Mississippi Code Title 31. Public Business, Bonds and Obligations § 31-1-9

Two kinds of binding for books shall be used, to wit: full buckram, or stiff boards with buckram backs, unless otherwise specified and ordered by the Secretary of State.

A number of copies each of the acts and journals of the Legislature and department reports shall be bound in buckram, sufficient for the state and county libraries and colleges and for such other distribution as the law directs. The exact number of copies of each of the foregoing to be thus bound is left within the discretion of the Secretary of State.

All the remaining copies of the acts and journals shall be bound either in full buckram, or in stiff boards with buckram backs, as the Secretary of State may direct.

The messages of the Governor, reports of officers, boards and institutions, and all other pamphlets shall be in paper covers only, except as the Secretary of State, in his discretion, may direct.