During the "Modern Period" the State University at Oxford, the Alcorn University, the Normal Schools at Holly Springs and Tugaloo have been liberally supported. The A. & M. College has been established, built, equipped and supported at an aggregate expense of $697,909.95. The Industrial Institute and College has been built and supported at a cost of $329,735.99. Higher education has been liberally supported, eleemosynary institutions established and equipped, and the Confederate pension fund largely increased. Yet these extraordinary expenditures have only meant an addition of $282,943.91 in principal and interest to the State's payable indebtedness. This fact alone gives character to the administration of the State's finances, and bodes well for a wise use of the commonwealth's taxing power in the future. FOOTNOTES: [65] Lowrey and McCardle: Hist. Miss., p. 71. [66] Miss. Laws, 1799, pp. 121-133. [67] For provisions, Cf. Digest of the statutes of M. T., 1816, pp. 415-424. [68] Revised Code of Miss., 1857, pp. 72-73. [69] Hutchinson's Code of Miss., (1798-1848) pp. 188 and 202. [70] Miss. Rev. Code, 1875; pp. 417-18. [71] Miss. Rev. Code., 1857, pp. 70-72. [72] For provisions, Cf. Proceedings of Constitutional Convention, 1861, pp. 12-15. [73] Miss. Laws, 1862-63, p. 70. [74] Indigent beneficiaries were divided into three classes, viz: (1) Those entirely dependent. (2) Those deficient in breadstuffs. (3) Those deficient in bacon. No beneficiary could receive more than 6 bushels of corn, 1 bushel of wheat, and 50 pounds of bacon during the year. [75] Miss. Laws, Feb'y and March, 1865, pp. 3-10. [76] Miss. Laws, 1862-63, pp. 153-155. [77] Miss. Laws, 1866-67, pp. 412-414. [78] Miss. Constitutional Convention, 1868, pp. 215-220. This Convention dropped that provision, found in the Constitution of 1832, restricting the origination of money bills to the lower house. The Constitution of 1890 expressly declares that all bills may originate in either house and be amended and rejected in the other. [79] Lowry and McCardle: Hist. Miss., p. 230, Cf. also Barksdale: Reconstruction in Mississippi, p. 339 (In Noted Men of the Solid South.) [80] Miss. Laws, 1875, p. 46. TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF MISSISSIPPI J.M. WHITE, M. S.