SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect on the 30th of September, 1883. Approved December 12, 1882. No. 19.] AN ACT [8. B. 49. To amend section 1843 of the Code. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That section 1843 of the Code be amended so as to read as follows: Roads to have office holders meeting in the § 1843. Every railroad company incorporated under the provisions of this article, shall have its principal place Requiring Rail of business in this State; but any railroad company in-principal office corporated under this article, may own and operate a rail- and hold Stock road connecting with its own outside of this State, but every railroad company which has been, or that may here- State. after be incorporated under this article, or under any general incorporation law of this State, must keep and preserve at its principal place of business in this State, a full and complete record of all meetings of the stockholders or directors of the corporation. And all meetings of the stockholders of any such company shall be held at the principal office of such company in this State. Approved December 12, 1882. No. 20.] AN ACT [S. B. 50. To authorize the Railroad Companies organized under the general incorporation laws of this State to extend their lines and build branch roads. panies to ex SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Authorizing Alabama, That any railroad company which has been rail road comheretofore, and may be hereafter, incorporated and organ- tend their lines ized under the general incorporation laws of this State, & build branch may extend its railroad from any point named in its char- roads. ter, and may build branch roads from any point or points on its line. Before making such extension, or building any such branch road, such railroad company shall, by a resolution adopted by a majority of its board of directors, to be entered in the records of its proceedings, designate the point from which and to which such extension is to be made or such branch road is to be built. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That a copy of such resolutions, certified under the seal of the company, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and recorded as now required by law in cases of declarations of incorporation, and thereafter such company shall have the same right and power to make such extension and build such branch road as if it had been authorized in its original charter; and a copy of such resolution, certified to by the Secretary of State, and showing that the same has been duly filed in his office as provided by this act, shall be evidence of such authority and power. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of making such extension and building such branch road, such company shall have all the rights, powers and immunities which are now, or may hereafter, by the laws of this State be granted to, and vested in, railroad companies incorporated under the general incorporation laws of the State. Approved December 12, 1882. taries Public No. 21.] AN ACT [8. B. 3. To confer upon Notaries Public and ex-officio Justices of the Peace similar powers to those possessed by Justices of the Peace to issue attachments returnable to the Circuit or any City Court. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Power of No- Alabama, That notaries public who are by commission at-ex-officio justices of the peace, shall have the same powers to issue writs of attachment returnable to the Circuit or any City Court, as are now conferred upon justices of the to issue tachment. peace. Approved December 12, 1882. No. 22.] AN ACT [H. B. 236. To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for additional accommodations for the insane of Alabama," approved February 26th, 1881. commodations SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That section 5 of an act entitled "An act to Additional acprovide additional accommodations for the insane of Ala- for the insane. bama," approved February 26th, 1881, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That not exceeding onehalf of the whole sum hereby appropriated shall be drawn out of the State treasury in any one year. Approved December 12, 1882. No. 23.] AN ACT [H. B. 288. To authorize and require the Governor to destroy all uncurrent funds in the State treasury, and all six per cent. bonds that have not been issued. current funds SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Authorizing Alabama, That the Governor of Alabama is hereby au- the Governor thorized and required, immediately upon the approval of to destroy unthis act, to cause the Treasurer of this State to make a and bonds that record of all the State obligations that were taken up by have not been the issuance of six per cent. bonds, to the amount of issued. $956,540, and of the State obligations for which no bonds. have been issued, amounting to $40,000, and of all uncurrent bank bills, amounting to $2,351, and of the certificates of the Northern Bank of Alabama, amounting to $35.05, and of all the State certificates to the credit of the swamp land fund, amounting to $21,230, and of all the six per cent. bonds of the State, amounting to $40,000, that have not been issued; and as soon as said record is complete, the Auditor shall compare said obligations, uncurrent bank bills, certificates and bonds with the record thereof made by the Treasurer, and if said record is found to be full and correct, the Governor, in the presence of the Auditor and Treasurer, shall burn all of said obligations, certificates, uncurrent bank bills and bonds enumerated in this act; and the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer shall then and there make and sign a certificate upon and to said record, setting forth that all of the obligations, uncurrent bank bills, certificates and bonds, enumerated herein, had been burned as required by this act. The Governor shall forthwith report to the General Assembly how the duty imposed by this act has been performed, and the correct amount to which the Treasurer is entitled as a credit, by reason of the destruction of said obligations, uncurrent bank bills and certificates, that are now counted as cash in the treasury, and shall direct the Auditor to draw his warrant in favor of the treasury as a credit for said amount so ascertained and destroyed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever any of the State obligations now outstanding shall come into the treasury, the Governor shall cause a record thereof to be made, as required in the first section of this act, and shall then proceed to burn said obligations, as prescribed in the first section of this act, and shall report to the next General Assembly the number, character and description of all of the obligations so burned. That upon the burning of any obligations, uncurrent bank bills, or instruments of any kind that have heretofore been lawfully received by the Treasurer of this State, or that may hereafter be lawfully received by said Treasurer, and a record thereof has been made and certified to as provided in this act, the Treasurer of this State shall be entitled to credit for the amount of such obligations, uncurrent funds and instruments so recorded and burned. And the Governor shall direct the Auditor to draw his warrant in favor of the treasury for the obligations so destroyed. Approved December 12, 1882. No. 24.] AN ACT [S. B. 68. To amend section 2 of "An act to regulate the compensation of Sheriffs for the removal of prisoners," approved March 1st, 1881. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That section 2 of "An act to regulate the compensation of sheriffs for the removal of prisoners," ap proved March 1st, 1881, be so amended as to read as follows: oners. Penalty. SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That the fees herein provided shall be paid To compenby the State, and, if the defendant should be con- sate Sheriffs for victed, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Circuit removal of prisor City Court in which he is tried to tax the same as costs against him, and issue execution immediately upon the adjournment of said court therefor, and hand the same to the sheriff of his county, whose duty it shall be to collect the same under the penalties now provided by law for the failure of sheriffs to collect money under other executions; and when collected he shall pay the same to the Treasurer of the State, or failing so to do for ninety days after its collection, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars; Provided. That no allowance shall be made for any guard in any case hereinbefore men-iowed. tioned, unless the Circuit or City Judge making the order of removal shall set forth in such order that upon investigation he believes a guard to be necessary, and such order shall also designate the number of such guards allowed, and in no case to exceed two for each prisoner; Provided further, That the State shall not pay said fees, unless the sheriff applying therefor file with his application the certificate of the clerk of said court, that the said fees have been reported to, and docketed by, said clerk in his office. Approved December 12, 1882. No guard al No. 25.] AN ACT [S. B. 125. To sell a certain plantation belonging to the State, called the State Convict Farm, purchased from Thomas Williams. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That the Governor, the State Treasurer and the Attorney-General be and the same are hereby consti- To sell the tuted a commission for the purpose of selling the tract of convict farm. land known as the "State Convict Farm," purchased from Thomas Williams in the year 1875, by George S. Houston, as Governor of Alabama, embracing about two thou |