The Mena weekly star., 1913-04-03
ONLY STATEWIDE MEASURES GIVEN IN THE FOLLOWING
 ARTICLE.
LOCAL ACTS ARE NUMEROUS
Numbers Show Proportion of Sectional 8llls-Many Important Penal
 Changes.

cal measures are not considered but only acts affecting the entire state. Special attention is called to the pro. visions of the penal laws enacted and here presented in the hope that this service may save many thoughtless people cost and trouble in the future. In the following resume it win be net cd that the Act numbers skip from one to another as is the case with the first two where the number jumps from one to twenty-seven, which shows that there are 26 local laws between the first two general acts and so on where numbers are skipped.
 Act No. i.
 Appropriates $7O,0O0 out of the gen eral revenue fund to pay mileage and per diem of members of the legisla. ture
 Act No. 27.
 Approp. GOO to pay over 200 newspapers state for publish ing the propose amendments to the constitution and the initiative and ref erendum acts before the September election, 1912.
 Act No. 2s.
 No proprietor, lessee, manager or employe of any theater or other public place of amusement shall discriminate against any person lawfully wearing a uniform of the army or navy or of the militia of the state of Arkansas. Any person making or causing such discrimination is made subject to a fine of S100.
 Act No. fl.
 Appropriates $1,300,000 out of the Confederate pension fund for the pay, ment of pensions to soldiers and sail ors of the Confederate states and their widows for the years 1913 and 1914.
 Act No. 42.
 All railways carrying passengers in this state shall, from the months of May to November, in each year, pro. vide wire screens at each window of coaches they operate Failure to com ply subjects offending companies to a fine of ten to twenty-five dollars for each separate offense.
 Act No. AS.
 Appropriates $500 to pay mileage and per diem of presidential electors, named at the last general election. Payments to be made upon auditors warrants issued when itemized state ments of account is presented.
 Act No. 5t.
 All corporations and persons, fur nishing news for publication in news papers, shall furnish such news or service to all newspapers desiring same at uniform rates and without discrimination, such service to be given in the same manner and at the same cost to all. Any person or cor poration, violating this provision shall be fined in any sum not less than S1 900 nor more than $5,000. Any tele- graph or telephone company, transmit ting over their lines any news item in violation of the provisions of this act, shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than s5,000 and the attorney general or any prosecuting attorney of the state Is authorized to bring suit for the recovery of the penalty pre-. scribed and shall receive as compen- sation for their services 25 per cent of all sums collected. Any person or corporation against whom discrimina- tion shall be made in the rate charg- ed or service rendered shall be en- titled to recover $1,O0O for each sepa- rate offense.
 Act No. 53.
 All railroads over 100 miles in length that pass through Grant, Hot Spring or Saline counties are required to build and maintain a fence along each side of their right of way, that will keep horses, hogs. sheep, goats and stock of all kinds off said right of way. No penalty provided.
 Act No. 54.
 Transfers the fertilizer and feed stuff funds from their separate ac- counts, into the general revenue fund, to be used in paying deficiency on mileage and per diem of members of the legislature, after the original ap- propriation of s7O00O for that pur- pose had been exhausted.
 Act No. 55.
 Establishes a permanent place for execution of felons, upon whom the death penalty is imposed, by electro cution instead of by hanging The su- perintendent of the penitentiary at Little Rock is directed to provide a permanent death chamber within the confines of the prison walls, which shall have all necessary appliances for the proper execution of felons by electrocution, upon whom the death penalty is imposed. The clerk of the court in which is pronounced the death penalty shall deliver to the su. perintendent of the penitentiary a certificate of such judgment and the condemned shall be immediately trans ferred to the penitentiary, there to be kept, awaiting execution. Not less than six, nor more than twelve wit nesses, in addition to the execution CTS shall be present at any electrOcu- ton This act does not apply to crimes committed previous to its approval and $1,500 is appropriated for the pur- pose of carrying out it's provisions, No newspaper or person shall print or publish the details of the execution, but may only publish or print the fact that such took place.
 Act No. 59.
 Regulates the issuance of liquor Ii censes. No county court, town or city