1 An act to change the time of holding the Probate court in the county of Phillips. SECTION. 1. Probate court to be holden on the SECTION court agreeably to this act. 3. Declares this act in force from and after its passage; and repeals all' laws conflicting therewith. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the probate court of Phillips county shall be held on the fourth Mondays of January, April, July and October, in each and every year, and continue from day to day, as is now provided by law. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all writs or processes made: returnable to said probate court, shall be returned to said court, as established by this act; and all settlements to be made with said court, shall continue to, and be made at the time directed by the first section of this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in full force from and after the passage thereof; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved 10th December, 1852. An act to change the time of holding the Probate court of Sebastian county. issued, returnable on first day of said terms. 2. This act in force from and after its passage. 1. Probate court to be holden on the third Mondays of January. April, July and October, in each year; and all process issued or hereafter to be SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the probate court of the county of Sebastian shall commence and be holden on the third Mondays of January, April, July and October, in each year; that all cases pending in said court shall be heard in the same manner as though no change had been made in the commencement of the terms of said court, and that all process issued or hereafter to be issued, shall be returnable on the first day of said terms. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of February, 1853. Approved 10th December, 1852. An act to change the time of holding the County and Probate courts of Lafayette county. SECTION 1 County court to be holden on the SECTION. due from executors, administrators' or guardians, to be filed at first term of the probate court, as herein provided by law. 3 All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act repealed; and this act to be in force from and after its passage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the county courts of Lafayette county shall be holden on the second Mondays after the fourth Mondays of January, April, July and October; and the probate courts of said county shall be holden on the Tuesday of the week of the county courts. SEC. 2. That all process that may have issued from either of said courts, or by the clerk thereof in vacation, or may hereafter be issued, shall be returnable to the first term of said courts, as provided in this act, and shall have the same force and effect as if returned as now provided by law; and all settlements that may be due from executors, administrators, and guardians, at the next term of the probate court, as now provided by law, shall be filed at the first term of said court, as provided for in this act. SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved 10th December, 1852, SECTION An act concerning Chaplains. SECTION 1. Declares the salary of the chaplains 2. This act in force from and after its of the two Houses, and of the enpassage. rolling clerk of the Senate. SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the sum of three dollars per day be paid to each of the Chaplains of the two houses of the present General Assembly out of any money in the State Treasury, for their services during the present session; that one hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to pay the Enrolling clerk of the Senate, and he is hereby authorized to draw at the rate of three dollars per day from the time of his election until it shall amount to the sum hereby appropriated. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved 10th December, 1852. An act to change the time of holding the Probate court of Hot Spring county. SECTION 1. Probate court to be holden on the SECTION 3. been made in the time of holding said court. All laws or parts of laws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed; and this act to be in force from and after its passage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the probate court of the county of Hot Spring, shall hereafter be begun and holden on the second Mondays of January, April, July and October, in each year. SEC. 2 Be it further enacted, That this act shall not in any manner avoid, impair, or affect any notice, process, suit, settlement, or other proceeding now pending in said probate court, continued or made returnable to the next term thereof; but that the same shall proceed and be determined at the next term of said court to be holden in accordance with this act, in the same manner as if no change had been made in the time of holding said court. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved 11th December, 1852. An act to change the present mode of appointing Deputy Clerks SECTION and Sheriffs. ¡SECTION. 1. Empowers clerks and sheriffs to ap- 2. This act in force from and after its point their deputies, and the manner thereof. passage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the clerks of the circuit courts, and each sheriff in this State, may appoint one or more deputies, for whose official conduct they shall be responsible, by a written appointment under their hands, to be approved by the circuit or county court judge in vacation, the approval to be endorsed upon the written appointment, which written appointment with the endorsement thereon, shall be filed and recorded in the Recorder's office of their counties. SEC. 2. That this act be in force from and after its passage. An act to change the time of holding the Probate court of Ashley SECTION county. 1. Probate court to be holden on the SECTION act as to the commencement of said term; but all such proceedings shall be returned to the next term, according to this act. 1. All laws coflicting with this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That from and after the passage of this act, the probate court of Ashley county, and State of Arkansas, shall be holden on the fourth Mondays in January, April, July and October, in each year. SEC. 2. That no suit, action, recognizance, appeal or other proceedings pending in said court, or made returnable to the next term of said court, as fixed by the law now in force, shall be avoided, impaired, or affected by the change made in this act, in relation to the commencement of said term, but that all such process, suits, actions, appeals and other proceedings, shall stand and be returnable to the next term of the court, held according to this act, and shall have full effect accordingly; and all continuances in said court shall be from the last term to the term appointed and authorized by this act; and that no suit or other proceeding pending in or returnable to said court, shall be discontinued or in any manner effected by any change hereby made. SEC. 3. That all laws existing in conflict with this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved 14th December, 1852. SECTION An act to incorporate Arkansas College. 1. Declares certain persons and their successors in office, a body politic, under the name and style of "Arkansas College," and defines their powers. 2. Said corporation to fill vacancies, and SECTION erty, and to apply the same for the benefit of said institution. 4. Said corporation to appoint a president, professors, teachers, and servants, and to fill vancies. 5. Said corporation to establish departments of study, to confer degrees, and grant diplomas. 6. Said corporation to institute a board of examiners, to include the faculty, and not to exceed seven, three of whom may transact business, who shall examine all applicants for academical degrees. or devise of real or personal prop- 7. Declares a stated annual meeting of SECTION the trustees; the time to be desig- SECTION sorship. 9. This act to be in force from and after its passage. 8. Nothing herein to be so construed as to authorize a Theological profesSECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That Robert Graham, T. B. Van Horne, J. M. Tibbetts, David Walker, J. H. Stirman, T. J. Pollard, Jesse Turner, Henry Wilcox, A. B. Greenwood, J. P. Morean, Samuel M. Rutherford, Absalom Fowler, E. H. English, Jabez Tanner, Seneca Sutton, Wilburn D. Reagan and George M. Pettigrew, and their successors, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and oorporate, under the name and style of "Arkansas College;" and henceforth shall be known by that name, and by that style and name to remain and have power to appoint their successors, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to have a common seal, and to alter, the same at pleasure, to make and alter, from time to time, such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the government of said institution, its officers and servants: Provided, Such by-laws are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State, and of the United States. SEC. 2. That said corporation shall have power to fill such va. cancies in their body as they may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise; and shall hold the property of said institution solely for the purpose of education, and not as a stock for the individual benefit of themselves, or of any contributor to the endowment of the same: Provided, That the amount owned by said corporation shall not, at any time, exceed two hundred thousand dollars, over and above the buildings, library, and apparatus necessary to the institution. SEC. 3. That said institution shall be located in or near the town of Fayetteville, in Washington county, in this State. Said college shall be competent in law and equity, to take, in its said corporate name, real, personal and mixed property, by gift, grant, bargain, and sale, conveyance, will, devise, or bequest, of any person or persous, whomsoever; and the same estate, whether real or personal. to grant, bargain, sell, convey, devise, let, place out at interest, or otherwise dispose of, for the use of said institution, in such manner as shall seem most beneficial to said institution. Said corporation shall, according to their best judgment, apply the funds that may come into their hands in erecting suitable buildings, supporting necessary officers, instructors and servants, and in procuring books, maps, charts, globes, and philosophical, chemical, and other apparatus, necessary to the success of said institution. SEC. 4. That said corporation shall have power to employ and appoint a president, treasurer, and all such professors, teachers and servants, as may be necessary, and shall have power to displace any or either of them, as the interest of said institution requires; to fill vacancies that may happen, by resignation, or otherwise, among such officers and servants, and to prescribe and direct the course of studies to be pursued by said institution. |