number treasurer of the board, who shall enter into bond. in such sum as the board may require, with security to be approved by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and that he will faithfully pay over all moneys that shall come to his hand by virtue of his office, according to law, when ordered to do so by said board. And the said board shall elect one of their number secretary, who shall keep a record of all proceedings.

SECTION 4. In case of the death, removal or failure or refsual of any of the commissioners or officers of said board to qualify or serve as such, a majority of said board may fill any vacancy thereby occasioned at any regular meeting of the same. Said commissioners shall hold their offices for two years from the passage of this Act, after which time they shall be appointed by the county judge, but must be electors and owning land in said district.

SECTION 5. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business that may come before them under this Act, and may fix the time and place of any regular meeting, and may call a special meeting whenever the business before the board may require.

SECTION 6. Said board of inspectors shall have power to order the levee contemplated by this Act to be built and constructed, to employ engineers to locate and lay off the same and to furnish measurements and estimates of the same and to order repairs to be made on said levee; also to employ agents and attorneys, if the same shall be necessary to the discharge of the duties required of them under this Act, and to pay such employees and order same to be paid by the treasurer of the board.

SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of the board of inspectors to let out the contract of building and constructing said levee and work on same at public outcry, to the lowest responsible bidder, in bulk or in section, at their discretion, after giving notice of the time, place and manner of such letting by advertisement in a newspaper published in Jefferson County for at least twenty days before such letting.

SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of said board to require of the person or persons contracting for the construction or building of such levee, or any portion thereof, to enter into bond, payable to said board, with security to be approved by them in double the amount of his or their bid, conditioned that he or they will construct the same according to the plan and specification of his or their contract, which stipulation shall be therein recited.

SECTION 9. The board of inspectors shall receive for their services each the sum of two dollars ($2) per day each for the time they are actually engaged in the discharge of their duties under this Act, and their agents, attorneys and employees such sums as may be allowed by said board, all to be paid by the treasurer on the order of the board.

SECTION IO. The levee to be built under the provisions of this Act shall be of such dimensions and character and located on any land or lands in said district as the board of inspectors or commissioners may direct.

SECTION II. There shall be levied and collected and the same is hereby levied on all the land subject to taxation in said levee district for the year 1905 such rate of taxation as the board of inspectors or commissioners may determine upon, which levy or tax shall be, by the county clerk of said Jefferson County, extended upon the tax books for said year in making out and preparing

the same and the same shall be collected by the collector of said county at the time of collection of State and county taxes, and of said amount or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be expended in constructing, building and maintaining said levee, and said collector shall settle with said board as to the amount collected by him and pay the same over to the treasurer of the board upon its order.

SECTION 12. If the amount assessed for the year 1905 under the above section shall not be sufficient to complete and maintain said levee, said board shall have power to levy such amounts from year to year as they may think proper and determine upon which shall be placed upon the tax books, collected and accounted for and paid over as is directed by the preceding section. Provided, the taxes of each year shall be levied and assessed and filed in the county clerk's office of the county of Jefferson in time for the clerk to enter the same on the tax books for each year the same may be levied or assessed.

SECTION 13. The collector of Jefferson County shall be liable to said board for all moneys or taxes collected for levee purposes under the provisions of this Act, and may be proceeded against on his bond for any failure to collect, account for, or pay over any part of the taxes levied or assessed under the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 14. If any person should feel aggrieved at the construction of said levee or maintaining same or any part thereof on his, her or their land, on making complaint to the county-court of said county, said court shall empanel a jury to inquire and assess the damages, and when the same is so assessed the same shall be paid out of the treasury of said board. Provided, appeal shall be allowed as

in other cases.

SECTION 15.

All taxes levied under this Act shall be a lien upon the land upon which they are due until paid.

SECTION 16. The board of commissioners or inspectors provided for shall keep a record of their proceedings and file the same with the county clerk of the county of Jefferson.

SECTION 17. The commissioners or inspectors provided for by this Act shall take an oath faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties required of them under this Act, and file the same in writing in the office of the county clerk of said county of Jefferson.

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SECTION 18. 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.

[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 1, 1905.]

ACT 13.

AN ACT to authorize the board of directors of the St. Francis Levee District to issue bonds for the purpose of building, rebuilding, repairing, raising and maintaining levees on the right bank of the Mississippi River, within the limits of said district, and for other purposes.

SECTION

I.

2.

Authorizes St. Francis Levee District to issue bonds.

Bonds to be signed by president and secretary of board.
Same to be registered, etc.

3.

Proceeds of bonds to become a levee fund.

4.

Bonds to be lithographed, and number, date, etc., to be kept in a record book.

5. Bonds and coupons must not be pledged for personal obligations, members of board or officer thereof.

6. Revenues of levee district pledged to payment of prineipal and interest of bonds.

7. No compensation allowed treasurer for receiving or paying out the proceeds of bonds sold.

8. Acts in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That for the purpose of completing the line of levee begun by the board of directors of the St. Francis Levee District, and for repairing, constructing and maintaining the same, and to enable the board of directors to fully carry out the ends and purposes of the Act of February 15, 1893, establishing and laying out that part of the St. Francis basin lying within the State of Arkansas into a levee district, and to incorporate a board of levee directors of the St. Francis Levee District, shall have power to borrow money for the purpose of building, repairing, rebuilding, raising and maintaining levees in said district, and of carrying into effect the object and intent of said Act of February 15, 1893, and to that end may issue the bonds of the said board to the amount of not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand ($250,000) dollars, payable in lawful money of the United States, in such denominations as the said. board may prescribe, to complete the levees within the St. Francis Levee District, which bonds shall be registered bonds or made payable to bearer, as may be preferred, and shall be made payable in not less than thirty years, nor more than forty years, and shall be designated as