The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-02

AN ACT to authorize the Board Of Su
pervisors to ascertain the outstandinJ
Indebtedness of Carroll and Monro,
counties, and to provide fer tho regis
tration and cancellation of warrant,
In said counties, and for other pur
poses.
SEeTJoy |. Bcait enacted by the Leg
islature of the State Of Mississippi, That
the board of supervisors Of Carroll and
Monroe counties at the first regular
meeting thereof after this act goes into
effect, or as soon thereafter as practica.
BILE, enter an order on the minutes OF the
board, directing and requiring all per
sons now holding outstanding unpaid
warrants against the counties, to bring
the same forward to be registered by the
clerk Of said board, in book TO be pro.
vided for that purpose, and il shall be
the duty Of the clerk to enter the same
in such book, setting down the kind
amount, date and number Of each war.
rant, and the name Of the person then
holding The same; and when so entered
he shall endorse on said warrant the
word registered" and the date thereof
and sign the same as clerk of said board
and when said board shall make such
order they shall require the clerk to give
notice of the same by advertising the
same in some newspaper published in
the county, If there be one, and by
posting notices in three or more public
places in each supervisors district; and
said order shall require the registration
as aforesaid, of warrants, to be made
within six months from the date OF the
order made as aforesaid.
SIC. 2. BE il further enacted, That
unless said warrants are brought for.
ward and registered as required in the
first section Of this act, those not 40 reg,
istered shall not be received in payment
of any county dues, and the tax collec.
tor shall not receive the same In pay.
ment of any tax due the county.
SEc. 3. BE it further enacted, That
hereafter it shall be the duty oil
the clerk Of the board of super.
visors TO keep well bound book in
which he shall register all warrants
hereafter issued, setting down, in appro.
pirate columns, the numbers, dates
amount and name of payee, and the &C
count on which it is issued, and wher
any warrant entered on said book shal
be paid or taken up, said clerk shal
enter in the appropriate column left foI
that purpose in said book, the word
cancelled" and for each and every fail
ure SO to do, the clerk shall forfeit th,
sum Of two hundred dollars, to be recoy
cred by suit, in the name of the boarC
of supervisors, for the use Of the county
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, Tha
the provisions Of this ct.shalI apply {,
and include all witness and iury certif
Gates issued by the order of the court o
other legal authority required by law b
be paid out Of the county treasury, an,
his certificate Of registration shall b
appended to or endorsed on the face o
said certificates before the county treas
urer shall pay the same; Provided
nothing embraced in this act shall be Q
construed as to prevent the payment o
said certificates at any time after thi
registration, as hereinbefore provide,
for; and, provided further, that this &C
shall not be construed so as TO confic
with section 727 Of the Revised Code o
1880, in relation to the payment o
school warrants according to priority b,
months, except that the warrants o
each month shall be paid in the numer
ical order Of their issuance; and, pro
vided further, that nothing in this ae