Constitution · Mississippi

Miss. Const. art. 4, § 96

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Constitution of Mississippi
Text as of
October 2026

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The legislature shall never grant extra compensation, fee, or allowance, to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after service rendered or contract made, nor authorize payment, or part payment, of any claim under any contract not authorized by law; but appropriations may be made for expenditures in repelling invasion, preventing or suppressing insurrections.

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