of the same effect and solidity as though they were the actions of all three; and in case of disagreement of valuation, when all three are acting, the judgment of any two shall be the rule: of appraisement.

SEC. 15. As soon as the president and directors of any com‐ pany incorporated under this act shall have completed their road, they shall give notice thereof to the judge of the county court through which said road passes, who shall appoint three discreet freeholders, not interested in said road, to view the road and to report to him in writing whether the same is completed in a workmanlike manner, according to the requisitions of this act.

SEC. 16. If such report shall be in the affirmative, it shall be the duty of said county judge, by his writing under the seal of his office, to permit the said president and directors to erect so many toll-gates on the road reported, as shall be sufficient for the collection thereon of the tolls allowed thereon according to section thirteen of this act.

SEC. 17. The president and directors shall then appoint toll gatherers thereon, to collect at each gate so erected, from the persons using the road, such toll as shall be allowed them.

SEC. 18. Each toll-gatherer may detain and prevent from passing through his gate, the person or persons subject to the payment of toll, until they shall have paid the toll allowed as aforesaid.

SEC. 19. No tolls shall be collected at any gate of any company incorporated under this act, in either of the following:

cases:

First-From any person or persons passing to or from public worship or a funeral.

Second-From any person going for a physician, nor from troops in the service of the state or of the United States.

Third-Nor from ministers of the Gospel.

SEC. 20. Every person who shall willfully break, cut down, deface or injure any mile stone or post on any turnpike road, or willfully break or throw down any gate or turnpike on any such

road, or anything thereunto belonging, or forcibly or fraudulently pass any gate thereon without having paid the legal toll: for each of such offenses the person or persons thus offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars, in addition to the damages resulting from his wrongful act, one-half of the fine aforesaid to go to the benefit of the school fund and the other half to the benefit of the corporation thus injured.

SEC. 21. Every person, in order to avoid the payment of the legal toll, who shall, with his team, carriage or horse, or with any thing else subject to toll, turn out of any such turnpike road or pass any gate thereon on ground adjacent thereto and again enter on such road, or without entering again on such road, if for the purpose of evading such toll, shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, one-half of which to go to the school fund and the other half to the corporation injured.

SEC. 22. Such road shall be constructed by the president and directors thereof not less than sixteen feet wide and with a good and substantial foundation.

SEC. 23. The corporations named in this act shall have the right to meet according to the provisions hereof, and make and adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem expedient for the transaction of any business required by them in the construction and keeping in repair such turnpike road, or for any other matter connected with their business not inconsistent with the provisions contained within this act.

SEC, 24. All laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 28, 1871.

Hot JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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Proposed amendment to the constitution, which, if adopted and ratified in the manner prescribed by article XIII, shall thereafter be substituted for and known as] article VIII. of the constitution of the State of Arkansas.

SECTION 1. The following class of persons shall not be permitted to register, vote or hold office in this state: Persons who may have been convicted before any court of this state or of the United States, or of any other state, of any crime punishable by law with death, or confinement in the penitentiary: Provided, That any person disfranchised under this section, who may be pardoned or his sentence commuted, such pardon or commutation of sentence shall remove all disabilaties imposed by this section; paupers, idiots and insane persons. 52

SEC. 2. Every male person who has attained the age of twenty-one years, and who is a citizen of the United States, or who has legally declared his intention to become a citizen thereof, who shall have resided in this state six months, and in the county in which he offered his vote ten days next preceeding the election, shall be deemed a qualified elector and entitled to vote, if registered, unless disqualified by some one of the clauses of section one (1) of this article.

SEC. 3. In all elections by the people, the electors shall vote by ballot. The secrecy of the ballot shall be preserved inviolate, and the General Assembly shall provide suitable laws for that purpose. On the day of an election held by the people no elector shall be subject to arrest on any civil process. The General Assembly shall pass adequate laws to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors on the day on which any election by the people may be held. Intities bas fizio ai soitt Approved March 10, 1871.daboutbatouts dons 9z0qory bi dredio to ffid yd moper of a striatatos Disé corpor

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That nothing contained in any provision of an act entitled "An act to remit the penalty of fifty per cent. for the non-payment of the taxes for the year 1870, or any provision contained in an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act remitting the penalty of fifty per centum for the non-payment of taxes for the year 1870,"" was ever intended or shall be construed to in any way effect the duties of collectors or other officers as to the mode and time for settlement with the county and state officers, except as to the taxes and penalty on such lands as now remain unpaid; and the penalty on such lands are only remitted conditionally on the payment of the taxes within sixty days from February 28, 1871, unless the state tax collected by the collector up to and including the twenty-eighth day of February, 1871, as shown by the books, and paid to the treasurer within the time prescribed by the revenue act; the auditor of state will proceed against said collector and his securities in the manner prescribed in existing revenue laws.

Approved March 10, 1871.

A joint resolution for the revision of the code of practice.

Resolved: That a committee of two be appointed in the senate and house of representatives respectively, and a citizen of the state learned in the law, to be selected by the other members of the committee, who shall examine the code of practice in civil and criminal cases in the State of Arkansas," and propose such amendments thereto as may be necessary and proper. Said committee to report by bill or otherwise at the

earliest practicable day: Provided, That this service shall be performed without expense to the state. Approved March 16, 1871.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: That this General Assembly of the State of Arkansas skall stand adjourned sine die on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of March, 1871, at twelve o'clock, noon.

Approved March 22, 1871.