Mississippi Code Title 19. Counties and County Officers § 19-9-117

The board of supervisors of Harrison County shall have the power and it shall be its duty to levy upon the property of the second judicial district whatever taxes may be required to meet the expenditures called for and required by the construction of the courthouse and offices and in order to secure funds for the procuring of and the erection, construction or alteration of any required building or buildings, the lands on which the same shall be, be erected, constructed, added to or altered, and any other expenditures authorized and required by law, including furnishing and equipping of said courthouse and offices. Said board shall have the power to borrow money by issuing and selling the bonds of the second district to an amount not exceeding the sum of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) for the aforesaid purposes as set out in this section. Said bonds shall be issued in the same manner as provided in Sections 19-9-1 through 19-9-31.