Mississippi Code
In General
§ 49-5-1. Public lands

Such a lease shall provide that the lessee or lessees of the cut-over, swamp or overflowed land shall not cut any timber for commercial purposes or permit waste thereof or of the lands and shall not include the right to mine the oil, gas and minerals on or under the said land. As a consideration for the lease, the Secretary of State, by and with the consent of the Attorney General and the commission, shall contract that the lessee or lessees shall at all times protect the state's interest in and to the timber growing on the leased lands.
However, nothing in this subsection shall prevent the state from selling at any time any timber or any of said lands so leased, or leasing and/or drilling such lands for gas, oil, and/or minerals.
Furthermore, nothing in this subsection shall prevent the homesteading of any lands so leased.

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