pelled to serve as grand or petit jury. Any grand juror may be indicted by the grand jury of which he is a member; but when any complaint shall be lodged by a grand juror, the foreman shall inform the attorney for the state thereof; and if, on examination, there are grounds for proceedings against such juror, he shall inform the court thereof; and the court shall discharge such juror, and cause another to be summoned, if necessary.

No verdict shall be void or voidable because any of the jurymen fail to possess any of the qualifications required in this chapter; nor shall exceptions be taken to any juryman for that cause, after he is taken upon the jury and sworn as a juryman.

No physician, surgeon, practicing attorney, minister of any religious society, or person over sixty years of age, shall be compelled to serve on a petit or grand jury.

SEC. 408. (Amended 1871.) On failure of jury commissioners to select jury, sheriff to summon. If, for any cause, the jury commissioners shall not be appointed, or shall fail to select a grand or petit jury, as is provided in this chapter, or the panel selected shall be set aside, or the jury lists returned in court shall be lost or destroyed, the court shall order the sheriff to summon a grand or petit jury of the proper number, who shall attend and perform the duties thereof, respectively, as if they had been regularly selected.

SEC. 409. (Amended 1871.) No person compelled to serve on grand or petit jury more than one time in any one year. No person shall be compelled to serve as a grand or petit juryman, more than one time in any one year.

TITLE XIII.

Title XIII is hereby so amended as to read as follows:

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL

CODES.

SEC. 412. (Amended 1871.) Repeals all laws in conflict with it. All laws inconsistent with the provisions of the

criminal code are hereby repealed, but this repeal does not revive any statute or law that may have been repealed or abolished by the statute or law hereby repealed, nor does it affect any right already existing, or any proceeding already taken, except as provided in this code.

SEC. 413. (Amended 1871.) Codes to be digested, indexed and re-arranged. This act and the act known as the "Code of Practice in Criminal Cases in the State of Arkansas," as the same is amended, and of which this act is an amendment, and also the act entitled "Code of Practice in Civil Cases in Arkansas," approved July 22, 1868, as the same is hereby amended, and all amendments to each of said acts, shall be digested, indexed and re-arranged in a convenient and methodical manner, by the persons appointed and authorized to revise and digest the statutes of the state, under an act of the General Assembly, approved March 21, 1871, and the persons authorized by said act to digest and re-arrange the statutes shall incorporate in the said codes all statutes relating to practice in the courts of this state, not inconsistent with their provisions.

Approved March 27, 1871.

No. L.

A BILL to be entitled An act authorizing the bonding of the levee scrip of Phillips and Desha counties.

SECTION

PREAMBLE:

1. Duty of county courts of Phillips and Desha counties, as to issuance and delivery of new levee bonds; when to be issued and delivered, and to whom; for what amounts, rate of interest and when payable; when interest to be paid by county treasurer; due coupons receivable for levee interest tax, hereafter provided.

SECTION

2. County courts to keep register of bonds; to levy annually sufficient tax on property within levee district to pay interest on bonds.

3. Who shall sign bonds and coupons.

4. County courts to procure necessary blanks.

5. Act to take effect from passage; all conflicting acts repealed.

WHEREAS, By the provisions of the special acts of the General Assembly, approved February 16, 1859, and the act of January 15, 1861, to provide for the making and repairing levees in Phillips and Desha counties, a number of levee bonds and scrip were issued to levy contractors and laborers, and the said bonds and scrip is yet due and unpaid;

AND WHEREAS, The counties of Phillips and Desha are illy able to provide for the immediate payment of said levee scrip and bonds:

SECTION 1. Therefore, be it enacted that [by] the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That it shall be the duty of the county court of the respective counties of Phillips and Desha, at any time within one year from and after the passage of this act, to issue and deliver to the holder of any levee bonds or scrip a bond, with interest coupons, of said county, equal to the amount of the principal and interest of said levee scrip or bond, payable thirty years after the date thereof, with the interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum payable semi-annually on presentation of the due and past due coupons to the treasurer of said county. The due coupons attached to

said bonds shall be receivable in payment of the levy interest tax hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county courts to keep a register of the number and amounts of bonds issued under the provisions of this act, and shall annually, at the time the county taxes are levied, levy such a rate per centum. annually upon the lands and personal property, within the levy district of said county as will pay the interest on the bonds issued under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 3. The bonds provided by this act shall be signed by the judge of the county court and the county clerk. The coupons shall be signed by the county clerk.

SEC. 4. The county courts of the counties herein named shall procure the necessary blank bonds, to be prepared with the requisite coupons affixed thereto.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed,

Approved March 28, 1871.

SECTION

No. LI.

AN ACT for the relief of John Parker.

PREAMBLE:

SECTION

1. $500 appropriated; auditor to 2. Act in force from passage.

draw warrant.

WHEREAS, John Parker, while in the militia service of the State of Arkansas, during the year 1868, under the command

of Brigadier General R. F. Catterson, received an accidental shot which necessitated the amputation of one of his legs, and haying no means of subsistence, nor any education, and not being able to perform manual labor. Therefore, in order that he may obtain sufficient education as that he may procure a subsistence,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas:

SECTION 1. That the sum of five hundred dollars be appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the use of the said John Parker, and that the auditor be authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the said amount.

SEC. 2. That this act be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 28, 1871.

No. LII.

AN ACT entitled An act to authorize the Governor to appoint a state geologist to develop the mineral resources of the State of Arkansas, and

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State ·