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Ms. Const. art. 6, § 164 — Article 6 / Section 164
MS Const., Article 6, Section 164
Status: in_force

. A chancery court shall be held in each county at least twice in each year.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 175 — Article 6 / Section 175
MS Const., Article 6, Section 175
Status: in_force

. All public officers, for willful neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in office, shall be liable to presentment or indictment by a grand jury, and upon conviction, shall be removed from office, and otherwise punished as may be prescribed by law.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 5 — Article 15 / Section 5
MS Const., Article 15, Section 5
Status: in_force

. All official ballots intended for use at any voting precinct or place of voting shall be fastened together in convenient numbers and in some secure manner, but in such way that such ballots may be detached for use. A record of the number of official ballots printed and furnished to each voting precinct or place of voting, shall be kept and all such ballots accounted for by the officer or officers in each county charged with the printing of ballots.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 27 — Article 3 / Section 27
MS Const., Article 3, Section 27
Status: in_force

. No person shall for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally by information, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or the militia when in actual service, or by leave of the court for misdemeanor in office; but the legislature in cases not punishable by death or by imprisonment in the penitentiary, may dispense with the inquest of the grand jury, and may authorize prosecutions before justices of the peace, or such other inferior court or courts as may be established, and the proceedings in such cases shall be regulated by law.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 241 — Article 12 / Section 241
MS Const., Article 12, Section 241
Status: in_force

. Every male inhabitant of this State, except idiots, insane persons and Indians not taxed, who is a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old and upwards, who has resided in this State two years, and one year in the election district, or in the incorporated city or town, in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of bribery, burglary, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretenses, perjury, forgery, imbezzlement or bigamy, and who has paid, on or before the first day of February of the year in which he shall offer to vote, all taxes which may have been legally required of him, and which he has had an opportunity of paying according to law, for the two preceding years, and who shall produce to the officers holding the election satisfactory evidence that he has paid said taxes, is declared to be a qualified elector; but any minister of the gospel in charge of an organized church shall be entitled to vote after six months residence in the election district, if otherwise qualified.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 202 — Article 8 / Section 202
MS Const., Article 8, Section 202
Status: in_force

. There shall be a superintendent of public education elected at the same time and in the same manner as the governor, who shall have the qualifications required of the secretary of state, and hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, who shall have the general supervision of the common schools, and of the educational interests of the State, and who shall perform such other duties and receive such compensation as shall be prescribed by law.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 26 — Article 3 / Section 26
MS Const., Article 3, Section 26
Status: in_force

. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have a right to be heard by himself or counsel, or both, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted by the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and in all prosecutions by indictment or information, a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the county where the offense was committed; and he shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself; but in prosecutions for rape, adultery, fornication, sodomy, or the crime against nature, the court may in its direction exclude from the court room all persons except such as are necessary in the conduct of the trial.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 144 — Article 6 / Section 144
MS Const., Article 6, Section 144
Status: in_force

. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a supreme court and such other courts as are provided for in this constitution.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 132 — Article 5 / Section 132
MS Const., Article 5, Section 132
Status: in_force

. In case the election for lieutenant governor shall be contested, the contest shall be tried and determined in the same manner as a contest for the office of governor.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 213 — Article 8 / Section 213
MS Const., Article 8, Section 213
Status: in_force

. The State having received and appropriated the land donated to it for the support of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges, by the United States, and having, in furtherance of the beneficent design of Congress in granting said land, established the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi, and the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, it is the duty of the State to sacredly carry out the conditions of the act of Congress upon the subject, approved July 2d, A. D., 1862, and the legislature shall preserve intact the endowments to, and support, said colleges.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 119 — Article 5 / Section 119
MS Const., Article 5, Section 119
Status: in_force

. The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the State, and of the militia, except when they shall be called into the service of the United States.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 22 — Article 3 / Section 22
MS Const., Article 3, Section 22
Status: in_force

. No person's life or liberty shall be twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense; but there must be an actual acquittal or conviction on the merits to bar another prosecution.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 191 — Article 7 / Section 191
MS Const., Article 7, Section 191
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide for the protection of the employees of all corporations doing business in this State from interference with their social, civil, or political rights by said corporations, their agents or employees.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 103 — Article 4 / Section 103
MS Const., Article 4, Section 103
Status: in_force

. In all cases not otherwise provided for in this constitution, the legislature may determine the mode of filling all vacancies, in all offices, and in cases of emergency provisional appointments may be made by the governor, to continue until the vacancy is regularly filled; and the legislature shall provide suitable compensation for all officers, and shall define their respective powers.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 275 — Article 15 / Section 275
MS Const., Article 15, Section 275
Status: in_force

. All laws of this State which are repugnant to the following portions of this constitution, shall be repealed by the adoption of this constitution, to-wit: laws repugnant to: ( a ) All the ordinances of this convention. ( b ) The provisions of section 183, prohibiting counties, cities and towns from voting subscriptions to railroad and other corporations or associations. ( c ) The provisions of sections 223 to 226, inclusive, of Article 10, prohibiting the leasing of penitentiary convicts.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 246 — Article 12 / Section 246
MS Const., Article 12, Section 246
Status: in_force

. Prior to the first day of January, A. D., 1896, ​ the elections by the people in this State shall be regulated by an ordinance of this convention.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 220 — Article 9 / Section 220
MS Const., Article 9, Section 220
Status: in_force

. The militia shall be exempt from arrest during their attendance on musters, and in going to and returning from the same, except in case of treason, felony or breach of the peace.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 165 — Article 6 / Section 165
MS Const., Article 6, Section 165
Status: in_force

. No judge of any court shall preside on the trial of any cause where the parties or either of them shall be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity, or where he may be interested in the same, except by the consent of the judge and of the parties. Whenever any judge of the supreme court or the judge or chancellor of any district, in this State, shall, for any reason, be unable or disqualified to preside at any term of court, or in any case where the attorneys en ​ gaged therein shall not agree upon a member of the bar to preside in his place, the governor may commission another, or others, of law knowledge to preside at such term or during such disability or disqualification in the place of the judge or judges so disqualified. Where either party shall desire, the supreme court, for the trial of any cause shall be composed of three judges. No judgment or decree shall be affirmed by disagreement of two judges constituting a quorum.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 76 — Article 4 / Section 76
MS Const., Article 4, Section 76
Status: in_force

. In all elections by the legislature the members shall vote viva voce , and the votes shall be entered on the journals.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 257 — Article 14 / Section 257
MS Const., Article 14, Section 257
Status: in_force

. The political year of the State of Mississippi shall commence on the first Monday of January in each year.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 267 — Article 14 / Section 267
MS Const., Article 14, Section 267
Status: in_force

. No person elected or appointed to any office or employment of profit under the laws of this State, or by virtue of any ordinance of any municipality of this State, shall hold such office or employment without personally devoting his time to the performance of the duties thereof.
Ms. Const. art. 10, § 223 — Article 10 / Section 223
MS Const., Article 10, Section 223
Status: in_force

. No penitentiary convict shall ever be leased or hired to any person or persons, or corporation, private or public or quasi public, or board, after December the 31st, A. D. 1894, save as authorized in the next section, nor shall any previous lease or hiring of convicts extend beyond that date; and the legislature shall abandon the system of such leasing or hiring as much sooner than the date mentioned as may be consistent with the economic safety of the State. ​
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 243 — Article 12 / Section 243
MS Const., Article 12, Section 243
Status: in_force

. A uniform poll tax of two dollars, to be used in aid of the common schools, and for no other purpose, is hereby imposed on every male inhabitant of this State between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except persons who are deaf and dumb or blind, or who are maimed by loss of hand or foot; said tax to be a lien only upon taxable property. The board of supervisors of any county may, for the purpose of aiding the common schools in that county, increase the poll tax in said county, but in no case shall the entire poll tax exceed in any one year three dollars on each poll. No criminal proceedings shall be allowed to enforce the collection of the poll tax.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 192 — Article 7 / Section 192
MS Const., Article 7, Section 192
Status: in_force

. Provision shall be made by general laws whereby cities and towns may be authorized to aid and encourage the establishment of manufactories, gas-works, water-works, and other enterprises of public utility other than railroads, within the limits of said cities or towns, by exempting all property used for such purposes, from municipal taxation for a period not longer than ten years.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 121 — Article 5 / Section 121
MS Const., Article 5, Section 121
Status: in_force

. The governor shall have power to convene the legislature in extraordinary session whenever in his judgment the public interest requires it. Should the governor deem it necessary to convene the legislature, he shall do so by public proclamation, in which he shall state the subjects and matters to be considered by the legislature when so convened; and the legislature when so convened, as aforesaid, shall have no power to consider or act upon subjects or matters other than those designated in the proclamation of the governor, by which the session is called, except impeachments, and examination into the accounts of State officers. The legislature when so convened may also act on and consider such other matters as the governor may in writing submit to them while in session. The governor may convene the legislature at the seat of government, or at a different place, if that shall become dangerous from an enemy, or from disease; and in case of a disagreement between the two houses, with respect to time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not beyond the day of the next stated meeting of the legislature.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 233 — Article 11 / Section 233
MS Const., Article 11, Section 233
Status: in_force

. The levee boards shall have and are hereby granted authority and full power to appropriate private property in maintaining and repairing levees therein; and when any owner of land, or any other person interested therein, shall object to the location or building of the levee thereon, or shall claim compensation for any land that may be taken, or for any damages he may sustain in consequence thereof, the president or other proper officer or agent of such levee board, or owner of such land, or other person interested therein, may forthwith apply for an assessment of the damages to which said person claiming the same may be entitled whereupon the proceedings as now provided by law shall be taken, viz: in the Mississippi Levee District, in accordance with the terms and provisions of section 3 of an act entitled “an act to amend an act to incoporate the Board of Levee Commissioners for Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena counties, and for other purposes,” approved, November, 27, A. D., 1865, and to revise acts amendatory thereof, approved ​ March 13, A. D., 1884; and in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, in accordance with the terms and provisions of section three of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and for other purposes," approved February 28, A. D., 1884,” and the amendments thereto; but the legislature shall have full power to alter and amend said several acts, and to provide different manners of procedure.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 59 — Article 4 / Section 59
MS Const., Article 4, Section 59
Status: in_force

. Bills may originate in either house and be amended or rejected in the other; and every bill shall be read on three different days in each house unless two-thirds of the house where the same is pending shall dispense with the rules; and every bill shall be read in full immediately before the vote on its final passage; and every bill having passed both houses, shall be signed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of represenatives , in open session; but before either shall sign any bill, he shall give notice thereof, suspend business in the house over which he presides, have the bill read by its title, and on the demand of any member, have it read in full; and all such proceedings shall be entered on the journal.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 172 — Article 6 / Section 172
MS Const., Article 6, Section 172
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall, from time to time, establish such other inferior courts as may be necessary, and abolish the same whenever deemed expedient.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 253 — Article 12 / Section 253
MS Const., Article 12, Section 253
Status: in_force

. The legislature may by a two-thirds vote of both houses, of all members elected, restore the right of suffrage to any person disqualified by reason of crime; but the reasons therefor shall be spread upon the journals, and the vote shall be by yeas and nays.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 79 — Article 4 / Section 79
MS Const., Article 4, Section 79
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide by law for the sale of all delinquent tax lands. The courts shall apply the same liberal principles in favor of such titles as in sale by execution. The right of redemption from all sales of real estate, for the non-payment of taxes, or special assessments, of any and every character whatsoever, shall exist, on conditions to be prescribed by law, in favor of owners and persons interested in such real estate, for a period of not less than two years.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 271 — Article 14 / Section 271
MS Const., Article 14, Section 271
Status: in_force

. The legislature may provide for the consolidation of existing counties, if a majority of the qualified electors of such counties voting at an election held for that purpose, shall vote therefor.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 12 — Article 15 / Section 12
MS Const., Article 15, Section 12
Status: in_force

. On receiving his ballot the voter shall forthwith go into one of the voting compartments, and shall prepare his ballot by marking with ink in the appropriate margin or place, a cross (x) opposite the name of the candidate of his choice, for each office to be filled, or by filling in the name of the candidate substituted in the blank space as provided therefore, and marking a cross (x) opposite thereto, and likewise a cross (x) opposite the answer he desires to give in case of an election on a constitutional amendment or other question or matter. Before leaving the voting shelf, table or compartment, the voter shall fold his ballot without displaying the marks thereon, but so that the words “official ballot,” followed by the designation of the election precinct for which the ballot is prepared and the date of the election, shall be visible to the officers of the election. He shall then cast his ballot in the manner provided by law, which shall be done without undue delay, and the voter shall then quit the said inclosed place as soon as he has voted. No voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting shelf, table or compartment already occupied by another voter, nor longer than ten minutes if other voters are not waiting, nor longer than five minutes in case other voters are waiting. No person shall be allowed in the room in which said ballot boxes or compartments, tables and shelves are, except the officers of election and the person distributing the ballots, and those appointed by the officers holding the election, to aid them therein.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 9 — Article 15 / Section 9
MS Const., Article 15, Section 9
Status: in_force

. The deputy commissioners receiving the ballots from said commissioner shall distribute the same to the electors of the proper districts in the manner herein provided; and in case the said deputy commissioner shall fail to have said ballots at the election precincts at the proper time, or, if there, he shall fail to distribute the same, the inspectors of election, or those of them present at the election, shall provide said ballots and select some suitable person to distribute the same according to law, who shall take the oath required to be taken by the person to whom the said commissioner delivered said ballots, to be administered by any one of said inspectors.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 211 — Article 8 / Section 211
MS Const., Article 8, Section 211
Status: in_force

. The rate of interest on the fund known as the Chickasaw School fund, and other trust funds for educational purposes, for which the State is reponsible , shall be fixed and remain as long as said funds are held by the State, at six per centum per annum, from and after the close of the fiscal year, A. D., 1891, and the distribution of said interest shall be made semi-annually on the first of May and November of each year.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 116 — Article 5 / Section 116
MS Const., Article 5, Section 116
Status: in_force

. The chief executive power of this State shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years, and who shall be ineligible as his immediate successor in office. ​
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 19 — Article 15 / Section 19
MS Const., Article 15, Section 19
Status: in_force

. The boards of supervisors of the several counties, and the municipal authorities of the cities and towns of the State, are authorized to allow reasonable compensation to officers for services under this ordinance. Adopted by the Convention November 1, 1890. S. S. CALHOON, President. Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary. ​ AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING TERMS OF STATE OFFICERS. Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 36 — Article 4 / Section 36
MS Const., Article 4, Section 36
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall meet at the seat of government in regular session, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of the year A. D., 1892, and every four years thereafter; and in special session on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of the year A. D., 1894, and every four years thereafter, unless sooner convened by the governor. The special sessions shall not continue longer than thirty days unless the governor, deeming the public interest to require it, shall extend the sitting by proclamation in writing to be sent to and entered upon the journals of each house, for a specific number of days, and then it may continue in session to the expiration of that time. At such special sessions the members shall receive not more compensation or salary than ten cents mileage, and a per diem of not exceeding five dollars; and none but appropriation and revenue bills shall be considered except such other matters as may be acted upon at an extraordinary session called by the governor.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 45 — Article 4 / Section 45
MS Const., Article 4, Section 45
Status: in_force

. No senator or representative during the term for which he was elected, shall be eligible to any office of profit, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which have been increased, during the time such senator or representative was in office, except to such offices as may be filled by an election of the people. ​
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 280 — Article 15 / Section 280
MS Const., Article 15, Section 280
Status: in_force

. For the trial and determination of all suits civil and criminal, begun before the adoption of this constitution, the several courts of this State shall continue to exercise in said suits the powers and jurisdictions heretofore exercised by them; for all other matters said courts are continued as organized courts under this constitution, with such powers and jurisdiction as is herein conferred on them respectively.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 272 — Article 14 / Section 272
MS Const., Article 14, Section 272
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide by law, pensions for indigent soldiers and sailors who enlisted and honorably served in the Confederate army or navy in the late cival war, who are now resident in this State, and are not able to earn a support by their own labor. Pensions shall also be allowed to the indigent widows of such soldiers or sailors now dead, when from age or disease, they cannot earn a support. Pensions shall also be allowed to the wives of such soldiers or sailors upon the death of the husband, if disabled and indigent as aforesaid. Pensions granted to widows shall cease upon their subsequent marriage.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 118 — Article 5 / Section 118
MS Const., Article 5, Section 118
Status: in_force

. The governor shall receive for his services such compensation as may be fixed by law, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during his term of office.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 264 — Article 14 / Section 264
MS Const., Article 14, Section 264
Status: in_force

. No person shall be a grand or petit juror unless a qualified elector and able to read and write; but the want of any such qualification in any juror shall not vitiate any indictment or verdict. The legislature shall provide by law for procuring a list of persons so qualified, and the drawing therefrom of grand and petit jurors for each term of the circuit court.