Southern shield., 1857-01-24
List of Acts Passed at the Late
 Session of the Legislature.

uOWef dnu make settlement, anu give Icgdl- ity and validity to her acts as fully as if she were of full age.
 An act to authorize the county court of Hot Spring county, to adopt and take juris- diction of such portion of the military road as passes through said county.
 An act for the relief of John Anderson Craig and others.
 An act to increase the compensation of the county and probate Judge of Phillips county.
 An act prescribing the mode of reinstating lost, destroyed or burned records in this State.
 An act to quiet land titles in this State.
 An act to amend in part the first section of the sixth article of the ffty-frst chapter of the Revised Statutes, in relation to inter- rupting religious congregations.
 An act to reduce the rate of taxation in this State.
 An act to permit and authorize the clerks of the county courts of Hampstead, Union, Ouachita, Monroe, Independence, Greene, Crittenden, Pope, Seyier, Washington, Yell, Perry, Scott, Pike, St. Francis, Crawford, Clark, Searcy, Montgomery, Hot Spring, Poinsett, Van Buren, Saline and Sebastian counties to burn certain election returns. and cancel county scrip now in their offices.
 An act supplementary to an act passed at the present session of this General Assem- ply, entitled ''an act to arrest, in part, the operations of the present laws upon the sub- ject of the swamp and OverfOwed lands.''
 An act concerning the Bank of the State of Arkansas.
 An act to amend an act entitled San act to establish a separate court of chancerv at the seat of government, so that the causes of the State, including that against the trustees and officers of the Real Estate Bank, and of those individuals, may be de- termined as early as practicable" approved 18th January, 1855.
 An act to charter the St. Charles and h. dian Bay Turnpike company.
 An act concerning jurors in this State.
 An act to authorize Desha and Mississip- pi counties to levy and collect road tax
 An act to make an appropriation to pay the members and officers of the General As sembly of the State of Arkansas.
 An act to provide for revising and digest ing the Statute laws of Arkansas.
 An act to provide for the construction of a block of additional cells in the main building within the walls of the Penitentiary, and for other purposes.
 A joint resolution requiring the Public Printer to print supreme court reports.
 An act to render the lands and property owned by the Real Estate Bank more pro- ductive, and to protect of them from tres passers.
 An act to protect the county revenue of the several counties of this State.
 An n+ +n ,ooreoo+ +Lo ar.; .- of purchasers of common school lands in this State.
 An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts in Monroe county.
 An act supplementary to the acts in rea- tion to the Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River railroad company, approved January 9. 1855.
 An act concerning the Bank of the State of Arkansas.
 An act to incorporate the Arkansas Man ufacturing Company.
 An act to amend, in part. section first of an act, approved 22d January, 1855, impos- ing additional duties on the presiding judges of the county courts of Crawford and Se- bastian counties.
 An act providing for a Solicitor General for the State.
 An act to authorize the removal of guar, dianships from one county to another.
 An act to authorize the Governor to make title, by patent, to the heirs or legal repre- sentatives of deceased persons who have purchased portion of the sixteenth sections of land set apart for common schools.
 An act to regulate the practice upon writs of habeaS corpus before probate judges.
 An act to prescribe the duties of the courts of this State in relation to amend ments.
 An act authorizing summary proceedings against sherifs, clerks, coroners and con- stables, in certain eases.
 An act to make appropriations to pay certain persons for work done on the capi- tol, etc.
 An act to amend the law in regard to the pay of witnesses before grand iuries.
 An act to provide for geological survey of the State of Arkansas.
 An act to increase the pay of the mem- bers of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas.
 An act to simplify the mode of paving to counties amounts of taxes that may be due from the sale and redemption of forfeited lands and to draw from the treasury the amount due from taxes on nonresident lands.
 An act to provide for the informality of bonds and recognisances in certain cases. ~~~~NNNN~-oNo~O~ DIAMOND Cur DIAMoND.-The Albany Transcript gives an account of the opera tions of some ingenious villain in that city who is filling his pockets by pretending to sell, but not actually selling, counterfeit coin. It seems that, having first baited with a circular,he sends good coin to the appli- cant at his shop, who, having bought a small lot and found it to pass without ob- jection, sends $50 or $l00 for a larger sup ply, which he coolly pockets and shuts down the gate, leaving his fellow -knaves to whistle for their money. ~~~.~.~o0o.~.~~~-NN>o
 During the year 1856, forty-six per sons over one hundred years of age died in the United States. The old est of these was slave woman of Vir- ginia, 127 at the time of her death. The slave Jim, of this State, was PA, and the slave Charles of Louisiana, 120. Fourteen were over no years | old.--Memphis Bulletin,