The Grenada gazette., 1888-04-07

Legislature of the State of Mississip-
pi, That the board of supervisors of
the county of Grenada, and its sue
eessors, are hereby authorized and
empowered, by the order of said
board, made and entered, to declare
and establish as a lawful fence in and
for said county, fence constructed
Of three barbed wires, securely fas-
tened and attached to substantial
posts, set not more than eight fact
apart and In the ground securely +;
said barbed wires not to be closer to
each other than eighteen inches, and
not further apart than two feet, as
may be determined by said board,
with such other plank or strip at the
top of said fence as said board of su-
pervisors may by its order require; ;
and such three=Wire fence, and with
plank or strip al top, shall, after the
order of said board, as aforesaid. be-
come lawful fence for Said county,
and all the provisions of Chapter
xSNI of tho Revised Code of 1880,
and acts amendatory thereof, shall
apply and be applicable to such three
wire fences, as well as to the fences
now made lawful fences by the pro-
visions of said chapter: provided,
nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to make unlawful any
fence constructed in said county,
now or hereafter, as now provided by
section $40 of the revised code of 1880.
SEC. ,. Be it further enacted, That
after the order of said board of super
visors shall be made and entered, as
provided in section | OF this act de-
elaring said three-Wire fence, with
top strip or plank, to be d lawful fence
in and for said county, then, after
such order shall be made and entered
and such fence established as provid-
ed in section of this act, it shall be
unlawful for any sheep, hogs, goats
or geese to run at large in said coun-
ty of Grenada, aud thereafter all hogs,
goats, sheep and geese found stray
Ing upon any lands enclosed with
such proper three-wire feace, shall
be deemed to be trespassing, and
may BIZ confined or impounded by
the oWners of such lands, and held
for payment of legal charges and
other damages and remedies as now
provided by sections 9S4 0Sl, 9S6, 9S7,
9SS and $50 of the code of $780, and
all live stock or other animals break
Ing into and through such fence, and
the owner or owners thereof, shall be
liable to all the penalties and charg-
es fixed by said sections 9S4, 9s5, as6,
9S7, 9SS and $50 of the Revised Code of
1880; and the owners of the lands en-
closed by such fence and so broken
into and entered, shall have all the
rights and remedies provided in said
Chapter (3D thirty-one of the Re-
vised Code of 1880.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That
before said order establishing said
three-wire fence and strip as IA lawful
fence in said county shall be made by
the said board ofsupervisors, as here
inbefore provided, said board of su-
pervisors shall submit the question
of the establishment of said three
wire fence, with strip at top, as law
full fence in said county, to the quail
fed electors of said county for their
determination, which said election
shall be ord cred and held as other
elections in said county are now pro-
vided by law, or as provided in chap
ter five of the Revised Code of 1880, |
to be ordered, held and conducted
and at such time, not less than sixty
days after the ordering thereof, as
said board of supervisors shall fix,
and twenty days notice thereof shall
be given in some newspaper publish
ed in said county. The electors vot.
ing at such election for the fence pro-
vided for in section five of this act |
shall have written or printed upon
their ballots, "FOr three-wire fence
and strip those voting against said
fence shall have written or printed
upon their ballots, against three
wire fence.n The returns of said
election shall be made to said board
of supervisors, aud if the majority of
the votes cast at the said election
shall be "against three-wire fence"
then no order as provided for in Sec
ton one of this act shall be made by
said board, but if the majority of the
votes cast thereat shall be "For the
three wire fence and strip" then said
board of supervisors at the next reg.
ular meeting Of board succeeding said
or as soon thereafter aspracti-
cable shall make and enter the order
provided In section one of this act ,es-
and declaring said three
wire fence, as therein described or
fixed by the order of said board there