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An Act to punish the crime of rape by a slave, free negro or Mulatto. 1852 27 (1852.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0270 and id is 1 raw text is: corporation shall have power to have, hold, and take by purchase, or otherwise, real and personal estate, and to sell, lease, and dispose of the same. SEc. 5. Be it further enacted, That the said corpo- ration shall have and possess the right and power of conferring the usual academical degrees. Approved, October 16, 1852. CHAPTER 6. AN ACT to punish the crime of rape by a slave, free negro or Mulatto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mlississippi, That if any slave, free negro, or mulatto, shall commit a rape on any white fe- male, every such slave, free negro, or mulatto, shall on conviction suffer death. SEc. 2. And be it further cuacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, October 14, 1852. CHAPTER 7. AN ACT to legalize a county levy by the Board of Police of Neshoba county, and for other purposes. SErCTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of JiIssissippi, That the county levies made by the Board of Police of the county of Neshoba, on the second Monday of September, A. ID. 1852, shall be as valid, and the Sheriff of said county shall be as fully authorized and empowered to collect the same, as if said levies had been made on the first Monday of August of the same year. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That upon all moneys which may come to the hands of the county Treas- urer of said county by virtue of an act entitled an act to promote common schools in the several counties in this State, approved March 9, 1850, or of any law supplemental to, or amendatory of said law, the said county Treasurer shall receive out of Treasur said moneys the sum of one per cent. on said moneys er's fees. and no more, for his compensation for receiving 27 LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI.

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