the passage of this Act, have and make a full settlement with the treasurer of White County, and obtain from said county treasurer a statement showing the balance in his hands belonging to each of said districts, which statement they shall turn over, together with all books, papers, charts, and school supplies of every kind and description, and all other property belonging to said districts to the board of school directors of said School District of Searcy; and the same shall thenceforward be and become the property of said School District of Searcy. And the county treasurer shall immediately after such settlement with the directors of said School Districts Number Nineteen and One Hundred and Four, place the amounts in his hands belonging to said districts to the credit of the School District of Searcy. Provided, That nothing in this Act shall have the effect to annul any contract for teaching schools in either of said districts nineteen or one hundred and four, but the same shall be completed in accordance with such contract, and paid for out of the funds now belonging to such district in which school is being taught. SECTION 3. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the county court, upon proper petition as now prescribed by law, from transferring children or wards from said School District of Searcy to an adjoining district for school purposes, nor from detaching part of the territory therefrom and annexing the same to an adjoining school district. SECTION 4. That the valid and subsisting indebtedness of said districts ninteen and one hundred and four, if any, shall be paid by School District of Searcy. SECTION 5. That this Act take effect and be in force thirty days after its passage, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.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 April 5, 1905.] ACT 142. AN ACT to create certain territory into a road district, and to fix salary of road overseers in Polk County. SECTION I. Creates Mena Special Road District. 2. How road tax collected may be expended. 3. Salaries of road overseers of Polk County. 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 Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage.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 the territory within the corporate limits of the city of Mena, Polk County, Arkansas, be, and the same is hereby created and made a separate road district in Polk County to be known as Mena Special Road District, and the county court is hereby directed to enter of record an order establishing said district in conformity herewith. SECTION 2. That fifty per centum (50%) of the road tax collected in said Mena Special Road District shall be expended on the streets and public highways in said district, and fifty per centum (50%) of such tax collected shall be expended in any such other road district or districts in the county, as the court may direct. SECTION 3. That the road overseers of Polk County shall be elected at the biennial State and county elections by the electors of said districts, and J. B. Lear is hereby appointed as road overseer to serve until the next election in said Mena Special Road District. SECTION 4. The salary of all road overseers of Polk County shall be two dollars per day for the actual time in service, and in no case shall any of said road overseers work less than five men at any time, and where practicabie not less than ten men subject to road duty. And all said road overseers and hands shall be, and they are hereby required to put in full ten hours each day except when prevented by inclement weather or sickness, and in all such cases the overseer and hands shall only be credited with the actual time put in or worked; and, provided, further, that in any event a road overseer or any hand employed or subject to road duty shall ask or receive credit for more time than he has actually put in, he shall be deemed guilty of having committed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the justice or circuit courts of Polk County, shall be fined in any sum of not more than twenty-five dollars for each separate offense. SECTION 5. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 5, 1905. ACT 143. AN ACT making it unlawful for any corporation, company, firm, or person, to issue, sell, give or deliver to any person in payment of wages due for labor, any scrip, token, draft, or other evidence of indebtedness, payable or redeemable otherwise than in lawful money, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Unlawful for corporations to pay wages with any scrip not redeemable in lawful money. 2. Corporations cannot compel employees to purchase supplies from them without committing a misdemeanor. 3. 4. Goods sold at a higher value than is reasonable, liable in double the amount to such employee. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force sixty days from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. It shall be unlawful for any corporation, company, firm, or person, engaged in any trade or business. in this State, either directly or indirectly, to issue, sell, give or deliver to any person employed by such corporation, company, firm, or person, in payment of wages due such laborer, earned by him, any scrip, token, draft, check, or other evidence of indebtedness, payable or redeemable otherwise than in lawful money, at the regular payday of such corporation, company, firm, or person. And if any such scrip, token, draft, check, or other evidence of indebtedness be so issued, sold, given, or delivered to such laborer, it shall be construed, taken and held in all courts and places to be a promise to pay the sum specified therein, in lawful money, by the corporation, company, firm, or person issuing, selling, giving, or delivering the same to the person named therein, or the holder thereof. And the corporation, company, firm, or person so issuing, selling, giving, or delivering the same shall, moreover, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) and not more than one hundred dollars ($100). And at the discretion of the court trying the same, the officer or agent of the corporation, company, firm, or person issuing, selling, giving, or delivering the same, may be imprisoned not less than ten, nor more than thirty days. SECTION 2. If any corporation, company, firm, or person shall coerce, or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, any employee in its, theirs, or his employment to purchase goods or supplies in payment of wages due him or earned by him, from any corporation, company, firm, or person, such first named corporation, company, firm, or person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. SECTION 3. If any such corporation, company, firm, or person shall directly or indirectly, sell to any such employee, in payment of wages due or earned by him, goods or supplies at prices higher than a reasonable or current market value thereof in cash, such corporation, company, firm, or person shall be liable to such employee, in a civil action in double the amount of the charges made and paid for such goods and supplies, in excess of the reasonable or current value in cash thereof; provided, that the provisions of this Act do not apply to coal mines, when not less than twenty (20) men are employed under the ground. SECTION 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this Act take effect and be in force sixty (60) days after its passage. Approved April 5, 1905. ACT 144. AN ACT for the protection of shippers of merchandise over railroads and other common carriers. SECTION 1. Railway companies made liable to shippers for damages. 2. 3. Damages may be collected from agent at point of destination. If payment is refused, suit may be entered and damages recovered for treble the amount of claim. |