PRIVATE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. Passed at the Session held at the Capitol, City of Little Rock, 1893. ACT I. AN ACT to authorize and empower the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas to admit Thomas Marion Seawel, a male citizen under the age of twenty-one years, to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law in the courts of this State. SECTION 1. 2. Authorizes the Supreme Court to license Thomas Marion Seawel to practice law. Act takes effect from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the Supreme Court of this State is authorized and empowered to admit Thomas Marion Seawel, a male citizen under the age of twenty-one years, to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law in the courts of this State. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 30, 1893. ACT II. AN ACT for the relief of Jasper Hutchinson, Sheriff and Collec. tor of Sharp county, Arkansas. PREAMBLE Recites the fact that certain sums of money were stolen from Jasper Hutchinson, sheriff of Sharp county, and that he was a poor man. SECTION 1. Appropriates $425.00 for Hutchinson's relief. PREAMBLE. WHEREAS, At the general election held on the first Monday in September, 1890, Jasper Hutchinson was elected to the office of sheriff and collector of Sharp county, Arkansas, gave bond as such, and entered upon the discharge of his duties. The court house of said county having some years previous been destroyed by fire, there is no vault in said county, nor a bank nearer than twenty-six miles in which to deposit the revenues of the county, said Hutchinson desiring to keep secure the public funds coming into his hands bought at his own expense, a fire proof Hall safe and placed the same in the clerk's office of said county, which is also used as a collector's office, in which he kept the State and county revenues while collecting. That on the night of April 26, 1892, the town of Evening Shade was raided by burglars, who entered the storehouse of J. P. Cochran & Son, bursted open an iron safe and took therefrom about $400 and the storehouse of William Price Co., bursted open one iron safe, and attempted to burst another, entered the clerk's office and bursted open the said safe of said Hutchinson and took therefrom about $425 in money and county scrip-the amount not known. Then entered the stable of W. C. Shaver, stole two horses and saddles and made their escape. Said Hutchinson and his deputies spent some two months time and about $300 in money endeavoring to capture the burglars, but after exhausting every theory, and making numerous arrests, wholly failed to capture the robbers, or recover any part of the money, and WHEREAS, Said Hutchinson is a very poor man, and the loss of $725 falls very heavily upon him, all of which he has sustained, and has fully paid over to the State of Arkansas all funds chargeable against him as collector; and the people of Sharp county, irrespective of party, have joined in a petition to the General Assembly, to enact a law for his relief, therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the sum of four hundred and twentyfive ($425) dollars (the amount actually stolen) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of said Hutchinson, and the Auditor of the State of Arkansas is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on said treasury in the said sum, in favor of said Jasper Hutchin son. SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 29, 1893. ACT III. AN ACT for the relief of John Franklin Robinson. PREAMBLE Recites the fact that Isaac James gave certain lands to John F. Robinson. SECTION 1. The State releases, relinquishes and quit claims said lands unto John F. Rob inson. 2. Act in force from passage, WHEREAS, it appears that Isaac James, late of Van Buren, did during his life time give to John Franklin Robinson, certain real estate property in the city of Van Buren, in the county of Crawford and State of Arkansas, and that the said James put the said Robinson in possession under and by virtue of a gift, and |