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PROSPECTUS
or
BESANCON'S ANNUAL REGISTER
OP THE STATE or MISSISSIPPI,
rnR 1873.

/ q contain uIl AunuIi -A'ltuiiu't N"i~"
lated for the meridian of Natchez; Sketches
ofthe early History of the State; the State
Constitution; the names of county and
State Officers; Incorporated Banks, with
their official boards, capitals, &c; PopuIa-
ton of the counties and county towns, with
their distances from Jackson; Public Bald
inqs, Churches, Hotels, Stores and Manu-
factories ofthe principal Of county towns;
incorporated Railroad Companies with their
official boards, amount Of stock, and ithc
localities of their railroads, whether com"
menced or in contemplation, List of Cole
ges, Academies AMI Scminares, with the
date oftheir incorporation, annual income,
names Of President. Professors Of Principal
Colleges, and number of students or pupils;
Names Of the Election Presincts, Post Off
COS. Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, Bayous, De
scripiion of natural or artificial Curiositlcs;
List Of Churches various denominations,
with the names of the Clergymen and the
numbes of members belonging to each;
Tables of the product of Cotton in various
years; A corrected photography of the In
dian names of counties, Towns and Rivers
in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Cessions,
with a mass of valuable Statistics relating
to the soil, agriculture, resources and pro-
ductons of the new counties. as well as the
State at large To which will be added,
a complete Sectional Map of the State,
showing the divisions, course of steams and
location Of county seats in the new coun-
ties.
The necessity of an ANIMAL volume like
this, as book of reference to every citizen
engaged in business. as well as to travellers
and spectators, will be apparent to all.
1t is needed to develope the resources of
the State; to give useful information to the
emigrant, and TO emhody, in an accessible
compass, such valuable statistics, as can be
from no other source.
Laying aside the considerations of utility,
The feeling of State pride would be suGi-
cIont motive to sustain a publication so well
calculated to show, at a view, the population,
agricultural wealth and almost boundIess
of the State. The annual pub
fiction of the Register (the continuation of
which depends upon the patronage of the
irst Year, will give the publisher ample
opportunity to keep up with the improve
nents oflhe State, and make his volumes the
annual records of the advance Of society in
mercantile pursuits, in the arts in education.
nd all that embellishes life.
The publisher had been ut the expense
# sending an agent into every county in
ho State to obtain accurate statistics on
which he could rely. He has also made
arrangements to have the State map for the
register engraved by distinguished artist
an eastern city. lie has only to look to
generous public for reimbursement Ell
nese heavy expenses and for sufficient
1lranage to make it an object to continue
ne publication in future; but, at the same
me, he would scorn to ask any favor thai
any not be FULLY earned by the intrinsic
1ent and value of the Register.
He commends his enterprise to all classes
/ ms ieIlow-citlzens, to Judges, County
Jerks, Registers, and those State officers
no may have valuable information C,r
1ch compilation, and whose interest i
Jay be to communicate the same for pub-
cation. pun
All matter for compilation which those
no arc DESTROYS of forwarding the entor.
rise may furnish, should be transmittod
rGVioHs to the first day of November NEXT
The Register will be printed with now
pc on fine paper in the duodecirpo
'rm, WIN more than two hundred pages
be bound like the American Almanac
al other ANIMALS ofthe class.
The price ofthe Register. includipo tho
,ctlonal Map Of the State, to subscribors
Ill be FIVE DOLLARS, payable on do.
very OF the volume. Large discounts will
made 10 agents who become responsible
number OF volumes, or who purchase
} sell again. 0''"'0
a limited number of ADVERTISING nocos
III be appended to the Repistor cor e.
vantage of friends who may desire their
NerlIsements to penetrate every mart If
state Terms of advertising, One DoL
All orders for the work, and all comm,
cauons containing special inform ia !. ,
Incorporated in the Register, NAV he - al u
eSsed to the compiler and publisher u"
l.. A. BESANCON
- Free Trader office, Natches.
~ Is. Those Editors who shall 80. 9,
III PIO,lsn the Prospectus of the Register u
n =, receive the thanks ofthe publisher as
~ as a gratis copy Of the volume. and NAV u
ponu on reciprocity Of the G,vor vhon