The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-19
SSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By ]. L. POWER.
4AeA A9AIaA0'a0A0SA
By J. L. POWER.

the term of his sentence has expired.
Convicts from municipalities for viola
tions of State laws, and those under
conviction by justices of the peace, IN
the county jails go to the contractor
from the sheriff with detention war
rant, but the municipal officers and the
Justice and his constable are to be paid
their fees out of the county road funds
when the convict's time is up.
II. BY an omission part of section %
of the act of 1894 was not published.
See Murch VS.. Warren county, and Rea-
bold VS.. State, 70 Miss, 236 and 1856.
Appointed County superintendents'
70. A county superintendent of public
education appointed, confirmed and
commissioned pursuant to section "O4
of the constitution, and to section 4's5S
annotated code, as amended by acts
1896, page 113, is the lawfully constl-
tuted superintendent for term OF four
years beginning April 1, 1900, and is not
affected by an act of the legislature
afterward passed and approved, max
irp the Office elective at the expiration
of the last appointive term; the office
will be filled by election at the next
| general election for the State and coun-
ty officers
Supervisors May Purchase Typewriters'
10. If the board of supervisors should
believe that the public service would
be promoted thereby, it may purchase
typewriters for the county officers as
necessary articles under section "St
annotated code. 1t is matter IN 1ne
discretion of the board.
Fuel Must BE Furnished.
IA. Fires in the courtroom and county
Offices are as necessary in the winter
for the transaction OF the public busi
ness as furniture and other articles
mentioned in sections 296 and 1886 OF the
code. under either of which sections
wood and coal should be supplied oN
the board to the county officers.
Allowances to Clerks-Are Not Passed OF
by Supervisors.
Is. Section 934 of the code authorizes
a circuit Judge to make an allowance u
the circuit clerk for a deputy or othe
clerical assistance during term time
and such allowance, when approved 0.
the district attorney under section LOO
Of the code should be paid by the coun
tv treasurer under section 900 OF Tn
code.
16. The circuit and chancery court
re- instituted and held for the purpos
of administering the law and TRANSACT
ing the public business OF the count
and have greater powers than the super
v;sors court, 1t was never lntenoe'
that these superior courts should
bampered and crippled in the prope
discharge of their functions by maxim
their allowance dependent upon at
nroval by the board of supervisors oe'
tion 9Oe expressly authorizes the pay
ment of such allowance by the count
treasurer on the order of the cour'
section GAL, directing the circuit cler
to certify such allowance to the cler
of the board of supervisors is Tor Door
keeping anu huolOAh6 -
to be passed upon by the board
Factory Exemptions.
II. 4 permanent factory establishe
: two wears ago and having capital
, five thousand dollars invested in man.
t featuring brooms, chairs and tables
a finished state and put upon the ma
=. A;.oo, and not belonging to or b
ing in any trust, combine or pool
r exempt from all taxation under cha
, ter "a, acts 1897, for a period OF te
: years. u.A,
l 49, A permanent factory estaOlis sn6
before the first day of January, IVY
o with a capital of $3.50 of which ~
}. OoO has been paid in, for the purpose
E manufacturing cotton into clotn
' warns and for selling or dealing In u
' FABRIC so manufactured, not belongir
: to or being in a trust, combine or pcs