Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-05-08
THE REFLECT OF
JACKSON LOBBIES,
Crisp Notes of State Interest
Culled at the Capital City.
DECISION In UNUSUAL CASE

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 Kempsr county: IT 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 10 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 Iegro to
pay his hne. Can the board accept
a less amount for what is due, say
$40 or $50, and release him from
jail? AS the matter now stands. he
is costing the county 90 per month,
with no chance to pay it. "An.
swer: Under sections Z and s oi
chapter rs OF Laws Of 1894. and
chapter 100 OF the Laws of 1900, ]
am of the opinion that your sheriff
ian hire the convict out for what
ever he can get for him per month
Tor 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 70 bid
der appears and you fail to dispose
Of him in one OF the three modes
hxed by said Laws of 1900, the con-
vict can make affidavit of his in
'clvency ard inability to pay the
Of the fine and costs, and,
with the approval of the circuit
Judge. you car discharge him. II
you should discharge him upon his
affidavit OF insolvency it would be
proper to accept whatever
be Is able to pay"
Warden J. j. Henry has just re-
turned from the delta, where he has
been looking after the States plant
ng 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
1routh, but news has just peen re-
.eived by him that rair has fallen
which relieved the situation. The
,orn is about all planted also. On
he new State plantation in Sun
lower county they are little be-
hind the normal on the new ground,
out the delay has rot prejudiced
The outlook. Planting operations on
hat farm are, as rule, little be-
1'nd the normal seasor. because Of
he fact that so many OF the con-
Victs were put at work on the
evees when they might have been
in preparing the land.
The Newcomer Lumber Company
which has recently erected In this
,ity an ice plant. is digging an ar
'esian well al It's plant in Quito
vile. from which to make its ice.
When it had been bored $50 feet ii
truck what is known as cap rock,
which is composed of slate, sulphur
ind alum. 1t was found that there
we're no drills in this city large
enough tc go through the rock, so
representative of the company was
ent to st. Louis to get a larger
irill. 1t is stated by those who are
lrilling the well that wheE the
work Is resumed with the large
lrill they will either strike oil or
,ure artesian water, and all are
'ery much in hopes that 1t will be
Ill, and are awaiting with good
Ieal of impatieEc6 the resuming of
,oring.
Announcement is made that the
Ientai association will hold its next
nnual meeting at Vicksburg on
lay 19. The examination of appli-
ants for license to practice that
'rofession will take place at Jack
on on May rs.
The case against Sergeant Curry,
ormerly employed on the Sun
lower plantation, charged with the
1urder OF convict, has been dis
Missed by the SunHower county
curt. The evidence showed clearly
hat the sergeant indicted Lad not
iven the negro the beating from
vhich 1t was alleged he had died.
tut that, on the contrary, the mar
eAlly lost his position because of
lis unuue leniency.
The charter OF the Mississippi
land and Investment Company
|omiciled ia this city, is being
and in the next three
veeks will be submitted t1 the GOV