SEC. 5. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with the use of wine for sacramental purposes, nor with the right of citizens to use spirituous, vinous or malt liquors within their families and at their private residences.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 12, 1887.

ACT VIII.

AN ACTto Repeal "An Act to Require the Construction and Maintenance of Chutes or Aprons to Facilitate the Passage of Fish over Dams and other Obstructions in the Streams of this State." Approved April 6, 1885.

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

SECTION I. That an act entitled "An Act to require the construction and maintenance of chutes or aprons to facilitate the passage of fish over dams and other obstructions in the streams of this State," approved April 6, 1885, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2.

That this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1887.

ACT IX.

AN ACT to Change the Time of Holding the Circuit Court in Newton County.

SECTION.

1. Changes and fixes anew times for holding the Circuit Courts in Newton County.

2. Business pending in said court shall stand for hearing at times specified for the holding of said court.

3. Repeals all laws in conflict, and act in force from passage.

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

SECTION 1. That the Circuit Court of Newton County shall convene on the last Monday in January and July of each year, and continue for two weeks unless the business shall be sooner disposed of.

SEC. 2. That all business pending in said court shall stand for hearing at the times specified for the holding of said

court.

SEC. 3. That all laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 12, 1887.

ACT X.

AN ACT to Fix the Time for Holding Elections in Cities of the Second-class.
SECTION.

1. Fixes time for election of Mayor, City Marshall, Recorder, Treasurer and Aldermen for Cities of the Second-class; Mayor and Aldermen to compose City Council.

2. Repeals conflicting laws and Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That the qualified voters of cities of the secondclass shall, on the first Tuesday in April, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and on the same day every two years thereafter, elect one Mayor, one City Marshal, one Recorder, one City Treasurer, and for each of the wards of any such cities, two Aldermen, which Aldermen together with the Mayor shall compose the City Council.

SEC. 2. That all laws or parts of laws providing for elections in said cities, for the offices named in section one, at other and different times, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1887.

ACT XI.

AN ACT to Amend the Law Relative to Sabbath Breaking.

SECTION.

1.

Prescribes manner of observance of the Sabbath.

2. Repeals all conflicting laws and act in force from passage.

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

SECTION 1. That no person who from religious belief keeps any other day than the first day of the week as the sabbath shall be required to observe the first day of the week, usually called the Christian Sabbath, and shall not be liable to the penalties enacted against Sabbath breaking: Provided, That no store or saloon shall be kept open or business carried on therein on the Christian Sabbath; and, Provided, further, That no person so observing any other day shall disturb any religious congregation by his avocations or employments.

SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1887.

ACT XII.

AN ACT to Reduce the Salary of County and Probate Judge of Independence County.

SECTION.

1. Fixes salary of County Judge of Independence County hereafter elested; to be paid as heretofore.

2. Act takes effect from passage.

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

SECTION 1. That any Judge of the County and Probate Court of Independence County hereafter elected shall receive the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) per annum as full com

pensation for his services as such County and Probate Judge, to be paid in like manner as the salary of County and Probate Judges is now paid.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1887.

ACT XIII.

AN ACT Authorizing Owners of Land sold to the State under An Act Entitled "An Act to Enforce the Payment of Overdue Taxes," approved March 12, 1881, in some Instancesto have said Sales Cancelled, and in others to Redeem their Lands Therefrom.

PREAMBLE.

Recites certain irregularities in overdue tax sales.

SECTION.

1. Requisites of petition for redemption of lands sold under overdue tax laws.

2. Commissioner may require other evidence.

WHEREAS, Ist.

Lands have been sold to the State under proceedings purporting to have been had in the courts of this State by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly thereof entitled "An Act to enforce the Payment of Overdue Taxes," approved March 12, 1881, when the taxes for the alleged nonpayment of which such lands were so sold under said proceedings and decrees of said courts, had been in fact paid prior to any such sales, proceedings or decrees of said courts; and,

Whereas, 2d. Also the lands of many other persons were under like proceedings and decrees aforesaid had, by virtue of said act, sold to the State, when the owners thereof had paid such lands of their own,

taxes which they supposed were on

but which taxes so paid, owing to an erroneous description in

the numbers of the same afterwards were ascertained to be on other lands than their own, and their lands sold to the State as aforesaid; and,

Whereas, 3d. Said overdue tax act was a novel proceeding in this State that was productive of hardships in other respects, and it is but just to them that the owners of land at the time of such sale to the State, should have a limited time to redeem the same therefrom, without loss to the State, provided said lands shall not have been sold by the State prior to any such application to redeem; now, therefore,

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

SECTION I. At any time before the lands herein referred to have been sold by the State, the owner or owners thereof may present their petition to the Commissioner of State Lands, setting forth the evidence of their title, or of those under whom they claim, to said lands, at the time of the sale of the same to the State as herein stated, and the evidence of the taxes having been paid on the lands before such sale to the State, for the years for the alleged non-payment of which taxes said lands were sold to the State under any proceedings or decrees rendered under said act to enforce the payment of overdue taxes, and the facts set forth shall be sworn to by the petitioner and such oath shall be attested by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County, or some Notary Public of the County and State in which such petitioner resides, or before the Cominissioner of State Lands.

SEC. 2. The Commissioner may require other evidence than the petition to establish the facts therein set forth, and the petitioner may take proof by affidavit or otherwise, as the Commissioner may prescribe.

SEC. 3. If the Commissioner finds the facts set forth in the petition to be true, and that the taxes on said lands had been paid by the said present owner or owners of said lands, or by those under whom they claim the same for the years.