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An Act to restrict the provisions of the second section of an act in the Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, under the head of Apprentices. 1840 87 (1840)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0041 and id is 1 raw text is: SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any taxable inhabitant of any township neglect or refuse, when called on, to furnish the asses- sor with a list of his taxable property, as required by law, or if the assessor have reason to believe that the list so furnished him is fraudu- lent, or does not contain a correct list of the property owned by such person, the assessor shall ascertain by the best means in his power, the taxable property and the value thereof, and as a penalty for such neglect, he shall assess said property at double its value. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take ef- fect, and be in force, from and after its passage. G. HILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. W. IZARD, President of the Senate. Approved: 28th December, 1840. A. YELL. An act to restrict the provisions of the second section of an act in the Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, under the head of Ap- prentices. SECTION. SECTION. 1. Part of act repealed. 3.Act, when in force. 2. Apprentices. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Jrkansus, That so much of the second section of a law in the Revised Statutes, of the State of Arkansas as is made applicable to free negro appren- tices, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That in lieu of the education, as provided to be given to free negro apprentices in the said second sec- tion of the law aforesaid, the master of any free negro apprentice shall be required to give to any male free negro apprentice, on his ar- riving at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars; and to any female apprentice, the following property, or the value thereof in money, viz: one bed, to be worth twenty-five dol- lars, one cow and calf, to be worth twelve dollars; and one suit of clothes, to be worth fifteen dollars; to be paid when said apprentice shall arrive at the age of eighteen years. And in lieu of the provis- ions of the law to which this is an amendment, as requires the master of any white apprentice to send him, her, or them to school, one fourth of the time he, she, or they may be bound to service, the master of any such apprentice shall be bound to teach said apprentice, or ap- prentices, reading, writing and arithmetic. to the rule of three in- clusive.

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