The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-03-13

take effect and be in force thirty days from
and after its passage
APPROVED, February % 1873
AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors
| of Lee county TO procure q field book for the
use of the county surveyor, and to obtain
field notes of the south boundary of town
| ship eleven, range five, east, of the Chicka-
saw survey.
/ SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the Board of
| supervisors of Lee county be, and they are
| hereby, authorized and empowered to purchase
| a field book for the use of the county surveyor,
| and to obtain field notes of the south boundary
| of township eleven. range five, east, of the
Chickasaw survey, and TO pay for the same
out Of the county treasury.
SEC. 2 Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage
APPROVED, March 4, 1873.
AN ACT in relation to the office of sheriff and
| tax assessor in the county of Quitman-
| SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the office of
sheriff and tax assessor Ia the county of Quit
man may be held by the same person.
| SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act
! take effect and be in force from and after its
| passage.
APPROVED March 5. 1878
AN ACT for the relief of E. y Ramsey, ex-
tax collector of Jackson county.
WHEREAS, The court house of Jackson county
| was, on the 1st day of March. 1875 destroyed
| by fire, and with it the records of said county,
all the books of the sheriffs office, delinquent
and insolvent list double assessments, errO-
| neous assessment, allowances by board of su-
| pervlsOrs for deterioration of property for the
| year 1874 of said county; and
| WHEREAS, The Auditor of Public Accounts
and treasurer of jackson county have no guide
! by which TO make settlement with the said
E. N. Ramsey of taxes for 1874 except the
gross amount charged on the assessment roll ;
| therefore,
| SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi That the Auditor
| of Public Accounts and the county Treasurer of
Jackson county be, and they are hereby, au-
! thOrized and empowered to make settlement
| with the said f. n. Ramsey o Il basis of a
| settlement de in the year 1873.
| SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force upon its passage
APPROVED. March T. 1873
| AN ACT to prohibit the sale Of spirituous or
vinous liquors within five miles of Hebron
| Church
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That ii shall be I'M
| lawful for any person to sell or barter TO any
| person or persons, any spirituous or vinous
! liquors within five miles of Hebron Church,
Lawrence county.
| SEC 2 Be it further enacted. That if any
person persons shall violate the provisions
| of this act, such person persons shall, on
| conviction thereof before any court of compe-
| tent jurisdiction be fined not less than twenty
nor more than fl We hundred dollars for each
offense, or be confined in the county jail not
| less than five nor more than thirty days, or
| suffer both such fine and imprisonment, at the
discretion of the court.
| SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the pro-
visions of this act shall extend to Bethany
Church in said county.
APPROVED, February %, 1878.
AN ACT to authorize the board of superyi-
of the County of Carroll to register
outstanding warrants.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That an act auth
OriZing the board of supervisors TO ascertain
the outstanding Indebtedness of the several
counties of this State, and for other purposes,
approved March %, 1876, be and the same is
hereby so extended as to authorize the board
of supervisors of Carroll county to register
in the manner prescribed by said act all
county warrants of said County of Carroll,
that were omitted TO be registered as required
and provided by said act.
SEC 2. Be il further enacted. That said
board of supervisors OF said county shall, at
the first regular meeting after this act goes
into effect, soon thereafter practicable,
enter an order upon the minutes of said board,
directing and requiring al persons now
holding outstandi ng unpaid warrants not
heretofore registered, ag ainst said county, to
bring the same forward within thirty (30)
days after the notice of said order to be reg
istered by the clerk of said board, and it shall
be the duty of said clerk to register and per-
form all other duties required of him in reg
istering county warrants, in the same manner
as prescribed by said act.
SEC. g. Be it further enacted, That all coun
ty warrants registered, or issued as provided
BY this act shall be paid in the order of their
registration; Provided, That this section
shall not prevent the payment of county taxes
In county warrants when registered as herein
provided.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, March 2, 1873.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled ''an act to
provide for the registration and payment
of the outstanding warrants of Wilkinson
county issued prior to January / 1876,
approved April Is, 1876.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That section 5, in
the above entitled act, be and the same is
hereby stricken out, and the following substi- |
tute IS hereby adopted, viz: THAT on the !
first Monday of March annually, the treasurer |
of said county shall publish in a newspaper,
published in said county, once a week for four |
weeks a notice to the effect that the third |
Mon day of April following in said year, he |
will proceed to sell at public auction, the
fund raised under the provisions of this act !
to the highest bidder, the bids to be made |
only in the warrants above described; Pro- |
vided, that such fund shall not be offered in |
lots of more than one hundred dollars at a |
time; Provided, further, That said sale shall |
be made at the door of the court house of said |
county, within the hours provided by law"
SEC 2. Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force from and after its |
passage.
APPROVED, March 4, 1873
AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors
of Franklin county, in this State, to trans |
fer certain funds now in the treasury of |
said county to any fund they may see prop |
er.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature |
of the State of Mississippi, That the board OF |
supervisors of Franklin county be, and they |
are hereby, authorized to transfer to any fund |
they may see proper the sum in excess of an
amount levied and collected under an act |
approved February 3, 1875, and an act ex
tending the time, approved January Is, 1876 |
to pay the outstanding school teachers war
wants of said county.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect and be in force from and after it's
passage.
APPROVED, March 4, 1878.
AN ACT to perfect and make valid certain
bonds issued by the board of levee commits
siOners of district No l, under a mandamus
from the circuit court of Tunica county.
WHEREAS, Under an act of the Legislature
IF the State of Mississippi, approved March
Is, 1874, being chapter xCII, of the Acts of
1914 the board of levee commissioners of dis
trict No. l, allowed the claim of j. NJ. Fly, for
funds expended under the 9th section of said
act, but the president and treasurer of said
board failed and refused to issue bonds for the
sum of money (to) and said Fly until ordered
10 do so by the circuit court of Tunica county;
and,
WHEREAS, Said bonds were made out and
signed by said treasurer and del vered to said
Fly to be handed to the president for his sig
nature, but through the inadyertence of the
holder, said bonds were never presented until
the board of levee commissioners was abol-
shed, and the presidents name has never
been affixed to said bonds; for remedy thereof,
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
IF the State of Mississippi, That the bonds
numbered 343. ga, 345, 5i6 and S47 of the levee