Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: That Sec. 1 of an Act entitled: "An Act to establish a new charter for the Town of Hartselle, in Morgan County," approved February 18th, 1899, and as amended by an Act approved August 2nd, 1907, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 1.-Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: That the Town of Hartselle be and the same is hereby incorporated, and the corporate lines of said town shall be as follows: Beginning in the center of the N. E. 14 and at the northeast corner of the S. E. 14 of the N. E. 14, Sec. 11, Tp. 7, R. 4 West, and running west one and one half miles to the center of the N. W. 1/4, which is the north-west corner of the S. E. 14 of the N. W. 14, Sec. 10, Tp. 7, R. 4 West, thence south one and one-half miles to the center of the S. W. 14, which is the south-west corner of the N. E. 14 of the S. W. 14, Sec. 15, Tp. 7, R. 4 West, thence east one and one-half miles to the center of the S. E. 14, which is the south-east corner of the N. W. 14 of the S. E. 14, Sec. 14, Tp. 7, R. 4 West, thence north one and one-half miles to the point of beginning, and being one and one-half miles square, with the south-east corner of Sec. 10, the south-west corner of Sec. 11, the north-west corner of Sec. 14, and the north-east corner of Sec. 15, Tp. 7, R. 4 West, in Morgan County, Alabama, as the center of said square area. Approved Sept. 7, 1923. No. 241.) AN ACT (H. 479. Graves. To divide Tallapoosa County, Alabama, into five Commissioners Districts and provide for the election of the Commissioners from each of said districts. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. That Tallapoosa County is hereby divided into five Commissioners' Districts to be known and called Commissioners Districts one, two, three, four and five. shall be comThat district embrace beats shall be comThat district Section 2. That district one in said county posed of and embrace beats one, two and three. two in said county shall be composed of and 4, 5 and 17. That district three in said county posed of and embrace beats 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18. four in said county shall be composed of and embrace beats 6, 11, 14, 15 and 16. That district five in said county shall be composed of and embrace beats 12 and 13, and only one county commissioner for the County of Tallapoosa shall be elected from each of said Commissioners districts. Section 3. That the county commissioners from each district shall be nominated by the qualified voters of the said district in which they reside, and after their nomination by the qualified electors of their district only they shall be elected as provided by law by the qualified voters of the entire county. Section 4. That this Act shall not affect the right of tenure of office of the present County Commissioners of Tallapoosa County, but said Commissioners shall continue to hold and discharge the duties of their office until their successors are elected and qualified under this Act. Section 5. Be it further enacted that all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved Sept. 7, 1923 No. 261.) AN ACT (H. 797. McDaniel. To confirm, ratify and validate all warrants of the County of Marengo heretofore issued by the judge of probate, under the authority of the Commissioners Court of said County, in all cases wherein said County has received the benefit of the goods, wares or merchandise furnished the said County, or the work and labor done for said county, or any service rendered to said County, for any lawful purpose, by any person, firm or corporation, and which said goods, wares or merchandise, or work and labor, or other service, was accepted and used for the benefit of said county, in the lawful business of said County, and to make the said warrants valid, legal and binding upon the said county to the same extent as if all requirements of law had been fully complied with by the said Commissioners Court and probate judge prior to the issuance of said warrants. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. That all warrants of the County of Marengo, State of Alabama, heretofore issued by the Judge of Probate of said County, under the authority of the Commissioners Court of said County, in all cases wherein said county has received the benefit of the goods, wares or merchandise furnished the said county, or the work and labor done for said county, or any service rendered to the said county for any lawful purpose, and which said goods, wares and merchandise or work and labor, or other service was accepted and used for the benefit of said county, in the lawful business of said county, be and the same are hereby ratified, confirmed and validated and declared to be the legal and binding obligations of said county, to the same extent as if all requirements of law had been fully complied with by the said Commissioners Court and judge of probate prior to the issuance of the said warrants, respectively: Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved Sept. 11, 1923 No. 262.) AN ACT (H. 798. McDaniel To confirm, ratify and validate all six per centum interest-bearing warrants, which have heretofore been or may hereafter be, issued by authority of the Commissioners Court of the County of Marengo, for the purpose of refunding the existing lawful indebtedness of said County, under the power conferred by an Act approved September, 28th 1920, or any other provision of law. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. That all county warrants issued by authority of the Commissioners Court of Marengo County, State of Alabama, which have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, issued for the purpose of refunding the existing lawful indebtedness of the said county, under the power conferred by the Act approved September 28th, 1920, or any other provision of law, be and the same are hereby confirmed, ratified and validated, in every respect, and are hereby declared to be the lawful obligations of said County. Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved Sept. 11, 1923. No. 265.) AN ACT (H. 652. Moxley. To repeal an Act entitled "An Act" To provide for the more efficient construction and maintenance of Public Roads and Bridges of Crenshaw County; to provide for the election of a County Engineer, to fix his salary and term of office and to prescribe his duties; to prescribe the duties of the Commissioners Court under this Act; to provide revenue for the roads and bridges of the county; to levy a commutation fee of five dollars in lieu of road work; to levy a vehicle license tax for road purposes; to prescribe the duties of the tax assessor, tax collector, probate-judge and sheriff under this Act and to fix their compensation; to provide for the assessment and collection of the taxes under this Act; to provide for the punishment of persons violating the provisions of this Act; to provide for the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected under this act and for the hire of county convicts under this act and to provide such other duties as may be necessary for the better and more efficient construction and maintenance of the public roads and bridges of the county. Approved September 25th, 1919. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. That an Act entitled an Act, "To provide for the more efficient construction and maintenance of the Public Roads and Bridges of Crenshaw County; to provide for the election of a County Engineer, to fix his salary and term of office and to prescribe his duties; to prescribe the duties of County Commissioners under this Act; to provide revenue for the roads and bridges of the County; to levy a commutation fee of five dollars in lieu of road work to levy a vehicle license tax for road purposes; to prescribe the duties of tax assessor, tax collector, probate judge and sheriff under this act and to fix their compensation; to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes under this act; to provide for the punishment of persons violating the provisions of this act; to provide for the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected under this act and for the hire of county convicts under this act and to provide such other duties as may be necessary for the better and more efficient construction and maintenance of the public roads and bridges of Crenshaw County, Ala." Approved September 25th, 1919 be and the same is hereby repealed. Section 2. That this Act shall take effect after 30th day of September 1923. Section 3. That on and after this Act takes effect the general act approved September 22, 1915, Acts 1915. Page 573 as amended by an Act 1919 page 844 general acts and approved September 30, 1919 shall be and become the law governing the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges and highways in Crenshaw County. Approved Sept. 12, 1923. No. 270.) (H. 255. LeMaistre. AN ACT To declare a certain portion of Eighth (8th) Street in the City of Florala. Alabama, according to Garrett's Map of Florala shall, upon the passage and approval of this Act, cease to be a public street, and authorize B. H. Meadows, his heirs and assigns, to perpetually use and occupy said portion of said street and vesting the title to same in the said B. H. Meadows. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama. Section 1. That that certain portion of Eighth (8th) Street in the City of Florala, Alabama, according to Garrett's Map of Florala, and described as follows: a strip of land twenty feet wide off of the East side of said Eighth (8th) Street and extending from Sixth (6th) Avenue to Fifth (5th) Avenue, shall upon the passage and approval of this Act, cease to be a public highway or street, and may be used by and occupied by B. H. Meadows, his heirs and assigns perpetually, and that the title to said strip of land shall vest in the said B. H. Meadows. Approved Sept. 14, 1923. No. 271.) (H. 716. Ashcraft of Fayette. AN ACT To provide a system for the construction and maintenance of public roads and bridges for the County of Fayette, Alabama. By creating a Road Commission in the several precincts of said county; by appointing overseers in the several precincts by said Road Commission; by re quiring the members of said Road Commission to take the oath of office; by requiring the Treasurer of said Road Commission to give bond; by requiring all male citizens between the age of eighteen and forty-five years to work on the public roads and bridges eight days each year or pay a commutation fee in lieu of work of $8.00 per annum; by requiring the Road Commissioners and overseers to serve as such Road Commissioners and overseers when within road age; by prescribing the method of securing exemption from road duty; by providing for the collection of said commutation fees by the Treasurer of the several Road Commissioners; by directing how said commutation fee shall be expended by said Road Commission; by requiring the Road Commission in the several precincts to make reports to the County Commissioners as to how said commutation fees have been expended; by providing a method for warning hands to work on said roads and bridges; by providing a method of excusing defaulters from working said roads and bridges; by providing for the making and painting of mile posts and direction signs to be paid for by the County Commissioners out of any special road funds; by providing the duties of County Commissioners, Road Commissioners and overseers with reference to said roads and bridges; by providing for the keeping and repairing of road tools, machinery and implements belonging to said county to be used for working and maintaining said roads and bridges; by providing for the removal of Road Commissioners and overseers for neglect of duty, drunkenness or incompetency; by providing for the paying of a license tax on wagons and motor trucks used on said roads and bridges for commercial purposes and said license tax to be used in repairing the roads and bridges of said county used or contemplated being used by the party paying said license tax; by requiring automobiles, taxicabs or other motor vehicles transporting passengers for hire on said public roads and bridges to pay a license tax to be used in repairing the roads and bridges of said county used or contemplated being used by the party paying said license tax; by prohibiting wagons and trucks on which a license tax is required to be paid from using said roads and bridges for a period of twelve and fifteen hours after each rain of sufficient quantity to stand in puddles in said roads for a period of thirty minutes after each rain; by requiring the owners of said wagons and trucks to immediately repair damages to said roads when used in a soggy or boggy condition; by requiring the owners of said wagons and trucks to immediately repair all damage done to the bridges on said roads; by making the owners of said wagons and trucks liable for damage done to said bridges; by giving the county or any citizen thereof the right to enjoin |
