1878 Miss. Laws 27, 29

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the Auditor of Public Accounts shall, before the first day of May 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 in excess of the exemption, number of horses, number of mules, number of swine over ten head, number of carriages or other wheeled vehicles, pianos, pistols, dirks, bowie knives or sword canes, watches, jewelry and gold and silver plate, (with a separate column for the value of each,) amount of capital employed in manufacturing and merchandise, amount of money loaned, solvent credits or credits of value, amount of money hoarded or kept on deposit subject to order, amount of money employed in buying or trading in paper or exchange, amount invested in bonds except United States bonds, amount of money, amount of household furniture over two hundred and fifty dollars in value, amount of stocks and 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.