Any tax collector who shall fail to fill up, in case of the payment of taxes to him, the duplicate tax receipt required by law to be filled up by him, or to preserve the book of duplicate receipts filled, or to submit such book or books to the board of supervisors when required, or to deliver such book or books to the clerk of the chancery court shall, upon conviction, be removed from office, and be fined not less than one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than six months; and any clerk who shall refuse to receive or receipt for such book or books when delivered or tendered to him, or to preserve the same as a record of his office, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials
§ 97-11-1. Alteration of records
§ 97-11-3. Attorney general and district attorney not to advise or defend criminals
§ 97-11-9. Bond; approving worthless official bond
§ 97-11-13. Bribery; penalty when officer, agent or trustee accepts bribe
§ 97-11-15. Circuit clerk; penalty for failure or refusal to send up certificate of appeal
§ 97-11-17. Clerk refusing to give certified copy of papers
§ 97-11-23. Drunkenness in office
§ 97-11-25. Embezzlement; officers, trustees and public employees converting property to own use
§ 97-11-31. Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office
§ 97-11-33. Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered
§ 97-11-35. Failure to return known offenders; purposeful avoidance of knowledge of offense
§ 97-11-37. Failure to perform any duty
§ 97-11-39. Military officers; resigning to evade obedience to order prohibited
§ 97-11-47. Tax collector; failure to make settlement
§ 97-11-49. Tax collector; collecting privilege tax without issuing license
§ 97-11-51. Trustees of state institutions not to incur liability in excess of income