power to issue, sell, and negotiate such bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, but only of the character, to the extent, and for the purposes so authorized by said meeting of landholders. SECTION 3. That the said districts shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of the boards of directors thereof, to provide for the payment of said bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued under this Act, as the same shall become due, by levying a tax upon the lands of said districts in proportion to the benefits thereto as previously ascertained, as will meet the payments of interest on said bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, and provide a sinking fund for the payment of the principal when the same shall become due, which tax shall be levied, extended, collected and paid over as now provided by law in case of annual taxes in levee districts. SECTION 4. That all bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by either of said districts under this Act shall be a charge and lien upon all the lands of said district benefited by the levee or levees therein, and said lien may be enforced in a court of chancery by the owners or holders of said bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, or by the board of directors for the use and benefit of such owners or holders. SECTION 5. The funds arising from the taxes levied under the third section of this Act shall be kept separate and apart from the other funds of said districts, and shall be paid out on the warrant of the board of directors as provided by law for the disbursement of funds of levee districts, but shall be used for no other purpose than the payment of the authorized bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of said districts for which said tax was levied, until said indebtedness and the interest thereon shall have been fully paid. SECTION 6. The boards of directors of each of said. districts shall require sufficient bonds of the treasurer of the said district to insure the safe keeping of this and other funds of said district, and may, at any time they deem it expedient or necessary, require of said treasurer new or additional security. SECTION 7. The boards of directors of each of said districts shall have power to employ an engineer for their respective districts as a compensation not exceeding five dollars per day while actually engaged on behalf of said districts. SECTION 8. 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 April 3, 1905.] ACT 138. AN ACT to declare four wires a lawful fence in certain townships in White County, Arkansas. SECTION I. 2. Four barbed wire fence legal fence in Union Township, Unlawful for hogs, sheep, pigs, geese, goats, to run at large 3. 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 fence made of four barbed wires, or its equivalent in other material, securely fastened to posts firmly set in the ground sixteen feet apart, and four and one-half feet high above the ground, the first wire to be eighteen inches high, the second two feet and six inches, the third three feet and six inches, and the fourth four feet and six inches above the ground, shall be a lawful fence for the township of Union, in the county of White, and State of Arkansas. And that the waters of Bull Bayou shall constitute such boundary line between Union Township and the remaining part of White County, so far as it now divides Union Township from the other townships of White County, and that no fence be required to be maintained along said Bull Bayou so far as it forms the northern boundary of Union Township; provided, it shall be the duty of persons cultivating land one-half mile inside of the lines dividing Union Township from other portions of White County to continuously maintain a legal fence as defined by the general statutes of the State of Arkansas; and, provided, further, that on the line or lines bounding White County, and intervening between the counties of Prairie and Lonoke that this law shall not apply, nor shall a fence be required to be kept, and that the waters of Cypress Bayou shall constitute such boundary between said counties in so far as the same appertains to White County. SECTION 2. After this Act shall take effect, it shall be unlawful for any hogs, sheep, pigs, geese, goats to run at large in the township of Union in said county of White, State of Arkansas, and if any of the above named stock shall be found so running at large it may be impounded by the owner or tenant of the land upon which it may be trespassing. When any of the above named stock shall be impounded, it shall be the duty of the person so impounding, within five days thereafter, to notify the owner of said stock, if known, of the taking up of the same, and if the owner or his agent or tenant shall neglect or refuse to take charge of and pay the expenses of impounding within five days after the notice has been given him, or if the owner of the stock be unknown, then the person, or his agent, or tenant, or tenants, taking up the stock shall advertise the same for a period of five days by posting three notices in three public places in the township in which the stock was taken up and one at the courthouse giving minute description by mark and brand, if any, and by flesh mark, and after the expiration of five days the impounder of said stock may proceed to sell same at public sale to the highest bidder at some convenient place, as advertised in the territory affected, said sales shall be made by the constable of the township where said stock is impounded, and the said constable shall be allowed the same fees as is allowed by law in similar cases, for cash, and from the proceeds of said sale he shall receive for feeding and caring for said stock the following charges for each hog, pig or sheep, ten cents per day; and for each goat or goose, five cents per day; but should the owner of any hog, pig, sheep, goose, or goat, or his agent knowingly allow any of the above named stock to run at large he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one dollar, and each day shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed; that this Act go into 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 April 3, 1905.] ACT 139. AN ACT to organize certain territory in Van Buren and Faulkner Counties into special school districts. SECTION I. Creates Damascus School District in Van Buren and Faulkner Counties. 2. Defines territory embraced in said school district. 3. Six directors to be elected. Terms of office of each. 4. Laws governing the district designated. 5. Rate of tax voted to be certified to county clerk of each county. 6. Teachers may have license from either county. 7. Directors to make annual enumeration of children of school age. 8. Moneys on hand to be apportioned by the county courts of each county. 9. Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the following described contiguous territory in Van Buren and Faulkner Counties, to-wit: the east half of southeast quarter of section twenty-five (25), in township nine (9) north, of range fourteen (14) west, and the southwest quarter of northeast quarter, and the south half of northwest quarter, and the south half of section thirty (30), all of section thirty-one (31), the northeast quarter and south half of section thirty-two (32), the north half of the southeast quarter, and the northeast quarter and west half of section thirty-three (33) in township nine (9) north, of range thirteen (13) west, the west half of sections four (4) and nine (9), all of section five (5), and the north half of the northeast quarter, and the east half of northwest quarter of section six (6), the east half of section eight (8), all of section seventeen (17), and the north half of southwest quarter, and the northwest quarter of section sixteen (16), all in township eight (8) north, of |