The Brookhaven leader., 1890-11-06

spectiye districts for the purpose OF con-
structing, maintaining snd repairing leyees
any other person Interested therein, shall
object to the locationfor building of the
levee thereon. or shall claim compensation
for any land that may be taken. or for any
thereof, the president or the proper officer
or agent Of such levee board. OF owner of
such land. OF other person interested therein
to which said IN peson 90
the same may be entitled; whereupon the
proceedings as now provided by law shall be
taken. viz: in the Mississippi Leyee District,
in accordance with the terms and provisions
of section an act entitled AN act TO amend
an act TO incorporate the Board of Levee
Commissioners for Bolivar, Washington and
approved Nov. %, A. d., 1865, and to revise
acts amendatory thereof, approved March
10, A. ID. 1854; and in the Yazoo- Mississippi
Delta Leyee District, in accordance with the
titled "An act TO incorporate the Board of
Levee Commissioners for the 1azoo- Missis-
sippi Delta, and for other purposes" ap-
proved Feb. 2S, A. j. 1884, and the amend
have fun power TO alter and amend said sew
eral acts and to provide different manners
of procedure.
SEC. pa. No bill changing the boundaries
of the district or affecting the taxation or
revenue of the Yazoo-M Mississippi Delta Leyee
District. or the Mississippi Levee District,
shall be considered by the Legislature
unless said bill shall have been
county in which is situated the domicile of
the Board of Levee Commissioners of the
levee district to be affected thereby, for four
weeks prior TO the Introduction thereof into
the Legislature; and no such bill shall be
| considered for final passage by either the
| Senate or House of Representatives, unless
the same shall have been referred 10, and re:
| ported on, by an appropriate committee OF
| each house in which the same may be pend
| ing; and no such committee shall consider
| or report on any such bill unless publica ton
| thereof shall have been made as aforesaid.
SEC. 235. Each levee board shall make at
| the end of each fiscal year, to the Governor
| of this State, report showing the condition
| of the levees, and recommending such addi-
! tional legislation ON the subject of the sys-
| tenn, as shall be thought necessary, and
showing the receipts and expenditures OF
the board. so hateach item. the amount and
| consideration thereof, shall distinctly
| it shall be thought proper to call to the at
| tention of the Legislature.
SEC. 236, The Legislature shall impose
for levee purposes, in addition to the
levce taxes heretofore levied or. author
lied by law, a uniform tax of not less than
two nor more than five cents an acre, per an
mum, upon every acre of land now, or here
after, embraced within the limits of either,
or both, of said levee districts. The taxes
so derived shall be paid into the treasury of
the Levee Board of the district in which the
the Legislature, by the act imposing said
tax, shall authorize said levee boaras 20 fix
the annual rate of taxation per acre within
the limits aforesaid, and thereby require
said levee boards, whenever a reduction is
made by them in their other taxes, to make
a proportionate reduction in the acreage tax
hereinbefore mentioned; but said acreage
tax shall not be reduced below two cents an
acre per annum; and all reductions in such
taxation shall be uniform in each of said
districts; but the rate. Of taxation need not
be the same in both of them: and such spe-
cific taxes shall be assessed on the same as
sessment roll, and collected under the same
penalties as the ad valorem taxes for levee
purposes, fand shall be paid at the
same time with the latter. And no
levee board shall ever be permitted to buy
lands when sold for taxes; but the State
shall have prior lien for the taxes due
thereto. The Legislature may provide for
the discOntinuance of the tax ON cotton, but
bonds based on it, and on the discontinue
ance of the tax on cotton shall impose an
other tax in lieu thereof; but the Legisla-
ture may repeal the acreage taxes required
to be levied hereby after the list day of JAN
uary, A. D., 1895.
SEC. 237. The Legislature shall have full
power to provide such system. of taxation
for said levee districts as it shall from time
to time deem wise and proper.
Sec. 23S. No property situated between
taxed for levee purposes, nor shall damage
be paid to any owner of land so situated be-
cause of it being left outside levee.
SEC. 239. The Legislature shall require
the levee boards to publish at each of their
sessions an itemiZed account, embracing
sion, and such appropriations as have been
made or ordered by them respectively, in
some newspaper or newspapers Of the dis
trict.