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An Act to encourage reclamation in the counties of Crittenden, Mississippi and Phillips. 1866 464 (1866)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0200 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS OF ARKANSAS. No. 177. AN ACT to encourage reclamation in the counties of Critten- den, Mississippi and Phillips. SECTION 1. Sub-levee districts authorized to be established by county courts. 2. Assessors and collectors for sub- districts, how elected. 3. Duty of assessors and collectors. 4. Special terms of county court au- thorized. 6. Assessor to be also inspector and supervisor of levees, etc. . 6. Shall locate and superintend erec- tion of levees, etc. 7. Collections and sales for non-pay- ment of taxes. 8. Guardians of infant land owners may join in petition to courts. 9. Penalty for cutting levee, etc, 10. Bonds may be pledged for annual assessment for levee tax, bonds -is- SE0rlON sued, etc. 11.. Deeds of conveyance for pledged lands not to be recorded, until no- tice to vendee, who becomes liable for such levee taxes. 12. Executors, etc., may not bond lands without sanction of probate court. 13. Regular tax collector may be as- sessor, etc., of levee tax. 14. Act of January 10, 1861, modified. 15. Act noC intended to abolish present levee system, etc. 16. Advertisement required before any tax can be imposed. 17. Crittenden county court may apply levee fund for such purposes as it may direct. 18.. Act in force from passage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That in addition to the present levee system in said counties, whenever the resident land owners, residing within any designated boundary in either of said counties, shall, by petition to the county court of such county, signify their desire to enclose such boundary by the erection of a levee all around or. partly around the same, with the view to reclaim the land within the boundary from overflow, the county court of such county shall have the power to levy a tax of from five cents to one dollar per acre on the wild and unimproved land, and upon the cleared or open land there shall be levied four times the amount that is as- sessed upon the unimproved land; said petition shall specify the general course and extent of the levee proposed to be erected, and the boundary thus specified shall be by the said court de- 464

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