The leader., 1904-04-20
THE VACANT Law.
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days nor more than thirty days.
and said person 50 Committed shall
serve said sentence for the pre-.
scribed time, and shall not be lib
Grated from such sentence bv
payment for the time required to.
be served by said sentence, unless
such person give bond, with suf-
ficient security to be approved by
said Justice or mayor, or police
justice in any sum not less than
two hundred and one dollars for
the future industry and good con-
Iauct of such person, for one year
from the date Of the giving Of such
bond. Said bond shall be made
payable to the state of Mississippi.
and may be sued upon, in case OF
breach, in the name of the state,
and in the circuit court, and such
| suit shall be triable at the first
term of the circuit court after the
breach occurs, provided. the sure
ties on such bond are summoned
five days before court meets. And
such suit shall be conducted By
the district attorney, for the state,
in the circuit court, and by the
Attorney General in the Supreme
Court. Whenever any bond SO
taken shall be forfeited by the
misconduct of said yagrant. there
shall be no recovery on same less
than the face value of the bond,
unless the vagrant shall be deliver
ed up to the circuit court for
further trial, as hereinafter pro-
yided for, in which event, the
court may, in its discretion, limit
the amount of recovery on the
bond to the cost of suit and a pen
atty of fifty dollars.
Section 5. Whenever any va
grant shall forfeit his bond as pro-
vided for in the last section, by
any misconduct amounting to a
breach of the bond, and the court
in which the bond is to be sued
upon shall have judicially so deter
mined, such vagrant may be rear
rested Immediately, and placed on
trial before the justice of the peace,
or mayor or police justice before
whom the original proceedings
we're had, or may be Immediately
indicted by the grand jury and
placed on trial in Che circuit court
as a vagrant, and on the conviction
for a second offense, shall be COM
mitted to Jail for not less than nine
ty days. mol more than six months,
and shall serve said sentence for
the prescribed time, and shall not.
be liberated from such sentence by
payment for the time required to
be served, by said sentence.
Section 6. All bonds so taken
shall be returned to the circuit
court, and shall be docketed on the
criminal docket of the circuiteourt
by the clerk thereof, and shall be
brought forward from term to
term until the expiration Of The
time for which same is given : and
There shall be no exemption al
lowed against liability on such
bonds. And tits hereby made the
duty of the district attorney and
the circuit judge to give diligent
attention to all such bonds. and
to place same in suit whenever it
shall appear that the said bond has
been forfeited and it is the duty
of the justice of the peace, OF
mayor or police justice to inform
the district attorney, Immediately
whenever they shall discover or
have good reason to believe that
/ said bond has been forfeited.
Section Z. Whenever any per-
son shall be convicted OF Sec
ond ofense of vagrancy, no mat
ter under which head of this Act,
he shall be committed to jail for
not less than ninety days, nor.
more than six months and shall
serve said sentence for the pre-
scribed time, and shall not be
liberated from such sentence by.
payment of the time. required to
be served by said sentence; and
in all cases where any person shall
be convicted of vagrancy, in addi-H
ton to being committed to jail
as herein provided, such person.
shall pay all costs and shall stand
committed until same is paid, and
this shall apply to all cases wheth-.
er such personsshall give bond as
herein provided or not.
Section 5. 1t shall be the duty
of each circuit judge to charge
each grand jury especially with
reference to this Act.
Section 8. If any Of the off
GERS named il section two OF this
Act shall fail, refuse or neglect To
perform the duties therein re.
.quired, he shall be guilty Of d
misdemeanor and shall be punish
ed bg fine of not less than TWEEN
.ty-fiVe dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars.
Section 10. The circuit court
shall have concurrent jurisdic-
tion to try. all cases arising under
this Act, and to impose the same
fines, penalties and to require the
giving of bonds as required here