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

AN ACT efficiently prot the public leyee in the
Mississippi Levee District ana amendatory of the laws
pertaining to said District, and for other purposes
SECTION /. Be it eRacted By the LegiSIa-
tire Of the State Of mississippi, That it
viii 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
distractions placed thereon by the board Of
Mississippi levee commissioners 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. 2, 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 3 Be it further enacted, That section
seventeen of an act entitled an act to incor-
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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-
gard TO 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 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 ofinfeIior 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
o11nrNva1 NpvaI1 11nT. 9th 1914
and the several amendments thereto, APP
proved January 9th, 1877, approved Feb
ruary 25th, 1878, be, and is hereby so
amended as to provide that the penalty Of
sheriffs bonds, required by said act to be
fixed by the board of Mississippi levee
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
is meetings held for the purpose of levying
md assessing said ad valorem tax, next |
preceding the expiration of the term Of
office Of any sheriff, shall fix the penalty of /
he bond 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 part Of his quail
ication as such, said new sheriff shall exc /
ute bond In the penalty so fixed and in /
Ill respects as required by said section
seven, except that said bond shall continue
n force and shall be for his full term Of |
,ffice and until his successor has qualified
md in the event of the election or appoint
nent of sheriff to fill vacancy, he SHALL /
before entering upon the duties Of his office,
md as part of his qualification as such
herif, execute bond as required by said
ection seven and this amendment, in the
penalty provided for his predecessor.
SEC. 3. BE ID further enacted, That sec
ion eight Of said act mentioned in the last
ection be, and is hereby, so amended as to
,rovide that, upon the failure of any sheriff
o make the monthly settlements required
y said section, and in the manner and at the
ime therein specified, he shall, in addition to
he penalties prescribed in said section, for
cit to said board of Mississippi levee com
nissioners the sum of five hundred dollars
OF each such failure, said sum to be recover
d from said sheriff and the sureties on his
'ond as collector of the ad valorem tax of
aid board, by motion before the circuit
curt of the county of said sheriff, in the
anne manner and upon the same notice as
) now provided by law for motions against
heriffs for a failure to pay over money col
7cted by virtue of an execution.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That said
GARD of Mississippi levee commissioners
e, and is hereby, authorized to purchase
he necessary ground in their district, and
D build thereon a suitable Office for the con-
uct and management Of their business, and
, hold the same exempt from taxation to
he same extent that property held by the
tate or county is eXemDt
SEC. Z. Be 1t further enacted, That said
GARD of Mississippi leyee commissioners
hall have full power and authority, and it
; hereby made their duty to build, con-
truct and maintain such ievee or levees in
ne county of Coahoma, in the same man
err and upon similar proceedings as are re-