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1831 345 (1831)

handle is hein.ssl/ssms0153 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS or MISsISSIPPI.-1831. AN ACT, to suppress malicious injuries to personal property, and for other purposes. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That if any person shall maliciously, either out Penalty for injuries of a spirit of revenge, or wanton cruelty, kill, maim, or doneto cat- wound, any horse, mare, gelding, or mule, sheep, or other tie. cattle, or cause any person to do the same, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred, and be imprisoned for any term, not less than one month, nor exceeding six months. SEc. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person who shall maliciously or mischievously destroy, injure, or Penalty cause to be destroyed or injured, any property of another, to real o either real or personal, shall be deemed guilty of malicious personal ,property. mischief, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum two-fold the value of the property destroyed, or of the damage done, and be imprisoned for any term of time not exceeding twelve months. SEc. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person Do. for cutting off shall cut off or shave the tail of any horse, mare, colt, or lhe tail of gelding, not his own, such person shall incur the penalties a horse. prescribed in the second section of' this act. Approved, December 16, 1831. AN ACT, to amend an act entitled 'an act to extend legal process into that part of the state now occupied by the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes of Indians,' passed February 4th, 1829. SE c. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That the third section of the act to which this is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby repealed ; and 44 345

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