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Ms. Const. art. 5, § 117 — Article 5 / Section 117
MS Const., Article 5, Section 117
Status: in_force

. The governor shall be at least thirty years of age, and shall have been a citizen of the United States twenty years, and shall have resided in this State five years next preceding the day of his election.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 160 — Article 6 / Section 160
MS Const., Article 6, Section 160
Status: in_force

. And in addition to the jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the chancery court in suits to try title and to cancel deeds and other clouds upon title to real estate, it shall have jurisdiction in such cases to decree possession, and to displace possession, to decree rents and compensation for improvements and taxes; and in all cases where said court heretofore exercised jurisdiction, auxiliary to courts of common law, it may exercise such jurisdiction to grant the relief sought although the legal remedy may not have been exhausted or the legal title established by a suit at law.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 9 — Article 3 / Section 9
MS Const., Article 3, Section 9
Status: in_force

. The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 73 — Article 4 / Section 73
MS Const., Article 4, Section 73
Status: in_force

The governor may veto parts of any appropriation bill, and approve parts of the same, and the portions approved shall be law.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 173 — Article 6 / Section 173
MS Const., Article 6, Section 173
Status: in_force

. There shall be an attorney-general elected at the same time and in the same manner as the governor is elected, whose term of office shall be four years, and whose compensation shall be fixed by law. The qualifications for the attorney-general shall be the same as herein prescribed for judges of the circuit and chancery courts.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 84 — Article 4 / Section 84
MS Const., Article 4, Section 84
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall enact laws to limit, restrict or prevent the acquiring and holding of land in this State by non-resident aliens, and may limit or restrict the acquiring or holding of lands by corporations.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 189 — Article 7 / Section 189
MS Const., Article 7, Section 189
Status: in_force

. All charters granted to private corporations in this State shall be recorded in the chancery clerk's office of the county in which the principal office or place of business of such company shall be located.
Ms. Const. art. 1, § 2 — Article 1 / Section 2
MS Const., Article 1, Section 2
Status: in_force

. No person or collection of persons, being one, or belonging to one, of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others. The acceptance of an office in either of said departments shall, of itself, and at once, vacate any and all offices held by the person so accepting in either of the other departments.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 102 — Article 4 / Section 102
MS Const., Article 4, Section 102
Status: in_force

. All general elections for State and county officers shall commence and be holden every four years, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, until altered by law; and the electors, in all cases except in cases of treason, felony and breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections and in going to and returning therefrom. ​
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 46 — Article 4 / Section 46
MS Const., Article 4, Section 46
Status: in_force

. The members of the legislature shall severally receive from the State treasury, compensation for their services, to be prescribed by law, which may be increased or diminished, but no alteration of such compensation of members shall take effect during the session at which it is made.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 276 — Article 15 / Section 276
MS Const., Article 15, Section 276
Status: in_force

. All laws of the State which are repugnant to the provisions of sections 240 to 253, inclusive, of Article 12, on the subject of franchise and elections, shall be and remain in force until the first day of January, A. D., 1891, and no longer.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 193 — Article 7 / Section 193
MS Const., Article 7, Section 193
Status: in_force

. Every employee of any railroad corporation shall have the same right and remedies for any injury suf ​ fered by him from the act or omission of said corporation or its employees, as are allowed by law to other persons not employees, where the injury results from the negligence of a superior agent or officer, or of a person having the right to control or direct the services of the party injured, and also when the injury results from the negligence of a fellow-servant engaged in another department of labor from that of the party injured, or of a fellow servant on another train of cars, or one engaged about a different piece of work. Knowledge by any employee injured, of the defective or unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances, shall be no defense to an action for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe cars, or engines voluntarily operated by them. Where death ensues from any injury to employees, the legal or personal representatives of the person injured shall have the same right and remedies as are allowed by law to such representatives of other persons. Any contract or agreement, express or implied, made by any employee to waive the benefit of this section shall be null and void; and this section shall not be construed to deprive any employee of a corporation or his legal or personal representative, of any right or remedy that he now has by the law of the land. The legislature may extend the remedies herein provided for to any other class of employees.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 278 — Article 15 / Section 278
MS Const., Article 15, Section 278
Status: in_force

. The governor shall as soon as practicable, appoint three suitable persons learned in the law, as commissioners whose duty it shall be to prepare and draft such general laws as are contemplated in this constitution and such other laws as shall be necessary and proper to put into operation the provisions thereof, and as may be appropriate to conform the general statutes of the State to the constitution. Said commissioners shall present the same when prepared to the legislature at its next regular session. And the legislature shall provide reasonable compensation therefor.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 18 — Article 15 / Section 18
MS Const., Article 15, Section 18
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall have power to enact laws on the subjects of this ordinance, necessary for its efficiency, and not inconsistent with its true intent and meaning. After January 1st, 1896, this ordinance may be repealed or amended by the legislature; but shall not be amended so as to conflict with any provisions of this constitution. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with any of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby annulled, and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, A. D., 1891.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 115 — Article 4 / Section 115
MS Const., Article 4, Section 115
Status: in_force

. The fiscal year of the State of Mississippi shall commence on the first day of October, and end on the thirtieth day of September of each year; and the auditor of public accounts and the treasurer of the State shall compile, and have published, a full and complete report, showing the transactions of their respective offices on or before the thirty-first day of December of each year for the preceding fiscal year.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 149 — Article 6 / Section 149
MS Const., Article 6, Section 149
Status: in_force

. The term of office of the judges of the supreme court shall be nine years. The office of one of said judges shall be vacated in three years, one in six years, and one in nine years, so that at the expiration of every three years one of said judges shall be appointed as aforesaid.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 143 — Article 5 / Section 143
MS Const., Article 5, Section 143
Status: in_force

. All other State officers shall be elected at the same time, and in the same manner as provided for election of governor.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 230 — Article 11 / Section 230
MS Const., Article 11, Section 230
Status: in_force

. All of said commissioners shall be qualified electors of the respective counties or parts of counties from which they may be chosen, except the one selected for the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company; and the legislature shall provide that they shall each give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall fix the penalty thereof; but the penalty of such bond in no instance shall be fixed at less that $10,000, and the sureties thereon shall be freeholders of the district.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 87 — Article 4 / Section 87
MS Const., Article 4, Section 87
Status: in_force

. No special or local law shall be enacted for the ​ benefit of individuals or corporations, in cases which are, or can be provided for by a general law, or where the relief sought can be given by any court of this State; nor shall the operation of any general law be suspended by the legislature for the benefit of any individual or private corporation or association, and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable, and would be advantageous, no special law shall be enacted.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 235 — Article 11 / Section 235
MS Const., Article 11, Section 235
Status: in_force

. Each levee board shall make at the end of each fiscal year, to the governor of this State, a report showing the condition of the levees, and recommending such additional legislation on the subject of the system as shall be thought necessary, and showing the receipts and expenditures of the board, so that each item, the amount and consideration therefor, shall distinctly appear, together with such other matters as it shall be thought proper to call to the attention of the legislature.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 68 — Article 4 / Section 68
MS Const., Article 4, Section 68
Status: in_force

. Appropriation and revenue bills shall, at regular sessions of the legislature, have precedence in both houses over all other business, and no such bills shall be passed during the last five days of the session.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 75 — Article 4 / Section 75
MS Const., Article 4, Section 75
Status: in_force

. No law of a general nature, unless therein otherwise provided, shall be enforced until sixty days after its passage.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 221 — Article 9 / Section 221
MS Const., Article 9, Section 221
Status: in_force

. The legislature is hereby required to make an annual appropriation for the efficient support and maintenance of the Mississippi National Guard, which shall consist of not less than one hundred men for each senator and representative to which this State may be entitled in the Congress of the United States; but no part of such funds shall be used in the payment of said guard except when in actual service.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 78 — Article 4 / Section 78
MS Const., Article 4, Section 78
Status: in_force

. It shall be the duty of the legislature to regulate ​ by law the cases in which deductions shall be made from salaries of public officers, for neglect of official duty and the amount of said deduction.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 37 — Article 4 / Section 37
MS Const., Article 4, Section 37
Status: in_force

. Elections for members of the legislature shall be held in the several counties and districts as provided by law.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 158 — Article 6 / Section 158
MS Const., Article 6, Section 158
Status: in_force

. A circuit court shall be held in each county at ​ least twice in each year, and the judges of said courts may interchange circuits with each other in such manner as may be provided by law.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 201 — Article 8 / Section 201
MS Const., Article 8, Section 201
Status: in_force

. It shall be the duty of the legislature to encourage by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement, by establishing a uniform system of free public schools, by taxation, or otherwise, for all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years, and, as soon as practicable, to establish schools of higher grade.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 167 — Article 6 / Section 167
MS Const., Article 6, Section 167
Status: in_force

. All civil officers shall be conservators of the peace, and shall be, by law, vested with ample power as such.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 262 — Article 14 / Section 262
MS Const., Article 14, Section 262
Status: in_force

. The board of supervisors shall have power to provide homes or farms as asylums for those persons, who, by reason of age, infirmity or misfortune, may have claims upon the sympathy and aid of society; and the legislature shall enact suitable laws to prevent abuses by those having the care of such persons.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 228 — Article 11 / Section 228
MS Const., Article 11, Section 228
Status: in_force

. The division heretofore made by the legislature of the alluvial land of the State into two levee districts, viz: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, and the Mississippi Levee District, as shown by the laws creating the same, and the amendments thereto, is hereby recognized, and said districts shall so remain until changed by law; but the legislature may hereafter add to either of said districts any other alluvial land in the State.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 181 — Article 7 / Section 181
MS Const., Article 7, Section 181
Status: in_force

. The property of all private corporations for pecuniary gain shall be taxed in the same way and to the same extent as the property of individuals, but the legislature may provide for the taxation of banks and banking capital, by taxing the shares according to the value thereof, (augmented by the accumulations, surplus and unpaid dividends,) exclusive of real estate, which shall be taxed as other real estate. Exemptions from taxation to which corporations are legally entitled at the adoption of this constitution, shall remain in full force and effect for the time of such exemptions as expressed in their respective charters, or by general laws, unless sooner repealed by the legislature. And domestic insurance companies shall not be required to pay a greater tax in the aggregate than is required to be paid by foreign insurance companies doing business in this State, except to the extent of the excess of their ad valorem tax over ​ the privilege tax imposed upon such foreign companies; and the legislature may impose privilege taxes on building and loan associations in lieu of all other taxes except on their real estate.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 1 — Article 15 / Section 1
MS Const., Article 15, Section 1
Status: in_force

. That all permanent factories hereafter established in this State while this section is in force, for working cotton, wool, silk, furs or metals, and all others manufacturing implements or articles of use in a finished state, shall be exempt from taxation for a period of ten years. Any factory which has been abandoned for not less than three years, and commencing operations within two years from the date of the adoption of this constitution, shall be entitled to such exemption. This section may be repealed or amended by the legislature after five years, and if not so repealed, shall remain in force until January 1st, 1900, and no longer. Adopted by the Convention November 1, 1890. S. S. CALHOON, President . Attest: R. E. Wilson , Secretary. Authority control VIAF : 181496004 WorldCat Identities : viaf-181496004 Wikidata item : Q5164208 English Wikisource : 14279 This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Public domain Public domain false false
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 231 — Article 11 / Section 231
MS Const., Article 11, Section 231
Status: in_force

. When the terms of the present levee commissioners shall expire, or whenever a vacancy shall occur or be about to occur, in either of said boards, the governor shall make appointments to fill vacancies, subject to the confirmation of the senate. The terms of office of said commissioners shall remain as provided by law at the adoption of this constitution, but this provision shall not require the appointment of a commissioner for the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company, except in the discretion of the governor as provided.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 217 — Article 9 / Section 217
MS Const., Article 9, Section 217
Status: in_force

. The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the militia, except when it is called into the service of the United States, and shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws, repel invasion, and to suppress riots and insurrections.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 6 — Article 15 / Section 6
MS Const., Article 15, Section 6
Status: in_force

. The officers charged with distributing or printing and distributing the official ballots, shall ascertain from the circuit clerk or other proper officer, at least ten days before the day of election, the number of registered voters in each election district, and shall also prepare full instructions for the guidance of electors at elections as to obtaining ballots, as to the manner of marking them, and as to obtaining new ballots in place of those accidentally spoiled, and such in ​ structions shall be printed in large, clear type, on “cards of instruction,” and said commissioners shall furnish the same in sufficient numbers for the use of electors, and said cards shall be preserved by all officers of elections as far as practicable, and returned by them to the commissioners of election and may be used, if applicable, in subsequent elections.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 147 — Article 6 / Section 147
MS Const., Article 6, Section 147
Status: in_force

. No judgment or decree in any chancery or circuit court rendered in a civil cause, shall be reversed or annulled on the ground of want of jurisdiction to render said judgment or decree, from any error or mistake as to whether the cause in which it was rendered was of equity or common law jurisdiction; but if the supreme court shall find error in the proceedings other than as to jurisdiction, and it shall be necessary to remand the case, the supreme court may remand it to that court which in its opinion can best determine the controversy.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 140 — Article 5 / Section 140
MS Const., Article 5, Section 140
Status: in_force

. The governor of the State shall be chosen in the following manner: On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November of A. D., 1895, and on the first Tuesday after first Monday of November in every fourth year thereafter, until the day shall be changed by law, an election shall be held in the several counties and districts created for the election of members of the house of representatives in this State, for governor, and the person receiving in any county or such legislative district the highest number of votes cast therein, for said office shall be holden to have received as many votes as such count or district is entitled to members in the house of representatives, which last named votes are hereby designated "electoral votes." In all cases where a representative is apportioned to two or more counties or districts the electoral vote based on such representative shall be equally divided among such counties or districts. The returns of said election shall be certified by the election commissioners, or a majority of them, of the several counties, and transmitted, sealed, to the seat of government, directed to the secretary of state, and shall be by him safely kept and delivered to the speaker of the house of representatives at the next ensuing session of the legislature within one day after he shall have been elected. The speaker shall, on the next Tuesday after he shall have received said returns, open and publish them in the presence of the house of representatives, and said house shall ascertain and count the vote of each county and legislative district and decide any contest that may be made concerning the same, and said decision shall be made by a majority of the whole number of members of the house of representatives concurring therein, by a viva voce vote, which shall be recorded in its journal; provided, in case the two highest candidates have an equal number of votes in any ​ county or legislative district, the electoral vote of such county or legislative district shall be considered as equally divided between them. The person found to have received amajority of all the electoral votes, and also a majority of the popular vote, shall be delared elected.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 259 — Article 14 / Section 259
MS Const., Article 14, Section 259
Status: in_force

. No county seat shall be removed unless such removal be authorized by two-thirds of the electors of the county voting therefor; but when the proposed removal shall be towards the center of the county, it may be made when a majority of the electors participating in the election shall vote therefor.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 8 — Article 15 / Section 8
MS Const., Article 15, Section 8
Status: in_force

. In case the official ballot prepared, shall be lost or destroyed, or in case of the death of any candidate whose name has been printed on the official ballot, the said commissioner, or his deputy shall have like ballots furnished in place of those lost or destroyed, if time remains therefor. If from any cause there should be no official ballot at a precinct and no sufficient time in which to have them printed, such ballots may be written, but if written by any one except the voter alone, for himself, the names of all candidates shall be written thereon without any special mark or device by which one name may be distinguished from another, and such tickets shall be marked by the voter as provided for printed ballots. Within three days after election day the inspectors shall report in writing to the commissioners of election, under oath, the loss of the official ballots, the number lost, and all facts connected therewith, which report the commissioners may deliver to the grand jury if deemed advisable.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 135 — Article 5 / Section 135
MS Const., Article 5, Section 135
Status: in_force

. There shall be a sheriff, coroner, treasurer, assessor and surveyor for each county, to be selected as elsewhere provided herein, who shall hold their offices for four years. The sheriff and treasurer shall be ineligible to immediately succeed themselves or each other in office.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 208 — Article 8 / Section 208
MS Const., Article 8, Section 208
Status: in_force

. No religious or other sect, or sects, shall ever control any part of the school or other educational funds of this State; nor shall any funds be appropriated towards the support of any sectarian school; or to any school that at the time of receiving such appropriation is not conducted as a free school.
Ms. Const. art. 2, § 4 — Article 2 / Section 4
MS Const., Article 2, Section 4
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall have power to consent to the acquisition of additional territory by this State and to make the same a part thereof; and the legislature may settle disputed boundaries between this State and its coterminous States whenever such disputes arise.
Ms. Const. art. 1, § 1 — Article 1 / Section 1
MS Const., Article 1, Section 1
Status: in_force

. The powers of the government of the State of Mississippi shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to-wit: those which are legislative to one; those which are judicial to another; and those which are executive to another.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 20 — Article 3 / Section 20
MS Const., Article 3, Section 20
Status: in_force

. No person shall be elected or appointed to office in this State for life or during good behavior, but the term of all offices shall be for some specified period.