said levees and pay for the same out of
the fund provided for in this Act, and may do
all things not inconsistent with law, neces-
sary to maintain and keep effective the levees
in said county.
SEC T. Be it further enacted, That the Board
of Supervisors of said county may divide the
levee into sections, and assign an overseer
and hands to each section, and all laws in
force in regard 20 the working of roads and
the appointment and duties of hands and over
seers of roads, shall be applicable to the
working of levces, and the appointment and
duties of Overseers thereof; and all fines and
penalties imposed by the road laws of this
State on hands and Overseers of roads, for
failure perform the duties required of them,
shall apply and be enforced in the same man
ner against OVerseers and hands failing to
work the leyees in said county, and perform
the duties required of them by this Act; Pro
vided, That no person shall be required to
work said levee more than ten days in any
one year. unless in cases of emergency.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That hereaf-
ter it shall be the duty of all members of
the Board of Supervisors in the county of
Tunica, before taking the oath of office. and
entering upon the duties of their several
offices, to execute a bond in the of five
thousand dollars, $4,000, conditioned as the
as other county officers bonds and the rene
dies in which shall be as provided by law on
other official bonds.
SEC g. Be it further enacted, That all mem
bers of the Board of Supervisors of Tuniea
county, who may already have qualified ana
entered upon the discharge of the duties OF
their Office, shall also execute bond within
thirty days after the passage of this Act, as
provided for in the preceding section of this
Act.
SEC T. Be it further enacted, That in the
event any member of the Board of Supervi-
sors of said county shall fail to give bond as
requ red by this Act, said office shall be, and
the same is hereby declared vacant, and said
vacancy shall be filled as vacancies in county
offices are now required to be filled.
SEC. 8, Be it further enacted That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, February p, 1878
AN ACT supplementary to- and amendatory of
An Act entitled IAN ct to prohibit the sale
of spirituous and vinous liquors within five
miles of the town of Ashland in the County
of Benton
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That section sec
ond of An Act entitled IAN Act to prohibit the
sale of Spirituous and vinous LIQUORS within
FIVE miles of the town of Ashland in the Coun-
ty of Benton" approved FEBRUARY g. 1878, be
so amended as to read after the enacting clause
of said section, THAT if any person or per
sons shall violate the provisions of this Act |
such person or persons SHALL on conviction
thereof before any Court having competent
jurisdiction, be fined not less than five nor |
more than one hundred dollars for each Of |
Tense and that nothing in said Act of which |
this Is amendatory shall be construed as in |
terfering with church rites or ceremonies or
individual rights in dispensing inequalities |
or administering spirituOus or vinous liquors |
as medicine in~the family circle, but shall |
only be construed to prohibit the traffic many |
manner in such liquors for profit gain.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act |
take effect and be in force from and after its |
pa sage.
APPROVED, February n, 1878.
AN ACT to change the boundary lines of /
Lawrence and Lincoln counties, and for |
other purposes.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature |
of the State of Mississippi, That all of frac- |
tional sections 30 and &c, township nine,
North, range nine, East South of the Choctaw |
boundary line, be, and the same is hereby Ia |
ken from said Lawrence county, and added to, |
and made part of, said county of Lincoln.
SEC 2. Be it further enacted, That the Tax |
Collector of said Lincoln (county,) be and he |
is hereby required, to assess and collect the |
taxes upon said land until it shall be regu- |
larry assessed by the Assessor of said |
county.
APPROVED, February q, 1873.
AN ACT to regulate and direct the action of |
the Board of Mayor and Councilmen of the /
town of Baldwin, in the counties of Lee /
and PIentiss.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Legislature /
of the State of Mississippi, That any Justice
of the Peace residing in the corporate limits /
of the town of BALDWIN, shall, in the absence /
OF the Mayor of said town, be Mayor protein
pore, and discharge all the duties of Mayor
for the time being. fully as the Mayor could |
If he were present, and be entitled to all the /
emoluments of the office, and subject to all
the penalties and liabilities incurred by him
on his bond, such Justice of the Peace.
SEC 2 Be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the Mayor and Councilmen to
apply all money eollec ed by them, by virtue
of the act of Incorporation, 10 the purposesi
provided for in said charter, and in case of a
diversion of said money or missapplieation of
the same, they shall be subject to Indictment
Ia their respective countless and upon eonvie-
hon, found in double the amount so diverted
or misapplied.
SIC. q Be i further enacted That this Act
take effect and be IN force from and after IL
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