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ACT NO. e9. Regulating Passenger Fares on Short

Provides that railroads wholly witAin this state more than S5 miles, and less than 100 miles in length, may charge three cents a mile fares for adults, and half fare for children over five and under twleve years of age. Railroad Com mission to authorize railroads to charge the rates specified, if it finds that such rates would be a reasonable charge under the conditions obtaining in the petitioners case. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March 4, 1915.
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Why?

Why should one try to catch a weasel asleep?" Because when awake, weasels are practically expert in elud ing capture. It is scarcely possible, says "The Reason Why" to imagine an animal sleeping more soundly than the weasel does when once it gives It. self up to rest. It may be taken up by the head, the heels, or the tail and swung about for considerable time before it begins to awake.
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ACT NO. "A For the Better Protection of the Pub QafAfy

Provides that every person or persons, company or corpora tion, operating any railroad in this state is required to erect, operate and maintain an automatic block signal system at all tunnels located upon their lines within the state of Arkan- sas. They shall also erect and main tain sign boards within one mile of each end of all tunnels more than fifteen hundred feet in length located on their lines in this state. Approved February "A, 1915. and takes effect June 30, 1915.
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ACT fn 1a1
Minimum Wage Law for Female

Minimum Wage Law for Females.
 Provides that females shall not be permitted to work more than nine hours in any one day, nor more than six days, or fifty four hours, in any one week, except under certain conditions. in any manufacturing. me chanical or mercantile establishment, laundry or express or transportation company, or before o'clock in the morning or after 9 in the evening, nor longer than six hours continuously. This act applies to establishments em- ploying three or more females. Other restrictions mentioned are that em- ployer shall keep time books showing
 Continued on Page Five
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ACT NO. 139.

ACT NO. 130.
 Protecting the Beds and Bars of the
 Navigable Streams of the
 State of Arkansas
 Provides that hereafter it shall be unlawful for any per son or firm to take sand or gravel oil or coal, from the beds or bars from the navigable rivers and lakes of this state without first procuring the con. sent of the Attorney General, and the payment of a certain per cent for each ton of sand or gravel and gallon of oil or ton of coal taken. The penalty for the violation of this act shall be fine of no less than $300.00 and not more than ST. OOO.OO for each offense. All moneys collected under the provisions of this act shall go into fund to be known as Public Road Fund. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March Il, 1915.
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ACT NO. i3o.

Inspection of Public and Private Hos
 pltaIs and Institutions of Different
 Kinds.
 Provides for the inspection of all public or private hospitals, reformatory homes. houses of deten- tion, convents. asylums. sectarian seminaries, schools or institutions, by the sheriff of the county in which such institutions are located, or by the grand jury thereof, or by any person or persons appointed by the circuit judge of the district in which such in- stitutions are located, upon the peti- tion of twenty citizens of said county or district. or by the volition of the said circuit judge. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March Il, 1915.
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ACT NO. s3.
Amends the Publicity Act.

Provides that all newspapers publishing any advertisement under the provisions of what is known as the Publicity Act" shall, free of charge, print at the head of each of such pub lications, in type of double the size of the publication itself, the following words: "The cost of this publication to the taxpayers is the sum of (here insert the amounD dollars" Failure to comply with this act constitutes misdemeanor punishable by fine not to exceed five hundred dollars.
 Approved February 25, 1915.
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ACT NO. 1O7. Fixing the Time For Holding General Elections in Arkansas

Provides that general elections in the State of Arkansas shall be held on the next Tuesday af- ter the first MoRday in November, 1916, and every two years thereafter, for the election of all elective state, county and township offices. Act in force from passage
 Approved March 3, 1915.
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ACT NO. 125.

Appropriation to Pay For Legal Ad-
 vertising For the Year 1913.
 Appropriates money to pay for publishing proposed amendments to the constitution; also appro- priates money for publishing the pro posed Acts and Amendments under the Initiative and Referendum. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March Il, 1915.
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ACT NO. 16. ef Budget Committee

and Duties Defined.
 Amends Sectioon of Act A of the Acts of 1913 to read as fol lows:
 .It shall be the duty of said Budget Committee, as soon as practicable, and not later than thirty days after their appointment. to prepare and introduce into the General Assembly all the ap- propriation bills for the necessary run ming expenses of the state govern msnt. including all state institutions pruvided for under existing laws. Thoy shall also make recommenoa' tious, by bill or otherwise, Of such changes in the states revenue laws as they may deem necessary to raise sur, flciout funds for the states needs Approved February ?, 1915.
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D.lly IT,: Happiness seem Cor-eille-
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ACT NO. 4o.
Relative to the Weighing of Coal
 Mined

Amends Section 1 of an act of the General Assembly of 1903 relative to the weighing of coal mined in the State of Arkansas as it comes from the mine and before it passes over screen of any kind; that when coal IS mined on a screen coal basis the kind of screen to be used is prescribed. Approved February Is, 1915.
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ACT NO. 1oe.
Defining Certain Public Nuisances and Providing For Abatement
 

Specifies that the conducting, maintaining, carrying on or en- gazing in sale of intoxicating li- Guors in any building within this state, and all means, appliances. fix. lures, etc, used for the purpose of conducting such business, are hereby declared to be public nuisance, and may be abated under the provisions of this act. Jurisdiction is conferred upon the Chancery and Circuit Courts of this state to abate such nuisances. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March 5, 1915.
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ACT NO. 17. Rapeals Act No. 240 of the Acts of 1Qf3

Repeals Act No. 240 of the Acts of the General Assembly oi 1913. wherein county judges are pro hibitsd from accepting fees from per sons charged with crimes and misde, meanors within their own counties and from accepting fees from persons in civil actions wherein as the result of . trial therein any cost might be as. sessed against the county. Approved February z, 1915.
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deemed guilty of 6 felony, ard upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state peniten- tiary for not less than two years. nor more than ten years. Approved Feb ruary IF, 1915.
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ACT NO. 102

Regulating the Recovery on Bonds
 Provides that upon the dis solution in whole or in part of any injunction or restraining order of any kind, the Chaneery Court may as sess and render against principal and sureties on the injunction bond, a
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Absorbinu Debate.

The Lancaster Literary society will soon take up this discussion: (Which is the hardest to do. quitting booze or leaving pimple alone?"- -Atchson Globe.
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ACT NO. 64.
Unlawful to Possess Burglar Tools.

Provides that any person who makes, mends, designs or sets up, or who has in his custody or concealed
 about his person any tool false key, lock pit bit, nippers, fuse, force screw, punch, drill, jimmy, bit, or any material commonly used for breaking into any vault, safe, railroad car, boat, vessel, warehouse, store, shop, office or dwelling house. shall be
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Effective Mess' 1

Heavy petroleum o,',, n,. F. sene, are made aya'la. s..., by inc addition of suo''. ing much oxygen, suen ,s.s terial being either u''' z, or sprayed into 'av '. riu earouretor. Petrolsul ,r1 Der cent of hydrogen .'s, slightly changed in s, ..a flash point. according 2 Int as motor fuel 2 .',.1 that 1t burns perfectly . s.. out odor. It gives, IT. crease of power. Picns rious nltrated conp0uI'a,s. effective tnas oxidizins assD~ s',,',,,] cent of naphthalsns iss p,' oil is said to have u the engines power
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ACT NO. 3.

AppropriatIon to Pay Pensions to Sol
 dvers and Sailors and Their Wid-
 oWo.
 Appropriates one million. three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereol as may be derived from the tax levy TOT pensions for Confederate soldiers ana eailors and their widows for the years of 1915 and 1916. Approved Jan uary 20. 1915.
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TsII 'sm you ssw It In the Arsu.
Nlce pieeInctIon.

John Drew once had occasion to uontlon to Frenchman. with whom ho enGnged h conversation in the hotel lobby, that . certain public speaker whom they both knew, was . good 6oa1 IT . bore. "Ah.'' add the polite ysonahnan. rather let us say he Is . SnosntnHs:s~
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ACT NO. 11o.
State Treasures Shall Rece

State Treasurer Shall Receive Funds
 Act No. 110 provides that hereafter all money due the state shall be paid direct to the State Treasurer. Viola tion felony. Act in force from pas sage.
 Approved March 1, 1915.
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ReouIates Sales by Commissioners in
 Chancery.


 Regulates Sales by Commissioners in
 Chancery.
 In all sales made by commissioners under decree of Chancery Courts for foreclosures of delinquent special as- easements in drainage, levee, road and bridge districts in cities and towns, and in all special assessment districts of every kind, the court may approve the sale subject to the rights of re- demption, and immediately upon such approval the purchaser shall have the right to possession of the lands and premises so sold, and such purchaser shall not be accountable for rents up- on redemption, and he shall not inJure or dispose of any timber, mineral or fixtures until the expiration of the right of redemption. Approved Feb ruary 9, 1915.
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ACT NO. 14s.
Appropriation For Extension Work in
 a..;.,,I<ura and Home Econonoica

Appropriation For Extension Work in
 Agriculture and Home Economies.
 Appropriates the sum of $47,- 26OOO out of the General Revenue Fund for the support, maintenance and necessary expense of doing ex- tension work in agriculture and home economies in the State of Arkansas for the biennial period ending June 30. 1917, and that this appropriation shall be expended by the College of Agriculture of the University of Ar kansas. which is the land grant col lege of this state. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March 5. 1915.
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ACT NO. 159. Removing the Disabilities of Married
 Women in the State of Arkansas.

Provides that every married woman and every woman who in the future may become married shall have all the rights to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, and in law and equity shall en- joy all rights and be subjected to all the laws of this state as though she were single woman. Act in force from passage
 Approved March 19, 1915.
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Makinq a Bluff.

The man who never had more than $10 at one time in his life is usually the lad who examines his change closely when he reads that there is a counterfeit $10 bill in circulation.
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WlId

The wild uor,s oms''ssa given rise to rnors s.si ties than any othsret es' 2 except the grape. nave, nave mainly originate, }. n,ppas rippl valley, ale Iowa sls,. oas1aa oririoa,aa A, In Ts1ss s7 southern regions sSs,. ss.s species appear to hs,. greatest perfection in N .lon the greatest ds,.'.. ,urure' h,'. e.. under cultiy.tios ' w;.s ply also sol be expected $
 i'n ieW fruits has K. equal opportunity to step the advance s.,.s made since the or,s,as, named variety was ul.,.. vated in a garden. 4 ss.! oy the United states l.,' agrlculture, places on ,'. tinct achievement of As. eulturists who have ds,.'' the value Of which \. looked.
 Too Much F..~ I hate this school! I ..s burn up!' wrote a bov {. rom "one of the be,t schools in the county" telegraphed. "Why?r sn. ed anxiously for the snatched up books and pondered their criticism. academic curricula which the child's interest or $ life. Finally the ansve, dont like it on account oi l freedom There's too upl| goveFifment. You can't M It's too free!" In that h,| was something akin to cu, sional attitude of irony. p,s rules to break; nobody, ,r shatter; no chance for tk1 thrill af comrades with skG gether to fam against VIZ Only the isolated ehor F cipline, the lonely height, That's the trouble that iu poses on all it's champions. Republic.
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ACT NO. 146. Appropriation For First District AgrI. cultural School.

Appropriates the sum of $22,- 10000 for the erection of build ings and installation of equipment necessary for the preservation of the health and welfare of the students of the First District Agricultural School of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Excess ap- propriations to go into contingent fund. Contracts to be let as are other state contracts. Act in force from passage.
 Approved March 12, 1915.
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ACT NO. 18e. Assistant for Attorney General.

Authorizes the Attorney Gen. eral to appoint an assistant. who shall be person learned in the law. at a salary of s2.50000 per annum, and he is also authorized to employ a competent stenogra pher at a salary of $1.000.00 per amman. Act in force from passage
 | Approved March 20, 1915.
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And There Are M.nv such.

What hate to see," said Uncle Eben, lis man dat kaint stand up foh his own rights wifout lookin' &oh everygody else to lay down an be walked on."
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ACT NO 1q.

Appropriation for New State Capitol.
 Provides for an appropriation of s6 .48O. co. or so much thereof as may he necessary for the maintenance of the new state capitol for the unonths of January and February, Ya1B. Approved February B. 1915.
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Abstruse Cookery.

q see Boston girls are taking up culinary matters in the public schools" Learning to cut the pie. suppose, in. to comic sections. Judge.
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ACT MO 15z
ACT MO. 157. Appointment of Assistant Supreme Court Librarian.

court EIbrdrIdh.
 Amends Section 2 of Act 235 of the Acts of 1911 as follows: Said librarian is hereby authorized and empowered to nominate and ap-, point an assistant at salary not to exceed $75.00 per month, to be paid in the same manner as the librarian is paid Act in force from passage. Approved March 19, 1915.
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Many bead in Roman catacombs.

The Roman catacomts are 5S0 miles in extent, and it is estimated that something like 15,000,000 dead are inferred in them
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Expensive Glory.

Avoid shame. but do not seek glory nothing so expensive as glory.-Syd. ney Smith.
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ACT NO. 4s.

stshding state warrsbts. Approved February 9, 1915
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ACT NO. 30,
Prohibits the Issuance of Liquor IL
 censes In Arkansas.

cenoeo m Arkan6ds
 Section prohibits the issuance or license by any county judge, city coun- ell, or any representative thereof to manufacture. sell. barter or give away intoxicating liquors of any kind any whore within the State Of Arkansas. Section 2, this law to take effect Jan nary 1. 1916. Section 3 provides that violations of this act shall constitute | felony punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Courts not permitted to suspend sentence or per nit plea of guilty to be entered and continue the cause for second of fense of the provisions of this act. Section 4, this act cumulative to all present liquor laws prohibiting the is euing of liquor licenses in the state. Annroved February 6, 1915, at 1l:16 a. m.
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ACT NO. 154.
Appropriations to Cover Deficiencies
 in State Departments.

Appropriates money to cover deficiencies for supplies and serv- ices furnished the various de- partments of the state government during the two fiscal years, commence ing with the first day of April, 1915, and ending the 31st dy of March, 1915.
 Act in force from passage.
 Approved March IS, 1915.
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ACT NO. 1a7
ALI NO. 13I. Giving Jury Right to Substitute Life Sentence in Capital Cases.

Sehtence m CapItaI Cases.
 Gives the jury the right in felony cases to render a verdict of life Imprisonment in the state peni- tentiary in all cases where the pun ishment is now death by law Act in force from passage.
 Approved March 20, 1915.
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ACT NO. 124.

Approved March 5, 1915.
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Acr An 4x1

Providing For Depository For State
 Funds.
 Provides that immediately up- on the qualifications of the State Treasurer. he shall issue d cir
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ACT NO. 124. For the Protection of Wild Deer,
 Turkey and Bear.
 Provides that the open sea- son for hunting, chasing and kill ing deer, turkey and bear. shall be the last twenty days of November, all of December. and the first 10 days of
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sot..rsy f'.'

Buttsrny
 The butterfly is one s, the myriad species 2, M tapsn,' family the name Of i. 's1' x aers' ders and mysteries } ,.s'' g nothing for learnsO \ ~ gepii. He g'orles sstss while gentle snow now slttsi fly. orange yellow ..s F.! within wit hearing of {. tns ,ss lions, tigers, bes's s..,tss the cnattering of ls.. n0s ,,i from fro their native us's ,or { . si ford for entertainment V ,.i afDaa af men, fluttered ul K 0round or arrI as if seeking ' as 's vet vet bloomed not
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ACT NO. 4C

Appropriation to Pay Balance of Ex.
 nenses of the General Assembly.
 Appropriates $55,000.00 of the taxes and fees received by the state. during the months of January and February. 1915. to pay the balance of the $S0, ,OO0.0O appropriated for mile ase and per diem and contingent ex- penses of the General Assembly. and directs that the State Treasurer shall aet aside all revenues received from insurance companies and other like sources until the said amount shall have been received and paid out for the purpose aforesaid. All money re- coiyed in excess of the said $55.000.OO shnll be used in redeeming any out
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