RIOTS-Continued.

Riotous behavior in disturbance of religious worship, how pu-
nished,

RIVERS See "Watercourses."

ROADS, &c.

May be established within the Indian territory,

356, 440

All roads established by the legislature or county court, declar-
ed public,

County court may establish, discontinue, or alter public roads,
May change the route of state roads,

May open road parallel to turnpikes, not nearer than three miles,
Thirty days' notice of intended application for a new road to be
given,

Roads to be laid out by a jury of seven householders,
Jury how instructed by the court and their oath,

New roads not to be opened between 1st March and 10th July,
nor through enclosure with growing crop,
Penalty on commissioners appointed to lay out a road, for not
doing their duty,

Damage to property by opening new road, how assessed and
paid,

Private ways, how and when to be granted, and how kept in
repair,

224

358

358-9

368
367-8

359

ib.

ib.

362

366

Court of revenue and roads, to designate the grade of roads,
Width of roads and causeways according to grade-lanes to be
thirty feet wide,

Turnpikes not to be reported in order, until the law authorizing
them is complied with,

Roads to be divided into precincts,

Overseers of roads shall be appointed at first meeting of com-
missioners' court each year, and may be appointed afterwards,
Officers of incorporated towns shall appoint overseers of the
streets,

ib.

358

359

ib.

358

Court shall appoint three apportioners of hands in each beat, at
the same time it appoints overseers,

Commissioners of revenue, &c. not to be overseers or appor-
tioners, nor shall overseer be an apportioner,

On death, or absence for two months of apportioner, judge may
fill vacancy until meeting of commissioners,
Apportioners exempted from working for twelve months,
Penalty for not performing their duties,

Clerk shall notify overseer of his appointment, and the precinct
and grade of road,

Shall post up at circuit court list of overseers and their pre-
cincts,

Penalty for refusing to serve as overseer without good cause,
Overseer to notify clerk of his acceptance in ten days, or pre-
sumed to have accepted,

ib.

ib.

On nonacceptance, clerk to notify two justices, who shall fill
the vacancy,

Apportioners shall apportion hands according to grade of road
and work required,

ib.

Shall return apportionment by first Monday in April to clerk of
county court, there to be filed,

366

ROADS, &c.—Continued.

Failing to apportion hands, last apportionment to be in force,
All persons shall give in to apportioner, a list of hands liable to
work,

Penalty for not giving list on application,

Hands moving into bounds, subject to work as though appor-
tioned,

360

ib.

ib.

ib.

Who liable to work on roads, and who exempt,
Within what distance hands are liable to work,

ib.

365

Overseers shall give hands three days' notice to work, and de-
signate tools,

361

May appoint a person to warn hands, who shall be exempt
from working,

367

May call out hands at any time,

362

May exchange labor for wagons and teams, or hire them,
May contract for timber and hauling at county charge,

365

366

Hands when warned to work on two roads, shall work where
first warned,

358

Penalty on hands for not working,

361

How recovered,

ib.

Penalty on overseer for not keeping road in repair,

Hands not liable to work more than ten days, nor on more than
one road same year,

Fines on defaulters to be paid to overseer, to hire hands,
Overseers shall measure roads, erect and replace mile-posts,
Shall set up index-boards at forks of road,
May contract for mile-posts and index-boards, to be paid for by
the county,

-

Penalty for pulling down or defacing mile-posts or index-boards,
Penalty for altering or obstructing road,

Act to be given in charge to grand juries, who shall present de-
faulting overseers, keepers of bridges and ferries, and persons
obstructing roads,

Overseer how proceeded against for not prosecuting defaulters,
Penalty on defaulting clerks and sheriffs under this act,

All fines, except for defaulting hands, to be paid to the county
treasurer,

County treasurer shall keep the fines separate as a road fund,

Assault with intent to commit, and accessories to See "As-
sault," and "Accessories."

OF PRISONS-See "Prison Bounds."

393

337

337, 393

124

395

ib.

Reward for apprehending,

Penalty for harboring or secreting, when charged with a capital
offence,

When committed to jail, may be sold by sheriff, if not demanded
in six months after publication,

Proceeds of sale, after retaining fees, to be paid into the county
treasury,

RUNAWAY SLAVES-Continued.

Owner, on proof of property may receive amount paid to county,

but not divest purchaser's title,

SABBATH, VIOLATION OF-See "Vice and Immorality."

SAILORS-See "Seamen."

SALARIES.

General assembly shall regulate deductions from, for neglect of
duty,

Payable to public officers quarter-yearly,

Of president, cashier, teller, and clerk of Bank of the State of
Alabama,

395

xli

368

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

315

304

110-111

48-9,421-2

SALES.

By executors and administrators not to commence before 12 M.
nor continue longer than five P. M. but may be adjourned
from day to day,

Of lands directed by will, if no one be appointed for the pur-
pose, may be made by the executor,

Of real estate by the sheriff, to be at the court-house on thirty
days' notice,

Sheriff's deed to vest in the purchaser, all the defendant's legal

All sales to be at the court-house, if the property can be conve-

Within what hours sales shall take place,

Of land and slaves, to be on the first Monday in each month,
By sheriffs, of estates of insolvent debtors,

By constables, to be at or near the debtor's residence,

to be within fifteen days after execution levied,
and on ten days' notice,

Of slaves by constables to be at the court-house, on first monday
in the month, on twenty day's notice,

Of real estate by tax-collectors, shall be at the court-house,

Persons manufacturing salt-petre, to enclose their works in three

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-LANDS.

Law relating to agents for the sixteenth sections,

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-LANDS-Continued.

Commissioners' court to appoint three school commissioners in
each township for four years,

Township divided by county line, appointment shall be made by
the court of the county containing the greater part,
Commissioners to take oath,

Court may fill vacancies,

Acts of a majority valid,

Commissioners shall lay off sixteenth section, into lots and
make plats,

Shall retain one copy of plat and file another with the clerk of
the county court,

Lots how reserved for the benefit of timber,

Commissioners shall lease lots for not exceeding ten years,
Terms of the covenant of lease,

Commissioners to ascertain number of pupils in township and

divide it into school districts,

Trustees of schools for the several districts, how elected,
Commissioners and trustees to be a body corporate,
Commissioners may appoint a clerk and treasurer,

Duties of clerk, and how proceeded against for failure or neglect,
Treasurer's bond and duties,

His duty when money is raised by subscription,
Commissioners shall annually apportion funds among the dis-
tricts,

Parents, &c., may send pupils to any school, in or out of the
township,

Powers of trustees in employing teachers and superintending
schools,

ib.

May draw warrants on treasurer for money due,

ib.

Clerk of county court shall furnish general assembly with an ab-
stract of the returns of township clerk,

ib.

Former agents to account with commissioners, who shall suc-
ceed to their rights and liabilities,

377

Inhabitants of townships may elect under which law their lands
shall be leased,

ib.

How to take sense of inhabitants of township respecting sale of
sixteenth section,

ih.

Proceedings when sale is determined on,

Commissioners, before sales to enter into bond,

379

Notes of purchasers to be payable to president and directors of
state bank, and bear six per cent. interest,

378

bank,

six per cent. interest,

Interest may be invested as principal,

Commissioners shall give purchaser a certificate,
Lost certificate may be renewed,

Governor shall issue a patent on certificate of full payment, to
purchaser or assignee,

Account of sales to be recorded, and notes forwarded to the

Bank shall collect them as other debts,

Certain notes to be transferred to the branches at Montgomery
and Decatur,

Funds in the branch at Montgomery, how loaned,
Commissioners to pay surplus funds into bank, which shall bear

When notes are fully discharged, proceeds shall be paid over to
the commissioners,

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-LANDS—Continued.
Capital stock of township, not to be diminished,
President and directors may issue stock on deposit,
Elections to take sense of inhabitants respecting sale, may be
held at any time on thirty days' notice,

If land cannot be sold, the minimum may be reduced,
Two householders or freeholders may act as commissioners,
when township is deficient in population,

School lands may be rented until they can be sold,
Commissioners may require partial payments in cash, in cer-

tain cases,

Lessee holding over after lease expired, guilty of unlawful de-
tainer,

Commissioners may retain necessary expenses out of rents or
interest on sales,
Commissioners having no funds to pay expenses of survey and
sale, they shall be paid by the cashier of the bank, out of the
first money received,
Commissioners shall report annually to county court, amount
of money on hand, disposed of, &c.-report to be recorded,
Failing to report, shall be attached,

Proceeds of rent not to be paid into bank,
When no school in the township, funds shall be applied to edu-
cation of scholars of township at any other school,

SCIRE FACIAS.

To legal representatives of deceased plaintiff or defendant, may
issue at any time,

379

ib.

381

380

ib.

ib.

ib.

381

ib.

ib.

ib.

382

ib.

ib.

280

Need not be served in the presence of witnesses,

ib.

When allowed in favor of judgment creditors of deceased per-
sons, against the real estate,

What sufficient sci. fa. in criminal cases, how served, and the

Against bail, in civil cases,

SEAL,

Of the state, to be kept by the governor, and used by him officially,
Of the Alabama territory adopted,

297

451

121-2

52, 53, 54

383

ib.

Of the comptroller,

Of notaries public,

195

326

SEAMEN.

Deserting after signing contract, may be apprehended and com-
mitted by any justice,

Shall be confined until vessel is ready to proceed, or master re-
quires discharge,

ib.

Penalty for secreting or harboring seamen,

ib.

Constable allowed five dollars for apprehending deserters,
Masters of vessels not to employ or receive seamen, without
certificate of discharge,

ib.

ib.

SEARCH WARRANTS.

May be issued by justices of the peace-proceedings thereon,
Under what restrictions to issue,