The Canton times., 1902-04-11

the ia. ia col. ]. L. Power-my
fnslsl ! tsll them something Of the. 2
~ = !. ~ eentered in "Auld Lang
X .la''nd saar the old Capitol. rns 1u
alya > copy Of his address, de-
\ s'ls u J July Ain the college ta chapel. e.
~ ..e to the oft-repeated re-
sisrsia, tss II publication, and because !, =
- ial + 4. only right that we should
obi bis example and share aa stata nis Dsss y
Will ali al and served SO Loyalty,
y ! to these columns, through
s " se spoke, with such great pleas q
7 ~ y, sr leaders and his friends dur
Y nls io 80 X. M. p.
recsn' tba Constitutional Conven-
lof es ,s17 - the town Of Washington,
q 10. county. was the seat OF ter
" aan,s ,gsoyernment. That convention ?
pa AZ s1t that the Legislature should
nasu nert session October ~, lSll.
~ Nstehez. a and thereafter as might
determined. n1a. .tona n
Y. ~ uas passed changing the seat
acss.rnment ~ rr to Columbia, Marion
u,' y Natchez, Liberty and Colum-
W, as,o voted for. Columbia carried
4 70 vote Of II to 10.
.rsions at Columbia were: NO
N 'ssr sssI 1871; February, 1922; June,
" Il the February session a bill
;,troduced r. changing the seat Of
.rnment ~ to Monticello for the next
sing n lime session. 1t passed the
y w bouse by a majority Of one.
senate would doubtless have
n It. but the rule requiring All
s'to M he he read on three several days
i 4 : not be dispensed with; besides,
legislature had agreed TO adjourn
|ore The third day could be reached.
A FEBRUARY, 1921, a commission was
l,ted consisting of Thomas Hinds,
Ires I Patton and William baltimore
1 locate two sections Of land In the
Entry lately ceded to the United
W. bv the Choctaw Indians, as soon
'the same may be surveyed, for the
ruose Of a seat of government of
n STATE. the same to be within
enty miles of the true center OF the
I'd embracing the whole extent q
State as we'll as that part which
now in the jurisdiction of the State
that part now occupied by Indian
bes, etc. VI
rhe commissioners reported In NO
nber 1921, to the Legislature then
Columbia, recommending that the
Ditol be located at LeFleur's Bluff,
Pearl river, and the report was
,pted. LeFleur's Bluff was thirty
miles in excess of the twenty-mile
IT. but with this exception 1t met
other conditions. Subsequently a
b was added to the northern bound
Of the State, making Kosciusko
Y nearly the geographical center.
act creating the commission had
h SO amended that when the seiec-
i was made the place should be
ned Jackson, in honor Of Maj.-Gen.
lrew Jackson. And 1t may be ap-
pirate here to note that Kinds
N.Y. created February IL, 1921, was
led in honor of the chairman of the
itol Commission, Gen. Thomas
ds He commanded the Jefferson
'p at the battle of New Orleans,
Gen. Jackson, in speaking of q
liant dash made by t1fs command
an intrenched position of the
ny, said: THE Jefferson troop,
manded by Col. Thomas Kinds,
the terror of one army and the
iration of the other"
he General Assembly that met at
lmbia in June, 1922, adjourned to
in the town of Jackson on De
Der %, 1922. A temporary State
Sc had been erected - Capitol
1t (where the Harding building
stands). 1t was a two-story brick,
., and cost $4,000. Thirteen
ties sent twenty-one representa-
and there were seven senatorial
lets.
an inducement to settlement In
son, the first ten settlers were to
pre-emption rights to ten lots,
lded a neat log or frame house,
less than thirty feet in length,
erected on each lot. The lots were
lptly pre-empted and improved.
v. Walter Deake thus congratu-
the members of the Legislature
lelr new environments:
elore | close this communication,
~ me to congratulate you on your
meeting at the place determined
Inc permanent seat of govern
, where for the first time your
erauons may be conducted in a
! tne property of the State. and
% exclusively for the purpose of
ation; and also on the prospect
'm,ortable accommodations at a /
where SO little could reasonably
1een expected. am fully per-
y tnat If your accommodations
.Ot De equal to the wishes of those
I PROVIDE ts them. they will at least