Mississippi Code Title 27. Taxation and Finance § 27-35-103

Any person or persons employed by the board of supervisors of any county in this state, under Sections 27-35-99 and 27-35-101, shall be paid for their services out of the general fund of the county in which such person or persons are so employed. No person related to any member of the board of supervisors by affinity or consanguinity, shall be appointed estimator or inspector or surveyor by the board of supervisors. The compensation for estimators or inspectors shall be fixed at a sum not to exceed Five Cents (5¢) per acre for estimating timber on upland, and not exceeding Ten Cents (10¢) per acre for estimating timber on lowlands. No payment shall be made by the board of supervisors until a sworn itemized statement of the number and location of acres actually estimated by such estimator, or inspector, has been filed by him with the clerk of the board of supervisors.