CHAPTER 77.

AN ACT for the relief of Oliver C. Brooks.

Whereas, it appears to the satisfaction of the legislature, that Oliver C. Brooks, of the county of Warren, did, on the 19th day of November, 1833, purchase, at public sale, the north-west quarter of section eighteen, of township number six, of range number four, west, of the thirty-six sections of land granted by the United States to the state of Mississippi, for a seminary of learning, at the rate of five dollars and twenty-five cents per acre, and executed his three several promissory notes for the purchase money, according to law, for the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars each, making the sum of eight hundred and forty dollars, the price of a full quarter section of land, at the rate bid for the same: And whereas, it appears that said quarter section of land contains only one hundred and thirty-six and 75-100 acres, and that said Brooks has paid the sum of seven hundred and eighteen dollars-Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the said Oliver C. Brooks be, and he is hereby released from the payment of the balance due from him according to the face of his notes; and the Cashier of the Planters' Bank at Natchez is hereby authorized and required to deliver to the said Brooks his three notes for the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars each, payable on the nine

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teenth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, five, and six, to Charles Lynch, acting governor of the state of Mississippi.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its

AN ACT to change the name of Mary Woodard to Mary Frazier.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the name of Mary Woodard, of Wilkinson county, shall be changed to that of Mary Frazier.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That she may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in the name of Mary Frazier, and do all acts which she would be allowed to do, had her name not been thus changed.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 20th, 1841.

CHAPTER 79.

AN ACT releasing the claim of the state by escheat to a certain tract of land in Warren county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That all right, title, and interest now vested in the said state, in and to a certain tract or parcel of land lying in the county of Warren, state aforesaid, and known on the map of public surveys as the east half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two, township sixteen, range three, east, in the district of land west of the Pearl river, or so much thereof as is conveyed by Stephen Howard to Morris and Samuel Emanuel, by deed, dated the sixteenth December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, be, and the same is hereby released quit claimed unto such person or persons as would be entitled to the same, if the state had no claim to the same by escheat or otherwise, and as if John Dubois, the original purchaser of said land, had been a citizen of this state.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, January 20th, 1841.

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in July.

CHAPTER 80.

AN ACT further to regulate the elections for trustees of school lands, in the county of Franklin.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That it shall be the duty of the board of county police of trustees to the county of Franklin to order elections to take place be held in the several townships in the said county, where there has not already been trustees elected, on the first Saturday in July, one thousand eight hundred and fortyone, for the election of five trustees of school lands in each township.

Jure to elect,

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That if there should fail to be trustees elected in

any or all of said townships, on the day Upon fai. before specified, it shall be the duty of the board of po- board of county police, at their next meetpoint aping thereafter, or so soon as they are ap

prized of the fact, to appoint five trustees in each township, where there has not been trustees elected; and in case any trustee or trustees so appointed shall fail or refuse to serve, the board shall appoint others in their place, whose duty it shall be to do and perform the duties of trustees, as if they had been elected by the qualified electors of their several townships, according to the provisions of an act approved February twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of school lands in each township in this state, to lease the sixteenth sections within the

same for the term of ninety-nine years, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts that conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, so far as relates to the county of Franklin.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 20th, 1841.

CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT for the extension of the time now proscribed by law, for returning executions in the county of Wilkinson, and for other purposes.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That hereafter the sheriff of Wilkinson county shall have turning ex until the second Monday of each and every Wilkinson circuit court of said county, to make his returns county tended. on all executions that may come to his hands, returnable to such court, and that he be allowed the first six days of said court as sale days; he shall also be, and he is hereby authorized to continue his sale on the present days appointed by law, and the day succeeding each of said sale days.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act entitled, "an act to provide