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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to establish and incorporate the Town of Yazoo City. 1859 132 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0345 and id is 1 raw text is: 132 LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. State of Mississippi, That in all cases wherein any papers have been filed in ahy cause in the Circuit Court of Tallahatchie county, either notes, bills, accounts or other evidences of indebtedness, or receipts or any other papers, or writing or plead- ings, and the same have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be lost, mislaid or destroyed, upon proof of the fact of such loss or distruction, and the contents in substance of the same, to the satishc- tion of the Court, the Court may order such pa- pers substituted, and proceed with the case as though the original papers were on file; Provided, that the parties shall have the same rights, privi- leges and benefits of all the rules of defence and pleading as in other cases. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the proof of the substance of any such papers shall be ad- dressed to the Court,and determined by the Court upon the proof adduced ; Provided, that the judg- ment of the Court may, as in other cases be re- versed by the High Court of Errors and Appeals upon bill of exceptions taken as now provided by law. SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be inl force from and after its passage. Approved, Dec. 13, 1859. CHAPTER XCIX. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to establish and incorporate the Town of Yazoo City, approved March 3d, 1846. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That hereafter, that when- ever any slave, free negro or mulatto, shall be con- victed before the Mayor of said town of any of- fence against the charter and ordinances of said town, such slave, free negro or mulatto, so offend- ing, shall be punished only by any number of stripes not exceeding thirty-nine, to be inflicted by

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