ner of section twenty-four (24) in township fifteen (15) north, range twenty-four (24) west; thence north on section line to the north-west corner of section eighteen (18) in township fifteen (15) north, range twenty-three (23) west; thence east on section line to the northeast corner of section eighteen (18) in township fifteen (15) north, range twenty-three (23) west; thence north with section line to the township lines dividing townships sixteen (16) and seventeen (17); thence west with township line to the range line as per jog; thence north with said range line to the Carroll county line. SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 4, 1893. ACT CXXIII. AN ACT to prohibit the sale or giving away of intoxicating liquors within five (5) miles of the St. Joe school house, in the town of St. Joe, Searcy county, Arkansas. SECTION 1. 2. Unlawful to sell or give away liquor within five miles of St. Joe school house. Wines for £acramental purposes excepted. Families may use. Physicians may prescribe. 3. Penalty for violation. 4. Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That hereafter it shall be unlawful to sell, give away, barter, loan or traffic in any way any spirituous, vinous, ardent, malt or fermented liquors or intoxicating liquors of any kind, or alcohol, or any compound or preparation thereof commonly called tonics or bitters within five (5) miles of the St. Joe school house, in the town of St. Joe, Searcy county, Arkansas, which school house is situated on the southeast fourth of the southwest fourth of section seven teen (17), township sixteen (16) north of range seventeen (17) west. SEC. 2. This act shall not prevent the use of wine for sacramental purposes, or preclude the use of any of the articles enumerated in section one in private families at their residence, or prohibit the prescribing and furnishing by regular practicing physicians to patients actually under their charge and treatment, any of the articles mentioned in section one of this act. SEC. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall for each offense be fined in any sum not less than two hundred ($200) dollars nor more thad five hundred ($500) dollars. SEC. 4. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 4, 1893. ACT CXXIV. AN ACT to provide for the improvement, support and maintenance of the Arkansas Industrial University. SECTION 1. Appropriates certain sums for support and maintenance of the Arkansas Industrial University. Debts cannot be contracted in excess of appropriation. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the following sums of money are hereby appropriated for the support, maintenance and improvement of the Arkansas Industrial University for the two years beginning April 1st, 1893, to-wit: FIRST. To pay for student labor, two thousand dollars ($2,000.00). SECOND. To pay trustees and expenses of board meeting, one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). THIRD. To pay for fuel, one thousand and eigh hundred dollars ($1,800.00). FOURTH. lars ($400.00). For postage and stationery, four hundred dol FIFTH. For insurance on building, two thousand and two hundred dollars ($2,200.00). SIXTH. For fencing and improvement of the Campus, two hundred dollars, ($200.00). SEVENTH. For a Chemical Labratory building, two thous and dollars ($2,000.00). EIGHTH. To pay salaries and all other necessary incidental and contingent expenses not herein expressly provided for, twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00); provided, that no appropriation made for any specific purpose in this act shall be made for any other purpose, and the power of contracting debts by the board of trustees in the absence of any appropriation is expressly prohibited. SEC. 2. passage. That this act shall take effect from and after its Approved April 4, 1893. ACT CXXV, AN ACT to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in mines, and providing for the inspection of the same SECTION 1. Owners or operators of mines to make accurate maps or plans of same and file the same with the county clerk and keep a copy in their office for inspection. When new maps shall be made and filed. 2. 3. 4. On failure to make such map inspector to make same. Escapements to be made. Time for making same. Ventilation to be provided for. Mines to be examined for fire damp. Ventilation, how produced. 5. Bore holes to be provided twenty feet in advance of working place. 6. Means of signaling to be provided and safe means of hoisting and lowering. 7, No person under fourteen or female of any age allowed to work in mines, nor a Engineers must be experienced Number of persons to ascend and 8. 9. Gates and bonnets to be furnished. Safety appliances for engine and gang-ways Governor to appoint mine inspector. 10. ities for examination of mines. Duties. Owners to furnish necessary facil Penalty for refusal. 11. Inspector to file complaint with circuit court for violations of act. Duties of judge in such cases. 12. Right of action for injury. 13 Misdemeanor to injure any of the appliance of a mine. 14. Necessary timber for props to be kept on hand. 15. 16. Weighman and check-weighman, and duties. Penalty for inspector to fail to do his duty. Proviso; only applies to coal mines and mines employing over twenty men, 17. Act in force ninety days from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. The owner, agent or operator of each and every coal mine in this State, employing twenty (20) or more men to be worked under ground, shall make, or cause to be made, at the discretion of the inspector of mines hereinafter provided for, an accurate map or plan of the workings of such mine, and every vein or deposit thereof showing the general inclination of the strata, together with any material deflections in the said workings, and the boundary lines of said mines, and deposit a true copy of said map or plan with the clerk of the county court of each county wherein may be located said mine, which said map or plan shall be so filed or deposited within three months after the time when this act shall take offect; and a copy of such map or plan shall also be kept for inspection at the office of the owner, agent or operator of said mine, and during the month of January of each and every year after this act shall have taken effect, the said owner, agent or operator shall furnish the inspector and clerk of the county court aforesaid with a sworn statement and a further map or plan of the progress of the workings of such mine, continued from last report to the end of the month of December next preceding, and the inspector shall correct his map or plan of said workings in accordance with the statement and map or plan thus furnished, and when . any mine is worked out or abandoned, that fact shall be reported to the inspector, and the map or plan of such mine in the office of the clerk of the county court shall be carefully corrected and verified. SEC. 2. Whenever the owner, agent or operator of any mine shall neglect, fail or refuse to furnish said inspector and clerk as aforesaid with a statement, map or plan or additions. thereto, as provided in first section of this act, at the time and in the manner therein provided, the said inspector is hereby authorized to cause an accurate map or plan of the workings of such mine to be made at the expense of said owner, agent or operator, and the cost thereof may be recovered by the inspector from such owner, agent or oper ator. SEC. 3. In all mines that are or have been in operation prior to the first day of January, 1893, and which are worked by or through a shaft, slope or drift, if there is not already an escapement shaft to each and every such mine, or communications between each and every mine and some other contiguous mine, then there shall be an escapement shaft or other communications such as shall be approved by the mine inspector, making at least two distinct means of ingress and egress, for all persons employed or permitted to work in such mines. Such escapement shaft or other communication with a contiguous mine aforesaid shall be constructed in connection with every vein (vien) or stratum of coal in such mine, and the time to be allowed for each construction shall not exceed ninety (90) days from the time this act takes effect, and such escapement shaft or other communication with contiguous mines aforesaid shall be constructed in a shorter time than ninety (90) days, if within the diseretion of the inspector it becomes necessary, and in all cases where the working force of one mine has been driven up to or into the workings of another mine, the respective owners of such mine while operating the same shall keep open a roadway not less than six (6) feet wide nor less than three (3) feet high, thereby forming a communication as contemplated by |