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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0564 and id is 1 raw text is: 1859-'60. 6
No. 5.] - AN ACT
To amend section 399 of the Code.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senale and House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
That all persons exhibiting spirit rappings, spiritual moni-
festations, or other devico by whatsoever name called, which
Tax. . professes to reveal communications from the spirits of the
living or the dead, for profit of otherwise, shall pay a tax
of five hundred dollars per day for each day they shall so
exhibit;. and it shall be the duty of the Probate Judge of
each county to collect the same, and issue a license to the
exhibitor.
SEc. 2. Be it fitrther enacted, That the provisions of sec-
tion 399 of the Code of Alabama be, and the same are
extended to the violations of this act.
APPROVE, December 15, 1859.
No. 6.] AN ACT
To prevent the people of this State from the payment of
double tax in certain cases.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the Stote of Alabaina in General Assembly convened,
That hereafter wheri any slave of any resident inhabitant
of this State, not engaged in the business of negro trading,
shall be sold at auction, and the regular State and county
taxes for the year in which such property may be sold,
shall have been paid before such sale, no tax whatever on
the auction sales of such property shall be assessed or col-
lected, and such sales of such property hereafter made by
any duly licensed auctioneer in this State shall not be
deemed void or defective for. want of any license of such
auctioneer to sell slaves, or for the want of the payment of
any auction tax.
ApeRoVED, February 23, 1860.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0564&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)