Section 22. That for the purpose of maintaining the public roads the court of county commissioners may from time to time divide the county into a convenient number of road precincts and require the county engineer to appoint one or more overseers or apportioners for each precinct. The term of office of said overseers or apportioners shall be one year; but such overseers or apportioners, or any one of them, may be discharged for neglect of duty or inefficiency. When a vacancy occurs in the office of overseer or apportioner the county engineer shall appoint some person to fill out the unexpired term, or, may act under the general law in lieu of this section.

Section 23. That all male inhabitants of the county between the ages of 21 and 50 years are subject to road duty under this act as overseers.

Section 24. Any apportioner, engineer, overseer, road hand, or other person who fails to perform any duty required of him by this act, or by the general laws of the State not in conflict with this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction must be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

Section 25. A county road and bridge fund is hereby created for Limestone County, Alabama, into which fund shall be paid all moneys derived for roads and bridges in said county.

Section 26. That it shall be the duty of the court of county commissioners of Limestone County to have this act, and all rules and regulations regarding public roads, bridges, and ferries, promulgated by said court, printed in pamphlet form for use of said court and other courts of the county and for the officers herein named.

Section 27. If in the event a board of revenue or other like governing body is created for Limestone County, in lieu of the court of county commissioners, such board of revenue or like governing body shall have all of the authority under this Act as is conferred on the court of county commissioners, and in such event, where such a term as "court of county commissioners," or similar term, occurs in this Act, the term "board of revenue," as the case may be, shall be substituted in lieu thereof.

Section 28. The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road tools and machinery of Limestone County, and it shall be his duty to keep the same in a substantial warehouse, except when such tools or machinery are being used on the roads for road work. To this end, the county engineer is given all incidental powers necessary to carrying this section into effect.

Section 29. The county engineer shall be accountable at all times for each and all of the tools and machinery belonging to Limestone County, and for his failure to do so, he shall be guilty

of a misdemeanor, and on conviction must be fined not less than $10.00 or more than $500.00.

Section 30. That within one year after the approval of this act the court of county commissioners shall cause to be erected at the intersections and crossing points of all roads, substantial sign boards with suitable device and lettering thereon to indicate the direction and distance to the nearest town or city.

Section 31. That this Act and the general laws of the State of Alabama not in conflict with this act, shall constitute the law for Limestone County on the subject of public roads, bridges, and ferries; and, the court of county commissioners of said county is hereby vested with all the authority in reference to roads and bridges and ferries as now or may hereafter be conferred by the general laws of the State of Alabama, not in conflict with this act.

Section 32. It shall be the duty of the county engineer to make a semi-annual publication during the first week in January and July of each year, in each newspaper published in the county, of an itemized report, showing the receipts and expenditures of money for the road and bridge purposes of Limestone County, specifying particularly the sources from which received, and the purpose for which expended.

Section 33. It shall be the duty of the court of county commissioners to make a budget of all the road funds, stating specifically how such funds are to be expended, setting out definitely the amount to be expended on the roads in each of the several beats of the county, and shall publish the same in each newspaper in the county during the fourth week in June of each year and set a day not later than the first Saturday in July of each year to hear objections and remonstrances to the same.

Section 34. If any section, clause, provision, or portion of this act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect any other section, clause, provision or portion of this act which is not of itself unconstitutional.

Section 35. That all local laws and parts of local laws, heretofore enacted, in regard to public roads, bridges and ferries in Limestone County, however remotely they may relate thereto, are hereby expressly repealed, and all general laws and parts of general laws not in conflict with this act shall remain in full force and effect, and all general laws and parts of general laws in conflict with this act are hereby expressly repealed.

Section 36. That this Act shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the governor.

Approved Sept. 19, 1923.

No. 313.)

AN ACT

(H. 340. Dickinson.

To repeal An Act Entitled An Act, To incorporate the Prattville, Male and Female Academy in the County of Autauga, approved February 23rd, 1860.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1.-That an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the Prattville Male and Female Academy in the County of Autauga, approved February 23rd, 1860, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Section 2.-That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Bill be and the same are hereby repealed.

Section 3.-That this Bill shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved Sept. 19, 1923.

No. 314.)

AN ACT

(S. 296. Hutson.

To amend an act, entitled an act, to establish a County Court for Morgan County; to define its jurisdiction and powers; to provide for its officers, their powers, duties and compensation; to provide that said court shall be open at all times for the trial of cases and transaction of business; prescribing rules and procedure of said court; and to provide for the transfer of certain causes now or hereafter pending in the Circuit Court of Morgan County, Alabama, to the Morgan County Court. Approved September 24, 1919.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

That an Act entitled an Act: "To establish a County Court for Morgan County; to define its jurisdiction and powers; to provide for its officers, their powers, duties and compensation; to provide that said court shall be open at all times for the trial of cases and transaction of business; prescribing rules and procedure of said court; and to provide for the transfer of certain causes now or hereafter pending in the Circuit Court of Morgan County, Alabama, to the Morgan County Court. Approved September 24, 1919," be amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 1: Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, That there be and hereby is established in and for the County of Morgan, a court of law which will be called the Morgan County Court, and which shall be a court of record, and which shall have and exercise the jurisdiction, authority, functions and powers hereinafter conferred upon it by this Act."

"Section 2: That the Judge for said Court shall be appointed by the Governor of the State immediately after the ap

proval of this Act, whose term of office shall begin immediately upon his appointment and qualification, and shall continue until the second Tuesday after the first Monday in January in the year 1923; and that, at the general election to be held in the year 1922, the successor to the judge so appointed shall be elected by the qualified electors of Morgan County, Alabama, voting at said election, whose term of office shall begin on the expiration of the term of office of the judge to be appointed by the Governor, upon the approval of, and under the authority of this Act, and whose term of office shall be for a term of six years. The judge of said court before entering upon the duties of said office shall take the oath required by law to be taken by the judges of the Circuit Courts of Alabama. The said judge shall be a qualified elector of Morgan County, Alabama; shall be learned in the law, and shall be not less than twenty-five years of age.

"Section 3: Vacancies in the office of judge of said court shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, and the person so appointed shall hold office as required by the Constitution of this State. Said judge may be removed from office in the manner now provided by law for the removal of Circuit Judges; and Circuit Judges may hold said court when it is deemed proper so to do, and shall do so when authorized by law, and the Judge of the Morgan County Court may hold the Circuit Court when it is deemed proper to do so and shall do so when authorized by law.

"Section 4: That the clerk of the Circuit Court of Morgan County will be ex-officio clerk of said Court, and shall have the powers, and discharge the duties, which will devolve upon the clerk of the Circuit Court, and shall be subject to the same pains and penalties with regard to the duties of the office, and shall be entitled to the same fees as are now, or may hereafter be allowed to circuit clerks of Alabama, and the same shall be collected as such fees are collected in the Circuit Court; and that the deputy clerk of the Circuit Court of Morgan County shall be ex-officio deputy clerk of the Morgan County Court, and exercise the same powers and duties as are exercised in the Circuit Court.

"Section 5: That the judge of said court shall receive a salary of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars ($2500); payable Two Hundred Eight Dollars and Thirty-three cents, ($208.33) per month, out of the County treasury at the end of each month, his signed receipt being required; that there shall be taxed as a trial fee the sum of $5.00 in all cases tried in said court where the amount involved is more than $100.00, and in actions of ejectment, unlawful detainer, forcible entry, and trials of the right of property, and in all criminal cases, and three dollars in

all other cases to be taxed and collected as a part of the costs and said fee shall be taxed not only in all cases where there is a conviction for criminal offense, but also in each case where the prosecutor is taxed with the costs. Said trial fee in all cases shall be paid by the clerk of said court into the county treasury for the benefit of the general fund.

"Section 6: That the Deputy Solicitor of Morgan County shall be Solicitor of the Morgan County Court, and shall hold office until the second Tuesday after the first Monday in January, 1923, and until his successor is elected and qualified, and shall prosecute for the State all causes in said court, and for so doing he shall receive a salary of One Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) per year, payable One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month, out of the County Treasury at the end of each month, his signed receipt being required. Provided, further, that all solicitors' fees taxed and collected in said court shall be paid into the general fund of Morgan County, and the salary of said Solicitor shall begin upon the approval of this act; and at the general election in 1922 and every four years thereafter there shall be elected a solicitor for said Morgan County Court by the qualified electors of Morgan County, who shall take office at the expiration of the term of the present Deputy Solicitor, and every four years thereafter.

"Section 7: That the solicitor of this Court shall be and he is hereby authorized and directed to attend upon the sessions of the grand juries of the Circuit Court of Morgan County.

"Section 8: That the said court shall be held at the court house of Morgan County, and that said court shall be open at all times for the trial of cases and the transaction of business. In case of sickness or disqualification of the Judge of said Court, the law applicable to the appointment and service of special judges in the Circuit Courts shall apply. The judge of the said court shall be subject to the same penalties for failure to attend upon the Court as Circuit Judges of this State. The judge of said court shall keep an office in the Court House of Morgan County; and it shall be the duty of the Court of County Commissioners of Morgan County to provide such an office, and supply the same with the necessary furnishings, fixtures, stationery, etc.

"Section 9: The judge of said court may determine and fix the time for holding the sessions of said court; for the trial of all cases, both civil and criminal; provided, however, that all civil and criminal cases, both cases to be tried by a jury and those cases in which no jury has been demanded, shall be called for trial at least once every thirty days until said cases are disposed of. Provided, however, that any case may be continued by agreement of counsel on both sides made in open Court or in