MCA Chapter 123

Miss. Code Ann. § 37-123-1 Organization.

The body politic and corporate created by Chapter 284, Laws of Mississippi 1924, by the name of “Delta State Teachers’ College” is continued to have perpetual succession with power to contract and be contracted with; to receive by any legal method of transfer or conveyance, property of any description, to have, hold and employ the same; to make and use a corporate seal, with power to change the same; to adopt bylaws, rules and regulations for the government of its members, official agents and employees. However, the name of said “Delta State Teachers’ College” shall be hereafter changed to “Delta State University” without interference with the rights, powers and prerogatives of said college which shall continue in all respects. Wherever the name “Delta State Teachers’ College” or “Delta State College” appears, the same shall be construed to denote Delta State University.

Miss. Code Ann. § 37-123-3 Object.

The principal object of the Delta State College shall be to qualify teachers for the public schools of this state, by imparting instruction in the art and practice of teaching in all branches of study which pertain to a common school education, and such other studies as the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning may from time to time prescribe.

Miss. Code Ann. § 37-123-5 Restrictions as to admission.

No person shall be eligible to admission to the Delta State College, who shall not have completed the studies of course prescribed by law for the common or public schools of the state.