The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-05-07
THE REFLECT OF
JACKSON LOBBIES.
Crisp Notes of State Interest
Culled at the Capital City.
DECISION In UNUSUAL CASE.

Attorney General Williams Answers an
Inquiry from a County Which Now
Has No Convict Contractor Regarding
Disposition of Prisoner.
Jackson. Attorney General Will
liams has sent the following opinion
to Kemper county: II have your
inquiry, which reads as follows:
The board of supervisors of this
county request an opinion from you
on the following matter: We have
in our Jail negro WHO was convict
ed and sentenced to Jail. He has
worked out his sentence with the
contractor, but is still due his fine
and costs, amounting to about $175.
We have no convict contractor now,
and it is impossible for the negro to
pay his tine. Can the board accept
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$40 or $50, and release him from
jailY AS the matter now stands, he
is costing the county SO per month,
with no chance to pay it, can
swer: Under sections and of
chapter 76 OF Laws of 1894. and
chapter 100 of the Laws of 1900,
am OF the opinion that your sheriff
can hire the convict out for what
ever he can get for him per month
for the remainder of the two years
that he can be held in custody.
Subtract from two years the time
he has been IN custody under his
sentence and hire him out for the
remaining time for what you can
get and let him be discharged at
the end of the two years If 20 bid
der appears and you fail to dispose
OF him in one of the three modes
liked by said Laws of 1900, the con-
Wet can make affidavit of his in
sclvency ard inability to pay the
balance of the fine and costs, and,
with the approval of the circuit
Judge. you car discharge him. If
you should disc barge MIN upon his
affidavit of insolvency it would be
entirely proper to accept whatever
he is able to pay"
Warden ]. ]. Henry has just re-
turned from the delta, where he has
been looking after the States plant
ing interests on the penitentiary
plantations. He reports that nearly
all of the cotton is planted and that
the prospects are good. The delta
has been suffering from a severe
drouth, but news has just Deen re-
ceived by him that rain las fallen
which relieved the situation. The
corn is about all planted also. On
the new State plantation in Sun
flower county they are little be-
hind the normal on the new ground,
but the delay has rot prejudiced
the outlook. Planting operations on
that farm are, as a rule, little be-
hind the normal season. because Of
the fact that so many of the con-
victs were put at work on the
levees when they might have been
employed in preparing the land.
The Newcomer Lumber Company
which has recently erected In this
city an ice plant, is digging an ar
tesian we'll at its plant in Quito
vile, from which to make it's ice.
When it had been bored 900 feet it
struck what is known as cap rock.
which is composed of slate, sulphur
and alum. 1t was found that there
were no drills in this city large
enough tc 60 through the rock, SO
representative Of the company was
sent to st. Louis to get larger
drill. 1t is stated by these who are
drilling the well that wheE the
work is resumed with the large
drill! they will either strike oil or
pure arteslan water, and all are
very much in hopes that 1t will be
oil, and are awaiting with a good
deal of impstience the resumlng Of
boring.
Announcement is made that the
dental association will hold its next
annual meeting at Vicksburg on
May 49,. The examination of appli-
cants for license to practice that