The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-01

sucn person SNAIL DE enItleu 10 receive Inc
sum of one dollar and fifty cents to be paid
out of the levee funds; provided, that no
person residing permanently between the
Mississippi river and said levee shall be
liable to service under this act.
SIC. %. Be it further enacted. That the
Board of Levee Commissioners is hereby
authorized and empowered to treat, con-
tract and negotiate with what is known as
the Mississippi River Commission, hereto
fore created by an act of the Congress of
the United States, or with any other agency
of the United States Government. for the
purpose of securing the construction and
repair, and maintenance of the levees on
the Mississippi front of the Yazoo delta, or
the aid, assistance or cooperation of said
River Commission or other agency in the
construction, repair and maintenance of
said line of levee or any part thereof, and
10 this end said Board of Levee Commits
sioners, may turn over to said River Com
mission, or other agency the use and con-
troll of any part of its line of levee, or of
the whole, may place its officers, SER
wants and agents at the disposal of,
and under the direot of sad River
Commission, or other agency, may
take in charge and superintend contracts
for levee building and the building of the
same, and generally shall have full power
and authority and discretion to enter into
any and all arrangements, contracts and
agreements with said river commission, or
other agency of the United States that will
secure the construction of leyees and pro-
lection of the Yazoo delta from overflow
by said river commission, or other agency,
or their cooperation in such construction
and protection.
SEJ. ~. Be it further enacted, That in
the event that said Board of Levee Com
missioners shall succeed in securing the
construction and maintenance of said
leyees by said Board of River Commission
or other United States agency, or their
assistance in the same, then said Board of
Lnveo Commissioners shall have the power
completely to suspend the collection of the
taxes herein levied and assessed, or any
part thereof, and for any length of time,
that in the Judgment and discretion of said
board may be advisable; provided, that if
any ponds shall have been issued or debts
contracted under this act, no such suspen-
sion of taxes shall be made as will impair
or imperil in any way the rights of the
holder or holders of said bonds, of said
creditors of said board.
SEQ. %. Be it further enacted, That said
Board of Levee Commissioners shall have
full power and authority, if in its discre-
ton it is deemed best, to contract with any
person or persons, natural or artificial, or
with any corporation or corporations, for
the construction, maintenance and repair
Of ba vubOla or mart nf its lima of
levees, and such contracts may be made by
said board To continue for such length of
time, and under such forfeitures and penal
tieo, ana wan sucn obligations on the part
of the contracting parties as the board
may deem necessary to secure the faithful
performance of the same and most condu-
Give to the interests of its district; pro-
vided, that in no event shall the board by
such contract or contracts, give up or turn
over to any other person or corporation
the collection and disbursement of its rev.
enues provided by this act.
SEQ. %. Be it further enacted, That for
the purpose of constructing, maintaining
and repairing levees, of protecting the
river bank a. ainst caving and Of improving
the channel of the Mississippi river, full ju-
risdiction of the soil in said levee district is
hereby granted to the government of the
United States with full power and authori-
ty to take, use and appropriate so much and
such parts thereof as may be necessary, and
all material necessary for said purposes for
said purposes that may be situated in said
levee district, provided, always, that upon
the due com pensation to be first paid Sc
cured to the citizens of this State by the
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taken for public use shall be secured to the
citizens and property owners of this State,
then said United States Government may
appropriate such property under the law
and in the manner herein provided for an
appropriation thereof by the Board of
Levee Commissioners hereby created.
SEQ. 80. Be it further enacted, That if
any commissioner, officer, member of the
Board of Levee Commissioners herein
created, agent or any person intrusted with
the care, custody or possession of any of
the money, goods, rights in action or other
valuable security, effects or property, of
any kind or description, which shall
have come, or been intrusted into his
or their care by virtue of his or their Office,
place or employment, shall conceal, secrete,
retain for his own use or appropriate
to his own benefit or behoof he or they
shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement,
and upon convictisn shall be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary not more
than five years, or fined not more than one
thousand dolllTs, or cen ined in the coun-
ty Jail not more than six months, or both
such fine or imprisonment according to the
enormity of the offense.
SEC. 30. Be it further enacted, That the
said Board of Levee Commissioners for the
Yazoo Mississippi Delta as herein organ
lied and incorporated shall not be held by
the courts of this State to be the successors
of or in any manner connected with the
Levee Board of the State of Mississippi
District No. !, incorporated by an act en-
titled an act to redeem and protect from
overflow from the river Mississippi certain
bottom lands herein described, approved
March II, 1871, and the Board of Levee
Commissioners for the YaZoo- Mississippi
Delta and the said Levee District herein
organized shall in no event be held or ad-
Judged by the courts as liable in any way
for the payment of any bonds, coupons OF
other Indebtedness issued or incurred by the
aforesaid Levee Board of the State of Missis-
sippi, District No. under the aforesaid act,
approved March IL, 1871. And the tax here
in levied and assessed when collected shall
only be used and appropriated for the pay
ment of liabilities incurred under the pro-
visions of this act after the first day Of
March, 1884, and no court in this State
shall ever by mandamus or otherwise com
pei the appropriation of any fund arising