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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0336 and id is 1 raw text is: 137 1845.
[No. 201.] , AN ACT
To amend the laws in relation to Attachments.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
presentativen of the State of ./labama, in General sse*n-
bly convened, That hereafter when a writ shall issue from
any of the Courts of this State commanding the Sheriff or Mindr to
other officer to take the body of any person to answer in any make oath
civil suit in said Court, and the sheriff or other officer shall that Defend,
make return thereon, that thp defendant is not to be found in ant has avoid.
ed eecution
his county, no judicial attachment shall issue on such return as bfre attach.
matter of right; but before a judicial attachmert shall issue, the ment isas.
plaintiff, his agent, or attorney, or the sheriff, or officer
making the rot urn, shall make allidavit bfore the clerk of the
Court to which the writ is returnable, that he has reason (o
believe the defendant avoided the execution of such wrir, and
on such affidavit being filed, the plaintiff shall be entitled to
ajudicial attachment as matter of right.
Approved, January 27, 1845.
[No. 202] AN ACT
To amend the law authorizing the payment of rewards for the
apprehension of fugitives froin justice.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resent aties of the State of Alabama in Gencral Issembly
convened, That from and after the passage of this act, the re-
%,rards authorized by an act entitled, An Act to authorize Revard not
the Governor of the Territory.to offer rewards for the appre. to be paid n.
hension of criminals, passed November twenty first, eighteen less claimed
hundred and eighteen, shall in no case be paid, unless the fugi. with 5 years.
ive for whose apprehension any such reward may be offered,
shall be arrested and delivered according to the terms of the
proclamation, offering such reward within the period of five
years from the date of any such proclamation: Provided, that
the provisions of this act shall only extend to cases where the Proviso.
fugitive is charged with an offence, and has never been arrest-
ed or in custody: .lndprovidedfirlther, that the Governor of
this State may at any time demand of the Executive of other
States, any fugitive from justice as heretofore.
Approved, January 25, 1845.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0336&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)