provided, that no such preference shall be set aside unless complaint thereof be made within ninety (90) days after the same is given or sought to be obtained. SEC. 4. When any chancery court shall obtain jurisdiction of any such insolvent corporations under the provisions of this act, it shall direct notice to be given to all the creditors of such coporations to present their claims within ninety (90) days thereafter for the purpose of sharing in the assets of such corporation. Approved April 14, 1893. ACT CXC. AN ACT to suspend the operation of sections four hundred and ninety-seven (497) to five hundred and nine (509) both inclusive, and sections five thousand eight hundred and eighty-six (5886) to five thousand nine hundred and fifty-five (5955) both inclusive, of Mansfield's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, in Union, White and Jefferson counties, in this State, and to authorize and empower the county courts of said counties to make all needful orders for the construction and repairs of bridges and turnpikes, and for the opening, repair and working of roads and highways in said counties, and to punish disobedience of the same. SECTION. 1. Suspends the operation of sections 497 to 509 inclusive, and sections 5886 to 5955 inclusive, of Mansfield's Digest, in the counties of Union, White and Jefferson. 2. County courts of said counties to make all necessary orders for roads and bridges 3. Penalty for violating orders of county court. 4. County convicts may be worked on the publie highways. 5. Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That sections four hundred and ninety-seven (497) to five hundred and nine (509) both inclusive, and sections five thousand eight hundred and eighty-six (5886) to five thousand nine hundred and fifty five (5955) both inclus ive, of Mansfield's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas be and the same are hereby suspended in their operation in the counties of Union, White and Jefferson in this State, and they shall not hereafter have any force or effect in said couuties. SEC. 2. That the county courts of said counties of Union, White and Jefferson be and are hereby fully authorized and empowered to make all orders which in their judgment and discretion shall be deemed needful for the construction and repair of bridges and turnpikes in said counties, and for the opening, repair and working of roads and bridges therein, and said courts shall have full power and authority to appoint overseers and such other persons as it may deem necessary to carry out and execute its orders and to enforce performance thereof by proceedings as in cases of contempt. SEC. 3. A wilfull disobedience of any lawful order of said court or a wilfull neglect or failure to obey the same whether by an overseer or other person duly warned under the orders of said court to work or perform labor upon the roads, highways, turnpikes or bridges of said counties shall be deemed a misdemeanor and punishable by fine of not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars to be recovered by prosecution before a justice of the peace of said county. SEC. 4. The county courts are further authorized and empowered to work county convicts on the public highways, turnpikes, bridges and public improvements whenever it may be deemed expedient and said county courts are further authorized and empowered to enter into contract with the State board of commissioners for the management of the State penitentiary for the labor of State convicts upon the public highways, turnpikes, bridges and public improvements of the county whenever in the judgment of the county courts it may be deemed expedient. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 14, 1893. ACT CXCI. AN ACT to amend section one (1) of an act entitled, "An act regulating the sales of the sixteenth (16) section and to provide for the collection of claims due the school fund arising from the sales of said sixteenth (16) section and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Amends section one (1) of an act regarding the sale of the sixteenth section. 2, Repeals all laws in conflict. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That section one (1) of an act entitled an act to ameend section one of an act entitled an act regulating the sale of the sixteenth (16) section and to provide for the collection of all claims due the school fund arising from the sale of said sixteenth (16) section, and for other purposes, approved March, 1885, be amended so as to read as follows: Whenever the inhabitants of any congressional township in this state shall desire the sale of the sixteenth (16) section of such township or of any lands substituted therefor or any which have been or may be mortgaged to the State of Arkansas for the use of the school fund and which after foreclosure and sale have been stricken off to the State of Arkansas they may by written petition signed by a majority of the male inhabitants of such township, require the collector of taxes of the county wherein such land is situated to sell the same. SEC. 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect on and after its passage. Approved April 14, 1893. No. 2. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, a majority of all the members elected to each House agreeing thereto, That the following article shall be proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the State of Arkansas, which, when agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House and adopted by a majority of the electors of the State voting at the next general election for senators and representatives, shall become a part of the said constitution, namely: Every male citizen of the United States, or male person who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the same, of the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in the State twelve months, in the county six months, and in the precinct or ward one month, next preceding any election at which he may propose to vote, except such persons as may for the commission of some felony be deprived of the right to vote by law passed by the General Assembly, and who shall exhibit a poll tax receipt or other evidence that he has paid his poll tax at the time of collecting taxes next preceding such election, shall be allowed to vote at any election in the State of Arkansas. Provided, That persons who make satisfactory proof that they have attained the age of twenty-one years since the time of assessing taxes next preceding said election and possesses the other necessary qualifications, shall be permitted to vote, and provided further that the said tax receipt shall be so marked by dated stamp or written endorsement by the judges of election to whom it may be first presented as to prevent the holder thereof from voting more than once at any election. Approved April 7, 1891. T. C. HUMPHRY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Attest: D. N. HALLIBURTON, Chief Clerk House of Representatives. Attest: JOHN W. HOWELL, Secretary of the Senate. Filed in the office of Secretary of State, this 16th day of January, 1893. H. B. ARMSTEAD, Secretary of State. By E. B. JETT, Deputy. |