The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-01-07
A BILL.

10 be entitled, An Act to Authorize the
Board of Levce Commissioners for
Iazoo. Mississippi Delta, to Require
the Service upon its Levees of Certain
Persons Within the Bounds of said
District and Fixing Communications to
Insure the Protection of its Line of
Levees and Providing Means for the
reinforcement Of the Same
Be il Eaoc'cd By The Legislature Of lie
state Of Mississippi rs toiiors:
SECTION l. The Board of Levee Com
mlsslohers for Iazoo Mississippi Delta,
shall have the right during such times
rs the lines Of levees, built and main
tanned by them, shall be threatened
with danger from high water, or other
causes, to require MI male persons,
within the limits of the said Yazoo-
Mississippi Delta Levee District, over
the age of twenty one years, and under
tho age of fifty years, not blind, not deaf
and dumb, nor otherwise disabled
by disease, or loss of limb, nor Ministers
of the Gospel in charge of churches,
nor physicians in active practice, to
work upon the said line of levees, at
such placeor places as the said Board of
Levee Commissioners may, from time
to time, direct; but no such person shall
be required to work on the said levees
more than six days in any one year.
For every days service, each person
shall be entitled to such compensation
not exceeding $3.50 per day as the said
Board may fix to be paid out of its
treasury, in such manner as the Board
may direct, and half pay while going
and returning from work.
SECTION 1.-THE said Board of Levee
Commissioners shall provide rules and
regulations, for warning ont all persons
whom they may desire to serve upon
such lcvees; and, as nearly as they can,
consistent with the public good they
shall make drafts upon such persons,
for their service, so as to assign all to
the work most convenient, and aces
sible to them, to distribute the said
drafts for labor, as nearly equally
through the District, as practicable;
but the matter and manner of making
such drafts space rest solely within the
of the Board. under such
rules, regulations and orders, as they
may, from time to time, adopt
SECTION at shall be the duty of
every person, subject so to be called to
work upon the levees, to respond at
once, and perform the work assigned to
zach, by the proper Levee Officer
And in the event any such person, so
liable to levee service, shall fail or re-
fuse to respond, at once, to the calls
made upon him. such person shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
thereof, before the proper
officer, shall be punished by a fine, not
exceeding ten dollars, or by imprison-
msnt In the county Jail, for not more
Than fifteen days; or, by both fine and
in the discretion of the
,ourt.
And each days failure to respond to
such a call, shall constitute a separate
,itense,
SECTION An fines collected for
my violation of this law. shall be paid
INTO the treasury Of said Levee Board,
'or leree purposes, and tho officer col
Getting the same shall report and pay
pto said treasury, all such fines at
he same time and in the same manner,
he is required by law, to pay into tho
fines, imposed in punishment /
IT other misdemeanors,
sEcTIoN 5'--To aid the preservation |
# the levees, authorized to be construct. (,
d aud maintained by the said Board of
4evee Commissioners, and in lieu Of a
urthcr personal service, that may be d
equired, of the inhabitants Of the said
.evee Districts 1t ID further provided d
hat al male persons. over the are M
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