Each justice of the peace shall, at the beginning and in front of all his entries in his docket, make and subscribe substantially the following entry, to-wit:'A docket of proceedings in matters civil and criminal before ____________________, a justice of the peace of the county of ____________________, in the State of Mississippi, in District No. ____________________ of said county, for the election of justices of the peace. Witness my signature.Justice of the Peace.'Codes, 1880, § 2239; 1892, § 2398; 1906, § 2727; Hemingway's 1917, § 2226; 1930, § 2075; 1942, § 1809.
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