have a written order signed by either of his parents, or guardian, but each purchase must be accompanied by a separate order so signed. SEC. 3. Any minor violating this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five (25) nor more than one hundred (100) dollars. SEC. 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. This law to be in full force and effect sixty (60) days from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1893. ACT LXXI. AN ACT to regulate the selection of jurors in justices' courts in civil and criminal cases. SECTION 1. Cause for challenge if juror shall serve on a magistrate's jury within three months. 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. That in all cases before justices of the peace in this State, it shall be legal cause for challenge that any one selected as a juror has served as a juror in a justice's court in the same county within three months prior to the institution of the suit in which such juror is selected. SEC. 2. That all laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1893. ACT LXXII. AN ACT to amend section 581 of Mansfield's Digest. SECTION 1. Amends section 581 of Mansfield's Digest. Judgment conferring title a bar against any claim except in certain cases. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That section five hundred and eighty one (581) of Mansfield's Digest be amended to read as follows: The judgment or decree of the court confirming said sale shall operate as a complete bar against any and all persons who may hereafter claim said land in consequence of informality or illegality in the proceedings; and the title to said land shall be considered as confirmed and complete in the purchaser thereof, his heirs and assigns forever; saving, however, to infants, persons of unsound mind, imprisoned beyond seas, or out of the jurisdiction of the United States, the right to appear and contest the title to said land within one year after their disabilities may be removed; provided, that such decree shall not be valid for any purpose as against the owner of such land, his heirs or assigns, who was, at the time of such decree rendered, in actual possession of the same, unless he be made a party to such action by personal service of notice therein. SEC. 2. That this act be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1893. ACT LXXIII. AN ACT to amend section three thousand five hundred and fourteen (3514) of Mansfield's Digest of the statutes of Arkansas. SECTION 1. Amends section 3514 Mansfield's Digest. Guardians and curators shall loan money of their wards on unincumbered real estate. 2. Act takes effect from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That section three thousand five hundred and fourteen (3514) of Mansfield's Digest be amended to read as follows: Guardians and curators shall loan the money of their wards at the highest rate of interest prevailing in the community that can be obtained on unincumbered real estate security, and then not more than to the extent of one-half of the value thereof. The interest in all cases shall be paid annually, and if not then paid shall become part of the principal and bear interest at the same rate. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1893. ACT LXXIV. AN ACT to amend section 1700 of Mansfield's Digest. SECTION 1. Amends section 1700. Penalty for driving a wagon on or otherwise injuring a levee. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That section seventeen hundred (1700) of Mansfield's Digest be amended so as to read as follows: Any person who shall drive a wagon or other vehicle on any of the public levees or any private levee, without the consent of the owner thereof, using the same as a road bed; or who shall cut, tear down or destroy barricades, fence or other construction erected or built for the protection of any such levee, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than five nor more than thirty days or both at the discretion of the court having jurisdiction of same; provided, that such levees are constructed and maintained for the purposes of protection against overflow. Approved March 18, 1893. ACT LXXV. AN ACT to amend section 1 and 2 of an act entitled "An Act to lay off and establish that part of the St. Francis basin lying within the State of Arkansas into a levee district, and for protecting and maintaining the same, and to incorporate a board of levee directors for said district and for other purposes," approved on the 15th day of February, 1893. SECTION 1. Amend section 1 of an act to establish the St. Francis Levee District. Boundaries. 2. Certain named parties levee directors. To be body politic. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That section I of an act entitled "An Act to lay off and establish that part of the St. Francis basin lying within the State of Arkansas into a levee district, and for protecting and maintaining the same, and to incorporate a board of levee directors for said district, and for other purposes," be amended so as to read as follows: SECTION I. That all that part of this State known as a part of the St. Francis basin, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning on the left bank of the St. Francis river, at its confluence with the Mississippi river, thence in a northwesterly direction along said left bank of the St. Francis river to the southern boundary line of Lee county; thence west with said boundary line of Lee county to extreme high water line on the base or slope of high lands; thence in a northerly direction, with the meanderings of the said high water line to the north boundary line of Craighead county; thence east along said north boundary line to the west line of Mississippi county; thence north along said west line to the north line of Mississippi county: thence along said north line of Mississippi county to the Mississippi river; thence in a southerly direction, along the right bank of the Mississippi river to the place of beginning, containing all that area which has heretofore at any time, either directly or indirectly, overflowed by water from the Mississippi river, be and the same is hereby created and constituted a levee district. That section 2 of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. That J. P. Clarke, A. A. Horner and L. A. Fitzpatrick, of Phillips county, and H. P. Rodgers, D. S. Drake and H. N. Pharr of Lee county, and J. G. Stearn and James Fussell and R. J. Williams of St. Francis county, and J. F. Smith and S. A. Martin and F. G. Barton of Crittenden county, and John B. Driver and B. C. Springfield and B. A. Bugg of Mississippi county, and James M. Levesque and Thos. B. Smith and W. B. Rose of Cross county, and Ben Harris, J. B. Gantt and L. J. Collins of Poinsett county, and W. H. Cate and T. D. Culverhouse and J. W. Meade of Craighead county, be and are hereby each appointed levee director for the county in which he resides for the term of one, two and three years respectively in the order in which they are named, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The directors herein named and their successors in office shall constitute and are hereby declared to be a body politic and corprate by the name and style of the Board of Directors St. Francis Levee District, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have perpet |