Pugh v. Police Jury of Livingston Parish

ODOM, Justice.

Act 230 of 1926 authorized and prescribed the procedure for the removal of the parish seat of Livingston Parish from its present location at Springville to “some central point on the Hammond-Covington branch of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad”. Section 1 of the act provided for an election to be held at a time to be fixed by the police jury for the purpose of determining whether or not the parish seat should be removed from its present location, the new site for the location to' be selected by a majority of the votes cast at an election held later for that purpose.

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