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An Act requiring the Judges of the circuit courts to alternate, and for other purposes 1825 66 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0073 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 825. SG which shall operate as aresignation, be, and he is heiib_ required to issue a writ of election for the purljsse of elect- ing a lieutenant colonel to command the second battalion, which shall be called the first battalion; and the said coloiel commandant shall at the same time issue a writ of election for the purpose of electing a major to comiand the other battalion, which shall thereafter be called the second baittal- ion; which alteration in the number of battalions and the rank of their commanders, shall take place as often as a va- cancy may take place in the office of lieutenant colonel. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the du- Mtilitia and ty of the governor to employ a suitable person to revise and patrol laws, print the militia laws now in force in this state, as well as to be revised ad distribu- the patrol law, and to cause a copy of the same to be distri- tcd. buted to each officer in commission at the time of such dis- tribution. Sec. 3. And be it f'rther encted, That whenever it shall so happen that any compapy in the militia of this state is without any officer or non-commissioned officer, it shall be rit evet s the duty of the commanding officer of the battalion to which er, how com- such company may belong, to appoint a sergeant, whose manded. duty it shall be to take the comiand of said company un- til some officer is duly elected and commissioned to com- mand the same: Providedhowever, that if any sergeant ap- pointed by virtue of this act shall neglect and refuse to act, such sergeant sLall be fined ii the sum of ten dollars, re- coverable before a justice of the peace, which shall be ap- plied exclusively to the use of the informer. (Approved January 14, 1826.) AN ACT requiring the Judges of the circuit courta to alternate, and for other purposes. Section :. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ronse of Repre- sentatives of the state of Alabama, ii general assembly colweried, That hereafter the several judges of the circuit courts shall Judges to at alternate in such manner, that each and every judge shall ternate. preside successively in every circuit in this state, whick ar- rangement shall take place from and after the next sitting of the supreme court. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever it shall be- Intermediate come necessary by the existing law that the judge of any court. circuit should hold an intermediate court for any county, that any judge not presiding in that circuit may hold the same. ue Sec. 3. Andbe it further enacted, That if it should so hap- duinso pen that any of thecircuit courts should not he able to dis- regular term, pose of all the business depriding in any of said courts at the Judge to their regular terms, it shall be the duty of the judge of the hluI zn inter. circuit in which such undisposed of business inay be, at a con- enient time, between the regular terms of said courts. in which such undisposed of business may be, to hold a spe- cial termi or terms of such courts, which term and tiile shall icr o be be fixed,and notice thereof given at the preceding regularterm given. by the presiding judge of said court, and notice thereof give

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