Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 01 (of 14), 1898Mississippi Historical Society
History
Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 01 (of 14), 1898
Mississippi Historical Society
Mississippi -- History
3637. _Appeal from the decision of the Commissioners._--Any
elector aggrieved by the decision of the commissioners, shall
have the right to file a bill of exceptions thereto, to be
approved and signed by the commissioners, embodying the
evidence in the case and the findings of the commissioners,
within two days after the rendition of the decision, and may
thereupon appeal to the circuit court upon the execution of a
bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by
the commissioners, in the sum of one hundred dollars, payable
to the state, and conditioned to pay all costs in case the
appeal shall not be successfully prosecuted; and in case the
decision of the commissioners be affirmed, judgment shall be
entered on the bond for all costs.
3638. _Duty of Commissioners in case of appeal to Circuit
Court._--It shall be the duty of the commissioners, in case of
appeal from their decision, to return the bill of exceptions
and the appeal bond into the circuit court of the county
within five days after the filing of the same with them;
and the circuit courts shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine such appeals.
3629. _Proceedings in the Circuit Court._--Should the judgment
of the circuit court be in favor of the right of an elector
to be registered, the court shall so order, and shall, by its
judgment, direct the registrar of the county forthwith to
register him. Costs shall not, in any case, be adjudged the
commissioners or the registrar.
3630. _Costs; compensation, etc._--The election commissioners
shall not award costs in proceedings before them; but the
circuit and supreme courts shall allow costs, as in other
cases. The sheriffs, when required to attend before the
commissioners at their meetings, shall be paid two dollars a
day, to be allowed by the board of supervisors.
Having now considered and presented the evolution of suffrage in
this state and given by way of recital and incidentally at least,
its present status, we come to consider the objects upon which the
suffrage may be exercised, and this can be easily stated by the general
averment that all legislative and executive officers are elected by
the suffragists; the executive officers of the state are not elected
necessarily by a plurality or a majority vote. We have a sort of an
electoral scheme, which is created by the constitution in the following
words:
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