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An Act to provide for erecting levees on the banks of the Mississippi river in Warren county. 1846 172 (1846)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0220 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER 21. AN ACT to provide for erecting levees on the bapks of the Missis- sippi river in Warren county. SECTION 1. Be it enlacted by the Legislature of the Levee-at State of Mississippi, That in all that part of War- whose cost nv repaired. ren county which is watered by the Mississippi iiv- er,,where levees are necessary to protect from in- undation the lands on said river, such levees shall be constructed by, and at the cost of the riparian proprietors, in the manner hereafter prescribed. SEC. 2. Be itfitrther enacted, That the board of Board of police of Warren county shall be convened by the poce to president thereof, immediately after the passage of spectors, this act, for the purpose of appointing levee inspec- tors; and shall immediately proceed to appoint three free-holders who own lands on said river, and reside on or near the same, to serve as levee inspectors for the term of one year from the time of their appoint- ment, and until successors are.appointed and quali- fied, Whose duty it shall be, to designate the lands which may require to be leveed, to lay out the line of said levees, to contract for the building of the same.as hereafter mentioned, to superintend the construction thereof, to see that the work is proper- ly executed, and to prescribe the time at which it shall be commenced and completed, and generally to do whatever clse may be necessary in order to have the same completed. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said levee Oath. , inspectors, before they enter on the discharge of their duties, shall take an oath to be administered by 172,

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