quired to be sold by virtue of an execution issued out of the Circuit Court.

SEC. 58. Provided, Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the time as now fixed for the assessment for the year 1887, now begun, and there shall be no other assessment had for 1887, and this act shall take effect and be in force sixty days after its passage.

Approved March 28, 1887.

ACT XCIII.

AN ACT to Amend Section Four (4) of the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, Entitled "An Act to Restore to Market Certain Internal Improvement, Seminary and Saline Lands, Heretofore Sold on a Credit by the State." Approved March 26, 1885.

SECTION.

1. Amends an act to restore to market certain internal, improvement Seminary and Saline lands; Duty of State Treasurer or other officer; Attorney General to bring suit in Pulaski Chancery Court,

2. Duty of Clerk Chancery Court.

3. Rights of appeal.

4. Conflicting laws repealed; Act in force from passage.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That Section four (4) of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, entitled “An Act to restore to market certain internal improvement, Seminary and Saline lands, heretofore sold on a credit by the State," be amended so as to read as follows, viz.: Immediately after the expiration of the time herein specified for the surrender and cancellation of such notes or other record evidences of indebtedness, the Treasurer of the State, or other officer in whose custody there may be any of such notes or other evidences of indebtedness, shall deliver such notes or any such other evidence of indebtedness remaining unsurrendered and uncancelled, as provided herein, to the Attorney General of the State, taking his receipt for the same, and the said Attorney General shall, immediately thereafter, bring suit in the Pulaski

Chancery Court, in the name of the State, to enforce the lien of the State for the purchase money due upon the classes of lands mentioned in this Act. In bringing said suits it shall not be necessary to make the purchaser or purchasers or his or their heirs and legal representatives, or the occupiers of said lands, or any other person defendants, but the complaint shall pray that notice be given of the pendency of the suit as hereinafter provided, and the suit shall proceed as in actions in rem.

SEC. 2. When the bill has been filed, the Clerk of the Pulaski Chancery Court shall docket the case and shall make an entry thereof in his record of the proceedings of the Court, which shall state the general objects of the bill, and what lands it proposes to subject to foreclosure, and under whose purchase, the date of purchase, the amount of purchase money and the interest; a copy of this entry duly certified by the Clerk, shall be published by four successive weekly insertions, in a newspaper printed in Little Rock, and in a newspaper printed in the County in which such lands are situated, the last insertion of such publication being two weeks before the first day of the next term of the Chancery Court, the same being stated at which all persons interested shall take notice thereof. And to suits so begun and advertised, if no person shall appear and defend in his or their own right, the Court shall at the term after the notice has been given, as aforesaid, declare the lands subject to the liens of the State that shall be proved to extend over them, and enter a decree of foreclosure and sale.

SEC. 3. The right of appeal shall exist in favor of any party to said suits.

SEC. 4. That all laws and parts of laws, inconsistent with this Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, and this Act take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 30, 1887.

ACT XCIV.

AN ACT to Provide for the Republication of the Earlier Volumes of the Reports

of the Supreme Court of the State.

SECTION.

1. Provides for republishing volumes 1 to 27 inclusive, Supreme Court reports.

6. Appropriation to pay Annotator and for printing and binding reports.

7. Relative to stereotyping reports.

8. Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That the volumes of the reports of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, from the first to the twentyseventh inclusive, be republished, with annotations, to be made by some one learned in the law, to be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

SEC. 2. That said Annotator shall make full notes, showing in what respect the several cases reported have been overruled, modified or extended, by subsequent decisions of the Court, or Acts of the General Assembly. In reprinting them the Annotator is authorized to omit or abridge the briefs of counsel, where it is in his judgment desirable so to do. And he may include more than one volume of the original reports in a volume of the reissued reports, if he finds that to be desirable; but he shall star page the reissued reports, so as to conform to the pages of the original volumes, and shall index the reissued volumes.

SEC. 3. That the contract for the printing of said reports, and the number of volumes to be printed and published, shall be made and determined by the Board of Public Printing.

SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall dispose of said books when printed and published in the manner now prescribed by law; Provided, That each volume of the reissued reports shall

be sold for not less than twenty-five per cent. advance upon the actual cost of said printing and publishing, including the compensation of the Annotator.

SEC. 5. The Board of Public Printing shall not be governed by existing laws as to size and character of type, but shall be left to their own discretion as to the type used in the printing of said reissued reports.

SEC. 6. That said Annotator shall receive as full compensation for his services the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars to pay for the printing and binding of the said reports, and for the compensation of the said Annotator.

SEC. 7. The Board of Public Printing shall be authorized to have the form stereotyped and preserve the same for the use of the State; Provided, The same can be done out of the appropriation herein made.

SEC. 8. That this Act shall have force and take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 30, 1887.

ACT XCV.

AN ACT to Reorganize the Arkansas Industrial University.

SECTION.

1. Board of six trustees to be appointed; Governor to be ex-officio president.

2. Board to have the powers of a corporate body.

3. The board to appoint a secretary; also to perform the duties of treasurer; duties.

4. Powers of board of trustees.

5. Female beneficiaries.

6. Course of study.

7. Act not to prevent teaching of higher studies.

8. Faculty.

9. Salaries.

10. Board of trustees to make annual report.

11. Appropriation to build domitories for beneficiaries; Proviso: Other students may occupy

surplus room.

12. Appropriations for mechanical and agricultural departments; Proviso: Labor, as far as practicable, to be performed by students.

13. Proceeds from sale of products of agricultural and mechanical departments.

14. Appropriation to pay for labor of students in agricultural and mechanical departments. 15. Appropriation for maintenance of university for ensuing two years.

16. Repeals sections 3659, 3691, 3692, 3693, 3701, 3702, 3703, 3704 and 3705 Mansfield's Digest. 17. Act repeals only so much of other acts as are in conflict, and act in force from passage; Proviso: Reorganization not to interfere with the present scholastic session.

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

I.

SECTION 1. That the Governor of the State of Arkansas, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint, and there is hereby created, a Board of six Trustees for the Arkansas Industrial University, to be appointed one from each Congressional District, and one from the State at large, to be composed of members to be as equally divided as may be between agricultural, mechanical and literary pursuits of life, who shall hold their office for the term of two years from the date of their appointment, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, whose duty it shall be to superintend the reorganization of said University as hereinafter provided, and the carrying out of the provisions of this Act; and the Governor shall be ex-officio President of said Board and in all cases of tie votes shall cast the deciding vote, and in his absence the Board shall elect a presiding officer; Provided, a less number than a quorum may adjourn from time to time.

SEC. 2. That said Board is hereby made a body politic and corporate, and shall have all the powers of a corporate body, subject to the Constitution and Laws of the State of Arkansas, and possess all the power and authority now possessed by the Board of Trustees of said University under existing laws, and shall make and subscribe an affidavit before entering upon their respective duties, to faithfully, diligently and impartially discharge the duties of their office.

SEC. 3. At the first meeting of the Board of Trustees to be appointed under the provisions of this Act, said Board shall choose a suitable person to act as Secretary of said Board,