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Ms. Const. art. 4, § 91 — Article 4 / Section 91
MS Const., Article 4, Section 91
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall not enact any law for one or more counties, not applicable to all the counties in the State, increasing the uniform charge for the registration of deeds, or regulating costs and charges and fees of officers.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 52 — Article 4 / Section 52
MS Const., Article 4, Section 52
Status: in_force

. When the governor shall be tried, the chief justice of the supreme court shall preside; and when the chief justice is disabled, disqualified, or refuses to act, the judge of the supreme court, next oldest in commission, shall preside; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the senators present.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 60 — Article 4 / Section 60
MS Const., Article 4, Section 60
Status: in_force

. No bill shall be so amended in its passage through either house as to change its original purpose, and no law shall be passed except by bill; but orders, votes and resolutions of both houses, affecting the prerogatives and duties thereof, or relating to adjournment, to amendments to the constitution, to the investigation of public officers, and the like, shall not require the signature of the governor; and such resolutions, orders and votes, may empower legislative ​ committees to administer oaths, to send for persons and papers, and generally make legislative investigations effective.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 41 — Article 4 / Section 41
MS Const., Article 4, Section 41
Status: in_force

. No person shall be a member of the house of representatives who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who shall not be a qualified elector of the State, and who shall not have been a resident citizen of the State four years, and of the county two years, immediately preceding his election. The seat of a member of the house of representatives shall be vacated on his removal from the county or flotorial district from which he was elected.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 90 — Article 4 / Section 90
MS Const., Article 4, Section 90
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall not pass local, private or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, but such matters shall be provided for only by general laws, viz: ( a ) Granting divorces. ( b ) Changing the names of persons, places or corporations. ( c ) Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases . ( d ) Regulating the rate of interest on money. ( e ) Concerning the settlement or administration of any estate, or the sale or mortgage of any property, of any infant, or of a person of unsound mind, or of any deceased person. ( f ) The removal of the disability of infancy. ( g ) Granting to any person, corporation or association the right to have any ferry, bridge, road or fish-trap. ( h ) Exemption of property from taxation, or from levy or sale. ( i ) Providing for the adoption or legitimation of children. ( j ) Changing the law of descent and distribution. ​ ( k ) Exempting any person from jury, road, or other civil duty (and no person shall be exempted therefrom by force of any local or private law.) ( l ) Laying out, opening, altering and working roads and highways. ( m ) Vacating any road or highway, town plat, street, alley or public grounds. ( n ) Selecting, drawing, summoning or empaneling grand or petit juries. ( o ) Creating, increasing, or decreasing the fees, salary or emoluments of any public officer. ( p ) Providing for the management or support of any private or common school, incorporating the same or granting such school any privileges. ( q ) Relating to stock laws, water courses and fences. ( r ) Conferring the power to exercise the right of eminent domain, or granting to any person, corporation, or association the right to lay down railroad tracks, or street car tracks, in any other manner than that prescribed by general law. ( s ) Regulating the practice in courts of justice. ( t ) Providing for the creation of districts for the election of justices of the peace and constables. ( u ) Granting any lands under control of the State to any person or corporation. PROHIBITIONS.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 142 — Article 5 / Section 142
MS Const., Article 5, Section 142
Status: in_force

. In case of an election of governor or any State officer by the house of representatives, no member of that house shall be eligible to receive any appointment from the governor or other State officer so elected, during the term for which he shall be selected.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 86 — Article 4 / Section 86
MS Const., Article 4, Section 86
Status: in_force

. It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide by law for the treatment and care of the insane; and the legislature may provide for the care of the indigent sick in the hospitals in the State. LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 108 — Article 4 / Section 108
MS Const., Article 4, Section 108
Status: in_force

. Whenever the legislature shall take away the duties pertaining to any office, then the salary of the officer shall cease.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 205 — Article 8 / Section 205
MS Const., Article 8, Section 205
Status: in_force

. A public school shall be maintained in each school district in the county at least four months during each scholastic year. A school district neglecting to maintain its school four months, shall be entitled to only such part of the free school fund as may be required to pay the teacher for the time actually taught.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 155 — Article 6 / Section 155
MS Const., Article 6, Section 155
Status: in_force

. The judges of the several courts of this State shall, before they proceed to execute the duties of their re spective offices, take the following oath or affirmation, to-wit: “І, —————— , solemly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as —————— according to the best of my ability and understanding, agreeably to the constitution of the United States, and the constitution and laws of the State of Mississippi; so help me God.”
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 38 — Article 4 / Section 38
MS Const., Article 4, Section 38
Status: in_force

. Each house shall elect its own officers, and shall judge of the qualifications, return and election of its own members.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 248 — Article 12 / Section 248
MS Const., Article 12, Section 248
Status: in_force

. Suitable remedies by appeal or otherwise shall be provided by law, to correct illegal or improper registration and to secure the elective franchise to those who may be illegally or improperly denied the same.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 82 — Article 4 / Section 82
MS Const., Article 4, Section 82
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall fix the amount of the penalty of all official bonds, and may, as for as practicable, provide that the whole or a part of the security required for the faithful discharge of official duty shall be made by some guarantee company or companies.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 28 — Article 3 / Section 28
MS Const., Article 3, Section 28
Status: in_force

. Cruel or unusual punishment shall not be inflicted, nor excessive fines be imposed.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 64 — Article 4 / Section 64
MS Const., Article 4, Section 64
Status: in_force

. No bill passed after the adoption of this constitution to make appropriations of money out of the State treasury, shall continue in force more than six months after the meeting of the legislature at its next regular session; nor shall such bill be passed except by the votes of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the legislature.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 163 — Article 6 / Section 163
MS Const., Article 6, Section 163
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide by law for the due certification of all causes that may be transferred to or from any chancery court or circuit court, for such reformation of the pleadings therein as may be necessary, and the adjudication of the costs of such transfer.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 162 — Article 6 / Section 162
MS Const., Article 6, Section 162
Status: in_force

. All causes that may be brought in the chancery court whereof the circuit court has exclusive jurisdiction shall be transferred to the circuit court.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 98 — Article 4 / Section 98
MS Const., Article 4, Section 98
Status: in_force

. No lottery shall ever be allowed, or be advertised by newspapers, or otherwise, or its tickets be sold in this State; and the legislature shall provide by law for the enforcement of this provision; nor shall any lottery heretofore authorized be permitted to be drawn or its tickets sold.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 110 — Article 4 / Section 110
MS Const., Article 4, Section 110
Status: in_force

. The legislature may provide, by general law, for condemning rights of way for private roads, where necessary for ingress and egress by the party applying, on due compensation being first made to the owner of the property; ​ but such rights of way shall not be provided for in incorporated cities and towns.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 31 — Article 3 / Section 31
MS Const., Article 3, Section 31
Status: in_force

. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 130 — Article 5 / Section 130
MS Const., Article 5, Section 130
Status: in_force

. The lieutenant-governor shall receive for his services the same compensation as the speaker of the house of representatives.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 63 — Article 4 / Section 63
MS Const., Article 4, Section 63
Status: in_force

. No appropriation bill shall be passed by the legislature which does not fix definitely the maximum sum thereby authorized to be drawn from the treasury.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 222 — Article 9 / Section 222
MS Const., Article 9, Section 222
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall empower the board of supervisors of each county in the State to aid in supporting a military company or companies, of the Mississippi National Guard, within its borders, under such regulations, limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by law.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 152 — Article 6 / Section 152
MS Const., Article 6, Section 152
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall divide the State into convenient circuit and chancery court districts.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 8 — Article 3 / Section 8
MS Const., Article 3, Section 8
Status: in_force

. All persons resident in this State, citizens of the United States, are hereby declared citizens of the State of Mississippi.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 232 — Article 11 / Section 232
MS Const., Article 11, Section 232
Status: in_force

. The commissioners of said levee districts shall have supervision of the erection, repair and maintenance of the levees in their respective districts.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 112 — Article 4 / Section 112
MS Const., Article 4, Section 112
Status: in_force

. Taxation shall be uniform and equal throughont the State. Property shall be taxed in proportion to its value. The legislature may, however, impose a tax per capita upon such domestic animals as from their nature and habits are destructive of other property. Property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its true value. But the legislature may provide for a special mode of valuation and assessment for railroads, and railroad and other corporate property, or for particular species of property belonging to persons, corporations or associations not situated wholly in one county. But all such property shall be assessed at its true value, and, no county shall be denied the right to levy county and special taxes upon such assessment as in other cases of property situated and assessed in the county.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 216 — Article 9 / Section 216
MS Const., Article 9, Section 216
Status: in_force

. All officers of militia, except non-commissioned officers, shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, or elected, as the legislature may ​ determine; and no commissioned officer shall be removed from office except by the senate on suggestion of the governor, stating the ground on which such removal is recommended, or by the decision of a court martial, pursuant to law, or at his own request.
Ms. Const. art. 2, § 3 — Article 2 / Section 3
MS Const., Article 2, Section 3
Status: in_force

. The limits and boundaries of the State of Mississippi are as follows, to-wit: Beginning on the Mississippi river (meaning thereby the center of said river or thread of the stream) where the southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee strikes the same, as run by B. A. Ludlow, D. W. Connelly and W. Petrie, commissioners appointed for that purpose on the part of the State of Mississippi in A. D., 1837, and J. D. Graham and Austin Miller, commissioners appointed for that purpose on the part of the State of ​ Tennessee; thence east along the said boundary line of the State of Tennessee to a point on the west bank of the Tennessee river, six four-pole chains south of and above the mouth of Yellow Creek; thence up the said river to the mouth of Bear Creek; thence by a direct line to what was formerly the northwest corner of the county of Washington, Alabama; thence on a direct line to a point ten miles east of the Pascagoula river on the Gulf of Mexico; thence westwardly, including all the islands within six leagues of the shore, to the most eastern junction of Pearl river with Lake Borgne; thence up said Pearl river to the thirty-first degree of north latitude; thence west along the said degree of latitude to the middle or thread of the stream of the Mississippi river; thence up the middle of the Mississippi river, or thread of the stream, to the place of beginning, including all islands lying east of the thread of the stream of said river, and also including any lands which were at any time heretofore a part of this State.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 171 — Article 6 / Section 171
MS Const., Article 6, Section 171
Status: in_force

. A competent number of justices of the peace and constables shall be chosen in each county in the manner provided by law, for each district, who shall hold their office for the term of four years. No person shall be eligible to the office of justice of the peace who shall not have resided two years in the district next preceding his selection. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace shall extend to causes in which the principal amount in controversy shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars; and they shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the circuit court over all crimes whereof the punishment prescribed does not extend beyond ​ a fine and imprisonment in the county jail; but the legislature may confer on the justices of the peace exclusive jurisdiction in such petty misdemeanors as it shall see proper. In all causes tried by a justice of the peace, the right of appeal shall be secured under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by law, and no justice of the peace shall preside at the trial of any cause where he may be interested, or the parties or either of them shall be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity, except by the consent of the justice of the peace and of the parties.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 137 — Article 5 / Section 137
MS Const., Article 5, Section 137
Status: in_force

. It shall be the duty of the state treasurer, within ten days after the first day of January and July of each year, to publish a statement under oath, in some newspaper published at the seat of government, showing the condition of the treasury on said days, the balance on hand and in what funds, together with a certificate of the governor that he has verified the count of the funds in the treasury and found the ​ balance, stated by the treasurer, actually in the vaults of the treasury, or as the truth may be. And it shall be the duty of the governor at such other times as he may deem proper, to go to the treasury, without giving notice to the treasurer, and verify the cash balance as shown by the books, and to publish the fact that he has done so, and whether the amount called for by the books be actually in the treasury, and stating whether the treasurer had any notice whatever that the verification would be made.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 266 — Article 14 / Section 266
MS Const., Article 14, Section 266
Status: in_force

. No person holding or exercising the rights or powers of any office of honor or profit, either in his own right, or as a deputy, or while otherwise acting for or in the name, or by the authority of another, under any foreign government, or under the government of the United States, shall hold or exercise in any way the rights and powers of any office of honor or profit under the laws or authority of this State, except notaries, commissioners of deeds, and United States commissioners.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 77 — Article 4 / Section 77
MS Const., Article 4, Section 77
Status: in_force

. The governor shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature, and the persons thereupon chosen shall hold their seats for the unexpired term. INJUNCTIONS.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 29 — Article 3 / Section 29
MS Const., Article 3, Section 29
Status: in_force

. Excessive bail shall not be required; and all persons, shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient ​ sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or presumption great.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 190 — Article 7 / Section 190
MS Const., Article 7, Section 190
Status: in_force

. The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be abridged, or so construed as to prevent the legislature from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies, and subjecting them to public use; and the exercise of the police powers of the State shall never be abridged, or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe upon the rights of individuals, or the general well being of the State.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 161 — Article 6 / Section 161
MS Const., Article 6, Section 161
Status: in_force

. And the chancery court shall have jurisdiction, concurrent with the circuit court, of suits on bonds of fiduciaries and public officers for failure to account for money or property received or wasted or lost by neglect or failure to collect, and of suits involving inquiry into matters of mutual accounts; but if the plaintiff brings his suit in the circuit court, that court may, on application of the defendant, transfer the cause to the chancery court if it appears that the accounts to be investigated are mutual and complicated.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 104 — Article 4 / Section 104
MS Const., Article 4, Section 104
Status: in_force

. Statutes of limitation in civil causes shall not run against the State, or any subdivision, or municipal corporation thereof.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 18 — Article 3 / Section 18
MS Const., Article 3, Section 18
Status: in_force

. No religious test as a qualification for office shall be required; and no preference shall be given by law to any religious sect, or mode of worship; but the free enjoyment of all religious sentiments and the different modes of worship shall be held sacred. The rights hereby secured shall not be construed to justify acts of licentiousness injurious to morals or dangerous to the peace and safety of the State, or to exclude the Holy Bible from use in any public school of this State.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 81 — Article 4 / Section 81
MS Const., Article 4, Section 81
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall never authorize the permanent obstruction of any of the navigable waters of this State; but may provide for the removal of such obstructions as now exist, whenever the public welfare demands; this section shall not prevent the construction, under proper authority, of draw-bridges for railroads, or other roads, nor the construction of “booms and chutes” for logs in such manner as not to prevent the safe passage of vessels, or logs, under regulations to be provided by law.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 70 — Article 4 / Section 70
MS Const., Article 4, Section 70
Status: in_force

. No revenue bill nor any bill providing for assessments of property for taxation, shall become a law, ex ​ cept by a vote of at least three-fifths of the members of each house present, and voting.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 174 — Article 6 / Section 174
MS Const., Article 6, Section 174
Status: in_force

. A district attorney for each circuit court district shall be selected in the manner provided by law, whose term of office shall be four years, whose duties shall be prescribed by law, and whose compensation shall be a fixed salary.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 51 — Article 4 / Section 51
MS Const., Article 4, Section 51
Status: in_force

. Judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit in this State; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 67 — Article 4 / Section 67
MS Const., Article 4, Section 67
Status: in_force

. No new bills shall be introduced into either house of the legislature during the last three days of the session.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 138 — Article 5 / Section 138
MS Const., Article 5, Section 138
Status: in_force

. The sheriff, coroner, treasurer, assessor, surveyor, clerks of the courts, and members of the board of supervisors of the several counties, and all other officers exercising local jurisdiction therein, shall be selected in the manner provided by law for each county.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 7 — Article 15 / Section 7
MS Const., Article 15, Section 7
Status: in_force

. The said commissioner of election shall appoint one or more deputy commissioners, from the respective election districts and deliver to them the proper number of ballots and cards of instruction, not less than one day before the election, and the deputy commissioners so selected to receive said ballots, shall be conservators of the peace and shall take an oath, to be administered by said commissioner, faithfully to perform their duties and not to attempt to guide, direct or influence any voter in the exercise of his right to vote.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 239 — Article 11 / Section 239
MS Const., Article 11, Section 239
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall require the levee boards to publish at each of their sessions, an itemized account embracing their respective receipts since the prior session, and such appropriations as have been made or ordered by them respectively, in some newspaper or newspapers of the district.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 32 — Article 3 / Section 32
MS Const., Article 3, Section 32
Status: in_force

. The enumeration of rights in this Constitution shall not be construed to deny or impair others retained by, and inherent in, the people.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 183 — Article 7 / Section 183
MS Const., Article 7, Section 183
Status: in_force

. No county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall hereafter become a subscriber to the capital stock of any railroad or other corporation or association, or make appropriation, or loan its credit in aid of such corporation or association. All authority heretofore conferred for any of the purposes aforesaid by the legislature or by the charter of any corporation, is hereby repealed. Nothing in this section contained shall affect the right of any such corporation, municipality or county to make such subscription where the same has been authorized under laws existing at the time of the adoption of this constitution, and by a vote of the people thereof, had prior to its adoption, and where the terms of submission and subscription have been or shall be complied with, or to prevent the issue of renewal bonds, or the use of such other means as are or may be prescribed by law for the payment or liquidation of such subscription, or of any existing indebtedness.