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rades who were killed in the service, nut lionizes 

 (he annual payment of $100 In tulally disabled 

 veterans, ami various Minis down to $^:> to ui her-, 

 :ing to tin- eMent of tln-ir (lisnliility. wid- 

 en ing the last-mentioned sum. To rai>e 

 money for i In - claims, a tux of one fourth of a 

 mill on the dollar is to be levied annually for the 

 uo \cars, from the proceeds of which $10,- 

 IMM> -hall 'be annually deducted and applied to 

 t he erect i. ui and maintenance of a home for ex- 

 Confederate soldiers. If after this deduction the 

 fund derived from t his tax shall lie insullieient to 

 meet the claims presented, a pro-rata distribu- 

 tion of the sum available shall be made among 

 the claimants. 



An act in the interest of public education au- 

 thorizes the State Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction to establish six district normal schools 

 for white teachers, one in each congressional 

 district, and two normal schools for colored 

 teachers, to appoint a principal for each school, 

 and to arrange a suitable course of study. Kach 

 school shall hold annually a session of three con- 

 secntive months of twenty days each, to which 

 only teachers and intending teachers shall be ad- 

 mitted. The sum of $2,000 was appropriated for 

 each of the next two years, to be used only in 

 paving the salaries of instructors. 



The State was redistricted for members of 

 Congress as follows : 



First ]>iatrii-t Sharp, Randolph, Clay, Lawrence, 

 (irecii, Craighcad, Mississippi, Poinsctt, Jackson, 

 uff, Cross, Crittenden. St. Francis, Lee, and 

 Phillips 16. 



/ Iiixfr'n-f Drew, Bradley, Cleveland, Jeffer- 

 son, Grant, Dallas, Hot Spring, Lincoln, Saline, Gar- 

 land, Montgomery, Polk, Sc-ott, and Sebastian 14. 



Tlilnl Jh'xfn'i-f I'esha, Chicot, Ashley, Calhoun, 

 Union, Ouaehita, Columbia, Nevada, Clark, Pike, 

 II en instead, Lafayette, Miller, Little River, Sevier, 

 and Howard 16. 



l-'<>itrtlt /'ixfrti-f Pulaski, Perry, Conway, Pope, 

 Yell, Logan, Johnson, Franklin 8. 



Fifth I >ixt >!<(- Crawford, Washington, Benton, < 'ar- 

 roll, Madison, Newton, Boone, Searcy, Van Bureu, 

 Faulkner 10. 



>V.i7// (new) District Marion, Baxter, Fulton, Izard, 

 Btone. Independence, Clelmrne, White, Lonoke, Prai- 

 rie, Monroe, Arkansas 12 



Provision was made for submitting to the 

 people at the next general election an amend- 

 ment to the State Constitution, requiring the fol- 

 lowing qualifications for voting: First, the pay- 

 ment of a poll tax within the year preceding the 

 election ; Second, residence in the State twelve 

 months, in the county six months, and in the 

 precinct or ward one month next preceding any 

 election. 



The Penitentiary commissioners were requested 

 to procure all available information respecting 

 the management of State prisons in the several 

 States, and to report to the next General Assem- 

 bly with BOggesnona as to the future manage- 

 ment of the State Penitentiary. 



A resolution was adopted favoring the election 

 of United States Senators by popular vote. The 

 annual State tax upon liquor dealers was in- 

 creased from $200 to $800. 



An increase was made in the State tax for 

 general purposes from * to 2J mills, the tax for 

 schools remaining at 2 mills, while the tax to be 

 levied for the sinking fund was reduced from 1 

 mill to i mill. 



Provision was made for appropriating from 

 the Milking fund during the next t\so yearn 

 $:;<MUMM> ),,, the purchase of State l-ond-. 



The Mini of $>C>.<>(Mi a - appropriated for ad- 

 ditional buildings at the Slate Insane Asylum 

 Millicient in accommodate 800 patients. 



Action upon a bill appropriating $100,000 to 

 secure representation of the State at the World's 

 Columbian Imposition was postponed till final 

 action upon the Lodge bill by Congress, and 

 after that event the sum to be appropriated was 

 reduced to $25,000, and the bill was finally de- 

 feated. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



To prohibit gaming with 

 Declaring that the lien of 



minors. 



lien of a mortgage or other in- 

 cumbrancc shall not extend to the increase or off- 

 spring of an animal subject to such lien. 



Kctmiring insurance companies Kct'orc doing busi- 

 ness in the State to execute a bond with sureties in a 

 Mitticient sum, on which persons having claims against 

 such companies may sue for satisfaction. 



Changing the penalty for robbery to imprisonment 

 for not less than three nor more than twenty-one 

 years. 



Legalizing all marriages heretofore solemnized by 

 any regularly ordained minister or priest. 



L'Mal dishing the Arkansas State Board of Phar- 

 macy. 



To make express companies and all other common 

 carriers the agents of the seller when they carry in- 

 toxicating liuuors in C. O. D. packages, and to make 

 the place of delivery the place of sale. 



Providing a new law with reference to quieting ' 

 titles. 



To punish persons who engage in prize fights 

 either with or without gloves, or who act as second or 

 referee, or otherwise participate in such tights. 



Fixing the number of members of the State House 

 of Representatives, and apportioning them. 



Denning the line between the counties of Yell and 

 Perry. 



Accepting the act of Congress of 1890, appropriat- 

 ing money lor the support of colleges of agriculture 

 and mechanic ails in the several States, and appor- 

 tioning eight elevenths of the money so appropriated 

 to the Arkansas Industrial University at Faycttcvillc 

 (for whites), and three elevenths to the Branch Nor- 

 mal College at Pine Bluff (for colored). 



To incorporate the Ex-Confederate Association of 

 Arkansas. 



To change the boundary lines between Yell and 

 Logan Counties. 



To authorize the redemption of lands sold for taxes 

 after they have been deeded to the State. 



To establish chancery courts in the counties of 

 Drew, Arkansas, Ashler, I>csha,ind Chicot 



AppropriutiiiL' 6.000 tor additional buildings at 

 the Arkansas School for the Blind. 



Appropriating $r>,ooo for a mechanical and agricult- 

 ural department at the Branch Normal ColK-ge of the 

 Arkansas Industrial University. 



Ikcuuiring all railroad and express companies to 

 provide all trains with stage planks not less than 

 eiirht feet in length, to be used in unloading baggage 

 I'roin said traii.-s. and prohibiting the cmp!' 

 such companies from tumbling baggage from the car 

 doors or otherwise roughly handling the same so as 

 to cause breakage or injury. 



Politically the members of each House were 

 divided as follow: Senate, Democrats 28, Union 

 Labor and Republicans 3; House, Democrats 77. 

 Union Labor and Republicans 12. 



Penitentiary. For the year ending Jan. 1, 

 1890, the population of the State Penitentiary 

 shows the following changes : Convicts on Jan. 1, 

 .l. r>77 : received or recaptured during the 



