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An Act authorizing the assessment and collection of a tax on the inhabitants of the county of Amite, for defraying the expence of erecting a Court house, Jail and Stocks in said county, and for other purposes. 1809 10 (1809.2)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0010 and id is 1 raw text is: (IO0 AN4 ACT ,duthorizing the affment and collection of a tax on the inhabtants of the county of Amste,for defraying the expence of erecting a Court houfe,. Yadt and Stocks in aid county, and for other purpofes. SECTION IAf. BE it enacted by'iheLegif- lative Council and Houfe of R eprefentatives of the Mississippi Territorv in General A mbly con- vened, That the following tax ibll be impof- ed on the laid counts, for the year one thoufand cight hundred and nine, in addition to the ter- ritorial taxfor the purpofe of ereinmg a court houle, jail and flocks, to wit : 'twenty-five cents on all free males above the age of twenty one years; twenty-five cents on all flaves, and on every hundred dollars value of land ; twelve and a half cents'to be levied and colle6ted by the tax colle6tor of (aid county, at the 'fame time and in the fame manner as is dire&ed by law for the colledion of the territorial tax, and it thall be the duty of the tax colleaor 'for (aid county to pay over to the commiflioners, ap- pointed by law to contra& for building a court boufe, jail and flocks in (aid county, the a- mount of monies by him colle&ed for the pur- poles aforetaid, on or before the firft day of Apr!, one thoufand eight hundred and ten , and on failure to to do the commillioners ap- pointed as aforefaid, or a majority of them tball have the fame mode of proceedings and reco- very againft the faid colleaor, as is by law gi- ven to the auditor of public accounts againft tax colledors, and the colledor of laid county fhall be allowed feven and a half per centuna by the laid commiaieners on the amount of the Digitized from Best Copy Available

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