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An Act to amend the sixth section of an act entitled an act to amend the several acts of the State relating to Free Negroes and Mulattoes 1844 147 (1844)

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amounts due to the Seminary Fund, from persons
residing beyond the limits of the United States.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That if the assign- Penalty.
ees, or other person or persons, in whose hands the
assets and effects of the Planters' and Rail Road
Banks now are, shall resist the provisions of this law,
such resistance shall be deemed a public misdemea-
nor, and be punishable by imprisonment in the peni-
tentiory, not less than five years, upon conviction of
such resistance.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
Approved, February 24, 1814.
CHAPTER 28.
AN ACT to amend the sixth section of an act entitled an act to
amend the several acts of the State relating to Free Neg roesand
Mulattoes.
SEcrION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of -Mississippi, That the sixth section of
an act entitled an, act to amend the several acts of
this State in relation to Free Negroes and MAilat-
toes, approved February the t wen ty-eigh th, eighteen
hundred and forty-two, be so enlarged and construed
as to authorize the boards of police of the several
counties in this State to make the same allowance to
sherffs, jailors, andconstables, of fees for services
rendered, under the several acts to which siId act
is an.amendment as they are authorized to'al oy for

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