clause.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of said Repealing twenty-fifth section as authorizes execution to issue on the bond given for the trial of the right of property so claimed, or as makes said claimant or claimants liable to the plaintiff or plaintiffs in said original execution for the full amount of said execution, and so much of any act as contravenes the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the provisions Former act of the 25th section of an act, entitled 'an act, to reduce into one the several acts concerning executions, and for the relief of insolvent debtors;' passed June 22, 1822, be extended so as to include all cases in which any property may be under an order of sale, or under execution by virtue of proceedings founded upon attachment.

extended.

Approved, December 15, 1830.

A RESOLUTION, relative to the expediency of a Convention.

WHEREAS, in the opinion of the general assembly, the period has arrived that the privilege contained in that part of the constitution of the state of Mississippi, denominated the mode of revising the constitution, should now be extended to the electors of the state of Mississippi

Therefore-Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, (two-thirds of the general assembly concurring therein,) That the general assembly do now recommend to the electors, at the next election for members of the general assembly, to vote for or against a convention.

AN ACT, to suppress malicious injuries to personal property, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Penalty convened, That if any person shall maliciously, either out for injuries of a spirit of revenge, or wanton cruelty, kill, maim, or done to catwound, any horse, mare, gelding, or mule, sheep, or other tle. cattle, or cause any person to do the same, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred, and be imprisoned for any term, not less than one month, nor exceeding six months.

property.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person who shall maliciously or mischievously destroy, injure, or Penalty for injuries cause to be destroyed or injured, any property of another, to real or either real or personal, shall be deemed guilty of malicious personal mischief, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum two-fold the value of the property destroyed, or of the damage done, and be imprisoned for any term of time not exceeding twelve months.

Do. for

cutting off

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall cut off or shave the tail of any horse, mare, colt, or the tail of gelding, not his own, such person shall incur the penalties prescribed in the second section of this act.

Approved, December 16, 1831.

a horse.

AN ACT, to amend an act entitled 'an act to extend legal process into that part of the state now occupied by the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes of Indians,' passed February 4th, 1829.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That the third section of the act to which this is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and

that hereafter the sheriff shall be allowed the same fees for executing process within the Indian boundary which he is now entitled to receive in the several counties of this state. Approved, December 20, 1831.

AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled 'an act to amend the several acts relative to the public revenue, approved December 16, 1830.'

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly Repealing convened, That the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth sections of the act to which this is an amendment shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

clause.

case

asses

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, when In what any person, or persons, shall vend goods, wares, and merchandise, after the assessor of the county wherein such ed to make goods, wares and merchandise shall be offered for sale shall assessment. have made out a return of his assessment, it shall be the

sor requir

additional

duty of the assessor of such county to make an additional assessment on such goods, wares and merchandise so vended or sold, and additional returns thereof: and whenever the Collector's collector of taxes in any county shall have reason to be

duty. lieve that any vender of goods, wares and merchandise

Venders of

clocks con

will remove from his county before the first day of January next ensuing, it shall be the duty of such collector to collect the taxes due from such vender by distress or otherwise.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter vensidered ders of clocks shall be considered hawkers and pedlars, within the meaning of this act.

hawkers and pedlars.

make as

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever any Collector collector of taxes shall discover that the assessor of his of taxes to county has omitted to assess the taxes upon any person or sessment, property in his county, liable to taxation, it shall be the assessor has duty of such collector to assess the same, and make return omitted to thereof, agreeably to law.

when the

do so.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Secretary duty of the secretary of state to transmit by mail directed transmit a to the clerk of each county and probate court in this state,

of state to

laws and

for the use of the county, a copy of the laws and journals copy of the of each session of the General Assembly, so soon as the journals to same shall be received in his office; the postage on the same to be paid out of the county treasury.

clerks of courts.

tor united

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the offices of assessor and collector in and for the county of Hinds, be, The offices and the same are hereby united; and the duties of said two and collecoffices shall hereafter be performed by one and the same in individual and the individual appointed to said offices county shall give bond as now required by law of assessor and collector.

Hinds.

the

of

issue war

vour

'assessor.

of

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That hereafter whenever any assessor of taxes shall deposite in the auditor's Auditor to office a full and satisfactory assessment return of the state rant in fatax of his county, on or before the first day of September, in the year in which he shall be appointed assessor, the auditor of public accounts shall be authorized and required to issue his warrant upon the state treasury in favour of such assessor, for the sum of fifty dollars for the first five hundred dollars, or any less sum, by him assessed, with Rate of the addition of four per centum upon all sums above five tion. hundred and under one thousand dollars; with the addition of three per centum upon all sums over one thousand dollars and under four thousand dollars; with the addition of two per centum upon all sums above five thousand and under ten thousand dollars; and with the addition of one per centum upon all sums above ten thousand dollars.

compensa

tor.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the auditor of Compenpublic accounts be authorized to allow each assessor and sation of collector, or tax-collector, as the case may be, in the settle- tax collec ment of his accounts, for all assessments hereafter to be made, six per centum for collecting all sums under one. thousand dollars; with the addition of five per centum. upon all sums above one thousand and under five thousand dollars; with the addition of four per centum upon all sums above five thousand and under ten thousand dollars; and with the addition of three per centum upon all sums above ten thousand dollars; which shall be in full for their services.

SEC. 9.. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer of this state be authorized and required to pay to the bank of debt due the state of Mississippi, on the first day of January, eigh

State trea Burer to pay

the bank.

court

to

cial court

teen hundred and thirty-two, the debt due by the state to said bank, with all interest due thereon, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the County county and probate court of each county in this state shall, and probate on the third Monday of February in each and every year, hold a spe- hold at their respective court-houses a special court, to on the third examine and allow insolvencies to tax collectors, and for Monday of February in the discharge of all other duties required of the county each and court in the twenty-second section of an act prescribing the mode of ascertaining and assessing the taxable property within this state, and for collecting the public revenue, approved 25th June, 1822.

every year.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts contrary to the provisions of this act shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, December 20, 1831.

AN ACT, to exempt females from attending as witnesses in certain

cases.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreFemales sentatives of the state of Mississippi, in General Assembly exempted convened, That from and after the passage of this act, no female shall be compelled to attend any of the courts in this state, to give testimony in civil cases.

from attendance courts.

taken.

on

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever the Their tes- plaintiff or defendant, or either of their attorneys, in any timony how civil action, wishes the testimony of a female, that he may, by giving ten days notice to the adverse party of the time and place, take the testimony of such female, before any of the judges of the county court, or justice of the peace of the proper county; which testimony, so taken, shall be as good and lawful, as if the same had been given in open court, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, that when any deposition or