How Our Office Serves You
Clerk of the Chancery Courts
- Attending and maintaining the minutes of the Chancery Court
- Creating and maintaining files for each Chancery Court suit
- Issuing process for service upon defendants
- Recording the court’s activities in various dockets and minute books
- Maintaining dockets
- Processing all phases of civil commitments
- Summoning jurors (in those Chancery Court matters in which a jury trial has been granted)
- Receiving and accounting for various filing fees required to accompany pleadings and appeals
- Attending each session of the Chancery Court
- Transmitting statistical data to the Mississippi Supreme Court, AOC
- Processing the court’s record(s) for appellate review
Custodian of Public Land Records
- Creating and maintaining various indexes for documents filed in the public land recordss (i.e., sectional index, direct/reverse index, etc.
- Creating and maintaining volumes which contain copies of all documents filed and indexed in the public land records (i.e., deed books, deed of trust books, or some combination thereof, etc.).
- Receiving and accounting for various filing fees required to accompany documents left for recording
- Maintaining all records of property sold for taxes by the county tax collector each year and accepting and processing payment in redemption of those taxes
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
- Attending all meetings of the Board of Supervisors
- Recording the minutes of the Board
- Receiving and processing claims made against the county, which necessarily includes maintaining the county’s Docket of Claims
- Assisting the Board in equalizing the assessment rolls of real and personal property
- Compiling various reports on the Board’s behalf and submitting them to other state governmental entities as required
- Receiving and processing all applications made for homestead exemption and reporting thereon to the State Tax Commission.
- Assisting the Board in preparing the annual county budget (not required, but routinely done as a courtesy to the Board)
- Submitting a monthly report of all county funds to the Board
County Auditor
- Keeping accounts with each county office
- Keeping ledger accounts of all receipts and disbursements of county funds
- Keeping financial records for all county officers responsible for receiving or collecting money for the county, including a detailed account for debits and credits against the tax collector
- Issuing receipt warrants and properly documenting funds paid to the county
- Collecting privilege taxes and issuing privilege licenses on an annual basis
County Treasurer
- Receiving and disbursing money on behalf of the county
- Reconciling statements from the county depository
This is an editable section - Ronnie and his staff can easily add their
own special announcements. These editable sections can be add to other
pages, like the Jury Duty Page.
