Miss. Const. art. 8, § 213

The state having received and appropriated the land donated to it for the support of agricultural and mechanical colleges by the United States, and having, in furtherance of the beneficent design of congress in granting said land, established the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi and the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, it is the duty of the state to sacredly carry out the conditions of the act of congress upon the subject, approved July 2, A.D. 1862, and the legislature shall preserve intact the endowments to and support said colleges. NOTE: MS Code §37-121-1 changed the name of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College to Alcorn State University.