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An Act to authorize the Board of Police for the county of Issaquena to assign hands to work on Deer Creek. 1850 246 (1850.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0260 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. any time appear to the satisfaction- of the commis- sionerof the three per cent. fund of said county, that any person or persons is about to remove, or has removed his property out of the county without having fli-st paid the amount due by him. to said three per cent. fund, and upon the affidavit of said commissioner to that effect, he shall be authorized to sue out an attachment against su.ch person or persons so removing, in the same manner as credi- tors are allowed by law to sue out attachments against absconding debtors; and said commissioners shall prosecute all such suits in the name of the Pre- sident of the Board of county Police of said county, and shall be governed in all respects, according to the laws now in existence. SEc. 5. And be it further enacted, That the pro- visions of this act shall apply only to the county of Jones. Approved Feb. 18, 1850. CHAPTER 148. AN ACT to authorize the Board of Police for the county of lEsaquena to assign hands to work on Deer Creek. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That hereafter, when a ma- jority of the citizens of any township or fractional township, residing on Deer Creek, in the county of Issaquena, shall petition the Board of Police for said county to assign a portion of their hands to.work on said Creek, which are now by law, subject to road duty, it shall be the duty of said Board of Po- lice to assign such portion of hands to work on said Creek, as in their opinion, can be properly taken from roads. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Board of Police to divide said Creek into convenient districts, and assign overseers and hands, under the same requisitions and penalties as are now fixed by law for overseers and hands as- signed to work on roads. Snc. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of such overseers to have cut or sawed, and remove the same, such logs and drift in the -246

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