Fifteenth-To pay rent of Governor's mansion, the sum of twelve hundred ($1200) dollars per annum. Sixteenth-To pay for fuel and lights for the General Assembly and state offices, the sum of fifteen hundred ($1500) dollars per annum. Seventeenth-To pay for postage and stationery for the use of the various departments of the state government, the sum of seven thousand five hundred ($7500) dollars per annum: Provided, That all bills chargeable against this appropriation shall be itemized and certified to be correct by the officer incurring the expense, and in addition shall file as a sub-voucher the original account, certified or receipted by the person from whom purchased. Eighteenth-To pay secretary of state for copying the acts of the present session of the General Assembly, furnishing the same to the printer, reading the proof-sheets thereof, and distributing said acts, the sum of one thousand ($1000) dollars. Nineteenth-To pay salary of physician of the penitentiary, the sum of one thousand ($1000) dollars per annum. Twentieth-A sufficient sum to pay special judges of Supreme Court, not to exceed fifty ($50) dollars for each case decided, to be certified by the clerk of the Supreme Court. Twenty-first—A sufficient sum to refund moneys which have been, or may hereafter be, erroneously paid into the state treasury. Twenty-second-A sufficient sum to refund moneys erroneously paid into the state treasury on account of swamp and overflowed lands, to be paid out of the fund for which the same was collected. Twenty-third―To pay rent of offices of the superintendent of public instruction, the commissioner of public works and internal improvements, and the attorney general, the sum of fifteen hundred ($1500) dollars per annum. Twenty-fourth-To pay salaries and contingent expenses of the Deaf Mute Institute, the sum of six thousand ($6000) dollars per annum, and to pay each pupil now in and those that may be received hereafter in Deaf Mute Institute, three hundred and ten ($310) dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly; and that the principal of said institute be required to keep a list of all applications for admission, in their numerical order, and that said applicants be received in said order, without restriction on account of race or color: Provided, That the auditor shall issue one warrant, in the name of some of the officers of the institute, for the full amount due all such pupils at such time: Provided further, That the sum of ($3000) be appropriated for the purpose of paying the deficit of the past two (2) years. Twenty-fifth-To pay current expenses of the Arkansas Institute for the Blind, the sum of twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars per annum; also, six thousand ($6000) dollars to supply deficiency from January 1, 1871, to July 1, 1871. Twenty-sixth-To pay the salaries of the Arkansas Institute for the Blind, the sum of six thousand ($6000) dollars per annum, and three thousand ($3000) dollars to supply deficiency from January 1, 1871, to July 1, 1871. Twenty-seventh-A sufficient amount, not to exceed fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars per annum, to pay for the state printing. Twenty-eighth-To pay the per diem and mileage of the presidential electors for the year 1868 and 1872, the sum of two thousand ($2000) dollars. Twenty-ninth-For the Supreme Court library, five hundred ($500) dollars per annum, to be drawn whenever the Supreme Court may direct. Thirtieth-For repairs on the state house and protection of property on state-house grounds, the sum of five thousand ($5000) dollars per annum. Thirty-first-A sufficient amount to pay deficits on account of registration of the qualified electors of the state. Thirty-second-For the state library, the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars. Thirty-third-To pay additional salary of the treasurer of state, under act of January 10, 1851, the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars per annum, to be paid out of the internal improvement fund. Thirty fourth-A sufficient amount to pay the salary and all expenses of the adjutant general's office. Thirty-fifth-To pay the per diem and mileage and expenses of members and officers of the General Assembly of this state repairs on Senate chamber and hall of the House of Representatives, the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand ($115,000) dollars: Provided, That it shall be the duty of the auditor to draw his warrant for the several amounts due the parties named in the thirty-fifth paragraph of this section upon the passage of this bill. Thirty-sixth-To pay balance due the militia for services rendered during martial law in the year 1868 and 1869, the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars. Thirty-seventh--A sufficient amount to pay balance due state land agents.. Thirty-eighth-To pay for the construction of a building for the Arkansas Deaf and Mute Institute, the sum of four thousand ($4000) dollars. Thirty-ninth-The sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty ($1750) dollars, to pay actual and prospective deficits to the 30th of June, 1871, in the appropriation heretofore made to pay special judges of the circuit court. Fortieth-That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the payment of any of the sums enumerated in the several subdivision of this section, should the office for which the same may be or is herein made and appropriated be abolished by the present session of the General Assembly: Provided, That all officers of this state whose salary and clerk hire is herein provided for shall perform all the duties of their offices required of them by the state, without any additional perquisites or fees from the state. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1871. No. XXIV. AN ACT to provide for a complete digest of the statute laws of the state. SECTION 1. Governor to appoint person forthwith to digest the statute laws; duties of person so appointed as to digesting and revising the laws. 2. Digester to submit his work to some person appointed by the Governor for examination, and if approved and certified to be correct, to hand same to public printer; duty of printer as to printing same; duty of secretary of state as to contract for binding; disposal of the copies of digest when completed, and the duty of the secretary of state as to the same. 3. Duty and responsibility of digester as to the printing of digest. SECTION 4. What acts and laws shall not be embraced in the digest. 5. What documents to be published 6. Each chapter to have concise 8. Governor to fill vacancy occur- 9. What kind of paper and type to be used, and general execution of work. 10. Sufficient sum appropriated to defray necessary expenses. 11. All acts in conflict repealed, and this act to take effect from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. The Governor of the State is hereby authorized and directed to appoint forthwith one suitable person, learned in the law, whose duty it shall be to revise, re-arrange and digest the statute laws of this State, both civil and criminal, except the civil and criminal codes of practice, approved July 22, 1868, already published in a separate volume, and to place the same under appropriate heads, with proper references and a complete index. The revision herein directed shall not be construed to include any addition to the said statute laws, as it shall, after the adjournment of the present session of the General Assembly, and at the date of the completion of such revision, stand enacted by the legislature, nor any substantial omission therefrom or modification of the substance thereof; but the person so appointed shall simply collate all the acts of the General Assembly not either directly or indirectly repealed and remaining in force at the date of completion of the work, and shall arrange and digest the provisions of the same so as to present but one law on any one subject. The digester so appointed shall, however, have authority to omit in the preparation of the work, redundant enactments, and such as may have ceased to have any effect or influence on existing rights; to reject superfluous words, and to condense into as concise and comprehensive a form as may be consistent with a full and clear expression of the will of the legislature, any circuitous tautological or ambiguous phraseology. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the person so appointed, after he shall have completed the said revisal or digest, to submit the same to the examination of another person learned in the law, to be appointed by the Governor; and upon the certificate of such person that such revision furnishes a complete and correct digest of all the public or general laws then in force, the digester shall deliver the manuscript of the same to the public printer, who shall promptly cause to be printed two thousand five hundred copies thereof. The secretary of state shall by contract have the same bound and lettered as hereinafter provided; but such contract for binding shall, before it shall take effect and become obligatory upon the state, be submitted to the Governor for his approval. The copies so printed shall be the property of the state, and shall be placed in the charge of the secretary of state, who shall, after reserving a sufficient number of copies to supply public libraries with which this state may have established an interchange of books, sell the same for the benefit of the state at such a price as to reimburse the treasuary for all expenses whatsoever incurred under the provisions of this act, including usual and reasonable compensation for the services and expenses of the secretary of state in conducting such sale. SEC. 3. The digester shall be further charged with the superintendence of the printing of the work, and shall be respon |