29-1-83 - Land sold by the state to be assessed for taxes. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 29-1-83. Land sold by the state to be assessed for taxes.
 

When a patent shall issue for public lands, the land commissioner shall notify the clerk of the chancery court and the tax assessor of the county in which it is situated of the fact, giving the name of the patentee, a description of the land, and the price per acre. Said land shall, after January 1st of the next year after issuance of patents, be assessed for taxes as other lands are. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1892, § 2573; 1906, § 2911; Hemingway's 1917, § 5246; 1930, § 6025; 1942, § 4107; Laws,  1942, ch. 235.