SECTION 3. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent or cut off from such school district any right in law or equity which a natural person might claim and assert under like circumstances; and in any action by or against said district arising on any instrument or contract made under this Act, the district shall, as far as practicable, be decreed and treated as a natural person. SECTION 4. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. [This bill was filed in the office of the Secretary of State without the Governor's signature, on May 6, 1905, the General Assembly having adjourned at noon on May 4, 1905.] ACT 259. AN ACT to prevent the sale or giving away of intoxicants within three miles of the public school building in Wilton, Arkansas, and also within five miles of the public school building in the town of Arkinda, Arkansas, and also within three miles of the public school building in the town of Winthrop, Arkansas. SECTION I. Prohibits sale of intoxicants within three miles of the public school building at Wilton and Arkinda, and five miles of the public school building at Winthrop. 2. Penalty for violations of Act. 3. Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give away any spirituous, vinous, malt, alcoholic or other intoxicating liquors in any quantity whatever within three miles of the public school building situated on lot No. 10, block No. 2, in the town of Wilton, Arkansas, or within five (5) miles of the public school building situated on lot No. 12, block No. 11, of the town of Arkinda, Arkansas; or within three miles of the public school building situated on lots Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16, block No. 26, of the town of Winthrop, Arkansas; provided, this Act shall not apply to nor prevent the use of wine for sacramental purposes, nor the use of liquors by persons in their own families, nor on their own premises for family use. SECTION 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of section one (1) of this Act, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not more than three hundred dollars ($300); also not less than thirty nor more than ninety days in jail. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 6, 1905. ACT 260. AN ACT to amend Section 6988 of William F. Kirby's Digest of the Statutes of the State of Arkansas. SECTION I. Duties of assessors defined. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 6988. If demanded, the assessor shall deliver to the owner of any personal property and real property assessed for taxation a copy of such assessment, and any person listing real estate for assessment may present to the assessor a written description of the same, and the assessor, after having entered the same upon the assessment list, shall return the same to him, with the assessed valuation thereof, with a certificate verifying the same as the assessment list furnished by such person or corporation for the assessment of that year; and the assessor in every instance where he has raised the valuation of any property, personal or real, shall give to the owners of the property so raised in valuation, or their agents, notice, by postal card or otherwise through the mails, of such increase in value, stating the valuation of the property as fixed by the owners at the time it was listed for assessment and the valuation as fixed by the assessor, and said notice shall advise the owners of such property, or their agents, that they may appear before the equalization board, to be begun and, held at the county seat, on the first Monday of September, next following such notice, and show cause, if any they can, why the valuation of their property should not have been raised. Approved May 6, 1905. ACT 261. AN ACT to fix and regulate the fees of railroad and other corporations for filing of Articles of Incorporations, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Fees for filing articles of incorporation in the office of the 2. Fees for filing articles of incorporation of railroads. 3. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. All corporations, foreign or domestic, except railway corporations, which shall file articles of incorporation for doing business in this State, and the capital stock of which is $25,000 or under, shall pay to the Secretary of State a fee of $30 for the filing of said articles and issuing of a charter; and shall pay an additional fee of $5 for each additional $25,000 of its capital stock; said fee to be in addition to the fee now required by law to be paid to the county clerk of the county of said incorporation's domicile. SECTION 2. All railroad corporations filing articles of incorporation in this State, shall pay to the Secretary of State a fee of $200, where the said railway shall not exceed twenty-five miles in length; and for each additional twentyfive miles in its said length, shall pay an additional fee of $100. All railway corporations filing amended articles of incorporation shall pay for filing same a fee of $25 to the Secretary of State. SECTION 3. 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 262. AN ACT to repeal certain portions of an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the running at large of hogs, sheep and goats in Clark County, Arkansas, or any subdivision of Clark County that may take advantage of this Act." Passed February 2, 1905. SECTION 1. Repeals Act prohibiting the running at large of certain animals in parts of Clark County. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: I. SECTION 1. That an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the running at large of hogs, sheep and goats in Clark County, or any subdivision thereof that may take advantage of this Act," be and the same is hereby repealed in so far as the same applies or may ever apply to the political townships of Amity, Alpine, Terrenoir, Beirne, Missouri, Beach Creek, Anderson, Manchester, Leard and Long Creek, in Clark County, Arkansas. SECTION 2. That this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. [This Act was filed in the office of the Secretary of State on May 6, 1905, without the Governor's signature, the General Assembly being adjourned.] AN ACT to declare a four-wire fence to be a lawful fence. in Rock Roe Township, Prairie County. SECTION I. 2. Prescribes a lawful barbed wire fence for Roc Roe Township, Prohibits running at large of hogs, sheep, goats and geese 3. Said animals and fowls running at large may be impounded and sold for fees due the person impounding said animals and fowls. 4. Laws in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: |