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disabled and who cannot support themselves by their own efforts, and who did not desert such service, shall receive pension funds as the legislature may provide for annual distribution upon becoming qualified as provided by law and share the same as follows:

Class 1. All soldiers and sailors who are totally blind, and anyone who lost both hands and both feet, or lost the entire use of both hands or both feet, or one hand and one foot, or one lcg. or who is suffering from irreducible hernia, or locomotor ataxia (by reason of wounds or injury received during such services) shall receive $200.00 per year, to be paid quarterly.

Class 2. All soldiers or sailors who have lost one foot or one hand, or the total use of one foot or one hand, or who sustained such permanent wounds or injury as disabled him from earning a support by reason of services in the Confederate army or navy, and the blind or invalid widow of any Confederate soldier over the age of fifty years, and who married previous to 1900, shall receive $150.00 per year, payable quarterly.

Class 3. All such servants shall receive $10.00 per quarter unless such amount shall exceed fifty per cent of the amount received by the pensioners receiving pro rata distribution. being intended that such servants shall not receive more than one-half the amount received by the pro rata pensioner, nor more than $10.00 a quarter in any event.

Class 4. All other pensioners provided for herein shall receive pro rata the residue of the pension fund after paying pensions to those provided for in Classes 1, 2 and 3.

Provided that any Confederate veteran who may because of injuries or disease or the infirmities of old age come under the provisions governing pensioners in Class one and Class two of this act, known as "preferred" class, shall be allowed to qualify as pensioners in Class one or Class two, as the case may be, even though such injuries or disease or the infirmities of old age may have been reccived since the year 1865, and not bcause, or as a result of his services as a soldier of the Confederacy.

How names stricken from roll.

Sec. 2. That if the county board of inquiry shall at any time find that any person on the pension roll is not entitled to draw a pension, such board shall strike the name of such person from

the roll, and thereafter such person shall not be entitled to draw a pension until such disability is removed; and the board shall notify the state auditor of its action.

Application how made-what to show-oath to same.

Sec. 3. If the applicant be a soldier or sailor and entitled to receive the benefits of this chapter, he must make application to the county board of inquiry of the county in which he resides, on or before the first Monday in September, excepting those who have theretofore applied and been accepted and not stricken from the roll. The application must show that he is a bona fide citizen of the United States, and the state of Mississippi and give the county and state of his residence; when he enlisted in the service of the Confederate States, the time and place of enlistment and the officers of his company, regiment, or vessel.

The application of a widow of a deceased soldier or sailor must show that she is a bona fide resident of the state and county of her residence, the time and place at which she married the deceased soldier or sailor, that she has not remarried since that time, and the other facts concerning the deceased husband which are required to be shown when the applicant is a soldier or sailor.

The application of the servant must show that he is a bona fide resident of the state and county of his residence, the time of beginning and ending and the nature of his service as a servant in the Confederate army or navy and the nature of his disability and destitution, and with respect to the soldier or sailor whose servant he was shall show the facts required in the application of the soldier or sailor who makes application for pension, so far as the same are obtainable.

The application shall be verified by oath to the effect that the applicant was a Confederate soldier or sailor, or is the widow of such, or was the servant of such, in the Confederate army or navy (as the case may be), and in the case of a soldier, sailor or servant, that he was honorably discharged or parolled or did not desert the Confederate service, and that the applicant resides in this state, and that the statements set forth in the application are true and correct as the applicant verily believes.

That the application shall be verified by oath or affirmation of one or more credible witnesses stating that he (or they) verily believes the facts set forth in the appliaction, and that the applicant is the identical person named in the application.

Pension distributions-how to be made.

Sec. 4. That the quarterly distribution to be paid in January, April, July and October, 1922, shall be distributed and paid according to the provisions of chapters 260 and 261 of the laws of 1920, and that the pensions for the year 1923 and each year

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thereafter shall be distributed to those properly on the pension rolls at the September, 1922, meeting of the county board of inquiry or properly put on said rolls at the September meeting, 1922, of said board, or at any September meeting of the said board thereafter, and who have not been thereafter stricken from said rolls, and that the state auditor in each year after having been advised of the action of the county board of inquiry at its September meeting, on the first Monday in November, or as soon thereafter as practicable, beginning with the first Monday in November, 1922, or as soon thereafter as practicable, shall furnish the clerk of the chancery court of each county a list of all pensioners and the amount each pensioner is to receive quarterly for the calendar year following, and the auditor shall issue his warrant on the first Monday in January, 1923, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and on the first Monday of each quarter thereafter, or as soon thereafter as practicable to the county treasurer, on the state treasurer for the amount due the county for that quarter on account of pensions according to the list furnished the chancery clerk on the first Monday in November, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

The state auditor shall notify the chancery clerk that he has issued said warrant to the county treasurer and charged him with said amount. On receipt of this notice, the chancery clerk shall issue his warrants on the pension fund in the county treasury in favor of each pensioner and for the amount due him for that quarter as shown by the state auditor's list, warrant to be paid by the county treasurer out of the pension fund; the general bond of the treasurer shall be responsible for said funds and the faithful discharge of the treasurer's duties herein required. Pension warrants-to whom and how paid.

Sec. 5. That no warrant shall be issued to any county treasurer as herein provided for any sum appropriated for pensions until the first day of the month in which a new quarter for pension distribution begins, and no one shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter except upon his own application, or, in case he or she be insane or a lunatic, upon the application of his or her guardian or next friend. If the pensioner die in any year before receiving the four quarterly installments for that year, the clerk of the chancery court shall endorse and collect all warrants for the unpaid installments and pay the same to the widow of the pensioner, if he was survived by a widow and if the pensioner was not survived by a widow the clerk of the chancery court from said installments collected by him shall pay such expenses of the burial and last illness of the pensioner as appears from statements filed with him within thirty days after the death of the pensioner by these creditors who have extended

credit for such expenses, in full, or pro rata, if the amount of the warrants shall be insufficient to pay in full. And if a balance remain after paying such expense then said clerk shall pay such balance to the state auditor as pension commissioner, who shall place the same in the state treasury to be drawn by him for the purposes of section 8 of this act, and that all warrants unclaimed for one year shall be cancelled by the clerk, the auditor notified and the funds therefor returned to the state treasurer for the credit of the state auditor as pension commissioner, to be used for carrying out the provisions of section 8 of this act, and all of said funds may be drawn by said pension commissioner as parts of the original appropriation for pensions from which such fund to the credit of the pension commissioner was created by reason of all of the same not having been drawn by pensioners under the first distribution.

Auditor may purge roll of certain names.

Sec. 6. That the state auditor of public accounts, as pension commissioner, shall strike from the rolls such parties as may have been approved by county boards of inquiry, but from the face of whose applications it appears that the applicant is not a person for whom this act provides a pension, and the auditor shall notify the chancery clerk.

Boards of inquiry-selection and appointment of.

Sec. 7. That the camp of Confederate veterans of the county composed of soldiers or sailors, or both, who served in the war between the states, are authorized to select and recommend five persons to the board of supervisors of each county, and the board of supervisors shall appoint such persons recommended as aforesaid for service on the board of inquiry, to constitute, together with the chancery clerk of the county, a board of inquiry before whom applications for relief shall be made. The recommendations may be of members of the camp or other discreet citizens of the county who are qualified electors. If there be no camp of Confederate veterans in the county, or the same has not acted the board of supervisors shall appoint a board of inquiry or fill vacancies thereon, the members thereof to possess the same qualifications as those mentioned; as far as practicable there shall be a resident of each supervisor's district of the county on said board of inquiry. The members of the board of inquiry shall

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receive $3.00 a day for each day's service while actually engaged in discharging the duties imposed by law, to be paid out of the general county fund upon allowance by the board of supervisors of the county.

Name left off roll by mistake-how restored.

Sec. 8. That in cases where a person otherwise entitled to a pension has been, by mistake left off the pension roll, the said person may make and file proper proof of his claim before the chancery clerk and the pension board, who shall at any time if they consider his claim just, approve and send the same, with the proof, to the state auditor of public accounts, whose duty it shall be to add the name to the roll for the succeeding calendar year, and to pay a pension for the current year to such person from any funds that have been returned to the auditor as pension commissioner.

Repealing clause. Hemingway's code, secs, 6312, 6313, 6314, 6315, 6318, 6320, 6325, 6326, 6327, 6328, sup. 6309, 6311 6311-a, 6312, 6313, 6314, 6315, 6315-a, 6318, 6326.

Sec. 9. That when this act takes effect, sections 3655, 3656, 3657, 3658, 3659, 3660, 3663, 3665 of the Mississippi code of 1906, chapter 207 laws of 1910, chapters 197, 198 and 199 of the laws of 1916; chapter 131 of the laws of 1918; chapters 260, 261 and 262 of the laws of 1920, and all other laws in conflict with this act, shall be and they are hereby repealed.

Sec. 10. That this act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of September, 1922.

Approved March 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 179.

HOUSE BILL No. 434.

AN ACT to authorize the formation of associations of producers of agricultural products.

Declaration of policy.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, In order to promote, foster and encourage the intelli gent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation and to eliminate speculation and waste; and to make the distribution of agricultural products as direct as can be efficiently. done between producer and consumer; and to stabilize the marketing of agricultural products, this act is passed.