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An Act to authorize the County Court of St. Francis county to levy a road tax, and for other purposes. 1858-1859 208 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0143 and id is 1 raw text is: 208 given for the purchase of lands from the state, erroneously, as aforesaid, to which the state cannot make a title to the pur- chaser, upon application of such persons, their assigns or legal representatives, to the auditor, he shall, if he be satisfied that this money has been paid into the treasury, issue his warrant upon the treasurer for the amount so wrongfully paid, and to pay all warrants which shall be issued under this act, a suffi- cient sum of money in the treasury belonging to the internal improvement fund, seminary fund and saline fund, respectively, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appro- priated. SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, 21st February, 1859. No. 174. AN ACT to authorize the County Court of St. Francis county to levy a road tax, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. County court of St. Francis county to levy a road tax not to exceed one-fourth of one per centum.- Owner of lands may pay for the same in work at two dollars a day for each hand. 2. Clerk to prepare a separate column on the tax book for the road tax, and furnish supervisors with lists. 3. County court to appoint a supervisor for each township, and divide the roads into sections or districts. 4. Duties and compensation of the su- pervisors. 5. Overseers to grant certificates to those who work roads, and duty of supervisors to collect the same. 6. Sheriff to receive lists from supervi- sors and collect what has not been paid in labor, and pay the same into the treasury. Not to receive com- missions for assessing amount of road tax. 7. Upon notice of the overseer, persons required to work from three to six days in addition to the road tax, and penalty for failure to do so. S. Overseers of roads to receive two dollars a day, and penalty for fail- ure of supervisor or overseer to perform their duties. I SECTION 9. County court may appropriate money to buy tools and implements. 10. Treasurer to keep account of road tax received and disbursed, and to settle with the county court. 11. County court shall not, hereafter, allow the jailer more than forty cents a day for keeping each pris- oner. 12. The town of Richmond, in St. Fran- cis county, incorporated with all the privileges and restrictions grant- ed to the town of Searcy, by the act incorporating the same, approved December 24th, 1852. 13. Said act re-enacted and applied to the town of Richmond, and where the word Searcy occurs the word Richmond to be substituted. 14. The style of the corporation to be 1 The Corporation of Richmond, and succession granted for fifty years. 15. Town constable may. execute process in criminal cases throughout Rich- land township. 16. Certain named persons authorized to hold and act as judges of an elec- tion on the first Monday in April, 1859.

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