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An Act for the benefit of Mary Hill, Emma Hill and Sarah Hill, minors, of Carroll county. 1857 161 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0333 and id is 1 raw text is: saws Op MISSISSIPP. 16 sessment, it shall be the duty of the Board ofPolice at its first meeting after a knowledge of the fact, to reassess the tax so enjoined, and require the Sheriff to collect the same within sixty days, and should the person enjoining fail in his suit the court shall award fifty per cent. damages upon the disso- lution of the said injanction, together with costs. SEc. 4. Be it fither enacted, That the time for thelocation of any of the swamp lands scrip issued to Se p. the county of Coahoma, under previous acts of the Legislature, be and the same is hereby extended to the first day of April, 1858, any law to the con- trary notwithstanding, SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 19th, 1857. CHAPTER CIV. AN ACT for tho benefit of Mary Iill, Emma Iill and Sarah Hill, minors, of , arroll county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of .Mississippi, That it shall be lawful for H. Slaves oceald W. Hill, the guardian of said minors, to employ ' the slaves of said II. W. Hill and the slaves of said minors in common in the cultivation of the lands and tenements of said minors. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That the expenses necessarily incurred in conducting the planting Profits to be operations to be performed by the said slaves on pro said lands shall be paid by said H. W. Hill and said minors pro rata, according to the number and quality of slaves owned by the said H. W. Hill and the said minors, and that the profits arising from the lahor of said slaves shall, in like manner, be divided between I. W. Hill and said minors pro rata according to the number and quality of the slaves so employed by said H. W. Hill and said minors. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said H. W. Hill shall pay to said minors a reasonable annual rent for the use and occupation of said lands to be assessed as hereinafter provided. 11

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