2 PASSED AT The Tenth Annual Session OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATES OF ALABAMA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE TOWN OF TUSCALOOSA, ON THE THIRD MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT. JOHN MURPHY, GOVERNOR. NICHOLAS DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. CLEMENT C. CLAY, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUSCALOOSA: PRINTED BY M‘GUIRE, HENRY AND M‹GUIRE, STATE PRINTERS. 1829. LAWS OF ALABAMA. AN ACT To enable the State of Alabama to sell and dispose of certain Lands therein named. 1828. Register SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That a Register of the Land Office and a Receiver of Public Monies, shall be appointed by a joint vote of the two Houses of the and Receiv present General Assembly, who shall establish their offices at such er to be ap place as shall be designated by joint vote of both branches of this pointed. General Assembly, and shall perform the respective duties herein after prescribed. To give bond Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That before they enter upon the duties of their offices respectively, they shall give bonds and good securities, payable to the Governor of the State of Alabama, for the security. time being and his successors in office, each to be approved by a Judge of the Circuit Court of this State; the Register in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and the Receiver in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well and faithfully per-. form the duties required of them by law, and shall moreover take and subscribe an oath faithfully to perform the duties required of them by law, which bonds and affidavits shall be deposited with the Comptroller of Public Accounts. and a tain coun Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of Register to the said Register, as soon as it can be done, to obtain from the Re- procure gister of the United States' Land Office at Huntsville, a map of the map of cercounties of Madison, Limestone, Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence, and Morgan, shewing the surveys of said counties, by ranges, townships, and sections, together with a statement of all the relinquished lands in said counties, relinquished previous to the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to cause fair copies to be made of said map, by counties, or parts of counties, as will best enable persons to find and examine said lands. du. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the present General Commis Assembly, shall by joint vote of the two honses, appoint twelve sioners tobe Commissioners (at least eight of whom shall reside south of the coun- appointed. ties bordering upon the Tennessee river,) to examine, value and select four hundred thousand acres of land from the relinquished Their lands above named, and whose duty it shall be, whenever notified ties. by the said Register that he is therewith, provided to apply at the of fice of the said Register, and obtain maps of said lands and such other To divide information as will enable them to perform their duties, and shall also into compadivide themselves into four companies; a majority of each of said nies. companies shall be composed of those Commissioners who reside south of the counties aforesaid, and said companies so organised shall immediately go upon, said lands and with due diligence and dispatch shall commence and continue the examination of the relin quished lands above enumerated; and shall also, when upon the lands, truly value each and every half quarter section, or other legal subdivision of said lands, (unless they be satisfied they are wholly barren and worthless,) according to the fair and intrinsic value thereof, and shall note the class to which the same may belong according to the classes and the standard of valuation herein after fixed to each particular class having regard to locality, as well as quality of soil, jer |