The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-07
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OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
[PuDLIsHEp BY AUTHORITY.


AN ACT to further amend can Act to
ascertain the outstanding Indebtedness
of the Liquidating Levee District and
for other purposes" approved March
9th, 1880.
Whereas, It appears that Mary l..
Pittman, of North Carolina, was at the
time of the passage of the above entiE
tied act and is now the holder and Q9ll=
ar &c 4l4~ -e-il----s- -sElss sav-s
1 lIevee bonds, new series, to-wit: tiIsl Eil-
stallment No. 172; second installment
Nos. 162, 1853, 164 and 1885, third INSTALL
ment Nos. l65, 166, los and III;
fourth installment Nos, 1863 and 10;
fifth installment Nos. 167, 1863 and III;
in all fourteen bonds, amounting 70
$1975. 90; and that Frank B. Dancy, OF
North Carolina, was at the passage Of
said act and still is the holder and own
er of the following liquidating lesee
bonds, new series, to-wit: first INSTALL
ment Nos. 1862, 1853, l64, l65 and 1866;
second installment No. 1866; third in
stallment Nos. 169 and 10; fourth in
stallment Nos. 167, 1863, III and l72;
| fifth installment Nos. 168 and 10; in
all fourteen bonds amounting to o$l975.95,
all of said bonds being issued at Jack
son, Mississippi, June |, 1867; and
Whereas, 1t appears that said parties
are bona fde holders of such bonds by
inheritance and did not come into pos
session of the same or any of them by
speculation, and that at the time of the
passage of said act of March 6, 1880
| the said Mary Z. Pittman, was mar
ried woman, the wife of n. ]. Pittman,
and still is, and that the said Frank B.
Dancy, was minor; and
Whereas, 1t appears that the said
Mary f. Pittman, and her husband and
the said Frank B. Dancy and his guardian
the said N. ]. Pittman, were at the time of
the passage of said act of March 8, 1880,
and have been ever since, non-residents
of the State Of Mississippi, and citizens
of the State of North Carolina, and
that all of said parties were wholly ig-
norant of said act and acquired no
knowledge OF notice of the same or any
proceedings hereunder until the latter
part of December, 1882, when it was too
late by the terms of said act to present
said bonds for resistance; therefore,
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Leg
islature of the State of Mississippi, That
upon surrender of said bonds as required
by said act of 1880, within twenty DAYS
from the passage of this act, the Liquid.
ating Levee Commissioners are directed
to issue 20 said parties, new bonds, as
required by said act, thereby placing
said parties upon an equality in all re-
spects with scripholders who complied
with the provisions of the said act Of
which this is amendatory.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That
the said Liquidating Levee Commission.
ers shall also issue to w. l.. Heming
! way, bonds as provided for in said act Of
1880, and the said liquidating act in
lieu of surplusage certificate No. 3504
for $97.1o-100, and bond No. 2l2 for
$lS7. .S3-i00 upon the surrender of said
certificate and bond within twenty days
after the passage oflthis act. /:
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That
the said Equidating Levee Commission
ers shall also issue to the Manhattan
Bank of Memphis, Tennessee, bond a:
provided in said acts and amendatory
acts, in lieu of surplusage certificate
within the time above named.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, THAI
said Liquidating Levee Commissioner
shall issue to ]. L. Mckee new bonds Al
provided in said act Of 1880, and the acl