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Architectural plan view of the Counting House — a banking-hall interior with a teller counter, ledger desks behind it, and a small vault recess at the rear. Hand-drafted in oxidized navy ink on parchment.

Mississippi financial profile

1-Section Cohort (cohort 3) · Distributed (no unified board)

Substrate v1.3 · Last reviewed 2026-05-01 · Read the state dossier

Permanent fund corpus

Awaiting State Disclosure

The substrate doesn't yet have a verified corpus value for Mississippi. This is a known gap in the editorial workstream (B-025 hand-curation pass), not an indication that no fund exists.

Most recent distribution

Awaiting State Disclosure

Federal grant acreage

1,067,840 acres Verified

Transparency status

Disclosure unknown

The state has a federal trust but neither corpus nor recent distribution is in the substrate yet. Awaiting state disclosure or future substrate work.

Governance form

Classification: Distributed (no unified board)

No consolidated state trust-lands board. The Secretary of State (statewide elected) supervises through the Office of Sixteenth Section Lands; each local school district administers the 16th-section lands within its boundaries; the State Board of Education and the Mississippi Department of Education have ancillary roles.

Mississippi 16th Section Principal School Fund — aggregate principal balances compiled by Secretary of State across 107 districts, FY 2024.
Mississippi 16th Section Principal School Fund (aggregated by the Secretary of State across the state's school districts). Source: Advocates for School Trust Lands , Mississippi Trust Lands Report (Tonia Day, FY 2024). Reproduced for the library by permission.