YEAR AND NUMBER. TITLE AND DATE. 1832:(31) An Act to authorize the judges of the supreme court, to grant certain writs therein mentioned.-December 15, 1832. (32) An Act more particularly defining the power of the commissioners (33) An Act further to provide for the election of electors of president and (35) An Act to reduce the damages on bills of exchange, purchased by the (36) An Act to repeal in part an act entitled "An Act to raise a 'revenue for the support of government, until otherwise altered by law," passed January 20, 1832.-December 21, 1832. (37) An Act for the relief of witnesses and jurors.-December 21, 1832. (39) An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to extend the powers of the 1833: (1) An Act to educate children in certain cases.-January 1, 1833. (3) An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate and empower religious societies of every denomination to hold real estate."-January 5, 1833. (4) An Act to revive in part and amend "An Act to allow trustees of the state university pay for their services," passed December 26th, 1822. January 5, 1833. (5) An Act to repeal in part an act therein mentioned.-January 5, 1833. (6) An Act regulating the time of service of state printer.-January 8, 1833. (7) An Act to prevent frauds in the sale of oil, and for other purposes.— (8) An Act to provide for the transfer of stock issued by the state, and for (10) An Act to provide for the translating and recording of the British, (12) An Act to amend the several acts relating to the sixteenth sections.— (13) An Act to simplify scire facias in criminal cases, and for other pur poses.―January 10, 1833. (14) An Act to provide for the summoning of juries for the county courts. -January 10, 1833. YEAR AND TITLE AND DATE. 1833:(15) An Act providing for the maintenance and education of certain persons therein named.-January 10, 1833. (16) An Act to repeal in part and amend "An Act to regulate the rate of interest," passed December 17, 1819.-January 10, 1833. (17) An Act to require jurors to be drawn in certain cases.-January 10, 1833. (18) An Act to revise, amend, amplify, and repeal in part, certain acts con- (19) An Act for the reduction of the taxes.-January 11, 1833. (21) An Act to alter and establish the judicial circuits of this state. (22) An Act concerning attachments.-January 12, 1833. (23) An Act to fix the salary of the president of the bank of the state of (25) An Act explanatory of the liability of persons to work on roads.- - (26) An Act to amend the charter of the bank of the state of Alabama.January 12, 1833. per (27) An Act to provide for the settlement of the estates of deceased (30) An Act to preclude from office certain persons therein named.— (31) An Act relative to the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court. -January 12, 1833. (32) An Act to provide for the appropriation of the net proceeds of the funds arising from the sale of the sixteenth sections.-January 12, 1833. (33) An Act requiring the governor to reside at the seat of government.January 12, 1833. (34) An Act for the relief of purchasers of sixteenth sections.-January 12, 1833. (35) An Act to explain in part and amend an act entitled "An act concern- (38) An Act to distribute the funds arising from the sale of the sixteenth (39) An Act to provide for taking depositions of judges of the circuit and (40) An Act prescribing the duties of coroners.-January 12, 1833. YEAR AND NUMBER. TITLE AND DATE. 1833:(42) An Act regulating the compensation of jailors for victualling slaves confined in jail, and for other purposes.-January 12, 1833. (43) An Act to adopt, print, bind, and distribute the new digest compiled by John G. Aikin, Esq., and for other purposes.-January-, 1833. DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF ALABAMA. ACADEMIES. Incorporated § 1. ALL houses and lots of land held by any incorporated academy 1832 (17) in this state, shall not be liable to the payment of any taxes for either incorp state, county, or corporation purposes, so long as the same shall be exempt held and occupied by any company for the purpose of schools. from taxes. ALABAMA. Sec. 3. § 1. ALL that tract of country bounded on the west by the Missis- Act of Consippi, on the north by a line to be drawn due east from the mouth of gress, 1798. the Yazoo to the Chatahooche river; on the east by the river Chata- Mississippi hooche, and on the south by the thirty-first degree of north latitude, tablished. shall be, and hereby is constituted one district, to be called the Mississippi territory. Territory es Sec. 7. § 2. The tract of country lying north of the Mississippi territory, Act of Conand south of the state of Tennessee, and bounded on the east by the gress, 1804. state of Georgia, and on the west by the state of Louisiana, shall be, Boundaries and the same is hereby annexed to, and made a part of the Missis- enlarged. sippi territory. gress, 1812. Boundaries further en gress, 1817. Alabama ter §3. All that portion of territory lying east of Pearl river, west of Act of Con the Perdido, and south of the thirty-first degree of latitude, shall be, Sec. 1. and the same is hereby annexed to the Mississippi territory. § 4. All that part of the Mississippi territory which lies within larged. the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the point where the Act of Con line of the thirty-first degree of north latitude intersects the Perdido Sec. 1. river, thence east to the western boundary line of the state of Georgia, ritory formthence along said line to the southern boundary line of the state of ed, and its Tennessee, thence west along said boundary line to the Tennessee river, defined. thence up the same to the mouth of Bear creek, thence by a direct line to the north-west corner of Washington county, thence due south to the Gulf of Mexico, thence eastwardly, including all the islands within six leagues of the shore, to the Perdido river, and thence up the same to the beginning, shall, for the purpose of a temporary government, constitute a separate territory, and be called "Alabama." boundaries gress, 1819. § 5. The inhabitants of the territory of Alabama are hereby author- Act of Conized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and Sec. 1. to assume such name as they may deem proper; and the said terri- The inhabi tants of Ala bama autho- tory, when formed into a state, shall be admitted into the Union, upon rized to forin the same footing with the original states, in all respects whatever. a Constitution and ment. ted into the Union. § 6. The said state shall consist of all the territory included within state govern- the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the point where the To be admit thirty-first degree of north latitude intersects the Perdido river; thence, east, to the western boundary line of the state of Georgia; thence, along said line, to the southern boundary line of the state of Tennesof the state. see; thence, west, along said boundary line to the Tennessee river; thence, up the same, to the mouth of Bear creek; thence, by a direct line, to the north-west corner of Washington county; thence, due south Including is to the Gulf of Mexico; thence eastwardly, including all islands withlands within in six leagues of the shore, to the Perdido river; and thence, up the the shore. same, to the beginning. six leagues of Ib Sec. 3. Line of demarcation be run and cut by the § 7. It shall be the duty of the surveyor of the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee, and the surveyor of the public between Mis lands in the Alabama territory, to run and cut out the line of demarcasissippi and the state to tion, between the state of Mississippi and the state to be formed of the be formed, to Alabama territory; and if it should appear to said surveyors, that so much of said line designated in the preceding section, running due surveyors of south, from the north-west corner of Washington county to the Gulf of Tennessee of Mexico, will encroach on the counties of Wayne, Green, or Jackveyor of Ala- son, in said state of Mississippi, then the same shall be so altered as bama Terri- to run in a direct line from the north-west corner of Washington county to a point on the Gulf of Mexico, ten miles east of the mouth of manner, pro- the river Pascagoula. lands south and the sur tory. In what vided, &c. Con. Ala. Preamble. § 8. We, the people of the Alabama territory, having the right of admission into the general government, as a member of the Union, consistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, by our representatives, assembled in convention at the town of Huntsville, on Monday, the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, in pursuance of an act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states;" in order to establish justice, ensure tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the rights of life, liberty, and property, do ordain and establish the following constitution, or form of government; and do mutually agree with each State formed other to form ourselves into a free and independent state, by the name and name of "The State of Alabama." And we do hereby recognize, confirm, Boundaries and establish the boundaries assigned to said state by the act of conCongress re- gress aforesaid :-subject to such alteration as is provided in the third cognized and section of said act of congress, and subject to such enlargement as confirmed. may be made by law in consequence of any cession of territory by adopted. assigned by the United States, or either of them. NOTE. The titles of the acts referred to in the margin, may be found in page xlviii. Con. Ala. tion, how AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. THE general assembly, whenever two-thirds of each house shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments to this constitution, which proposed amendments shall be duly published in print, at least three months before the next general election of representatives, for the |