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An Act to incorporate the City of Shieldsborough, and for other purposes. 1854 493 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0308 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MESSISSIPPI. for loose stock of all kinds two cents each; footmen free; and if any person being liable to pay said tolls as aforesaid shall fail or refuse, upon request, to pay the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for every such failure or refusal, recoverable by action of debt, before any Justice of the Peace in said county of De Soto. SEc. 8. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Police of said county may subscribe for any amount of stock in said turnpike not exceeding five hundred dollars, and pay the same out of the treasury of said county. SEc. 9. Be it further enacted, That the money re- ceived for toll on said turnpike, after defraying the ordinary expenses thereof, shall be distributed among the several stockholders therein according to their several amounts of stock ; that .-aid company may make such by-laws and rules for their own government and the protection of their interest under this charter, not contrary to the provisions of this act. SEc. 10. Be it farther enacld, That said com- pany shall negotiate for the right of way necessary for the construction of said turnpike, according to the usage and custom of obtaining the right of way for turnpikes and plank roads. Said capital shall not be subject to taxation. Sc. 11. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 2, t851. CHAPTER 351. AN ACT to incorporate the City of Shieldsborough, and fqr other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That th. city of Shieldsbo- rough, in the county of Hancock, be and the same is hereby incorporated, under the name and style of the City of Shieldsborough, and that the corpo- rate limits thereof shall be as follows, to-wit: all that tract of country lying east of a line beginning 493

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