Mississippi § 37-31-1 - Federal vocational education act accepted.
Full text of Mississippi Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 37-31-1 — Federal vocational education act accepted., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 37-31-1. Federal vocational education act accepted.
The State of Mississippi hereby accepts all the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, entitled: “An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for co-operation with the state in the promotion of such education in agriculture, trades and industries, home economics and distributive education; to provide for co-operation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects, and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,” approved February 23, nineteen hundred seventeen, and known as the “Smith-Hughes Act.”
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