The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-09
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OF MISSISSIPPI
TPuBLIsHEp BY AUTHORITY.

AN ACT to fund the outstanding debt
of Sunfower county, and to provide
a revenue therefor, and for other pur
poses.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Leg
islature of the State of Mississippi, That
1t is hereby made the duty of the board
Of supervisors of the said county oi
Sunhower, to meet at the county seal
thereof on the first Monday in June, A
D., 1884, or failing from any cause t.
meet at that time, then at any special
meeting thereafter, and then and therC
TO take up and cancel all warrants, bonds
or other evidences of Indebtedness OF
said county then outstanding, and which
have been duly registered, when required
by law to be registered, except school
warrants, issued under the laws OF the
State relating to public education, and
except the bonds issued to the Green
vile, Columbus and Birmingham Rail
road Company, and to issue to the hold
ers thereof bond or bonds of said
county for the amount thereof in ex'
change at par, payable to the bearer
on the first day of July, in lthe year
A. D., one thousand nine hundred and
ten, or at the option of the board Of
supervisors of said county at any time
after eight years from the date thereof,
and bearing interest at the rate Of seven
per cent. per annum from the first day
Of February, A. d., 1885; which said
bonds and the interest coupons thereto
attached, shall be signed by the presi-
ident of the board of supervisors and
countersigned by the clerk of the board
of supervisors Of said county, but the
signature to the coupons may be a fac
simile engraving.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That
the said board Of supervisors are hereby
authorized to issue additional bonds Of
like character payable at the same time
and bearing the same interest as the
above, in such amounts not exceeding
six thousand dollars, as may be neces-
sary to purchase an additional quantity
of land for a Jail yard and to build a
safdjail with suitable enclosure provided
however, that the said bonds shall not
be negotiated at less than eighty-five
per cent. of their face value, and pro-
vided that it shall not be obligatory
upon said board to issue said bonds, but
instead thereof they may provide by
taxation under the general laws now ex-
isting or hereafter enacted, a fund for
said purpose, and when so provided and
not before, a contract for the construc-
ton of said Jail and enclosure may be
made according to law.
SEC. 3. Be It further enacted, That
the bonds to be issued as aforesaid shall
be numbered from one progressively,
and shall be in the following form, viz:
(" Sinking Fund Bond, Mo-
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
SUNFLowER COUNTY.
Know all men by these presents, That
the county of Sunhower, in the State Of
Mississippi, will, on the first day Of July,
in the year A. d. 1910, or at the option
of the board of supervisors Of said coun-
ty, at any time after eight years from
the date hereof, pay, at the Office of the
treasurer of said county to the bearer
hereof. the sum of-dollars In lawful
money of the United States Of America,
with interest thereon at the rate OF sew
en- per cent. per snnum, payable on the
first day of February, A. ID. 1886, and
thereafter annually at said office on pre-
sentation and surrender of the coupons
hereto attached, as they shall annually
fall due.
Issued by virtue Of an act Of the Leg