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This study was commenced upon the suggestion of Dr. Howard Lee mcbain of Columbia University, to whom the author is indebted for many Wise and helpful suggestions. To Dr. Dunbar Rowland, Secretary of the Mississippi Historical Society, the author expresses deepest appreciation for many courtesies extended at every stage of the work in preparing this study; through him, too, the author gratefully extends his thanks to the Mississippi Historical Society for the privilege of pub lishing this monograph as a volume of the publications of the Society. His thanks are also due his wife, without whose help in the preparation of the manuscript the publication of this study would have been greatly delayed. The many state offi cials who have furnished material and made helpful suggestions are too numerous to mention; to all of them the author expresses grateful appreciation. He also acknowledges indebtedness to Professor E. S. Towles of the Department of Modern Languages in the Mississippi A. M. College, for assistance in reading the proof and in the preparation of the index.