coln; and said recorder shall be paid for said services by the county of Lincoln, at the rates now allowed by law to recorders for similar services.

SEC. 19. Be it further enacted, That as soon as the county clerk of said county of Lincoln shall receive his appointment and qualify, he shall give notice thereof to the several county clerks of the counties of Drew, Jefferson, Bradley, Arkansas and Desha, who shall transmit to said clerk of the county of Lincoln certified lists of the lands lying in the several portions of the county of Lincoln which were stricken off from the said counties of Drew, Jefferson, Bradley, Arkansas and Desha respectively, together with the assessed value of each and every tract of said lands, as equalized by the state board of equalization; and from such several lists the clerk of the county of Lincoln shall make out the assessment lists and tax books for said county. The assessor of said county of Lincoln shall, immediately upon receiving his appointment and qualifying, proceed to assess the personal property and the value of improvements on real estate within said county, for the year 1871. Upon the application of the county clerk of said county, the auditor of public accounts shall have authority to extend the time for the performance of any of the duties required of the several county officers or the county court, relating to the assessment, levying or collecting of the taxes of 1871, in said county of Lincoln; and the taxes of 1871 within said county, shall be levied and collected by the court and officers of said county, and the county tax collected therein for said year shall inure exclusively to the benefit of said county of Lincoln. The lands delinquent for the taxes of 1870, lying within the county of Lincoln, shall be sold as prescribed by law, by the sheriff of said county; and to that end the several clerks of the counties of Drew, Jefferson, Bradley, Arkansas and Desha, shall transmit to the county clerk of the county of Lincoln, lists of such delinquent lands lying in the territory within said county of Lincoln which was stricken off from their respective counties.

SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 28, 1871.

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

SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of ninety-nine dollars and twenty-five cents, to Samuel H. Payne, of Sebastian county, Arkansas, for witness fees and traveling expenses incurred in obedience to a summons from the General Assembly of this state to appear as a witness in the impeachment trial of A. N. Hargrove, judge of the ninth judicial circuit court of this state, in 1866; and the auditor of state is hereby authorized and directed to draw a warrant on the treasurer for the amount of the above appropriation, in favor of Samuel H. Payne.

SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 28, 1871.

No. LXX.

AN ACT to remove political disabilities of citizens of the State of Arkan

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[1] Disabilities removed from persons named.

sas.

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2. Act in force from passage.

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

That the disabilities under the first, second, third and fourth subdivisions of section three of article eight of the constitution of the State of Arkansas, be and the same are hereby removed from the following named persons, to-wit: Z. P. H. Farr, James J. Jones, Samuel B. Moore, Robert G. Harris, Joseph Henry, William R. Vaughan, Anthony K. Gibbons, A. J, Kizer, Moses T. Watson, George W. Brown, Charles Ayliff, Jefferson Davis, Henry L. Fletcher, Alden M. Woodruff, William S. Brown, Mancel Stone, John G. Vaughan, Joseph M. Giles, Benjamin T. Giles, John Furguson, William Q. Pennington, James M. Pennington, Sterling H. Tucker, James W. Tucker, W. N. Morris, Ph. L. Anthony, James Robinson, John T. King, William A. Brown, Elias J. Garison, William C. Haynie, Thomas M. Wilson, Hugh McCaine, William J. Stone, Allen H. Hicks, P. A. Thomasson, William F. Pope, W. B. Sillivan, Jacob Ash, W. B. Calhoun, Isaac Crowson, James Lindsey, Bennett Adkins, J. C. Church, H. B. Henson, C. II. Croom, Phillip G. Mason, John Hardcastle, Antone Barraque, James Easom, J. M. King, John Brannon, N. W. Callicoatte, Allen A. Pittman, Morton G. Galloway, E. L. Beard, Benjamin Stillwell, J. M. Britton, J. P. Eagle, C. H. Hudson, F. S. Hobbs, S. F. Cottrell, R. M. Barron, R. W. Dorsey, James A. Skillern, A. P. Lancaster, O. P. Darby, Patrick Fenton, W. A. Campbell, J. A. Bradford, John Martin, J. G. Wilson, SamuelB. Sloan, E. P. Howell, R. J. Coleman, M. V. West, L. E. Ross, Charles Richardson, William Murrell, William Donnell, T. J. Alison, W. S. Brown, G. A. Skillerne, William H. Honia,

John L. Honia, S. W. Mitchell, T. P. Marsh, E. O. Clifford, James Clifford, J. S. Wilson, J. D. Pearce, John Corbett, P. S. Hoggard, W. D. Peebles, James C. Tappan, Robert Malony, Moses Culberhouse, B. F. Cross, Samuel A. Warner, Joel G. Wood, H. M. McVeight, John H. Gambill, Homer Parr, M. Rose, R. H. Fenling, L. B. Mills, T. C. Jones, James Martin, Joseph Pate, James Sterling, N. Hicks, E. S. Leggett, John L. Porter, W. H. Lenox, Asaph Neeley, E. T. Montgomery, H. C. Prewett, J. W. Montgomery, P. M. Quattlebaun, Edward Harper, Benjamin Izabell, John C. Dorris, A. H. House, J. B. House, J. H. Word, R. H. Poe, James M. Haley, Burrell Stewart, Frank Prewett, John Harrison, J. M. Greathouse, Archer D. Greathouse, Henry C. Green, John Crawford, James W. Lewis, James M. Coulter, William M. Wallace, A. J. Marsh, Burton H. Kensworthey, William D. Millwee, James F. Bell, Thomas Williams, Lewis H. Norwood, jr., Ezekiah Kensworthey, Joseph W. Barnett, Joseph J. Brooks, Larkin Bell, Jessa A. Falls, A. H. Hearn, John Hines, Gibson J. Jackson, James F. Lock, Warren P. McElroy, S. H. Millwee, James H. Russey, John E. Smith, Edward S. Smith, William F. Turrentine, David Turrentine, Archelus Turrentine, James Turrentine, James Clark, John Hudson, Benjamin Norwood, Lewis P. Jones, W. W. Garland, W. P. Bond, Thomas C. Miller, J. B. Hale, Benjamin Collins, William P. Chambers, T. N. Cothan, Ambrose IIudgins, J L. Hanes, Samuel J. D. White, Thomas J. Julion, S. M. Elliott, H. King White, Luke E. Barbour, William F. Smith, Robert F. Fuller, Freeman W. Compton, S. N. Flinn, D. C. Sparks, Larken Sellman, Spirous Rogers, sr., Jonathan Archer, Andrew Archer, Rufus K. Dawson, James II. Pallitts, sr., William Hunter, Thomas Roads, sr., Joseph Gray, sr., Louis Sealie, M. M. Duffie, P. H. Thomas, P. A. Smith, D. C. Moore, E. R. Buzbee, J. N. Kelley, Arnold Syberg, Henry C. Green, Irwin Lewis, John Crawford, Joseph T. Tomney, William Johnson, J. A. Rowles, Harman Bishop, William H. Fields.

SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 29, 1871.

No. LXXI.

AN ACT for the relief of certain persons who have erroneously paid money into the common school fund.

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1. Who are entitled to receive credit for money paid into treasury on account of school fund; what petition necessary; petition to be in writing, and within certain time; from what moneys to be refunded.

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2. Conflicting acts repealed; this act in force from passage.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That any person who has paid, in lawful money of the United States, any interest which accrued on any debt due the common school fund of any county, between the first day of January, 1862, and the first day of January, 1866, shall be entitled to receive the same back, or to receive credit on subsequent unpaid indebtedness to the same fund, upon a petition to that effect to the board of commissioners of the common school fund, by a majority of the taxable adult inhabitants of the township on account of which said interest was paid: Provided, Such petition shall be submitted in writing within twelve months from the passage of this act: And provided further, That such interest shall only be refunded and paid back out of moneys received from the township, within or on account of which the interest was originally paid.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 28, 1871.