3. Failure to comply with ordinance deemed a public nuisance and subject to fine on conviction.

4.

Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. Upon the petition of a majority of the owners of lots or parts thereof, any district comprising one or more blocks fronting on any residence street in any city of the second class, the city council shall have the power to prohibit by ordinance the use of the front part of said lots, for the distance of two-thirds of the depth thereof from such street, for stables, barns, or other outhouses, or for stock lots; provided, that persons already so using such property shall have six months in which to remove such buildings or discontinue such use.

SECTION 2. The petitions and ordinance mentioned in the foregoing section shall set forth the metes and bounds of the proposed district, which shall include both sides of such resident street, not to exceed one-half the distance through such block; provided, it shall be immaterial in what part of the proposed district the petitioners' property lies, so that such petition contains a majority of all property owners in such district.

SECTION 3. The continued occupancy of such lots by the owner contrary to the terms of such ordinance, when duly passed, shall constitute a public nuisance, and the owner or proprietor of same shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than $5 and not to exceed $15 per day for such continued violation thereof.

SECTION 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

[This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday excepted) and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this May 2, 1905.]

ACT 223.

AN ACT to create a Special School District in Lincoln County, Arkansas, to be known as the Special School District of Star City.

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

I.

SECTION 1. That the territory now composing Common School District No. 11, in Lincoln County, Arkansas, be, and the same is hereby created and organized into a special school district to be known as the Special School District of Star City.

SECTION 2. That all property of said district No. 11, and all its rights of action, and all its moneys, is hereby vested in the Special School District of Star City, and said special school district shall be liable for all the debts of said district No. 11, and for the amounts due or to become due, for the building or the rebuilding of the schoolhouse in said district No. 11; which debts shall be paid first, out of any moneys that shall belong to said special district.

SECTION 3. That B. F. Tarver, J. R. Traweek, T. J. Steed, J. K. McClain, H. V. Verdue and Henry Atkinson, are hereby made a board of directors for said special school district, whose terms of office shall begin at the passage of this Act, and end on the fourth Saturday in May, 1905.

SECTION 4. That the electors of said Special School District of Star City, which is created by this Act, shall, at the regular school election in May, 1905, elect six directors, two of whom shall serve one year, two for two years, and two for three years, and that said special school district shall be governed by the laws governing other special school districts in this State, for cities and towns.

SECTION 5. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

AN ACT to require the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company to fence and enclose its rights of way and lines of road in and through the counties of Fulton, Lawrence, and Sharp.

SECTION

I.

2.

3.

St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad required to enclose
rights of way in Fulton, Lawrence and Sharp Counties.
Failure to comply with Act a misdemeanor. Fine imposed.
Stock killed by train to be paid for in thirty days.

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 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company is hereby required to enclose its rights of way and lines of road, in and through the counties of Fulton, Lawrence, and Sharp, with posts set firmly in the

ground, and with wire or other fencing material attached thereto, so closely together, and on each side of said line of road so as to keep off said road or roads and out of said enclosure all mules, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and goats. Provided, Said company shall leave crossings at all public and private roads, and in all municipal corporations, with proper cattle or stock guards on each side of all said crossings.

SECTION 2. That said company failing to comply with section I of this Act, within eight months from the passage thereof, shall be deemed guilty of having committed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in either the justice of the peace or circuit courts of said county, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each separate offense, and each day thereafter said road remain unenclosed as above provided, in either of said counties, said company shall be deemed guilty of having committed a separate offense, and upon conviction shall be punished by fine as above provided.

SECTION 3. That hereafter all stock, as specified in section I of this Act, killed or injured on the line of said railroad, by the cars or trains running thereon, shall be paid for within thirty days from the time any such stock are killed or injured, and upon the failure of said company to make settlement as above provided, the person or persons so injured thereby shall be entitled to recover, not only the true and full value of such stock killed or injured, but penalty for the failure of said company to make such settlement within the time specified, shall be entitled to recover double the value in damage of any such stock killed or injured.

SECTION 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved May 1, 1905.

ACT 225.

AN ACT to amend Sections 5337, 5346, 5347, 5350, 5354, and 5356 of Kirby's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

SECTION

I.

2.

Amends Section 5337 of Kirby's Digest. Relates to the duties of the mine inspector.

Amends Section 5346 of Kirby's Digest. Fixes salary of mine inspector at two thousand dollars per year.

3. Amends Section 5347 of Kirby's Digest. Inspection of mines, etc.

4.

5.

Amends Section 5350 of Kirby's Digest. Relates to damages and survival of cause of action.

Amends Section 5354 of Kirby's Digest. Inspector to be punished for neglect of duty.

6. Amends Section 5356 of Kirby's Digest. Relates to weighing of coal.

7.

Manner of prosecuting work in coal mines.

8. Notices to be given operators of mines by inspector that requirements of Act shall be met.

9. Mine owners shall keep on hand U. S. Standard testing weights.

10.

II.

12.

Fire boss to be employed. Duties of same.

Lard oil only to be used. Not to apply to rope riders.

Certain supplies to be kept in the engine room.

13. Annual reports to be made by mine owners, lessees, etc.

14. Failure of owners to make reports a misdemeanor.

15. Mine inspector to be furnished stationery, blanks, etc., as other State officers are furnished.