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share of North President street beginning at Amite street and running north to the north side of High street in the city of Jackson, Mississippi.

How funds drawn from state treasury.

Sec. 3. The funds hereby appropriated shall be drawn from the state treasury on warrants of the auditor of the state, payable to the city authorities of Jackson, Mississippi, which warrants shall be issued by the auditor only upon the written statement and approval of the state highway engineer and the city engineer of the city of Jackson.

Sec. 4. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 6, 1922.

CHAPTER 106.

HOUSE BILL No. 866.

AN ACT making a donation in the sum of twenty five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary for the relief of cyclone sufferers of Alcorn county, Mississippi.

For relief of cyclone sufferers in Alcorn county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the sum of $2,500.00, or so much thereof as may be required be, and the same is hereby donated by the state of Mississippi to be used and appropriated for and on behalf of the cyclone sufferers of Alcorn county, Mississippi, who, by reason of injuries received to person and property by a cyclone which swept parts of said county on or about the 14th day of March, 1922, are in dire distress and in great need of relief.

How funds to be drawn from treasury.

Sec. 2. That the sum hereby donated be drawn from the state treasury upon proper warrant issued by the auditor, payable to M. T. Sharp, secretary of the chamber of commerce of Corinth, Alcorn county, Mississippi, to be distributed by him under the direction of the executive committee of said chamber of commerce among the cyclone sufferers in an equitable manner, and in pro rata conformity with their several needs.

Sec. 3. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 17, 1922.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of one hundred sixty dollars ($160.00) for fees erroneously collected from the Clarksdale building and loan association and the Colored building and loan association

To repay incorporation fees erroneously collected.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), and the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) to reimburse the Clarksdale Building and Loan Association of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and the Colored Building and Loan Association of Clarksdale, Mississippi, respectively, for excessive incorporation fees collected from these corporations when they were incorporated in the year 1920.

Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 5, 1922.

CHAPTER 108.

HOUSE BILL No. 218.

AN ACT to repay the J. R. Watkins Company, by the hands of Z. M. McGehee, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) paid for license to do business. which was never used.

To repay J. R. Watkins for unused license.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That on satisfactory showing, the auditor of public accounts shall issue his warrant for one hundred dollars to the W. R. Watkins Company for the use of Z. M. McGehee, this said sum having been paid by the said McGehee in the name of said Watkins Company for itinerant license to do business for said company, and which said sum has been paid into the treasury of Mississippi, the abrogation of said contract by said company depriving said McGehee of any and all use of said license.

Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 13, 1922.

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CHAPTER 109.

HOUSE BILL No. 531.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $50.24 to Tom Brown, in lieu of his Confederate pension for the year 1916, he having been erroneously dropped from the roll for said year.

To pay pension of Tom Brown for 1916.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That there be and is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars and twenty four cents ($50.24) to Tom Brown, in lieu of his Confederate pension for the year 1916, he having been erroneously dropped from the pension roll for said year. The auditor of public accounts shall issue a warrant to the said Tom Brown for the said amount.

Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 27, 1922.

CHAPTER 110.

HOUSE BILL No. 627.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the state auditor to issue a warrant to John Russell of Calhoun county.

To pay for burial of Confederate soldier erroneously omitted from pension roll.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the state auditor of public accounts be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a warrant upon the treasury of the state of Mississippi, to John Russell, of Calhoun county, in the sum of one hundred and five dollars ($105.00) drawn upon the unexpended balance of the appropriation made to the Confederate soldiers' pension fund by the leg slature of 1920. This warrant to recompense him for death and burial expenses of John Loftin, whose name was erroneously left off the pension roll for 1920.

Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 21, 1922.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $50.00 to P. H. Brown, ex-sheriff of Tallahatchie county, Mississippi.

To pay Sheriff P. H. Brown for taxes erroneously paid into treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the sum of $50 be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to P. H. Brown, ex-sheriff of Tallahatchie county for privilege taxes erroneously paid into the state treasury.

Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 7, 1922.

CHAPTER 112.

HOUSE BILL No. 816.

AN ACT to appropriate $153.86 to S. M. Hollingsworth to cover a pension which he should have received out of former appropriations and which through error was returned to the treasurer.

To pay S. M. Hollingsworth pension money erroneously withheld.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That there be, and there is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $153.86 to be drawn by the state auditor as pens on commissioner and by him paid to S. M. Hollingsworth to cover pensions which said Hollingsworth was entitled to draw for the years 1916, 1917 and 1918, and which, by mistake, were not drawn by him and the appropriations for which lapsed by operation of law.

Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1922.

CHAPTER 113.

SENATE BILL No. 298.

AN ACT making an appropriation to reimburse Webb Walley, sheriff of Greene county, for money expended by him in capturing and returning a fugitive from justice to said county, which said fugitive was afterward convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten

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To pay Webb Walley, sheriff, for capture of a fugitive.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $250.00 for the purpose of reimbursing Webb Walley, sheriff of Greene county, Mississippi, for money paid as a reward by him in capturing and returning one Jackson, alias Flynn, who was thereafter convicted in said county and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten

years.

Sec. 2. The funds hereby appropriated shall be drawn from the state treasury on the warrant of the state auditor therefor, which shall be issued by him upon the request of the said Webb Walley, or his authorized agent.

Sec. 3. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 18, 1922.

CHAPTER 114.

HOUSE BILL No. 952.

AN ACT to raise revenue to carry on the state government of Mississippi for the years 1922 and 1923.

State tax levy fixed at 8 mills.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That a state advalorem tax of eight mills on the dollar for the year 1922, and eight mills on the dollar for the year 1923, is hereby levied on all taxable property in the state of Mississippi. County tax levy-maximum fixed.

Sec. 2. Boards of supervisors of the various counties may levy taxes for all purposes, exclusive of county and district road tax, common school tax and agricultural high school and other school tax, at a rate not exceeding eight mills on the dollar, for the year 1922, and eight mills on the dollar for the year 1923, exclusive of the tax rate fixed and provided for in section 1 of this act.

Sec. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 5, 1922.