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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0582 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 16.] AN ACT
To authorize books to be opened at the city of Mont-
gomery for subscriptions to the Capital Stock of the
-Bank of Alabama.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
Commissioner. convened, That Edmund Harrison, John Whiting, Wil-
liam C. Bibb, Thomas H. Watts, and John D. Phelan,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, with
authority to open at the city of Montgomery, at any
time within one year from the passage of this act, books
for subscription to the capital stock of the Bank of
Alabama; and the , said commissioners are hereby
directed and authorized to proceed to- execute such ser-
Mode. of dis-vice in the mode and manner, and under the rules and
charging duties. regulations prescribed for the original commissioners
in the Act to: incorporate the Bank of Alabama, and
for other purposes, approved February 13, 1860, so far
as the provisions of said act in this behalf can be made
conformable to the object of this act, namely: the
openiTg of books of subscription at the city of Mont-
gomiery within one year from the date of this act.
Corporationsan- SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful
icrie for the city of Montgomery, or any other corporation
created under the authority of this state, to take or
subscribe for any number of shares of the capital stock
of salid Bank of Alabama, which the city of Mont-
gomery is authorized to subscribe for by the existing
law; and alllaws, or parts of laws, contrary to the pro-
visions of this act, are hereby repealec).
APPROVED, February 8, 1861.
No. 17.] AN ACT
To regulate the fees of Solicitors in certain State cases.
olicitor'ls fees SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
neconvietioe Representatives ofithe State of Alabama in General Assembly
ves tety convened, That hereafter, on conviction, upon indict-
five dollars--L.te ' .
murder or man- ments for 1the ofences herein specified, the solicitor's
slaughter fiftyees shall be as follows, to-wit: Upon convictions for
dollars---capital..
ofrence against nuisances in trading and trafficking with slaves, twenty-
five dollars. five dollars; in cases for murder or manslaughter, fifty
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