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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0663 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 403.] AN ACT
In relation to the competency of witnesses.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assem-
bly convened, That in suits and proceedings before any Witness no
court or officer in this State, other than criminal cases, to be excluded
there shall be no exclusion of any witness, because he is binte-o
a party or interested in the issue tried, except that in ested.
suits or proceedings by or against executors, or admin-
istrators, (as to which a different rule is not made by the
laws of this State,) neither party shall be allowed to tes-
tify against the other, as to any transaction with, or
statement by the testator, or intestate, unless called to
testify thereto by the opposite party.
SEC. 2. Be itfurther enacted, That sections 2276, 2277,
2313, 2314, 2-315, 2290, 2291, 1568, 2287, 22S8, 2316, sections of
1607, 1608, 2935, of the Code of Alabama, and an act repealed.
entitled an act to amend section 2313 of the Code of
Alabama, and to allow defendants to prove off-sets,
approved 21st February, 1860, and an act entitled an
act to allow plaintiffs in attachment to be witnesses in
certain cases, approved December 12th, 1864; and sec-
tion 679 of the Penal Code, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the competency
ot negroes shall be governed by the act approved De- of negroes.
cember 9, 1865, entitled an act to protect freedmen In
their rights of person and property in this State.
Approved, February 14, 1867.
No. 404.] AN ACT
To regulate the places of holding sherifi's sales in Bibb
county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assem-
bly convened, That from and after the passage of this Mace of 11o
act, the place of holding sheriff's sales in Bibb county, ings erifftaaes.
shall be in front of the court house in Centreville, and
at Randolph, for business originating in the eastern part
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