Acts of Arkansas 1891

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Acts of Arkansas 1891
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1891
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: legislative acts
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Arkansas Act 17 of 1891provided for segregated railroad accomodations.
Civil Rights -- Segregation -- Racism -- Blacks -- African-Americans -- Railroads -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
ACTS OF ARKANSAS 15 in ten days thereafter, to execute the said contract and give the bond hereinafter referred to. SEC. 4. That when said contract shall be awarded to any bidder, the latter shall be required to give a good and suffi- cient bond, to be approved by said commissioners, in a sum equal to twenty-five percent, of the full amount of the bid, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract within the time limited therefor. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and shall not conflict with die operation ot the laws relating to bridges and embraced in chapter 16 ol Mans- fields Digest. Approved February 19, 1891. __________________ ACT XVII. AN ACT to Promote the Comfort of Passengers on Railway Trains and for other purposes SECTION 1. Requires railroads to provide separate coachs and waiting rooms for the white and African races. No persons to occupy seats other than the ones provided. 2. Officers and agents to assign coaches or rooms and enforce same; Penalty. 3. Railway companies or employees violating guilty of misde,eamer; Penalty. Law to be posted in coaches and waiting rooms. 4. Persons with visible admixtar of African blood to be deemed Africans 5. Prevents the use of obscene, profane or boisterous language in a car or waiting room 6. Railroads to provide wholesome drinking water. 7. Conflicting laws repealed and are in force six months after passage Be it enacted by the General Assemldy of the State of Arkansas: SECTION 1 That all railway companies carrying passen- gers in their coaches in this State shall provide equal but sepa- rate and sufficient accommodations for the white and African races, bv providing two or more passenger coaches tor each passenger train. Provided, That on all lines of railway less than twenty-five miles long, passenger coaches may be divided by 1 partition so as to secure separate accommo- dations, and they shall also provide separate waiting-rooms of equal and sufficient accommodations for the two races
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Original Collection:: Acts of Arkansas 1891
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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