The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-07


amended by inserting between the words
"inour' aud "auy," In the lith line Of
said section, the words ''or be liable
for.
SEC. 2 Re il further enacted, That
this act take effect from and after It's
passage.
Approved, March /, 1884.
AN ACT to prohibit the sale or giving
away Of intoxicating liquors in the Sixth
Justice of the Peace District in Itawam.
ba county, Mississippi.
SECTION /. Be il enacted by the Legisla-
ture Of the State Of Mississippi. That hars-
.sets. q aisau sap uIIiHs-4ufrefuf alty person
OF persons 20 sell or dispose of in any way
any yiHous or spirituous or any intoIicat-
ing liquors by whatsoever name called,
within the boundary lines Of the Sixth (6th)
Justice OF the Peace District in ltawamba
county, Mississippi; provided, that this act
shall not be so construed as 10 prohibit the
sale OF such liquor by any person or persons
already having a license 10 sell the same
until the term for which such license was
issued shall have expired; Provided, fur.
ther, that this act shall not so be construed
as to prohibit the use of such liquors for
sacramental or medicinal purposes.
SEc. 2. Be II further enacted, That any
person or persons violating any of the pro-
visions Of this act shall upon conviction
thereof, before any court Of competent ju-
risdiction be adiudged guilty of miade-
meanOr and fined in sum not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars
for each otfense, and be confined in the
county jail, not less than thirty days, such
fine or imprisonment at the discretion of
the court.
SKc 8. BE ii further enacted, That this
act take effect and be in force from aad
after its passage.
Approved, March |, lsst.
AN ACT to amend an Act, entitled
"An Act to prevent stock from run
ming at large in certain counties"
approved March 5, 1873, and to make
barbcd-wife fences lawful in DeSoto
county.
SECTION |. he it enacted by the Leg.
slature OF the State Of Mississippi, That
an act, entitled "An Act to prevent stock
from running at large in certain coun-
ties, " approved Mach 8, 1873, be amend
ed 50 far as it relates to DeSoto county,
as follows: Strike out the words "two-
thirds" wherever they occur therein
and substitute therefor the word MAORI
ty; and that it be further amended by
inserting after the words township or
townships wherever they occur therein
the words: or any part or parts of one
or more townships not less than twenty
sections in one continuous body.
SIC. 2. BE it further enacted. That
30 far as section three 90 Of said act
applies to DeSOto county IL shall read
as follows That whenever a majority
Of the resident freeholders of such town
ship or townships, or any part or parts
Of one or more townships, not less than
twenty sections in one continuous body
in DesotO county, shall petition in writ
ing the board of supervisors Of their
county for that purpose, such board of
supervisors shall make an order for the
freeholders thereof to construct fence
around the land contained in the dis
trict, in said petition mentioned, separ-
ating il from the surrounding territory,
which said fence may be built in one Of
the two following ways; First, OF posts
not more than ten (l0) feet apart, sunk
two feet in the ground and four and a
half al } feet above the ground, and six
barbed iron wire strands securely fast
ened to said posts, the first and lowest 10
be not more than three inches above the
ground, the second four inches above
the first, the third six inches above the
second, the fourth eight inches above
the third, the fifth fifteen inches above
the fourth and the sixth eighteen inches
above the fifth. Second, OF posts a. in