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the year 1914, and to prohibit the expenditure of any of said money for any other purpose, and forbidding said board of supervisors from expending any money to meet the current expenses of said county for the year 1914 in excess of the loan authorized in this act, and making the violation of the provisions of this act a misdemeanor, and providing punishment therefor-

432 (S. B. 92) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tallahatchie county to pay G. H. Payne a sum not to exceed six hundred dollars for emergency work done on bridge across Ascalmore creek...

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433 (H. B. 220) AN ACT for the relief of T. J. Foote, sheriff of Tishomingo county..

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434 (H. B. 494) AN ACT for the relief of J. M. McDougal, treasurer of Tishomingo county.

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435 (H. B. 491) AN ACT to empower the school board of Tishomingo county to establish additional public schools in said county... 436 (S. B. 74) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Tunica county to pay to Henry Gatewood, of Holly Springs, Mississippi, two hundred and fifty ($250.00) dollars or so much thereof as they may see proper, for the burning of a house belonging to and on the premises of said Henry Gatewood in Tunica county, which was burned by the sheriff of said county and a posse in attempting to capture a negro who had committed a homicide in said county and had gone into said house and was in there defying the officers of the law..

437 (S. B. 474) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tunica county, Mississippi, to donate to E. G. Woolfork an amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) to reimburse him for money paid out in getting special train to convey men and dogs from Parchman, Mississippi, to Robinsonville, Mississippi, to chase the negroes who murdered Morris Love while he was raiding a "blind tiger".

438 (H. B. 132) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Union county, in their discretion, to pay to W. W. Garrison, for road construction, eighty-one and eighty one-hundredths dollars ($81.80) due him on contract..........

439 (S. B. 418) AN ACT to amend section 6, chapter 360 of the laws of 1912, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a new county to be called Walthall, and providing for the organization of same," so as to change the time of holding terms of circuit and chancery courts in Walthall county

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440 (S. B. 493) AN ACT to authorize Warren county to accept a parcel of land from Charles H. Noble...

441 (S. B. 100) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Warren county, in its discretion, to erect, build and maintain a telephone line from the city of Vicksburg, or such part of the distance as is necessary, to the county home, and to install and maintain a telephone therein at the expense of the county..

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Page 442 (H. B. 394) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Warren county, in their discretion, to pay A. S. Griffin not more than $25.00 for a steer that was allowed to drink a poisonous solution from a dipping vat.___

443 (H. B. 867) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county, Mississippi, to appropriate the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for the peace jubilee to be held in Vicksburg, Warren county, Mississippi, in October, 1915.

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444 (H. B. 693) AN ACT to allow the board of supervisors of Wayne county, in their discretion, to donate to Bill Graham, Loyd Mercer and John I. West and attorney Montgomery the sum of two hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary to reimburse them for a forfeited bond 486 445 (H. B. 125) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Webster county, Mississippi, to pay Dr. V. I. Pittman ten dollars ($10.00) for medical serattention to Bill Liles, a poor person, and W. L. Marter, eight dollars, for services in nursing said Bill Liles when sick.

446 (H. B. 733) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Winston county to levy at the April, 1914, meeting, the annual tax for the support of the Winston county agricultural high school...

447 (S. B. 93) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Yalobusha county to levy a one-mill extra tax for road purposes during the years 1914 and 1915, in supervisors district number five of said county, on all taxable property, both real and personal...

448 (H. B. 608) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Yalobusha county to make settlement for property destroyed by county convicts while working for the county in 1912.

449 (H. B. 503) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Yazoo county to pay to the heirs of L. Harrell a sum not exceeding $450.00 on account of two horses killed by order of the quarantine authorities... 450 (H. B. 344) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Yazoo county to pay T. J. Brown the sum of sixty dollars ($60.00) or so much thereof as they deem proper for clearing fallen timber from public road atfer storm, of 1913..

451 (S. B. 535) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Yazoo county to pay to the heirs of J. P. Broocks a sum not exceeding $1,260.00 on account of four horses and two mules killed by order of the quarantine authorities..

452 (S. B. 524) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Yazoo county to pay, in their discretion, to D. L. Roberts of said county, the sum of $2,105.00 for the loss of horses and mules killed by the county authorities on account of their having charbon...

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453 (H. B. 365) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Ackerman, Mississippi, to appropriate money out of the general fund for the purchase and equipment of a town park.......

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454 (S. B. 513) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Baldwyn, Mississippi, to transfer from the general fund the sum of three hundred dollars..

455 (470) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the mayor and board of aldermen of the municipality of Bassfield, Jefferson Davis county, Mississippi, in their discretion, to transfer the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the street fund to the general fund of said municipality---

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456 (H. B. 803) AN ACT to cure the defects in the authorization, form, issuance and sale of certain bonds of the village of Bassfield, Jefferson Davis county, Mississippi, and to legalize and validate the same... 457 (H. B. 70) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of Bellefontaine, of Webster county, to transfer any accumulated road or street fund from the general fund to the school fund of said incorporation... 493 458 (H. B. 230) AN ACT to amend section 8, chapter 352, of the laws of Mississippi of 1888, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Blue Springs in the county of Union".

459 (H. B. 41) AN ACT authorizing the city of Brookhaven to donate to the King's Daughters' hospital at Brookhaven the sum of $50.00 per month, or less, to be used for the relief of the indigent, sick and needy of said city of Brookhaven in Lincoln county..

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494 460 (H. B. 782) AN ACT to validate the municipal bonds issued by the town of Brooksville, Mississippi, on the 2d day of December, 1907, under a resolution or ordinance of the board of mayor and aldermen of said town, passed by said board in regular session on Tuesday, 5th day of November, 1907, said bonds being for seven thousand ($7,000.00) dollars, issued in the series numbered from 1 to 70 inclusive, of the denomination of $100.00 each, objections being raised to the validity of said bonds because of an alleged irregularity as appeared on the minutes of said board of mayor and aldermen and because of the failure of said bonds to show on their face the date, time and the page and book of the minutes of said board of mayor and aldermen when said resolution authorizing the issuance of said bonds by said board of mayor and aldermen was passed and adopted 494 461 (H. B. 541) AN ACT for the relief of J. T. Brown, ex-treasurer of the city of Columbia, Mississippi, authorizing the mayor and board of aldermen of said city to recognize the validity and allow him credit for certain warrants irregularly issued.

462 (H. B. 482) AN ACT to authorize the successors in office of the trustees of the Franklin academy in the city of Columbus, State of Mississippi, to execute renewal leases on the expiration, to-wit: August 1st, 1910, of the then existing leases of the respective lots situated on section 16, fractional township 18, south of range 18 west of the basis meridian of Madison county, Alabama, and lying in the city of Columbus, county of Lowndes, State of Mississippi, the terms of which leases are for 99 years from the 1st day of August, 1821, renewable forever; and to regulate the time for redeeming lots sold for non-payment of the leases.

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463 (H. B. 620) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of mayor and aldermen of the town of Crenshaw, Panola county, to sell a strip of land being the terminus of Front street, lying south of South Water street, and to convey the title thereto to the Planters' Gin owners..

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464 (S. B. 317) AN ACT to amend section 2, chapter 457, laws 1884, incorporating the town of Elliott, in Grenada county, Mississippi, so as to read as follows: Be it further enacted that the corporate limits of said town shall include west half of section fourteen (14) and all that part of east half section fifteen (15) lying east of the Grenada and Duck Hill public road, all being in township twenty-one (21), range five (5) east, in Grenada county, Mississippi...

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465 (H. B. 154) AN ACT to cure any defects or irregularities in the nomination
and election of the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Hickory,
Mississippi, and to provide that qualified voters of said town may vote
in any special election after having been registered thirty days..
466 (H. B. 779) AN ACT authorizing the city of Jackson to issue bonds in the
sum of $50,000.00 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a state
fair and authorizing them to maintain and support the same.
467 (H. B. 57) AN ACT to authorize the council of the city of Jackson to issue
bonds to the amount of $40,000.00 for purchasing land for a park and to
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501 468 (H. B. 348) AN ACT to authorize the city of Jackson to borrow money, or to give notes, or to issue certificates of indebtedness to raise money for the purpose of paying outstanding notes and certificates of indebtedness given contractors to pay for constructing street paving, if the city of Jackson has not sufficient funds to take up said notes and certificates when they mature_.

469 (H. B. 776) AN ACT to authorize the treasurer of the town of Leland, Mississippi, to transfer the sum of five thousand six hundred and seventyfour dollars and fifteen cents belonging to the bridge fund of said town to the general fund for general expenses...

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470 (H. B. 548) AN ACT to authorize the treasurer of the town of Liberty, Amite county, Mississippi, to transfer the sum of three hundred dollars belonging to the general fund, and two hundred dollars belonging to street fund of said town, to the school fund of said town for school purposes......- 503 471 (S. B. 327) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Natchez.to extend the municipal waterworks beyond the city limits so as to supply the Mississippi Packing company, Inc., with sufficient water to operate its plant; to establish rates for said water supply and to discontinue said service at their discretion.....

472 (H. B. 472) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Norfield, Mississippi, to transfer the sum of five hundred and eighty dollars ($580.00) from the street fund to the school fund of said town....

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of said bank such sums of money that said bank prior to its failure paid for work and material on streets and other improvements, wages, and salaries for the benefit of said town for which no allowances were made by said board, whether said sums so paid are now barred by the statute of limitations or not, and that a special tax levy therefor be made, if necessary, said amount not to exceed $2,000.00...

474 (H. B. 783) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Oakville, Lawrence county, Mississippi, to transfer from the general fund to the school fund three hundred and twenty dollars. 475 (S. B. 561) AN ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Pass Christian to sell and convey, at their discretion, for cash and the best obtainable price, a certain parcel of land situated in said city, at the southeast corner of Second and Clark streets, and the buildings thereon, and to apply the proceeds of said sale to the credit of the school fund of said municipality

476 (H. B. 326) AN ACT for the relief of W. W. Lee, superintendent of public education of Jefferson Davis county, authorizing the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Prentiss, in their discretion, to pay to said superintendent a sum of money not exceeding ten dollars...

477 (S. B. 568) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of mayor and aldermen of the town of Quitman, Clark county, Mississippi, in their discretion, to transfer from the general fund of said town to the school fund of said town, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) or so much thereof as they may see fit, for the purpose of maintaining the schools of the Quitman separate school district for the terms 1913-1914 and 1914-1915...

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507 478 (S. B. 530) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Senatobia to donate annually not exceeding one hundred dollars for the support and maintenance of the Tate county fair near said town...

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479 (S. B. 531) AN ACT to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Senatobia to donate annually not exceeding one hundred dollars for the care and maintenance of a public cemetery near said town 508 480 (H. B. 777) AN ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and board of aldermen and councilmen of the town of Tchula, in Holmes county, Mississippi, to issue bonds in the sum of $10,000.00 for the purpose of constructing sewerage, electric light plant and water works for said town.. 508 481 (H. B. 675) AN ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and board of aldermen of the village of Tishomingo, Tishomingo county, to donate the school building in said village to the county agricultural high school on certain conditions..

482 (H. B. 306) AN ACT to authorize the city of Tupelo, Mississippi, to supply electricity and electric light to persons and corporations living or being outside the city limits; and to permit the city authorities to construct lines, conduits, etc., and to exercise the right of eminent domain for said purpose_

483 (H. B. 602) AN ACT to validate the four hundred thousand ($400,000.00) dollars of the bonds of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, known as

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