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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0586 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 58.] AN ACT
To provide for making persons absent in the Confede-
rate Army parties to applications to probate wills and
for grants of administration.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
convened, That all persons absent from this State in the
army of the Confederate 'States may be made parties
by courts of probate in all applications to probate wills,
and grant of letters of administration by publication
in a newspaper, as in cases of non-residents.
Approved November 25, 1862.
No. 59.] AN ACT
To authorize the taking of depositions of subscribing
witnesses to wills in certain cases.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
convened, That the depositions of subscribing witnesses
to wills offered for probate, who are in this State, and
in the service of the Confederate States, or of this State,
may be taken in such manner as the testimony of wit-
nesses residing out of the State, as is n'ow required to
be taken by section 1626 of the Code of Alabama.
Approved November 28, 1862.
'No. G0.] . AN ACT
To amend An act entitled An act the more effectually
to secure subordination among slaves, by requirinw
the owner, or overseer, to reside with them, ap-
proved February 5, 1856.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by tne Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
convened, That if the congress of the Confederate States
shall hereafter change, in any respect, that part of the
1862.
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