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SUMMARY OF THE ACTS OF
The Arkansas Legislature
DURING THE THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION
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Appropriating $100,000 for mileage
and per diem of legislature.
Requiring all railroads to fence in
their right of way.
Conferring special powers on levee
district No. l, Conway county.
Creating fencing district in White
and Cleburne counties.
Organizing levee district in Little
River county.
Prohibiting growing of grass or
thistle on railroad right of way.
Fixing salary of county judge of
Mississippi county.
Appropriating back salary of X. Ot»
Pindall as acting governor.
Providing stock law for Hempstead
county.
Consolidating school districts in
Phillips county.
Creating drainage district in Mon
roe and Lee counties.
For the better protection of the
public peace.
Fixing salary of White county's
recorder and clerks.
Organizing Center Point special
school district in Sebastian county.
Providing for election of road over
seers in Clark county.
Providing for special road districts
In Carroll county.
Authorizing 4 per cent tax in
Hempstead county Levee District
No. 1.
Empowering and enabling Railroad
Commission to fight the railroads in
litigation.
Ratifying removal of convicts from
Arkansas Brick and Manufacturing
company.
Prohibiting intoxicants within 30
miles of Lincoln, Washington county.
Organizing levee district No. 2 in
Faulkner county.
Providing relief for school district
No. 23. Hempstead county.
Providing relief for school district
No. 319, Scott county.
Relating to the leasing of county
convicts.
Requiring county and probate
clerks to give bond.
Organizing the Crawford county
levee district.
Organizing the Rlue Mountain spe
cial school district, Logan county.
Increasing the powers of county
courts.
Prohibiting intoxicants within five
miles of Woodlawn church, Washing
ton county.
Requiring operation of trains daily
between Helena and Clarendon.
Fixing salaries of Fulton county
officers.
Providing for street and other im
provements by municipal corpora
tions.
For better protection of game in
Phillips county.
Consolidating county judge and
road overseers in office in Drew
county.
Organizing special school district
In Carroll and Benton counties.
Establishing Orton levee district in
Little River county.
Providing for the pension of J. M.
Whitlock.
Providing special election in Mis
sissippi and St. Francis counties for
levying road tax.
Forming Shady Grove special
school district in Faulkner county.
Providing salary for Twelfth judi
cial circuit stenographer.
Organizing Dumas special school
district in Desha county.
Authorizing McGehee special school
district to borrow money.
Authorizing Desha county coroner
to appoint deputy.
Placing certain llot Spring county
officers on salary.
Authorizing Parkdaie (Ashley coun
ty) special school district to borrow
money.
Fixing price of shares of joint stock
corporations at not less than S5.
Providing depository for Johnson
county and school funds.
Preventing sale of fish caught in
Hot Spring county.
Regulating service of summons on
foreign and domestic corporations.
Providing for four agricultural
■chools in Arkansas.
Prohibiting intoxicants within
five miles front Snowball (Searcy
oounty) public school house.
Increasing the salary of the Ne
vada county and probate judge.
Making disposition of road tax rais
ed in Van Buren county.
Providing for the suppression of
eight riding.
Changing time of holding probate
court in Marion county.
Authorizing IJttle River county
court to loan funds.
Separating sheriff and collector's
office of White county.
Changing time of holding chancery
court in Independence and Izard
counties.
Organizing Poe school district in
Van Burfn and Cleburne counties.
Paying reward for arrest of Field
Paschal.
Empowering Delight special school
district to borrow money.
Appropriating $30,000 for mileage
and per diem of legislature.
Creating Carden bottom levee dis
trict No. 2 in Yell county.
Formally accepting government ap
propriation for experiment station.
Protecting stock raising in l’hillips
Desha and Crittenden counties.
Regulating fees to be paid by sure
ty companies.
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Conferring additional powers on
cities of the first class.
Authorizing appointment of pauper
commissioner in Fort Smith district.
Increasing the salary of the Phil
lips county judge.
Giving Fayetteville four-fifths of
road tax collected in that city.
Prohibiting intoxicants within 10
miles of Smithville (Lawrence coun
ty) public school.
Protecting game In Bradley and
Dallas counties.
Authorizing Hamburg special
, school district to borrow money.
Creating fencing districts in John
son county.
Organizing Bigelow special school
district in Perry county.
Organizing Denning special school
I district in Franklin county.
Defining limits of special school
district of Arkansas City.
Prescribing rules for wire fence
construction in Conway and Howard
counties.
Creating fencing district in Hadley
township, Lafayette county.
Organizing drainage district in Lit
tle River county.
Authorizing Hope special school
district to borrow money.
Providing for the relief of Mrs.
O’Harman.
Making four-wire fence legal fence
in part of Crawford county.
Giving additional powers to Yell
county deputy prosecuting attorney.
Providing for better working of
public roads in Conway county.
Creating Bluffton special school
district in Yell county.
Organizing Desha-Drew special
school district.
Providing depository for Clark
county.
Requiring Western Union Tele
graph Company to keep operator at
Cabot.
Changing alleyways in Osceola.
Authorizing levee district No. 1,
Yell county, to issue bonds.
Organizing Hunter special school
; district, Woodruff county.
Curing irregularities in organiza
I tion of drainage district No. 1, Ash
i ley county.
Authorizing completion of Siloam
Springs electric light system.
Organizing Eudora special school
district in Chicot county.
To prevent and punish cruelty to
children.
Providing newspapers and stamps
for members of the assembly.
Authorizing a special term of the
Independence Chancery Court.
Authorizing the Booneville Special
School District to borrow money.
Conferring right to condemn prop
erty on Desha, Laconia and Linwood
i and Auburn Levee Districts.
Appropriating salary for Supreme
Court librarian.
Appropriating money to pay for
publication of amendments Nos. 9
and 10.
Appropriating for increase in sal
ary of Associate Justice Wood.
A stock law for Clark county.
1 Requiring corporations to pay em
’ ployes semi-monthly.
Providing bow county courts shall
! pay claims.
Requiring tile St. Louis and San
Francisco railroad to build a bridge
at Pocahontas.
Fixing the manner in which clerks
shall enter judgments and decrees.
Creating the Leslie Special School
District.
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Simms of Chicot county.
Authorizing the C’ousart Drainage
District to take in territory.
Repealing a special school district
act in White and Faulkner counties.
Validating the organization of an
Augusta improvement district.
Appropriating mileage and per
diem for certain officers and clerks
of the 1907 General Assembly.
Authorizing the Auburn and IJn
wood Levee District to issue bonds.
Fixing the salaries of Jackson
county officers.
Fixing rates for the Dardanelle
Pontoon Bridge and Turnpike Com
pany.
A fencing law for a certain part
| of Prairie county.
Amending act to enforce compli
ance with certain contracts.
Removing the disabilities of age
from Glen Williams.
A game law for Nevada county.
To prevent assignment of claims
| to avoid the Arkansas exemption
1 laws.
Providing a contingent fund of
I $iu,000 for the attorney general.
Legalizing certain aits ot Newport
i city council.
Creating a State Board of Embalrn
| ers.
Increasing the salaries of the cir
I cuit judges and chancellors to $'3,000
| per annum.
Appropriating funds for certain tax
assessors. •
Establishing a legal wire fence in
! St. Francis county.
Creating the Marvell Special School
| District.
Appropriating salary for teacher at
Arkansas School for the Blind.
Curative act for drainage district
j in Clay county.
Making train conductors peace of
'■ fleers to arrest intoxicated passen
! get s.
Making the town of Pocahontas a
1 road district.
Regulating rates for switching coal
cars.
Curative act for drainage and
ditching districts.
Creating the Hackett Special
School District.
Regulating Boards of Improvement
in cities and towns.
Giving irrigation companies the
right of eminent domain.
Permitting the construction of a
bridge across the Arkansas river at
or near Pine Bluff.
Settling a dispu.e between Drain
age Districts Xos. 3 and 4 in Jeffer
son county.
Fixing the salary of the stenogra
pher of the Eighth judicial circuit.
Creating the Woodson Levee Dis
trict in Saline county.
Regulating the sale of lightning
rods.
Creating the Earle Special School
District.
Creating the Bismark Special
School District.
Amending the Fourche Drainage
District act.
Curing defects in the organization
of Drainage Districts Xos, 1, 2, 3, 4,
5 and 6 in Poinsett county.
Closing a street in Lake Village.
Requiring the Iron Mountain to
stop trains at Klngsland.
For the relief of G. G. Dandridge
of Logan county.
Providing for the signing of writs
of error and bills of exception in
case the trial judge dies or goes in
sane.
Permitting persons over 60 years
of age to refuse jury service.
Regulating the assessment of rail
roads.
Giving city councils the right to
appoint members of improvement
boards.
Permitting St. Francis county to
feed county prisoners by contract.
Creating Sebastian-Crawford bridge
district.
For the relief of W. G. Lewis of
Hempstead county.
Authorizing a Siloam Springs Im
provement, District to refund bonds.
Ratifying an act of the Mena city
council.
Providing a legal fence for Lewis
township. Scott county.
Prohibiting use of the union label
without authority.
Creating the Plum Bayou Drainage
District.
Organizing the Tuckerman Special
School District.
For the discnarge of the capitol
commissioners, architect and Cald
well & Drake and creating an arbi
tration commission.
Legalizing the formation of an im
provement district at Hamburg.
Enlarging the powers ot*the Rail
road Commission.
Providing for a sinking fund for
a Crawford county levee district.
Authorizing a Dermott improve
ment district to borrow- money.
Providing a depository for Pope
ccunty.
Regulating primary elections in Ar
kansas.
Appropriating funds accruing from
fees derived from teachers’ examina
tions.
Curing defects in the creation of
cities of the second class.
Creating Womble Special School
District.
Providing depository for Logan
county funds.
Correcting error in Deaf-Mute In
stitute appropriation bill.
Supplying artificial limbs to Con
federate veterans.
Fixing salary of Searcy county
judge.
Authorizing election of mayors in
cities of the gefcond class.
Providing for election of road over
seers in Bradley county.
A nnrnnrinlinp mnnpv for StntP Hp
form School.
Providing excise tax on private
car companies.
Creating Martinville special school
district.
Organizing improvement district in
Portland, Ashley county.
Increasing salary of Randolph coun
ty and probate judge.
Increasing powers of corporation
to take change of venue.
Prohibiting intoxicants within
three miles of public school in dis
trict No. 52, Montgomery county.
Protecting culverts and bridges on
public roads. *
Providing sinking fund for levee
district in Crawford county.
Exempting certain wages of me
chanics from legal process.
Providing for election of marshal
at Russellville.
Providing for election of road over
seer in Logan county.
Amending act affecting school dis
trict No. 1, Arkansas county.
To regulate appeals in criminal
cases.
Forming special school district at
Bay Village.
Increasing salary of Prairie county
! judge.
Organizing El Paso special school
district.
Organizing Levee District No. 2,
Jackson county.
Controlling disposition of interest
on Washington county funds.
Requiring railroads to fence right
of way.
Regulating practice of medicine
and surgery.
Providing for working of convicts
on public roads.
Allowing cities to furnish gas for
compensation.
Regulating future formation ot
levee districts.
Making appropriations for the state
government expenses.
For the relief of School District No.
70, Yell county.
Providing for working of convicts
on roads in Garland county.
Providing for state fertilizer tax.
Granting Joseph A. Henley a pen
sion.
Providing depository for Perry
county.
Allowing fishing privileges In
Faulkner county.
Authorizing Ingalls School District.
Bradley county, to borrow money.
Organizing W'abbaseka Special
School District, Jefferson county.
Authorizing grant of lands at Eu
reka Springs to federal government.
Providing for the better care of
paupers in Clay county.
Appropriating money for the Uni
versity 0f Arkansas.
Annexing territory to Hartford spe
cial school district.
Providing tor ilic relief of John
Saurey and wife.
Prohibiting officers from bribing
legislators.
Revising special road tax act for
Washington county.
Creating depository for Scott and
Fulton counties.
Authorizing Memphis, Paris and
Guif Railroad to erect bridge.
Providing fine for failure of cor
poration officers to make statements.
Authorizing Drew county judge to
appoint certain school directors.
Regulating assessments of rail
roads.
Protecting fish in Madison and
Washington counties.
Regulating county taxation in Ma
rion county.
Enlarging privileges of graduates
of State Normal school.
Abolishing Varner court district in
Lincoln county.
Enlarging Antoine school district
in Pike county.
4mpnftinp flshinc taw in Lee COUn
ty.
Combining school districts in Con
way county.
Regulating election of road over
seers in Bayou Meto and Brodie town
ships, Pulaski county.
Providing depository for Calhoun
county funds.
Providing for vote on prohibition
in Independence county alone.
Prohibiting foreign corporations
from speculating in Arkansas lands.
Providing for analysis of clays and
survey of w'ater powers.
Giving additional powers tcj the
Arkansas Railroad Commission.
Providing fencing districts for Se
vier county.
Providing for organization of spe
cial school districts in country.
Providing for relief of school dis
tricst in Van Buren county.
Paying pension of S. M. Jacobs of
Alma.
Creating Arkansas Vicksburg Mili
tary Park Commission.
Appropriating $50,000 for railroad
rate litigation.
Authorizing Ixmg Prairie Levee
District to borrow money.
Authorizing erection of bridge at
Camden by county court.
Prohibiting toy pistols in the state.
Exempting township in Johnson
county from fencing law.
Fixing salary of Benton county
clerk.
Authorizing Casa School District of
Perry county to borrow money.
Extending boundaries of city of
DeWitt.
Creating office of tax colector in
; Boone county.
Dividing road district in Independ
ence county.
Appropriating $20,000 for Deaf
Mute Institute annex.
Providing for topographical survey
of drainage district in Clay county.
Requiring teaching of agriculture
in public schools.
For the relief of W. B. Thompkins
of Ola.
Making Black river lawful fence in
Randolph county.
Requiring construction of spur
| rtack at Many Islands.
Providing cork leg for Henry Dri
ver.
Defining boundaries of Pine Bluff
school district.
Repealing act creating Mena school
district.
Fixing salary of Sevier county and
probate judge.
Providing for issuance of certifi
cates of security to insurance com
panies.
Increasing pay of grand and petit
jurors.
Authorizing .Jacksonville school dis
trict to borrow money.
Amending Combs franchise tax act.
Permitting Lincoln county judge to
| appoint school directors.
Prohibiting Searcy county officers
i from speculating in scrip,
i 4 Creating Cotton Plant county and
j probate courts.
Making appropriation for Universi
ty experiment station.
Providing for work on public roads
and bridges.
Regulating payments of school
funds in Phillips and Lee counties.
Making penitentiary deficiency ap
proprlat ion.
Requiring railroad to build depot
; at Ogamau, Ouachita county.
Requiring erection of depot at Dut
ton, Madison county.
Regulating practice in White and
Lonoke chancery courts.
Requiring maintenance of depot at
Simms station, ltot Spring county.
Authorizing Chicot county judge to
i appoint school directors.
Exempting Scott county from ti h
ing law
Regulating time for appeals from
probate to circuit courts.
Changing burden of proof in pistol
carrying cases.
Authorizing Piggott school district
to borrow money.
Preventing sale of fish caught in
certain counties.
Providing special stock law for
Fr&nklia county.
To prevent the manufacture or Rale
of intoxicants In Woodruff county.
Protecting fish and game in Chicot
county.
Creating Vick school district In
Bradley county.
Vacating alley in Paragould.
Authorizing payment or pensions
to estate of deceased veteran.
Changing the cattle quarantine line
in regard to Jackson county.
Protecting fish and game in Clay
county.
Combining school district in Scott
and Logan counties.
Making the biennial appropriation
for the Reform School.
Allowing Sunday baseball in Hel
ena.
Providing for extension of improve
ment districts.
Authorizing Dormott to compel
sewer connections to be made.
Protecting girls under 18 years of
age.
Legalizing wire fence law in Faulk
ner and Conway counties.
Reappropriating money for Arkan
sas State Normal School.
Organizing Pettigrew special school
district in Madison county.
Protecting game in Mississippi
county.
Providing for compulsory education
in certain counties.
Creating Center Point school dis
trict in Logan county.
Fixing boundaries of Russellville
special school district.
Amending act creating cotton
weighers’ office in Howard county.
Providing for working of convicts
on roads in St. Francis county.
Requiring railroad to build cross
ing at England.
Abolishing road commissioners' of
flee in Lafayette county.
Making the general deficiency ap
propriation.
Prohibiting liquor near Leslie.
Protecting fish in certain streams
in Phillips county.
Making Arkansas National Guard
appropriation—$25,000.
Requiring railroad to build viaduct
at Mena.
Regulating voting on fencing laws
in Washington county.
Providing for care of Confederate
cemetery in Lonoke county.
Fixing the salary of Benton county
assessor.
Making biennial apprroplation for
Confederate Souliers’ Home.
Forming special school district in
Saline county.
Re-enacting the poll tax act.
Creating Jones special school dis
trict in Sevier county.
Empowering Phillips county court
to redistrict school districts.
Providing for election of road over
seers in Lonoke county.
Prohibiting liquor in Washington
county.
To create the London special
school district.
To establish a chair of pharmacy
in the University of Arkansas.
To declare Sulphur Springs in Ben
ton county a city of the second class.
Fixing salary of the stenographer
of the First judicial district at $1,500.
Fixing salary of the stenographer
of the Tenth judicial district at
$1,600.
Creating the TInsman special
school district in Calhoun county.
Authorizing the Fourteenth judicial
district in Conway county to employ
a stenographer.
Creating the Bartlett special school
district in Conway county.
For the protection of fish in Lee
county.
To regulate changes of venue in
civil actions.
Appropriating $101,620 for the
Blind School.
To enable School District No. 2 in
Monroe county to borrow money.
TV* nrnviHo fnr ..rn i <•;» f inn nf
the cattle fever tick.
To establish Special School District
No. 9 in Stone county.
To cure defects in the St. Francis
| Levee District act.
Appropriating $675,000 for the com
! pletion of the new state capitol.
Providing for the issuance of bonds
by the St. Francis Levee District.
Authorizing the St. Francis Levee
District to issue 1750.000 bonds.
To create the Arkansas History
Commission.
To protect the wages of railroad
employes.
Providing a salary for the clerk of
Searcy county.
Fixing the salary of the county
judge of Sebastian county at $2,500.
Creating Imboden school district.
Separating the office of adjutant
general and private secretary to the
governor.
Authorizing the Brinkley school
district to borrow money.
To regulate boards of equalization
in Stone and Searcy counties.
To establish a court of common
pleas in Chicot county.
To provide for the creation of
drainage districts.
To keep the chancery court in Se
vier county open the year round.
Appropriation for the maintenance
of the state penitentiary.
An act amendatory of the Wingo
j act of 1907.
Appropriating $60,000 to pay on
the state farm.
To require the Arkansas and West
I ern road to build a depot at Hon.
For the establishment of Insane
! Asylum No. 2.
To provide for a topographical sur
i vey in Randolph county
To amend 'he Charleston district.
| Franklin county, stock law.
i Apprepi iatiug $4,059 05 to pay the
| State Capitol Commission.
Giving river transportation contpa
nies the ri‘bt of emincn domain.
Providing for the completion ot
the state capitol.
Enlarging scope of act prohibiting
intoxicants within five miles of tb®
University of Arkansas.
Providing depository for Conway,
Hempstead and Pope counties.
Authorizing Ozark special school
district to mortgage property.
Prohibiting intoxicants within five
miles of Atkins public school.
Changing name of Alix Station to*
Denning Yards.
Requiring railroad to construct via
duct near Little Rock.
Authorizing Kison special school
district to borrow money.
Fixing salary of stenographer ot
the Eleventh judicial circuit.
Creating the Tinsman Special
School District.
Legalizing the acts of T. H. De
Clerk of Randolph county.
Providing punishment for wife de
serters.
Establishing a legal fence in Ne
vada county.
Providing county depositories for
Ashley, Bradley, Arkansas, Lafayette,
St. Francis and Columbia counties.
Appropriating $10,000 for the Brink
ley tornado sufferers.
Organizing School District No. 50,.
Faulkner county, into special dis
trict.
Establishing Bald Knob Drainage
District in White county.
Authorizing change of a viaduct
at Texarkana.
Regulating hunting in Stone coun
ty.
Allowing McNeil School District.
No. 37 to issue bonds.
Appropriating $25,000 for mileage
and per diem of legislators.
Prohibiting intoxicants near Grav •
ette.
Creating school district in Cleubrn®
county.
riuicuiiift ^auie in v/oiuuuii vwuw
ty.
Amending stock and fence law for
Hempstead county.
Fixing salary stenographer of
Ninth judicial circuit.
Creating Kelley school district Ik’
Perry county.
Regulating taking of appeals to
Supreme Court.
Fixing time within which liens
may be filed, making time shorter.
Combining two school districts In
Phillips county.
Providing for State Tax Commis
sion.
Appropriation for the State Hos
pital for Nervous Diseases.
To prohibit the obstruction of nac
ural drains.
Appropriating $10,000 for the eradt
ication of the cattle tick fever.
To amend the law relating to tb*
creation of cities of the second class.
To require the Iron Mountain to
build a viaduct at Mulberry.
To require railroads to pay prompt
j ly for live stock killed.
To regulate the platting of cities
| and towns.
Appropriating $19,500 for t be
lt ranch Normal School at Pine Bluff
To require railroads to maintain
hospitals in ArKansas.
j To require the Rock Island to ot»
j crate a passenger train each was
daily between Brinkley and Jackson
port.
To require the Rock Island anct
Iron Mountain to build a steel via
duct in Argenta.
INTO SERE AND YELLOW LEAF.
Eighteenth Century Women Seem bo>
Have Willingly Settled Down.
I In an English novel of the eigh
teenth century the author thus refers;
to a certain woman: “She had reaefwsdt
the age of 35, an age beyond which nca
woman can hope either to feel or In
spire deep affection." In one at
George Meredith's earfy novels he re
fers to a character as a woman “on
the criminal side of 30." A Boston
woman in the last century, after reach
ing the age of 30, put on, over her •
abundant natural hair, a false frowtsT
and a cap. These were the outward
and visible signs of the matronly tna
j turity she had reached. She gave up
at the same time all the gayer forms
j of social intercourse. She confined!
herself thereafter to the mild andt
elderly variety. She had “come out"
into Boston society at 15. After two. t
years of social gayeties she had mar
ried. At 30 she was the mother off
sight children. She had lived the ac
tiVe part of her life. In accordaace
with the conventions of her time ahe
settled down to a life of vegetating,,
domesticity. She was not an creep
tlon. She was the normal woman of
her day, registering Its customs, just
as a good thermometer registers the>
temperature.—Appleton's Magazine.
FEARED FOR NIECE’S FUTURE..
Peculiar Bent of Child’s Mind Dis
mayed Uncle.
“I hate to think it." grimly said.
Uncle Timrod Totten, “but I aia
, mightily afraid my little 10-year-old
niece, Luella, is going to cause a great
deal of worry and unhappiness in tho
world when she gorws up.” “What
makes ye think so?” asked old Squire
Belcher, who had come over to borrow
a whiftletree. “She seems to be a real
nice, thoughtful, good-tempered child,
now. “Well,” was the explanation,,
"t’other day, our gray gander got
tangled up in a discussion with the
shepherd pup, and when the fracus
was over there was skurcely a feather
left on the fowl. And little Luella.
took and dyked him out in a pair off
draw—pantaloons—and a chim—slip,
I mean—of white cloth sewed by her
own fair hands. And, somehow, 1 can't
helj fearing that when she attains
in appropriate age she will wear nose
I glass and seveial double-chins, and
j go crusading against all the common,
i and uni npoTtant indelicacies that hu
■ man iie.,h is heir to.”—Exchange