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ceeding $30,000.00, to raise funds for improving, repairing and making additions to the county court house and the county jail in the city of Clarksdale, Coahoma county, Mississippi.

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322 (S. B. 311) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Coahoma county in their discretion to appropriate a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars for the purchase of books for the Carnegie public library of Clarksdale 414

323 (H. B. 236) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Copiah county to pay to R. A. Evans the sum of $77.00, being the amount due him for 25 days services rendered in carrying out the orders of said board of supervisors in looking after the working of the public roads in district No. 5 during the year 1913, at which time there was no contractor to work said roads__ 414

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324 (H. B. 399) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Covington county, Mississippi, to pay the expert accountant, Crook, for services in auditing the books of the county, for services rendered and to be rendered, not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), in their discretion, and to authorize them to pay the amounts contributed by citizens, the whole not to exceed two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars. 415 325 (S. B..556) AN ACT to allow the board of supervisors of Covington county in their discretion to pay R. Norwood $94.32, as additional compensation for making copies of land roll for 1909326 (S. B. 337) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Covington county to have a new assessment made of the real property within said county, for the year 1914, and making provision therefor... 416 327 (S. B. 237) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Covington county to issue bonds of said county to an amount not exceeding the sum of thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of paying off and and discharging the floating indebtedness of said county and prescribing the terms and conditions under which said bonds may be issued by said board..

328 (S. B. 225) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Covington county in their discretion to pay to J. L. Warren, J. J. Stubbs, E. L. Dent, W. L. Magee, M. U. Mounger, C. H. Ramsey, and W. W. Corley the sum of one hundred fifty-two dollars and seventy-seven cents ($152.77) expended by them in the capture of the murderer, Seymour Arnold............... 329 (H. B. 799) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Covington county to levy an additional tax of three mills for the purpose of paying present outstanding indebtedness____

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330 (S. B. 326) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of DeSoto county to borrow money with which to pay certain outstanding warrants issued for the construction of certain roads in the 2d and 5th supervisors' districts of said county, constructed under the provisions of chapter 149 of the acts of 1910, and to levy special taxes on the property in said two districts for the purpose of repaying the money so borrowed. 419 331 (S. B. 559) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Forrest county to pay to Mrs. Jessie McLemore, in their discretion, a sum not to exceed

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five hundred ($500.00) dollars for damages sustained by her by reason of falling from a bridge on a public highway, due to defect in said bridge... 421 332 (S. B. 527) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Forrest County, Mississippi, to pay to the city of Hattiesburg, $337.49, one-half of the cost of building a bridge over Gordons creek on Hardy street in said city... 421 333 (H. B. 570) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of George county in their discretion to pay the town of Lucdeale, a separate school district, the sum of $402.00, the balance due said separate school district for the actual cost of tuition for the attendance of county children from the county outside of said separate school district during the scholastic year 1912-1913.

334 (S. B. 553) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Greene county, Mississippi, to transfer the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) from the sinking fund of the Pleasant Hill consolidated school bonds to the genera! fund of the district__.

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335 (H. B. 870) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grenada county to borrow a sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand dollars 423 336 (H. B. 377) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grenada county to pay Dr. J. S. Sharp the sum of seventy-five dollars, for services rendered to a negro prisoner shot while under arrest.

337 (H. B. 772) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Grenada county to pay I. M. Stevens one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.) for cattle poisoned in county dipping vat

338 (H. B. 774) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Grenada county to pay E. L. Atkinson the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for cattle poisoned in county dipping vat.. -

339 (H. B. 773) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grenada county to pay W. P. Blakely the sum of one hundred and seventy-five ($175.00) dollars for cattle poisoned in county dipping vat

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340 (H. B. 471) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Hancock county to enter into contract with the parish officials of St. Tammany parish, state of Louisiana, for the erection and construction and maintenance of a draw bridge across Pearl river where the same forms the boundary between said Hancock county and said St. Tammany parish.... 425 341 (H. B. 771) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Hancock county to pay W. A. Cuevas three hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-four cents ($362.84) or so much thereof as they may 'deem proper, being an amount advanced by W. A. Cuevas in the building and constructing of a school house at Fenton, Mississippi...

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342 (H. B. 680) AN ACT to authorize the board of trustees of the Harrison county agricultural high school to pay J. A. Huff $917.77; teachers' salaries in the sum of $2,235.00; Wm. Drago, $315.70; Draper Shade Co., $156.84; H. T. Muligan, $322.40; Southern Seating Company, $358.50; J. F. Wilder Lumber Co., $157.43; C. C. Sweatman, $716.03; and Interstate Electric Co., $103.52, out of the funds on hand drawn from levy made by the board of supervisors of said county. 426

343 (H. B. 395) AN ACT to authorize the First National Bank, of Gulfport, Mississippi, to pay to the trustees of the Mississippi City public school

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the balance of the money on hand collected for the said school from the tax payers of that district, and deposited in said bank as a county depository, said money having been collected under chapter 288 of the acts of 1912

344 (S. B. 469) AN ACT to authorize the road commissioner of supervisors district number two of Harrison county, Mississippi, to pay attorney's fees for services rendered by an attorney in recovering money wrongfully appropriated by the board of supervisors of said county out of the special fund of said supervisors district and requiring the board of supervisors to issue their warrant for same..

345 (S. B: 272) AN ACT to repeal chapter 168, acts of 1890, entitled “An act to improve and facilitate the working of public roads in Harrison county, Mississippi...

346 (S. B. 538) AN ACT to authorize,the board of supervisors of Hinds county to pay to Mrs. Kate Adams Curtiss, T. A. Adams, Nattie Adams, W. B. Adams, and Mrs. Mary Adams Haley, a sum not to exceed $1,500.00 for the death of their father; $175.00 for the death of a horse, and $50.00 for the destruction of a wagon; all caused by the falling of a span of bridge across Tallahala creek, near Utica..

347 (S. B. 600) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hinds county to pay, in their discretion, the sum of $315.20 to the town of Utica, out of the county school fund for tuition for county children who attended the Utica school during the session of 1912-1913..

348 (S. B. 480) AN ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of Hinds and Jefferson counties to donate to the United States Daughters of 1812 a sum not exceeding $200.00 for each of said counties, for the purpose of putting in a suitable condition and caring for the grave of Col. Thomas Hinds, soldier and statesman...

349 (H. B. 438) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hinds county, Mississippi, in their discretion, to pay J. Oscar Hollingsworth the sum of fifty-five dollars ($55.00) or so much thereof as they see fit, for payment of cattle killed by dipping for tick eradication____

350 (H. B. 452) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hinds county, Mississippi, in their discretion, to pay R. M. Barlow the sum of forty-five dollars ($45.00) or so much thereof as they see fit for the payment of cattle killed by dipping for tick eradication.

351 (H. B. 653) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Hinds county to pay H. E. McIntosh a sum of money nor exceeding $150.00 for seven head of cattle killed by drinking a poisonous solution that flowed from a dipping vat.........

352 (H. B. 630) AN ACT to ratify and approve the action of the board of supervisors of Holmes county in employing a public accountant to examine and audit the books and accounts of the county officials of said county and to authorize them to pay said accountant__

353 (S. B. 447) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Holmes county in their discretion to pay Mrs. Lillie Hunter the sum of one hundred and

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sixty ($160.00) dollars for teaching in the schools of said county for which she has not been paid.............

354 (H. B. 114) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Holmes county to issue the bonds of said county to an amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying off and discharging the floating indebtedness of said county, and of providing revenue for the general funds of said county, for the year 1914, and prescribing the terms and conditions under which said bonds may be issued by the board...

355 (H. B. 185) AN ACT to establish and maintain in Ittawamba county, Mississippi, two special public schools and for other purposes... 356 (H. B. 650) AN ACT authorizing board of supervisors of Jackson county to buy State, county and municipal bonds bearing interest at not less than 5% per annum, with funds arising from any disposition of the sixteenthsections of said county---

357 (H. B. 116) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Jackson county to direct the transfer to the rural school funds of the rural separate school districts of said county a pro rata share of the surplus of the common school fund of said county

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358 (H. B. 151) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Jasper county, Mississippi, to pay to G. R. Williams the sum of $75.00 or so much thereof as they may see fit and proper for a barn belonging to and on the premises of said G. R. Williams, burned by a deputy sheriff on the order of a veterinary surgeon to prevent the spread of glanders from said barn... 436 359 (H. B. 252) AN ACT curing all irregularities and defects in the acts of the board of supervisors of Jasper county and of the road commissioners of district number five thereof, in making and entering into contracts with T. M. Thornton for construction and repair work on the public roads of said district, and the making of partial payments on account thereof and to authorize said board of supervisors to pay the further sum of thirtyfive hundred dollars in full settlement for all material furnished and work done pursuant thereto

437 360 (H. B. 871) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Jefferson county, Mississippi, in their discretion, to borrow ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay outstanding warrants issued and payable out of the general county fund...

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361 (H. B. 323) AN ACT for the relief of W. W. Lee, superintendent of public education of Jefferson Davis county, authorizing the board of supervisors of said county, in their discretion, to pay to said superintendent a sum of money not exceeding two hundred and seventy-five dollars....... 439

362 (H. B. 739) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Kemper county, Mississippi, to pay L. L. Shumate and G. G. Jones, their actual expenses in going to Texas to buy mules for said county.... 439 363 (S. B. 566) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of

Lafayette county to pay the city of Oxford the sum of $24.42 to pay said city for road improvement work in front of the county jail property.......... 440 364 (S. B. 340) AN ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Lafayette county in its discretion to pay N. E. Parks the sum of one hundred and

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twenty-five dollars for loss of cattle killed by drinking of the contents of a dipping vat_____

365 (S. B. 465) AN ACT to legalize and validate certain road bonds of district number one of Lauderdale county issued and to be issued and providing that said district shall not issue road bonds in excess of the $400,000 of such bonds already issued and ordered to be issued unless authorized by the electors of said district _ _ _

366 (H. B. 841) AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Lawrence county to transfer a sufficient amount of common sounty fund to school fund to satisfy and pay any and all outstanding school warrants, and pay certificates of said county

367 (H. B. 87) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Lawrence county to pay any, or all, outstanding county school warrants or pay certificates due teachers or any person holding said warrants, or certificates, of said county out of the county school fund..

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368 (S. B. 51) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Leake county, Mississippi, in their discretion, to pay to W. H. Greer, a justice of the peace, the sum of ten ($10.00) dollars, or so much thereof as they see proper, as a refund for fines which he erroneously paid in the treasury of Leake county.. 443

369 (S. B. 574) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Leake county, Mississippi, to pay to the Tuscola separate school district, taxes belonging to said district which have been erroneously paid into the said county treasury by the tax collector of said county

370 (H. B. 808) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to refund to R. H. Rogers of Plantersville, Mississippi, certain tax money erroneously collected from him by the lower Town Creek drainage district..

371 (H. B. 42) AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Lincoln county to donate to the King's Daughters' hospital at Brookhaven, the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month, or less, to be used for the relief of the indigent, sick and needy of said county.

372 (H. B. 627) AN ACT to legalize certain bond issues of the board of supervisors of Lincoln county, Mississippi, to the Commercial Bank, Brookhaven Bank and Trust company, and J, N. Cook..

373 (H. B. 586) AN ACT empowering Lincoln county, through its superintendent of education, to pay to the Wesson high school its pro rata share of the common school funds that may be due to resident Lincoln county pupils who attend the Wesson public schools for the years 1913, 1914, and 1915 and 1916__

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374 (S. B. 505) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lincoln county to borrow $30,000.00 for the year 1914, and $30,000.00 for the year 1915, to maintain the public roads of said county.. 375 (S. B. 599) AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lincoln county to pay to T. H. Sasser the sum of $150.00 for personal injury sustained by wife and child on bridge on public highway-

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