When court shall settlement testamentary or of administration, in any county within this state, shall remove to any other county in said state, or when any property under the charge of any guardian, cause final executor or administrator shall be removed from the county to be made in which letters of guardianship, testamentary or of admi- with originistration, were granted, the probate court of the county to dian. nal guarwhich any such guardian, 'executor, or administrator may remove, or to which such property may be transferred, shall have full power and authority to grant to such person or persons as may be entitled thereto, letters of guardianship, testamentary, or of administration, and upon the granting of such letters to the person or persons who may obtain the same on such removal, it shall be the duty of the probate court of that county, in which the original letters of administration, 'guardianship, or testamentary were granted, to cause a final settlement to be made with such original guardian, executor, or administrator, and upon such settlement and a compliance therewith, by such executor, administrator, or guardian, to discharge him, her, or them from any further responsibility on account of the same. sary to se cond suit SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the act to which this is an amendment, be, and the same shall be so Not necesconstrued as to authorize any suit or suits to be brought by bring persons interested in the estate of any deceased person as for a devascreditors, or otherwise, on any bond given by administra- tavit. tors or executors against such executors or administrators and their securities, jointly in the first instance, and in no case shall a separate suit be necessary against any executor or administrator, for the establishment of a devastavit prior to the liability of such securities. register of SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall hereafter be the duty of the several registers of the orphans' Duty of courts in this state, carefully to record in a book, by them orphans' for that purpose to be kept and provided, all letters testa- court. mentary, letters of guardianship, of collection, and of administration, which may by any such court be granted, to any person or persons, and that the said registers respectively, shall be entitled to ask, demand, and receive, for such services from any such executor, administrator, collector, or guardian, the same fees as are now by law allowed to the several clerks of the county courts in this state for recording deeds, and other conveyances. Approved, December 16, 1830. sioners to tend im of navigation of rivers. AN ACT, to provide for the improvement of the navigation of the several water courses in this state. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Commis- convened, That at any time hereafter, when any number be elected of persons, not less than twenty, shall associate themselves to superin- together for the purpose of improving the navigation of any provement rivers, bayous or passes in this state, susceptible of being rendered navigable that they shall give public notice in some newspaper of general circulation in the vicinity of said river, bayou, or pass, for four successive weeks; that at the time and place specified in said notice, there will be an election held for commissioners to superintend the improvement of the navigation of the river, bayou, or pass, named in said advertisement, a majority of those interested shall determine on the number of commissioners to be so elected, but in no case shall there be less than three, and in all cases there shall be one or more in each county through which said river, bayou or pass may touch or wash the borders of the same, if required. titled to commis sioners. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose Who en- of more effectually determining who shall be legal voters vote for in the aforesaid election, and who shall be considered as members of said association; it is hereby declared, that each person shall have one vote for each ten dollars that shall be subscribed and paid, or secured to be paid to the commissioners elected as aforesaid, and the said commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to organize themselves into a company, to be known and designated 'the company for the improvement of the navigation of river, lake, bayou or pass,' contemplated by said donors, and by that name capable in law, to sue, or be sued, plead, or be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this state, and to do and perform all acts incident to corporate bodies. When that commissioners are elected as aforesaid, they shall elect from their own body, a president, secretary, and treasurer-it shall be the duty of the secretary to said company, to keep a full and fair list and record of the several members of said company, as well as of the commissioners, from time to time elected by said donors; and, also, of such orders, reports, or proceedings of said company, as they may require to be recorded and preserved it shall be the duty of the treasurer of said company to keep and preserve, and from time to time, as required, render a fair account of all money or effects that may be donated or otherwise obtained by said company for the purpose of improving the navigation of the stream for which said company was organized. porate. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever said commissioners shall be elected as aforesaid, and shall elect Body cortheir president, secretary, and treasurer, said company shall be deemed and taken as having gone into full operation under the corporate name assigned to it by the provisions of this act. powers. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the company aforesaid shall have full power to order, direct and provide Their for the appropriation and application of all moneys or other thing donated or appropriated for the improvement of the navigation of said river, bayou, or pass, in the manner which to them may seem best; also to adopt such measures as may seem to them most efficient for the obtainment of further donations or contributions, to carry into effect the object of said corporation. proper ap the funds. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the company as aforesaid, shall be bound and liable, and strictly ac- Company countable to said donors for a faithful and correct use and liable for a application of the funds of said company. When the plication of president, and any one of the members of said company may deem it expedient, they may call a meeting of said company, giving the other members at least ten days notice of the time and place of meeting. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the several corporations organized under the provisions of this act, report to shall each and every year, during the first week of the To make session of the general assembly, report to the governor of governor. the state, for the information of the general assembly, a fair and full representation of the situation of the stream under their charge, and of the improvements made on the same; also the manner in which the funds of said company have been appropriated. doner. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That any person or Privilege of persons who may subscribe or obligate himself or themselves to pay to said company, any sum of money agreeably to the provisions of this act, that said person or persons shall have the privilege of discharging said subscription by labour or money, as to said donor may seem best. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That each of the memCompen-bers of said company shall be entitled to, and receive the sation of sum of two dollars per day for every day they may be actually engaged, to be paid out of the funds of said company. commis sioners. tinue in of SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the president, President, secretary, and treasurer of said company shall hold their &c. to con- offices for twelve months, or until their successors may be fice twelve appointed. Notice of all elections to fill vacancies shall be given, and all elections conducted as specified in section first. months. Approved, December 16, 1830. AN ACT, to alter and amend an act, entitled 'an act, to revise the SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Repealing convened, That so much of section fifth, of article third, of clause. the above recited act as gives to the chiefs of the different clause. staffs, the power to remove at pleasure their respective staff officers, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of secRepealing tion the first, of article the fourth of the above recited act as requires the militia of this state, to provide themselves with knapsacks, canteens, cartouch-boxes or pouches, to contain not less than twenty balls, suited to the bore of his piece, and a quarter of a pound of powder in cartridges, or secured in a powder flask with two spare flints, or one hundred percussion caps, a priming wire or brush, except when called into actual service, be, and the same is hereby repealed. musters. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the militia of this state shall rendezvous by companies twice in each and every year; the first to be holden on the second Saturday Company of March, and the second on the second Saturday of September, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, until four o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of drill and parade; and such company muster shall be held as near the centre of the company beat, as convenience will permit, and on such days of company musters, the company shall be considered under arms, from sunrise until sunset. musters. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the militia of this state shall rendezvous by battalions, once in each year; the first battalion on the first Saturday, and the second bat- Battalion talion on the second Saturday in April, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, until four o'clock in the afternoon, at or as near the centre of the battalion limits, as convenience will permit, for the purpose of drill, parade and martial exercises; and on all such days of battalion musters, the battalion shall be considered under arms from sunrise until sunset. Notice to be given of and com SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the duties required of non-commissioned officers in section the first, of article the ninth, of the above recited act which relates to warning the men to attend muster, shall not be required battalion of them in cases of battalion and company musters, which pany musare herein before provided for, and designated by law; and ters. it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of each and every company, to give notice by advertisement, to be posted up in four of the most public places within his company's beat, of all battalion and company musters in the battalion or company to which he belongs, at least twenty days before the same is to be held, and it shall be the duty of all commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, to attend all such battalion and company musters, without any other notification thereof than is given of the time and place of holding said musters |