SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions Provisions contained in the twelfth section of the act, entitled 'an act of act of 1821, appli- to reduce into one the several acts concerning last wills and appeals un- testaments, the duties of executors, administrators and guarder this act. dians, and the rights of orphans and other representatives cable to of deceased persons,' passed November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, so far as they relate to appeals taken from the court established by that act be, and the same are hereby made applicable to appeals taken from the said probate court, to the chancery court and supreme court of this state. Approved, February 10, 1830. AN ACT, supplemental to an act, entitled 'an act, to establish a one million At what places and under superinten SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Subscripconvened, That on the first Monday of January next, further tions to be subscriptions for the residue of the one million of dollars opened for reserved to be subscribed for, on the part of individuals, dollars. firms, or bodies corporate, towards constituting the capital of the Planters' Bank, established by the act to which this is a supplement; be opened at the following places, to wit: At the city of Natchez, under the superintendence of Thomas Bernard, James Foster, John Baynton, Samuel Gustine, Sturges Sprague, Henry Millard, Angus McNeil, and Thomas G. Ellis, for the residium of the two thousand shares authorized to be subscribed for at said place, and remaining unsold; at the town of Vicksburg, under the whose superintendence of Thomas Warfield, William R. Camp- dence. bell, Edward Mitchell, Anthony Durden, Samuel D. McCray, Thomas Arnold, and D. Wilkins, for the amount of the residium of the two thousand shares authorized to be subscribed for at said place; at the town of Port Gibson, under the superintendence of Hardy W. Pope, William Neily, William R. McAlpin, Cornelius Haring, Mitchell, Joseph Nicholls, and Joseph Callender for the amount of fifteen hundred shares; at the town of Woodville, under the superintendence of John Stevens, Joseph A. Foster, William Newell, Joseph Johnson, Arthur Daniel, Jeremiah Noland, Chauncey S. Kellogg, and William Brandon, for the amount of twelve hundred and fifty shares; at the town of Monticello, under the superintendence of Joseph Cooper, Thomas Collins, jr., Thomas W. Burge, Z. E. Pendleton, Arthur Fox, Peter Quin, and Charles Lynch, for the remainder of the five hundred shares authorized to be subscribed for at said place; at the town of Rodney, under the superintendence of Christopher Dart, G. T. Tullis, David Hunt, Alexander Montgomery, superintendents. N. L. Boulden, John Snodgrass, and John Ducker, for the remainder of the said shares authorized to be subscribed for at said place; at the town of Columbus, in the county of Lowndes, under the superintendence of Samuel Ragsdale, Charles H. Abert, George Shaiffer, Daniel W. Wright, William Dowsing, and Edward Randolph, for the remainder of the five hundred shares, authorized to be subscribed for at said place; at the town of Liberty, in the county of Amite, under the superintendence of Francis Wren, Thomas Batchelor, Charles Davis, Edmund Smith, V. T. Crawford, S. Tillotson, Anthony M. Perryman, and Morgan Davis, for the amount of five hundred and fifty shares, heretofore authorized to be subscribed for at said place. And a majority of said superintendents at the aforesaid places, respectively, shall be authorized to perform the duties of their appointment, and are required to keep the subscriptions open for the term of fifty days, unless the aforesaid amounts be sooner subscribed for, when the same shall be closed, and the amounts so subscribed for shall be paid for by the several and respective subscribers in gold and silver coins, or the notes of the Bank of the State of Mississippi; or the Bank of the United States, or any of its branches, one fifth at the time of subscribing, one fifth ninety days thereafter, one fifth six months thereafter, one fifth nine months thereafter, and the remaining one fifth one year thereafter. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said seveDuty of ral superintendents, at the aforesaid places respectively, shall on the first Monday of March next, transmit to the superintendents at the city of Natchez, a list of the several subscriptions at the said places respectively, and the superintendents appointed at the city of Natchez shall proceed thereon in the manner pointed out by the act to which this is a supplement. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That immediately Governor after the passage of this act, the governor, on the part of the shall арpoint three state of Mississippi, shall appoint three commissioners, with commis- full power to negotiate a loan or loans, the aggregate amount negotiate a of which shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable half yearly, and a bond or bonds shall be executed by sioners to loan. the governor, in the name of the state of Mississippi, for the payment of the loan or loans, and the said bonds shall be at the terms prescribed by the seventh section of the act to which this is supplemental and the said bonds so executed by the governor shall be countersigned by the auditor of public accounts, and may be assigned by indorsement: and the said commissioners shall have further power to agree upon the amount and forms of the bonds respectively, so to be executed by the governor of the state as aforesaid, and shall appoint the place or places (not without the limits of the United States) at which the payments of the semi-annual interest, and the said bonds as they shall become due, shall be made. Governor SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That at the opening of the further subscription to the capital stock of said bank, " shall subthe governor of the state on the part thereof shall subscribe, scribe for or cause to be subscribed for, five thousand shares of the sand shares. stock of said bank, amounting to five hundred thousand dollars. five thou ment of SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the moneys arising from the loan herein before directed, shall be applied Faith of state pledgto the payment of the five thousand shares authorized by ed for paythis act to be subscribed for on the part of the state and bonds. the faith of the state is hereby pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, upon the falling due thereof; and that the stock of the state in the said bank, shall be, and is hereby declared to be pledged for the payment of the same. receive to SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That no individual, No stockfirm, or body corporate, who may be a stockholder in said holder bank, shall be entitled to receive a dividend or dividends, dividend on upon a greater amount than such stockholder shall have greater actually paid in; and that no stockholder who may be in than he arrear for stock, shall be entitled to receive any dividend until such arrearages shall be paid. amount paid in. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That on the third On third Monday in Monday of March next, the stockholders in said bank, shall March convene at the city of Natchez, and proceed to the election stockholof six directors, in the manner prescribed by the act to meet which this is supplemental; and the superintendents ap- tors. ders to and elect direc clause. pointed at the city of Natchez, are hereby required to give twenty days notice of said meeting by advertisement, in one or more of the gazettes of the city and the five directors, to be elected in conjunction with the directors appointed on the part of the state, as directed by the act incorporating said bank, shall proceed to organize said bank, and put it into operation as soon thereafter as possible. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of the Repealing seventh and thirteenth sections of the act to which this is supplemental, as authorizes and requires the governor to sell the stock of the state in the Bank of the state of Mississippi, and to execute bonds for one million of dollars, payable to the president, directors and company of the Planters' Bank in the state, be, and the same, are hereby repealed. branch to be Monticello. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That in addition to Additional the branches to be established at the town of Rodney, in estab the county of Jefferson, and at the town of Vicksburg, in lished at the county of Warren, which are provided for in the original bill, to which this is a supplement, it shall be the duty of said president and directors, to establish, in like manner, and under the same rules and regulations, one other branch at the town of Monticello, in the county of Lawrence, so soon as the said bank shall be organized, and shall allot to said branch a portion of their capital, not less than seventy thousand dollars, which may, at any time, be increased at the discretion of the said president and directors, or by a resolution of the general assembly of this state. Approved, December 16, 1830. AN ACT, to define the boundary line between the counties of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That townships number three, four and five, in range ten, be, and the same are hereby declared to be a part of the county of Jackson, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |