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which to purchase necessary kitchen utensils, china for dining

room, furniture and necessary articles for the mansion and to

provide for such expenditures...

40 (S. B. 109) AN ACT to provide for the maintenance of the geological,

economic, topographical and soil survey of the state of Mississippi,

and to provide for co-operation of the geological and soil surveys

of the United States.....

41 (H. B. 876) AN ACT to appropriate money to defray the expenses of

publishing the supreme court reports and to pay the salary of the

supreme court reporter and the stenographer for such reporter....

42 (H. B. 788) AN ACT to appropriate money for assessors' commissions

for 1916 and 1917...

43 (H. B. 269) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of four hundred and sev-

enty-five thousand dollars ($475,000.00) for the year of 1916, and

four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($450,000.00) for 1917, for

pensions for confederate soldiers, sailors, widows and servants for

the war between the states....

44 (S. B. 257) AN ACT making an appropriation for the year 1916 and

the year 1917 for the extension work under the Smith-Lever act of

Congress approved by the president on the eighth day of May, 1914,

and providing for the payment and disbursement thereof..

45 (S. B. 554) AN ACT to make an appropriation to carry out the pro-

visions of sections 2927, 2947, 2498, 2949, 4346, 4347, 4348, 4349 of the

code of Mississippi of 1906, providing for the relief in repayment of

money erroneously paid in privileges and state taxes and lands

purchased. . .

46 (S. B. 367) AN ACT to appropriate money for the support and mainte-

nance and further equipment of the penitentiary and state farms

for the years 1916 and 1917.....

47 (S. B. 341) AN ACT to make an appropriation to cover the deficiency

now due by the Mississippi state penitentiary for its maintenance

during the months of November and December, 1915.......

48 (H. B. 57) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $40,281.25 from the

state treasury to reimburse the First National Bank, of Jackson,

Mississippi, for advances made for the support and maintenance of

the state penitentiary for the year 1914, as authorized by chapter

66 of the laws of Mississippi of 1914....

49 (H. B. 58) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $38,212.50 from the

state treasury to reimburse the Merchants Bank & Trust Co., of

Jackson, Mississippi, for advances made for the support and mainte-

nance of the state penitentiary for the year 1915, as authorized by

chapter 66 of the laws of Mississippi of 1914.

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50 (S. B. 577) AN ACT to make an appropriation of twenty-five thousand

dollars for the purpose of buying land, erecting buildings and equip.

ping the Mississippi industrial and training school.....

51 (S. B. 127) AN ACT to appropriate money for the support of summer

normals.

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52 (H. B. 328) AN ACT making an appropriation for the general expense

of the state board of health, and for the eradication of the follow-

ing diseases: tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever, pellagra, hook-

worm, diphtheria, smallpox, and other infectious diseases, for rural

sanitation, for chemical and bacteriological work, for such investi-

gation of disease as may be necessary in their prevention........ 51

53 (H. B. 14) AN ACT appropriating the sum of twenty thousand dollars

($20,000.00) for use of penitentiary trustees in building and placing

in operation plants for crushing limestone, as authorized by chapter

132 of the laws of 1914......

54 (H. B. 587) AN ACT to appropriate money to pay the premiums on

bonds of state officers in guaranty or surety companies.....

55 (H. B. 611) AN ACT to make an appropriation toward supporting the

fire department of the city of Jackson, for the better protection of

state property for the years 1916 and 1917..

56 (H. B. 71) AN ACT appropriating the sum of fifteen hundred dollars

($1,500.00) for the year 1916, and fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00)

for the year 1917, for the purpose of paying the expenses of any

troops or equipment of the Mississippi national guard when called

out to aid the civil authorities, or to aid storm or flood sufferers,

and for the purpose of replacing any military property, belonging

to the United States and loaned to the state of Mississippi for the

use of the Mississippi national guard, which shall be lost, destroyed

or damaged in such service....

57 (H. B. 483) AN ACT to authorize refunding to E. F. Noel $163.45 of

the $193.41, on special deposit in the First National Bank, of Jack-

son, Mississippi, on January 16, 1912, and transferred to his suc-

cessor in office, and still remaining as special deposit; and to cover

the excess back into the state treasury...

58 (H. B. 879) AN ACT to appropriate money to pay the expenses of the

highway department of the state of Mississippi for the years 1916

and 1917.....

59 (S. B. 605) AN ACT to appropriate $20,750.00 to pay salaries, ex-

penses and equipment of the board of state tax commissioners for

the years 1916 and 1917...

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60 (H. B. 747) AN ACT to appropriate four thousand seven hundred and

twenty-five dollars ($4,725.00) for salaries of assistant and addi-

tional clerk in the state department of education.....

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61 (H. B. 70) AN ACT appropriating the sum of thirteen thousand

three hundred dollars ($13,300.00) for the years 1916, and thirteen

thousand three hundred dollars ($13,300.00) for the year 1917, for

the support and maintenance of the Mississippi national guard.... 58

62 (H. B. 773) AN ACT appropriating the sum of twelve hundred and

fifty dollars for each of the years 1916 and 1917 to pay the per diem

and expenses and incidental office expenses of the board of par-

dons, or pardoning board, and providing how such amounts shall

be paid.....

63 (H. B. 552) AN ACT to appropriate $3,840.00 to pay special judges and

chancellors for services rendered during the years 1914 and 1915..

64 (S. B. 117) AN ACT to authorize and direct the state treasurer to pay

to the board of oyster commissioners twenty-three thousand dollars

($23,000.00) out of the oyster fund for each of the years 1916 and

1917, being the amount authorized to be expended under section

3499 and 3506 of the code of 1906....

65 (H. B. 805) AN ACT to authorize and empower the state of Missis-

sippi to employ a competent person to search out and classify the

old records and documents belonging to the auditor's and treas-

urer's office so as to secure records to prove the invalidity of the

old levee district number one bonds for which the state is now be-

ing sued in the case of Amos Woodruff, trustee, vs. State of Mis-

sissippi, in the chancery court of Hinds county, and making appro-

priation therefor...

66 (S. B. 606) AN ACT to make an additonal appropriation as a contin-

gent fund for the senate to defray the expenses of the fiscal com-

Imittee of the senate..

67 (S. B. 574) AN ACT to make an appropriation of fifteen thousand dol-

lars for the purpose of erecting an industrial building and equipping

same at the blind'institute, at Jackson, Mississippi.....

68 (S. B. 522) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of twenty-five thousand

dollars ($25,000.00) to be used for the establishment and operation

of a sanitarium for the treatment of tubercular patients in the state

of Mississippi.....

69 (S. B. 266) AN ACT to appropriate $125,000.00 out of money raised by

a bond issue, to aid in the establishing and maintaining the Mis-

sissippi centennial exposition at Gulfport, Mississippi....

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70 (S. B. 590) AN ACT to appropriate $500,000.00 for the redemption of the four per cent bonds issued in 1906, which will fall due on the first day of July, 1916... . . .

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71 (S. B. 599) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $33,750.00 to pay interest on the bonded indebtedness of the state authorized by house bill No. 668 of the legislature of 1916, to the amount of $500,000.00 for the first eighteen months after the issuance of said bonds..... 66 72 (H. B. 932) AN ACT to appropriate money to pay the interest for the years 1916 and 1917 on $500,000.00 of 32 per cent state bonds issued during the year 1914...

73 (S. B. 461) AN ACT making an appropriation of three hundred dollars for the year 1916 and three hundred dollars for the year 1917, to be used in carrying out the provisions of an act entitled "An act to prevent blindness in new born," etc., approved March 15, 1916 74 (H. B. 104) AN ACT to appropriate one hundred dollars ($100.00) to pay W. J. Gex, of Hancock county, as a refund of like amount paid by him to state land commissioner for lands which the state did not own....

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75 (S. B. 527) AN ACT appropriating one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000.00) to repair old capitol......

76 (H. B. 943) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 to cover printing and advertising $500,000.00 of bonds as provided for in house bill No. 668, legislature of 1916......

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79 (S. B. 540) AN ACT making an approppriation; $750,00 to be paid for clerical help in the office of the state land commissioner from August 7, 1915, to March 21, 1916...

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81 (S. B. 348) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $200.00 for the year 1916 and the same for the year 1917 for additional salary allowed the assistant or clerk in office of the secretary of state....

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82 (S. B. 278) AN ACT to appropriate money to pay outstanding coupons on state bonds, numbered 214 to 221, inclusive, issued July 1, 1910.. 83 (S. B. 97) AN ACT to appropriate forty dollars ($40.00) to pay interest coupons of bonds numbers 374 and 375 of the Mississipppi four per cent bond issue of 1906, due January 1, 1914.....

84 (H. B. 903) AN ACT to appropriate $20.00 to pay interest coupons on four per cent bonds of 1910 due January 1, 1914, the appropriation for which has lapsed under the constitution....

85 (H. B. 49) AN ACT to raise revenue to carry on the state government of Mississippi for the years 1916 and 1917....

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88 (S. B. 318) AN ACT authorizing the issuance of state bonds in the sum of $315,000.00 to pay for permanent improvements for the following purposes, to-wit: A building and equipping for the Mississippi industrial and training school, $25,000.00; building and equipping a tuberculosis hospital, $25,000.00; for the restoration of the old capitol, $125,000.00; the erection of an industrial building at the blind institute and equipping same, $15,000.00; to aid in the operation of the Mississippi centennial exposition, the sum of $125,000.00 ..

89 (H. B. 585) AN ACT to amend section 3849 of the code of 1906 as amended by chapter 73, laws of 1908; chapter 95, laws of 1910; chapter 92, laws of 1912, and chapter 109 of the laws of 1914, so as to provide a better schedule for the taxation of peddlers...

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91 (H. B. 379) AN ACT to tax as a privilege the business of operating or maintaining "grab cars," boarding cars or commissaries in box cars of two or more outfits when contracted for by an individual or corporation furnishing or supplying employes or others with goods and merchandise in payment of wages or otherwise.....

92 (H. B. 191) AN ACT to amend section 935 of the code of 1906 so as to require foreign corporations to pay the same fees, and have charter approved in the same manner, as domestic corporations..

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