SECTION I. That Section 6649 of Kirby's Digest shall be amended so as to read as follows: Section 6649. Whenever any railroad company or corporation or any receiver operating any railroad engaged in the business of operating or constructing any railroad or railroad bridge, shall discharge with or without cause or refuse to further employ any servant or employee thereof, the unpaid wages of any such servant or employee then earned at the contract rate, without abatement or deduction, shall be and become due and payable on the day of such discharge or refusal to longer employ; any such servant or employee may request of his foreman or the keeper of his time to have the money due him, or a valid check therefor, sent to any station where a regular agent is kept, and if the money aforesaid, or a valid check therefor, does not reach such station within seven days from the date it is so requested, then as a penalty for such nonpayment the wages of such servant or employee shall continue from the date of the discharge or refusal to further employ, at the same rate until paid. Provided, Such wages shall not continue more than sixty days, unless an action therefor shall be commenced within that time. Provided, further, That this Act shall apply to all companies and corporations doing business in this State, and to all servants and employees thereof, and any such servants or employees who shall hereafter be discharged or refused further employment may request or demand the payment of any wages due, and if not paid within seven days from such discharge or refusal to longer employ, then the penalties hereinbefore provided for railway employees shall attach.

SECTION 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 24, 1905

AN ACT to organize certain territory, in Fulton and Baxter Counties into a special school district to be known and designated as the Fulbax School District.

SECTION

I.

2.

Fulbax Special School District created in Fulton and Baxter
Counties.

School directors to be elected. Terms of office.

3. District and directors to be governed by existing laws. Special tax to be levied on property of district.

4. Directors to certify to proper officials rate of tax voted. Same to be extended on the books of each county.

5. Warrants to be drawn on treasurers of each county for money; teachers holding license in either county may be employed.

6. Enumeration of children of school age to be made annually. 7. District to adopt a system of text-books.

8. Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That School District No. 10, in Fulton County, and School District No. 29, in Baxter County, as now constituted in their respective counties, be and the same are hereby consolidated and organized into a special school district to be known and designated as the Fulbax School District.

SECTION 2. That on the day of the annual school election, after the passage of this Act, the qualified electors of said district, as provided for by this Act, shall meet at the county line schoolhouse now used jointly by said District No. 10, in Fulton County, and District No. 29, in Baxter County, Arkansas, and elect from the qualified electors of said district, three directors

having the qualifications required by law; said directors shall determine by lot among themselves their terms of office, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and said district shall, annually thereafter at the regular school election, elect one director who shall hold office for three years, and in the event of a vacancy occurring in the office of said directors the same may be filled by appointment by the county judge of either Fulton or Baxter County.

SECTION 3. Said school district and the directors thereof shall be governed by all existing laws regulating common school districts where not otherwise provided in this Act, and said electors when assembled in said county line schoolhouse at the annual school elections, shall vote on all questions which are now provided by law for common school districts, and when there is a special tax voted, shall be levied upon all the taxable property of said district in the manner now required by the general school law of this State; provided, that any and all taxes collected for special school purposes from the territory embraced in said district, shall be by the collectors of Fulton and Baxter Counties, paid into their respective county treasuries for the benefit of Fulbax District.

SECTION 4. Immediately after such election, when a special tax is voted, the directors of said district shall meet and certify to the proper officers of Fulton and Baxter Counties the rate of special tax so voted, whereupon it shall be the duty of such officer to extend said taxes on the tax books of their respective counties and collect the same in the manner now provided for collecting such taxes and pay the same into their respective county treasuries, through the credit of said Fulbax District.

SECTION 5. The directors of said district are hereby empowered to draw warrants for all legitimate purposes

of said district, on the treasuries of each of said counties; and any person licensed to teach school either in Fulton or Baxter County, shall have a right to teach in said district when employed by the lirectors thereof.

SECTION 6. The directors of said district shall make the annual enumeration of the children of scholastic age in said district as now required or may hereafter be provided for by law, and shall report to the county examiners of Fulton and Baxter Counties, the number of such children in each respective county, and when the common school funds are annually apportioned the authorities of each of said counties shall apportion to said district according to the number of such children so returned in each county.

SECTION 7. That the directors of said Fulbax District are hereby empowered to adopt a system of school text-books for said district at any meeting of said directors held for that purpose.

SECTION 8. That this Act take effect and be in full 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 27, 1905.]

ACT 212.

AN ACT to prevent the running at large of certain stock in parts of Jefferson County.

SECTION

I.

2.

Unlawful for sheep, swine or goats to run at large in certain parts of Jefferson County.

Unlawful for owner to permit such animals to run at large in territory named.

3. Owners of stock running at large liable for damages.

4. Complaints may be made before a justice of the peace.

5.

Persons or corporations violating Act guilty of a misde

meanor.

6. Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That it shall be unlawful for any swine, sheep or goat to run at large in that part of Jefferson County lying north and east of the Arkansas River; nor shall the owners or tenants of improved or cultivated land be required to fence their lands against such animals, within said territory.

SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for the owner, custodian or manager of any swine, sheep or goat to permit the said animals, or any of them, to run at large beyond the limits of their own land in said territory.

SECTION 3. If any of the animals enumerated in the foregoing sections of this Act shall hereafter be found at large upon the lands of any person other than their owner, in said territory, the manager, custodian or owner of said animals shall be liable for all damages done by said animals to the owners of the crops on the lands upon which they trespass or may be found.

SECTION 4. In case of trespass as aforesaid, the aggrieved party may make complaint to a justice of the peace in the said county, who shall issue his warrant immediately, returnable within five (5) days from the date thereof, and at the time and place named in the warrant, the case will be tried and the amount of damage sustained by the complainant ascertained, and judgment given for the same, with legal costs, as in cases of other warrants.