directed to deposit in the office of the Secretary of State the records, original returns, and other official papers in their custody, pertaining to the elections held in this State on the thirtieth (30th) day of June and thirteenth (13th) day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874)

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the State supervisors of the said election, held on the thirteenth (13th) day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874), be allowed at the rate of six ($6) dollars per day for each day they were actually engaged in the discharge of their duties; and the Auditor of the State is authorized and required to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer, in favor of said supervisors, for the amounts found to be due to them, respectively, payable out of the appropriation made by the twenty-seventh (27th) section of the said schedule to the constitution of the State.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved November 17th, 1875.

No. XVII.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the Revenue Laws of the State," approved March fifth (5th), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five (1875).

SECTION

1. Amends section two of an act entitled "An Act to amend the Revenue Laws of the State," approved March 5, 1875.

2. Conflicting laws repealed, and when to take effect.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : SECTION 1. That section two, of the act entitled "An act to amend the Revenue Laws of the State," approved March fifth (5th), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five (1875), be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: For the purpose of raising a revenue to support the State gov

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ernment, paying the interest on the public debt, and the support of the common schools, a tax shall be levied on the taxable property of this State, as follows: For defraying the general expenses of the State government, and supplying deficiencies, there shall be levied for the fiscal year beginning on the first (1st) day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five (1875), and annually thereafter, five (5) mills on the dollar, and for the purpose of paying interest on the public debt three (3) mills on the dollar, and for the support of public schools two (2) mills on the dollar. There shall also be levied annually one ($1) dollar per capita on every male inhabitant, over the age of twenty-one (21) years, for school purposes.

SEC. 2. All laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved November 17th, 1875.

No. XVIII.

AN ACT to provide for Funding the Auditor's Warrants and Treasurer's Certificates, issued since the twenty-third (23) day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-four (1874).

SECTION

1. Auditor's warrants, and Treasurer's certificates issued since December 23, 1875, may be funded at par in the bonds of the State therein named. When to take effect.

2.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. The State board of finance is authorized to receive at par value any of the Auditor's warrants, or Treasurer's certificates, now outstanding, in payment for the bonds of the State, at par value, authorized to be issued by the act entitled "An act to provide means for paying the expenses of the State government, and to retire the outstanding Audi

tor's warrants and Treasurer's certificates," approved December twenty-third (23d), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874).

SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved November 17th, 1875.

No. XIX.

AN ACT to be entitled "An Act to Enlarge the Bounds of the Penitentiary

SECTION

Grounds."

1. Repeals the act of the General Assembly passed in 1873, entitled “An act for the benefit of the Arkansas Institute for the Blind," with certain. conditions.

2. Enlarges the grounds of the Penitentiary.

3. Conflicting acts repealed, and time when this act shall take effect. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : SECTION 1. The act of General Assembly, approved April twenty-third (23), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-. three (1873), entitled "An act for the benefit of the ArkansasInstitute for Blind," is hereby repealed; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere with any vested right of any private individual, acquired under or by reason of the provisions of said act.

SEC. 2. The following described property, to-wit: All of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section four (4), in township one (1) north, and range twelve (12) west, not hitherto donated to the Deaf Mute Institute; and the north half of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the said section four (4), that is to say, blocks numbers four hundred (400), four hundred and one (401), four hundred and fourteen (414), four hundred and fifteen (415), and fractional blocks A and B, of Lincoln's addition to the

city of Little Rock, together with the ten (10) acres west of and adjoining said blocks, shall be and are hereby attached to, and made part of, the grounds belonging to the State penitentiary, and shall be applied solely to the use and for the benefit the said penitentiary.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved November 18th, 1875.

No. XX.

AN ACT making an Appropriation to Procure a Confirmation of Lands donated by Congress to the State.

1. Appropriation, from funds specified, toward defraying expenses of procuring confirmation of lands donated by Congress to the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the following amounts be and the same are hereby appropriated to the Commissioner of State Lands, for the purpose of defraying in part the expense incurred in procuring the confirmation of lands donated by Congress to the State, viz: The sum of one hundred and ninety-five seventy-two one hundredths ($195.72) dollars from the internal improvement funds, the sum of thirty-six sixty-one onehundredths ($36.61) dollars from the seminary fund, and the sum of two hundred and forty-nine twenty one-hundredths ($249.20) dollars from the saline fund.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Auditor shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the amounts, and on the funds, stated in section one of this act, in favor of the Commissioner of State Lands, on application by that officer, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of said funds.

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SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved November 24th, 1875.

No. XXI.

AN ACT Requiring all State and County Officers to Procure their Commissions, and for other purposes.

SECTION

1. Officers requiring commissions, to forward fee within sixty days after election, and duplicate oath within fifteen days after receipt of commission.

2. Penalty of neglect to be vacation of office; Governor to cause vacancy to be filled.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That all State and county officers, both civil and military, who are required by law to be commissioned by the Governor of this State, are required to forward the legal fee for their said commissions to the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days after their election, and that they shall, after said commissions have been received, forward within fifteen (15) days their duplicate oath to the Secretary of State, to be by him recorded and filed in his office.

SEC. 2. That in case any such officer, elected or appointed and commissioned by the Governor, shall fail or neglect to apply for or procure his said commission from the office of the Secretary of State within the time above specified, or shall, after said commission shall have been obtained, fail or neglect to forward to the office of Secretary of State his duplicate oath, for record in said office, within the time above specified, then the office to which such person or persons were commissioned shall be deemed vacant, and the Governor of the State, on being satisfied from the official records of the office of Secre