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CHRONOLOGY
Extensive immigration of Negroes from hill country to river bottoms in the Yazoo area basins.
December 6. Jefferson Davis dies at New Orleans.
Population, 1,289,600.
January 16. John M. Scone inaugurated Governor,
Australian ballot system of voting is adopted in all except Congressional elections.
November 1. New State constitution is promulgated, to take effect January 1, 1891.
June 3. Monument to Confederate dead is unveiled at Jackson. State relief for Confederate soldiers and widows is authorized. February 7. State flag and coat of arms adopted.
Mississippi raises 3 regiments for Spanish War service.
Disastrous flood.
Yellow fever epidemic.
Population, 1,551,270.
February 21. New State Capitol, with total appropriations of $1,093,641, and to occupy site of old State Penitentiary, is authorized.
Pensions for Confederate soldiers are provided for.
Magnolia chosen State flower.
February 26. Department of Archives and History created.
March 5. Department of Insurance created.
June 3. Cornerstone of new State Capitol is laid.
August 6. First election held under new primary election laws. Disastrous flood.
A text-book commission is created.
Legislature passes laws requiring equal but separate accommodations for white and blacks on street cars; authorizing a new code of laws; creating Lamar County; providing for additional branch agricultural experiment stations, and a new institution for the deaf and dumb.
Laws are passed which change the management of the penitentiary; create a Department of Agriculture and Commerce; adopt the code of 1906; provide for Jefferson Davis and Forrest Counties; for a memorial to Mississippi Confederate soldiers at the Vicksburg Military Park; and for a geological, economic, and topographical survey of the State.
Importation and sale of alcoholic liquor in Mississippi is prohibited. County agricultural high schools are established.
Population, 1,797,114.
State Board of Health succeeds Health Department created 50 years before.
County agricultural high schools act is amended to provide equal opportunities for the Negro.
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March 30. Mississippi Normal College is created.
April 14. State schools placed in hands of one board of trustees. River overflows. Delegates to Democratic National Convention at Baltimore instructed for Hon. Oscar Underwood, of Alabama, as required by the people in the first Presidential preference primary held in Mississippi.
Child Labor Law forbidding girls under 14 and boys under 12 to work in industrial establishments is passed, with 8-hour day for older youths.
Bureau of Vital Statistics is inaugurated.
An act guaranteeing bank deposits passed.
State Factory Inspectorship created; State Board of Nurse Examiners authorized.
State Truck Growers (cooperative) Association organized.
Rural schools consolidated by authority of act of 1910.
January 18. T. G. Bilbo inaugurated Governor.
By constitutional amendment Supreme Court increased to six judges, elected for term of eight years.
Public hangings are made illegal.
Law is passed making ic a misdemeanor to mutilate or misuse the U. S. flag, the State flag, and Confederate flag.
State Highway, State Tax, and Illiteracy Commissions are created. March 25. Sanatorium for tubercular patients established at Magee. March 28. Mississippi Industrial and Training School established at Columbia.
March 27. Mississippi musters its First Regiment and opens State recruiting office.
April 6. Mississippi ratifies Wilson’s Declaration of War on Germany.
National Prohibition Act is ratified by State.
Plant Board is created.
Pat Harrison is elected to the U. S. Senate.
Population, 1,790,618.
Two amendments are adopted to State Constitution: 1. A uniform poll tax of $2.00 to be used in aid of common schools in the county.
2.	Pensions for Confederate soldiers and sailors, residents of Miss., and their widows.
April 3. Mississippi State School for the feebleminded is established at Ellisville.
March 25. An act is passed permitting women to vote.
A higher gasoline tax secures funds for improvement of highways. Rehabilitation Act passed.
March 3. John Sharp Williams, distinguished U. S. Senator, having declined renomination, retires to private life.
Inheritance Tax Law passed.
Income Tax Bill of 1912 is modified.