1871 Miss. Laws 819-20

SECTION 1. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall, before the first day of February in each year, furnish each clerk of the board of supervisors with three copies of suitable assessment rolls, properly ruled and headed, for the assessment of personal property and polls, in which to enter the following items, viz: The name of the individual, corporation, company, society. partnership or firm to whom any property shall be taxable, number of cattle, number of horses, number of mules, number of sheep, number of swine, number of carriages and other wheeled vehicles, pianos, pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, sword-canes, watches, jewelry, and gold and silver plate (with a separate column for the value of each); amount of money employed in merchandise, amount of money employed in manufacture, amount of money, amount of household furniture, amount of stock or shares in any corporation or company, not required by law to be otherwise listed and taxed, amount of all other personal property not otherwise enumerated, and the number of polls, with a column to contain the aggregate of State tax. The cost of said books shall be paid out of the State treasury, on the warrant of the Auditor.