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An Act to amend the Levee Laws now in force in Coahoma county. 1857 160 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0332 and id is 1 raw text is: ieo AW8,,oV, Mississippi. CHAPTER C17. AN ATUto aniond the Leveo Laws now In force in Conloma county. SEC. 1. .Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of .Mississippi, That the seventh section of an act entitled an act to amend the levee laws of Coahoma county, approved 2d March, 1854, be so siaves wials- amended as to provide that all malo slaves within requirenHt fiVe miles of the levee may be required to perform ok ou labor upon the levee at the demand of the levee commissioner, or his agent, for six days in each year, and in case of emergency for a greater pe- riod if required, for which service the commissioner shall be liable to pay out of the lcvee fund to the person entitled to the labor of said slaves one dol- lar and fifty cents per day for each full day's work rendered, and if any person, when notified, shall fail or refuse to furnish the hands required he shall forfeit'and pay to the use of the levee fund of said county two dollars and fifty cents per day each for each day that the hand or hands required make default, to be sued for and recovered by the com- missioner in any court having jurisdiction. SEC. 2. l1e it further cnacted, That the eighth section of said act be amended so as to read: 'hat Ireunty for if any person, by himself, his slave or employer, oc. shall ride or drive any horse, mule or ox, or shall draw any cart, wagon, buggy, or other wheeled ve- hicle, or fall any timber across said levee, or do any other act calculated to destroy the same, such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for each offence ten dollars, recoverable for the use of the levee fluid at the suit of the levee commissioner of said county, before any Justce of the Peace of said county, and shall also be liable to indictment as is now prescribed by law for the malicious destruction of levues. SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That hereafter all Uve 1x. levee tax assessed by the Board of Polico shall be payable on the first of March thereafter, and if any person shall eijoin the collection of any levee tax heretofore assessed, or hereafter to be assessed, the Board of Police of said county on account of any informality or any illegality in the act of as- I . 160

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