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grant said requisition and direct the road commission to proceed at once to repair the same. The county commissioners are authorized to purchase such lumber and material as are needed to repair the bridges and to be kept by them or their agents at convenient places to be used for repairing the bridges immediately. Every overseer shall within twelve hours after his attention has been called to the fact that a bridge on his road is out of repair, proceed to repair the same if material is available, and if the material is not available he must report it to the road commission within said time. If the road commissioners fail to perform their duties as required in this section, and if the overseers fail to perform their duties as required in this Section, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalties as provided in Section 27 of this Act.

Section 11. That Section 28 be amended to read as follows: Section 28. That each person, firm association or corporation hauling logs, lumber or freight on along or across the public roads or highways of Lamar County for hire, profit or compensation, and each person, firm, association or corporation engaged in hauling for hire and each person, firm, association or corporation hauling feight, goods, wares or merchandise to be sold or offered for sale in the hauling of which any public road or highway in Lamar County is used shall pay the following privilege license for the use of said public roads or highways of said Lamar County, to-wit: (a) For each wagon drawn by two animals, six dollars per annum, provided that if the person, firm, association or corporation paying the same desires to do so, he or they may pay for and take out the license semi-annually, and in the event the same is paid for semi-annually the first half shall include January, February, March, April, May, and June, or any fractional part of said months, and the second half shall include July, August, September, October, November and December or any fractional part of said months, and the privilege license tax for the use of the public roads or highways during any part of any half as above specified will be the same as if they were used during the entire half, and the amount to be paid if paid semi-annually will be three dollars for the half in which such public road or highway is used. (b) For each wagon drawn by three or more animals, twelve dollars per annum, provided that if the person, firm, association or corporation paying the same desires to do so, he or they may pay for and take out the license semi-annually, and in the event the same is paid for semi-annually, the first half shall include January, February, March, April, May and June, or any fractional part of said months, and the second half shall include July, August, September, October, November, and December or any fractional part of said months, and the privilege license tax for

the use of the public roads or highways during any part of any half as above specified will be the same as if they were used during the entire half, and the amount to be paid if paid semiannually will be six dollars for the half in which such public road or highway is used. (c) For each motor truck used in hauling logs, timber, lumber, freight or other merchandise of one ton capacity, fifteen dollars per annum; of one and one-half tons capacity, twenty-five dollars per annum; of two tons capacity, thirty dollars per annum; of two and one-half tons capacity, forty dollars per annum; of three tons capacity, fifty dollars per annum; of three and one-half tons capacity or over, seventyfive dollars per annum: Provided that if the person, firm, association or corporation paying the same desires to do so he may pay for and take out the license semi-annually, and in the event the same is paid for semi-annually the first half shall include January, February, March, April, May and June, or any fractional part of said months, and the second half shall include July, August, September, October, November and December or any fractional part of said months, and the privilege license tax for the use of the public roads or highways during any part of any half as above specified will be the same as if they were used during the entire half, and the amount to be paid if paid semiannually will be one-half of the fee per annum for each half, Provided that this privilege license tax required to be paid under this Section shall not apply to persons who only haul logs to a saw mill to have same sawed on shares and who haul same back to their premises for their own use, nor to persons who haul firewood and stove wood to market, provided that they do not engage in the same as a business, and: Provided further that this privilege license tax shall not apply to persons hauling their farm products to market not their supplies from market. Provided further, that this privilege license tax shall not apply to persons hauling cross ties on, along or across the public roads of said county when said cross ties have been cut, manufactured or produced from the land or timber owned by said person hauling said crossties.

Section 12. That Section 30 be amended to read as follows: Section 30. That the Probate Judge shall send a record of all licenses issued showing the person from whom collected and the amount collected together with the money collected to the road treasurer of each precinct and the road treasurer of each precinct shall sign and send the receipt for same to the Probate Judge. That immediately upon receipt of this report from the Probate Judge, it shall be the duty of the road commission of each precinct to investigate and ascertain if all persons, firms, associations or corporations have paid the required privilege license taxes due by them under the provisions of this Act, and

shall take a list of those who have not paid specifying the class of vehicles owned by them and shall at once send same to the Judge of Probate of Lamar County. That said Probate Judge shall on receiving such list of delinquents at once issue a citation to each person, firm, association or corporation so delinquent which citation shall be served upon the person, firm, association or corporation so delinquent, by the sheriff of Lamar County, and on the failure of such person, firm, association or corporation to take out such license as required within ten days. after being cited as above, the sheriff shall swear out a warrant for such person, firm, association or corporation for violating the provisions of this Act. The sheriff shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar and fifty cents for each citation served, and shall be paid by the person, firm, association or corporation to whom the citation is issued.

Section 13. That Section 34 be amended to read as follows: Section 34. That this privilege tax for the year 1923 shall become due and shall be paid by each person, firm, association or corporation entitled to pay same on or before March 1st, 1923, and such persons shall be delinquent on the first day of April 1923. Beginning with the year 1924 and for each subsequent year thereafter said license shall be due and payable on the first day of January of such year and shall be delinquent on the first day of February of such year, provided that license may be paid semi-annually as provided in Section 28 of this Act. It shall be the duty of the State examiner of public accounts to examine all books, records, receipts, vouchers and papers of every kind and description kept by the commissioners court and road commissioners for the purpose of ascertaining as to whether or not special road funds and gasoline tax funds have been legally expended and to furnish the circuit solicitor of the 14th. judicial circuit and the county solicitor with a copy of his report. It is made the duty of the said circuit solicitor and the county solicitor to see that all road funds are legally spent and in case of misappropriation of any road funds of said county to take such legal steps as may be necessary to recover said fund and to prevent misappropriation of said road funds.

Approved Sept. 26, 1923.

No. 407.)

AN ACT

(H. 331. Rives.

For the Relief of C. L. Spain.

WHEREAS, it was necessary that C. L. Spain while coroner of Jefferson County, State of Alabama, from the...day of January, 1913, to th..................y of January, 1917, to expend for

the said County of Jefferson the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars for traveling expenses in order, and as a prerequisite, to perform the duties of coroner in the said county during said term, and. also, to expend for the said County of Jefferson the sum of Twelve Hundred ($1,200.00) Dollars for clerical, or stenographic, hire and service during said term; And,

WHEREAS, Proof has been made that the said C. L. Spain did actually expend the aforesaid sums of money amounting to Thirty-two Hundred ($3,200.00) Dollars for the said County of Jefferson during said time; And,

WHEREAS, There is no provision of law for paying back to the said C. L. Spain the said sum of money so expended by him; therefore,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That the Board of Revenue of Jefferson County is hereby authorized and required to draw or cause to be drawn a warrant on the County Treasurer of Jefferson County in favor of C. L. Spain for the sum of Thirty-two Hundred ($3,200.00) Dollars, covering the amount expended by C. L. Spain in paying said traveling expenses and said clerical and stenographic hire as aforesaid. And the treasurer of said Jefferson County is hereby directed and required to pay such warrant out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved Sept. 26, 1923.

No. 408.)

AN ACT

(H. 1015. Fanning.

To abolish and dissolve the municipal corporation of the town of Townley in Walker County, Alabama."

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama as follows: Section 1. That the municipal corporation of the town of Townley in Walker County, Alabama be and the same is hereby dissolved and abolished.

Section 2. Be it further enacted that all property of said municipal corporation shall, upon its dissolution, invest in Walker County and may be sold or otherwise disposed of by the Board of Commissioners of Walker County, Alabama.

Section 3. Be it further enacted that the territory included within the present municipal corporation of the town of Townley, Alabama shall not again be incorporated or included in any municipal corporation for a period of five years from the passage of this Act.

Section 4. Be it further enacted that if any section of this bill is declared unconstitutional that the said unconstitutional section shall not affect the validity of any other section or provision of the bill.

Section 5. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved Sept. 26, 1923.

No. 410.)

AN ACT

(H. 992. Gaines.

To establish an inferior court in precinct 3 in Houston County, Alabama, in lieu of all justices of the peace and notaries public with powers of justices of the peace in said precinct to be known as Court of Common Pleas of Dothan, Alabama; to prescribe the qualifications and the term of office of the judge of said court, his compensation and the method of payment thereof; to provide for the appointment of the first judge of said court, the election of his successor at the general election held in the state in 1924 and thereafter every fourth year; to provide for the filling of any vacancy in the office of judge; to provide for the appointment of a temporary judge and his compensation in the event of the temporary absence or disqualification or disability of the regular judge; to prescribe the powers, jurisdiction and duties of said court and the judge thereof and the pains and penalties of the judge of said court; to prescribe the procedure of said court and the manner of taking appeals therefrom to provide for the execution of the process of said court; to require all court costs, fines, forfeiture and penalties to be paid in lawful money and when collected paid to the depository of the County and to be kept in a separate fund to be known as, "The Inferior Court Fund"; to provide for the payment of the salary of the judge of the inferior court, for the necessary stationery of said court out of the inferior court fund; to provide that on the first day of January of each year after all previous claims against said fund have been paid that the excess remaining in the inferior court fund be transferred and paid into the fine and forfeiture fund of the County; to abolish the office of justice of the peace and notary public with powers of a justice of the peace in said precinct; to provide for the transfer of all cases pending in the courts of the justices of the peace and notary public wtih powers of justice of the peace in said precinct to the inferior court of said precinct and for the enforcement of all judgments uncollected in said courts.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section I. That there is hereby established in precinct 3 of Houston County, Alabama, a precinct lying partly within the City of Dothan, a city of more than 10,000 population, an inferior court in lieu of all justices of the peace and notaries public with power of justice of the peace in said precinct, said court to be known as "The Court of Common Pleas of Dothan, Alabama."

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