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 That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this law shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 10, 1905.

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ACT 74. ✓

AN ACT to supplement an Act to provide for working roads and highways, repairing and building bridges, and for other purposes, approved May 25, 1897.

SECTION

I. Provides for a levy for county road and bridge tax.

2.

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4.

One dollar per day allowed for road work done by taxpayers. Not less than ten, nor more than fifteen, hands to be worked at same time.

Person liable to work allowed to do same on lands along or occupied by him.

5. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. Whenever said Act is adopted by the county court, it being the term for making an appropriation and levying taxes for the ensuing year, shall appropriate and levy not less than two and one-half mills on the dollar, nor to exceed three mills on the dollar, as a road and bridge tax on all the taxable property of the county.

SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to procure and deliver each year to the road overseer of each road district a list of all road taxes assessed on each

individual, and the receipt from the overseer of the proper district for the amount worked out by the taxpayer shall be taken by the tax collector of the county in payment of said tax. Said tax to be worked out at the rate of one dollar per day.

SECTION 3. That hereinafter under said Act it shall not be lawful for a road overseer to work less than ten hands nor more than fifteen hands at the same time, except in case of emergency, such as washouts or other obstructions, under such circumstances he may work a less number until such obstruction be removed.

SECTION 4. Each person liable to work on public highways shall have the right and privilege as far as practicable of performing such work and labor upon roads along or adjacent lands owned or occupied by him; provided, that this Act shall apply only to Washington County,

SECTION 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 10, 1905.

ACT 75.✓

AN ACT to prevent the sale or giving away of intoxicants within three miles of the public school building situated in the town of Everton, Boone County, Arkansas.

SECTION

I. Unlawful to sell or give away intoxicants within three miles of public school building in town of Everton, Boone County.

2. Persons violating section I fined on conviction.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of

Arkansas:

SECTION I.

Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, or persons, to sell or give away any spirituous, vinous, malt, alcoholic, or other intoxicant liquors in any quantity whatever, within three miles of the public school building situated in the town of Everton, Boone County, Arkansas. Provided, This Act shall not apply to nor prevent the use of wine for sacramental purposes, nor the use of liquors by persons in their own families, nor on their own premises for family purposes.

SECTION 2. That any person violating section I of this Act shall on conviction be fined in any sum not less than $50, nor more than $300.

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AN ACT to grant the white people of Arkansas County, certain lands in said county to be used as a cemetery.

SECTION

I. Donates five acres of land for a burying round in Arkansas
County, at Crockett's Bluff.

2. Laws in conflict repealed, and Act in force from passage.

Whereas, the white people of the town of Crockett's Bluff and vicinity have for the past fifty or sixty years been using as a cemetery the following described land, to-wit:

Five (5) acres in a square in the northeast corner of the northeast quarter (NE 4) of the northeast quarter (NE 4) of section sixteen (16) in township three (3) south, of range two (2) west, of the fifth principal meridian. That the balance of the said tract, to-wit: All except five (5) acres in a square in the northeast corner of the said northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section sixteen, township three south, range two west, has been sold as school land and conveyed by the State many years ago, leaving the five acres above described still the property of the public schools of the State. Owing to the long time that this land has been used as a burying ground, there are a great many bodies buried there, and among them are the ancestors of some of the best citizens of Arkansas County, and there are also quite a number of Confederate soldiers buried in said cemetery, therefore,

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

SECTION I. That five (5) acres in a square in the northeast corner of the northeast quarter (NE 4) of the northeast quarter (NE 4) of section sixteen (16, in township three (3) south, of range two (2) west of the fifth principal meridian in Arkansas, be and the same is hereby granted to the white people of Arkansas County, Arkansas, to be used by them as a burying ground.

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

Approved March 10, 1905.

ACT 77.✓

AN ACT in regard to the appointment and duties of of guardians of insane persons.

SECTION

I.

2.

Probate judge authorized to appoint guardian for insane person without requiring such person to appear in court. Probate court shall authorize sale of property of such insane person to pay debts.

3. Provides for the sale of property of nonresident lunatic upon compliance with certain requirements.

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

SECTION I. That whenever any insane person is confined in the insane asylum of this State, or in any institution or asylum for the insane outside of the State, the probate court of the county of which such person is a citizen and resident, shall have power to appoint a guardian for such person, without requiring the presence of such person before the court.

SECTION 2. Such probate court shall have the power to authorize and direct any such guardian to sell any or all of the property of his ward, where it is necessary for the payment of debts due by such insane person, or where it is necessary for his support and maintenance, but before making any order of sale, the court shall require a notice. to be published by the guardian, or by any creditor applying therefor, for thirty days in a newspaper published in said county.

SECTION 3. When a nonresident lunatic owning property in this State has a guardian in the State or territory in which he resides, the court of probate of the county in which the land, or part of it, lies may authorize

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