The superintendent of education of each county, after due notice published, shall give certificates of selection to the number of students to which the county is entitled to have admitted to the Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, and this in addition to those already in the university, if any. This selection of new students shall be made by drawing, if more than the county's quota apply.The certificate of selection shall be attested by the clerk of the board of supervisors under its seal, and shall entitle the holder to admission into the university, with all its privileges, to pursue all its industrial branches selected, and to enter the subclass or class for which he is fitted.Codes, 1892, §§ 24, 25; 1906, §§ 24, 25; Hemingway's 1917, §§ 3392, 3393; 1930, §§ 7189, 7190; 1942, §§ 6696, 6697.
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