The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-08

A bill to provide for the safe keep ing of field notes.
 A bill to make cotton stealing a felony.
 A bill to prohibit the sale of liq uor within five miles of the Arkan- sas Industrial University, at Fay etteville.
 The following new bills were in troduced in the senate Oh Wednes- day:
 A bill to appropriate $5000 for the branch normal school at Pine Bluff.
 The bill making the stealing of cattle and hogs, etc., felony, and prescribing a penalty was passed.
 The bill to repeal the act to regu- late the sale of property under mort gage and deeds of trust, was passed.
 Thursday the senate adopted a few resolutions and passed few bills of local interest. A consider. able discussion was had on the bill pertaining to first and second class city municipality.
 Fridays proceedings of the senate are not interesting to those who do not read all the proceedings of every day. It is impossible to make sy- Inoptical report touch on all the top ics discussed in the senate. Moth ing was done on Friday of general importance.
 The senate opened Saturday with a consideration of the revenue bill. It was deemed by the members to be one of the most important bills of the session.
 The provisions of the bill as taken from the Gazette, are as follows:
 It consists ot I27 sections and con talns number of changes In the present law. It creates board of railroad commissioners, composed of the governor, secretary of state, and auditor of state, whose duty it is t0 value the road beds, rolling stock, etc., of the various railroads in the state, and certify their acts down to the assessors of each county through which any railroad may run, who will then assess the same and place the same on the tax books. It ere ates county board of equalization, whose duty it shall be to pass upon assessments of the assessor and equalize the same. It provides for the publication of delinquent lists. It closes the tax books on the 10th day of April, instead of the goth, as now provided. It makes it the duty of the assessor while assessing the property to make list of the yari ous products raised by each house holder, which list has to be returned to the secretary of state, and he has to publish the same in pamphlet form for distribution. The bill also provides for and makes it the duty of the collector of counties to keep a record of tax receipts, which must be filed at the close of each years collection, and becomes record of the county. The bill also provides the form of tax deed; makes the assessor bonded officer; allows two years for the redemption of lands sold at tax sales. The bill changes the law in regard to married women. They may come in at any time and redeem their property after it has been sold for taxes under the pres ent law, but under this biil they only have two years, as other taxpayers, It allows constables per cent for collecting funds, etc, and they have to pay the money collected by them into the county treasury, and not to collectors, as now provided by law.
 The bill makes it the duty of all collecting officers to settle quarterly with the county courts.
 The senate bill in relation to trade marks, and the encouragement of manufactures etc, was passed by a vote of 20 against 3.
 HOUSE.
 The house began its work Tues day, in hearing reports and discuss ions. A lengthy discussion was had on tue public dirt road bill, but nothing was done.'
 The house passed one bill Wed nesday and that was to regulate the salaries of probate judges. Accord ling to the reports in the daily pa.