Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-03-24
ACTS APPROVED.
(Ihc number given IS that on senate docket.
The following March l0)

(Iho number given IS that on senate docket.
The following March lOl
"a, To amend sections 1851 and 1862 code 1892,
relating TO the descent OF exempt property so as
to provide that grandchildren inherit the share
OF their deceased parents, and when exempt
property be liable for debt Of decedent.
50. To provide for the removal of the penlten.
tiary building, walls, Improvements and prop
erty on the present site, to the state farm in
Rankin county, or to some other farm owned or
to be purchased by the State, and to erect there
on new penitentiary and to authorize the
board OF control TO make provisional arrange
ment for the safekeeping of the records, shops,
hospital, stores and conyIcts, to provide neces -
sary houses for the officers and employees en-
gagged within the present walls, and for Q place
OF meeting OF said board
10. Requiring fire and fire and marine insur-
auce companies doing business in the State OF
Mississippi to write insurance In the State only
through their licensed agents resident therein,
and to forbid such companies from placing re-
insurance on property in this State other than
companies licensed to do business therein, or to
accept Reinsurance on property in this State
from any company not licensed to do business
In this State, and providing penalty for viola
ton OF this act
lis. To repeal sections 1910, lSIl, 1912, 1913 and
1874 code 1892, and to provide for the appoint
ment of temporary administrator in certain
cases.
l25. To enable the auditor OF public accounts
and land commissioner OF the State to properly
conduct the affairs OF their respective Offices,
and TO correct mistakes In land descriptions
al,
Of moneys enormously paid in privileges and
State taxes and land purchases, and to save the
State cost in passing bills for relief BY local and
private legislation in certain cases.
l26. TO require tax collectors Of the State TO
have published list OF the names of all persons
delinquent for poll taxes after the first of Feb
ruary in each year,
l79. Authorizing chancellors to do in vacation
what may be done In term time, in matters tes-
tamentary and of administration, in minors
business, in matters affecting persons OF un-
sound mind and in the matter OF removing dis
abilities of minority.
1874. To amend section Of chapter 1873 OF the
acts of 1896 In reference TO dischargng cOnvCtS
from county jails in certain cases.
2N3. To amend section 40 code 1892 In relation
to terms of chanCery court in the seventh chan
Gerry court district, so as to change and fix the
time for holding OF chancery court in Bolivar
and Coahoma counties
2s6. To amend section &c. chapter 4l3 acts of
1888, entitled an act to incorporate the Waynes'
boro, Pascagoula q Gulf Coast Railroad Com
pany.
49, To provide for the care of the insane col
ored OF this State, and to provide for the cree
ton of an additional building or buildings on
the grounds OF the State lunatic asylum,
$50 To authorize the board OF supervisors Of
Choctaw county 10 submit to the qualified
electors of said county the question whether
the two judicial districts Of said county shall
be consolidated, with the county seat of the
county at Alderman.
900 TO amend section 623 code 1892, as amend
ed by chapter AZ Of the laws of 1894, so as to
change and fix the time for holding terms OF the
circuit court in certain counties in the fourth
circuit court district, and to provide for terms
of circuit court In the second judicial district
in the counties OF Bolivar and Tallahatchie,
29i For the relief of g. II. Kemp, x-sheriH
and tax collector OF Madison county, and the
sureties upon his official bond. and empowering
the board of supervisors to refund damages.
The following were approved March 70:
26s To authorize the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley Railroad Company to acquire the Yazoo
& Delta Railway.
30 To amend section 3O39 code 1892 with
reference to amending charters of municipal-
ties.
"a. To amend section 1894 code 1892 in relation
to transfer or conveyance of goods and chat.
tells, or lands, or any lease of lands, between
husband and wife.
6s. To amend sections and 8 OF an act TO
protect crops in Tate county, approved Jan. 10,
1885, so that when stock exceeding the valne OF
ten dollars are taken up for trespassing upon
the lands Of another, the owner being unknown,
the party taking them up shall deliver them to
the coroner and ranger of the county, and II
such stock do not exceed in value ten dollars
the party to file description with the nearest
Justice of the peace Of the county, and to pro-
vide for the operation of the act in other coun-
ties.
1874, To amend section 4i77, chapter la code
1892 in reference TO weights and measures
i60 To provide for permanent branch oil
agricultural experiment station.
1877. To permit guardians, with the approval
of the chancery court, or chancellor, to renew
or extend pre.exlstlng encumbrances.
200 To repeal an act entitled ian act to au-
thorIze the board Of Mississippi levee commits
sIoners to issue certificates of Indebtedness,
approved Feb. 8, 1898. and to authorize the board
Of Mississippi levee commissioners to issue GER
tincates OF indebtedness.
9lb To authorize the board OF trustees OF the
Southern female college to issue twenty thou
sand dollars in bonds.
2l7 To punish laborer, renter or snare
croppeI who has made ono contract IN wiring
and makes a second contract without giving
notice of the first.
227 TO authorize the board OF levee commits
sloners of the Mississippi delta to Issue
lts bonds to an amount not exceeding $4,000