AN ACT, to extend the laws of the state of Mississippi over the persons and property of the Indians, resident within its limits.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That from and after the passage of this act, all government the rights, privileges, immunities and franchises, held, of the Inclaimed or enjoyed, by those persons called Indians, and lished. their descendants, and which are held by virtue of any form of policy, usage or custom, existing among said persons, not particularly recognized and established by the common law or statutes of the state of Mississippi, be and the same are hereby wholly abolished, and taken away.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the rights, privileges, immunities and franchises, held, and enjoyed by extended to Privileges free white persons inhabitants of the said state, be, and the them. same are hereby given, granted, and extended to the said persons called Indians, and their descendants, in as full and ample a manner, as the same can be done by act of the general assembly.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the laws, statutes and ordinances, now in force in the said state of Laws of Mississippi, be and the same are hereby declared to have operate on full force, power and operation, over the persons and them. property of and within the territory now occupied by the said Indians.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all marriages, matrimonial connections, or associations entered into by Certain virtue of any usage or custom of the said Indians, and by clared them deemed valid, be, and the same are hereby declared valid. to be as binding and obligatory, as if the same had been solemnized according to the laws of this state.

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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall assume on him or themselves, and exercise in any manner whatever the office of chief, mingo, the office of head-man, or other post of power, established by the tribal statutes, ordinances or customs, of the said Indians, and not

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particularly recognized by the laws of this state, shall on conviction upon indictment, or presentment, before a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned any time not exceeding twelve months, at the discretion of the court before whom conviction may be had.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the boundaries Construc- specified in an act, entitled 'an act, to extend legal process of 1829. into that part of the state now occupied by the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes of Indians,' passed February 4, 1829, shall be so construed as to make all legal process returnable, as by that act required.

Approved, January 19, 1830.

AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled 'an act to provide for the election of a Public Printer; prescribing his duties, and fixing the prices for the Public Printing; approved February 5, 1829.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Further convened, That so much of the second section of the twened printer. ty-fourth chapter of the laws of the general assembly of one

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thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, as requires the public printer to print the laws and journals within fifteen days after the rise of the general assembly, be so amended as to require him to print them in the same manner as he is required to do by the act to which this is an amendment, within thirty days after the rise of the general assembly.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Secretary duty of the secretary of state, and he is hereby required to of state to furnish the public printer with copies of the acts of the copies to general assembly immediately on their receiving the signa

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Approved, January 28, 1830.

AN ACT, to divide the county of Monroe and form a new county out of the same, and for other purposes.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That all that portion of Monroe county, lying Lowndes south of a line commencing at a point on the state of tablished. Alabama, where a line running due east from Robinson's bluff, on the Buttahatcha river, would strike the state line of Alabama; thence from said point, due west to said Robinson's bluff; thence down the said river to its mouth; thence west to the western boundary line of the county of Monroe, as designated by the act of 1829, extending process into the territory occupied by the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes of Indians, shall form a new county, to be called the county of Lowndes, in memory of the late William Lowndes.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the May term of the circuit court of the county of Monroe, for the year Place of 1830, shall be held at the court-house in the town of Ham- holding ilton, and until a site shall be selected for a permanent seat Monroe of justice for said county, and suitable buildings erected county. thereon for a court-house and jail.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the county, probate, and circuit courts of the county of Lowndes, shall be Place and held at the town of Columbus in said county, and at such holding room as may be designated and selected by the county court courts of said county, and shall continue to be held at such room county. until a court-house shall be erected; and the circuit court of said county, shall be held on the second Mondays of May and November in each and every year, and may continue six judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer; and the county court of said county shall be held on the second Mondays of April, July, October and January, in each and every year, and may continue four judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer; and the orphans' court of said county shall be held on the first Mondays of June, September, December and March, in each and every year, and may continue four judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the circuit court of the county of Monroe, shall be held on the first Moncourt of days of May and November, in each and every year, and shall continue six judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer.

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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all suits which shall Suits to be have been already commenced in the circuit court of Monto county of roe county, where the defendant or defendants, shall reside Lowndes. in the county of Lowndes, shall, immediately after the pas

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sage of this act, or as soon thereafter as a clerk of said court shall have been appointed, be transferred to the circuit court of the county of Lowndes; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court of Monroe county, so soon as a clerk may be appointed for the county of Lowndes, to hand over to the said clerk all papers, minutes and records of any such suit as is directed by this act to be transferred to the circuit court of the county of Lowndes.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That an election shall Commis- be held in each captain's district in the county of Monroe, be elected by the qualified electors of said county, for the election of to select five persons, as commissioners to select a suitable site for a court-house permanent seat of justice, for the county of Monroe; and county, to they, the said commissioners, are hereby authorized to purchase from individuals, or from the United States, or receive by donation, not less than twenty acres, or more than eighty acres, for the use of said county; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized and required to lay off a town on the land so purchased, or received by donation, with streets at least sixty feet wide, and to form and lay off the lots of such size as they may think expedient, not more than one acre ; and the said commissioners shall, as soon as said town shall be laid out, offer the lots for sale on a credit of one and two years, equal instalments-the purchaser giving bond with approved security; and the said commissioners giving thirty days notice of the time of said sale in four public places in said county.

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SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the moneys be applied arising from the sale of said lots, shall be applied to the tion of pub- building of a jail and court-house in said county, under ings. the direction of the county court of said county.

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SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall reserve two acres of land near the centre of Two acres said town, whereupon to erect the public buildings of said to be recounty; and so soon as the said buildings shall be completed, the courts of said county shall be holden at the court-house of said county.

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SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the town here- Name of by authorized to be established for the county of Monroe, shall be known and called by the name of 'Athens.'

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SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the county of Yazoo shall be attached to the first judicial district; and County of there shall be held a circuit court in the county of Yazoo, tached on the fourth Mondays of April and October, in each and first judicial every year and may continue six judicial days, if business times so long require, and no longer; and the circuit courts of courts the county of Jefferson shall be held hereafter on the fourth certain Mondays of March and September in each and every year, and may continue six judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer; and the circuit courts of the county of Claiborne shall hereafter be holden on the first Mondays of April and October in each and every year, and may continue twelve judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer; and the circuit courts of the county of Washington shall hereafter be holden on the fourth Mondays of May and November, in each and every year, and may continue six judicial days, if business so long require, and no longer; and the circuit courts of the county of Warren shall be held on the days, and at the times heretofore prescribed by law.

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SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That Samuel Lauderdale, William H. Craven, Charles H. Abert, George CommisGood, Titus Howard, Edward B. Randolph, and Henry Greer, Sr., be, and they are hereby appointed commission- locate seat of justice in ers, for the location of a permanent site for the seat of jus- Lowndes tice for the county of Lowndes; which commissioners or a majority of them, shall proceed on or before the first day of March, to make said selection, and so soon thereafter as they may have made the said selection, shall report the same to the next succeeding county court, whereupon said court shall proceed to appoint three or more persons to be com missioners of public buildings in said county.