SEC. 4. All acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall go into effect from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1871. No. XVI. AN ACT for the relief of H. B. Williams, sheriff and collector of Hempstead county. PREAMBLE-REASONS FOR RELIEF: SECTION 1. Sheriff Williams relieved to certain extent; how to be credited by auditor. SECTION 2. Act in force from passage. WHEREAS, on the fourteenth day of January, 1871, J. L. Hill, deputy sheriff and collector of Hempstead county, was attacked by robbers on the public highway in said county, and was robbed of the sum of three thousand and seventy-one dollars and ninety-seven cents ($3071,97) of public revenue, in which robbery Elias M. Carruth, the assistant of said Hill, was murdered; and WHEREAS, no part of said sum of money has been recovered. Therefore, SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That Hewitt B. Williams, the sheriff and collector of Hempstead county, be relieved to the extent of said sum of three thousand and seventy-one dollars and ninetyseven cents, and that the auditor of public accounts credit him in his settlement of the revenue of said county for the year 1870, with the sum of one hundred and twenty-six dol lars, poll tax for school purposes; with the sum of three hun dred and sixty-three dollars and seventy cents, on account of state tax; with the sum of one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-eight cents, on account of school tax; with the sum of one hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty-five cents, on account of the sinking fund tax; and that the clerk of Hempstead county credit said sheriff and collector, in his settlement with him for the revenue of 1870, with the sum of three hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy cents, on account of county tax; with the sum of one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-eight cents, on account of the road and bridge tax; with the sum of one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-eight cents, on account of poor house tax; with the sum of eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-eight cents, on account of other county tax; and with the sum of seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents, on account of special school tax. M SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from and after its passage. No. XVII. AN ACT to locate the county seat of Sevier county at the town of Locks WHEREAS, There are some conflict of laws and irregular proceedings in locating the county seat of Sevier county at the town of Locksburg, in said county; and WHEREAS, there is a large and commodious court house and jail being built in the said town of Locksburg, in the county of Sevier, at a cost of thirteen thousand dollars. Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That the county seat of Sevier county be, and the same is hereby located in the town of Locksburg, in said county. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the county clerk and ex-officio clerk of the circuit court and probate court of Sevier county, and also ex-officio recorder of said county of Sevier, to remove all the record books and original papers in his office, and also the furniture thereof, to the court house in the town of Locksburg aforesaid; and all writs and process issued returnable to the court house in said county, shall be returnable to the court house in the town of Locksburg, and have day in court: Provided, That the town of Paraclifta, in said county, shall be the temporary county seat of Sevier county until the record books and original papers, as provided for in this act, shall be removed to the court house in the town of Locksburg. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1871. No. XVIII. AN ACT restricting county courts in the allowance of accounts in certain cases. SECTION 1. Power of county court to modify or reduce claims of justices for SECTION 2. Conflicting laws repealed; act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That whenever any justice of the peace in this state shall exhibit to the county court any account or claim for costs in any criminal prosecution, which may have been had before any such justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the county court to carefully examine such accounts or claims, and may, in their discretion, summon witnesses to enable them to ascertain the correctness and validity of such accounts or claims; and if, upon examination and investigation, said court shall be of opinion that such accounts or claims are extravagant, or are based upon frivolous, malicious or unauthorized prosecutions improperly allowed by any such justice, then the said county court may reduce, modify or wholly dis allow said claims or accounts. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1871. No. XIX. AN ACT to legalize certain proceedings had and done in the several probate courts of the State of Arkansas. SECTION 1. What proceedings of probate courts, under chapter four, Gould's digest, made legal. SECTION 2. Conflicting laws repealed; act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : SECTION 1. That all proceedings of the several probate courts of this state done in pursuance of chapter four (4) of Gould's digest of the State of Arkansas, since the eighth (8th) day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine (1869), and prior to the first (1st) day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (1871), under the supposition that said act was still in force, be and the same are hereby declared to be as legal and binding as though the said act had been a law at the time such proceedings were had and done. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby répealed, and this act be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1871. |