The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-01
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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
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TFuRLisHEp BY AurHoRIrY,l

AN ACT TO incorporate the Board oI
Levee Commissioners for the Yasoo
Mississippi Delta and for Other pur.
poses.
SECTION |. BE it enacted by the Leg.
islature of the State Of Mississippi, That
shortly after the passage of this act,
and biennially thereafter, the Governor
Of the State, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall appoint two
feeldent observation-disclosures from each oi
the counties OF Tunica and Coahoma,
and one citizen from each of the coun-
ties Of DeSoto, Quitman, Tallahatchie,
Sunhower, I.eaore and YaEoo, who shall
each be resident freehold citizen of
the county from which he is appointed,
owning land lying in the Yazoo.Missis.
sippi Delta, and the Governor may ap-
point a stockholder in Memphis and
Vicksburg Railroad, as an additional
commissioner. aud that such persons,
when so appointed, and their successors
in Office, shall constitute and are hereby
declared to be body polite and cor.
porate, by the name and style Of ''The
Board of Levee Commissioners for
the Yazoo Mississippi Delta" and by
that name may sue and be sued, plead
and be implicated, contract and be con.
tracted with, and have perpetual success
sion for the purposes hereinafter desig-
mated. They may have common seal
and alter the same at pleasure. They
may, from time to time make such by
laws, rules and regulations, and alter and
change the same as they may deem
proper, not inconsistent with this act and
the laws of this State, and for the pur.
pose of carrying into effect the object Of
their incorporation. They shall elect
from their own number president, and
appoint such other officers, agents and
attorneys, and employ such persons as
they may think necessary for the eff.
cisnt conduct and management of their
business, and remove them at pleasure.
They may do all acts and things not in
consistent with this act and with the
laws of this State, that may be proper to
effect the purposes and objects Of this
act. The commissioners appointed, AZ
aforesaid, shall hold their offices for two
years from the first Monday in March,
1884, and until their Successors are ap-
pointed and qualified, and shall hold
their first meetings at Austin, in Tunica
county, on the first Monday in March,
1884, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
Each commissioner shall, before enter
ing the board, take an oath faithfully 10
discharge the duties of his Office under
this act and the laws Of this State. And
each commissioner mentioned herein,
shall, before entering upon the discharge
of the duties Of his Office, and within
thirty days from the date Of his appoint
ment, enter into bond in the penalty Of
five thousand dollars, with two or more
freehold sureties, conditioned and paya-
BILE as the bonds of other officers are re-
quired TO be by sections 4J3 and 404 OF
the Revised Code of 1880, and all the
provisions Of those tive sections of said
Code are hereby made applicable to the
official bonds required to be executed
under this section of the act. AS to the
approval Of the official bonds executed
under this section of this act, how the
sureties thereon shall be examined,
the giving of new bonds and the
relieving Of sureties, the provisions
of sections 406, 407, 40S, 400, All,
412 and 413 of said Code are hereby
made applicable and shall govern; /;
said Levee Commissioners being, for
such purposes, dealt with in the same
manner that county officers and the Off
cial bonds of county officers are requir-
ed to be dealt with in the several sec.
tions of said Code last above mentioned,
except that in case of vacancy the Gov.
e nor shall proceed as in this act az here
tofore provided. And suits may be
brought on said bonds in the county of
the principal obligor by any taxpayer
or BY said board OF Levee Commission
ers.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all
of the counties of Tunica, Coahoma.
Qnitman and Sunfower, and that por.
tion of the counties of DeS0t0, TalIa-
hatchie, Leforc and Yazoo, lying west
Of the high water mark Of the Missip.
Sippi river of the food of 1882, at or
near the foot of the hills, making said
high water mark the eastern boundary
of said Ievee district, and wherever said
levee line Uf high water mark intersects
the bottom of creek and branch land
said line Of high water shall extend
across said creek or branch bottom in
straight line to the foot of the hills on
the opposite side, be and the same is
hereby organized into leyee district. 10
be known and designated az the "Yazoo-
Mississippi Delta Levee District and
it is the purpose of this act to protect
all the property In this district from loss
and destruction, and the lives of the
residents Of this district from the sick.
ness and suffering consequent upon each
overflow of the waters of the Missis-
sippi river by erecting and maintaining
efficient levees as hereinafter provided
by and through the agency Of the levee
commissioners herein incorporated: and
to carry out and render effective this in
tent in full, the courts shall construe
this act as an exercise by the LegisIa-
ture Of all the powers appertaining to il
necessary for the protection not only OF
the property Of said district, but also
the lives and the health Of the citizens
Of the State resident in such district.
SIC. B. Be it further enacted, Thai
said Board Of Yazoo- Mississippi Delta
Levee Commissioners be, and il is here
by authorized and empowered TO entel
upon, take and hold any land or prem
ises whatever, whether By purchase