Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That an act authorizing and requiring the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners to appoint an inspector of convicts approved March 29, 1889, and that section fifty-nine (59) and sixty (60) of a bill for an act to provide for the management of the penitentiary and convicts of the State of Arkansas, approved March, 1893, be and the same is hereby repealed, and all duties and powers heretofore belonging to and held by the prison inspector be and are hereby conferred on the superintendent of the penitentiary.

SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act take effect and be in force from and after May 3, 1893. Approved April 13, 1893.

ACT CLXXI.

AN ACT to enable justices of the peace to issue process to be served outside of their counties and for other purposes.

SECTION

1. In special cases the justice of the peace where there are two or more defendants living in different counties suit may be brought before any justice of the peace in the township of the county in which one of the defendants reside.

2.

The justice to have same power to issue subpoenas for witnesses in or outside of of his county.

5.

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 in any civil action cognizable before a justice of the peace where there are two or more defendants living in different counties, suit may be brought before any justice of the peace in the township of the county in which any one of the defendants reside, and summons or other process against such other defendant or defendants shall issue to any constable in the county or counties in which such

other defendant or defendants may reside, which summons or other process when served, shall give such justice before whom such suit is brought the same jurisdiction he would have if all of said defendants resided in his county.

SEC. 2. That justices of the peace shall have the same power to issue subpoenas for witnesses in civil and criminal actions pending before them and in preliminary examinations being heard by them, where such witnesses reside outside of their counties as is now given by law in similar cases to the circuit court.

SEC. 3. That the summons and other process mentioned in section one (1) and the subpoenas mentioned in section. two (2) shall be directed to and shall be served by any constable in the county in which the party or parties to be served reside, and constables are given as full powers to serve such process as they are now given by law to serve the process of justices of the peace of their own county. SEC. 4. That witnesses subpoenaed to attend justices court outside of their own county as provided in section two (2) shall have the same. mileage and per diem for attending such courts as is now provided by law in like cases in the circuit court, and they shall have the same right to demand and receive their mileage and per diem in advance as is now provided by law for witnesses subpoenaed to attend the circuit court,

SEC. 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and they are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 13, 1893.

ACT CLXXII.

AN ACT to cure defective conveyances and acknowldgements.

SECTION

1. To cure defective conveyances.

2. 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 all deeds, conveyances instruments of writing effecting or purporting to effect the title to the real estate which have been executed since the 18th day of March, 1887, and which are defective or ineffectual by reason of section one (1) of an act entitled “An act to render more effectual the constitutional exemptions of homesteads approved March 18, 1887,” be and the same, and the record thereof are hereby declared as valid and effectual as though said act had never been passed.

SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved April 13, 1893.

ACT CLXXIII.

and

AN ACT to amend section (4418), forty-four hundred eighteen of Mansfield's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas.

SECTION

1. Amends section 4418 of Mansfield's Digest. Time of commencement of suit. 2. 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 section four thousand and four hundred and eighteen (4418) of Mansfield's Digest be amended to read as follows:

Section 4418. All suits under this act shall be commenced within twelve (12) months from the time of filing the account or statement as aforesaid and not after and be prosecuted without necessary delay to final judgment.

SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 13, 1893.

ACT CLXXIV.

AN ACT to provide for the admission into the State Lunatic Asylum of insane persons other than such as are adjudged insane by county and probate judges.

SECTION

1. Superintendent of State Lunatic Asylum to admit certain persons to the Asylum. 2. Form of certificate.

3. Persons admitted under this act to be kept until restored.

4.

When persons are restored to reason, the superintendent shall notify the sheriff. 5. Repeals section 4557 of Mansfield's Digest, and other 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 the duty of the superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum to admit into said asylum upon the certificate of the judge before whom the case is pending upon presentment or indictment, any person that has been, or that may hereafter be acquitted upon a plea of insanity of the charge made in said presentment or indictment, or any person who has been, or who may hereafter be adjudged insane, as provided by law where such person has been held upon presentment or indictment and cannot be tried because of such insanity.

SEC. 2. The certificate of the judge mentioned in section one (1) of this act shall be signed by such judge officially and shall state that the person mentioned therein has been acquitted upon a charge of (naming the charge) upon the plea of insanity; or that such person has been presented or indicted and by reason of present insanity he cannot be tried.

SEC. 3. Any person admitted to the said asylum under the provisions of this act, shall be there then kept until restored to reason, which shall be ascertained as in case of other insane persons in said asylum.

SEC. 4. When any person confined in said asylum under the provisions of this act shall be ascertained to be restored to reason, it shall be the duty of the said superintendent to give notice thereof to the sheriff of the county in which the indictment or presentment against such person is pending, and said sheriff shall forthwith proceed to said asylum and take such person into his custody, and convey him to the jail of said county, or hold him in custody until admitted to bail or otherwise discharged according to law.

SEC. 5. That section 4557 of Mansfield's Digest and all other laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 13, 1893.

ACT CLXXV.

An ACT to amend section fifteen (15) of “An Act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war between the States," approved April 1, 1891, and to provide for the maintenance of the Soldiers Home for the two (2) years next ensuing.

SECTION

1.

2.

Amends section 15 of an act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war. Rate of taxation. How appropriated.

No money appropriated for one purpose to be used for another. 3. Penalty for violation.

4. Repeals all laws in conflict, and to be in force from April 1, 1893.

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

SECTION I. That section fifteen (15) of "An act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war between the States," approved April 1, 1891, be amended so as to read as follows: