A

DIGEST

OF

THE LAWS OF ALABAMA.

1

A LIST OF THE STATUTE LAWS,

OF A

PUBLIC AND GENERAL NATURE,

From the Organization of the Mississippi Territory, to the close of
the Session of the General Assembly for the year 1832, now in
force, either wholly or in part, in the State of Alabama.

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, AND Numbered.

YEAR AND
NUMBER.

TITLE AND DATE.

1799: (1) An Act concerning defalcation.-February 28, 1799.

1801: (1) An Act to restrain idle and disorderly persons.-December 5, 1801.
1802: (1) An Act for the limitation of actions, and for avoiding vexatious law-
suits. February 2, 1802.

(2) An Act to prevent suits from abating on the death of either party.—
May 13, 1802.

1803: (1) An Act to prevent unlawful hunting, and for other purposes.-Feb-
ruary 10, 1803.

(2) An Act concerning notaries public.-February 10, 1803.

(3) An Act respecting conveyances.-March 4, 1803.

(4) An Act for the more easy partition of lands held by coparceners,
joint-tenants, and tenants in common.-March 4, 1803.

(5) An Act concerning divorce and alimony.-March 10, 1803.

(6) An Act for the suppression of vice and immorality.-March 12, 1803.
(7) An Act to prevent frauds and perjuries.-November 18, 1803.

(8) An Act creating the offices, and defining the duties of territorial and

county treasurers.-1803.

1804: (1) An Act to prevent the evil practice of duelling.-November 11, 1804. 1805: (1) An Act regulating the solemnization of marriages.-January 5, 1805. (2) An Act empowering courts of equity to proceed against absent de

fendants.-February 1, 1805.

(3) An Act concerning forcible entries and detainers.-February 10, 1805.
(4) An Act respecting slaves.-March 6, 1805.

(5) An Act to prevent the liberation of slaves, only in cases hereafter
named, and for other purposes.-July 20, 1805.

1806: (1) An Act concerning wills and testaments; the settlement of intestates'
estates; and the duty of executors, administrators and guardians.
-February 10, 1806.

(2) An Act for the appointment of an auditor of public accounts, ascer-
taining his duties in office, and for other purposes.-March 1,

1806.

YEAR AND 1

NUMBER.

TITLE AND DATE.

1807: (1) An Act to render promissory notes and cotton receipts negotiable, and for other purposes.-1807.

(2) An Act to prevent trespasses in certain cases, and declaring what shall be deemed a lawful enclosure.-1807.

(3) An Act prescribing the duties of constables.-1807.

(4) An Act concerning counsel and attorneys at law.-1807.

(5) An Act concerning strays, and for improving the breed of horses.

1807.

(6) An Act for the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors.-1807. (7) An Act respecting oaths of office.-1807.

(8) An Act directing the method of proceeding in courts of common law and equity, against absconding debtors and other absent defend

ants.-1807.

(9) An Act concerning bail in civil cases.-February, 1807.

(10) An Act concerning the marks and brands of cattle and other stock.February, 1807.

(11) An Act to prevent the importation of distempered cattle into this ter
ritory.-February, 1807.

(12) An Act to prevent the evil practice of gaming.-Feb. 4, 1807.
(13) An Act establishing weights and measures in the Mississippi terri-
tory.-February 4, 1807.

(14) An Act establishing the fees of the several officers therein named, and
for other purposes.-February 6, 1807.

(15) An Act more particularly to define the duties of the auditor of public accounts and territorial treasurer, and for other purposes.-February 6, 1807.

(16) An Act directing the manner of employing proper guards for the safe keeping of criminals in the several counties of this territory, and for other purposes.-February 6, 1807.

(17) An Act regulating the mode of summoning juries, and for other purposes.-February 6, 1807.

(18) An Act to provide for the more effectual administration of justice. February 7, 1807.

(19) An Act establishing superior courts, and declaring the powers of the territorial judges.-February 10, 1807.

(20) An Act for the appointment of justices of the peace, and the establishment of county courts.-February 10, 1807.

(21) An Act concerning executions, and for the relief of insolvent debtors. -February 10, 1807.

(22) An Actcon cerning executions.-February 10, 1807.

(23) An Act for the settlement and relief of the poor.-Feb. 10, 1807.
(24) An Act to assist poor persons in their suits, and to enable infants to
sue by their next friends.-February 10, 1807.

(25) An Act to direct the building and establishing a court-house, jail, pil-
lory, whipping-posts, and stocks, in every county.-February
10, 1807.

(26) An Act for the well regulating of jails.-February 10, 1807.
(27) An Act for the more effectual preservation of personal liberty.-Feb-
ruary 10, 1807.

(28) An Act establishing the place where the officers therein named shall
keep their respective offices.-February 10, 1807.

(29) An Act to prevent the importation and spreading of the small-pox, and
other contagious diseases.-February 10, 1807.

(30) An Act respecting sheriffs and coroners.-February 10, 1807.
(31) An Act to regulate taverns and restrain tippling-houses.-Feb. 10, 1807.

YEAR AND

NUMBER.

TITLE AND DATE.

1807:(32) An Act concerning witnesses.-February 10, 1807.

(33) An Act concerning juries.-February 11, 1807.

1808: (1) An Act prescribing the mode of collecting and accounting for fines and forfeitures, and for other purposes.-January 26, 1808.

(2) An Act supplementary to an act concerning public roads, and for other purposes.-March 1, 1808.

1809: (1) An Act concerning cotton gins.-March 3, 1809.

(2) An Act to raise a revenue.-December, 1809.

(3) An Act establishing patrols.-December 5, 1809.

(4) An Act to amend the several laws now in force, respecting prisonbound bonds.-December 7, 1809.

(5) An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act for the settlement and relief of the poor."-December 18, 1809.

(6) An Act supplementary to "An Act concerning wills and testaments; the settlement of intestates' estates; and the duty of executors, administrators and guardians."-December 22, 1809.

(7) An Act respecting runaway slaves committed to jail.-Dec. 22, 1809. (8) An Act respecting the auditor of public accounts, and the territorial treasurer. December 23, 1809.

(9) A Resolution relative to tax-collectors.-December 23, 1809. 1810: (1) An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act concerning cotton gins.”— November 27, 1810.

(2) An Act concerning navigable streams within this territory.-November 27, 1810.

(3) An Act fixing the time of holding the intermediate courts, extending the powers of the chief justice of the orphans' court, and for other purposes.- December 3, 1810.

(4) An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the evil practice of gaming."-December 3, 1810.

(5) An Act to amend an act entitled "An act for the appointment of an auditor of public accounts, ascertaining his duties in office, and for other purposes."-December 3, 1810.

1811: (1) An Act to empower securities to recover damages in a summary way. -December 7, 1811.

(2) An Act to amend an act entitled "An act respecting conveyances."

December 7, 1811.

(3) An Act regulating the mode of drawing and summoning jurors.-December 7, 1811.

(4) An Act to encourage the building of public mills, and directing the duties of millers.-December 7, 1811.

(5) An Act supplementary to an act to amend the act entitled "An act al-
lowing compensation to the several public officers therein men-
tioned, and for other purposes."-December 9, 1811.

(6) An Act concerning county surveyors.-December 11, 1811.
(7) An Act concerning bastardy.-December 13, 1811.

(8) An Act to amend the act for the punishment of crimes and misde-
meanors. December 16, 1811.

(9) An Act concerning tax-collectors.-December 16, 1811.

(10) An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the evil practice of gaming."-December 17, 1811.

(11) An Act regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases, and for other purposes. December 18, 1811.

(12) An Act granting original jurisdiction to the judges of the superior courts in certain cases.-December 18, 1811.