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An Act to repeal in part an act now in force confining the collecting of debts before a Justice of the Peace in the beat where the defendant resides, or where the contract was made, and for other purposes. 1838 38 (1838)

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ty courts respectively are hereby empowered to require the Justices
aforesaid to ronew their bonds whenever they may be deemed insuffi-
To.raicw cient, either as to solvency or amount for the public security, on giv.
their bonde.ing said Justice of the Peace fifteen days notice, and if he shall fail to
rencw his bond, as contemplated by this act, the said Judge shall
forthwith declare his office vacant, which shall be filled in the same
manner as nov prescribed by law.  Approved, January 30, 1839.
[No. .14.1                  AA ACT
'Io reipet in part n  act now in foreo confining Ithe collecting nfdebts before a Justice
of Ithe i ee !i tieheImont where the derendanit resides, or where the contract was made,
und for Other purposes.
Section 1. lie it enacted b.11 the Senate and House qflep'resen-
tepeal.   latives of the State of./1lubaa in General .assenblY convened,
That so much of the above recited act, as regards the counties of Co-
necub and Shel by be anil the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be ifur/her enacted, That from and after the pas-
sage of this act, all corstablcs for the county of Conecuh shall
be entitled to receive and demand the following fees instead of.
those now provided by law for socing a warrant in civil cases,
Fees (if c seventy five cents; for sunmmoning cach witness, fifty cents ; for
stablco. serving   each  search, peace, or state warrant, one    dollar;
for conveying a criminal to jail, per, mile, ten cents ; for lov-
ing an attachment, seventy-five centst for leving an execution,
seventy-five cents, for making the money on each execution, seven-
tly-five cents; foir conveying a debtor to jail fifty-cents; for whipping a
slave, (to be paid by the owner) by order of a Justice of the Peace,
two dollars: for serving each notice on each person therein named,
fifty cents; for serving scire faciason each person therein named, sev-
entylivecents,foi taking hailbolid;bond for the forthcoming orproperty
or other bond required by law, seventy.dive cents, for keeping pro.
perty levied on such sum as the Justice believes to be just and ra.
sonable out of the monies in the hands of said constable arising
from a sale of said property, or received by reason of said levy.
Approved, Jan. 29, 1839.
[No. 45.]                 AN ACT
For the relieforthle purchaears ofthle SIxteenth Sectionq in this Htate.
Sect ion 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofJJe'presen-
tatives of the Slate of./dlabana in (leneral.sseblhiby convened,
That the presilent and directorsof the 13ranch of the Bank of the State
of Alabama at Decatur he and they are hereby authurised an( required
to grant thle purchasers of the sixteenth section of township four,
]itreltion log.range five west, in the county of Limecstone,.a postponement of one
sixteenth  f3urth, until the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
sections.  nine; one fourth until the first of January, one thousand eight hundred
and forty, onte fourth until the first of January, oae thousand eight
.hundred and forty-one, and the remaining one fourth, on the first of
Januari3, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, in the payment of
o'l bonds given by the purchasers of said section, to secure the pay.
ment of pil the instalments that are now due or may hereafter be.

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