ACT XLVI.

AN ACT to Legalize to make Valid and Binding, the Acts of Deputy Clerks in Certain Cases.

SECTION.

1. Validates all official acts of Deputy Clerks of Courts of records under the age of twentyone years.

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

SECTION I. That all official acts of any Deputy Clerk of any Court of Record in this State, done and performed heretofore, such deputy being under the age of twenty-one (21) years, be and they are hereby legalized, and made as valid and binding as though such deputy had been at the time of the performance of such official acts, of full and lawful age.

SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after it passage and approval.

Approved March 8, 1887.

ACT XLVII.

AN ACT to Prevent the Sale or Giving away of Intoxicants within Three miles of Fourche Valley High School.

SECTION.

1. Prohibits the sale or giving away of intoxicants.

2 Penalty upon conviction.

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 Conflicting laws repealed and act in force from passage.

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

SECTION 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give away alcohol or any malt, fermented or intoxicating drinks, spirits or liquors of any kind, or any compound or preparation thereof called tonics, bitters or medicated liquors, within (3) three miles of Fourche Valley High School,

situated on the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter in section 36, township four (4) south, range twenty-three (23) west, in Yell County, Arkansas.

Sec. 2. Any person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 3 All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 8, 1887.

ACT XLVIII.

AN ACT to Prohibit the Sale or Giving Away of Ardent Spirits Within Three Miles of the Arkansas College, Independence County, Arkansas.

SECTION.

1. Unlawful to sell or give awav vinous or ardent spirits.

2. Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give away vinous or ardent spirits within three miles of Arkansas College, a chartered institution of learning, located in the town of Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas.

That this act take effect and be in force from and

SEC. 2. after its passage.

Approved March 8, 1887.

ACT XLIX.

AN ACT to Amend Section One of an Act to Amend Section Two of an Act to Establish two Separate Judicial Districts in the County of Craighead in the State of Arkansas, approved March 21, 1885.

SECTION.

1. Amends Section one of act to amend Section two, of an act, approved March 21, 1885. 2. Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That section one of an act to amend section two, of an act to establish two separate judicial districts in the County of Craighead and State of Arkansas, approved March 21, 1885, be amended to read as follows: That section five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), seventeen (17), eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), of township thirteen (13), north of base line, range six (6), east of the fifth principal meridian; and all that portion of Craighead County lying west of and including range five (5), shall compose and be called the Jonesboro District, and the residue of said county shall be composed, and be called the Lake City District.

SEC. 2.

That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 8, 1887.

ACT L.

AN ACT to Amend Section One of an Act Entitled "An Act to Define and Establish the Boundary Line Between the Counties of Crawford and Washington.

SECTION.

1. Amends section one of an act entitled "An act to define the boundary lines between the Counties of Crawford and Washington; approved March 9, 1881. Act in force from

passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of

Arkansas.

That section one of an act entitled “An act to define and establish the boundary line between the Counties of Crawford

and Washington ", approved March 9, 1881, be amended so as to read as follows:

SECTION I. That the following shall be the dividing line between the Counties of Crawford and Washington, and the same is hereby established, to-wit: Commencing on the boundary line between Crawford and Washington Counties, where the range line crosses the township line between townships twelve (12) and thirteen (13) north, thence due north one mile on the range line between ranges twenty-nine and thirty west, to the northwest corner of section thirty-one (31) in township (13) thirteen of said range west; thence due east on the section line to the northeast corner of section thirty-one (31) in said township (13) thirteen in range twenty-seven (27) west; thence due to the south-east corner of said last named section thirty-one, in range twenty-seven west; and all the territory lying north of said line is hereby detached from Crawford County and made part of Washington County.

That this act shall be in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 8, 1887,

ACT LI.

AN ACT Establishing a Levee District Comprised of that Portion of the Territory of the Counties of Clay and Greene, Lying Between the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad and the St. Francis River, and North of the Southern Boundary Line of Township Eighteen.

SECTION.

1. Establishes a levee district.

Provides for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners and Inspectors.

2.

3.

Board to elect President and Treasurer; duties defined.

4. How vacancies in the Board may be filled.

5. A majority of the Board to constitute a quorum; meetings.

7. Contract for building levee to be let at public outcry, after notice.

8. Contractors required to give bond.

9. Pay of Board of Inspectors.

10. Specifications for levee.

11. Tax for levee purposes; how to be collected.

12. If tax for 1877 be insufficient such tax levee may be continued from year to year.

13.

Collectors liable for taxes collected to Board.

14. How complaints may be made by aggrieved parties.

15. Taxes levied a lien upon the land upon which taxes are due.

16. Record to be kept and filed with Clerk of Clay County.

17. Oath of office of Inspectors.

18. Act in force from passage.

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

SECTION I. That all of that portion of the territory of the Counties of Clay and Greene lying east of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad and west of the St. Francis River, and north of the southern boundary line of Township Eighteen, be established and constituted a Levee District, for the purpose of constructing and building a levee sufficient to prevent the overflow of Stephen's Slough, on St. Francis River, in said County of Clay, and all other overflows of the St. Francis River or sloughs emptying in or heading out of the same from a point above said Stephen's Slough to the head of Bagwell's Lake in the County of Greene.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the County Court of Clay County be and is hereby authorized and empowered to designate three persons, citizens either of the County of Clay or Greene, who are hereby appointed and constituted a Board of Commissioners and Inspectors, who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified, as hereinafter directed, and said Inspectors shall, at an early day after the passage of this act, meet at the town of Rector, in Clay County, qualify, organize and proceed to discharge the duties required of them under this act.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said Inspectors to organize by electing one of their number President of their Board, who shall preside at all regular and called meetings of the board. They shall also elect one of their number Treasurer of the Board, who shall enter into bond in such sum as the board may require, with security, to be approved by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and that he