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Ms. Const. art. 4, § 101 — Article 4 / Section 101
MS Const., Article 4, Section 101
Status: in_force

. The seat of government of the State shall be at the city of Jackson, and shall not be removed or relocated without the assent of a majority of the electors of the State. MISCELLANEOUS.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 58 — Article 4 / Section 58
MS Const., Article 4, Section 58
Status: in_force

. The doors of each house, when in session, or in committee of the whole, shall be kept open, except in cases which may require secrecy; and each house may punish by fine and imprisonment, any person not a member, who shall be quilty of disrespect to the house, by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, or who shall in any way disturb its deliberations during the session; but such imprisonment shall not extend beyond the final adjournment of that session.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 48 — Article 4 / Section 48
MS Const., Article 4, Section 48
Status: in_force

. Senators and representatives shall in all cases, except treason, felony, theft or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the legislature, and for fifteen days before the commencement and after the termination of each session. TRIAL OF OFFICERS.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 156 — Article 6 / Section 156
MS Const., Article 6, Section 156
Status: in_force

. The circuit court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters civil and criminal in this State not vested by this constitution in some other court, and such appellate jurisdiction as shall be prescribed by law.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 113 — Article 4 / Section 113
MS Const., Article 4, Section 113
Status: in_force

. The auditor shall, within sixty days after the adjournment of the legislature, prepare and publish a full statement of all money expended at such session, specifying the items and amount of each item, and to whom, and for what paid; and he shall also publish the amounts of all appropriations.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 284 — Article 15 / Section 284
MS Const., Article 15, Section 284
Status: in_force

. All officers, State, district, county and municipal, now in office in this State, shall be entitled to hold the respective offices now held by them, except as otherwise herein provided, and until the expiration of the time for ​ which they were respectively elected or appointed; and shall receive the compensation and fees now fixed by the statute laws in force when this constitution is adopted.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 206 — Article 8 / Section 206
MS Const., Article 8, Section 206
Status: in_force

. There shall be a common school fund which shall consist of the poll tax (to be retained in the counties where the same is collected) and an additional sum from the general fund in the State treasury which together shall be sufficient to maintain the common schools for the term of four months in each scholastic year. But any county or separate school district may levy an additional tax to maintain its schools for a longer time than the term of four months. The common school fund shall be distributed among the several counties and separate school districts, in proportion to the number of educable children in each, to be determined from data collected through the office of the state superintendent of education, in the manner to be prescribed by law.
Ms. Const. art. I, § 0 — Article I / Section 0
MS Const., Article I
Status: in_force

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Ms. Const. art. 10, § 225 — Article 10 / Section 225
MS Const., Article 10, Section 225
Status: in_force

. The legislature may place the convicts on a State farm or farms and have them worked thereon under State supervision exclusively, in tilling the soil or manufacturing, or both, and may buy farms for that purpose. It may establish a reformatory school or schools, and provide for keeping of juvenile offenders from association with hardened criminals. It may provide for the commutation of the sentence of convicts for good behavior, and for the constant separation of the sexes, and for the separation of the white and black convicts as far as practicable, and for religious worship of the convicts.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 178 — Article 7 / Section 178
MS Const., Article 7, Section 178
Status: in_force

. Corporations shall be formed under general laws only. The legislature shall have power to alter, amend or repeal any charter of incorporation now existing, and revo ​ cable, and any that may hereafter be created, whenever in its opinion it may be for the public interest to do so; provided, however, that no injustice shall be done to the stockholders. No charter for any private corporation for pecuniary gain shall be granted for a longer period than ninety-nine years. In assessing for taxation the property and franchises of corporations, having charters for a longer period than ninety-nine years, the increased value of such property and franchises arising from such longer duration of their charters shall be considered and assessed; but any such corporation shall have the right to surrender the excess over ninety-nine years of its charter.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 123 — Article 5 / Section 123
MS Const., Article 5, Section 123
Status: in_force

. The governor shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 92 — Article 4 / Section 92
MS Const., Article 4, Section 92
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall not authorize payment to any person of the salary of a deceased officer beyond the date of his death.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 25 — Article 3 / Section 25
MS Const., Article 3, Section 25
Status: in_force

. No person shall be debarred from prosecuting or defending any civil cause, for or against him or herself before any tribunal in this State, by him or herself, or counsel, or both.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 34 — Article 4 / Section 34
MS Const., Article 4, Section 34
Status: in_force

. The house of representatives shall consist of members chosen every four years by the qualified electors of the several counties and representative districts.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 80 — Article 4 / Section 80
MS Const., Article 4, Section 80
Status: in_force

. Provision shall be made by general laws to prevent the abuse by cities, towns and other municipal corporations of their powers of assessment, taxation, borrowing money and contracting debts.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 42 — Article 4 / Section 42
MS Const., Article 4, Section 42
Status: in_force

. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, who shall not have been a qualified elector of the State four years, and who shall not be an actual resident of the district or territory he may be chosen to represent, for two years before his election. The seat of a senator shall be vacated upon his removal from the district from which he was elected.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 145 — Article 6 / Section 145
MS Const., Article 6, Section 145
Status: in_force

. The supreme court shall consist of three judges, any two of whom, when convened, shall form a quorum. The legislature shall divide the State into three supreme court districts, and the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint one judge for and from each district; but the removal of a judge to the State capital during his term of office shall not render him ineligible as his own successor for the district from which he has removed. The present incumbents shall be considered as holding their terms of office from the State at large.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 15 — Article 3 / Section 15
MS Const., Article 3, Section 15
Status: in_force

. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this State, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 240 — Article 12 / Section 240
MS Const., Article 12, Section 240
Status: in_force

. All elections by the people shall be by ballot.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 16 — Article 3 / Section 16
MS Const., Article 3, Section 16
Status: in_force

. Ex post facto laws, or laws impairing the obligation of contracts, shall not be passed.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 4 — Article 15 / Section 4
MS Const., Article 15, Section 4
Status: in_force

There shall be a registration of the electors qualified under such provisions of this constitution which are operative prior to the election in 1891, and such registration shall be made by the proper officers, and in the manner now prescribed by law when the same is not inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution operative as aforesaid, and when repugnant, then according to the provisions thereof. The board of supervisors of the several counties shall provide proper registration books with the oath required by Section 242 of this constitution. S. S. CALHOON, President. Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary. AN ORDINANCE Making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the Convention. Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 57 — Article 4 / Section 57
MS Const., Article 4, Section 57
Status: in_force

. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 61 — Article 4 / Section 61
MS Const., Article 4, Section 61
Status: in_force

. No law shall be revived or amended by reference to its title only, but the section or sections as amended, or revived, shall be inserted at length.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 234 — Article 11 / Section 234
MS Const., Article 11, Section 234
Status: in_force

. No bill changing the boundaries of the district or affecting the taxation or revenue of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, or the Mississippi Levee District, shall be considered by the legislature unless said bill shall have been published in some newspaper in the county in which is situated the domicile of the board of levee commissioners of the levee district to be affected thereby, for four weeks prior to the introduction thereof into the legislature; and no such bill shall be considered for final passage by either the senate or house of representatives, unless the same shall have been referred to, and reported on, by an appropriate committee of each house in which the same may be pending; and no such committee shall consider or report on any such bill unless publication thereof shall have been made as aforesaid.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 146 — Article 6 / Section 146
MS Const., Article 6, Section 146
Status: in_force

. The supreme court shall have such jurisdiction as properly belongs to a court of appeals.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 95 — Article 4 / Section 95
MS Const., Article 4, Section 95
Status: in_force

. Lands belonging to, or under the control of the State, shall never be donated directly, or indirectly, to private corporations or individuals, or to railroad companies. ​ Nor shall such land be sold to corporations or associations for a less price than that for which it is subject to sale to individuals. This, however, shall not prevent the legislature from granting a right of way, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, as a mere easement, to railroads across State land, and the legislature shall never dispose of the land covered by said right of way so long as such easement exists.
Ms. Const. art. 11, § 236 — Article 11 / Section 236
MS Const., Article 11, Section 236
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall impose for levee purposes, in addition to the levee taxes heretofore levied or authorized by law, a uniform tax of not less than two nor more than five cents an acre, per annum, upon every acre of land now, or hereafter, embraced within the limits of either, or both, of said levee districts. The taxes so derived shall be paid into the treasury of the levee board of the district in which the land charged with the same is situated; and the legislature, by the act imposing said tax, shall authorize said levee boards to fix the annual rate of taxation per acre within the limits aforesaid, and thereby require said levee boards, whenever a reduction is made by them in their other taxes, to make a proportionate reduction in the acreage tax herein before mentioned; but said acreage tax shall not be reduced below two cents an acre per annum; and all reductions in such taxations shall be uniform in each of said districts; but the rate of taxation need not be the same in both of them; and such specific taxes shall be assessed ​ on the same assessment roll, and collected under the same penalties as the ad valorem taxes for levee purposes, and shall be paid at the same time with the latter. And no levee board shall ever be permitted to buy lands when sold for taxes; but the senate shall have a prior lien for the taxes due thereto. The legislature may provide for the discontinuance of the tax on cotton, but not in such manner as to affect outstanding bonds based on it, and on the discontinuance of the tax on cotton, shall impose another tax in lieu thereof, but the legislature may repeal the acreage tax required to be levied hereby, after the first day of January, A. D., 1895.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 218 — Article 9 / Section 218
MS Const., Article 9, Section 218
Status: in_force

. The governor shall nominate, and, by and with the consent of the senate, commission one major-general for the State, who shall be a citizen thereof, and also one brigadier-general for each congressional district, who shall be a resident of the district for which he shall be appointed, and each district shall constitute a militia division.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 184 — Article 7 / Section 184
MS Const., Article 7, Section 184
Status: in_force

. All railroads which carry persons or property for hire, shall be public highways, and all railroad companies so engaged shall be common carriers. Any company organized for that purpose under the laws of the state, shall have the right to construct and operate a railroad between any points within this State, and to connect at the State line with roads of other States. Every railroad company shall have the right with its road to intersect, connect with, or cross any other railroad; and all railroad companies shall receive and transport each other's passengers, tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, without unnecessary delay or discrimination.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 120 — Article 5 / Section 120
MS Const., Article 5, Section 120
Status: in_force

. The governor may require information, in writing, from the officers in the executive departments of the State on any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 176 — Article 6 / Section 176
MS Const., Article 6, Section 176
Status: in_force

. No person shall be a member of the board of supervisors who is not a resident freeholder in the district for which he is chosen. The value of real estate necessary to be owned to qualify persons in the several counties to be members of said board shall be fixed by law.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 169 — Article 6 / Section 169
MS Const., Article 6, Section 169
Status: in_force

. The style of all process shall be “The State of Mississippi,” and all prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by authority of the “State of Mississippi,” and all indictments shall conclude “against the peace and dignity of the State.”
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 56 — Article 4 / Section 56
MS Const., Article 4, Section 56
Status: in_force

. The style of the laws of the State shall be: “Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi.”
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 131 — Article 5 / Section 131
MS Const., Article 5, Section 131
Status: in_force

. When the office of the governor shall become vacant, by death or otherwise, the lieutenant-governor shall possess the powers and discharge the duties of said office. When the governor shall be absent from the State, or unable from protracted illness to perform the duties of the office, the lieutenant-governor shall discharge the duties of said office until the governor be able to resume his duties; but, if from disability or otherwise, the lieutenant-governor shall be incapable of performing said duties, or if he be absent from the State, the president of the senate pro tempore shall act in his stead; but if there be no such president, or if he be disqualified by like disability, or be absent from the State, then the speaker of the house of represenatives shall assume the office of governor, and perform said duties; and in case of the inability of the foregoing officers to discharge the duties of governor, the secretary of state shall convene the ​ senate, to elect a president pro tempore. The officer discharging the duties of governor shall receive the compensation as such. Should a doubt arise as to whether a vacancy has occurred in the office of governor or as to whether any one of the disabilities mentioned in this section exists or shall have ended, then the secretary of state shall submit the question in doubt to the judges of the supreme court, who, or a majority of whom, shall investigate and determine said question; and shall furnish to said secretary of state an opinion in writing determining the question submitted to them, which opinion when rendered as aforesaid shall be final and conclusive.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 88 — Article 4 / Section 88
MS Const., Article 4, Section 88
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall pass general laws, under which local and private interests shall be provided for and protected, and under which cities and towns may be chartered and their charters amended, and under which corporations may be created, organized, and their acts of incorporation altered; and all such laws shall be subject to repeal or amendment.
Ms. Const. art. 13, § 256 — Article 13 / Section 256
MS Const., Article 13, Section 256
Status: in_force

. The legislature may at the first session after the State census of 1895 and decennially thereafter, make a new apportionment of senators and representatives. At each apportionment, each county then organized shall have at least one representative. New counties afterwards created shall be represented as may be provided by law, until the next ​ succeeding apportiontment . The counties of Tishomingo, Alcorn, Prentiss, Lee, Itawamba, Tippah, Union, Benton, Marshall, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Monroe, Chickasaw, Calhoun, Yalobusha, Grenada, Carroll, Montgomery, Choctaw, Webster, Clay, Lowndes and Oktibbeha, or the territory now composing them, shall together never have less than forty-four representatives. The counties of Attala, Winston, Noxubee, Kemper, Leake, Neshoba, Lauderdale, Newton, Scott, Rankin, Clarke, Jasper, Smith, Simpson, Copiah, Franklin, Lincoln, Lawrence, Covington, Jones, Wayne, Greene, Perry, Marion, Pike, Pearl River, Hancock, Harrison and Jackson, or the territory now composing them, shall together never have less than forty-four representatives; nor shall the remaining counties of the State, or the territory now composing them, ever have less than forty-four representatives. A reduction in the number of senators and representatives may be made by the legislature if the same be uniform in each of the three said divisions; but the number of representatives shall not be less than one hundred, nor more than one hundred and thirty-three; nor the number of senators less than thirty, nor more than forty-five.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 188 — Article 7 / Section 188
MS Const., Article 7, Section 188
Status: in_force

. No railroad or other transportation company shall grant free passes or tickets, or passes or tickets at a discount, to members of the legislature, or any State, district, county or municipal officers, except railroad commissioners. The legislature shall enact suitable laws for the detection, prevention and punishment of violations of this provision.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 187 — Article 7 / Section 187
MS Const., Article 7, Section 187
Status: in_force

. No railroad hereafter constructed in this State, shall pass within three miles of any county seat without passing through the same, and establishing and maintaining a depot therein, unless prevented by natural obstacles; provided, such town or citizens shall grant the right-of-way through its limits, and sufficient ground for ordinary depot purposes.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 180 — Article 7 / Section 180
MS Const., Article 7, Section 180
Status: in_force

. All existing charters or grants of corporate franchise under which organizations have not in good faith taken place at the adoption of this constitution shall be subject to the provisions of this article; and all such charters under which organizations shall not take place in good faith and business be commenced within one year from the adoption of this constitution, shall thereafter have no validity; and every charter or grant of corporate franchise hereafter made shall have no validity, unless an organization shall take place thereunder and business be commenced within two years from the date of such charter or grant.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 177 — Article 6 / Section 177
MS Const., Article 6, Section 177
Status: in_force

. The governor shall have power to fill any vacancy which may happen during the recess of the senate, in the office of judge or chancellor, by making a temporary appointment of an incumbent, which shall expire at the end of the next session of the senate, unless a successor shall be sooner appointed, and confirmed by the senate. When a temporary appointment of a judge or chancellor has been made during the recess of the senate, the governor shall have no power to remove the person or appointee, nor power to withhold his name from the senate for their action.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 53 — Article 4 / Section 53
MS Const., Article 4, Section 53
Status: in_force

. For reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground of impeachment, the governor shall, on the joint address of two-thirds of each branch of the legislature, remove from office the judges of the supreme and inferior courts; but the cause or causes of removal shall be spread on the journal, and the party charged be notified of the same and have an opportunity to be heard by himself or counsel, or both, before the vote is finally taken and decided. RULES OF PROCEDURE.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 134 — Article 5 / Section 134
MS Const., Article 5, Section 134
Status: in_force

. A State treasurer and an auditor of public accounts shall be elected as herein provided, who shall hold their offices for the term of four years, and shall possess the same qualifications as required for the secretary of state; they shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law. Said treasurer and auditor of public accounts shall be ineligible to immediately succeed themselves or each other in office.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 170 — Article 6 / Section 170
MS Const., Article 6, Section 170
Status: in_force

. Each county shall be divided into five districts. A resident freeholder of each district shall be selected, in the manner prescribed by law, and the five so chosen shall constitute the board of supervisors of the county, amajority of whom may transact business. The board of supervisors shall have full jurisdiction over roads, ferries and bridges, to be exercised in accordance with such regulations as the legislature may prescribe, and perform such other duties as may be required by law. The clerk of the chancery court of each county shall be clerk of the board of supervisors.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 198 — Article 7 / Section 198
MS Const., Article 7, Section 198
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall enact laws to prevent all trusts, combinations, contracts and agreements inimical to the public welfare.