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Re: Poll Tax
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http://facweb.furman.edu/~bensonlloyd/hst41/mississippi1890.htm

Mississippi State Constitution of 1890

Sec. 243. A uniform poll tax of two dollars, to be used in aid of the common schools, and for no other purpose, is hereby imposed on every male inhabitant of this State between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except persons who are deaf and dumb or blind, or who are maimed by loss of hand or foot; said tax to be a lien only upon taxable property. The board of supervisors of any county may, for the purpose of aiding the common schools in that county, increase the poll tax in said county, but in no case shall the entire poll tax exceed in any one year three dollars on each poll. No criminal proceedings shall be allowed to enforce the collection of the poll tax.

The other Mississippi state Constitutions can be found here---

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/98/constitutions-of-mississippi

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