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- 1 2 "1888 Senate · Mississippi State University Libraries". msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ↑ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (December 2, 1890). "Journal" – via Google Books.
- ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 194.
- ↑ "Mississippi Constitution Art. 15, § 285". Findlaw.
- ↑ Society, Southern Historical (December 2, 1890). "Southern Historical Society Papers". Virginia Historical Society – via Google Books.
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