served, only by such consolidation; such consolidation shall be made only upon condition that it shall be full and perfect to such an extent that the whole levee, embracing that part in each State, shall be considered and treated as a unit. In the board of levee directors of the consolidated levee district each county within levee district of the two States shall have equal representation, and the members from the two States shall have equal privileges and rights and the work shall be conducted under their management and supervision without regard to State line. Provided, That the board of directors of levee district in the St. Francis basin lying in the State of Missouri are enabled under the statutes of said State to enter freely and fully into said consolidation. If said consolidation be made the board of directors of said consolidated levee district shall be the legal successors of the board hereby created, and shall possess the rights, powers and privileges herein conferred upon the board of directors of the levee district herein created. Provided, That wherever the word "county" occurs as descriptive in this act, it shall be understood to mean that part or area of the county subject to overflow as defined in this act.

SEC. 22. That said levee board are hereby authorized to issue such evidence of indebtedness as may not be in conflict with the constitution of this State.

SEC. 23. That all laws of this State in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 24.

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This act shall take effect on and after its pas

"This bill having remained with the Governor five days, Sunday excepted, and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this

15th day of February, 1893." H. B. ARMISTEAD,

By E. B. JETT, Deputy.

Secretary of State.

ACT XX.

AN ACT to amend Section 1679 of Mansfield's Digest

SECTION

1. Amends Section 1679 Mansfield's Digest. Penalty for disfiguring public property. 2. Penalty for trespassing on school grounds.

3. Repeals all laws in conflict and act takes effect from passage.

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

SECTION I. That section 1679 of Mansfield's Digest be so amended as to read as follows:

To cut, write upon, deface, disfigure or damage any part or appurtenance or the inclosure of the State House, or any other building belonging to the State, or of any church or school house, or other public building, or to any citizen of this State, when not occupied, shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall, by any boisterous or other noisy conduct, disturb or annoy any public or private school in this State, or any person not a student who, after being duly notified to keep off the school grounds during the school hours by the board of directors or the superintendent or principal teacher in charge of any such school, shall continue to trespass or go upon said grounds, whether at recess or during the sessions of said school, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

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

Approved February 16, 1893.

ACT XXI.

AN ACT to make valid certain deeds of conveyance of married women and to require chancery courts to reform deeds of married women wherein certain mistakes are made, and for other purposes.

SECTION

1. Deed of married woman by power of attorney valid.

2. Chancery courts to reform deeds of conveyance of married women wherein mistakes occur.

3

Repeals all laws in conflict, and act takes effect from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That all deeds or other instruments of conveyance executed from and after the passage of this act by any married woman, through an agent duly appointed by her so to do, by power of attorney of record in the county wherein is situated the land conveyed in such deed or other instrument of conveyance, shall be as valid and binding on her, her heirs, assigns or legal representatives as if executed, signed and acknowledged by herself.

SEC. 2. That the chancery courts of this State shall reform'all deeds or other instruments of conveyance of married women which have been or may hereafter be executed and delivered to the purchaser wherein mistakes were or may made by be oversight in describing the property therein conveyed upon like conditions and to the same extent as if such married woman was a femme sole; provided, however, none of the provisions of this act shall apply to pending suits.

SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 16, 1893.

ACT XXII.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act for the Relief of. Certain Soldiers of the Late War Between the States," approved April 1, 1891.

SECTION

1. Amends Section 1 of an act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war Fixes the pension for certain grades of disability.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That section one of an act entitled "An Act for the Relief of Certain Soldiers of the Late War Between the States" be so amended as to read as follows:

PARAGRAPH 2. To such as have lost a foot or hand, seventy-five dollars per annum.

PAR. 3. To such as have been partially disabled by wounds other than the loss of a limb an amount shall be awarded at the discretion of the county board, who shall have the applicant, at his own expense, examined by a competent physician; provided, that in no case shall the amount exceed seventy-five dollars per annum or be less than twenty-five dollars per annum.

PAR. 4. To all indigent widows of Confederate soldiers and sailors whose husbands died or were killed during the war, who have remained unmarried, twenty-five dollars per

annum.

PAR. 5. That any soldier whose name has been placed on the pension roll and approved by the county and State boards and afterwards dies, his widow shall continue during her widowhood to receive the amount awarded her husband.

That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be repealed, and that this act be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 16, 1893.

ACT XXIII.

AN ACE to permit school directors to purchase necessary apparatus for public schools.

SECTION.

1. Allows school directors to expend $25 per year for apparatus.

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. The directors of school districts other than special school districts may expend annually, out of the common school fund, not more than twenty-five dollars during any one year for any school under their control for maps, charts, globes, dictionaries and other apparatus necessary to the progress of the school; provided, that said maps, charts, globes, dictionaries and other apparatus meets the approval of the State Superintendent, in price and merit. SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 16, 1893.

ACT XXIV.

AN ACT to determine the number of justices in each township.

SECTION

1. Provides for one justice of the peace for every two hundred electors.

2.

The general election next preceding to determine the number.

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

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

I.

SECTION 1. That hereafter each township shall elect, at each general election, one justice of the peace for every two hundred electors; provided, that each township, however small, shall have two justices.

SEC. 2. That in ascertaining the number of justices to be voted for and commissioned, the number of votes cast in