The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-03-02

ond 81 suitable person to receive such license,
which petition shall be signed by majority
of the legal voters resident In the supervisor
District where such business is to be carried
on. and all such petitions, after being present.
ed and filed shall lay over one month for consid-
Grafton and the reception of counter petitions,
before being acted upon; and any name found
on both petitions shall be counted against the
granting of the license; and II any Supervl-
sors District shall, by majority of the legal
voters therein, petition the Board of Supervl-
sors against the granting of license TO trans
act such business such license shall not be
granted to any applicant within the BOUNDS ;
of such district, for twelve months after said
petit ion is so presented, and such license
Shall be personal privilege, and not trans
ferrable to.a mother The particular place and
house in which cotton in the seed and cotton
ginned but not baled, is to be purchased or
received, shall be designated in the license,
and no license shall authorize any person to
purchase or receive such cotton elsewhere
than that specified in such license; Provided,
That the Board of Supervisors may, In their
discretion and for sufficient cause, allow a
change in the place OF house in which such
cotton may be purchased or received under
the provisions of this Act; but in no case shall
this license admit of cotton in the seed, or
ginned but not baled, being purchased or re-
ceived at any other than the one place desig-
mated in said license. unless and until said
place be changed by order of the Board of SUI
pervisors; and nothing in this Act contained
shall be held or taken to repeal or affect any
of the provisions of an Act entitled. an Act to
prohibit the sale in this State, within certain
hours, of seed cotton, corn, wheat and cotton
ginned but not baled, which became law by
limitation March 10. 1875, or of the amend
nentS thereto.
See A. Be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of any person doing business by
virtue of such license, to require of each an-
every person who shall bring cotton in the
| seed, or cotton ginned but not baled, to his
6y11a of h11CI f0r 10 0fh
| sition, to deposit with him. before the purch-
ase or reception of such cotton, a certificate
| from the landlord or his agent upon whose land
such cotton has been grown, to the effect that
such cotton is free from all liens of said land
lord thereon, or if any such liens exist then,
that the removal and sale disposition of
| said cotton is with his consent, and said GER
| tificate shall state approximately the amount
of cotton to be sold or dis posed of, and shall be
| kept on file at the said place of business, sub
| ject to the inspection of any citizen of the
county in which such license is granted. And
| the said purchaser or receiver shall indorse
upon each certificate the amount of cotton SO
purchased or received by him. Provided
That the foregoing provisions of this Act shall
not apply to the landlord ofany plantation OF
| farm who shall purchase any cotton in the
seed ginned but not baled, when such cot
ton is grown upon his own lands, and is free
from all liens for supplies advanced by any
other person.
SEC s. Be it further enacted, That any
person violating any of the provisions Of this
Act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor
and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine
in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars
nor less than one hundred dollars for each
and every offence, or by Imprisonment in the
| County Jail not longer than six months, nor
less than thirty days, or by both such fine and
| Imprisonment.
APPROVED, February g. 1873
| AN ACT to amend an Act entitled IAN Act to
authorize the purchasers of railroads under
foreclosure of mortgages to organize as in
corporated companies"
SECTION l. Be it enatcted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi. That the several
provisions of an Act entitled, ''an Act to au-
| thorize purchasers of railroads under foreclos-
ures of mortgages to organize as incorporated
companies" approved February l, 1877, be
and the same are hereby, extended and made
applicable to the purchaser or purchasers OF
the franchise, road bed, superstructure and
other property of any railroad company char
tered in this State and whose road lies in
whole or in part in this State at any execu-
ton sale thereof, under judgments recovered
in this State heretofore made or hereafter to
be made Provided That the State reserves
| the right to prevent exorbitant charges and
unjust determinations for carrying Of light
and passengers over said roads.
APPROVED, February %, 1873.