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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0583 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 23.] AN ACT
To Regulate the Practice of the Supreme Court.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
convened, That from and after the passage of this act, Case to beue-
when any cause shall be tried in the supreme court ot to the law at the
this state, which had, at any former term thereof, been tnaof the de-
tried and remanded, it shall be the duty of said court in
deciding the law of the case, to be governed by what,
in the opinion of said court, shall be the law at the time
of the delivery of the opinion ot the court, without re-
gard to any former ruling of the law in said case,
provided there shall be a conflict between the for-
mer ruling and the then present opinion of the court.
APPROVED, February 8, 1801.
No. 24.] AN ACT
To Amend Section 1045 of the Code in relation to
Free Colored Mariners.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
convened, That section 1045 of the code be so amended Amendment of
as to add at the end of said section the following: And the Code.
any such free negro mariner who shall be found per- ouity of a mis-
forming any labor or service, upon any other vessel demeanor for
than the one to which he shall belong, shall be guilty erveslth
of a misdmeanor, and may be tried before any justice he belongs.
of the peace in Mobile or Baldwin counties upon
warrant issued, and on conviction shall receive one
hundred lashes, and the master of the vessel shallMaster of the
vessel o pay til
pay all costs of such conviction, to be charged to or costs.
taken out of the wages of such free negro mariner.
And if such labor or service is performed by the consent, te
connivance or agreement of the master or other officerna to indict-
of the vessel to which such negro mariner may belong, not lessthan one
'hundred dollare.
or the master or other officer of the vessel on which .
such service or labor is done, such master or other
officer of either or both of said vessels is guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less
than two hundred dollars each.
APPROVED, February 8, 1861.
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1861.
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