SECTION I. That when any physician or surgeon practicing their respective professions within the State of Arkansas, shall by the habitual indulgence in the use of alcohol, opium, cocaine, or any such agent to such an extent so as to render himself incapable thereby of exercising that degree of skill and judgment in the treatment of his patients which the moral trust and confidence reposed in him demands, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and his license shall at once be revoked, said license to be revoked by the State Board of Medical Examiners under which said physician or surgeon may have received his license to practice upon the proper proof being made before said board, said license not to be renewed under one year, and not then until said physician or surgeon shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having ceased his indulgences. SECTION 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 6, 1905. ACT 287. AN ACT granting additional authority to the Board of Improvement of Water Works Improvement District No. 1, Mena, Arkansas, to borrow money, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Board of Improvement of Waterworks Improvement District No. 1, city of Mena, authorized to borrow money and pledge uncollected assessments for the payment thereof. Waterworks system may be mortgaged for payment of money borrowed for operation, extension, construction or repair of said waterworks. 2. 3. Provides for collection of $50 per year from city of Mena for each fire hydrant maintained. 4. Powers of the improvement board defined. 5. In event of failure to pay interest or sinking fund on outstanding indebtedness, the city council is authorized to dispose of the waterworks system. 6. Acts in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1. That said Board of Improvement of Water Works Improvement District No. 1, city of Mena, may borrow money, in addition to amounts heretofore borrowed, in any sum, not exceeding 20 per centum of the estimated cost of the water works system, of said improvement district, at a rate of interest not exceeding 10 per centum per annum, and may pledge all uncollected assessments for the payment thereof. SECTION 2. That said board shall have authority to use money borrowed by authority of this or any other statute of this State, for the additional construction, operation, extension, or repair of its said system of water works, and may mortgage its said water works system for the payment of any money borrowed. SECTION 3. That said board of improvement shall have power to charge and collect from the city of Mena any sum not exceeding $50 a year for each fire hydrant maintained and kept in operation by said board by the authority of the city council; provided, that the amount paid in any one year by said city shall not exceed the sum of $1,500. SECTION 4. That the said improvement board shall have full power and authority to operate and maintain the water works system of said improvement district and may supply water to private consumers and make and collect uniform charges for such services and apply the income therefrom to the payment of operating expenses, and to the maintenance, extension and repair of such works, such charges being subject to the approval of the city council. SECTION 6. That in the event said board should at any time be unable to pay any interest or sinking fund upon its outstanding indebtedness, or be unable to maintain said system in a manner adequate to the needs of said improvement district, said board shall report said facts to the city council and said council shall have power to sell or to make such other disposition of said water works system as it shall deem to the best interest of said city. Provided, said water works system shall not be sold for less than the cost of said system, including all existing indebtedness against said improvement district at the time of such sale. SECTION 7. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be, and the same are, hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. [This bill was filed in the office of the Secretary of State by the Governor without his signature, May 6, 1905.] ACT 288. AN ACT to amend Section I of an Act entitled."An Act for the protection of fish in certain counties," approved March 3, 1903. SECTION I. Amends Act approved March 3, 1903, for the protection of fish in certain counties. 2. Acts in conflict repealed; Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That Section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act for the protection of fish in certain counties," approved March 3, 1903, be amended so as to read as follows: That it shall hereafter be unlawful to seine, net, trap, dredge, or take fish in any manner except with hook and line from the waters of White River or any of its tributaries in the Counties of Madison, Carroll, Washington and Benton, in this State, or from the Illinois River or its tributaries in Benton and Washington Counties; provided, it shall be lawful to take fish with a gig, hoopnet without wings, or with seine in any of the waters in Madison, Benton, Carroll and Washington Counties by the use of seine with not less than one inch mesh, and not to exceed sixty feet in length. SECTION 2. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 6, 1905. ACT 289. AN ACT to confer special powers on Levee Districts Nos. 1, 3 and 4 of Jefferson County. SECTION I. 2. Directors of Levee Districts Nos. 1, 3 and 4, Jefferson County, authorized to issue bonds, notes, etc. Property owners of levee districts to vote upon tax levy. 3. Board of directors to provide for payment of said bonds. 4. Bonds, etc., a charge upon the lands of districts until paid. 6. Bond to be required of treasurer of the district. 7. Directors may employ a competent engineer. 8. Act in force from passage. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: SECTION I. That the boards of directors of Levee Districts Nos. 1, 3 and 4 of Jefferson County be, and they are each hereby authorized to issue bonds, notes and interestbearing evidences of indebtedness, under the restrictions set out in the second section of this Act. SECTION 2. Before the boards of directors of said districts shall have the power to issue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, the question whether or not such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall be issued, together with the character and amount of the proposed issue, and the purposes for which it is proposed to make such issue, shall be submitted to the landowners of said districts respectively, at a meeting called as provided by law for calling meetings of landholders to vote upon the levy of annual taxes in levee districts, and if at said meeting the majority of the landholders voting upon said question shall vote for the issue of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, then the said board of directors shall have the power to issue, sell and negotiate such bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, but only of the character, to the extent, and for the purposes so authorized by said meeting of landholders. SECTION 3. That the said districts shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of the boards of directors thereof, to provide for the payment of said bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued under this Act as the same shall become due, by levying a tax upon the lands of said districts in proportion to the benefits thereto, as previously ascertained, as will meet the payments of interest on said bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness and provide a sinking fund for the payment of the principal when the same shall become due, which tax shall be levied, |