The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1911-06-29
WORDING
IN LOCAL ACTS.
SLIPS OF THE LAWMAKERS
FAULKNER COUNTY FISHING
LAW CITED AS "HORRIBLE
EXAMPLE,"

Little Rock, June 29.-It has lust
been discovered that the Columbia
county stock law contains provision
that changes the entire purpose of the
bill, due to the careless use of verb.
1t is act 142, a bill that was intro
duced by Senator Friedell. After pro
vlding for the impounding of stock at
large, the bill specifies how and when
it shall be sold, provided, said owner
shall not redeem the same by paving
all cost, damages and expenses or
Judgment rendered against SAID
stock Is is clear from the readina
of the bill that the owner is to be civ
en- the right to redeem the stock, oct
the proviso, according to the constrac-
ton placed upon it by state house Off
cials, expressly prohibits him from re-
deeming it. 1T should have read pro
vlded said owner does not redeem" o.
shall not have redeemed"
Which recalls that there is scarcely
a session Of the legislature that some
faulty act does not go through. One
of the most celebrated is act 217, of
1909, which gives the citizens of
+ faulkner county the right to fish if
they violate no law. The act reads:
THAT any bona fide citizen of Faux
ner county, Arkansas, shall ahve the
right and privilege of fishing in am
and all natural streams, bayous, lakes.
ponds and sloughs of Faulkner coun-
ty, Arkansas; provided, that such fish
ing shall be in compliance with the
present statutory laws of Arkansas
governing fishing"
The Iron Mountain railroad has
been for the last six years violating
the law by starting any trains after
stopping them at Walnut Ridge. Act
"a, of 1905, provides that the Iron
Mountain railroad ''is hereby required
and directed to stop, or cause to be
stopped, at the town of Walnut Ridge
all passenger trains except the cannon
ball. At the time, facetious mem
Ger offered an amendment that after
reasonable time the trains be per-
mltted to start again, but the amend
ment was lost in the shuttle, and the
bill became law without and pro
vision for continuing on their way.
In the last session committee mem
ber caught ludicrous error in Bill
in time to save it from going on the
statute book. The bill provided that
"all other laws of the state are hereby
repealed" Had this passed, all the
statutes of the state would have been
wiped out by one fell swoop.
In similar way bill was drawn
and introduced, but not passed, pro-
viding that "all money collected from
railroads in Arkansas shall be divid-
ed among the children of school age
in Saline county" The author did not
mean it that way, but that is the way
his bill read.
There is an act, however, that goes
into the book, relative to the issue of
bonds by school districts, which pro
vides that "No bond shall be valid un-
less signed by the president and ma
jority of the board of directors in the
southwest corner thereof" The courts
might raise the issue that the location
of the signatures depended upon The
position in which the bond was held at
the time it was signed.
Even more amusing was the atti-
tude which Representative Neale of
Perry county assumed on bill which
he vigorously opposed. The bill pass
ed, but in discussing it with some
friends, he triumphantly declared,
"Well, am proud to say exempted
my people from that perncious meas
ure, for | voted mo- on it.