given notice of such election four weeks by advertisement in one of the papers published in such corporation, or if there be no paper published in such corporation, by advertisement posted in two of the most public places in such corporation. If a majority of the votes cast on that question shall be in favor of throwing such territory outside of its corporate limits, the said corporation shall present to the County Court a petition praying for such change in its territorial limits, and the like hearing shall be had on such petition as is prescribed in the thirty-sixth (36) section of this act; and if the County Court shall be satisfied after hearing such petition, that a majority of the qualified electors of such corporation are in favor of the exclusion of said territory mentioned in said petition from within its limits, and that said territory to be excluded has been accurately described, and that it would be proper and right to grant such petition, it shall make an order excluding the territory in said petition mentioned from the limits of such corporation, and remitting it back to the county; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the County Court to make out a certified copy of such order, and to deliver it to the Recorder of his county, whose duty it shall be to record such order in the proper book of records in his office, and it shall also be the duty of such Recorder to make out and forward to the Secretary of State a certified copy of said record; after said record shall have been filed, and a copy thereof forwarded to the Secretary of State, said territory shall cease to be a part of said corporation; Provided, That the limits. of cities of the first and second-class shall not be reduced to a less area than they were on the first day of January, A. D. 1872.

SEC. 91. At the October term of County Court, and during said term, any person who may think himself aggrieved by the assessment of his property, may appeal to the same court and have the assessment corrected.

SEC. 92. Every appeal shall be in writing, and shall state specifically the ground of the appeal, and the matter or thing complained of, and no other matter shall be considered by the court than that set forth in the written appeal.

SEC. 93. The County Court shall hear and determine all appeals in a summary way upon evidence, and shall correct and adjust the assessment lists accordingly.

SEC. 94. The first division of chapter seventy-two (72) of

Gantt's Digest, embracing all the sections between thirty-one hundred and ninety-four (3194) and thirty-three hundred and thirty-two (3332), inclusive, are hereby repealed; Provided, That all territorial additions heretofore made to any city or municipal corporations under the provisions of sections 3318 to three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight (3328), inclusive, of chapter 72 of Gantt's Digest shall remain as they now are until otherwise changed in accordance with this act.

SEC. 95. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 9, 1875

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AN ACT to amend section 2981 of Gantt's Digest of the laws of Arkansas, and to repeal section 2983.

SECTION

1. Authorizes Governor to offer reward of $1000 in certain cases. 2. Repeals section 2983 of Gantt's Digest.

3. Act in force from passage.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That section 2981 of Gantt's Digest of the laws of Arkansas be amended to read: If any person charged with, or convicted of, treason, murder, rape, robbery, burglary, arson, larceny, perjury, counterfeiting, or any other felony within this State, shall break prison, escape, or flee from justice, or abscond or secrete himself in such cases it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall deem it necessary, to offer a reward not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars ($1000) for the apprehending and delivering of such person into the custody of such officer as he may direct.

SEC. 2. Section numbered two thousand nine hundred and eighty-three (2983) of Gantt's Digest, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved November 21, 1874.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of one thousand five hundred and seventyseven dollars ($1577) of United States currency now in the Treasury and not belonging to the interest fund, for the relief of W. E. Woodruff, jr.

SECTION

1. Makes appropriation.

2. Auditor to draw warrant on Treasurer for same.

3. Conflicting laws repealed, and this act in force from passage.

WHEREAS, During the late Brooks rebellion, W. E. Woodruff, jr., was authorized and requested by the late Governor, Elisha Baxter, to purchase and procure certain cannon, harness, and equipments for the benefit of the State; and,

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WHEREAS, Said Woodruff gave his individual obligation for seid purchase, upon which he has been sued and judgment rensaid petition from within its limits, and tha excluded has been accurately described, and the honor requires proper and right to grant such petition, it shal; therefore, excluding the territory in said petition mentionee of Arkansas : of such corporation, and remitting it back to the cave hundred and Seventy-seven ($1577) dollars now in the Treasury, in United States currency, and not belonging to the interest fund, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay so much of the said judgment against said Woodruff.

SEC. 2. That the auditor is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the sum herein mentioned in favor of said Woodruff, and therefore the State of Arkansas shall have credit to the amount of the same, with the said Woodruff upon his claim against the State herein mentioned.

SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this act take effect from and after its passage.

Approved December 10, 1874.

AN ACT to provide for holding a special term of the Pulaski Chancery

SECTION

1. Provides for special term.

2. Act in force from passage.

Court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State

of Arkansas, That a special term of the Pulaski Chancery Court

shall be held on the twenty-third (23d) day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874), and that the same shall continue as long as the business of said court may require.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from and after its passage.

Approved November 21, 1874.

AN ACT to be entitled an act to change the time for holding the courts in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and for empowering and requiring the Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit to hold a term of the Circuit Court in each of the counties of Clayton, Greene and Craighead.

SECTION

1. Fixes time of holding court in Sixth Circuit, in counties of Pulaski, Van Buren, Faulkner and Lonoke.

2. Authorizes Judge of the Second Circuit to hold special term in Clayton, Greene and Craighead counties.

3. Notice to be given by sheriffs.

4. Process returnable to term fixed by act.

5. Conflicting laws repealed, and act in force from passage,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of this State shall hereafter commence and be held as follows: In the county of Pulaski on the fifth Monday in November, 1875. In the county of Van Buren on the first Mondays in March and September in each year.

In the county of Faulkner on the second Mondays in March and September of each year.

In the county of Lonoke on the third Mondays in March and September of each year.

In the county of Pulaski, after the first term as fixed under this act, on the first Mondays in April and October in each year.

SEC. 2. That the Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit be and he is hereby authorized and required to hold a Circuit Court in the county of Clayton on the second Monday in December, 1874, and in the county of Greene on the third Monday in December, 1874, and in the county of Craighead on the first Monday in January, 1875, and it shall continue in each of said counties for one week, unless the business be sooner disposed of.

SEC. 3. The sheriff of each of the counties named in section. 2 of this act, shall give ten days public notice by posting hand

bills in each township, of the holding of said courts, as provided in said section.

SEC. 4. That all writs, process and proceedings returnable to any other term, shall be returnable to the term fixed by this act. SEC. 5. That all laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Aproved November 28, 1874.

SECTION

AN ACT to regulate the letting of public contracts.

1. Designates commissioners to superintend the letting of public contracts. 2. Who shall be chairman and secretary of Board; record of proceedings to be kept; two members to constitute à quorum; by whom contracts shall be approved.

3. When contracts shall be let by Board, and for what services and supplies. 4. Notice of letting of contracts to be given by Board; where and when bids to be received, and how addressed; when notice of all subsequent contracts to be given and how published.

5. Bond to be given by bidders.

6. By what rules Board to be governed in contracts for stationery, fuel, repairs,

etc.

7. Proposals for printing and binding; what same shall state and include.

8. Opening of bids and awarding of contracts; how awards to be made by Board; all may attend who choose and one person may take more than one contract.

9.

Board to notify successful bidders; how to proceed in case of failure of bidder to execute contract.

10. Maximum rates established in contracts for fuel, stationery, printing and binding.

11. Contractors to be allowed sufficient time to complete work.

12. Board may call experts in case of disputed accounts with contractors; pay of such experts. 13. Approval of printing account by Board; allowance for wastage; contractors to preserve copy of all work done and account for all advances by State ; penalty for private use of State paper, etc.

14. Binding contractor to be allowed reasonable time for delivery of work; settlement of account for binding by Board.

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15. Rules to govern concerning titles and covers of messages, documents and reports. 16. Secretary of State to furnish copy of laws and journals to printer; index to be prepared by printer, and proof reader furnished. What official reports and documents shall be printed for delivery with Governor's message to General Assembly; distribution of same; other printing of public documents to be by joint resolution, or by order of either house. 18. Number of acts and journals to be printed; printing of Digest and Supreme Court Reports prescribed; public and private laws to be separately printed.

19.

Heads of departments and Supreme Court Clerk may have blanks and records printed on their own requisitions.

20. All printing ånd binding to be done within the State.

21. Auditor may make advances to pinter on approval of majority of Board. 22. When documents are ordered printed by Legislature and no number designated, what number shall be printed at public expense.

23. On failure of printing or binding contractors to execute work on time, Board may let same to other parties.

24. Bills to be paid in United States currency.

25. Officers to procure stationery or printing from contractors; no money to be paid for work done in contravention of this section.

26. Auditor to draw warrants on approval by majority of Board.

27. Sections 4873 to 4887, Gantt's Digest, and all other laws in conflict herewith, repealed; this act in force from passage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : SECTION 1. That the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer of the State of Arkansas, shall be ex-officio commissioners to superintend