{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-5-1-59","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 5-1-59","heading":"Renumeration of witnesses for state.","body":"Witnesses on behalf of the state subpoenaed to appear before the legislature, or either branch thereof, or any committee authorized to send for witnesses, shall be allowed the same compensation for each day’s attendance, and the same mileage allowed to witnesses in the circuit courts. The sum due to each witness shall be ascertained by his own affidavit before the secretary of the senate or clerk of the house of representatives or chairman of the committee before whom he was subpoenaed to appear, who shall give the witness a certificate thereof attaching the affidavit to the same. On production of such certificate the auditor shall issue his warrant on the treasurer therefor, payable out of the legislative appropriation.","path":["Title 5. Legislative Department","Chapter 1. Legislature"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.05.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:51:17Z","sha256":"d104ff19ba8085c5f47cc975420d41f4442fe5be278d6454cd50594853d15d88","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-5-1-57","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-5-1-61","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}