SECTION I. 2. 3. 4. Iron Mountain Railway required to establish a depot at Agent to be supplied to said station by the Iron Mountain Depot to be established within sixty days after passage of Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway be required to establish within sixty days after the passage of this Act, a depot at Felton station on the Helena branch of said railway, in Lee County, Arkansas. SECTION 2. That a regular agent be appointed for such depot and he be empowered and required to perform all the duties of a depot agent during reasonable office hours at said place. SECTION 3. That the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway be required to establish said depot within sixty days after the passage of this Act, and that on their failure or refusal to do so they shall pay a fine of ten dollars a day for each day after the sixty days that they fail or refuse to establish said depot. SECTION 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and are hereby repealed, and this Act take effect within the sixty days after passage. Approved March 23, 1905. ACT 104. AN ACT to increase the salary of the County and Probate SECTION I. Fixes salary of County Judge of Lonoke County at $1,000. 2. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. That section 7435 of Kirby's Digest be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The salary of the County and Probate Judge of Lonoke County shall be one one thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum. SECTION 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 23, 1905. ACT 105. V AN ACT locating and establishing a regular station and requiring the building and construction of a depot, and the maintaining thereof, at Snow Crossing, in Columbia County, Arkansas, by the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Company, and requiring trains of cars, passenger and local freight on said railroad to stop there and receive passengers and freight, and prescribing penalties and damages for violation. SECTION I. 2. Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad required to establish a depot at Snow Crossing, Columbia County. Failure to comply with this Act a misdemeanor. 3. Railroad company liable to pay damages for failure to comply with this Act. 4. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That a regular station, and the same is hereby located and established and fixed at Snow Crossing, on the line of the railroad of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad, and said railway is hereby required to construct and at once build, and hereafter maintain at said crossing, a regular station, fit and suitable for occupation, for all persons desirous of using said railway as passengers, to be received and discharged at said station, and also sufficient to protect and accommodate all freight ready for transportation and discharge. And the said railroad company is hereby required and directed to stop, or cause to be stopped, every train of cars on said railroad, that receive passengers or freight, whether passenger, or local freight, when there are passengers or freight for reception or discharge. SECTION 2. Be it further enacted: That the failure or refusal of said Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Company to comply fully with and observe and obey in every respect all the provisions and requirements of the preceding sections of this Act, after the expiration of three months from and after the passage of same, shall be a misdemeanor, and the said Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Company shall be subject to indictment for each single offense as aforesaid, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), to be assessed by the jury trying the case, and to be collected and appropriated as other public fines. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted: That in addition to the punishment prescribed by the preceding section, the said Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Company, failing or refusing from and after the lapse of three months after the passage of this Act to observe and obey any of the provisions or requirements of this Act, or in any way violating any provisions or requirements thereof, shall be liable to any citizen or other person who may sue for the same for such reasonable damages sustained by him or them, through such failure or violation, and such citizen or person shall have an action for such damages before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction, or in the circuit court, and the measure of damages in such case shall be according to the injury, annoyance, inconvenience, and expense to such citizen or person, caused by such failure or violation, and the amount of such damages shall be fixed by the justice, or court and jury trying the case. SECTION 4. And be it enacted: That all laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 23, 1905. ACT 106.✓ AN ACT to lay off and establish a part of Lafayette County, Arkansas, into a levee district to be known as "Long Prairie Levee District;" for the erection. and maintenance of a levee in said district; to incorporate a board of levee directors for said district; and for other purposes. SECTION I. 2. Creates Long Prairie Levee District in Lafayette County. Names directors and gives term of service of each. 3. Duty of directors to levee Red River between points named. 4. Board empowered to assess property and levee a tax on 6. 7. Sheriff of Lafayette County to act as collector for the levee board. Penalty attaches for non-payment of taxes. Suits for collection of levee taxes may be brought in chancery court. Sale of lands, etc. 8. Director to be elected at annual convention of property owners of the levee district. 9. County clerk to declare the result of the election. Person elected to take oath of office. 10. II. 12. Vacancies in board may be filled. Landowners in the district only eligible as directors. Officers of board of directors. 13. Salary of members of board fixed; also salary of secretary and treasurer. 14. 15. Board to meet at least once a year; secretary and treasurer to hold office during pleasure of the board. Bond of treasurer to be fixed at a sum not less than $25,000. Sheriff to make annual settlement once a year. 16. President of board to make contracts, etc. 17. Work to be executed according to plans and specifications. 18. Annual meeting to be on third Monday in May. 20. 21. Board may borrow money and issue bonds to the extent of May purchase all or part of bonds when a surplus exists. |