of medical censors shall be held at the times and places hereinafter mentioned, viz: one session shall be held at the town of Jackson, in Hinds county, on the first Mondays in May, in each and every year; and one session at Westville, in the county of Simpson, on the first Mondays in November, in each and every year, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 5, 1829.

AN ACT, requiring the Sheriffs of the several counties in which the Supreme Court do, or may sit, to attend the same, and for other purposes.

sheriff.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That from after the passage of this act, it shall be Duties of the duty of the sheriffs of the several counties within this state, wherein the superior court of chancery or the supreme court does, or may hereafter be required to hold their sessions, to attend them, and obey the orders thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for such attendance and services, the sheriff shall be entitled to, and re- Their com ceive the sum of two dollars per day, for as many days as pensation. he may attend on said court, for which amount the auditor of public accounts is hereby required, upon the allowance of said courts, to issue his warrant upon the treasury of this state, payable out of any moneys, not otherwise appropriated.

No rule

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no rule docket shall hereafter be kept in the circuit court for the county docket of Adams, and that any law requiring the clerk to keep the Adams same, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 5, 1829.

to

be kept in

county.

of school

AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled, 'an act, to appropriate the moneys arising from the rents of School Lands, and for other purposes, passed January the ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Trustees convened, That from and after the passage of this act, the lands in trustees for schools, and school lands for section sixteen, in elected for township seventeen, of range four east, in the county of five years. Warren, shall be elected for the term of five years, instead

Warren co.

trustees.

of one year, as heretofore provided by law, and in cases of vacancy in said board by death, resignation, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the remaining trustees to call a meeting of the citizens in said township, entitled to vote for trustees, and fill such vacancy by election, which election shall be conducted by said trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in addition to Powers of the powers already vested in trustees of schools, and school lands, by the act to which this is an amendment, the trustees of said section shall have power to clear or improve the same, in such manner as they may deem most expedient: Provided, that said trustees shall not have power to build more than one school-house thereon, with the necessary buildings thereto attached, and the whole of the fund arising from said sixteenth section, shall be appropriated to said school.

Approved, January 29, 1829.

AN ACT, declaring the Homochitto and Buffalo navigable rivers, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Homochit- convened, That from and after the passage of this act, the falo rivers Homochitto river shall be deemed a navigable river and navigable. public highway, from the mouth of the middle fork of said

to and Buf

declared

river down the same to its entrance into Ellis lake, thence through said lake into the Alligator bayou, and thence

through the said bayou into the Buffalo river; and that the said Buffalo river shall be deemed a navigable river and public highway, from the mouth of the said Alligator bayou down the said Buffalo river to its junction with the Mississippi river.

visions of

vised code

said rivers.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions The proof the forty-fifth section of the seventieth chapter of the the 70th ch. revised code is hereby extended to the said rivers declared of the re navigable in the first section of this act, and that all per- to extend to sons obstructing, or causing the same, or either or any part of the said streams to be obstructed shall, on conviction Penalty for thereof, be punished by fine, as therein provided, and also obstructing by imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, for any term not exceeding three months.

said rivers.

missioners

tend the

rivers.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That John Philbrick, of Adams, Robert Anderson, of Franklin, and C. Evans Who comHall, and Thomas G. Ellis, of Wilkinson county, be, and to superinthey are hereby appointed a board of commissioners, with improvefull power and authority to receive and expend all such ment of said sums of money as may be granted for such purpose, either by individuals or by the congress of the United States, in opening and improving the navigation of the said Homoehitto and Buffalo rivers, and for no other purpose whatever. Approved, January 29, 1829.

AN ACT, to amend an act for the settlement and relief of the poor. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Overseers convened, That from and after the passage of this act, it the several of poor in shall be the duty of the overseers and trustees of the counties to poor, make rein each county in this state, to make returns to the county turn to the and probate courts, twice a year, of all the poor free negro free negro or mulatto children within the same, whose parents, if they have any, they shall judge incapable of supporting and bringing them up in honest ways.

co. court of

and mulatto children.

Courts authorized to

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said courts shall have power to order the said overseers or trustees to bind out all such free negro or mulatto children, apprenti- order overces to such person or persons whom the court shall approve, trustees to

seers

or

bind said

chil

out until the age of twenty-one years, if a male, or eighteen dren. years if a female: the person to whom such apprentice

shall be bound, shall engage, by covenant, to be entered into, and to be recorded in said court by the clerk or register thereof, to provide the apprentice with a sufficiency of good and wholesome provisions and necessary clothing, and whom ap- to teach said apprentice the business or occupation which he or she pursues for a livelihood; and at the end of said provide apprenticeship, to furnish said apprentice with two comclothes, &c. plete new suits of clothing.

Persons to

prentice bound,

to

court on

of overseer

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful Duty of for said court, upon the complaint of the overseer or trustee complaint of the poor, or of any apprentice, by themselves or friends, or trustee. against their masters or mistresses, to hear and determine, and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court, that such complaint be well founded, and of sufficient magnitude to make a removal necessary, the court shall have power to remove such apprentice, and bind him or her to such other person as they may think proper. Approved, January 29, 1829.

AN ACT, organizing a Board Internal Improvement.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Board of convened, That from and after the passage of this act, the internal governor of the state for the time being, and three commisimprovement orga- sioners, to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned be, and

nized.

Governor

authorized

they are hereby constituted and appointed a board of internal improvement for the state of Mississippi, to superintend and direct the improvement of the navigable streams and public highways in this state; the governor of the state to be president of said board, and in the absence of said president the board may appoint a president protempore, a majority of the members to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the governor of to negotiate the state for the time being, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to negotiate a loan, if practicable, of a

a loan of

money.

á sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six and one quarter per cent. per annum, payable annually at the bank of the state of Mississippi; which said loan shall be redeemable at said bank, on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and as evidence of said debt, it shall be the duty of said governor to give one or more bonds, as may be expedient, bearing interest as aforesaid, Further under the seal of the state, and his signature as governor, and payable to bearer or order, as may be required, or as he may deem advisable, which loan when obtained, shall be vested in stock of the bank of the state of Mississippi, as a permanent fund for internal improvement; which sum so vested, the governor for the time being, is hereby authorized and required to subscribe for and in behalf of this

state.

duty

of

governor.

Board to engage civil

it

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said board shall have power and authority to engage a civil engineer, whenever they may deem it expedient so to do, who shall engineer when they survey and examine such rivers, and such route for roads deem and canals, as the said board shall direct, and report to the necessary. board the result of such examinations and surveys of the routes so examined, and who shall receive for his services as a compensation, at the rate of five dollars per diem for the time he shall be engaged, to be paid out of the fund hereby created, and the said board shall have authority to dismiss the engineer so employed, and employ another when they shall deem it expedient: Provided, no civil engineer shall be so employed, if one should be furnished by the government of the United States for the service of

this state.

to

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall be annually appointed by the general Commisassembly in joint meeting, one to be selected from the sioners be annually northern, one from the eastern, and one from the western appointed. sections of the state; the northern section shall be composed of the counties of Monroe, Washington, Warren, Yazoo, Madison, Hinds and Rankin; the eastern of Wayne, Jones, Covington, Simpson, Lawrence, Marion, Hancock, Green, Perry and Jackson; and the western of Claiborne,