Revised manuscript declared to be official Code of the state of Mississippi.

Miss. Code Ann. § 1-1-35
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The Legislature finds and so declares that the code committee, comprised of the Attorney General, Secretary of State, chairmen of the appropriations committees and judiciary “A” and “B” committees of the House of Representatives and Senate has, to date, fulfilled its obligations and responsibilities within its statutory powers as set forth in Senate Bill No. 1964 (Chapter 465), Laws of 1970, and that the entire manuscript for the Mississippi Code of 1972, emanating from the Mississippi Code of 1930, all enactments of a general and permanent nature subsequent to the regular session of 1930 and through the regular session of 1942 comprising the original Mississippi Code of 1942, and all such enactments from adjournment of the 1942 regular session through the regular session of 1971 and now a part of the Mississippi Code of 1942, has been thoroughly analyzed by experienced and trained lawyer-editors of the lawbook publishers and by the publishers’ computer facilities, and the publishers’ findings and recommendations to the Attorney General to date have been agreed upon by and between the publishers, the Attorney General, and the code committee, and that said proposed manuscript, as prepared by The Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Company and associates and approved by the attorney general, for the Mississippi Code of 1972, has been reported to the Legislature and revised, amended and adopted by the two houses of the Legislature, an enrolled draft of which has been prepared by the said code committee, said manuscript is hereby approved, adopted and declared to be the official code of the State of Mississippi on the first day of November, 1973.

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