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Mississippi Constitution, Article 11

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Article 11, levees

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Miss. Const. art. 11, § 227 Section 227
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A levee system shall be maintained in the State as provided in this article.
Miss. Const. art. 11, § 228 The division heretofore made by the legislature of the alluvial land of the State into two levee districts, viz
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The division heretofore made by the legislature of the alluvial land of the State into two levee districts, viz: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, and the Mississippi Levee District, as shown by the laws creating the same, and the amendments thereto, is hereby recognize…
Miss. Const. art. 11, § 229 Section 229
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There shall be a board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, which shall consist of two members from each of the counties of Coahoma and Tunica, and one member from each of the remaining counties or parts of counties, now or hereafter embraced wit…
Miss. Const. art. 11, § 230 Section 230
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All of said commissioners shall be qualified electors of the respective counties or parts of counties from which they may be chosen, except the one selected for the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company; and the legislature shall provide that they shall each give bond f…

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Miss. Const. art. 11, § 231 Section 231

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When the terms of the present levee commissioners shall expire, or whenever a vacancy shall occur or be about to occur, in either of said boards, the governor shall make appointments to fill vacancies, subject to the confirmation of the senate. The terms of office of said commiss…

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 232 Section 232

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The commissioners of said levee districts shall have supervision of the erection, repair and maintenance of the levees in their respective districts.

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 233 Section 233

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The levee boards shall have and are hereby granted authority and full power to appropriate private property in maintaining and repairing levees therein; and when any owner of land, or any other person interested therein, shall object to the location or building of the levee there…

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 234 Section 234

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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…

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 235 Section 235

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Each levee board shall make at the end of each fiscal year, to the governor of this State, a report showing the condition of the levees, and recommending such additional legislation on the subject of the system as shall be thought necessary, and showing the receipts and expenditu…

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 236 Section 236

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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,…

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 237 Section 237

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The legislature shall have full power to provide such system of taxation for said levee districts as it shall from time to time deem wise and proper.

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 238 Section 238

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No property situated between the levee and the Mississippi river shall be taxed for levee purposes, nor shall damage be paid to any owner of land so situated because of it being left outside a levee.

Miss. Const. art. 11, § 239 Section 239

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The legislature shall require the levee boards to publish at each of their sessions, an itemized account embracing their respective receipts since the prior session, and such appropriations as have been made or ordered by them respectively, in some newspaper or newspapers of the …