Mississippi § 39-5-103 - Definitions.
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§ 39-5-103. Definitions.
For the purposes of Sections 39-5-101 through 39-5-113, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require: “United States De Soto Expedition Commission” means the commission which was created by Public Resolution 57 of the Seventy-fourth Congress and approved August 26, 1935. “Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission” means the final report and recommendation of the commission to Congress which was required by Public Resolution 57 of the Seventy-fourth Congress. Such document is identified as House Document Number 71, 76th Congress, 1st Session, printed by the United States Government Printing Office in 1939, and reprinted in 1985 in the Smithsonian Institution’s Classics of Anthropology Series.
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