Mississippi Central Railroad v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Madison county. Young, Chancellor. The facts of the case will be found in the opinion of the court, as far as is necessary to fully understand the view of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Madison county. Young, Chancellor. The facts of the case will be found in the opinion of the court, as far as is necessary to fully understand the view of the court. A detañed history of the Chickasaw school fund is contained in the brief of W. P. Harris ; and a narrative of the ordinance of secession, and auxñiary ordinances of the convention of 1861, and the succeeding legislation of the state, during the war, relating to the matters under consideration, will be found in tbe brief of J. A. P. Campbell, which the reporter adopts. No memorandum of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Pettost, C. J. :
By an act of congress of the 4th of July, 1836, a quantity of land, equal to one-thirty-sixth part of the land ceded by the Chickasaw Indians, within the state of Mississippi, was granted to said state, for the use of schools within said territory in said state so ceded as aforesaid by said Chickasaws. This land was sold or leased by the state and the proceeds thereof were placed in the treasury of the state, and constituted a trust fund for the use of schools in the territory composing the Chickasaw cession.
In the year 1856 an act of the legislature of this state was passed…
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