Pocahontas star herald., 1911-06-23


sinking fund to the general revenue
fund for meeting current expenses.
Act appropriates $4,000 to pa,
salaries and expenses of State Tal
Commission from May Is, 1909 L
March 81, 1911.
Act 10 quiets tile to 10th section
OF school lands where owners or oc
cupants can show regular chain o.
title back to 1889, the state waving
any claims existing prior to that date
Act Is amends the primary elec
tion law by giving city central com
mittees the right to appoint judges
and clerks to hold municipal primary
elections.
Act 10 requires all persons, part
nerships and corporations, having any
person or persons in their employ, to
give the names of such employees tC
the sheriffs or tax collectors of the
various counties when demanded and
a refusal to do so is punishable by a
fine Of $40 to $1O0
Act 21 appropriates $4,000 for
salary and expenses of fertilizer in
spector.
Act 20 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 80 is s25 to 500.
Act 32 validates marriage cere-
monies solemnized by mayors.
Act "a prescribes that no assign
ment of wages to be earned In the fu-
ture, t. secure loan on less than
5000 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. 1t 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 As authorizes quorum courts IN
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 1900
Act A declares election day to be
a legal holiday.
Act So sets aside $1,000 of the
funds arising from fees paid for the
examination of teachers for county
and state license, to be used in con-
dueting examinations and to consti-
tute an institute and library fund.
Act 66 appropriates $4,000 to aid
the Arkansas Confederate veterans TO
erect monument on the new state
house grounds, in honor of the wom-
en- of the Confederacy, who lived in
Arkansas during the civil war.
Act 70 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 SO appropriates $4,000 to cover
cost Of a temporary light and heat
ing plant for the new state capitol.
Act 9S makes 1t 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 $40 to 500.
Act 100 makes it unlawful for dis.
ullers 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 l04 appropriates S19,500 to sup
port and maintain the state hospital
ior nervous diseases from February
] TO April /. 1911.
Act lc5 prohibits the running at
large of male hogs and cattle, except
blooded and registered stock in lizard,
Lawrence, Carroll, Pope, Chicot, Full
ton, Crawford, Searcy, Faulkner,
Woodruff, Madison, Mississippi, White,
Cross, Union, Cleburne, Clay, Wash.
ington, Craighead. Sharpe, Baxter,
Conway, Sewer, Green, Poinsett and
Van Buren counties.
Act l12 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.
pert 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