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An Act for the relief of Prairie County. 1854-1855 113 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0121 and id is 1 raw text is: 113 SEc. 7. Be it further enacted, That before the said Lovett and Barnes, shall be authorized to charge, collect, or exact, the toll herein prescribed, they shall report the fact of the comple- tion of said bridge and levee to the county court of Saint Francis county, if in session at the time, if not, to the judge of such court in vacation, and such court or judge shall forthwith appoint three commissioners, (house holders and citizens of said county), whose duty it shall be, when notified of their said appointment as such commissioners, and who, after being duly sworn faithfully to dis- charge their duties as such, to view and examine said bridge and levee, and report to said court or judge, whether the same have been completed in conformity to the provisions of this act, and if such commissioners should report favorably, it shall be the duty of such court, to award a certificate of such fact, under the seal of the clerk thereof, if such should be made in term time, if not, it is hereby made the duty of the judge of said court, to give the said Lovett and Barnes, a certificate of such fact, under his hand and official signature, and from that time forward the said Lovett and Barnes be, and they are hereby authorized to charge, collect, and demand, the tolls herein prescribed, and not otherwise. SEc. 8. And be it further enacted, That the grants and privileges herein contained, shall enure to the said Joseph A. Lovett and Jared A. Barnes, and their heirs and assigns, for and during the term of twenty years, reckoning from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and shall cease on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. SEC. 9. And be itfurther enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Approved 10th January, 1855. AN ACT for the relief of Prairie County. PREAMBLE recites that the clerk's office and all records of Prairie county, were destroyed by fire. SECTION 1. Specifies thecourse to be pursued where any person may have obtained any ju iment, etc., in any of the courts hela in Prairie county, the record of which has been destroyed. 2. Specifies course to be pursued to have any matter or proceeding, now pend- ing, the records and papers of which have been destroyed, re-instated up- on record. 8. Specifies course to be pursued where the record of any deed of convey- ance, title, bond, mortgage, deed, etc. has been destroyed. 4. Specifies the course to be pursued to re- instate upon record the certificate of any marriage, where the same has been destroyed. 5. Specifies course to be pursued where 8 SECTION any married woman shall have avail- ed herself of the 104th chapter of the Digest and shall have filed in the re- corder s office a schedule of property to which she is entitled, the record of which has been destroyed by fire. 6- Specifies course to be pursued to re-in- state any administrator's or executor or guardian's bond which has been destroyed. 7. Upon all petitions filed under this act, like proceedings to be had as in other cases, and appeals to be allowed, and this act not to prevent records from being re-instated by any other mode recognized by law. 8. Certified copies of records made by vir- tue of this act to be received in evi- dence in any courts of this State, without further proof. 9. This act to take effect after passage. 11

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