found in his county, by going to their places of abode or business and searching for something to seize and sell for such taxes; that the taxpayers mentioned in such report have failed to pay their taxes, and have no effects known to him which can be made to pay the same, and that he has made diligent inquiry to find them in his county, and that they have no effects known to him which can be made to pay their taxes.

SECTION 2. That all laws in conflict with this be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 24, 1905.

ACT 55.

AN ACT to authorize the Special School District of Little Rock to borrow money to erect, complete and equip a new high school building.

SECTION

I.

2.

Special School District of Little Rock empowered to borrow funds and give a mortgage on school property.

School district allowed only defenses in court allowed to a natural person.

3. Act in effect from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas:

SECTION I. That the Special School District of Little Rock is hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of raising funds for the erection, completion, and equipment of the building now in process of erection,

known as the Little Rock High School Building, to borrow money and mortgage the real property of the district therefor, under such conditions and regulations as the board of directors of said school district shall prescribe, and renew and extend, from time to time, any evidence of indebtedness or mortgage, or both, issued or made by virtue thereof.

SECTION 2. Said evidences of indebtedness, whether warrants or promissory notes, shall have the same validity as they would have if there were money in the county treasury to pay the same at the time they were drawn, and may be drawn payable in the future, and need not be registered with the county treasurer until the time for payment, but shall be drawn upon the building fund and paid out of it in order of their date, as the building fund is provided and collected by successive levies, and said school district shall be allowed in law or equity no defenses merely by reason of the fact that it was a school district, but nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent or cut out from said district any right in law or equity which a natural person might claim or assert under like circumstances.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

[This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday) excepted) and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this February 24, 1905.]

ACT 56.

AN ACT to abolish the Watson District separate courts in Desha County; to direct the disposition of the county holdings located at Dumas; to provide for the transfer of causes pending in said separate courts, and for other purposes.

SECTION

I.

Separate chancery, circuit and probate courts of the Watson
District, Desha County, abolished.

2. Pending actions transferred to the county seat.

3. Causes pending in Watson District to stand for hearing at the January term, 1906.

4.

5.

All court papers, records, etc., to be removed to the county

seat.

Courthouse and courthouse property at Dumas donated to the school district of Dumas for use of the public school. 6. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in effect from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas:

SECTION I.

That the separate circuit, chancery and probate courts now provided for by law in the Watson District of Desha County be, and the same are hereby abolished, and that what has been formerly known as the Watson District of said Desha County be dispensed with and abolished.

SECTION 2. That all causes, actions, or proceedings now pending in or before either the chancery court or the probate court of said Watson District be transferred to the chancery court or probate court at the county seat of Desha County and stand for hearing or proper action by the court at the next regular term of said chancery or probate court at the county seat.

SECTION 3. That all causes, actions, or proceedings, civil and criminal, now pending before the circuit court of Desha County for the Watson District be, and the same are by this Act transferred to the Desha Circuit Court for the Arkansas City District, and shall stand for hearing to the regular January, 1906, term of said court, the same as regards venue as though said causes had originally begun at said circuit court for said Arkansas City District.

SECTION 4. That all papers, records, and documents pertaining to any matters in any of the courts of said Watson District, which are now the sheriff's, clerk's, or other officer's effects in said Watson District be within sixty days after the passage of this Act removed to the appropriate office in Arkansas City.

SECTION 5. That the courthouse and courthouse property now situated and located at Dumas be delivered to the school directors of the school district in which Dumas is situated for the use of the public school of said district.

SECTION 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 25, 1905.

ACT 57.

AN ACT to declare a four-wire fence to be a lawful fence in Phillips County.

SECTION

I.

Four wire fence to be a lawful fence in Phillips County.

2. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in effect from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas:

SECTION I. That a fence made of posts firmly set in the ground, not more than sixteen feet apart, and five feet high, with four strands of fence wire fastened thereto, the first or bottom wire to be sixteen inches above the ground, the second wire to be two feet above the

ground, and the third wire to be thirty-two inches above the ground, and the fourth wire to be forty-four inches above the ground, shall be a lawful fence in Phillips County, except in the territory embraced in the Cotton Belt Levee District No. one (1) in Phillips County.

SECTION 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

[This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday excepted) and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this February 27, 1905.]

ACT 58.

AN ACT to provide for the maintenance of, and the furnishing of the annex to the Arkansas Hospital for the Treatment of Nervous Diseases.

SECTION

I.

Moneys appropriated to furnish annex to the Hospital for the Treatment of Nervous Diseases.

2. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in effect from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas:

SECTION I. That the following sums of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the following items, towit:

First. For the addition to the laundry, said addition to be 36 feet by 60 feet, and 30 feet high, eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800).