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JACKSON • Forty-six Mississippi historians have signed a letter urging state lawmakers to reject a proposal that would let politicians choose who oversees the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. “(W)e are asking that you not interfere with the independence of an entity that has done so much good work for our state,” said the letter, distributed to House members Thursday. “To improve this invaluable Department, what is needed is an increase in funding. Please do not politicize its Board of Trustees.” Subscribe to The Session, a Daily Journal politics newsletter Senate Bill 2727 would turn the agency’s nine-member board into a panel appointed by the governor and lieutenant governor rather than one that selects its own members, as has been the case since 1902. The legislation quietly cleared the Senate on a party-line vote earlier this month and now awaits consideration in the House.

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