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An Act to locate the Seat of Justice of Mississppi County, and for other purposes. 1836 44 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0020 and id is 1 raw text is: 41 1836. publication, under hi, proper scal, relative to inland bills of -. exchange or promissory note,, seventy-five cents; and, if re- quired to record the same, fifty cents. CHARLES CALDWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore. SAM C. ROANE, President of the Senate. Approved: October 3d, 1836. J1. S. CONWAY. An act to locate the Seat of Justice of Missiesippi County, and fur other purposes. SEc. I. Be it enacted by the Gencral Assembly of the State of .rkansoa, That Edwin Jones, Frederick Weller, Lastty McLang, John Iluckner, and John G. Davis, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners, any three of whom shall Commission, constitute a quorum to do business, permanently to locate the tie appointed, seat of justice for Mississippi county, and io superintend the building of a court-house and jail at said seat ofjustice, whenl so lobated as aforesaid. SEc. 2. Be it fitrther enacted, That the said commissioners, before entering bn the duties of their offices as commission- ers as aforesaid, shall, 4efore the judge of the county court, Commission. or some acting justice of the peace for said county, take an ers shall take oath or affirmation truly and faithfully to execute the trust in o1h. them by this apt reposed. SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, pro- ceed to locate the seat of justice aforesaid, and to secure to themselves and their successors in office, as commission&s as Shall locate aforesaid, the title to all lands which may be donated to the 'he seat of jl.. county of Mississippi, and which they may deem suitable for the location of said seat of justice, and proceed to lay off and divide the same into lots, and sell the same to the highest bidder, by giving at least thirty days' notice of the 4ay of sale, by at least four advertisements put up in the most public places of the county. SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid shall have full power to receive donations of land, money, or other thing, for the purpose of building a court- May receive house and jail at the seat of justice aforesaid; and shall, so donation., soon as they may deem it expedient, determiie on the dimen- sions and kind of court-house and jail they will erect, and give notice, by advertisements, put up in every township in the county, for at least twenty days, that they will, at (he seat of justice, on such day or days, mentioning the day in the adver- nentJet out, separately, to the lowest bidder or bidders, the building of a court-house and jail, describing the dimensions and kind of buildings, reqervingthe privilege of rejecting bids

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