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

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pertaining to said District, and for other purposes.
SECTION l. Be It enacted b. the Legisla-
tire Of tie State Of Mississippi, That it
will be, and is hereby made, the duty of all
levee inspectors of the Mississippi levee
district upon information or knowledge that
any person has been guilty of using the
public levee or any portion thereof in said
district, as a roadway for wagons or wheel
ed vehicles Of any description, Or of remov-
ing from said public levee any obstacles or
Instructions placed thereon by the board of
Mississippi levee commissioner or any of
its agents, employees or contractors, for the
purpose of preventing travel thereon, or of
riding on said public levee after being for
hidden to do so by public notice posted on
the same by order of said board of levee
commissioners, or after being forbidden to
do so by the person lawfully in charge of
said levee, to make affidavit before any JUS
tice of the peace of the county Of the com
mission of such offense, and to prosecute the
offender and upon conviction thereof said
offender will be punished as provided in
section three of an act entitled an act to
secure more efficiently the collection of the
levee tax in district No. ,. and to protect
the ~levees, and for other purposes. APP
proved April 18th, 1876; and in addition to
the penalties provided in said section, there
shall be allowed and paid to said inspector
a fee Of five dollars for each conviction,
to be taxed as part of the costs of said pre-
sentatiOn.
Sec 2. Be it FURTHER enacted, That section
seventeen OF an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the board of levee commissioners for
Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena coun-
ties, and for other purposes, approved No
vember 9th, 1865, be, and is hereby, so
amended as to require that the jury pro
vided for in said section, shall be com
posed of qualified jurors of the county, in
stead of as now required by said section,
and the verdict and inquisition of said jury,
together with all the proceedings had in re
gardto the summOning of said jury and the
condemnation of the land, as provided for
in said section, shall be returned by the
sheriff to the chanCery clerk of his county,
and shall be by said chancery clerk re-
corded in a well bound book, to be kept
by him for that purpose, and for recording
the same said chancery clerk shall be
allowed a fee of two dollars, to be paid by
said board Of levee commissioners.
Sec. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That said
board of levee commissioners shall, in all
cases, be allowed and have the right to sue
out and prosecute appeals from the de
cisiOns of inferior courts, and to sue out in
functions without executing or being re-
quired to execute bond for the same.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That sec
ton seven of an act to amend an act entitled
an act to incorporate the board Of levee com
missioners for the counties of Bolivar,
Washington and Issaquena, and for other
purposes, approved November 27th, 1865,
and the several amendments thereto, APP
proved January 9th, 1877, approved Feb
ruary 25th, 1873, be, and is hereby so
amended as to provide that the penalty of
sheriffs bonds, required by said act to be
iXed by the board of Mississippi levee
commissioners shall be fixed by said board
at its next meeting, for the purpose of
assessing and levying its ad valorem tax,
held after the passage Of this act, and the
penalty then fixed, and the bonds for the
same executed by the several sheriffs, shall
be for, and shall cover the then term of
office Of the incumbent sheriffs, and there
after said board Of levee commissioners, at
its meetings held for the purpose Of levying
and assessing said ad valorem tax, next
preceding the expiration Of the term of
Office of any sheriff, shall fix the penalty of
the bono to be executed, as required in said
section seven, by his successor in office, and
before entering upon the duties of said
office of sheriff, and as a part of his quail
ficatiOn as such, said new sheriff shall exc
cute a bono in the penalty so fiXed and in
all respects as required by said section
seven, except that said bond shall continue
in force and shall be for his full term of
Office and until his successor has qualified
and in the event of the election or appoint
ment Of a sheriff to fill a vacancy, he shall,
before entering upon tine duties of his Office,
and as a part Of his qualification as such
sheriff, execute a bono as required by said
section seven and this amendment, in the
penalty provided for his predecessor.
SEC. 5. BE 1t further enacted, That sec
ton eight of said act mentioned in the last
section be, and is hereby, so amended as to
provide that, upon the failure of any sheriff
to make the monthly settlements required
by said section, and in the manner and at the
time therein specified, he shall, in addition to
the penalties prescribed in said section. for
felt to said board of Mississippi leyee com
missioners the sum of five hundred dollar;
for each such failure. said sum to be recover
ed from said sheriff and the sureties on hi:
bond as collector Of the ad valorem tax o.
said board, by motion before the circui
court Of the county Of said sheriff. in the
same manner and upon the same notice a.
is o provided by law for motions agains
sheriffs for a failure TO pay over money col
lected by virtue Of an execution.
SEC. 6. Be 1T further enacted, That saiC
board of Mississippi levee commissioner
be. and is hereby, authorized to puFchas,
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to build thereon a suitable Office for the con
duct and management of their business, anC
to hold the same exempt from taxation t.
the same extent that property held by tn,
State or county is exempt.
SEC. 7. Be 1t further enacted, That saiC
board of Mississippi leyee commissioner:
shall have full power and authority, and i
is hereby made their duty to build, con
.struct and maintain such levee or leyees il
the county of Coahoma, in the same man
ner and upon similar proceedings as are re
quired in their district, as may be necessar,
for the protection of any part of the Mis-
sissippi leFee district from overflow. and t,
this end may accept and receive donation
of any private l~eyees, declare the sam
public l~evees, and thereafter maintain then
as such.
SEC. 8. Be 1t further enacted. That sal,
board of leFee commissioners is hereby am
thcrized and empowered to agree. contrac
for and purchase with and from any land