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The 5th session of the Mississippi Legislature met in Columbia in Nov. 1821 and again in a special session in June 1822. Walter Leake was inaugurated Governor there in January 1822, and the Legislature passed laws for the education of the poor, approved Le Fleur's Bluff, now Jackson, as the site for the permanent state capital, and adopted Poindexter's Code.
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Columbia, Mississippi · United States
