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An Act to repeal all laws inflicting stripes as a punishment upon white persons. 1854-1855 38 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0114 and id is 1 raw text is: 38 AN ACT for the relief of B. H. Smithson, late sheriff and collector of Washington county. PREAMBLE. SECTION SECTION gest, to be extended two years, and 1. The lien on property provided for in B1. H. Smithson to be authorized to section eighty-eight, of chapter one collect as taxesare now collected. hundred and thirty-nine, of the Di- 2. This act to take effect from its passage. WHEREAS, The said Bryan H. Smithson, late sheriff of the county of Washington, has had to pay taxes for certain indi- viduals for the years eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and eighteen hundred and fifty-two; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the lien on property now provided for by law, in section eighty-eight, of chapter one hundred and thirty-nine, be extended two years, and that the said Smithson be allowed, authorized and empowered to collect in the same manner that the taxes are collected under existing laws. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved 15th December, 1854. AN ACT to repeal all laws inflicting stripes as a punishment upon white persons. SECTION SECTION 1. All laws inflicting stripes on white per- 2. Certain misdemeanors defined, and sons to be repealed. I their penalties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That all laws inflicting the punishment of stripes upon white persons be, and the same are hereby repealed : Provided, That no other penalty or fine imposed by existing laws shall be impaired by this repeal. SEC. 2. That if any white person shall be caught in company with negroes, in suspicious places, or shall be found in the com- pany of slaves at any unlawful meetings, or shall harbor or en- tertain any slave, or shall be found drinking or gaming with any slave, without the consent of the owner or overseer of such slave, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, cognizable in the cir- cuit court of the county, and fined and imprisoned at the discre- tion of the jury; such fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and such imprisonment not less than thirty or more than ninety days. Approved 15th December, 1854.

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