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An Act supplemental to an Act to confer civil rights upon Freedmen, and for other purposes 1865 194 (1865.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0408 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER XLVIII. AN ACT fsupplementil to an Act to confer civil rights upon Freedmen, and for other purposes. SEoTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That in every case where any white person has been arrested and brought to trial, by virtue of the provisions of the tenth section of the above recited act, in any court hi this State, upon sufficient proof being made to the court or jury, upon the trial before said court, that any freedman, free negro or mulatto has falsely and mali- ciously caused the arrest and trial of said white person or persons, the court shall ren-. der up a judgment against said freedman, free negro or mulatto for all costs of the case, and impose a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, and imprisonment ini the county jail not to exceed twenty days; and for a failure of said freedman, free negro or mulatto to pay, or cause to be paid, all costs, fines and jail fees, the sheriff of the county is hereby authorized and required, after giving ten days public no- tice, to proceed to hire out, at public outcry, at the court house of the county, said freel- nian, free negro or mulatto, for the shortest time, to raise the amount necessary to dis- charge said freedman, free negro or mulatto from all costs, fines and jail fees aforesaid. SEC. 2. Be further enacted, That this act shall take eftect and be in force from and af- ter its passage. Approved December 2, 1865. C oCHAPTER XLIX. AN ACT to amend Chapter Sixty of Revised Code, and for other purposep. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislatre of the State of Mississippi, That the words orphan or orphans, wherever the same occurs 194:

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