A duplicate shall not be issued for a mutilated bond or warrant until the original shall be delivered to such officer, and not until an examination has been made by such officer and the treasurer on whom it may be drawn, or who is to pay the same, to see if it be genuine and have not been already paid. If genuine and not previously paid, the duplicate may issue upon the cancellation of the original and the entry of a statement of facts on the proper record or registry of its issuance, with the words "pay duplicate only."
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records
§ 25-55-1. Applicability of the chapter
§ 25-55-3. Remedy for lost record of deed
§ 25-55-5. Duty of chancellor and supervisors as to abstracts
§ 25-55-7. Effect of such abstracts
§ 25-55-13. Loss first discovered during trial
§ 25-55-17. Records of board of supervisors
§ 25-55-19. State, county, town, or levee board bonds or warrants
§ 25-55-21. Content of duplicate bond or warrant
§ 25-55-23. Duplicate for mutilated original
§ 25-55-28. Presentation of photocopy of state warrant where original has been lost or destroyed