1841, whose duty it shall be to issue to the holder thereof the same. amount of scrip, together with the amount of interest thereon, if any there be. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all persons, companies, bodies politic or corporate, who shall hold any of said county scrip, who do not present the same to the clerk of said county on or before the first day of April next, 1841, shall be forever barred from the benefit of their claims, and the said county shall be forever exempt and barred from the payment of the same. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said clerk to number and date each piece of scrip presented, and also to number and date all scrip by him issued, on allowances made by the proper authority hereafter, as is now required of him by law. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect, and be force, from and after its passage; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of said county to give due notice of all provisions of this act, by putting up at least one advertisement in each township in said. county, on or before the fifteenth day of January, A. D. 1841. G. HILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. W. IZARD, President Approved: 26th December, 1840. of the Senale. A. YELL. An act to change the boundary lines between Lawrence and Independence counties. SECTION. 1. New boundaries. SECTION. 2. Territory attached to Lawrence co. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the line between Independence and Lawrence counties shall run as follows, to wit: Beginning at the fifth principal meridian at the northern boundary line of township fourteen north; thence west with said northern boundary line to the eastern boundary line of range five west; thence north to the corner of sections twelve and thirteen in township fifteen north, in range five west; thence west with the section lines to the corner of sections ten, eleven, fourteen and fifteen, in said township and range; thence north with the section lines to the northern boundary of township fifteen north; thence west with said township line to the western boundary of range six west; thence north to the Missouri State line. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all that tract of country lying between said line and the former limits of Lawrence county shall be attached and form a part of Lawrence county. G. HILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. W. IZARD, President Approved: 26th December, 1840. of the Senate. A. YELL. An act to authorize the State Treasurer to refund to individuals money paid into the State Treasury through error, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to the following named individuals, or to either of them, where two or more have jointly paid into the treasury money for lands sold through error, to wit: To Jno. W. Johnston, F. W. Trapnell, and James B. Keatts, the sum of thirty seven dollars and thirty-four cents; and to Andrew Sellers, nineteen dollars and sixty-five cents. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the amounts of the county tax paid upon lands sold through error shall be deducted by the auditor and treasurer from the amounts standing on their books to the credits of the counties in which the lands sold shall respectively be situated, in lieu of being paid to such counties. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the auditor and treasurer shall have power to refund any monies which have been, or which shall hereafter be, erroneously paid into the State Treasury, for lands sold by the auditor through error, and to refund out of the State Treasury any balance which shall be due to any person or persons having an account or accounts with the State, who shall have paid more money into the State Treasury than the amount or amounts legally and justly due from such person or persons, upon final settlement of such account or accounts. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That in all cases where sheriffs have assessed and sold to individuals, through error, any lands belonging to the United States at the time of such assessment or sale, within the limits of Arkansas, and the taxes thereon shall have been paid into the treasury by such sheriffs, the purchasers of the lands, or their assignees, by obtaining a certificate of the register of the land office for the district in which such lands are situated, that the lands so purchased for taxes, at the date of their assessment or sale belonged to the United States, and a certificate of the clerk of the county in which the lands may have been assessed and sold, that such lands were designated on the tax list under which the sale was held, and taxes charged thereon in said list, stating the amount of Territorial or State tax so charged on each tract separately, and describing the lands as he shall find them described on the tax list, may present the certificate with the certificate of the sheriff granted under such sale, containing correct descriptions of the lands erroneously sold, to the auditor of public accounts for examination, and should the auditor find that the certificates aforesaid all agree in the description of the lands by the numbers, it shall be his duty to draw a warrant in favor of such purchaser, or his assignee, upon the State Treasurer, for the full amount of the Territorial and State taxes, which shall appear according to the certificate of the clerk, and certificate and receipts of the sheriff, and by such other evidence as the tax lists in the auditor's office may afford, to have been wrongfully paid for Territorial or State taxes upon such lands. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That a sufficient sum of money to pay all warrants issued in such cases, is hereby appropriated, and shall be taken from any money which shall be in the treasury of the State, not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all lands reported to the auditor as forfeited to the State, for the road tax alone, the ordinary State and county taxes having been paid thercon, are hereby released from such forfeiture, and shall not be advertised or sold in consequence thereof, and the auditor shall make notes on the records of such lands in his office, to that effect. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage G. HILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. W. IZARD, President Approved: 26th December, 1840. of the Senate. A. YELL. An act to repeal the 17th and 18th sections of the Revised Code, chapter 128, in relation to revenue. SECTION. 1. Sections repealed. 2. Taxable property, when assessed double. SECTION. 3. Act, when in force. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the 17th and 18th sections of the Revised Code, chapter 128, in relation to revenue, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any taxable inhabitant of any township neglect or refuse, when called on, to furnish the assessor with a list of his taxable property, as required by law, or if the assessor have reason to believe that the list so furnished him is fraudulent, or does not contain a correct list of the property owned by such person, the assessor shall ascertain by the best means in his power, the taxable property and the value thereof, and as a penalty for such neglect, he shall assess said property at double its value. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take ef fect, and be in force, from and after its passage. G. HILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. W. IZARD, President Approved: 28th December, 1840. of the Senate. A. YELL. An act to restrict the provisions of the second section of an act in the Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, under the head of Apprentices. SECTION. 1. Part of act repealed. 2. Apprentices. SECTION. 3. Act, when in force. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That so much of the second section of a law in the Revised Statutes, of the State of Arkansas as is made applicable to free negro apprentices, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That in lieu of the education, as provided to be given to free negro apprentices in the said second section of the law aforesaid, the master of any free negro apprentice shall be required to give to any male free negro apprentice, on his arriving at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars; and to any female apprentice, the following property, or the value thereof in money, viz: one bed, to be worth twenty-five dollars, one cow and calf, to be worth twelve dollars; and one suit of clothes, to be worth fifteen dollars; to be paid when said apprentice shall arrive at the age of eighteen years. And in lieu of the provisions of the law to which this is an amendment, as requires the master of any white apprentice to send him, her, or them to school, one fourth of the time he, she, or they may be bound to service, the master of any such apprentice shall be bound to teach said apprentice, or apprentices, reading, writing and arithmetic, to the rule of three inclusive. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage. G. HILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.. M. W. IZARD, President Approved: 28th December, 1840. of the Senate. A. YELL. An act to authorize the administrators of the estate of David Thompson, deceased, to liquidate all debts against the deceased, to transfer all evidences of debt in favor of said estate to the creditors thereof, and to sell and convey all personal property, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all and every interest therein, to any creditor of said estate, in discharge of any debts against said deceased, or to any other person. SECTION. 1. Authorized to dispose of lands, &c. 2. Land mortgaged to Real Estate Bank, stock may be transferr. 3. Conveyances, how conditioned. 4. Composition with creditors. 5. Claims to pass probate court before allowance. SECTION. 6. Commissions. 7. Returns, how made. 8. Per diem pay of Secretary of the Senate and principal clerk of the House of Representatives, &c. Whereas, David Thompson departed this life, largely indebted to many different persons; and whereas, it is represented that the said David Thompson was, at the time of his death, possessed of various lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and of large interests in other land, tenements, and hereditaments, lying in different counties in this State, and the same cannot be sold under the present laws without great loss, Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That Jesse Turner and George W. Paschal, the administrators "de bonis non," (or their successors in office,) of David Thompson, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to sell, at private sale, or otherwise, any claim or evidence of debt belonging to said estate, to any person, as they may deem most beneficial for the estate of their said intestate; likewise to sell at private sale, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein, of which the said David Thompson was seized at the time of his death, to any creditor of said deceased, or to any other person, for the use or benefit of said deceased. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any of said land has been mortgaged to the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas, and stock has been awarded thereon to the said David Thompson, in the Real Estate Bank, or any of its branches, that the administrators be, and they are hereby, authorized to transfer said stock, by written transfer, to the purchaser of said land, which trans |