The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-24

MAcoN, MISS, Jan. II, 1873:


EDITORS CLARION: Remembering that
the columns of your excellent paper
are always open to enquiries concerning
any matter of public interest and
especially to such as appertain to the
advancement of our own good people Of
Mississippi, will impose upon your
kindness by asking what progress, if any,
has been made toward the enforcement
of the following act of the Legislature,
approved, March 8, 1882, to-wit:
AN ACT to secure to the State the Five per
cent. Fund now due, or that may hereaf
ter become due, from the Federal Govern
ment.
sEcTIoE 1. Be ii enacted By the Legislature
Of the State Of Mississippi That it shall be
the duty of the Governor, upon the passage
Of this act to cause an investigation to be
made with view to ascertain the amount
now due the State of the five per cent fund
! from the Federal government, and when the
amount shall have been ascertained, to take
the necessary steps to procure the payment
Of the same into the State Treasury to the
credit of the five per cent. fund
SEC. 2. Be tfuTther enacted, That the sum
Of six thousand one hundred and fourteen
dollars and eighty cents, now in the State
Treasury to the credit of the two aud three
per cent fund, be and the same is hereby
| appropriated to the common school fund oil
this State, and that all money hereafter paid
into the Treasury arising from this fund
shall be and the same is hereby appropri-
ated to the common school fund OF this
State, and all funds now in the Treasury on
account of this fund and that which may
hereafter be had on the same account, shall
be distributed pro rata between the severa
counties of this State as early as practicable
after the receipt of the same.
SIC, 3, BE Il further enacted, That thu
boards OF supervisors Of the several counties
of this State shall apply the fund so dis
tributed to the construction of good school
houses and repairing the same, and The
| Auditor Of Public Accounts shall issue war
rants on the Treasurer for the several sum!
that may be due the counties, in favor of thu
president Of the boards of supervisors unde
the direction and supervision Of the Stat,
Superintendent OF Education and the Attor
ney General
SEC 4. Be Il further enacted, That this,ac
take effect and be in force from and aftef III
passage.
Approved, March 9, 1882.
Has anything yet been realized unde
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what steps are now being taken toward
the furtherance of that design?
Has the So, ll480, appropriated, unde
Section 2, to the common school fund o
the State, and on hand at the time Of tn,
passage of the act, ever been distributed
pro rata between the several counties 0
the State?
If such distribution has ever beer
made, has any warrant ever been issuet
in favor of any county in the Stat
for the sum thus found to be due, a
provided for in Section 3?
The people of my county have neve
yet received any funds from that source
They greatly need the erection of school
houses, and would hail with delight an,
information that promised an early real
ization of any sum, however small, tina
could be appropriated to such purpose
1t is presumed, also, that other countie
would be gratiied to know, what
being accomplished in this direction.
Please publish and oblige,
Very truly yours,
T. J. Ross,
Treasurer of Noxubee county.