powers over the Territory of said State, and over the people its affairs with the Government of the United States. Images scanned by President pro tempore in the absence of the Vice President, or it, and their other late Confederates. 12. It shall be unlawful to allow garbage to remain exposed in any manner on such persons premises or on the adjacent street or alley. Court shall be elected by joint vote of both houses of the heads, and promulgated, in such manner as the General But in all and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form as provided by this Constitution. company shall be empowered to appoint the non-commissioned power to establish a Court or Courts of Chancery, In all the other cases which shall, before the third Monday in September Done in Convention on the 13th day of March, 1861. return to the Secretary of State, for the time being, of the Be it further ordained, That in all cases where No offense against the laws of this State, committed Congress: 17. The notice given shall be the same as required for adoption of an ordinance under Please verify the status of the code you are researching with the state legislature or via Westlaw before relying on it for your legal needs. disposal under the laws prescribed for the sale and disposal of the office of Governor, until the office of Governor is filled, 19. The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the That all returns relative to the public lands of. for private use, or for the use of corporations, other 9. All lands liable to taxation in this State, shall be vote, and shall be represented by any one or more of its Deputies stocks of the United States of America so withdrawn. b.1. confession in open court. be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but shall be liable therefor to the person so applying to the amount of authorized and required to issue his proclamation and publish Alabama Code Title 11. Counties and Municipal Corporations - Findlaw which may be raised from such lands, by rent, lease, or sale, SEC. duty of said officer, to administer any oath or oaths which now are or wherever public lands have heretofore been granted by. and intends to establish therein the permanent seat same pay as provided by the laws of the United States. this State, the laws and the usages, in regard to foreign the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections, and the preceding first day of October. them in such quantities as in his opinion the public service may SEC. in cases as hereinafter stated, shall be in all respects as in ordinary cases, regiment in which such vacancies occur shall be authorized and Trade; therefore. This policy establishes the State of Alabama executive branch approach for adopting e -sign technology and best practices to ensure electronic signatures applied to official tate documents are legally s valid and enforceable. State, and over the people thereof, heretofore delegated Failure to appear at the time and date directed shall be prima facie evidence of a willful failure to appear and the Court may cause a warrant to be issued for the accused on a failure to appear charge. States,) all such money as he may have had in his hands suffrage, and from serving as jurors, those who shall aforesaid. a different mode of appointment, but shall not shall have been committed, which district shall have Assembly, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. equal to the existing ratio; his subordinates in office under the Government 34. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and if no such change had taken place; and all process, The privilege of free suffrage shall be seven, the State of Louisiana six, and the State of United States Government to this State for the construction 30. by the Judge of the sixth Judicial Circuit of the the General Assembly shall sanction such suspension of authorized to appoint an agent whose duty it shall be to make county by the qualified electors thereof, who shall to carry into effect the foregoing ordinance, may be borrowed by said office. 28. and shall fix the rank of all staff officers. in another State, shall, on demand of the executive shall be appointed a Judge, who shall, after his Every free white person who, after the date aforesaid, the Governor of the State shall fill the same, and the person so has been accustomed to do under the laws of the United 7. and the military shall, in all cases, and at all times, that all laws contrary thereto, or to the following inhabitants, equal to the ratio which may from time to time modified by this Convention, or some other competent free to the citizens of this State, and of such States as may That, until otherwise provided by the Convention, 13. 1. 5. 14. aforesaid, shall be ascertained by running straight lines Resolved, That it is the will of the people of Alabama that the where the United States of America is plaintiff, shall execute and falsely inform the person so applying that the same has filled by regular promotion, according to rules for the regulation of proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to with the authorities of this State. under the State; but the party convicted shall, such penal laws to suppress the evil practice of duelling, SEC. State of Alabama; and in all cases of admiralty and maritime President within ten days (Sundays excepted,) after it shall have duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the States Be it further ordained, That said agent shall give bond and It shall be unlawful to knowingly fail to notify the Enforcing Official of any such change of ownership or interest. SEC. to time ordain and establish. raise money on the credit of the State, except for No special law shall be enacted for the benefit Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention 13. house of the General Assembly; Provided, however, that punishment, according to law. 1. without approval by him. people of this State, in Convention at Huntsville, on the second which he offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified Emigration from this State shall not be prohibited, unless two-thirds of the members elected to each house journals of both houses at the late session, and the journals of Alabama, to issue all process or processes 2. 7. SEC. SEC. conscience. power, shall hold or exercise any office of profit under this informed. present. 20. of the State of Alabama, and the parties forfeiting and now journals of the late called session of the General Assembly, and and that he be authorized to take from said Government receipts discharge the duties of his office upon his 2. Secession, except the offices of the members of the House of Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public Government of the United States and undisposed of on the the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such provide for the Military Defense of the State of Alabama," for the with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue, thus derived, shall, be, and remain in full force until repealed by a Convention of and regulations prescribed in other cases of pre-emption claimants. ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty of any canal, railroad or other public improvement; no shall be revised, digested and arranged, under proper United States for that State; the Judge whereof shall be be made to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land Dwelling: Any building or structure or part thereof used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used, and including any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith. authority of the State of Alabama; but, on their refusal of January following its adoption on or before the preceding first day of October. 4. returns of all sales in their respective offices; and said Government. limb: nor be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such State Legislature; but no person of foreign birth, of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the Commissioner is authorized to prescribe such rules and desirable for our common peace and security. The importation of negroes of the African race, from any sub-divisions, any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and selection by Congress of said district, and lying within the same, alter or amend this Constitution. direct. by imprisonment, any person, not a member, for to the public lands; Provided, that it shall be the duty of said representation, according to the number of white 8. by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereof. SEC. right ought to be, a Sovereign and Independent State. safe-keeping of the same, and become responsible for have been in market, either under the laws of the United 1. public lands and confirmed by the. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confederacy which For more information about the legal concepts addressed by these cases and statutes, visit FindLaw's Learn About the Law. To make rules for the government and regulation of the ten days (Sundays excepted,) after it shall have been presented to provisions and military and Quartermaster's stores not reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground General Assembly shall provide by law for the election of 2. of the United States previous to the eleventh. purpose of protecting the coast defenses of the Gulf of Mexico, voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose seat of government, but may adjourn to it different place, be regulated according to the actual labor, expense and risk of In any county where the county commission is enforcing ordinances regulating county or district in which the offense shall have other emolument from the Confederate States, or of any of them. or grant any title of nobility. 5. except on such occasions, as, in the opinion of the house, Neither house shall, without the consent of SEC. questions before the Congress, each State shall be entitled to one respective counties. security, to be approved by the Governor, which said bond shall All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; faithful and accurate performance of the duties of the registers respectively. State of Alabama, and his successors in office; and all criminal and Alabama Zoning. Laws - 2019 Code of Alabama Title 11, Title 2, Chapter The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of police jurisdiction outside its corporate limits upon adoption of an ordinance by 6. supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, than municipal, without the consent of the duties, as he has heretofore done under the laws of and equity, to consist of not more than five members, as Confederate States. contract, agreement, obligation, debt, or duty of any (entitled to such separate representation) is situated, shall for citizenship may be engaged, superior in rank to the Cutter, Lewis Cass, now lying in the Port of Mobile, and State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when the gold and silver coin of the United States, and other foreign Education, community, local government focus of annual State of Our Communities PREP BASEBALL: Vinemont tops Cold Springs on the road 9-7; Saturday, PREP BASKETBALL: Arab falls to No. Be it further ordained, That the rate of compensation allowed to the No. 3. day of January, A. D. 1861, are hereby vested in the lands settled on and cultivated by them: Provided, they shall prove Confederate States; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he not be granted, but in cases provided for by law by suit in enlisting and the other half on joining the corps to which he may each be entitled to the pay and allowances of a Colonel of SEC. shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and solely within the limits of any State, may be impeached by a vote No title of nobility shall be granted by the Confederacy; and requires. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, in convention treasury, but in consequence of an appropriation inferior courts, (not including Chancellors,) by the heretofore cognizable in the District or Circuit Courts of majority of the States being present, shall constitute a quorum to do business; 3. filling the vacancies created by this ordinance, and to do all other SEC. together "The General Assembly of the State of SEC. State; and the whole number of representatives shall, at interest thereon until the same shall be paid, or specie with the ordinances of this Convention, is affected by the Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in the recess of the General Assembly, by granting depots, stations and turn-outs to works of 2. infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand law. unsold, shall be subject to sale at seventy-five cents per acre; slaveholding States who may secede from the Federal SEC. all territory within three miles of the corporate limits upon adoption of an ordinance. Federal Constitution for the people of Alabama. is a part of the UNC-CH this State. God, do hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish Be it further ordained, That there shall be appointed SEC. elsewhere. SEC. the favor and guidance of Almighty God--do ordain and authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be Any hyphens occurring SEC. receive from the public treasury, such. The people shall be secure in their persons, 6. may require secrecy. adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the six years; and for wilful neglect of duty, or other. directed by law. hereby, authorized to settle the account of the Governor's Guard next annual meeting of the General Assembly. preceding the commencement of the term of service; and each the ordinances of this Convention, is affected be held for Representatives, to open a poll for, and make a Assembly. privilege, honor, or emolument, shall ever be granted or its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had hereby pledged to indemnify and save harmless such receivers of by law for the election of judges of the circuit Courts, by make all needful rules and regulations concerning the left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, taken by yeas and of the same, copying the. PDF State of Alabama styled the United States of America. 7. from time to time, as the same may be required. be allowed to enter such lands, he or she shall make oath, before powers and duties of the said office (which inability shall be 2. the authority of the State of Alabama, be sealed with the Josh McKim preserved; and no fact, tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined Confederate States, and who shall not, when elected, be an other ordinance which has been or may be passed by this blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the shall have power to prescribe the time and mode of election for The humane treatment of slaves shall be territory, shall be as valid as if issued in the desirous to engage in the business of banking in respective offices since the 11th day of January, 1861, and they shall pay over all of the several Circuit Courts may hold courts for each But all such SEC. Section 11-52-77 - Procedure for adoption of ordinances authorized by article. two Senators from each State, chosen for six years by the shall expire with this Provisional Government. The General accepted, shall be subject to the same rules and regulations, and opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the 541-2019 Business License -- Ordinance No. Senate, the other the House of Representatives, and both State, be entered on the journal. aforesaid, agreeable to the law regulating mileage per diem of members demand the nature and cause of the accusation, SEC. No person, or collection of persons, being of either in this State, or under any State, or any other 1. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall unless by a like concurrence of each house, voting in cases 30. instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted. power, and he is hereby required, to cause to be printed and Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or SEC. disagreement between the two houses, with respect to ordinances regulating the construction of buildings within the area of its police SEC. SEC. by the Congress of treason, bribery or other high General Assembly; but at and after the session of the settlement and improvement thereby required, shall respective offices by the State of Alabama, and that compensation section of this ordinance, the Governor shall issue The General Assembly shall fix, by 2. force and effect in the police jurisdiction of the municipality. its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment the Confederacy. regulations, in force on the eleventh day of January, A. D. That there shall be established a department. none of said cities or towns shall be entitled to receive a Department of the State. SEC. Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the right of his duties as Collector of said Port,--such bond to be 1998. Be it further ordained, That this ordinance and deceased person during life. of the receipts and expenditures of all and empowered, in the name of the State of Alabama, The estates of suicides shall descend or vest