and the constables of said townships shall impound all hogs, sheep, or goats found running at large in said townships, and the owner, or owners, of said hogs, sheep or goats shall pay to the officer impounding such animals, one dollar and ten cents per day for each animal impounded, and if said owner shall not apply for said animals, said officer shall advertise said animals for ten days, by posting five notices in the most conspicuous places in said townships, and sell said animals for the payment of all costs and charges against said animals, and if any sum of money be left after paying all such costs and charges he shall pay the same over to the owner, or owners, of such animals.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

[This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday excepted) and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this March 3, 1905.

ACT 67.

AN ACT to authorize the Special School District of McCrory, in Woodruff County, to borrow money, and to mortgage its property to secure the payment thereof, and for other purposes.

SECTION

I. Special School District of McCrory authorized to borrow

2.

money.

Form of notes and mortgages, etc.

3. Rights of district in law or equity.

4. Act in effect from passage, and laws in conflict repealed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of

Arkansas:

SECTION I. That the Special School District of McCrory, in Woodruff County, is hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of obtaining funds for the erection of the necessary school buildings and furniture, to borrow money in such amounts, and upon such terms and conditions as to rate of interest, time, and manner of payment, as the board of school directors of said district shall prescribe; to execute promissory notes evidencing such indebtedness, and to mortgage any part, or all of the real property of said district to secure the payment of the money so borrowed, with interest thereon.

SECTION 2. Such promissory notes and mortgage shall be in form substantially as are other instruments of like kind, and shall be construed and held to have the same force and effect as though same had been the act of an individual; and against such instruments said district shall be allowed no defense by virtue of its capacity as a school district, nor be allowed any defense in law or equity not accorded to individuals.

SECTION 3. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent or cut off from such school district any right in law or equity, which as a real person it might claim; but in any action by or against said school district, under this Act, it shall be deemed and treated, so far as practicable, as a real person.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and all laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

[This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday excepted) and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this March 3, 1905.]

ACT 68. V

AN ACT to form School District No. 52, in Clay County, into a special school district, and to permit the same to borrow money.

Act in effect from date of school election in May, 1905.

4.

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

SECTION I. That School District No. 52, Clay County, Arkansas, is hereby declared and made a special school district, to be hereafter known as the Special School District of Piggott. The qualified electors of said district shall at the regular annual school election in May, 1905, elect six directors, two for the term of one year, two for two years, and two for three years, who shall have charge of all matters and business of said district, after taking the regular prescribed oath of office. Said Special District of Piggott shall be governed by all laws relating to and governing special school districts in this State, except as herein provided for.

SECTION 2. Said district is hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of raising funds for building, repairing, furnishing or improving the school building or school buildings of the same, to borrow money and to mortgage the real property of said district therefor, under such conditions and regulations as said board of directors shall deem best. And said board of directors is hereby authorized to renew or extend from time to time such evidences of indebtedness as they may issue as will best subserve the interest of said district.

SECTION 3. That the notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness as the case may be, so issued by said district, shall have the same force and effect as if issued by any natural person and shall have the same validity. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to preclude or cut off from said district any right in law or equity which any natural person might claim or assert under like circumstances.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the annual school election in May, 1905.

[This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday excepted) and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this March 3, 1905.]

ACT 69.

AN ACT to amend Section 1 of Act 50, of the Acts of Arkansas of 1903, approved March 3, 1903.

SECTION

I. Amends Section 1 of Act 50, approved March 3, 1903, relating to a lawful wire fence in St. Francis County.

2.

Laws in conflict repealed, and Act in effect from passage.

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

SECTION I.

That Section I of Act numbered 50, of the Acts of Arkansas of 1903, approved on March 3, 1903, be so amended as to read as follows: That a fence made of four barbed wires, securely fastened to posts five feet high above the ground and firmly set therein sixteen feet apart, with a stretcher or false post between the main posts, the wires to be well stretched and securely fastened to stretchers or false posts, as well as to the

main posts, and the first wire to be eighteen inches above the ground; the second wire to be twelve inches above the first; the third wire fourteen inches above the second; the fourth wire fourteen inches above the third, shall be a lawful fence in St. Francis County.

SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, and this Act to take effect 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 March 3, 1905.]

ACT 70. ✓

AN ACT to authorize School District No. 21, in Craighead County, Arkansas, to borrow a sufficient sum of money with which to erect a school building.

SECTION

I.

School District No. 21, Craighead County, authorized to borrow money.

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

SECTION I. That School District No. 21, in Craighead County, Arkansas, is hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of raising funds for the erection. of necessary school buildings, to borrow a sufficient amount of money for that purpose, not to exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, and under such conditions and regulations as to time and manner of payment as the board of school directors of said district shall prescribe.