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over the age of forty-five years, and all male persons who have lost a limb or the use of a limb, or who by nature or disease are physically unfit to perform hard labor, and who hold a certificate of such disability from the county or State Board of Public Health; and there shall be no exemption granted to any person whomsoever because of any official position or other position which he may hold, but the only exemptions which any person whomsoever may claim in Morgan County, on or after the passage of this act. shall be the exemptions here in this section specified.

Section 18. Any person liable to road duty in Morgan County, and who, after due notice as hereinafter provided, fails to work upon the public roads, or who is insubordinate, or performs his work willfully inefficiently, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, must be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and may be sentenced to not less than twenty days hard labor for the county. And it shall be the duty of the Road Superintendent to go into each beat of Morgan County between the first day of January and the first day of March of each year or to meet each Beat Supervisor between the first day of January and the first day of March of each year at some convenient place, and to apportion to each road in such beat all the men subject to road duty in such beat, this apportionment to be made at all times so that the least possible distance will be traversed in going to and from roads to be worked, and so that the roads most in need of repair in the judgment of the Road Superintendent and the Beat Supervisor will be first worked, and a list shall be made in duplicate, one list delivered to the Road Superintendent and one list delivered to the Beat Supervisor.

Section 19. That after the first day of March of each year, the Road Superintendent shall employ some one to notify the men assigned to each road to meet at a specific time and place to perform labor upon such public road. That this notice may be served by the Superintendent of Roads, or the Superintendent of Roads may instruct the Beat Supervisor to notify such men, or employ some one to notify such men. That the notice may be served upon such men by leaving a written notice at their residence, their boarding house, or their usual place of abode, and the leaving of such notice at such residence, boarding house, or usual place of abode shall be conclusive evidence that they received such notice.

Section 20. That in the event Morgan County should work its convicts upon the public roads, it shall be the duty of the Road Superintendent to receive such convicts, provide for their guarding, and the labor that they shall perform, but he shall,

when practicable. use such convicts in the crushing of stone at stone quarries located by him in convenient parts of the county.

Section 21. The Superintendent of Roads shall supervise the location and operation of the various stone crushers in Morgan County; he shall, if possible, make practical contracts with the citizens in different communities in Morgan County to haul and deliver free of all charges the stones from the crushers to the roads in consideration that the Road Superintendent crush the stone and grade the roads.

Section 22. There is hereby appropriated out of the taxes collected in Morgan County each year such sum which shall aggregate Thirty-Six Thousand Dollars ($36,000.00), which shall be deposited in the depository of Morgan County in a special fund subject to the checks of the Road Superintendent of Morgan County. However, this sum may be appropriated and set aside in the following manner and amounts: In October of each year, $2,000.00; in November of each year, $2,000.00; in December of each year, $2,000.00; in January of each year, $2,000.00; in February of each year, $2,000.00; in March of each year, $2,000.00; in April of each year, $4,000.00; in May of each year, $4,000.00; in June of each year, $4,000.00; in July of each year, $4,000.00; in August of each year, $4,000.00; and in September of each year, $4,000.00. Said fund to be expended only under the supervision of the Road Superintendent, and upon his order in repairing, making and constructing public roads in Morgan County.

Section 23. There is hereby levied a special license tax for the use of the public roads in Morgan County, in addition to those now levied by the State, on the following, to-wit: On trucks of not more than one ton, five dollars; more than one ton and less than five tons, ten dollars; more than ten tons, fifteen dollars. On drays, log, lumber and timber wagons, fifteen dollars each per annum. On two horse wagons, buggies, and surries, one dollar and fifty cents each per annum. On one horse wagons, buggies and carts, seventy-five cents each per annum. On public haulers using any of the above mentioned drays, log, lumber and timber wagons, fifteen dollars additional taxes for the use of the public roads. On automobiles and auto cars for private use 22 horse power and less, five dollars each per annum. On automobiles and auto cars for private use above 22 horse power seven dollars and fifty cents per annum. On automobiles and auto cars kept for rent or hire, or to carry mail, express, freight, or passengers, 22 horse power and less, seven dollars and fifty cents each per annum. On automobiles and auto cars kept for rent or hire, or to carry mail, express, freight or passengers above 22 horse power and to 30 horse power, ten dollars each per annum. On automobiles and auto cars kept for

rent or hire, or used to carry mail, express, freight, or passengers, above 30 horse power, twelve dollars and fifty cents per annum. On any vehicle used to haul kerosene, gasoline, and any of the so-called soft drinks in, or into Morgan County, Alabama, ten dollars each per annum.

Section 24. On dealers in automobiles, and auto cars, five dollars each per annum. On public garages, five dollars each per annum. On horse and mule dealers, cattle buyers, and cattle shippers, five dollars each per annum.

Section 25. On each telephone, telegraph, and express company doing business in Morgan County, Alabama, five dollars per annum for each office established in the county.

Section 26. On practicing physicians, lawyers, dentists, pharmacists, veterinary surgeons, specialists of any human disease or infirmities of any kind, and for each tonsorial artist, five dollars each per annum.

Section 27. Banks, banking institutions, persons, firms, or corporations engaged in business in Morgan County, Alabama, shall pay a special license or privilege tax of five cents on each hundred dollars worth of stock or capital invested in their particular line of business in Morgan County, Alabama.

Section 28. Sewing machine agents, lightning rod agents, tombstone agents, merchandise or medicine agents, regardless of mode of travel, shall pay a privilege license of ten dollars each per annum.

Section 29. Fruit tree agents, spectacle agents, foot, wagon, buggy or automobile traveling salesmen and solicitors, selling any article, or soliciting the sale of any article to the public not mentioned in other subdivisions of the act, shall pay a privilege license of five dollars each per annum, provided, that this section shall not apply to any employee of any institution taxed under Section 27 of this bill.

Section 30. Bottling works, making any of the so called soft drinks, or any retail or wholesale distributor of any soft drinks in Morgan County, shall pay a privilege license of ten dollars each per annum.

Section 31. Circus or traveling shows, where public entertainments are given shall each pay ten dollars for each day's exhibition of the "big show," and two dollars and fifty cents for each side attraction thereto, concert or entertainment, for which admission is charged. The manager of any show who refuses to first take out his license for the day, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, and sentenced to not less than thirty days at hard labor for the county.

Section 32. Each auctioneer selling goods, wares, merchandise, live stock, or other thing of value, whether a charge for

same is made or not, shall pay a license of privilege tax of five dollars per annum. Provided, however, this section does not apply to selling the estate of a decedent, or property conveyed by mortgage or deed of trust, or to any one selling his own agricultural products, or that of another under his control, at public outcry.

Section 33. Each person, firm, or corporation engaged in retail or wholesale distribution of commercial fertilizers in Morgan County, shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars. per annum.

Section 34. All transient or itinerant auctioneers, traders, or dealers in goods, wares, live stock, merchandise, or medicine, and all migratory dealers not mentioned in subdivisions elsewhere, except commercial salesmen making sales by samples, shall each pay a license or privilege tax of ten dollars per month or fractional part of a month.

Section 35. Each person, firm, or corporation who has an established agency in the county, or who has any person authorized to lend money in Morgan County, shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars per annum. This section does not apply to the banks, nor to individuals lending their own money, nor to building and loan associations.

Section 36. Each person, firm, or corporation engaged in buying, selling, or renting real estate on commission, or as attorney, shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars per annum.

Section 37. Each person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of selling, or delivering pianos and organs in Morgan County, either in person, by agent, or consignee, shall pay five dollars privilege tax per annum.

Section 38. Each person, firm, or corporation operating a soda fountain, or selling any of the so called soft drinks. shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars per annum. Provided, that this section shall not apply to any person, firm, or corporation taxed under Section 27 of this bill.

Section 39. Each person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of selling life, fire, accident, or other insurance in Morgan County, shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars per annum.

Section 40. Each person, firm, or corporation operating a commercial saw mill, planing mill or gin shall pay a license or privilege tax of fifteen dollars per annum: and each person. firm or corporation operating a community saw mill, planing mill, or cotton gin, shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars per annum.

Section 41. Each person, firm or corporation engaged in selling coffins and caskets, or doing embalming and undertaking

business in Morgan County, shall pay a license or privilege tax of five dollars per annum. Provided that this section shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation, handling less than twenty coffins or caskets in each year.

Section 42. "The privilege tax or license herein and hereby levied, shall be due and payable at the same time that State and County Licenses are due and payable, and shall be procured from the office of the Judge of Probate as the State and County Licenses are procured, and the same penalties and fees as are prescribed by law for delinquent licenses under the State License law are hereby assessed against delinquents hereunder. and the State License Inspector or other officer charged with the duty of enforcing the payment of delinquent licenses under the State law shall be and is hereby charged with the enforcement of this act, and shall be paid therefor the same fees and commissions as under the State Law

Section 4212. In addition to any other remedy herein contained, it is made the duty of the Road Supervisor to prosecute all delinquents hereunder as speedily as such delinquency comes to his knowledge; and in such cases, it shall be sufficient to charge any delinquent with having failed or refused after notice to procure a license as provided by this act (here set out the kind or nature of license) against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. All such delinquencies are hereby declared to be misdemeanors, and are triable in the County Court of Morgan County, and on conviction, must be fined not less than the license fee and delinquent fees and costs, and as much more as the Court or jury trying the case may determine to be right and just in the premises.

Section 42 A. The Clerk of the Court upon the payment of such fines, shall pay over to the Judge of Probate, the license, together with the penalty and fees thereon, and any surplus fines he must pay into the fine and forfeiture fund of the County.

Section 43. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch water on his lands by means of ditches and terraces and empty it into the roads where it will flood and damage the road. Water caught on the lands by ditches and terraces must be conducted across the road to lower land through a sewer sufficiently large to hold it, and prevent an overflow in the road, or conduct it by means of ditches along the bank of the road to a sewer, or a place where water would naturally flow across the road. It shall be unlawful for any person to trim the banks of the roads and leave the brush or filth where it might get into the road and choke its sewers and ditches, or to drag out, with a plow or other implement, any trash or dirt into the side ditches of the road and leave it there. It shall also be unlawful for any person to

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