Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1891-04-23
NEW LAWS.
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HOUSE uili W.. 20 IL q hi'o
demeanor for any person to be found
guilty of gaming with minors. The
penalty is not less than fifty nor
! more than 500 for each offense.
House bill No. % exempts from
the lien of a mortgage the offspring
of animals.
House bill No. % prevents the
taking off of scaIagc in weighing
cotton.
House bill No. 242 creates the six
tecnth judicial circuit, and changes
the boundaries Of the second, third
and fourteenth districts as follows !:
Clay, Randolph, Sharp, Fulton and
lard the sixteenth Greene, Craig
head, Polnsett, Cross and MISSISSIPPI
pi, the second district; Indepen-
dence. Jackson, Lawrence and Stone,
the third district; Baxter, Boone,
Marion, Newton and Searcy, the
fourteenth district. The act also
provides for an election to be held
the third Saturday in June next, for
judge and prosecuting attorney for
the new district. The court days in
the new districts are provided for.
House bill No. Ill amends an act
of 1861 now in force and grants to
II. b. Archer a charter to build a
turn pike road in Columbia county.
House bill No. 1926 authorizes the
State Treasurer TO borrow the cur
rency belonging to the internal i'm
provement fund and swamp land
fund amounting in the aggregate to
O,443. 50, to meet the current ex-
penses of the State government and
for other purposes, the borrowed
funds to be replaced on or
before April, 1896, bearing interest
at the rate of per cent.
! House bill No. 215 amends section
1868 of Mansfeld's Digest. so that
where a divorce is granted to the
wife the court shalt make an order
that each party be restored TO all
property not disposed of at the COM
mencement of action at law.
House bill Ne. sc regulates hawk
ing and peddlers and designates
those engaged as such, as farm and
produce" peddlers," and relieves
them from payment Of license.
House bill No. 30 prohibits the
throwing of dead animals into any
running stream and names the Of
Tense as misdemeanor subject to a
fine of not less than $40 nor more
than $50.
House bill No. 222 provides pen.
sion ranging in sums of S25, $50 and
500 per annum, according to disa-
bilities. to soldiers and sailors who
enlisted ia Arkansas and served in
the States or Confederate States
service, and who have been for the
past twelve months, next to the pas
sage of this bill, residents of this
State The bill defines the extent of
injuries and makes the sheriff, coun-
ty judge and clerk a board of exam
liners upon whose recommendation
the State board, composed of the
Governor, Acknowledgement and
Auditor, shall act as the pension
board. The unmarried widow of de-
ceased officers, soldiers or sailors,
who lost their lives while citizens of
this State in the service, are also
made henefclaries in this act. The
bill provides for the levying Of a tax
of one-fourth Of mill for carrying
out the purposes Of the bill. The
bill makes it misdemeanor, subject
to fines of s25 and 5000, for any law
yer or other person to be found
guiding of eXacting fees from any
beneficiary in seeking pension I'M
der this act.
Each county will be entitled to a
representation in the House Of the
Legislature according to the new APP
portonment act, this body to be
composed Of 100 members, as fol-
lows, Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter,
Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll,
Chicot, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland,
Cralghead, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas,
Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Fulton.
Grant, Green, Hot Spring, Howard,
lizard, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette,
Lawrence, Lincoln Little River, Ma
rion, Madison, Miller, Mississippi,
Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, New
ton, Perry, Pike, Ponsett Polk,
Prairie, Randolph, Saline, Scott,
Searcy, Sewer, Sharp, st, Francis,
Stone, Union, Van Buren, and Wood