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An Act to prevent waste on the 16th Sections. 1842-1843 60 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0045 and id is 1 raw text is: 60 An Act to prevent waste on the 16th Sections. SECTION SECTION 1. Removing any timber or stone off the 3. If done by a slave, the owner re. 16th sections, declared illegal. sponsible. 2. Fixes the penalty. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, It shall not be lawftl for any person to cut or remove any timber or stone off the sixteenth sections of land for the use of schools, or any section or fractional section selected instead of said sixteenth sec- tions. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, Any person violating the provisions of this act, shall, for each offence, be adjudged guilty of a misdemea- nor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than one thousand dollars, to be recovered by indict- ment in the circuit court of the county in which such trespass shall or may be committed; Provided, That this act shall not apply to per- sons who reside on, or have improvements on such lands, so as to pre- vent them from residing on, or using timber or stone for his or their use, or for the use of their improvement; but this proviso shall not be so construed as to permit residents or those having improvements on said land, to cut and remove, or to remove any timber or stone off said lands for purposes of speculation or sale. SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any slave or apprentice shall violate the provisions of this act, the owner of such slave, or master of such apprentice, shall be responsible for such act, and be proceeded against in all respects, as though the act had been his own. W. S. OLDHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAM'L ADAMS, President I of the Senate. Approved, the 18th Jan., 1843. A. YELL.

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