Article 9, Section 221. Appropriations for Mississippi national guard.
The legislature is hereby required to make an annual appropriation for the efficient support and maintenance of the Mississippi national guard, which shall consist of not less than one hundred men for each senator and representative to which this state may be entitled in the congress of the United States; but no part of such funds shall be used in the payment of said guard except when in actual service.
SOURCES: 1817 art "Militia," § 3; 1832 art "Militia," § 3; 1869 art IX § 4.