29-1-121 - Agent to collect fund due state.
§ 29-1-121. Agent to collect fund due state.
The governor may contract with and appoint an agent for the collection of any funds due by the federal government to the State of Mississippi on account of the sale of any land made or hereafter to be made or located or disposed of by the United States, for cash or bounty land warrants or land scrip or certificates of any kind or agricultural college scrip, and to all lands allotted to Indians in severalty, including former and existing Indian, military, or other reservations in said state, and he may allow him such reasonable compensation as may be agreed upon, to be paid only out of funds actually collected by him.
Sources: Codes, 1906, § 2928; Hemingway's 1917, § 5263; 1930, § 6054; 1942, § 4152; Laws, 1896, ch. 49.