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An Act concerning Coroners. 1822 108 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0059 and id is 1 raw text is: 108 LAWS OF THE STATE OF IITSSISSIPPI. competent jurisdiction, shall be fined at the discretion of the' COU 1. SEc. 22 It shall not be lawful for any jalier, or keeper of any jail, or any uheriff, deputy sheriff, orother person, to keep an inn, tavern, or shop. in any jail or building occupied as a jail of any county within this state; and every sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailer, or other permon so otTending, shall be deemed guilty ofa misdemeanor, and punished by tine and imprison- ment, at the discretion of the court before whom such convic- tion is had. SEC. 23. No person, who may be deputed by any sheriff to do a particular act only, shall be required to take the oath directed by this act to be taken by deputy sheriffs. COWLES MEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID DICKSON, Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senat Approved, June the 15th, 1822. WALTER LEAKE. AN ACT, concerning Coroners. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represeii- ihtives of the State of Jississippi, in General .Assenably convened. That there shall be chosen, at the time, and in the manner prescribed in the constitution, and laws of this state, one Cor- oner for each county within the same, who shall be commis- sioned by the governor, andt shall continue in office for the term of two years, unless sooner removed; and before he en- ter on the duties of his office, he shall take the oath prescrib- ed in the constitution, before any Justice of the County Court or Justice of the Peace, of the county for which he is chosen, and enter into band, with two or more good and sufficient se- curities, to be approved by the preiding Justice of the Coun- ty Court of such county, in the penalty of one half the sum re- quired by law of the sheriff of that county, for which such Coroner is ch.sen, payable to the governor of the stnte for the time being, and his successors in office, witlh the like condi- tion, nutatis mutandis, as is prescribed in the bond dirt-cled by law to be given by sheriffs. The presiding Justice ioP the County Court shall endorse on said bond, his approbation of the sureties therein named, and a certificate that he has ad- ministered to the Coroner the oath of office, and shall cause tl1JU6ond, together with the endorsement thereon, to be record-,

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