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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0252 and id is 1 raw text is: . . 123 1840.
tNo. 64. AN ACT
Vro compensate the Comaissioners of Roads and Revenue in the Counties of Marshall
and Benton.
Section 1. .Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
ives of the State of Alabama in General. Assembly convened, That
hereafter the Commissioners of Revenue and Rokdsin the Counties compens.
of Marshall and Benton, shall tach receive the sum of two dollars tion.
per day, for each day they may attend any Commissioners Court Qf
Roads and Revenue in said Counties, and all ferriages and pikeages
that each commissioner may pay in going to and returning from said
Commissioners Court, to he paid out of the Treasury of said Coun-
ties, on the certificate of the Clerk of the said County Courts, stating
the number of (lays each commissioner has attended said Commis-
s.oners Court, and the sum which he shall receive, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding. Approved, Jan. 31, 1840.
'INo.05.] AN ACT
To repeal in part an act entitled an not to Incorporate the Town or Livingston, the
County Site of Sumter County, approved, January 10th, 1835.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
atives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, -. levy tax.
That so much of the above recited net, as fixes the amount of taxes
to be raised at one third the State tax, be, and the same is hereby
repealed.
See. 2. And be it furlher enacted. That the Intendant and Coun-
cil shall have power to lay and collect a tax on real estate, negroes, Vacancies.
and other property, sufficient to defray the ordinary expenses of said
corporation : Provided, They shall, in no one year, lay and collect
more than three times the amount of the now County Tax,,together
with such poll tax as the Intendant and Council may deen proper.
Sec. 3. And be itfurthe r enacted, That hereafter the Intendant
and Council, when any vacancy occurs in the oflice of constable in
Said town, shall have power to fill af such vacancies who shall hold
their office till the next general election.
Approved, Jan. 31, 1840.
[No. 00.1 AN ACT
To change the Names of certain Persons therein named, and other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represcntatives of
the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the names of
Amanda Louisa Smith, and Adaline McDonald Berry, of the Coun-
ly of Butler, in this State, be changed to. Amanda Louisa Bowen, ne
,and Adaline McDonald Bowen, and that they be, and are hereafier
-to be considered as the legal heirs and representatives of Edward
Bowen, of the county.aforelaid, and shall he able and capable in
,law, to inherit all the estate of the said Edward Bowen, in the man.
ner and form in which they woqld inherit if they were his lawfully
begotten children.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the name of Cordelia
Sullivan, of the county of Coosa, be, and it is hereby changed to the Name
.name of Cordelia Ann Wilkins. Approved, Jan. 31, 1840. ae](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0252&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)