can be profitably raised thereon, and for the purpose of clearing and cultivating said land, the said superintendent shall, under the direction of the board, purchase the requisite live stock, wagons, farming implements, machinery and other articles. There shall be raised on the land, as nearly as can be, such products as can be used and consumed by the inmates of the institution. If more can be produced than can be consumed, the excess shall be sold, and the proceeds shall be deposited in the State treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. All supplies necessary for said institution shall be purchased under contract by the board, as supplies for the charitable institutions are purchased. A complete record of everything raised on said land and the disposition thereof, together with a full record of all things pertaining to the institution, shall be kept by the superintendent, and he shall make a full report, upon oath, of the same to the board, quarterly, or oftener, if deemed expedient by said board, and said board shall report biennially to the legislature.

SECTION 7. Everything practicable shall be done to develop them morally, intellectually, and industriously, and to teach them some useful trade or avocation, and for this purpose competent teachers, under the direction of the board, shall be employed by the superintendent; provided, the entire time the said inmates shall be required to pursue literary studies shall not exceed in the aggregate three months during any one year.

SECTION 8. That only ordinary citizens' clothing shall be worn by the inmates of said institution, and that hereafter no person, under the age of eighteen years, sentenced to the penitentiary, shall be deprived of the right of franchise or be disqualified to testify in any court by reason of such sentence.

SECTION 9. The members of the board to manage the penitentiary, shall receive for their services, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, the same per diem and mileage, for time actually engaged, as they now receive as members of said board.

SECTION IO. White and negro inmates of said institution shall, at all times on all occasions, be kept separate and apart from each other, and the female inmates shall be kept to themselves.

SECTION II. The superintendent of said reform school shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum. The compensation of the teachers and other employees of said institution shall be fixed, until otherwise provided by law, by said board.

SECTION 12. Upon the discharge of any inmate from the reform school, the superintendent shall procure transportation for the said inmate to his home, if resident in the State, or to the county in which he may have been convicted, at his option, and the cost thereof shall be paid from the said reform school fund.

SECTION 13. If any person procure the escape of any person committed to or confined in the reform school, or connive at, or aid, conceal, or assist in such escape, or conceal or assist any person after any such escape, he or they, upon conviction thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and punished by imprisonment for a period of not less than two years, and not more than five years. If any inmate of said school escape from any of the buildings, walls, or enclosures thereof, any peace officer in this State shall immediately arrest said escape and return him to said institution with all due haste and dispatch, for which said

officer shall receive his actual expense, usual fees, and two dollars per day for the time actually consumed in returning said escape, out of any money appropriated for the maintenance of said institution.

SECTION 14. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SECTION 15. Upon the application of said board the Auditor shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the money hereby appropriated, or any part thereof; provided, that not more than five thousand dollars be paid to the board at any one time, and not more than ten thousand dollars during any one month. The members of said board, and their official bondsmen, shall be responsible for the proper expenditure of said money or moneys.

SECTION 16. All laws and 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 25, 1905.

ACT 200.

AN ACT to amend section I of an Act creating the Linwood and Auburn Levee District in Jefferson and Lincoln Counties, which became a law by limitation on the 16th day of March, 1893.

SECTION

I.

2.

Adds certain territory to the Linwood and Auburn Levee
District in Jefferson County.

Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That the east half of section 15, and all of sections 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, and 36, all in township 6 south, of range 8 west; all of sections I, 2, II, 12, 13, 14, 23 and 24, in township 7 south, of range 8 west, said lands being in Jefferson County, Arkansas, be added to, included within and made a part of said Linwood and Auburn Levee District, and be subject to taxation for levee purposes the same as other lands in said levee district, and be subject to all of the provisions of said original Act, applicable to said county, and for levee purposes as set forth in said Act, to which this Act is amendatory. Said lands mentioned in this Act shall be and are hereby added to said levee district for the purpose of protecting the lands mentioned in this Act, and to better protect those mentioned in the original Act against overflow of water.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted 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 26, 1905.]

ACT 201.

AN ACT to declare a five (5) wire fence to be a lawful

fence in Jackson County.

SECTION

I.

2.

Five wire fence a lawful fence in certain parts of Jackson
County.

Unlawful for hogs to run at large in prescribed territory.

3. Trespassing stock subject to certain penalties.

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 fence made of posts firmly set in the ground, not more than sixteen (16) feet apart, and five (5) feet high, with five (5) strands of fence wire fastened thereto; the first or bottom wire to be not more than sixteen (16) inches above the ground; the second wire to be two (2) feet above the ground; the third wire to be thirty-two (32) inches above the ground the fourth wire to be fortyfour (44) inches above the ground; and the fifth wire to be fifty (50) inches above the ground;, shall be a lawful fence in Jackson County, except in that portion of Jackson County east of the center of Cache River, and west of White River, that is, that such fence shall be a lawful fence on all lands between Cache River and the White River, lying in Jackson County.

SECTION 2. That all hogs found running at large within the boundary of above-mentioned territory, and trespassing on lands enclosed by wire, plank, rails, or any other kind of fence, shall be subject to the same penalties and treated in the same manner as stock trespassing within any other lawful enclosure, as provided by the laws of this State.

SECTION 3. That any stock found trespassing within the above-mentioned territory, enclosed by the above-described lawful fence, shall be subject to the same