No. XI. AN ACT authorizing the Governor to fill vacancies pro tempore in cases of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That in all cases of impeachment of any officer of this State, the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person to perform the functions of the office from which said officer is suspended, until the case of impeachment is disposed of by trial or otherwise, according to law; and the person so appointed shall receive the same salary and emoluments as the officer impeached. SEC. 2. That all Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 26, 1874. No. XII. AN ACT to provide for the removal of the County-seat of Desha County. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That at the time of electing delegates to the Constitutional Convention on the 30th of June, 1874, the qualified electors of the several townships of Desha county shall each elect Commissioners to locate the County-seat of said county. Mississippi and Red Fork townships shall elect two Commissioners; each of the other townships as now organized, shall elect one Commissioner each; said electors shall, at the same time, vote for or against the removal of the County-seat. SEC. 2. Such election shall be held by the same officers, and conducted in the same manner as provided for conducting the election for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, except that the said County Commissioners of Elections shall certify the returns to the County Clerk of said County. SEC. 3. If it appears from such returns that a majority of the electors voting, have voted for the removal of the County-seat, the Clerk shall issue his certificate of election to the Commissioners elected in the several townships, and fix a day, not more than sixty days from the day of election, for the Commissioners to meet at the Courthouse in said county. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of said county to notify said Commissioners of their election, and of the time fixed by the Clerk of their meeting. ques SEC. 4. That said Commissioners shall meet at the Courthouse in said county on the day fixed by the Clerk. A majority of said Commissioners shall constitute a quorum to do business, and a majority of a quorum shall prevail in all tions, and be deemed the judgment of the Commissioners; Provided, Said Commissioners may adjourn to some other place or time, or may adjourn from day to day, until the business before them may be completed. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said Commissioners to remove the County-seat of said county from Napoleon to such place in said county of Desha as said Commissioners may designate. SEC. 6. After said Commissioners shall have selected a location for the County-seat, they shall make a report to the Board of Supervisors of said county, showing where they have located the County-seat, and what donations have been made, either in land or money, and also such recommendation as to public buildings as they may deem advisable. SEC. 7. Said Board of Supervisors shall cause said reports to be spread upon their record, and proceed to erect such public buildings, in the manner now provided by law, as said Board of Supervisors may deem necessary; and when the necessary buildings are erected, said Board of Supervisors shall cause all the public records to be removed to such place, and from that time the place so selected by the Commissioners shall be the County-seat for said county of Desha. SEC. 8. The Board of Supervisors shall receive all donations made for the erection of the public buildings, and if land be donated the deed shall be made to the county of Desha, that said Commissioners shall have power to sell and convey such land in such manner, and on such terms, as they may deem best for the interest of the county. The Clerk of Desha shall, upon an order entered of record by said Board of Supervisors, make to the purchaser or purchasers a deed reciting the order of the Board, which shall pass to such purchaser all the right and title of said county to such lands so conveyed. SEC. 9. Said Commissioners shall be allowed for their services the pay now allowed by law to Grand Jurors. SEC. 10. In case of a vacancy or a failure to elect a Commissioner in any township, said Board of Supervisors shall appoint some citizen for the township where such vacancy exists, to fill such vacancy. SEC. 11. All Acts in conflict with this, be and the same are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 26, 1874. No. XIII. AN ACT to Change the Boundary Line between the Counties of Monroe and Prairie. SECTION 1. Boundary between the two Counties defined. 2. Portion of Monroe attached to County of Prairie. SECTION 3. Conflicting laws repealed. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : SECTION 1. That the middle of the main channel of White River, in township one south of the base line in township one north of the base line in range three west of the fifth principal meridian, be, and the same is hereby declared to be the boundary line in the said township between the Counties of Monroe and Prairie. SEC. 2. That all that territory in township one south of the base line, and in township one north of the base line, in range three west of the fifth principal meridian lying on the west side of White River, be, and the same is hereby, detached from the County of Monroe, and attached to the County of Prairie. SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. That this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 27, 1874. No. XIV. AN ACT to Prevent Frauds in the Disbursement of the Public School Fund, and for other purposes. SECTION PREAMBLE: 1. County Treasurers and Collectors not to be interested in school warrants. 2. District school tax in each county may be payable in trustees warrants. 3. Disposition to be made of contracts by and between trustees and teachers. 4. County Treasurer to keep record of all district school warrants; what such record to show. SECTION 5. Duty of County Treasurers on receipt by them of school funds. 6. County Treasurers to give notice to holders of school warrants, to have their wa: rants registered. 7. Penalty when officers fail to comply with requirements of this act. 8. Penalty on Trustees for fraudulent issue of warrants. 9. This act in force from passage, and conflicting acts repealed. WHEREAS, It is believed that gross frauds have been, and still are being, perpetrated by some of the Collectors and County Treasurers upon the revenues of the Common School Fund, and by their collusion, palpable and great injustice done to teachers of public schools in the disbursement of said funds; therefore, |