Chap. 286 (S. B. 76).. Page 399 AN ACT to abolish the office of revenue agent and to create the office of state tax collector; to fix his duties and powers and to provide for the transfer of all records and papers, powers and duties from the revenue agent to the state tax collector. Chap. 287 (H. B. 90). Page 404 AN ACT regulating the power of the state revenue agent of this state relative to civil suits for violation of the anti-trust statute of Mississippi. Chap. 288 (H. B. 1282). Page 405 AN ACT to amend section 4743, Mississippi code of 1906 (section 7061, Hemingway's code) so that the state revenue agent cannot further prosecute any suits for the collection of sixteenth section school funds secured by loans on real estate without the approval of the board of supervisors, and for other purposes. Chap. 289 (S. B. 48).. Page 406 AN ACT to amend chapter 170 of the laws of Mississippi, 1924, providing the manner of conducting suits filed by the state revenue agent and his successor in office; the method and procedure of reviving and continuing such suits; how the expenses of such litigation and fees and commissions derived therefrom shall be shared and restricting the revenue agent from bringing suits in certain cases and providing for the abatement of pending suits brought by such revenue agent. Chap. 290 (S. B. 343). Page 408 AN ACT abating the suit of W. J. Miller, state revenue agent, for the use and benefit of Washington county, Mississippi against J. C. Hay, et al. Chap. 291 (S. B. 414). .Page 408 AN ACT abating the suit of W. J. Miller, state revenue agent, for the use of Sunflower county, Mississippi, against W. H. Phipps, and others. Chap. 292 (H. B. 556).. .Page 409 AN ACT to provide for the conservation and protection and to regulate the taking of salt water fish in the waters of the Mississippi Sound and waters adjacent thereto lying within the state of Mississippi and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. Chap. 293 (H. B. 289). Page 410 AN ACT declaring a certain portion of the oyster shells taken off public reefs, property of the state and providing a method of distribution publishing of report of the commission. to replenish old oyster reefs, the building of new oyster reefs and Chap. 294 (H. B. 209). Page 411 AN ACT to amend section 3499 of the code of 1906 so as to authorize the board of oyster commissioners to expend more than fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars. Chap. 295 (H. B. 288) .Page 412 AN ACT to amend chapter 349 of the laws of 1924, amending section 3 of chapter 4 of the laws of 1913 so as to extend the limit of dredging oysters in front of Pass Christian so as to prohibit dredging within two miles from shore, and providing time for dredging, and to prohibit dredging of oysters in front of Bay St. Louis and Waveland and appointing inspectors. Chap. 296 (H. B. 78)... Page 414 AN ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 164 of the laws of 1922 so as to change the compensation of tax assessors in class four. Chap. 297 (H. B. 435)... Page 417 AN ACT to amend section 2, chapter 323, laws of 1920, to provide for the assessment of personal property in road districts, school districts. and other separate taxing districts. Chap. 298 (H. B. 73). Page 418 AN ACT to amend section 4 of chapter 323 of the laws of 1920. (Section 7769bl. Hemingway's code) to provide for land assessments in 1926 and every two years thereafter. Chap. 299 (H. B. 485).... Page 418 AN ACT empowering commissioners of swamp land districts or the board of supervisors of the county or the commissioners of the drainage districts to obtain rights of way for drains and other purposes and giving them jurisdiction thereover. Chap. 300 (S. B. 168). Page 419 AN ACT authorizing and empowering commissioners of any drainage district in this state to offer and to pay rewards for the arrest and conviction of any person tampering with, dynamiting, or in any wise destroying or attempting to destroy any ditch, levee or work of a drainage district in this state or for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any such person. Chap. 301 (S. B. 30). Page 419 AN ACT to provide for the collection of taxes in drainage districts; delinquent lands, how dealt with; how advertised; how sold and disposition of the same by the drainage district. Chap. 302 (H. B. 707). Page 421 AN ACT providing that the board of drainage commissioners may ap portion the assessments of benefits set up on the assessment roll of a drainage district organized under chapter 195 of the laws of Mississippi 1912, and its amendments in cases where the originally assessed government subdivision has become divided into smaller units in its ownership and providing a method therefor. Chap. 303 (H. B. 1411).. Page 423 AN ACT to amend section 23 of chapter 195 of the laws of Mississippi of 1912 (section 4469 Hemingway's code) so as to provide a more adequate means of collecting taxes due drainage districts organized under the provisions of said act and to provide a more complete scheme for dealing with delinquent lands. Chap. 304 (S. B. 368).. Page 426 AN ACT to amend chapter 283, laws of 1920, entitled “an act to provide for two or more drainage districts to jointly contribute to the construction of ditches, canals and levees," so as to make the same more specific, provide for the issuance of bonds, the levy of taxes, etc. Chap. 305 (S. B. 45)... Page 428 AN ACT authorizing the levy of a special tax by the board of supervisors of certain counties for the purpose of aiding in the support and maintenance of tuberculosis hospitals within such counties. Chap. 306 (S. B. 261).. Page 429 AN ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of the counties in the state in their discretion, to make annual donations to the Kings Daughters. Chap. 307 (H. B. 655). Page 429 AN ACT to amend section 22, of chapter 114, laws of 1916, so as to define a recognized college of pharmacy and to provide for the examination of veterans of the world war who are graduates of a reputable college of pharmacy. Chap. 308 (H. B. 696). Page 430 AN ACT to amend chapter 195 of the laws of 1924 entitled "an act to create a standard state zoning enabling act authorizing municipalities to promote health, safety, morals and general welfare in such communities by enabling them to divide such communities into segregated and regulated zones and for other purposes" so as to enable counties bordering on tidal water to regulate through boards of supervisors unincorporated territory and to authorize municipalities in such counties to come within the provisions of said act. Chap. 309 (H. B. 294). Page 433 AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 315 of the laws of 1924 so as to provide for the abolishment of local health agencies upon creation of county or district health departments, and giving said health department additional authority, and permitting municipal authority to appropriate funds for the support thereof. Chap. 310 (H. B. 295). Page 434 AN ACT to amend section 4831 of Hemingway's code of Mississippi, as amended by chapter 313, laws of 1924, relative to creating the state board of health; appointment of members; and terms of service. Chap. 311 (H. B. 77). Page 435 AN ACT to prohibit in any university, college, normal, public school or other educational institution in the state of Mississippi, that is supported, in whole or in part, from public funds, the teaching that man descended, or ascended, from a lower order of animals, and providing a penalty for violation thereof. Chap. 312 (S. B. 79). Page 435 AN ACT providing for student organizations in the university and colleges of Mississippi for the promotion of scholarship, culture and sociability and the repeal of chapter 177 of the laws of 1912. Chap. 313 (S. B. 123). Page 437 AN ACT to create a state board of music examiners, provide for the appointment of members thereof, prescribe their duties and provide a fund to defray the expenses incidental to the carrying out of this act. Chap. 314 (S. B. 127). Page 438 AN ACT to exempt from taxation all property, real or personal that has been donated, bequeathed or devised to the free public schools of Mississippi whose rents, income or revenues are entirely devoted to the maintenance of such schools. Chap. 315 (H. B. 442).. Page 439 AN ACT providing for the merger of municipal and rural separate school districts, and consolidated school districts, when a municipality extends its corporate limits as now provided by law, so as to include the whole or any part of an adjacent rural separate school district or consolidated school district. Chap. 316 (H. B. 39).. Page 441 AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a high school textbook commission, define its membership, fix its duties and compensations, require a depository of high school books, permit the use of supplementary aids in teaching high school subjects, grant discretion to said commission in certain contingencies, provide for revoking certain contracts, require all high schools to use adopted books, make laws governing adoption of elementary books applicable except as specified, provide for rental or loan of books to pupils, repeal certain sections, and provide when this shall take effect. Chap. 317 (H. B. 599). Page 444 AN ACT to authorize the trustees of municipal separate school districts containing a municipality of not less than ten thousand population to employ a truant officer, or officers, to enforce the state compulsory school law. Chap. 318 (S. B. 119). Page 445 AN ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of those counties in the state of Mississippi, in which the sixteenth section of each township has been reserved for the support of the public schools, to lease for oil, gas and mineral purposes, said sixteenth section school lands, or lands held in lieu thereof. Chap. 319 (S. B. 293)... Page 446 AN ACT to provide for a traveling expense account for the county superintendent of education in certain counties. Chap. 320 (S. B. 384). Page 447 AN ACT to prevent persons from advising, promoting, or aiding any child in absenting himself from the custody of the constituted authorities of the Mississippi industrial and training school and providing a penalty for the violation of this act. Chap. 321 (S. B. 189)... Page 448 AN ACT authorizing the state superintendent of education to pay the sum of $364.45, or so much thereof as may be justly due, to Eyrich and Company for stationery, office supplies, etc. used by the state department of education during the years of 1920, 1921, and 1922. Chap. 322 (S. B. 223). Page 448 AN ACT to authorize boards of supervisors and municipal authorities to make allowances for services rendered public schools by teachers and others during the scholastic years 1923 and 1924 where funds exhausted. Chap. 323 (H. B. 1244). Page 449 AN ACT to amend chapter 202 of the laws of 1922 which is an amendment to section 2535 of the Mississippi code of 1906, regulating the apportionment and appointment of students in the Mississippi state college for women. |