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An Act making appropriations for the payment of certain claims against the State. 1837 32 (1837.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0225 and id is 1 raw text is: said company shall ask, demand and receive, whenever said bridge
can be crossed at the following rates of toll, to-wit: For each four-
wheel pleasure carriage, seventy-five cents; for each four-wheel road
Rtates or toll. wagon, seventy-five cents; for each four-wheel carriage, not of
pleasure, but working two horses, fifty cents; for each carryall or
Jersey wagon, thirty-seven cents; for each two-wheel pleasure car-
riage, thirty-seven cents; for each cart, twenty-five cents; for each
horse and rider, twelve cents; for each horse, mule, jack or jenny,
six cents; for each foot passenger, six cents; for each head of neat
cattle, three cents; for Cach head of sheep, hogs or goats, two cents.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the individuals herein
'iclared a body politic, shall dispose of the stock of said company,
under such restrictions and limitations as they may deem advisable,
Elect Prei- and the stockholders therein shall elect annually a President and four
Dirt na nourd electors shall have as many votes as shares, and the
President and Directors shall choose a Treasurer, who shall make
Give bond, semi-annual reports, and give bond to said company for the faithful
Approval.  discharge of his duties, which bond shall be approved and received
by the appointers aforesaid.
Sec. 5. dad be it further enacted, That said company shall be
Ll1letoinju' liable for all injuries that may lie sustained by persons or property
passing sail bridge, so long as toll shall be (lemanled: Provided, such
injury shall arise from negligence of the keeper of said bridge, or for
providearrom want of proper repairs: Provided also, that nothing in this bill
negligence. shall in the least degree interfere with or impair the rights of others
to any lands.                   Approved, June 30th, 1837.
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[No. 41.]                 AN ACT
Makingnpprnprintions for the payment of certain cihns agalint the State.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resen-
tatives of/the State of Alabama in General Assemb/y convened,
That the following sums of money be, and they are hereby appropri-
ated to the puyment of persons herein after named, for furnishing
provisions to persons confined in the jails of their respective coun-
ties and for other purposes, to wit: To T. & C. M. Wiley, jailors of
Sumter county, the sum of fifty-five dollars and thirty cents; to John
Appropria  Atkins, jailor of Chambers county, the sum of four hundred and
'1s  eighty-one dollars and sixty cents; to Iichard W. 1arbar, jailor of
Tuscaloosa county, the sum of two hundred and thirty-soven dollars
and sixty cents; to William Blythe, sheriff of Talladega county, the
num of sixty-eight dollars and sixty cents; to Lewis Griggs, the sum
of fifty dollars, for apprehending John Guy and prosecuting him for
horse stealing; to George V. Patterson, the sum of nineteen dollars
and fifty cents, for apprehending Reuben Norris, charged with the
crime of murder; to Robert Guthry and James Ables, the sum of
one hundred and fifty-one dollars, for apprehending Robert Norris,
charged with murder; to Asia R. Brindlay, the sum of fifty dollars,
for. apprehending and prosecuting I. 13. Haney for horse stealing;
to Stephen Register, jailor of Sumter county, the sum of ninety-
seven dollars and eighty cents.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of
money be, and they are hereby appropriated for the payment of the
persons mentioned, for slaves executed under sentence of law, to
wit: To E. Gant, the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars; to B.

1837.

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