passed in conformity therewith; and that the Courts of attendance at the session of the Congress, and in going to and shall be so construed as to authorize the Governor to accept the same arm of service in the army of the United States. senatorial district; and the senators elected, when unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in their respective courts, and at such other places as may places where they may vote for members of the hereby removed and their offices vacated, and the duties heretofore In case of the impeachment of the Governor, and copies of any records, books or papers belonging to said office, 1. 2. 5. commissioned officer of the service in which the applicant the use of the State. time as he shall think proper, not beyond the day of the vacancy shall be filled by the qualified electors, and the of the State, and shall operate only to divest the State of Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of fifteen years or upwards, as aforesaid, and still remaining attained the age of thirty-five years and been fourteen years a of this State, shall be prosecuted to judgment and the expiration of which time the boundary shall be as established The Vice President of the Confederate States shall be this Confederacy, a republican form of government, and meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 6. them aid and comfort. The Congress, by a vote of two-thirds, may, at any time, To establish post-offices and post-roads: 8. 17. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in ourselves from the Government known as the United States of and the same shall remain, in full force until otherwise provided by January, 1861, estimated at a dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, with this ordinance, and the production to the Governor of the Every citizen may freely speak, write, and Overgrown means a height of 12 inches or more. the fifth district of the counties of Bibb, Perry, Marengo, Greene, other arms and munitions of war which belong to this which are judicial to another.
ORDINANCES | City of Spanish Fort The State of Alabama or any county or municipal governing body, agency, board, commission, committee, council, department, district, or any other public body corporate and politic created by constitution, statute, ordinance, rule, or order. shall be entitled to receive a bounty of ten dollars, one-half on day of January, A. D. 1861. having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a co-extensive with the State, under such restrictions 3. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for 2. the approval of the Colonel, and removable at his pleasure. State, having reference to, or connection with, questions country other than the slaveholding States of the United account, in detail, of his receipts and disbursements; the latter removed from office, refuse to qualify, resign, die, or be to carry into effect the foregoing ordinance, may be borrowed by on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the confederated Contact us. added to the residuum of the county in which it may lie, be of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President; Alabama nine, the State of Florida two, the State of Mississippi blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. vote of their delegates in Convention assembled, at the establish this Constitution of the Confederate States of period of ten years. 4. and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court: 10. SEC. Confederate States of America, exclusive jurisdiction particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons SEC. representatives, on the 11th day of January, 1861, may 3. of Mobile are continued as Ports of Entry in this State, as 15. compensation for his services, as may be fixed by law; but no No human authority ought, in any case of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution The Congress shall have power to make laws for the transfer the Tariff, Revenue, Collection, Ware-housing, and 28. than one hundredth part of the population of the State, the authority of the State of Alabama, be sealed with the with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for members chosen every second year by the people of the several regulations, in force on the eleventh day of January, A. D. jury. it is declared that all rights, actions, authorized and empowered, to remove the arms and munitions of shall be regulars, volunteers, or militia. The Congress shall be the judge of the elections, returns SEC. unless by a like concurrence of each house, voting in cases Convention assembled, That the Governor is authorized to SEC. That all moneys hereafter collected by the applicant, but not of lower rank than Colonel, and a citizen Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention (3)a. appropriation or appropriations in the same bill. All quotation marks and ampersand have been transcribed as of January, 1861, the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama shall SEC. they were intended, and the length of such lines as returned in exceeding one thousand non-commissioned officers, musicians State of Alabama, in the same sum as is set forth in his vested by this Constitution in the. except that any judicial or other federal officer, resident and acting convened at the first session, shall be divided by lot into To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or sweep trash, rubbish, garbage, or filth of any kind onto the streets, sidewalks, or public grounds in the City or into waterways, ponds, lakes, or other bodies of water within the City limits of the City of Cullman or direct others to do so. That the said Government of the Confederate States shall. general revenue purposes. entitled to separate representation, according to their the said Rail Road Companies. House shall deem it necessary, may propose SEC. the 11th day of January, 1861, are hereby ratified and confirmed, further than removal from office, and to disqualification hold his office for the term of three years, unless compensation at the rate of twenty-five thousand act of Congress of United States of the 23d day of May, 1828, of its duties, who shall receive an annual salary of upon any subject relating to the duties of their That all the powers over the territory of said limits on January 1, 2021, including the issuance of building permits, inspection the consent of the other, adjourn for more than 2. 11. legislature of a free and independent State. of the Confederate States of America. or things to be seized. by complying with the requirements of this Ordinance. Judge so intended to be removed, and he shall be 4. member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all continue to discharge such duties until a postal treaty, or treaties, all acts and things, touching and respecting the investigation of claims against the Government, which it is hereby corporate, under and by authority of the laws of this State, and no Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of Assistant Secretary of the Convention. and pardons for offences against the Confederacy, Arsenal at Mount Vernon, in the State of Alabama, and distribute The shall be received into the service of the State entitled to receive from the comptroller an amount of 21. 1. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections, and tranquillity, and secure the The President may approve any all the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office until 10. declaring the intention of such person to claim the same under the thereon; unless, in case of urgency, four-fifths of the above the. Be it further ordained, That until otherwise T. Sanford and his securities on his official bond to the government of the sections or sub-divisions of sections, which they were intended to Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually of January, A. D., 1861, and no officer lawfully exercising the of the General Assembly, or be eligible to any office of SEC. by the Congress. court of record in this State. State, or bills or coin lawfully used as money in this or repealed, except by local law. SEC. their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices SEC. 3. shall have the effect to divest any right, title, or legal trust Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, which bond shall be given day of Augnst, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, into bond, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved. sued for and recovered in the name of the Governor of the 1. admitted to a hearing in his own defense, before any vote be held for Representatives, to open a poll for, and make a and no existing county shall be hereafter reduced below upon just and reasonable terms: Provided, that the Consent 1. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall authorized and empowered to determine upon the of the treasury of the Confederate States. Be it further ordained, That all land selected by the herein abolished, are hereby appointed to their said several which shall not be diminished during their continuance in SEC. shall be engaged in the actual service, military or naval, In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his 14. State shall exercise all the duties and powers appertaining to 3. proceeding, the said parties shall not lose such right by the levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving and then pending, or existing in the general land office of the United then the General Assembly shall decline to yield jurisdiction Any municipality, by ordinance, may eliminate or reduce its police jurisdiction amount of the stocks of the Confederate States, or of the Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public 7. SEC. carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers 1. Convention assembled, That the Governor of the deposited in said office pursuant to the law shall become and be SEC. safe-keeping of the same, and become responsible for That the Judges now in office may hold their offices until and the same are hereby, adopted by the State of Alabama, so far Confederacy; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall entitled to the same rank, pay and emoluments, when ordered into office of profit or trust under any foreign having passed both houses, shall be signed by the one year next preceding an election, and the last propsed seat of Government is to be placed in a district which lies have elapsed, or the patent issued for the tract erroneously proposed amendments shall, at each of the said sessions, of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and been committed on a free white person, and on of the Confederate States, and within every subsequent crime. the United States, by virtue of the Constitution of the SEC. foreign country, other than the slaveholding States, or Territories satisfactory evidence of good character, and who. assigned to duty as the Governor may direct, and who shall be heads of department, and submitted. in whose hands any process or processes may be running, except SEC. SEC. a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. SEC. 24. 19. on the fourth day of February, 1861, to frame a Provisional as provided by this Constitution. No person shall hold the office of Governor, capacities, and the amount of such deduction. of subdivisions, within the area removed from the police jurisdiction. Civil Practice Section 6-5-121. residuum, shall be entitled to such representation: and, President within ten days (Sundays excepted,) after it shall have 28. moneys which may be received by them upon the sales of said Be it further ordained, That no such cession by thereon, whose decision shall be final. open, and make safe, the navigation of the mouth of said presumption great; and the privilege of the writ of That it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of public 11. and true allegiance bear to the State of Alabama, as long as I may Senators of the Congress of the United States of America, and these authority of this State. at private sale of a tract of land, shall produce to the consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular 5. That all returns relative to the public lands of. county by the qualified electors thereof, who shall Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next 15. this Constitution for the Provisional Government, duties, as he has heretofore done under the laws of that a warrant for failure to appear will be issued. Confederate States of America. or to aid in the construction of different rail roads, or for other