such other steps as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Section 4. Said Commission may sit during the legislative session and at other times as may be deemed advisable by the Commission. While sitting as a commission during the recess of the Legislature the members of the Commission shall receive ten dollars per day as members of the Commission, payable out of the appropriation herein provided.

Section 5. Said Commission shall investigate the right, title and interest of the State of Alabama in and to the power dam, power site and other improvements at Wilson Dam and Muscle Shoals and report to this Legislature their findings and conclusions and recommend to the Legislature such statutes as ought to be enacted to preserve and conserve all the rights, title and interest of the State of Alabama in the said Muscle Shoal and Wilson Dam improvement and project and also to conserve and preserve the right, title and interest of the State of Alabama in the beds of the streams in Alabama.

Section 6. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which said sum is to be used for paying any expenses, contracts or other obligations of said Commission; payable on the order of the Chairman, with the approval of the Governor, directed to the State Auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasury for the same.

Section 7. When the said Commission shall have finished its findings and made its final report to the Legislature of Alabama the said Commission shall be dissolved and its powers and duties shall cease and it shall be discharged.

Section 8. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with any of the provisions of this Act be and are hereby repealed. Approved Feb. 10, 1927.

No. 41.)

(S. 99. Ellis of Dallas.

AN ACT

To amend Section 1053 of the Code of Alabama 1923,

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. That Section 1053 of the Code of 1923 be and the said Section 1053 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1053. The State Board of Health shail elect an executive officer to be known as the State Health Officer, and shall fix his term of office and salary, provided that the latter shall not exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The

State Health Officer so elected shall, under the direction of the State Board of Health, exercise general supervision over county boards of health and county and municipal health officers, and shall promptly report to said county boards of health any delinquencies of official duty on the part of said county and municipal health officers, which may come to his knowledge; shall keep himself informed in regard to all infections, contagious, and pestilential diseases, which may be in danger of invading the State, and shall, so far as authorized by law, take prompt measures to prevent such invasion; shall keep the Governor informed as to the health conditions prevailing in the State, especially as to outbreaks of any of the diseases enumerated in Section 1092 of this Code, and shall submit to the Governor such recommendations as he deems proper to control such outbreaks. Approved Feb. 10, 1927.

No. 42.)

AN ACT

(S. 25. Stanley.

To amend Section 2975 of the Code of Alabama of 1923. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. That Section 2975 of the Code of Alabama of 1923 be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2975 (2038) Soldiers' Home at Mountain Creek Established. The Governor shall nominate and appoint one person from each Congressional District in the State, and three from the State at large, who shall be known Confederate veterans so far as practicable, and who, with the Governor and the Chairman of the Soldiers' Home Committee of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy shall constitute a Board of Control for the Soldiers' Home at Mountain Creek which was conveyed to the state by Jefferson M. Faulkner, and each of said members appointed shall serve for the period of six years from the time of their appointment and until their successors are appointed and qualified, except the Governor, and the Chairman of the Home Committee from the Daughters of the Confederacy, the latter who shall serve during her term of office in the Alabama Division.

Approved Feb. 15, 1927.

No. 43.)

AN ACT

(S. 26. Stanley.

To amend Section 2981 of the Code of Alabama of 1923.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That Section 2981 of the Code of Alabama of 1923 be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as fol

lows: 2981 (2044) Veterans Who are Eligible.-Only indigent Confederate veterans and wives, when accompanied by their husbands, and widows of Confederate soldiers over the age of sixty years, who shall have been bona fide residents of the State of Alabama, for one year prior to making application for admission into the soldier's home shall be eligible as beneficiaries under this article, provided that the wife of such Confederate veteran shall at the time of such application, be over the age of sixty years, and that she shall have been the wife of such Confederate veteran for five years or more prior to making such application for admission to said home. The widows of veterans whose husbands die while inmates of the home, and who accompanied their husbands to the home, may remain inmates and beneficiaries of the home.

Approved Feb. 15, 1927.

No. 44)

AN ACT

(S. 80. Fite.

To amend Section 2051 of the Code of Alabama of 1923.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: That Section 2051 of the Code of Alabama of 1923 be amended so as to read as follows: 2051 (1293) Water Closest, Privies etc. To regulate dry closets, water closets, and septic tanks, and the construction thereof, and to compel the installation of the same, and connection of such water closets with such septic tanks or with the sewerage system of the city or town, and in case of a failure to install or connect after reasonable notice, then the city or town may install proper dry closets, water closets or septic tanks as it deems advisable, and connect such water closets with such septic tanks or with the sewerage system of the city or town, at the expense of the owner, the cost thereof to be a lien upon the property in favor of the city or town, to ve collected as other debts are collected or liens enforced. When dry closets, water closets or septic tanks are installed and connections made by the city or town under the provisions of this section, the mayor of such city or town shall prepare a statement in writing setting forth the name of the owner and a description of the property on which such improvements have been made, together with the cost of such sanitary connection and installing of the closets or septic tanks, which must be signed by the mayor in his official capacity and filed with the Probate Judge of the county in which such property is situated for record in the mortgage records of the county. The filing of such statement shall operate as notice of the existence of such lien from the date of its filing.

Approved Feb. 17, 1927.

No. 45.)

AN ACT

(H. 96. Tunstall

To make appropriation of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($250,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the present Session of the Legislature and the Recess Committees raised by the Legislature.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the expenses of the present session of the Legislature and the Recess Committees of the Legislature.

Approved Feb. 11, 1927.

No. 46.)

AN ACT

(H. 170. Lee.

To amend Section 6383 and 6384 of the Code of Alabama of 1923.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That Section 6383 of the Code of Alabama of 1923 be and the same hereby is amended so that it shall read as follows: "6383. Banking Corporations May Extend Corporate Existence. Any banking Corporation, or any corporation engaged in doing a banking business, whether organized under a general law or by a special Act of the Legislature, or otherwise, may from time to time, at any time before the expiration of the original term of its corporate existence, or before the expiration of any extended term of its corporate existence, extend its corporate existence for such additional period it may desire, not to exceed twenty years, in the manner prescribed in the next following Section."

Section 2. That Section 6384 of the Code of Alabama of 1923 be and the same hereby is amended so that it shall read as follows: 6384. Method of Extending Corporate Existence. The Board of Directors shall pass a resolution that such extension is desirable, and shall call a meeting of the stockholders in accordance with the provisions of Section 7002 of the Code of Alabama of 1923, to take action thereon, notice of which said meeting shall be filed with the State Superintendent of Banks. If the holders of the larger amount in value of each class of stock having voting power shall vote in favor of such extension the proceedings shall be certified by the President and the Secretary or Cashier under the corporate seal, and proved and ac

knowledged as in the case of deeds to real estate, and such certificate shall be filed with the Superintendent of Banks. If the proceedings and certificate are in proper form the Superintendent of Banks shall endorse his approval thereon, and thereupon the corporation shall file the same in the office of the Probate Judge of the county where such corporation has its principal place of business; and upon such filing the corporate existence of such corporation shall be deemed extended in accordance with said certificate."

Section 3. The provisions of this Act shall be effective immediately upon its adoption.

Approved Feb. 15, 1927.

No. 49.)

AN ACT

(H. 262. Martin.

To regulate further the financing of public improvements, to permit the reduction or abatement of assessments therefor in certain cases, to provide for the refunding of bonds issued therefor and to validate proceedings heretofore taken relating thereto in cities having a population of as many as twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand people according to the last Federal census or any such census which may hereafter be taken.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That the provisions of this Act shall apply only to cities in the State of Alabama which have a population of as many as twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand people according to the last Federal census or which shall hereafter have such a population according to any such census that may be taken hereafter, said cities being known as cities of class "C" under laws now in force.

Section 2. That the governing body of any city of the class described in section 1 hereof shall have power to reduce or abate any assessments heretofore or hereafter made for public improvements in such city in cases where such assessments have been levied or attempted to be levied against property owned by the State of Alabama or by such city or by the county in which such city is located or by any church, hospital or other charitable organization or in any case where the governing body after due inquiry has determined that the assessment on any particular property has been made erroneously or is in excess of the benefit derived by such property or so great as to constitute an undue burden upon the property, having in view the value thereof, whether or not such assessment shall have been made final and the time to appeal therefrom expired, provivded, however, that it is not intended hereby to authorize such governing body