such process the time, place and court at which the parties to be served with such process are required to attend, and in all cases not necessary for the purposes of this act, the clerk shall style himself the Clerk of the proper Court or office of the County of Lawrence, and not as the Clerk of either district, as herein provided for.

SEC. 18. That all laws now in force in this State, not inconsistent with this act, for the government of the Circuit and Probate Courts, County offices and the institution of suits in civil and criminal cases, summoning, trying, impanneling and charging grand and petit jurors and the general disposition of all business shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, in full force in the Eastern District.

SEC. 19. That the Clerk of the County Court of Lawrence County shall keep two financial records, in one of which he shall keep a true and perfect record of the financial affairs of the Western District, and in the other he shall keep a similar record for the Eastern District. The financial affairs of each district shall be kept as separate and distinct as though the two districts were separate and distinct counties.

SEC. 20. That all revenue accruing to the County of Lawrence from the sale of forfeited State and county lands, liquor and ferry license, and from all other sources whatever, shall be used for the exclusive benefit of the district in which such arise.

revenue may

SEC. 21. That all money and all money derived from donations to the County of Lawrence from whatever source given to said county, shall be divided between the Western and Eastern Districts in the ratio of the number of inhabitants of each of said districts to the whole number of inhabitants of said county at the time the gift or donation was made.

SEC. 22. That the indebtedness of the County of Lawrence outstanding on the first (1st) day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight (1888), shall be

apportioned to the two Districts aforesaid in proportion to the assessed valuation of their taxable property as estimated by the assessment of A. D., one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (1887).

SEC. 23. That in making deposits of County funds with the County Treasurer, the Sheriff and Collector shall take his receipt specifying to which District said funds belong.

SEC. 24. That it shall be the duty of the Presiding Judge of the County Court, immediately after the passage of this act, to order and direct the Clerk of the Circuit Court to procure all such records as are necessary for the transaction of such business in the Eastern District of Lawrence County as is in this Act provided.

SEC. 25. That the Circuit, Chancery and Probate Courts of said Eastern District may be held, and all the business appertaining to said Courts be transacted in some house in the Town of Walnut Ridge, to be obtained by the Sheriff of Lawrence County for that purpose on or before the taking effect of this Act, until a permanent Court House can be erected. All judgments and decrees rendered in such temporary Court House shall be of full force and effect.

SEC. 26. That all laws and parts of laws in contravention with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect and be in force thirty days (30) from and after its passage.

Approved March 26, 1887.

ACT LXXXVI.

AN ACT to Amend Chapter 95 of Mansfield's Digest, Title, Levees and Cut-Offs.

SECTION.

1. Amends section 4364 of Mansfield's Digest, relatng to overflowed lands.

2. Amends section 4376 of Manfield's Digest. 3. Amends section 4378 of Mansfield's Digest. 4. Amends section 4384 of Mansfield's Digest. 5. Amends section 4385 of Mansfield's Digest. 6. Amends section 4386 of Mansfield's Digest. Amends section 4387 of Mansfield's Digest. 8. Amends section 4388 of Mansfield's Digest.

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9. Amends section 4595 of Mansfield's Digest.

10. Conflicting laws repealed and act in force from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of

Arkansas:

SECTION 1. That Section 4364 of Mansfield's Digest amended so as to read as follows:

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SECTION 4364. The County Court of the several Coun ties in this State containing lands subject to overflow divide the territory of their respective Counties subject to overflow into one or more Districts, having reference to the locality of the land and the character of the river front, including in each of said Districts, as near as possible, all the lands subject overflow from the same crevasses or direction, and which can be protected by the same systems of levees; Provided, That wherever it shall be made to appear in any way that there shall be land in two or more Counties subject to overflow from the same crevasses or direction and which can be protected by same system of levees, either County, by the consent of the County Court of the other County or Counties entered of record, may divide such territory of said County or Counties into a Levee District in the same manner as herein provided for territory wholly within such County, and the Court of said County shall have the same jurisdiction and power over the

lands and officers of said District as if the same were within such County.

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SEC. 2. That Section 4376 be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4376. Said lands shall be entered upon said books in convenient sub-divisions, as surveyed by the United States Government, with appropriate columns showing the names and residence of owners of said land, and of any person holding recorded liens or incumbrances thereon, if known to the Assessors; also, the number of acres cleared or uncleared, as nearly as said Assessors can ascertain without measurement, the value thereof as assessed by them without the work, and the value thereof as improved by the work. Provided, That no error in the description of said lands shall invalidate such assessment, if sufficient description is given to ascertain where the land is situated.

SEC. 3.

follows:

That Section 4378 be amended so as to read as

SEC. 4378. At such meetings the report and the estimates of the engineers and the assessments of the Assessors shall be laid before the landholders present, an estimate of the probable cost of said work and the probable rate per centum thereof on the valuation of said lands as increased by said work as will be necessary to pay for said work, shall be made known to the land holders present, and a vote shall then be taken whether the work shall be done; Provided, however, That no vote shall be taken unless a majority of the owners of said land, either by themselves or their agent or attorney, authorized to act for them, be present, and two-thirds of those present shall vote for said work.

SEC. 4.

follows:

That Section 4384 be amended so as to read as

SEC. 4384. Said Board of Assessors shall make an assessment of the cost of said work upon the land situated in said District benefitted by said work, and reported to said meeting of landholders upon the value of said lands as increased by

said work, and shall also make a list of said lands as assessed, showing the owner's name, the description of the land, the number of acres, the valuation thereof as increased by said work and the tax assessed thereon, and file the same in the Clerk's office of the County Court of such County, and shall also make a separate list thereof, including in each list all the land belonging to one person, which shall be signed by said Assessors, and the same shall be delivered to said Directors.

SEC. 5. That Section 4385 be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4385. Said assessment shall be a lien on said lands in the nature of a mortgage, and shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from thirty days after the filing the same in the County Clerk's office until paid.

SEC. 6. That Section 4386 be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4386. When said assessment list is delivered to said Directors, they shall elect a Treasurer for said Levee District, who shall give such bond and receive such compensation as from time to time may be fixed by said Directors, and if said assessments are not paid to said Treasurer within thirty days after the filing of same in the Clerk's office of said County, the said Directors shall in the name of such Levee District enforce the collection thereof by chancery proceedings in the Courts of the County in which said District is situated having chancery jurisdiction; and said Court shall give judgment against the owner of said land for the amount of said assessment and the interest thereon, and damages at the rate of ten per centum on the amount of said assessment, and also all the costs of said proceedings, and cause said lands to be sold by a Commissioner to be appointed by said Court. Said proceedings and sales shall be conducted in the manner that proceedings and sales are conducted in such Courts for the foreclosure of mortgages, except that such sales shall be made for cash; Provided, That said judgment shall not be in