Chap. 127 (H. B. 433).. Page 202 AN ACT to amend sections 4, 8, and 10, of chapter 138 of the laws of 1918, sections 77690, 7769s and 7769u, Hemingway's code, so as to provide for the assessment and taxation of electric power companies owning property not wholly situated in one county in the state of AN ACT to license, supervise, regulate, and control the operation of motor vehicles over and upon the public highways in the state of . AN ACT to provide for the assessment of non-resident persons, firms, partnerships, companies, associations, or corporations engaged in the business of operating, furnishing or leasing cars for the transporta- tion of freight, or to be used in the operation of any railway line or lines, wholly or partially within this state, and providing penalties AN ACT creating an inferior court in the various counties of the state to be known as the county court, fixing its jurisdiction, providing for the election of judges to preside over said courts, fixing their AN ACT to amend chapter 113 of the laws of 1918 with respect to the chancery court terms in and for the first district of Hinds county. Chap. 137 (H. B. 585).. Page 228 AN ACT fixing the time and places of holding chancery courts in the eighth chancery court district, and repealing all other laws or parts of laws in conflict therewith. Chap. 138 (S. B. 405). Page 229 AN ACT to amend chapter 133, laws of 1920, relating to circuit court terms in the first judicial district, so as to change the circuit terms in Pontotoc and Lee counties. Chap. 139 (S. B. 265). Page 230 AN ACT to amend chapter 150 of the laws of 1922 fixing the time of holding circuit court in the eighth judicial district. Chap. 140 (H. B. 800). Page 231 AN ACT to amend chapter 105 of the laws of 1910, as amended by chapter 138 of the laws of 1920, as amended by chapter 142 of the laws of 1922, so as to change the time for holding circuit court in Lauderdale county, Mississippi. Chap. 141 (S. B. 144).. Page 232 AN ACT to re-enact and amend chapter 152 of the laws of 1922 as amended by chapter 149 of the laws of 1924, so as to fix the time for holding courts in the fifteenth circuit court district. Chap. 142 (H. B. 760). Page 233 AN ACT providing that the chancery court, or the chancellor in vacation, shall have the power to authorize the executor or administrator of a decedent to continue the business of the decedent for a limited time as a going concern, and in mercantile, or other like concerns to permit the sale of the stock of goods at retail in the regular course of business. Chap. 143 (S. B. 298). Page 233 AN ACT to amend section 2820 of Hemingway's code changing the office hours of circuit and chancery clerks and sheriffs. Chap. 144 (H. B. 211). Page 234 AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 164, laws of 1916, to provide compensation for chaucery court stenographers. Chap. 145 (H. B. 1349). Page 235 AN ACT authorizing and empowering chancery courts to issue letters of guardianship of the estate of any person in any case where it is necessary that a guardian be appointed to receive funds or money due by the federal government. Chap. 146 (S. B. 356). Page 236 AN ACT providing for the allowance to executors and administrators of proper credit for payment of claims paid prior to adjudication of insolvency of estate of decedents. Chap. 147 (S. B. 203)... Page 237 AN ACT to provide for enforcement of violated conditional pardons, suspended sentences and prison paroles. Chap. 148 (H. B. 219). Page 237 AN ACT to amend section 708 of the code of 1906 (section 487 of the Hemingway code) so as to provide for bringing of suits against power companies and super-power companies in counties in which any part of such power lines may be. Chap. 149 (H. B. 626)... Page 238 AN ACT to amend section 1298, code 1906, section 1031 Hemingway's code, of Mississippi, so as to include prosecuting and defense attorneys from being intimidated, same as other officers of the court. Chap. 150 (S. B. 455). Page 238 AN ACT to amend sections 2418 and 2419 of Hemingway's code, (sec tions 3058 and 3059 of the Mississippi code of 1906) so as to extend the lien of mechanics and materialmen to architects. Chap. 151 (S. B. 205)... Page 239 AN ACT to amend section 4224 of the code of 1906 (section 3053 of Hemingway's code), so as to render the bond of the plaintiff in replevin liable for any damage to, or depreciation in the value of the property covered thereby from the time of the surrender of such property to the plaintiff and the execution of his replevin bond, . in the event such property is delivered up by the plaintiff in response to the judgment of the court. Chap. 152 (H. B. 17). Page 240 AN ACT to amend 4775 Mississippi code 1906, (section 3119 Hemingway's code) so as to require the authority of an agent to be in writing upon any agreement not to be performed within fifteen months. Chap. 153 (H. B. 184). Page 241 AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 222, laws of 1916, section 2476, Hemingway's annotated Mississippi code 1917 so as to change the time within which appeals may be taken to the supreme court from one year to six months. Chap. 154 (H. B. 133). Page 242 AN ACT to amend section 9 of chapter 238 of the laws of 1916, as amended by chapter 126 of the laws of 1920, as amended by chapter 211 of the laws of 1924 prescribing the compensation of county prosecuting attorneys. Chap. 155 (S. B. 195)... Page 242 AN ACT to amend chapter 149, laws of 1918, amending chapter 166, laws of 1908 (section 486, Hemingway's code) amending section 707 of the Mississippi code of 1906, so as to provide for change of venue of an action against a public officer brought out of the county of his household and residence. although the surety or sureties, or some of the sureties, on his official bond, or other joint dependent, sued with him, be found or be subject to action therein. Chap. 156 (S. B. 271)... Page 243 AN ACT to amend section 797 (a), chapter 145, laws of 1920, providing transcript fee in criminal cases. Chap. 157 (H. B. 797).. Page 245 AN ACT to amend chapter 303 of the acts of the Mississippi legislature of 1920 so as to allow amendments to affidavits for probate of claims against the estates of deceased persons. Chap. 158 (H. B. 67). Page 246 AN ACT to amend section 7 of chapter 134 of the laws of 1924 to provide for an exemption in computing net estates. Chap. 159 (S. B. 66). Page 247 AN ACT to amend section 1822 of Hemingway's code laws of 1914 chapter 226; and laws of 1924, chapter 168, so as to limit and define the character of personal property that may be claimed or selected as exempt from legal process by householders, who are citizens of this state, whether residing in or outside the corporate limits of cities, towns or villages. Chap. 160 (H. B. 619). Page 247 AN ACT to fix the salaries of the judges of the supreme court; to provide for the determination of what decisions of the supreme court should be reported and for the preparation of the syllabi and digest thereof. Chap. 161 (H. B. 332). Page 248 AN ACT to provide for reforestation in Mississippi, creating a state forestry commission and defining its powers and duties. Chap. 162 (H. B. 85). Page 253 AN ACT to exempt from county taxes permanent improvements hereafter made, built or constructed on farm lands for a period of five years and authorizing the board of supervisors to fix a fair and reasonable assessment upon lands upon which said improvements are made, built or constructed. Chap. 163 (H. B. 651). Page 254 AN ACT to aid and encourage factories for making paper bags, paper boxes and paper dishes, located in the state of Mississippi, by exempting the same from taxation for a period of five years. Chap. 164 (S. B. 80)..... Page 255 AN ACT to provide for the registration of all marriages and divorces occurring within the state of Mississippi with the state registrar of vital statistics as a part of the vital statistics of the state, and conferring power upon the state board of health to prescribe forms, rules and regulations therefor, prescribing duties and remuneration of circuit and chancery clerks in connection with the same; and providing penalties for a violation thereof. Chap. 165 (S. B. 448). Page 259 AN ACT authorizing photographs to be made of persons and their finger prints and like evidences of crime where they are in the custody charged with felony: authorizing photographs to be made of any finger prints or like evidences of crime: and providing how same may be paid. Chap. 166 (S. B. 269).. Page 259 AN ACT making it a misdemeanor to remove, deface, alter or destroy the word "rental" or any letter, word, mark or character placed upon a storage battery to identify same as a rental battery; or to retain such battery for a period of more than fourteen days without the permission of the owner; or to sell, transfer or otherwise encumber or hypothecate such battery, recharge or otherwise tamper with same; and providing penalties. Chap. 167 (H. B. 202). Page 260 AN ACT to further commemorate the devotion to duty, fortitude, patriotism and heroic service of Mississippi's soldiers in the 1863 Vicksburg operations and to create and appoint a state commission for the purpose of erecting a statue of Jefferson Davis on the national military park of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and providing said commissioners to carry out the provisions of this act. Chap. 168 (H. B. 1370). Page 262 AN ACT to amend house bill No. 202, acts of 1926, section 2, so as to increase the commissioners provided in said section 2 of said act from three to five members. Chap. 169 (H. B. 1318). Page 263 AN ACT to provide a better system of withdrawing from the state treasury funds for all state institutions, boards, and departments supported wholly or in part by the state; to provide a uniform system of reporting to the accounting department of the state auditor's office; and to repeal chapter 133, laws of 1912, and chapter 326, laws of 1924. Chap. 170 (S. B. 145). Page 265 AN ACT making the practice of nepotism in state, county, district or municipal appointive or elective offices or selection of employees, unlawful. |