be taken and generally to do and perform all other acts and things which shall be found necessary and proper to be done in executing and carrying out the powers or duties herein granted or imposed.

SEC. 23. The said respective boards shall appoint a clerk of their respective boards who shall execute a bond in such sum as such board may require for the faithful performance of his duties. He shall keep a full and complete record of all the proceedings of such board in a well bound book to be kept by him for that purpose. He shall keep an account with the treasurer and draw his warrants on the treasurer for such sums of money as the board may direct, and the treasurer shall only pay money on warrants drawn by such clerk. The clerk shall keep a correct record of warrants drawn by him, showing in whose favor, on what account and upon what order of the board of inspectors the same are drawn and he shall not draw warrants except upon the order of the proper board of inspectors.

SEC. 24. The said board at their first regular meeting shall fix a place of meeting, which may be changed by them at any regular meeting, at which place the records of the said inspectors of the district shall be kept. The board shall by their orders, entered of record, direct what claims shall be paid, and their clerk to issue warrants for such allowances, and said inspectors shall sign the record of their proceedings at each meeting. The said clerk shall receive such fees for his services as are allowed by the board of directors. SEC. 25. No warrant shall be issued by any board of inspectors in excess of the taxes which they levy for that purpose under the provisions of this act will produce for one year, and any warrants issued by the board shall be receivable for taxes payable under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 26. The said board if on account of a deficiency of funds, are unable to progress with necessary work, they may make a list of such tax as is or will be due from one or more

land-owners subject to pay tax under this act, and transfer it to any contractor, in payment of such necessary leve work, who may file it with the collector of the proper county and when the collector collects the same, he shall not pay such tax so assigned or transferred, to the treasurer of the levee district collected for, but shall pay it to such contractor or his asassigns and take two receipts, one of which he shall file with the said board of inspectors, and they shall therefore give him credit for the same.

SEC. 27. This act is not intended to interfere with any present operation of former acts of any levee district in Jefferson or Lincoln county looking to immediate repairs, but their acts are in all things as to the lands contained in the same, done at their regular meetings are hereby confirmed. and in every respect legalized.

SEC. 28. That the inspectors shall in making the assessment of taxes provided for under this act fix that part of any railroad traversing said district which is subject to overflow or effected by it and shall place the same on the list according to the value fixed by the State railroad board provided by law for that purpose.

SEC. 29. At any election held under this act, any person may vote who is entitled to vote by a written proxy duly attested by an officer with a seal.

SEC. 30. This act is hereby declared to be the sole law upon the subject of which it treats, in the government of said district, and the taxation of the lands are under the purposes therein named except sections 1697, 1698, 1699 and 1700 of Mansfield's Digest, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

This bill having remained with the Governor five days, Sundays excepted, and the General Assembly being in ses sion, it has become a law this 16th day of March, 1893. H. B. ARMISTEAD, Sec'ty of State.

By E. B. JETT,
Deputy.

ACT LXVIII.

AN ACT to prohibit the sale or giving away of ardent, vinous or malt liquors in certain territory in Baxter county, Arkansas.

SECTION

1. Unlawful to sell or give away liquor within certain described territory around Mountain Home Baptist College. Except wine for sacramental purposes.

2. Physicians may prescribe under certain conditions. Affidavit.

3. Penalty for violating.

4. Act in force from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That it shall not hereafter be lawful for any person to sell or cause to be sold, give or cause to be given away, within the following described territory of the Mountain Home Baptist College, situated on a part of the northwest of the northeast of section nine (9), township nineteen. (19) north, range thirteen (13) west, to-wit: Beginning at the northwest corner of Baxter county, Arkansas, on the State line, running thence south on the line between Baxter and Marion counties to White river; running thence south with White river to the mouth of Big North Fork of White river; thence up the Big North Fork of White river to where the State line between Arkansas and Missouri crosses said Big North Fork; thence west with said State line to the northwest corner of Baxter county, the place of beginning, any ardent, vinous, malt or fermented liquors or any compound or preparation thereof, commonly called tonics, bitters or medicated liquors, in any quantity, except the same be for medical purposes as herein provided; provided, that nothing in this act shall preclude the use of wine for sacramental purposes.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That no person shall sell or cause to be sold, give or cause to be given away any vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any compound preparations thereof commonly called tonics, bitters or medicated liquors within the above described territory of said college, unless he be a regular practicing physician, and not until he has signed and sworn to an affidavit before the county clerk

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of Baxter county and shall have the same recorded on the county court records of Baxter county, which affidavit shall be in the following form:

“I, ——————, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a regular practicing physician; that I will not sell or give away any vinous, ardent, malt or fermented liquors to any one unless it be for actual medical purposes, and believe the kind and quantity will be beneficial in the treatment of the disease under which the patient is suffering."

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.

SEC. 3.

This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after it passage.

Approved March 16, 1893.

ACT LXIX.

AN ACT to authorize an exhibit of the educational system of the State of Arkansas at the Columbian Exposition and for other purposes.

PREAMBLE

Recites that director of the Columbian Exposition has set aside certain space for an educational exhibit.

SECTION

1 State Superintendent of Public Instruction authorized to make an exhibit. Necessary printing and binding to be done as other printing. Not to cost over $300.

WHEREAS, The director of the Columbian Exposition has set aside one thousand two hundred (1200) feet of space in the main building for the educational exhibit of the State of Arkansas, and

WHEREAS, AS it is important that said exhibit be as perfect as it can be made. Therefore.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansasc SEC. I. That the State Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to make said educational exhibit and all school officers and teachers are authorized and requested to co-operate with him.

All blanks, blank paper, binding of exhlbits, the printing of statistical charts and other necessary matters shall be printed as other printing and binding is done for the department of public instruction and under the contracts now in force; provided, that the cost of such printing and binding shall not exceed three hundred dollars ($300).

SEC. 2.

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

Approved March 17, 1893.

ACT LXX.

AN ACT to prevent minors between the age of eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21) from buying spirituous, vinous or malt liquors.

SECTION

1. Unlawful for any minor over the age of eighteen years to buy any liquors.

4. Repeals all laws in conflict and act in force from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That it shall be unlawful for any minor over the age of eighteen (18) years to procure from any saloon, dram shop or any barrel house keeper or attache thereof, any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or any compound preparation thereof called tonics, bitters, or medicated whiskey, without first informing said saloon, dram shop, or barrel house keeper or attache from whom he or she shall make such purchase that he or she is a minor.

SEC. 2. This act shall not apply to any minor who shall