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An Act concerning Strays and Drovers, Horses, Cattle and other Stock, and directing Stock Brands and Marks to be recorded. 1822 322 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0074 and id is 1 raw text is: 82# LAWS OF THE STATE OP MISSISSIPPI. AN ACT, concerning Strays and Drovers, Horses, Cattle ant other Stock, and directing Stock Brands and Marks to be recorded. Sic. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of-Repreten- iatives of the State of Mississippi, in General Assembly donveneJ; That every person who shall take up any stray which shall le found on his plantation or land, shall forthwith give inflr- mation thereof to some justice of the peace ofthe county, and make oath before such justice, that the same was taken up at his or her plantation or place of residence, or -on his or her land adjoining the same, and that the marks and brands have not been defaced or altered since the taking up; and thereup- on the said justice shall issue his summons to two disinterest- ed fteeholders, or landholders of the neighborhood. command- ing them to value and appraise the same, without partiality,. favor or affection, and certify the valuation under their hands, together with a particular description of the kind, marks; brands, stature, color and age; which certificate shall be at- tested by the justice, and transmitted by him to the ranger of the county, within ten days thereafrer, to be by such ranger entered in his book to be kept for that purpose, for which the justice and ranger shall each receive fifty cents, to be paid by the taker up: Provided, That if two or more strays of the same species, are taken ip by the same person at the same time, they shall be included in one efwry, ani one advertise- View.; nd the justice and Ranger shall receive no more fees than for one of such strays. Skac. 2. The justices of the several County, C6ourtg witlii this state, shall cause a pound to be erected at their respective court-houses, with a good and sufficient fence, and a gate or bars, where all stray horses, mares or mules, above two years old, taken up within the county, shall be.kept on the first day of the Iwo courts, whether county or circuitcourts; next suc- ceerang the time at which they may he taken up, from twelve to four o'clock on-each:day, that the owner may have an op- portunity of claiming his property; and the expense of mak- ing such pounds shall be defrayed out of the state treasury, on a certificate thereof made by such courts to the auditor of public accounts And the said justices shall appoint some person to take care- of the said pound, and to attend the same on couit days, who shall be entitled to demand and receive from every person putting in a stray, the sum of twenty-five cents, at every time the same may be put in, which shall be zepaid by the owner thereof. Sac. 3. There shall be commissioned by the governor, on

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