Southern shield., 1857-01-17
List of Acts Passed at the Late
 Session of the Legislature.

rounded Hill, in Monroe county, and Pope county and Crawford county, from the op- erations of the act entitled an act to author ize the county courts of the counties of Jack son, Crawford, Pope, Lafayette, Phillips, Crittenden, Monroe, Columbia and Pulaski to levy road tax, and for other purposes.
 An act to amend an act to aid in the con- struction of the Cairo and Fulton railroad.
 An act to change the times ot holding the county and probate courts of Bradley, Pope. Poinsett and Carroll countless
 An act to incorporate the town of Browns Vile, in Prairie county, Arkansas.
 An act to incorporate the city of Helena, and other purposes.
 An act to compensate electors for Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States.
 An act to repeal an act authorizing the county courts of the counties of Jackson, Crawford, Pope, Lafayette, Phillips, Crit tenden. Monroe, Columbia and Pulaski, to levy road tax, and for other purposes, so far as relates to the county of Columbia, and to revive and put in force all road laws in force at the time of the passage of said act.
 An act create the office of Public Printer and to stipulate the prices for the public printing, approved Dec. llth, 1856.
 An Act prohibiting the sale of spirituous or vinous liquors within three miles of Fal- con Male and Female Academy, in the coun- ty of Columbia.
 An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts of Perry county.
 An act more fully to define the duties of clerks and comparing justices or househol- ders of elections, and to pevent them from rejecting any poll-book of elections.
 An act to change the times of holding the circuit courts in the second judicial circuit, and to change the times of holding the coun- ty and probate courts of Chicot county.
 An act to incorporate the Independence Mining Company, approved 27th Dec, 1856.
 An act to conform the fees of officers to the federal currency.
 An act to aid the citizens of Vineyard, Cane Hill and Elnois townships, in Wash ington county, in preventing the sale of spirituous and vinous liquors in said town ships.
 An act to arrest in part the operations Of the present laws upon the subject of the swamp and overfowed lands.
 An act to legalize and confirm the sale of certain school lands in Hampstead county.
 
 An act authorizing the clerks of the cir cult courts of Lawrence and Madison coun- ties to use new official seal.
 An act to incorporate the Washington County Agricultural and Mechanical Socie- ties in Washington county.
 An act to amend sections 2 and of chap ter 49, relative to county courts, in English's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas.
 An act amendatory of existing laws in re- lation to county scrip.
 An act to amend an act to aid in the con- struction of the eastern branch of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, approved 18th Janu- ary, 1855.
 An act to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the county courts of the counties of Jackson, Crawford, Pope, Lafayette, Crittenden, Monroe, Columbia and Pulaski, to levy a road tax and for other purposes.
 An act to amend the criminal law in rela- tion to assault and battery.
 An act to incorporate the city of Arka- delphia.
 An act to provide for making and repair ipaul-.aas- ssaa s......'c.------------r.-- - An act for the relief of Edwin AzS-T -TffrSSs, of Phillips county. ' And act to amend chapter sixteen of the Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, under ' the head of attachments before justices. An act to revive and amend 'san act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Batesville."
 An act to change the proceeds arising from fines in Pope and Ouachita counties from the school fund to county purposes.
 An act to authorize the county courts of the counties of this State to procure the field notes and maps of the lands lying in each of the same.
 An act to incorporate the Ouachita Con- ference Female College.
 An act for the relief of persons who have lost or mislaid their original certificates of entry under the different swamp land acts of this State.
 An act for the preservation of certain records in Hampstead county, State of Ar kansas.
 A joint resolution requiring the register ing and burning of certain State bonds in the Treasurer's office, which had been issued but never sold.
 An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands in Drew county.
 An act for the relief of certain citizens of the county of Phillips in this State.
  county and probate courts of Newton county.
 An act to amend the charter of the Ar kansas Midland Railroad company.
 An act to provide for the relief of John A. Harvck, late Sheriff of Monroe county.
 An act prescribing the mode in which the will of majority of the inhabitants of township 8south, range l5 west, shall be as certained in regard to investing the interest arising from the sale of the sixteenth sec- tion in said township.
 An act to provide for the election of tax assessors in the counties of Union, Colum- bia, Ouachita, Desha, Johnson, Green, Se- bastian and Randolph.
 An act supplementary to an act entitled an act to provide for the election of tax as- sessors in the counties of Union, Columbia. Ouachita, Johnson, Green, Sebastian and Randolph.
 The Madison Courier of Tuesday says, The prospect ahead for coal is frightful; what little thereis here goes at forty cents bushel.' Our citizens