The Green Forest tribune., 1911-06-23


 sinking fund to the general revenue fund for meeting current expenses.
 Act appropriates $25,O00 to pay salaries and expenses of State Tax Commission from May IS, 1909 to March 31, 1911.
 Act 10 quiets title to 16th section or school lands where owners or oc- cupants can show regular chain of title back to 1889, the state waiving any claims existing prior to that date
 Act IS amends the primary cleo tion law by giving city central com mittees the right to appoint judges and clerks to hold municipal primary elections.
 Act 19 requires all persons, part nershipS and corporations. having any person or persons in their employ to give the names of such employees to the sheriffs or tax collectors of the various counties when demanded and refusal to do so is punishable by a fine of $10 to $100.
 {, Act 21 appropriates $3,000 for salary and expenses of fertilizer in- spector
 Act 22 provides for the creation of a Capitol Art Commission to be composed of the governor and four others to be appointed by him, the commission to serve without compen- sation.
 Act 23 requires railroads operating during the night to maintain suffi- cient lights on their main lines and switches. The penalty for failure to do So is $25 to $1O0.
 Act 32 validates marriage cere- monies solemnized by mayors.
 Act 34 prescribes that no assign ment of wages to be earned in the fu- ture, tc secure a loan on less than $200 shall be valid as against the employer, unless such assignment bearing the employers acceptance, is filed with the recorder of the county in which party making assignment resides. It also provides that no as signment of wages to be earned in the future, shall be valid when made by a married man unless the written consent of his wife is attached to said assignment.
 Act 45 authorizes quorum courts Ill the several counties of the state to appropriate such amounts annually as they may deem proper, to be used and under the direction of county judge, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, to aid in carrying on the farmers CO., operative demonstration work in each. county.
 Act 47 declares election day to be a legal holiday.
 Act 5S sets aside $1,200 of the funds arising from fees paid for the examination of teachers for county and state license, to be useG in con ducting examinations and to consti- tute an institute and library fund.
 Act 66 appropriates $10,000 to aid the Arkansas Confederate veterans to erect monument on the new state house grounds, in honor of the wom- en of the Confectionery, who lived in Arkansas during the civil war.
 Act 72 prohibits betting or wager ing upon the result of any general, special or primary election held in this state and prescribes therefor a penalty of not less than $50 for each offense.
 Act 96 appropriates S75,000 to cover cost of temporary light and heat ing plant for the new state capitol.
 Act 9S makes It unlawful for any keeper or owner of a pool hall, or employe therein, to permit any per son or persons under the age of IS years, to play pool or billiards or any game, or frequent or congregate in any such pool room or any depart ment thereof The penalty is fixed at $10 to $100.
 Act 100 makes it unlawful for dis tillers in this state to sell their prod uct in original five gallon packages, without first procuring license from the county court, in which they are situated, to do so.
 Act 104 appropriates $19,5O0 to sup port and maintain the state hospital for nervous diseases from February to April 1, 1911.
 Act 105 prohibits the running at large of male hogs and cattle, except blooded and registered stock in Izard, Lawrence, Carroll, Pope, Chicot, Full ton, Crawford, Searcy, Faulkner Woodruff, Madison, Mississippi, White, Cross, Union, Cleburne, Clay, Wash ington, Craighead Sharpe, Baxter, Conway, Sevier Green, Poinsett and Van Buren counties.
 Act 112 requires, in addition to the charter fee, and annual fees formerly imposed upon corporations for priv ilege of doing business in the state, all corporations to file an annual re- port of their condition, either with the assessor of the county in which they are domiciled, or with the State Tax Commission, by July 1st each \ year. The assessor or tax commission are in turn required to certify the same to the auditor, who shall charge and certify to the state treasurer, on or before July 20 following, a tax of enc twentieth of one per cent upon the subscribed and outstanding stock employed in this state by each cor poration doing business for profit Corporations having an outstanding capital stock of less than $500,0O0 are required to pay also an annual fee of $50 and those with a capital stock of over $500,000 d fee of $100. Build ' an annual fee of $25.00