The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-19

is entitled to exemption from all tax
alton for period of ten years.
DiItrict Attorneys Prosecuting In Justice
Courts.
10. District attorneys are not required
by law to prosecute persons charged
with offenses in the justices OF the peace
courts. Sections 1855 and 1856 ammo
tated code.
90. | know of no law expressly pro-
hibiting the district attorney from
prosecuting for fee in justice court;
however, since the constitution has
abolished the fee system, the propriety
of taking fees in such prosecutions may
be questioned.
Statutes of Limitation.
81. Section 2,736 of the code declares
that statutes of limitation shall run in
favor of a county, beginning from the
time when the right to demand pay
ment first accrued. County warrants
allowed by the board of supervisorSare'
under section 2, 743, domestic judgments
against the county, and are barred
after the expiration of seven years from
the date of the allowance. 1t is gen.
orally the duty of officers and trustees
to plead the bar.
Examination a Prerequisite for County
Superintendent.
An election on the 23d day of Feb
ruary, 1900, ordered by the board OF
supervisors, to fill an unexpired term
in the office of county superintendent
of public education in an elective coun-
ty was illegal and void, because at that
time the law required such vacancies
be filled by appointment by the COVER
nor And person elected at such an
election, without having stood the ex-
animation required by sections 4,257
and 4, 259 of the code, is ineligible to
hold the Office, both because OF failure
tn he examined and because the cleo
ton was void.
The appointment by the governor OF
one who has not been examined as re-
ouired by said sections, to fill out an
unexpired term in said Office, is void,
and the appointee is ineligible to hold
the Office, although he gives the bona
and takes the oath prescribed by law,
because the examination is pre-
requisite and a qualification for such
appointment.
Both the person elected and the one
appointed being ineligible, the ooaro
of supervisors should declare the once
vacant and order an election to NIL the
vacancy under the provisions OF the
George election law approved March l.
1900.
A county superintendent appointed
bv the governor and who took the oatf
and gave bond and has been discharg
inc the duties of the Office since his ap
pointment, but was ineligible because
he had not been examined as required
by law, is a de fdcto officer, and as sucf
his acts are valid and binding and M
should be paid the regular salary tol
the time of his service.
Local observation-disclosures Must Be Pai'
Section 2.27s of the code empower
the board of supervisors to estaollsi
local quarantine at the expense OF TN
county, and prescribe reasonable rule
for it's enforcement. In cases OF small
pox outbreaks, section 8, chapter %
acts 1895, makes the county health OF
ficer a member of the board for Tn
performance of the duties required b.
that act to prevent the spread OF TN
disease. Therefore, where the board
in regular session, the health once
sitting with it to consider an outbrea
of smallpox in the county, enters a
order on the minutes directing Tn
4 health officer ito take all necessar
+ steps to prevent the spread of the small
: pox in the county" and he accordingly
n establishes a quarantine and employs
: nhvsiciau TO vaccinate and take ger
: eral charge, such physician has Law
5 full demand against the county &c
j. reasonable compensation for his Sc
n vices.
The new grand master of Templal
d in this STATE, Rev. John A. B. Jones,
}, moving around very lively among IL
: communicates. He instituted the ne
# commandery at Corinth, revived Deli
II Commardery No. 16 at Greenville, an
e conferred the orders on six candidate
Plat a recent conclave of Mississippi Con
I mandery No 1, at jackson. -