The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
LEGISLATURE PROCEEDINGS
Summary Of All the Laws Passed by the Vhirty-Ffth General
 Assembly,

Assembly.
 Two hundred and thirty i've bills became laws | before the legislature adjourned. and eighty nine acts were either approved or allowed to become laws after adjournment. Six veto mes | saRes also filed after adjournment
 The appropriation bills were: Deaf mute.
 general assembly, freight charges on hirpy
 digest; annex 10 Confederate home TOT wo.n ~
 and orphans; maintenance Cohieoefa'e h
 maintenance Arkansas hospital Tor nervous 'is
 eases: establishment reform school maihtenAhee
 pine Plpn branch normal; additional general as-
 sembly; 5000 to assist in prosecuting anu
 trust suits states portion of leoo assessor
 fees; promote efficiency Arkansas state susrd
 for printing Arkansas supreme court reports;
 Branch normal de6ciency; maintenance school 1 for the blind: deficiency bill; rebuilding boys
 dormitory at blind school; to furnish annex to state hospital of nervous diseases.
 New fencing laws are: Four wire fence law fuI in Monroe county legalizing district No. in Independence county; four wire fence lawful | in Phillips county: i've wire fence lawful in | Woodruff county; four wire fence lawful In St | Francis county; duties and powers Of board or district No. 3. White county; TOUT wire fence l lawful in parts of Prairie county: White river lawful fence in Stone. lizard and Independence counties; establishing district No. in indepen- denee county; five wire fence lawful in Jackson | county Black river a lawful fence In inde- pendenee county; creating district in Cleburne ] county; felony to destroy any wire fence; four wire fence lawful in southern portion Prairie county; four wire fence lawful In Roc town ship; new district in Independence county; ere ating district No. 5, Independence county; four wire fence lawful in certain townships or White county.
 Levee bills passed were: To create Tucker Lake district Jefferson county: st. Francis to issue bonds creating No. in Faulkner county; creating Plum Bayou district Pulaski. Lonoke and Jefferson counties; right of eminent do- Frenchtown levee district in Jefferson county; special powers to district No. g. Conway coun. ty; levee and drainage district in Clay and Greene countless to prevent hogs running at large St. Francis levee; creating Tucker Lake district, Jefferson county; for Linwood and Auburn district to issue bonds; to amend Linwood and Auburn act; creating position Of secretary Desha district; establishing Red river district. Lafayette county; creating Long Prsir- le district in Lafayette county; amend Plum Bayou district act; Nos and In Pulaski county to borrow money; special powers to Nos. 1, 3 and 1, Jefferson county.
 To require railroads 10 erect depots at; Bax- ter, Drew county; Centerton Benton county; wrightsville. Pulaski county; Donaldson Hot Spring county; Levesque, Cross county; Monti- cello; wheeicn Springs Clark county; Dele blaine: White Hall: Riverside; Arkansas City; Monroe Station; Pennington. Washington coun- i bia county; Mist Ashley county.
 Bills passed increasing the salaries of l the county judges of the following counties: Baxter, Franklin, Lawrence. Desha Montgom- cry. Perry. Arkansas Polk Drew Crawford. land. Clay, Greene, Little River.
 Bills passed for special school districts at: Salem, Fulton county: Corning. Clay county; Mount Olive. Faulkner county Rayana. Miller county; No. 52, Clay county; Boughton. Neya- da county; kensett. White county Lakeside. Chicot county; Irons Point Stone county; Full bag Fulton and Baxter counties: Star City, Lincoln county; Harrisburg; Glendale, Lincoln and Cleveland counties: Manila, Mississippi county; Damascus, Van Buren and Faulkner countless Biggers: St. Joe Marion county,
 down; Eyerton. Boone county; Salem, Fulton county; Beiieyille. Yell county yiionia. Fanlk ner county: Mountain View. Stone county: Will ton: Winthrop; Benton erossett; fayetteville
 The new laws allowing school districts to borrow money are: Wynne Cross county; Bonneville Logan county; Little Rock high school: No. 2l. Craighesd county; Pine Bluff high school DeQueen; Fordyee, Malvern; stutt England; Mineral springs Howard county; Hope; Success Tuckerman' Blytheville district No l5 McCrory; any district in the state.
 Additional clerk for senate.
 Some of the school laws are: Town council 1 poses; patriotic exercise. in. on January 10, Robert F. Lees birthday; relief district A in 5mill tax last year to extend boundaries of Searcy district; first Saturday In March Arbor day: attach part of district 96, White county. to district Al. Faulkner county; to make good loss of state appropriation of district 2 How ard county, for 1903; protection Hot Springs district to authorize town council of Pike City to make donation to public school; to improve character of teachers in the state.
 :, Bills were passed amending the following sec l 74os' 74ii, 742o. 7429. 7432. 743s z4i4. 7459
 No. 35l9; No. 723i; No: 5o14; act of May 3 l counties; act April 13, l9o5; No. Gi2l No e9sS No 2d5e section 2 act g c of lso7 No section l. act March 3. 1903
 l New laws affecting railroads are: Requiring l trains to stop at Walnut Ridge: to make Ike railroads to cross streets by safe bridges in towns and cities; requiring railroad to keep 1 agent at Pottsyi1le. Pope county: requiring ufV tO | tcct shippers over railroads. to require compa- nies to settle promptly for goods damaged in transit; to require railroad to construct head bridge In Fayetteville: requiring railroad to keep agent at Curtis Clark county. and Bo- nair St. Francis county; to require railroad to fence right of way in Boone, Carroll and Scar cy counties; to provide for assessment of all rolling stock in the state hv railroads. belong Ing 10 other companicsi regulating the building Of electric or railroad crossings; to prevent per sons boarding moving trains; to require rail rOg ls to erect depots at towns within one half mile of the state line and stop trains; to re- 1 quire railroads to pay discharged employees at l once upon discharge; providing for assessment i of all railroad properties in Cotton Belt levee district and others to require railroad to fence i right of way in Fulton Lawrence and Sharp l countries To protect persons employed in con- struction and repair of railway equipment by compelling railroads to furnish protection from weather; duties of commissioners of railroad compromise Indebtedness of Chicot county; to compel Pine Blun Western to operate trains p"rmanentiy; to require train each way ahlly To stop at Dexter Jefferson county; to i require express companies to settle for goods damaged In transportation: to require railroad to keep aeent at Lexa: require railroad to stop 1 train at Eue Mountain; require trains to stop l at Higeiusun: require agents at Bassett and i Grlder; 10 compel an open depet at Reyno; re- 1 quiflng siding at Sandy Bend; requiring ] agents nt Lawson and Lapile; to fix fees for l hIlng railroad articles of incorporat ton
 | New laws affecting courts and county and ] other officials are; Changing time of holding | chaneeEy court in Calhoun county: nerea nc salary of chancellor of fourth district creating l chancery district in northern district of Sharn county; increasing salary of supervisor of roads ] In Jackson county; flying time for holding court l ln first judicial district; providing that wit nesses may be impeached by evidence as to reputation or morality; ahnlshiHg Watson dis l trlct court in Desha county; changing time of l holding court in Independence county; re-