The Magnolia gazette., 1884-04-03
LAWS OF THE STATE OF MIS-.
SISSIPPI.

SISSIPPI.
AN ACT 10 make applicable TO incorpo.
rated cities and towns the provisions
q Chapter II of tue Laws Of 1880, in
relation to State Revenue Agent
SECTION, l. Be il enacted by the Leg
islature Of the State Of Mississippi, That
all the provisions Of chapter eleven (1I(
Of the Laws Of Mississippi OF 1880, (sheet
acts, page 81 -9S) are hereby made ap-
plicabie to all incorporated cities and
towns in this State; and the State Rev
enue Agent is hereby given like authori-
ty TO collect, sue for and recover any
amount due any such city OF town by
any officer as in cases Of sums due the
State or any county or levee board.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That
this act shall take effect and be IN force
from and after its passage.
Approved, March ID, 1884.
AN ACT to amend section SOB Of the
Code Of 1880, in relation to examining
the assessment rolls and to require
the Boards Of Supervisors to equalize
the assessment of taxes.
SECTION l. Be it enscted by the Leg
islature Of the State of Mississippi, That
section 503 Of the Code Of 1880 be so
amended as to require the boards Of
supervisors Of the several counties to
perform all the duties of equalizers of
taxes, at the meetings therein provided
for; and SAID boards shall haye
authority to raise, or reduce, the
valuation of any property, real or per-
sonnl, in their respective counties, and
said boards are hereby required to SO
equalize the valuation of the property of
their several counties, that all lands and
personal property Throughout their cour-
ties, OF the same value, shall be assessed
at the same price se nearly so as practi.
cable; provided, that said boards shall
not make any order reducing all the as
sessments certain per cent, but each
individual assessment shall be raised. or
reduced, on its own merits.
SEC 2, Be it further enacted. That
the boards Of supervisors of the several
counties may, il they deem it necessary,
equaize, at the August terms 1884, Of
their respective boards, in the manner
and under tho restrictions prescribed IN
the first section OF this act, the land
assessments of the year 1888; provided,
that no reduction shall, in any case, be
made, unless manifest injustice has
been done by an excessive assessment.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That
all assessment rolls of lands, for the year
1883, which we're not returned at the
proper time, Or which may in other req
poets be irregular or illegal, be and they
are hereby legalized, and any party who
may desire to object to such assessments
may be heard az the August terms, 1884
Of the boards of supervisors; and said
boards may then and there receive said
assessment rolls. and approve the same;
and such receipt and approval, at the
August terms, 1884, shall cure all exist.
ing defects in said assessment rolls.
Approved. March II. 1884.
AN ACT supplemental to- an act entitled
an act to provide for the regulation of
freight and passenger rates on rail
roads in this State, and to create
commission to supervise the same, and
for other purposes. approved March
IL, 1884.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Leg.
islature of the State of Mississippi, That
the act entitled an act to provide for the
regulation of freight and passenger rates
on railroads in this State, aud to create
commission to supervise the same, and
for other purposes, approved March IL,
1884, shall not be so construed as to
authorize said commissioners to require
bulletin boards to denote the delay of
trains noted thereon. or to require the
erection of station houses in any case
where in THEN Judgment the public trav-
el does not make it necessary. nor shall
said act be so constued as to require said
commission to investigate or call upon
any railraod company for rates Of char.