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An Act to amend the sixth section of an act entitled an act to amend the several acts of the State relating to Free Negroes and Mulattoes 1844 147 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0200 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. amounts due to the Seminary Fund, from persons residing beyond the limits of the United States. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That if the assign- Penalty. ees, or other person or persons, in whose hands the assets and effects of the Planters' and Rail Road Banks now are, shall resist the provisions of this law, such resistance shall be deemed a public misdemea- nor, and be punishable by imprisonment in the peni- tentiory, not less than five years, upon conviction of such resistance. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 24, 1814. CHAPTER 28. AN ACT to amend the sixth section of an act entitled an act to amend the several acts of the State relating to Free Neg roesand Mulattoes. SEcrION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of -Mississippi, That the sixth section of an act entitled an, act to amend the several acts of this State in relation to Free Negroes and MAilat- toes, approved February the t wen ty-eigh th, eighteen hundred and forty-two, be so enlarged and construed as to authorize the boards of police of the several counties in this State to make the same allowance to sherffs, jailors, andconstables, of fees for services rendered, under the several acts to which siId act is an.amendment as they are authorized to'al oy for 147

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