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Resolutions in relation to Kansas. 1857 136 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0329 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER LXV. AN ACT to prevent the sale of vinous and spirituous liquors near Ebenezer Church in Holmes county. Sim. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of JMississippi, That if any person shall sell vinous or spirituous liquors of any kind, or in any quantity, except for sacramental purposes, or for medical purposes on the written recommenda- tion of a practising physician that it is neces- sary, within one mile of Ebenezer, a Methodist church in Holmes county, he shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars for each offence, to be sued for and collected before a Justice of the Peace, by any person who will sue for the same, for the use of the common school of the- township in which said church is situated. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Board of Police of Holmes county to grant a license to any person to sell vi- nous or spirituous liquors in violation of this law. Sc. 8. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 19, 1857. LXVI. RESOLUTIONS in relation to Kansas, Resolved, (the House concurring,) That the Leg- islature of the State of Mississippi adopt and re- iterate the resolutions condemning the course of R. J. Walker, Governor of Kansas, passed by the Convention of the Democratic party of this State at the city of Jackson, in June last, which are as follows, to-wit: Whereas, Governor Walker in his inaugural address to the people of Kansas Territory, declared it to be his clear conviction that unless the Convention-called by law to form a constitution for that territory- submit the constitution to the vote of all the actual settlers of 186

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