Watson v. Doherty

Citations

• 56 Miss. 628

Syllabus

<p>County Warrants. Statute of Limitations. Five months for registration. Constitutional law.</p> <p>An act of the Legislature, passed on the 31st of January, 1876, to take effect from its passage, entitled “An act to ascertain the outstanding indebtedness of Yazoo County, and for other purposes,” which provided that all persons holding unpaid warrants, certificates of indebtedness, or claims of any kind, issued or allowed prior to the first daj7 of January, 1876, against said county, should present the same to the county treasurer on or before the first Monday of July, 1876, to be registered by him in a book kept for that purpose, and that all such warrants, certificates of indebtedness, and claims not presented and registered within the time prescribed should be forever barred, is constitutional and valid.</p>