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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0348 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF ALABAMA.
PUBLIC ACTS.
[No. 1.] AN ACT 1846.
To raise an additional amount of Revenue to support the State
Government, and to maintain the faith and credit of the
State of Alabama.
Section 1. Be it enacted bt/ the Senate and House of Re-
presen/atives of the State of 'labama in General AIssenbly Tax an slaves
convened, That there shall be assessed, and collected on all tho property
slaves in this State, the property of non-residents, over ten and dents.
under fifty years of age, a tax of two dollars euch, and on
those under ten, one dollar each.
Sec. 2. Ind be it further enacted, That every slave mer-
chant, trader, dealer, or broker, dealing in slaves, before lie Stave mer-
shall be authorized to make sale of any slave, in any county chants shall
in this State, shall procure from the clerk of the County Court procure li-
of said county a license, for which he shall pay five dollars on ce.
each slave, which may be offered for sale by him; which -aid
license shall authorize him to sell said slaves in any county
in this State ; and if any such merchant, dealer, trader, or bro-
ker, shall sell any slave without first having procured a license
as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of three hundred
dollars, on indictment and conviction therefor, in the Circuit
Court of the county where such slave was sold.
Sec. 3. ./Ind be it further enacted, That on all steamboats
navigating the Alabama, Tombeckbee, Black Warrior, and Steamboats.
Tennessee rivers, in this State, a tax of twenty-five cents on how taxed.
every hundred dollars value thereof, shall be levied and collect-
ed; and the assessors in Mobile, Lauderdale, and Morgan coun-
ties, shall assess, collect and pay over said tax, to the tai col-
lectors of said counties, between the fifteenth day of February,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0348&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)