borrow money either by the issue of notes or bonds for the completion of the improvement.

Approved Feb. 3, 1923.

No. 20.)

AN ACT

(H. 87. Long.

To regulate further the general revenue laws of the State, so as to create a New State Tax Commission, and to abolish the tax adjuster and Boards of County Tax Adjusters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. The New State Tax Commission shall be composed of a chairman and four associate members, who shall be appointed by the Governor. The term of office of each of the members of said Commission shall be at the will of the Governor.

Section 2. The Governor, as soon after the approval of this Act as possible, shall appoint the members of the board, and shall designate which of said appointees shall be chairman of said commission. In case of a vacancy in said State Tax Commission, caused at any time by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the Governor, and the appointee shall hold office only at the will of the Governor. The New State Tax Commission shall have all the authority and powers and perform all the duties now conferred and imposed on the present State Tax Commission.

Section 3. The salaries and compensation of the chairman and the members of the New Tax Commission hereby created shall be the same as that of the chairman and members of the present State Tax Commission.

Section 4. The office of county tax adjuster and the boards of county tax adjusters be and the same hereby are abolished. This section of this Act shall take effect on September 30, 1923; provided, however, that the Governor, or the State Tax Commission, with the approval of the Governor, may discontinue, in any county, at any time he or it thinks proper, the services of any county tax adjuster or any county board of tax adjusters, before September 30, 1923, and in the event of such discontinuance, the occupant of such office shall not draw or be entitled to any salary or compensation for any period after the date of such discontinuance.

Section 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with or inconsistent with this act be and the same hereby are repealed. Approved Feb. 3, 1923.

No. 21.)

AN ACT

(H. 70. Fite.

To create the office of Deputy Circuit Clerk of the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court in all counties of the State having a population of more than two hundred thousand, according to the last, or any subsequent Federal census; to provide for the appointment of such officer and the election of his successor; to prescribe the duties, authorities and to fix the compensation of such Deputy Circuit Clerk.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, that: Section One: In all counties of the State, having a population of more than two hundred thousand, according to the last, or any subsequent, Federal census, there is hereby created the office of Deputy Circuit Clerk of the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court in such counties. The Governor immediately after the passage of this bill shall appoint a qualified elector of each of such county, or counties, to fill such office, which appointee, or appointees, shall hold office until the next general election for Circuit Clerk in such county, or counties, and until the election and qualification of a successor, or successors, in such office. Such successor, or successors, shall be elected at the next general election in which Clerks of the Circuit Court of the several counties of the state may be elected, and shall hold office for a term of six years, until the election and qualification of a successor, or

successors.

Section Two: Before entering upon the duties of such office, such Deputy Circuit Clerk shall give bond in the sum of ten thousand Dollars, which bond must be payable, conditioned, filed and approved as required by law for the bonds of Clerks of the Circuit Court. Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of such office, such Deputy Circuit Clerk shall take, subscribe, and have filed for record, an oath similar and in the manner to that taken by the Clerks of the Circuit Court. Such Deputy Circuit Clerk shall have all the powers and perform all the duties which may now, or hereafter, be lawfully exercised and performed by Clerks of the Circuit Court in Criminal cases, except those not strictly and exclusively non-delegable, and for all such acts shall be responsible on his official bond, with the same liabilities and penalties in like cases, as provided by law for Clerks of the Circuit Court. The fees of such officer shall be the same allowed by law in like cases to Clerks of the Circuit Court, provided, however, that in counties where Clerks of the Circuit Court are paid salaries instead of fees, fees shall be paid into the county treasury by such Deputy Circuit Clerk and such Deputy Circuit Clerk shall receive as compensation the salary of thirty-six hundred Dollars per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments, as the salaries of Clerks of the Circuit Court in such coun

ties with a population of more than two hundred thousand, according to the last, or any subsequent Federal census.

Section Three: The deputies and clerical assistants in the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court of such counties, having a population of more than two hundred thousand, according to the last or any subsequent Federal census, shall be appointed by such Deputy Circuit Clerk, and shall be fixed in number, regulated, and their compensation fixed and paid in all respects as the deputies and clerical assistants of the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court are, or may be, fixed and regulated in such counties.

Section Four: Such Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court shall at all times be in charge of the office of the Criminal Division of such Circuit Court in the county in which he may be appointed or elected, and shall receive and disburse all moneys payable into the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court arising out of cases in such Criminal Division of the Circuit Court.

Section Five: All the equipment for such offices including all stationery, papers, furniture, filing cases and books shall be furnished and paid for in the same manner and from the same source as the equipment, stationery, furniture, books, papers, filing cases and supplies for the respective offices at the County site of such county, and shall in all respects be similar thereto.

Section Six: That immediately after the appointee under this Act qualifies, that the Circuit Clerk, or Clerks, in such county, shall turn over to such appointee all books, records and moneys in his, or their, possession, collected from, or pertaining to, cases pending or disposed of in the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court.

Section Six and a Half: That such Deputy Circuit Clerk shall have and keep a seal of office and shall maintain offices in the County Court House. That such Deputy Circuit Clerk shall issue all mense and final process from the Criminal Division of the Court in which he is such official, and shall sign all such process in his official capacity as Deputy Circuit Clerk of the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court, and such process when so executed shall have the same validity, force and effect as if signed by the Circuit Clerk of such County.

Section Seven: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained operates to repeal or otherwise effect the provisions of an Act to provide for the election of a Deputy Circuit Clerk, in counties having more than three Circuit Judges, to perform the duties of Circuit Clerk at places of holding Circuit Court other than the county site; and to provide for his compensation, approved September 23rd, 1915.

Section Eight: Should the Supreme Court declare any section or clause of this act unconstitutional, the other sections or clauses thereof shall not be affected thereby.

Approved Feb. 3, 1923.

No. 22.)

(H. J. R. 24. Long.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring that the State Highway Department is hereby requested to furnish the House and Senate at its earliest convenience the following information:

First-the name address and salary or per diem of each employee including road engineers and crew.

Second-Expenses of Highway commissioners.

Third-Amount of automobile tax collected during the past fiscal year.

for.

Fourth-How many bonds, if any have been sold and paid

Fifth-Number of miles of roads surveyed and located in each county and cost of such survey.

Sixth-Number of miles of road contracted for in each county and the contract price per mile.

Seventh-Number of miles constructed in each county and the cost per mile thereof.

Eighth-Location of each bridge over a navigable stream together with the cost of same if completed and if not completed but contracted for; then the contract price thereof. If any such bridge has been located and not contracted for then the estimated cost thereof.

Approved Feb. 5, 1923.

No. 23.)

AN ACT

(H. 82. Goode.

To make an appropriation for tick eradication.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from monies in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) to be available from the first day of April 1923 to the first day of October 1923. Said appropriation to be used for the purpose of eradicating Cattle ticks and guarding State boundary lines by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board according to the law of the State and the rules and regulations of the Live Stock Sanitary Board providing for tick eradication. Approved Feb. 5, 1923.

No. 24.)

AN ACT

(H. 136 Goodwyn

For the relief of J. W. Kirtland and to appropriate for said J. W. Kirtland the sum of $1354.78 for services rendered by him as Rate Clerk for the Alabama Public Service Commission.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1: That out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is hereby appropriated the sum of $1354.78 for the relief of J. W. Kirtland for services rendered the State of Alabama by the said J. W. Kirtland as Rate Clerk of the Alabama Public Service Commission for a period of time beginning August the 1st, 1922, and ending January the 13th, 1923, at the rate of $250.00 per month.

Section 2: That immediately after the passage of this Act and its approval by the Governor, the State Auditor shall issue his warrant upon the State Treasury in favor of the said J. W. Kirtland in the sum of $1354.78.

Approved Feb. 6, 1923.

No. 26.)

AN ACT

(S. 17. Hutson.

To validate certain bonds heretofore issued by municipal Corporations in Alabama. Whereas Section 11 of An Act approved August 26th, 1909, entitled "An Act to authorize the holding of elections by municipal corporations in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of obtaining authority to issue bonds for public purposes herein defined, and to provide for holding such elections, and declaring the result thereof, and to authorize the issue of such bonds when a majority of the voters participating in such election vote in favor of the issue of such bonds, and to regulate the issue, execution, sale and security of such bonds" contains the following limitation, to-wit, "but no bond bearing six per cent interest shall run for a longer period than ten years," Now therefore,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. All bonds heretofore issued in contravention of the said limitation are hereby validated, provided that in other respects they were issued according to law.

Approved Feb. 7, 1923.

No. 32.)

AN ACT

(S. 22. Inzer.

To provide for the withdrawal of any deposit of mutual aid or industrial association or corporation with the State when such corporation or association ceases to do business in the State and re-insures its policy holders in this State.