The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-03-22
NEW LAWS.
Acts Passed by the Twenty
Fourth General Assembly.
New Laws.

New Laws.
The following is the act as APP
proved by the governor, for the bet
ter regulation Of cities and towns:
An act to amend an act satltled an
act for the Incorporation, organi-
zation and government OF muni-
cipal corporations, approved
March ninth, (9th), eighteen hun
dred and seventy five, (1S75).
Be it enacted by the general as
sembly Of the state of Arkansas:
Section l. That section twelve (12)
of an act entitled an act for the in
corporation, organization and gov
ernment of municipal corporations,
approved March ninth (9th), 1875,
be amended SO as to read as follows
They shall have power to prevent
injury or annoyance within the
limits of the corporation from any
thing dangerous, offensive or un-
healthy, and TO cause any nuisance
to be abated within the jurisdiction
given to the board Of health in sec
tion six (6), to regulate the trans
portation and keeping of gunpowder,
dynamite and other combustibles and
to provide or license magazines for
the same; to prevent and punish fast
or immoderate riding of horses. or
the driving or propelling OF vehicles
through the streets; to establish and
regulate markets; to provide for the
measuring or weighing OF hay, wood,
or any other article for sale; to reg
ulate the transportation of articles
throughout the streets, and to pre-
vent injury to the streets from over
loaded vehicles; to prevent cruelty
to animals; to prevent any riot, noise,
disturbance or disorderly assembling
es; to license, regulate, tax or sup
press ordInaries, hawkers, peddlers,
brokers, pawn brokers, money chang
ers, intelligence officers, public mas
querades balls, street exhibitions,
sparring exhibitions, dance houses,
fortune tellcrs, pistol galleries, corn
doctors, lock and private and vene-
real hospitals, museums and menag-
cries, equestrian performances, horo-
scopic views, lung testers, muscle
developers, magnifying glasses, bill
lard tables or instruments used Tor
gaming, theatrical or other exhibit
tions, shows and amusements, tip
pling houses and dram shops; also
to regulate drumming or soliciting
persons who arrive on trains or other
wise for hotels, boarding houses,
bath houses or doctors, to license
such drummers, and to provide that
each shall wear badge plainly ex-
posed to view showing for whom and
for what he is drumming or solicit
ing patronage, and punish by fines
any violation of this provision. Pro-
vided the city or town council shall
not grant a license to any tipping
house, dram shop or saloon, or per-
NIT such houses, shops or saloons to
carry on such business in any ward
OF the city, or any Incorporated town,
where at previous election ma
jority of the votes cast were against
license in such ward of city or
Incorporated town, or where an order
prohibiting the sale or giving away
of any vinous, spirltuous or intoxi-
eating liquors of any kind, or alco-
hol, or any compound or preparation
thereof commonly called tonics or
bitters, has been made In accordance
with the provisions Of an act enti-
tied an act to amend section four "a }
of an act entitled an act providing
for the prohibition Of the sale or
giving away of vinous, spirituous or
intoxicating liquors of any kind
within three (3) miles of any acade-
my, college, university, or other in
stitution oflearning, or of any church
house in this state, approved March
twenty first (2lst), eighteen hun
dred and eighty (lS81), passed
at che present session of the general
assembly, and approved February
twentieth (20th), eighteen hundred
and eighty-three (lSS3); or any gift
enterprises, to suppress prize fight
ing, dog fights, chicken cock fights,
gaming or gambling houses, and to
regulate or suppress bawdy or dis
orderly houses, houses of ill-fame Oh
assignation.
Sec. 2. That section forty eight
(4S) be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section As. The qualified voters OF
the cities Of the second class shall on
the first { lst) Tuesday in April, in
the year eighteen hundred and
eighty five (1SS5), and every year
thereafter, elect one mayor and two
alderman from each ward as mem
bers of the city council. The mayor
OF cities OF the second class shall
have within the limits of the same
all the jurisdiction and power of a
justice of the pea in all matters
civil or criminal ar, ng under the
laws Of this state, to all intents and
purposes whatever, and for crimes
and offences committed within the