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An Act entitled an act to provide Patrols in the county of Noxubee. 1854 215 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0297 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER 99. AN ACT entitled an act to provide Patrols in the county of Noxubee. SECTION 1. Be it enacled by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That from and after the pas- sage of this act, it shall be the duty of the Board of Police in said county to assess an annual tax, not exceeding ten cents, on each negro subject to taxa- tion, for the purpose of paying the patrol in said county. SEc 2. Be it fur/her enacted, That it shall be the duty of the tax collector of said county to collect said tax when the other taxes are collected, and shall pay the same over to the County Treasurer, as other county taxes, who shall hold the same subject to the drafts of the President of the Board of Police, for the purpose of paying the patrol in said county. SEc. 3. Be it further enac-ed, That it shall be the duty of said Board of Police, at lcast four times in each year, to appoint a sufficient number of pa- trols in each police district, under suitable captains, who shall diligently patrol their respective neigh- borhoods, at least one night in each week, subject to the laws now in' force regulating patrol duty. Src. 4. Be it further enact: d, Thatit shall be thd duty of the respective captains, thus appointed, to make quarterly returns of the number of nights -which he and the company under him have served, which return shall be made in writing, and sworn to before the President of the Board of Police. SEc. 5. Be it further enactrd, That it shall be the duty of the said Board-of Police, at their quar- terly meeting, to draw, by their President, upon the County Treasurer in favor of each captain and pri- vate, to the amount of fifty cents for each night by him spent in patroling, and it shall be the duty of the said Treasurer to pay the same out of the patrol fund. SEc. 6. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the President of the Board of Police to write a notice to each captain of patrol on the day of his appointment, and place the same in the hands of the sheriff, who shall execute and re'-rn the same to the clerk of said Probate court, which no- 215

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