The boards of supervisors of the several counties, and the municipal authorities of the cities and towns of the State, are authorized to allow reasonable compensation to officers for services under this ordinance.
Adopted by the Convention November 1, 1890.
S. S. CALHOON, President.
AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING TERMS OF STATE OFFICERS.
Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Section 1. The terms of the following State officers, to wit: governor, lieutenant-governor, attorney-general, treasurer, auditor, secretary of state, superintendent of education, and clerk of the supreme court, are hereby extended until the first Monday in January, 1896; and vacancies in the offices, the terms of which are hereby extended, shall be filled by appointment by the governor, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.
Sec. 2. The persons whose terms of office are hereby extended shall be ineligible to immediately succeed themselves. And all bonded officers whose terms are hereby extended shall execute new official bonds on or before the date at which, but for this extension, their present terms of office would have expired; and in case of any failure to execute such bond the office shall thereby become vacant.
Sec. 3. A general election shall be held under this constitution on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1891, for three railroad commissioners and for members of the legislature, district attorneys and county and county district officers, whose terms shall expire on the first Monday in January, A. D., 1896.
Sec. 4. 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—
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of the convention; and the auditor of public accounts is authorized to issue his warrants upon the treasurer, and the treasurer is authorized to pay the same for such sums as the convention may direct and duly certify through its proper officers.
Adopted by the Convention October 4, 1890.
S. S. CALHOON, President.
Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary.
AN ORDINANCE
To provide for raising money to defray the expenses of the Convention.
Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Section 1. That the state treasurer be authorized, with the consent and approval of the governor, if it shall be deemed necessary, to negotiate a loan of not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for a period of not more than four months, on such reasonable terms as the governor shall approve, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the convention and for replacing moneys used for that purpose.
Sec. 2. That the faith of the State be pledged for the repayment of such loan; and the treasurer is hereby authorized to hypothecate the $46,000 of unsold bonds issued in pursuance of the act approved March 15th, 1884, and to sell the same for the purpose of raising the money to pay such loan, if he and the governor shall deem the same necessary or proper.
Adopted by the Convention October 8, 1890.
S. S. CALHOON, President.
Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary.
PENITENTIARY ORDINANCE.
Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Section 1. With the view of enabling the legislature at its next session to have before it the necessary information upon which to act, if it should determine to establish a penitentiary farm, it is made the duty of the governor to appoint five commissioners, who shall, prior to the next session of the legislature, carefully inspect such bodies of land as may be thought suitable for such location; and who shall make report to the governor as to the several advantages of the bodies of land inspected by them and as to the propriety of establishing such farm or some other system, and as to the advantages of each, cost, and other proper matters, to be laid by the governor before the legislature with such recommendation as he may see proper to make.
Adopted by the Convention November 1, 1890.
S. S. CALHOON, President.
Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary.
LAND COMMISSIONER ORDINANCE.
Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Section 1. The legislature at its next regular session shall provide for the election of a land commissioner at the general election to be held in 1895 whose term of office shall be four years, and whose only compensation shall be a salary to be fixed by law. He shall have charge of the swamp and overflowed lands, the internal improvement lands, the records of the office of surveyor-general turned over by the United States to this State, the Chickasaw school lands, the sixteenth section and indemnity lands for the sixteenth section outside of the Chickasaw cession, the lands forfeited for non-payment of taxes after the time allowed for exemption shall have expired, and of all other public lands and land records in this State not otherwise provided for. The legislature shall enact such other laws as shall be necessary to fully carry this ordinance into effect; and shall have power to abolish said office when the interests of the State demand it, or may add to any of the duties assigned to such officer.
Adopted by the Convention November 1, 1890.
S. S. CALHOON, President.
Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary.
SWAMP LAND ORDINANCE.
Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—
Whereas, Doubts have arisen as to the title of original purchasers of certain swamp and overflowed lands by reason of the entry of said lands with the land scrip of counties other than the county in which said lands were situated; and
Whereas, By act of the legislature of the State of Mississippi approved February 17, 1890, "all persons now holding swamp lands under such invalid purchase shall have the right to purchase the same for a period of two years at the uniform price of 124 cents per acre" upon the terms required by said act; therefore
Section 1. Be it ordained that the State of Mississippi hereby waives the payment of said sum named in said act, and disclaims any interest or title in and to the said lands on account of erroneous locations thereof.
Adopted by the Convention November 1st, 1890.
S. S. CALHOON, President.
Attest: R. E. Wilson, Secretary.
LEVEE ORDINANCES.
Be it ordained by the people of Mississippi in Convention assembled—