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An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Deer Creek Navigation Company. 1850 331 (1850.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0262 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS Of -MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER 231. AN ACT to repeal a,! act entitled an act to.incorporate the Deer Creek Navigation Company, approved Match 4, 1848, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Statc of Alississippi, That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That a board of Incorpora- commissioners, for the removal of obstructions in and tion. for the improvement of the navigation of Deer Creek, Rolling Fork, and Lower Black Bayou, be, and the same is hereby constituted; said board shall consist of three citizens of the county of Issaquena, and three citizens of the county of Washington, all resi- dents on the banks of said creek, and until after the appointment of their successors, as hereinafter pro- vided; the said board shall consist of the following named persons, to wit: D. 0. Williams, Malachi Bradford, Mordecai Powell, Newitt H. Vick, IW. F. Smith, and James T. Rucks, any four of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. That the said board shall at their first meeting elect, from their own body, a president and secretary, and shall keep a re- cord of their proceedings. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said board of commissioners shall have power and authority to contract for and supervise the removal of all obstruc- tions to the convenient navigation of said creek, fork and bayou ; but the said board shall not, nor shall any membdr thereof, be interested in any contract made by said board, or receive any compensation for his services as a member or officer thereof. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Board Tax to be of Police, of the counties of Issaquena and Wash- levied, ington, shall respectively cause to be levied, for the year 1850, and annually thereafter, such tax on all lands in their respective counties lying on or within one mile of said creek, Rolling fork or bayou, as the said board of commissioners may direct and require: Provided, the said tax shall not in any one year ex- ceed ten cents per acre: And provided further, that under this act, no improvement shall be made in said creek, and no lands shall be taxed lying below the lower end of the improved lands, or such as may 331

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