The Green Forest tribune., 1911-06-23


 $t0000 Any false return or state ment to the tax commission concern ing a material matter as to pro pertY or its value, subjects the one making same guilty of perjury and liable to the penalties therefor.
 Act 252 provides that railroad and other companies conveying passengers shall not charge on excess baggage, more than F 12 per centum of the cost of the passenger fare on each 1 100 pounds in excess of the first lao pounds which is entitled to free trans portation on a regular fare.
 Act 2c0 provides that in snits to foreclose mortgages and deeds of trust, it shall be a sufficient defense that they have not been brought with in the period of limitation, prescribed for suit on debt. When any payment is made on any such existing indeb- tedness, such payment shall not oper- ate to revive the debt unless a mo- tation. of such payment, showing date thereof, be made on the margin of the record where such instrument Is recorded and attested by the clerk. Act 261 requires railroad companies to place blocks of sufficient size in the frogs and guard rails of their roads to prevent employees from get ting their feet caught in same
 Act 263 creates the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons with a body polite and corporate, with authority to acquire and own property; to sue and be sued, the same as other cor porations.
 Act 265 provides that stock run ming at large in cities and incorporat- ed towns, contrary to ordinance, may be impounded and sold at public ven due after giving owner notice to take impending and keeping. In case of sale the proceeds go into revenue fund after costs are paid
 Act PCT seeks to quiet titles in pres. i ent owners of lands in this state which have been held by railroads under grant or donation by virtue of the acts of 1S69 making land grants ! 10 TelfFCdO companies.
 Act 2S3 prohibits fraud or decep- tion in the sale or purchase of any commodity. Whoever knowingly buys or sells any property and makes or 1 give short weights or measure, or 1 knowingly reports false or untrue i weight or who shall pack any fruit 1 or other commodity with intent to 1 cheat, either as to quality or quan- tity, or who shaIl pledge or hypothe- cate any such commodity, knowing i the same to be fraudulently packed as aforesaid, with intent to cheat or deceive, shall be subject to fine of 1 $50 to $100.
 | Act 2S4 removes defense Of rail | roads on contrioutory negligence in . personal injury cases and damage of i property on track, when the fact is l shown that those running trains by ] which such injuries or damages may 1 be inflicted, failed to keep a constant lookout for persons and property on i the track
 Act 2S6 provides that the 3d uay ot
 
 birth of Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confectionery, be declared i legal holiday.
 Act 313 amends the franchise tax ! law so as to impose an annual fee of 1 $50 upon all mutual corporations, not 1 having capital stock and not or 1 ganiZed strictly for benevolent pur- l poses. Also an annual fee of $100 i upon all fire, tornado and accident insurance companies having a capital ; stock of less than $500,000 and a fee l of $200 on those whose stock exceeds l that sum; provided that the fee is to be only $25 on building and loan as 1 sociations.
 | Act 319 appropriates in round num- bers $17,000 to cover deficiencies for supplies furnished the various depart ments of the state government during i the two fiscal years commencing April | 1, 1909 and ending March 31, 1911.
 Act 320 makes cohabitation be tween the white and negro races a felony punishable with not less than i one month nor more than one year in the penitentiary. Concubinage is defined for purposes of this act as ! being unlawful of persons of the whICe and negro races, whether open or secret. Any woman who shall be delivered of a mulatto child, shall be deemed prima guilty without further proof to justify conviction. But nc man shall be convicted on such a charge upon the uncorroborated evi dence of the woman. The act is to take effect March 31, 1912.
 Act 324 gives blacksmiths, wheel wrights and horseshoers who perform work or labor for any person on credit, an absolute lien upon the i product of their labor and upon all wagons, carriages and other articles , repaired or horses or other animals 1 shod by them, for all sums of money due for such work and materials furn- ished Any person having such lien may have such property sold within 90 days for the satisfaction of the debt.
 Act 334 grank to indigent ex-Con- federates and ex-Union soldiers resid- iug in this state who make proof of having been regularly mustered in l and who are not drawing a pension exceeding $S month; also all blind persons having certificate of attend ance at blind school, the right to en gage in what is commonly known as l hawking and peddling, to give eXhi | bitions and entertainments, engage in i real estate or brokerage business without heinz renuired tn nav either