The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26

1874. tha d0atiugdebt Of Bolivar county was
funded into coupon bonds bearing eight per
cent interest. and payable on the lst day oil
january. I--2 and
WHEREAS. by au act. approved Nafol2d.
1850. thr amount Yf this bonded debit was
a.r.r.liuei aul tLa bonds were registered
and
Wur.Ft-. tIr whole Of the balance Of
tho principal of said bonded debt il now
due lndam9uut- t1 about orty-siXth0usand
dollars NOW therefore,
SECTION T. ". " ,v1ci.H hY me- LtytSi1-
tina oy M, STINT, 81 JLs issiDpj. That the
time ruI the payment Of said bonds be and
thc same D. hereby extended until the lst
day Of January. 1880. or until they shall be
called boo and paid as hereinafter provided.
Sic. . H.. N IyIftsT sU0ctfd. That the
IYarI of supervisors Of said county shall
have power. aud 10 Is hereby made their
lufr. tp issue ueW bonds to all the holders
Of Said bonds willing o. accept the extern
sion or.ail debt. which new bonds shall be
coupon bonds bearing eight per cent. inter
o.f. MATURING and becoming due on the lst
day or january, 1850, the said coupons OF
interest audi the said bonds to be in all res
poets similar to tue bonds now due. and to
ic issued and signed as provided IN the said
act of 1854. oycopt that said board Of super-
Wilson's shall have the right TO make said
bonds and coupons asJhey mature. payable
at amy bank Iu Or out of the State as they
may deem best: and provided that no bonds
-hgII hs taken up and I~e.Issucd under TINS
acct. aNrrp. those taken mp and registered
under lhe said act of 1850. and tine act for
the relief of OrLill Bros. a. Co. and for
other purposes, passed go the present session
OF thu I'gJ. 0gfurr; anil Dl0rjd"/ JHtiHef,
that the coupons issued as aforesaid shall
Doe receivable iu payment OF the interest tax
each year.
Sic. q. b. II /olIl.r eu,-l.d, That said
board ur supervisors shall have power at
any time JD call iu said bonds and pay
them or at par, If az any time il be found
that the funds a|crruing from said tax will
amount to enough SO To- do.
SIC. 4. u. d. fu,Lbr so1af.i. That the
board Of up.rvjspr- of Bolivar county shall
levy each year, until the whole of said
bonded debit is paid, q tax of not more than
three hundred peg cent. on the state tax and
not less tuIu.wo hundred per cent, for the
payment first Of the interest on said bonds,
and ueNl ofthc principal rs hereinafter prOyi-
deed. but this tax, together with all other
county taxes. SHALL not exceed the limit now
allowed said board in leyying county taxes
by the act approved March 9th, 1880, entitled
an act ian relation TO public revenue.
SEC. D.. BE- II TirIher taacied, That after
payment Of tine coupons maturing each year
the treasurer of said county shall proceed
to apply amy surplus of money in his hands
belonging to said pond and interest fund.
for the purchase and retirement Of said
bonds. as required hy section two l2) of the
act To- fund Che floating debt Of Bolivar
county and tO issue sinking fund bonds,
approved April cth, 1871, ON or before the
2ud Monday of April Of each year, and said
treasurer shall apply any surplus funds
now bon his hands, after payment OF interest
10 january Ist, 1852, to the purchase of said
bonds, as required by said section two. on
or before Cine 2ud Monday Of April, 1852.
SEC. q. u. II fyrthSr sH0rieI, That the
board Of supervisors of said county at any
time during the year 1882 or 1883, shall have
power tp borrow money To pay off said
bonds ut % rate of interest not To- exceed six
per cent, and IL they can succeed in borrow
ing money tu pay of said bonds as afore-
sand, then they shall have the right TO call
i'm said bonds and pay them at par, and
they may and are hereby authorized to
issue coupon bond i'm one, two, three, four,
five, siN, seven, eight, mine and ten years,
or any less number of years as they may
deem best, to amy person OF persons from
whom said money Is received. or to any
bank. and may make said bonds and coupons
payable GOO any place, and i'm the event said
bonds are issued as aforesaid, then said
board of supervisors shall each year levy a
tax to pay the bonds and the coupons of
interest ou other bonds falling due, and the
tax So levied shall hc applied To no other
purpose.
the event the said board of supervisors shall
borrow money and issue bonds rs provided
in the last preceding section, the treasurer
of said county shall give an additional bond
in the sum of ten thousand dollars. with two
or more freehold sureties of said county,
conditioned for the faithful application of
said bond and interest tax, and for the pay
meut of the same as required by this act,
which bono shall be approved as all other
county bonds and said treasurer shall, on
the LIST Monday i'm June in each year, OF
from time to time as required by said board
make % written report OF the number OF
bonds purchased, and the amount of interest
paid hy him, or if new bonds are issued
under this and the preceding section, tn,
number and amount of bonds and interesI
paid and taken up by him. which repor
shall be spread upon the minutes and pub
lished in some newspaper in said county /
there be one.
SEC. s. Be Il FURTHER enacted. That tn,
board of supervisors of said county ar
hereby authorized to make an allowance il
favor of the clerk of the circuit court of sal,
county for services rendered by such Clerl
in criminal eases when the State fails in tn
prosecution, or the costs cannot be collected
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lars in any year, to be paid as provided b,
law procided, his account be itemized an,
approved by the District Attorney an,
Judge of the circuit court. and provided tina
no allowance be made for any year prior t
the year 1882.
SEc. o. Be q .tartier caacie1, That
said board Of supervisors shall make to, o
any county officer shall receive any allow
ance not authorized by law, the member q
said board voting for said allowance, an
the officer receiving the same shall be guilt
of a misdemeanori in Office, and upon conviC
tion may be fined not less than fifty @
more than five hundred dollars, and b
removed from Office and it is hereby mad
the duty of the Judge Of the circuit coul
to call the attention Of the grand jury q
each term of the court, to section four of a
act to ascertain the outstanding indebted
ness of Bolivar county and for other pun
poses, approved March 2nd, 1880, and to III
law generally limiting and defining tn