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An Act to prevent the importation and spreading of the Small Pox, and other contagious diseases. 1822 243 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0071 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF TI STAT OF MISSISSIPPI. 243 be a state officer, the governor shall forthwith vacate his torn. Mission, and proceed to supply the vacancy; and if the offi-t cer so refusing or neglecting be a county officer, the presiding justice of the County Court, shall certify the fact to the go- vernor, who shall thereupon vacate the commission of such county otlicer, and proceed to supply the vacancy occasioned thereby, according to the constitution and laws of this state. And if any state or county officer shall be found by inquest according to law, an ideot, lunatic, or non composmentis, dur- ing the period for which he is appointed, the commission of such officer shall be deemed and held lo be vacated, and such vacancy shall be supplied as in case of the death, resignation or removal of such officer. COWLES MEAD, 1Speaker of the House of Representativss. DAVID DICKSON, . Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate, Approved: June the 14th, 1822. WALTER LEAKE. AN ACT to pevende te importation and spreading of tleA Small Pox, and other dontagiods diseases; SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen. tatives of the ,State of Jississippi, in General .Assembly convened, That if any person or persons shall wilfully and designedly presume to import or bring into this state, from any country or place whatever, th, small pox, or any variolus or infectious matter of the said disease, for the purpose, or with a design to spread the same by inoculation, or otherwise, or shall inocu- late, or procure inoculation for the small pox, after such dis- ease may have been introduced, except under such regula- tions and restrictions as are herein after named, he or she so offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two thou. sand dollars, and be imprisoned a trin not exceeding twelve months, for every offence so committed. SEC. 2. The Gqvernor of the state is hereby authorised, on his own knowledge or from information given to him by any physi- cian or other person, thatithe plague, yellow fever, small pox or other contagious disease, has been introduced into a neighbor- ing country or state, and found admittatice into this state, et

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