LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

PASSED AT A REGULAR SESSION

OF THE

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

HELD IN THE CITY OF JACKSON

Commencing January 4, 1916, Ending April 8, 1916

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

MEMPHIS, TENN.
E. H. CLARKE & BRO. ,

1916

TITLES TO ACTS

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Page 1 (H. B. 224) AN ACT to appropriate money to defray the expenses of

the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the state government, and to pay the interest on the state debt....

1 2 (H. B. 1) AN ACT to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of the regular session of the legislature of 1916.....

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3 (S. B. 594) AN ACT to appropriate $1,500.00 for the contingent fund

of the senate and $2,000.00 for the contingent fund of the house for the remainder of the session of 1916......

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4 (H. B. 597) AN ACT to appropriate money for the maintenance of

the public schools of the state of Mississippi for the year 1916.... 5 (11. B. 631) AN ACT to appropriate money for the maintenance of

the public schools of the state of Mississippi for the scholastic year

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1916 to 1917..... 6 (S. B. 228) AN ACT to provide for the maintenance of the Mississippi

department of archives and history; to provide for its publication and for the publications of the Mississippi historical society......

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7 (S. B. 145) AN ACT to make an appropriation for the support,

maintenance, repairs, additional buildings, improvements, furnishings and equipment of the University of Mississippi for 1916 and 1917.

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8 (S. B. 133) AN ACT making an appropriation for the support, mainte

nance, repairs, additional improvements, furnishings and equipment of the Mississippi agricultural and mechanical college.....

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9 (H. B. 26) AN ACT making an appropriation of twenty-seven thou

sand five hundred dollars ($27,500.00) out of moneys turned into
the state treasury from the sale of feed, fertilizer and cotton seed
meal tags, for use of the department of agriculture and commerce
in the enforcing of said laws during the years 1916 and 1917...... 15

10 (S. B. 83) AN ACT making an appropriation for support, mainte

nance, repairs, improvements, furnishings and equipment of the
Mississippi industrial institute and college....

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11 (H. B. 385) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment, sup

port and maintenance of the chemical department of the agricultural and mechanical college at Starkville, Mississippi, and for the anylitical inspection work done under the direction of the state chemist for the years 1916 and 1917....

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12 (S. B. 112) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment and

support of the branch agricultural experiment station at Stoneville,
Mississippi..

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Chapter

Page 13 (S. B. 112) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment and

support of the branch agricultural experiment station at Stoneville, Mississippi.......

19 14 (H. B. 213) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment and

support of the branch agricultural experiment station at McNeill,

Mississippi ...
15 (H. B. 213) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment and

support of the branch agricultural experiment station at McNeill,
Mississippi, and particularly that part of said bill reading as
follows...

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16 (S. B. 115) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment and

support of the branch agricultural experiment station at Holly Springs, Mississippi.....

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17 (S. B. 115) AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment and

support of the branch agricultural experiment station at Holly

Springs, Mississippi.... 18 (S. B. 240) AN ACT making an appropriation for the support, mainte

nance, repairs, improvements, furnishing, and equipment of the Al

corn agricultural and mechanical college.
19 (S. B. 33) AN ACT to make an appropriation to defray the expenses

of the state insane hospital at Jackson, Mississippi, for the years
1916 and 1917....

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20 (H. B. 62) AN ACT to make an appropriation to defray the expenses

of the East Mississippi insane hospital for the years 1916 and 1917. 21 (H. B. 3) AN ACT to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of

the institution for the deaf and dumb for the years 1916 and 1917.

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Page 27 (H. B. 135) AN ACT to make an appropriation in aid of the Mattie

Hersee hospital of Meridian, Mississippi, and providing for the disbursement thereof for the years 1916 and 1917.....

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28 (H. B. 141) AN ACT making an appropriation in aid of King's Daugh

ters hospital and training school, at Gulfport, Mississippi, and providing for the disbursement of same for the years 1916 and 1917...

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29 (H. B. 242) AN ACT to appropriate money to defray the expenses of

conducting the capitol building and department therein of the state government and to improve and beautify the grounds....

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30 (S. B. 196) AN ACT to make an appropriation for the support of the

Mississippi normal college and for equipments needed thereto for the years 1916 and 1917....

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31 (H. B. 77) AN ACT to make an appropriation to pay for water for the

several state institutions located in the city of Jackson...

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32 (H. B. 772) AN ACT making an appropriation to furnish lights and

fuel for the governor's mansion for the years 1916 and 1917 ......... 37

33 (H. B. 263) AN ACT appropriating the sum of thirty-five thousand

dollars ($35,000.00) for the use of the live stock sanitary board for the years 1916 and 1917......

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34 (H. B. 285) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $662.00 to defray the

balance of the expenses of the Mississippi text-book commission..

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35 (H. B. 72) AN ACT to appropriate money for the aid of agricultural

high schools in the state of Mississippi durings the years 1916-1917.

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36 (H. B. 73) AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $16,352.00, or so much

thereof as may be necessary to cover a deficiency in the annual appropriation for the partial maintenance of county agricultural high schools for the scholastic year of 1914-1915..

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37 (S. B. 38) AN ACT making an appropriation for the maintenance and

support and providing necessary equipment for the indigent sol

diers, sailors and their wives and widows, at Beauvoir.... 38 (H. B. 43) AN ACT to appropriate from the pension fund refunded to

the treasury money to pay pensions to those whose applications were received after distribution had been made to the counties by the auditor, or whose names were omitted from the pension list through mistake, and in the event of death of any pensioner before receiving his pension, providing how such pension shall be distributed ..

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