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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0585 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 29.] AN ACT
To further secure Subordination among Slaves.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
No part of fine convened, That the second section of an act, approved
a to inrormFebruary 5th, 1856, and entitled An act the more
effectually to secure subordination among slaves, by
requiring the owner or overseer to reside with them,
be amended by striking out the words, one half of
which shall go to the informant.
Fine to go into Simc. 2. Be it further enacted, That in all convictions
county treasury. undur the said act, approved February 5th, 1856, the
whole of the fine shall be paid into the county treasury.
APPROVED, February 8, 1861.
No. 30.] AN ACT
To regulate the Pay of Witnesses in Criminal Cases.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
In certain cases, convened, That in criminal cases, if no bill of indictment
epaYs wit- is found by the grand jury, or if a bill is found, but the
defendant is not convicted and the prosecutor is not
taxed with the costs, or if the defendant'is convicted
and an execution against him is returned no property
found, or if an execution against the prosecutor, where
he is taxed with the cost, is returned no property
found, in each of these cases the fees of witnesses, who
may be summoned on the part of the state, either before
the grand jury or on the trial, shall be paid by the
county, in the manner herein specified; and it shall be
Duties of circuit the duty of the clerk of the circuit court to state on the
ment on face o-fface of each witness certificate, either at the time of
certificate, issuing the same, or at any time thereafter, when such
certificate is presented to him for that purpose, that the
same is a good claim against the county, reciting also
the facts which, under the provisions of this act, make
it a good claim against the county, and dating and
certificates re-signing the same; and such certificate shall be receiv-
ceivabie in pay- q'
ment of certain able in payment of debts due the county for fines and
county dues. forfeitures, or payable by the county treasurer, out of
1861.
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