Board of Supervisors v. McDaniel

Citations

• 68 Miss. 203

Syllabus

<p>County Pkisoneks. Siring out. Discharge. Acts of March 9,1882, and February 22, 1890.</p> <p>The act of March, 1882, under which prisoners committed to jail until their fines should he paid, might he discharged after ten days upon filing a schedule of assets, was á mere amendment of chap. 79, code 1880, in relation to county prisoners, and, since the act of February 22, 1890 (Laws 1890, p. 94), providing that in certain specified counties prisoners should he hired out or worked on public roads, repealed the code provision, it must he held also to repeal the amendatory act. Consequently in the counties named in the later act prisoners are not entitled to be discharged as under the act of 1882.</p>