date of the approval of this Act; and that the fees and emoluments of said officers mentioned in this Act, applied on the salaries of such officers under existing laws, shall be credited upon the salaries due under this Act. SECTION 8. That witnesses in civil and criminal cases in the circuit and chancery courts of Benton County shall receive the sum of one and 50-100 dollars per day for each day's actual attendance as such; and in addition thereto, witnesses residing within ten miles of the courthouse shall be entitled to three cents per mile, circular mileage; and witnesses residing more than ten and less than fifteen miles from the courthouse, four cents per mile, circular mileage; and witnesses residing more than fifteen miles from the courthouse within the county, five cents per mile, circular mileage. Provided, No mileage shall be charged except for distance actually traveled by said witness in obedience to said summons or order of the court. Distance to be computed by the most direct route. SECTION 9. That it shall be the duty of the county court to provide at the expense of the county sufficient office rooms for the clerks of the courts, the sheriff and collector, and the county judge of said county, including fixtures, heating apparatus, fuel, stationery and all necessary record books and blanks necessary for the transaction of business of said office. Provided, That the offices provided shall be in the county courthouse or offices annexed or adjoining thereto that are the property of the county. SECTION IO. That this Act shall not be construed so as to repeal or amend any special law heretofore enacted fixing the salaries of the officers of Benton County, except the officer in this Act specially mentioned; that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 6, 1905. ACT 250. AN ACT to require express companies to promptly settle for all goods damaged in the transportation of goods by the express companies of the State of Arkansas. SECTION I. 2. Express companies shall settle claims for damages within twenty days after notice of same has been filed with the company. Failure or refusal to pay damages within time named subject to penalties prescribed. 3. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: I. SECTION 1. That all express companies organized or doing business under the laws of the State of Arkansas shall settle in twenty days with the owner of goods, after notice has been given them, for the damages or loss of goods incurred in transit on the lines of the express companies, and it is hereby provided that notice to any local agent whose duty it is to report to any of the general offices shall be sufficient notice. SECTION 2. That any express company, as above mentioned, which shall fail or refuse to pay for the damages or loss of goods within twenty days after notice is given, as mentioned in section I of this Act, shall be liable in damages to the owner of the goods to the amount of damage sustained or lost, and also the sum of two dollars for each day that they so fail and refuse to settle after the twenty days' notice has been given. SECTION 3. That 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 May 6, 1905. ACT 251. AN ACT to require the St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railroad Company to keep an agent at Bassett and Grider, Mississippi County, Arkansas, stations on the main line of said railway company. SECTION I. St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railroad Company required to keep an agent at its depots at Bassett and Grider, in Mississippi County, for the purposes named. Failure to comply with this Act a misdemeanor; penalty. 3. Act in force from passage. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad Company, its lessees, successors and assigns, is hereby directed to keep an agent at its depot at Bassett and Grider, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, for the purpose of selling tickets, receiving freight for shipment, issuing bills of lading therefor, receiving freight consigned to said stations and performing the duties of agent as are ordinarily required of agents. Such agents are hereby directed to keep open the depots at said stations of Bassett and Grider for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, from 8 o'clock A. M. until 6:30 o'clock P. M. of each day. SECTION [2]. If the said St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railroad Company, its lessees, successors or assigns, shall fail, refuse or neglect to comply or carry into effect the provisions of section I of this Act, or either of them, it shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor more [than] one hundred dollars, and each and every day this Act shall not be complied with shall be a separate offense. SECTION 3. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. · Approved May 6, 1905. ACT 252. See Pg 429 AN ACT to authorize the Board of Levee and Drainage Directors of the St. Francis Drainage District to issue bonds for the purpose of maintaining a levee now in existence on the western shore of the St. Francis River, and to construct a drain or ditch in said territory. SECTION I. 2. St. Francis Drainage District authorized to issue bonds. How bonds shall be signed, registered, etc. 3. Moneys borrowed to constitute a levee and drainage fund. 4. Bonds to be lithographed, etc. 5. Bonds not to be pledged for debts of the board or any member thereof. 6. Revenues of the district pledged to the payment of bonds and interest on same. 7. Compensation not allowed treasurer for receiving or paying out proceeds of said bonds. 8. Acts in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. For the purpose of maintaining the levee now in existence on the western shore of the St. Francis River, and to construct and maintain such other levees in said district as may in the opinion of the board of directors or their successors be deemed proper or necessary, and for the purpose of constructing a drain or ditch in said territory and to enable the board of directors to fully carry out the ends and purposes of the Act of said General Assembly of April 18, 1905, establishing a levee and drainage district in certain portions of the counties of Clay and Greene, in the State of Arkansas, the said board of directors shall have power to borrow money and may issue bonds of the said board to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), payable in lawful money of the United States in such denominations as the said board may prescribe, which bonds shall be registered bonds or made payable in not less than thirty years, nor more than forty years, and shall be designated as 30-40 bonds; that is, at the discretion of said board, all of said bonds shall, on notice filed at the place of payment one year in advance and published in at least one newspaper in the city of Little Rock, State of Arkansas; one newspaper published in the city of Memphis, State of Tennessee; one newspaper published in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, and one newspaper published in the city of New York, State of New York, at least once a week for six months in advance, be redeemable or payable at the end of thirty years, but it shall be the duty of said board, should it elect not to so pay all of said bonds at the end of thirty years, then to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds by annually appropriating from the revenues, as provided for by the aforesaid Act of April 18, 1905, a sum not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), which shall, as soon as paid in, be applied annually pro tanto to the payment of |