No. XX. AN ACT to create the county of Nevada, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Defines boundaries of county and designates its name. 2. Place of temporary seat of justice. 3. Governor to appoint all county and township officers; term of office of same. 4. Governor to appoint commis sioners to locate permanent seat of justice, same to be near center of county; authority of commissioners prescribed to purchase or receive lands, lay out same into town lots, sell same and make deeds, and pay proceeds into county treasury; how said proceeds to be first applied; commissioners to accept bids and let contracts for public buildings; county court to furnish plans; commissioners to take oath of office before entering on duty; compensation and how paid; county court to fill vacancy; majority of commissioners to constitute quorum. 5. When first county court to be held; duty of sheriff to give notice, and how; when regular term to be held thereafter, of county and probate courts. 6. When and how courts of Hemp stead, Ouachita and Columbia counties to ascertain what portion of indebtedness is chargeable to Nevada county; transcript to be transmitted to clerk of Nevada, to be submitted to the county court, and if found correct to be entered of record as the debt of said county. SECTION 7. Duty of administrators, executors and guardians residing in those portions of the county formerly belonging to the counties of Hempstead Ouachita and Columbia. 8. Duty of sheriff as to judgments rendered or executions issued from courts in Hempstead, Ouachita or Columbia counties against citizens formerly residing in said counties. 9. Duty of clerks of Hempstead, Ouachita and Columbia coun ties as to making assessment list and furnishing same to clerk of Nevada county, of taxable lands falling in limits of said new county; duty of clerk of Nevada county to fle the lists furnished, and the same to be the assesment list for said county, until next general assessment in other counties. 10. Compensation of clerks of Hempstead, Ouachita and Columbia counties for making assessment lists, to be paid by Nevada county. 11. Duty of clerk of circuit court of Nevada county in criminal cases now pending in circuit courts of Hempstead, Ouachita or Columbia counties when the defendant resides in the county of Nevada; transcripts, etc., by clerks of Hempstead, Ouachita and Columbia required by clerk of Nevada county, to be paid for by last named county. SECTION 12. Right of parties in the county of Nevada, in civil cases, to obtain transcripts of the records of Hempstead, Ouachita or Columbia counties, to be recorded in the county of Nevada; party obtaining transcript to give opposite party notice, and to pay the cost of transfer. 18. Senatorial and representative districts to remain unchanged until next apportionment, as though county of Nevada had not been created; electors to vote as heretofore; registration lists of voters in said county, made under laws of the state, must show the senatorial and representative districts in which voters reside; book to have spaces for that purpose; election and registration laws enforced as in other counties, except herein provided. as SECTION 14. Governor to fill vacancies in 15. Services required by this act to 17. County of Nevada in second strued as interfering with 19. County court to name the county seat when permanently located. 20. Laws in conflict with this act repealed; act to take effect frem its passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : SECTION 1. That all that portion of the counties of Hempstead, Ouachita and Columbia included within the following boundaries, viz: Beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Little Missouri river, where the line between sections fifteen (15) and sixteen (16), in township nine (9) south of range twenty-three (23) west, crosses said river, thence down the middle of said main channel to a point where the line between ranges nineteen (19) and twenty (20) west crosses said river, thence south on said range line to the southeast corner of section twelve (12), in township fifteen (15) south of range twenty (20) west, thence west on the south lines of sections twelve (12), eleven (11), ten (10), nine (9), eight (8) and seven (7), through township fifteen (15) south of ranges twenty (20), twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22), to the southwest corner of section ten (10), in township fifteen (15) south of range twenty-three (23) west, thence north on the west lines of sections ten (10) and three (3) in said township, and of sections thirty-four (34), twenty-seven (27), twenty-two (22), fifteen (15), ten (10) and three (3), through townships fourteen (14), thirteen (13), twelve (12), eleven (11), ten (10) and nine (9), to the point of beginning, be and the same is hereby formed into a separate and distinct county, to be known as and designated the county of Nevada; to have, enjoy and exercise, as a body politic and corporate, all the rights, priviliges and immunities of a separate county. SEC. 2. The temporary seat of justice of said county shall be at Mt. Moriah, until located as hereinafter provided. SEC. 3. The Governor shall appoint all county and township officers in said county of Nevada, who shall hold their respective offices until their successors are appointed, or elected as is now or may hereafter be provided for by law, at the next general election of the same class of officers in other counties. SEC. 4. The Governor shall appoint three commissioners for said county of Nevada, whose duty it shall be to locate the permanent seat of justice for said county as near the center thereof as an eligible location may be found, and for that purpose shall have authority, under the direction of the county court, to receive or accept and to purchase land in the name of the county, whereon to locate the seat of justice and for other, purposes for the benefit of the county, and to lay out the lands so received or purchased into town lots, to sell off said town lots at public sale thereof after thirty (30) days' notice of such sale, and to make all necessary deeds or other instruments to convey to purchasers the interest of said county in such town lots, the proceeds of which sales shall be paid into the county treasury; and shall be applied first toward the erection of public buildings.Said, commissioners shall also, under the direction of the county court, accept bids and let contracts for the erection of such public buildings as may be necessary in said county, the plans and specifications for which shall be adopted and furnished by the county court. Said commissioners, before proceeding to the discharge of their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully discharge the duties incumbent on them, and shall each receive as compensation for his services two dollars per day for the time actually employed, to be paid out of the county treasury; and should any one or more of the commissioners refuse to act, die, resign or remove from the state, the county court shall appoint some suitable person or persons to fill such vacancy: Provided, That a majority of said commissioner shall constitute a quorum to do and transact business. ་ Snc. 5. Within thirty (30) days after the clerk and sheriff“ of said county shall receive their commissions and qualify, a county court shall be held, the sheriff having given ten (10) · days notice in each township of the time of holding said court, and personal notice to each justice of the peace in said county; and, on the first day of said court the justices in attendance shall elect two of their number as associate justices, to assist in holding said court, as nov provided by law; and thereafter the regular terms of the county court for said county shall be held on the first Mondays of February, May, August and November, in each year, and the probate courts of said county shall be held on the second Mondays of February, May, August and November, of each year; and the salary of the county and probate judge of said county of Nevada shall be five hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the several county courts of Hempstead, Ouachita and Columbia, to ascertain the exact amount of the indebtedness of each county at the date of the passage of this act, and to ascertain what portion of said debt would fall to the inhabitants of each county, now included in the county of Nevada, making said estimates from the assess-ment lists filed by the assessor for the year 1870; which said amounts and apportionments of indebtedness, with a copy of all records and proceedings therein, shall be transmitted by the clerks of said courts to the clerk of the county court of Nevada county, who shall lay the same before the county court of Nevada county, at its next session thereafter; and if found correct by said court, the same shall be entered of record in the record and proceedings of the county court of said county, and the same shall thenceforward become and be the debt of said county of Nevada, to be paid by the inhabitants thereof, and owners of property therein, in such manner and at such times as the said county court of the county of Nevada may determine. SEC. 7. All administrators, executors and guardians, residing in said county of Nevada, and who had, before the taking effect of this act administered on any estate or taken on him or her or them, the execution of any last will and testament, or any guardianship of any minor or minors, resident within said Nevada county, may procure from the clerks of the probate courts of said counties of Hempstead, Ouachita or Columbia, a transcript of the record of their respective cases, and the papers belonging thereto, and file the same in the office of the clerk of the court of probate of Nevada county at any time after the organization of said new county, and before final settlements; and shall thereupon proceed to make settlement of their respective administratorships, executorships and guardianships, according to law, and be subject to the same penalties that they would have been in the counties of Hempstead, Ouachita and Columbia, before the taking effect of this act. SEC. 8. All executions which may have been issued upon any judgment rendered in any of the counties of Hempstead, Ouachita or Columbia, previous to the taking effect of this act, against any person or persons, residing in the county of Nevada, shall be directed to the sheriff of the county of Nevada, which shall be proceeded with by him in the same manner as if judgment had been rendered in the county of Nevada, |