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An Act to amend the impressment law of this State. 1863 126 (1863)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0383 and id is 1 raw text is: 126                   LAWS OP MISSISSIPPI.
Sc. 3. Be it fuirther enacted, That iny marriage
Divorce heretofore made or which may hereafter be made
ia edt: by any person whose husband or wife shall have
piration of been absent for (ve successive years without being
?     known to such person within thait time to be living,
be and the same is hereby declared to be valid. and
legal to all intents and purposes, and the first bus-
band or wife so absent shall in law be presumed
to be dead in any qustion that may arise relative
to such second marriage, or any right or claim
arising under it, nor shall any evidence be received
to rebut such presumption in any proceeding in
which the validity of the secoid marriage or any
right or claim under it may be involved.
SEC. 4. Be. it further enacted, That. a party en-
silL how titled to a divorce may file the bill for that purpose
filed,  in the Circuit Court of any county in this State,
upon making affidavit, that in consequence of an
invasion by the enemy, or apprehended danger of
invasion, he believes that the terms of the Circuit
Court in which said bill should be filed under the
existing law will not be regularly held.
SEc. 5. Be-it further enacted, That this law shall
take effect from and after its passage. -
Approved December 1, 1863.
CHAPTER XIII.
AN ACT to amend the impressment law of this State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted 'by the Legislature of
the State of Mississippi, That in all cases where
the exigencies of the service may require it, the
Governor is hereby empowered to impress slaves
and other personal property for the use of the
S ate troops, ayd to aid in the military operations
cqnducted by the State troops, under officers in the
military service of the State, in the manner pro-
vided in an act approved January 3d, 1863, entit-
led  an act to authorize the impressment of slaves
and other personal property for mtlitary purposes,
without the concurrence and approbation expressed
in writing of the commander of the   Confederate

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