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-iecessary for repayment of the liabilities incurred by this
act,.unless said commissioners shall otherwise provide for
-such payment; Provided, however, That said court of Proviso.
county commissioners shall also have power to issue
treasury notes, not exceeding said sum, in case they shall
fail to borrow the same, and may make provision for their
redemption by such special tax or otherwise.
Approved, February 20, 186C.
No. 275.] AN ACT
To confer power on the city Council of Montgomer3,
for safe keeping and punishment of offenders.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
lRepresentatires of the State of Alabama in General Assem-
bly convened, That the city council of the city of Mont-
gomery be, and are hereby authorized and empowered to Powertopmi-
pass laws for the punishment of offences against the laws ish offendlers.
of said city, by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and on
the failure to pay such flues and costs on conviction be-
fore the mayor or any one of the aldermen-sitting as mayor,
to sentence such offender to imprisonment in the guard
house, or to work on the streets or public works of or
for said city, either in or out of the corporate limits of
the same, either in chain gangs or otherwise, three days
for each dollar of fine and costs assessed, and the said city
council are hereby authorized and empowered to estab-
lish a work house, either in said city, or without, within Work-house.
three miles of the corporate limits of said city, to which
those convicted of offences against the laws of the city,
and fail to pay on conviction the fine and cost assessed
against them, may be sent and put to any kind of hard
labor, in chain gangs or otherwise, according to such laws
as may be passed by the said city council. And may also
pass laws to secure persons charged or convicted with or
of offenses with chains or ball, and chains or otherwise,
not inhuman or cruel. And may also pass laws to pul-
ish all vagrants found within the corporate limits of said vagrnt .
Aity.
Approved, February 20, 1866.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0638&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)