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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapter.
PUBLIC ACTS.
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
1. AN ACT to provide for the Revenue of the State,
2.
to provide for funding the Treasury Warrants
of the State of Mississippi, issued prior to the
first day of January, one thousand eight hun-
dred and forty-one,
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Page.
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51
3.
4.
to amend the revenue laws of this state.
5.
6.
7.
to facilitate the collection of the public revenue
of this state,
74
81
82
83
prescribing the mode of authenticating lists of
insolvencies returned by tax collectors,
to regulate the fees of certain officers therein
named, and for other purposes,
for the appointment of state printer; to regu-
late the fees of the Reporter of the High
Court of Errors and Appeals, and for other
purposes,
8. AN ACT to amend the penitentiary code of this state,
and for other purposes,
89
9.
10.
11.
12.
to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees, 93
prohibiting the use of cotton hooks,
making certain appropriations therein named, 96
to fix the apportionment of representatives and
95
senators in this state,
105
13.
concerning attornies at law, and their paying
over money.
109
14.
to abolish the office of commissioner of public buildings,
15.
to exempt from sale, under execution, certain
property therein mentioned,
to prevent unnecessary charges against debtors, 116
to tax brokers, and for other purposes,
to secure the right of appellants and plaintiffs
in error, and for other purposes,
117
120
19.
to quiet land titles to the rightful owners of land
in the state of Mississippi,
121
20.
21.
22.
to authorize the county police of the several
counties in the state, to expose to public sale,
all the depreciated bank paper in their re-
spective county treasuries, and for other
to amend the laws relating to injunctions and
supercedeas bonds and sales in chancery,
to repeal an act, entitled "an act granting pre-
miums to persons killing wolves in 'Tippah,
Marshall, Chickasaw, Neshoba, Newton, La-
fayette, and Ponola counties, approved May
13th, 1837;" and so much of " an act grant-
ing premiums to persons killing wolves in
the counties of Tishemingo, Itawamba, At-
tala, and Yallobusha," approved February
8th, 1838,
122
123
125 Chapter.
23. AN ACT to protect public bridges from injury, -
24.
to repeal an act, entitled "an act to guard
against the insolvency of the banks and mo-
neyed corporations in this state, and to se-
cure the rights of creditors," approved 12th
May, 1837,
to amend the law as to leases of the 16th sec-
tions,
concerning sherift's commissions,
to define when Indian reservations shall be
125
126
127
25.
26.
27.
28.
deemed and held liable to taxation,
supplemental to "an act entitled an ac to pro-
vide a remedy against steamboats, and other
water crafts," approved 20th February,
1840,
128
129
29.
30.
31.
32.
to amend an act to divide this state into three
districts for the election of the judges of the
High Court of Errors and Appeals, and for
the Superior Court of Chancery, approved Feb-
ruary 15, 1839,
to amend the thirteenth and fifteenth sec-
tions of an act entitled " an act concerning
conveyances, passed June 13th, 1822,
authorizing the chancellor to exercise certain
necessary powers in vacation, and for other
to revive the Jackson and Brandon Rail Road
and Bridge Company, and to secure to the
state of Mississippi, the debt due from the
Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Com-
pany,
130
132
134
138
33.
to divide the militia of Itawamba, Ponola, and
Yallobusha counties into two regiments,
each,
142 Chapter.
34. AN ACT in relation to the University of the state of
Mississippi,
35.
to establish a new county in this state, to be
called the county of Harrison,
145
36.
to promote industry, and for the encourage-
ment of agriculture in the state of Missis-
sippi,
147
RESOLUTIONS.
37. RESOLUTIONs in relation to a tariff,
38.
in relation to fugitives from justice,
153
155
39.
40.
in relation to the establishment of a river land
district on the Mississippi,
relative to the establishment of a new land mail
route from Memphis to Vicksburg,
41.
in relation to Jefferson College,
159
42.
43.
in relation to the two per cent. fund,
granting leave of absence to Robert H. Buck-
ner, chancellor of this state,
160
44.
in relation to the Hon. Edward Turner, one of
the Judges of the High Court of Errors and
Appeals,
45.
granting leave of absence from this state to the
Hon. Morgan L. Fitch,