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An Act prescribing the mode of ascertaining and assesing the Taxable Property within this State, and for collecting the Public Revenue. 1822 357 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0077 and id is 1 raw text is: 1AWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.            357'
ner, as if the defendant had appeared, and were present in
court: Provided, always, That a copy of the said order for
bearing, be published in one of the public newspapers of this
state, for the space of three months at least, before the day
appointed for.the said hearing.
SEc. 11. No decree for divorce from the bond of matrimo-
ny shall take effect, until the same shall be sanctioned by a
law or resolution, passed- by two-thirds of both branches of
the General Assembly.
COWLES MEAD,
Speaker of the House of Representativeg.
DAVID DICKSON,
Lieutenant- Governor and President of the Senate,
Approved: June the 14th, 1822.
WALTER LEAKE.
AN ACT, prescribing the mode of ascertaining and assesing
the Taxable Property within this State, and for collecting
the Public Revenue.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresenta-
4ives of the State of Mississippi, in General .11ssembly convened
That a tax shall be assessed and collected in each and every
year, and paid into the Treasury of the State, on the persons
and property, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
The sum of twemty cents for every hundred dollars valueishall
be paid on all lands lying within this state, to which the Indian
title has been extinguished, except such lands as belong to the
United States, and such lands as have been sold by Congress,
and the term of five years not having expired since the respec-
tive days of sale thereof; and the value of the lands so tax-
ed shall be ascertained by the assessors of the several counties,
according to the regulations herein after expressed: Class num-
ber one, shall consist of all lands lying within eight miles of
the city of Natchez, the first quality of which shall be rated at
twelve dollars per acre; the second quality at eight dollars per
acre; and the third quality at three dollars per acre:-Class
number two, shall consist of all lands lying within fourteen
miles ofthe Mississippi river, and not included in class number
one, the first quality of which shall be rated at seven dollars
per acre; the second quality at four dollars per acre; and the
third quality at two dollars per acre:-Class number three
shall consist of all lands more than fourteen, and not above
twenty miles fromn.the Mississippi river, the first quality off

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