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be first s Jinmoned before s:iid board, to show causa why such license should not be so revoked.
Sec. 13. Be ilfurther enacted, That said select-Bv-laws. men shall have power to pass by-laws, ordinances. &c., preventing hawkers and peddlers from hawking and peddling, and vending merchandise through said town without having previously obtained a license from said board for the same, and prescribing penalties for violating the same.
Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That said board shall have power to impose and collect a tax not exceeding one-half of the State tax upon all transient merchants or vendors of any kind of merchandise within the corporate limits of said town.
Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That the saia Violation board of selectmen shall have power to punish any of ordinan- violation of their by-laws, ordinances or regulations, ces-	by fines, or imprisonment in the town jail, or both,
such fines not exceeding in any one case fifty dollars, and the imprisonment not over ten days, at the discretion of the court having cognizance thereof; and when any fines or amercements shall be imposed for noncornpliance or violation of said by-laws, &c., upon persons having no goods or chattels wThereor> the said fines might be levied, except lots and houses within said town, they shall have power to lease the same as above prescribed.
Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That if at any time the freeholders, householders, and inhabitants of the town of Shieldsborough should fail to elect the selectmen as above prescribed, any justice of the peace residing within the corporate limits thereof, or any of the former selectmen,or the president of the board, whenever required thereto by five freehold-holders or householders of1 said town, shall order an election to elect said selectmen by giving five days' notice, by advertisement posted up at five of the most public places within the corporation, and the selectmen so chosen shall hold their offices until their successors be qualified.
Sec 17. Be it further enacted, That if at any time any vacancy shall occur in said board, either ■■■ Vacancies. death, resignation, removal, or other cause, the vacancy shall be filled by an election ordered by the board of sb^tmcn as above stated.
Sec. IS. jx? it further enacted, That the selectmen elected anc!'qualified under the act repealed by this, and now in oif.ee. shall hold the same until the
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■^election in 1S51, and until their successors be < qualified.
.Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That this act •Vbe in force from and after its passage.
3.\\- Approved February IS. 1850.
•.«*. j • -	CHAPTER 234.
AN ACT to incorporaif' ihe Yazoo an j Housion Rail Road Cotapany.
Sectioy 1. Beil enacted by the Legislature oj ih? ■•J.jStatc of Mississippi, That for the purpose of con-^gstructing and building a railroad, from some point on vj^the Yazoo river in Yazoo county, at or near Yazoo City, to be selected by the President and Directors 1^/hereinafter mentioned, books shall be opened on the first day of April next, or any other day a majority ' ,,of the commissioners may appoint, in the town of 3-,Yazoo City, for the purpose of receiving subscrip-tions for stock in said railroad company, under the ^superintendence of James M. Allen, P. 0. Donnell, .Samuel Y. Mitchell, Robert Stephens, and John W.
" ^ Purvis, or a majority of them; and in the town of .^•Benton, at the same time, under the superintendence of B. R. Wilkerson, M. A. Jenkins, P. J. Burrus. v„ Henry Vaugh and Stephen Luse, or a majority of
*	' them; and in the town of Richland, at the same time ’""i time, under the superintendence of Israel W. Pickens,
. Edmond Purcell and James Wade, or a majority of -,^'them; and in the town pf Shongola, at the same •?.time, under the superintendence of A, J. McConico, G. G. Gordon, II. H. Wier, R. Cross and Thomas
*	Pleasants, or a majority of them; and in the town of Greensboro, at the same time, and under the superin-C;..tendencc of James Drane, James Wesson, Wm. Dy-fV Aer, William II. Marshall and George A. Dunlap, or i a majority of them; at Houston, at the same time,
..» under the superintendence of T. C. Greenwood, G.
^ W. Thornton, C. C. Dibrell, R. G. Steel and Simon ‘■•" Myers, ora majority of them; and at the town of ■’ Aberdeen, at the same time, under the superintendence of John N. Tindell. sr., Greenville Hurnett. George McFarland, John Holiday and John Good-, win, ora majority of them, who-are hereby appoint-' ';ed commissioners for that purpose; which books shall «•*" remain open until the sum of two hundred thousand ' 23