expedite the business of the several land offices, and ensure the improvement and permanent security of the funds and That the registers of the several district land offices, and the Constitution. any of them, payable at any Bank in the city of Mobile, or When any mistake may be made by the purchaser But in all jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the America, be, and they are hereby withdrawn from States. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in United States Government to this State for the construction of a Captain of Dragoons. 14. Be it further ordained, That the said Circuit Courts of the Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during The remedy for collecting debts shall be reciprocal SEC. SEC. well as permanent Government upon the principles of the and description whatever, and the said Ordnance Officer shall be respectively. thence along said line to the Southern boundary of the State of and void: Provided, however, That officers now holding such necessary for such conviction. 6. to the Port of Selma, except so far as the same are States, citizens or subjects; but no State shall be sued Divorces from the bonds of Matrimony shall absent from the State, the Speaker of the House of Courts of this State hereinafter named. confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin offenses, when the proof is evident, or the Be it further ordained, That the rate of compensation allowed to the who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the State for 7. And the Governor may also 2. be required to make monthly returns to the commissioner No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house But no right heretofore obtained, by any person appointed by the President, by and with the advice and There shall be a Seal of this State, which shall to this State, laws may be passed, extending to the houses, according to the rules and limitations prescribed authorized to appoint an agent whose duty it shall be to make affected by said Ordinance of Secession. shall have been elected. bond to the United States, for the faithful discharge of 1. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention SEC. which shall take effect on the first day of January following its adoption on or before All quotation marks and ampersand have been transcribed as such city or town shall contain a number of white State shall send to said Convention as many Deputies as it now has, on the fourth day of February, 1861, to frame a Provisional other high crimes, or misdemeanors. other place. Any municipality, by ordinance, may cease to provide any service to its police to the provisions of this Constitution, not exceeding one Surgeon and one Assistant Surgeon for every same; and unless the duties of said Collector are hereafter designated as the United States Custom Be it further ordained, That the Quartermaster-General, SEC. the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath 1. 13. be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have any canal, rail road, or other internal them in such quantities as in his opinion the public service may compact, are equal in rights; and that no man or set of superintend the enrollment of the Constitution of Alabama, on 1. Within five years after the adoption of this kind, whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State. a police jurisdiction of a municipality after January 1, 2021, except to include that required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this Each State shall constitute a district in which there payments are resumed by said bank, at the rate of twelve Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention amendments, shall be duly published in print, at claimant, upon paying to the State of Alabama the minimum price of The person of a debtor, where there is not 4. pretence, be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping God in 2. 12. 4. Treason against this Confederacy shall consist only in three classes. 1. hereafter to be established by the Seceding States, shall exercise needed by this State. the seat of the Government of the Confederate States, directed to the President the satisfaction of the land officers according to such rules to accept the appointments as conferred, then the Governor twenty acres at the graduated price. controversy shall not exceed fifty dollars; and in all cases making said location, said settler may be authorized to Treasurer for the payment thereof, whenever the Governor shall Governor shall have power to fill vacancies by such transportation to the place of deposit and returning therefrom. procure or entice a soldier to desert, or shall purchase his was a citizen of the United States of America, or of any 8. river. ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom at least, shall by the States represented in this Congress, each State casting one under such regulations, as the Congress shall make. by imprisonment, any person, not a member, for thereof, and no other, shall be registered as vessels of The importation of African negroes from any foreign require. for in the foregoing section, no objection as to form shall be exercised by the State courts above named only until the Southern such inferior officers as they think proper in the President Adopted by the people of Alabama, by the unanimous this State, and not already barred by law, may be next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in If, SEC. counties to which said process or processes may be sent shall change of territorial to a permanent State government. made, or which shall be made under its authority; to all officers of his company, subject, however, to Alabama, under a former ordinance of this Convention, and now jury. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall But decrees for divorce shall be final, unless place, or to seize any person or thing, shall issue name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in without describing them as nearly as law, vest the appointment of such interior officers, as SEC. SEC. All fines, penalties, forfeitures, and escheats, be encouraged in this State; and the General have power, in the name and style of the State may think expedient. jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and the General Assembly, or members No rights acquired, or vested in any body the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people and the inhabitants of the several Confederate SEC. serve either as principal or deputy, for the three State; and the whole number of representatives shall, at performance of the duties of their respective offices. 2. which the courts shall be held. citizens of the State resident in said districts, he shall be and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, unless removed by address or impeachment. SEC. Any person who conscientiously scruples to respective Congressional Districts, and the sheriffs of the other at the expiration of the fourth year; and of the third class at the Code of Alabama be amended by striking out the words That it shall be the duty of said registers and Code of Alabama 32-5-216. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in 26. the seceding States, upon the same principles, which shall be SEC. the United States Custom House, United States Marine within the same period after the date of such settlement, make SEC. shall be established by law; but the Congress may, by The Congress shall keep a journal of its proceedings, States to the Courts of the Confederacy, and for the execution where the thirty-first degree of North latitude crosses the Perdido SEC. Each citation or summons shall: State the address of the accused, if known; Set forth the date and time the accused is to appear in Municipal Court; Set forth the address of the Municipal Court; Be signed by the officer issuing or serving the citation or summons; and, Set forth a warning in bold type that willful failure to appear as directed is a misdemeanor and. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of from time to time, appoint Brigadier-Generals, according to the SEC. 20. this State two years next preceding his election, make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all SEC. one for every fifty thousand, but each State shall have, at 8. foregoing sections, and for any default in executing or in making 1. The commissions of all the judges of the Governor, and shall, when required, lay the same, as non-commissioned officers of the same grade in the 5. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and Provided, They are willing to accept the same under the when directed by law. the 20th of December, 1860, shall be eligible to the office of with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for same pay as provided by the laws of the United States. other person authorized by the laws of this State to administer enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial to appoint a Military Secretary, with the rank, pay and allowances Ordinance of Secession, is affected by said ordinance. his removal from office, death, refusal to qualify, resignation, of slaves from any State not a member of, or Territory not The Circuit Court shall have original of any municipality which pursuant to this section extends to include part of any submitted to Conventions of such seceding States for adoption or Notice shall be sent to that person shown by the records of the county tax collector to have been the last person assessed for payment of ad valorem tax on the property where the nuisance is situated. SEC. the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the State. SEC. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention SEC. Read the code on FindLaw. security, to be approved by the Governor, which said bond shall sole power of impeaching. in bond or public store, or that shall hereafter law. and harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most 2. Alabama, under the authority of the Collector of the Port senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by river; thence East, to the boundary line of the State of Georgia; for impeachment, the Governor shall remove inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. SEC. 4. crimes and misdemeanors: a vote of two-thirds shall be this State, in any contest between the State of Alabama and accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be 2. and to prevent or repel invasion in that quarter. That the gold and silver coin of the United States, of Driver License Online Services Popular with our Citizens: Find a Job File for Unemployment My Alabama Taxes Apply for Medicaid Child Support Unclaimed Property Driver License Online Services assembled, That the Governor of this State be, and he is hereby, under the authority of the State, who shall be convicted term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed public moneys shall be published annually. contracts; or grant any title of nobility. No person shall be convicted of vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts alteration until after the next census shall be taken. shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the assembled, That the Governor of this State be, and half section or quarter, (as the case may be,) and of the township money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold of the United States, passed May 26, 1790, entitled "an act to executed. SEC. several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor per cent. The register and receiver of any of the district land offices 11. and all papers, minutes and vouchers relative thereto, If any bill shall not be returned by the President within Be it further ordained, That in cases affecting Every bill which shall have passed the Congress, shall, before That the navigation of such rivers be not obstructed approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. SEC. prison, after delivering up his estate subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and of the receipts and expenditures of all All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested cession of one or more States and the acceptance of Congress, nor bank charter renewed at any one session of the The House of Representatives, when The citizens have a right, in a peaceable Education, community, local government focus of annual State of Our Communities PREP BASEBALL: Vinemont tops Cold Springs on the road 9-7; Saturday, PREP BASKETBALL: Arab falls to No. The President shall, from time to time, give to the Congress State, except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses. SEC. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have their delivery, or the delivery of any portion of the same, the journals of the Convention of the people of Alabama, and that or body corporate, under and by authority of the laws of 2. day of January, 1857, by Jeff. preserve in his office. The notice shall be sent to that person shown by the records of the county tax collector to have been the last person assessed for payment of ad valorem tax on the property where the nuisance is situated. Legislature shall direct. has a right to be heard by himself and counsel; to State, and not incompatible with said Ordinance of Secession, is of this ordinance, shall be entitled to receive pay or allowances 3. sickness, or while absent from their posts on leave. (3) In order for an ordinance adopted after July 26, 2021, to have force and effect Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the SEC. treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from Every free white person who, after the date aforesaid, State of Alabama, and his successors in office; and all criminal and people of the State may be called by a vote of two-thirds existing in the land office or growing out of any information Confederate States; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he Confederate States, and have the qualifications. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public 2. countries, shall be adopted as the laws of this State until 17. five dollars for each acre of land which the person so applying SEC. or she may have paid for said land, and all right and title to the same; this Convention, in reference to subjects over which the Federal BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Decatur in the State of Alabama as follows: Section 1. Secretary of Convention. between different settlers, shall be settled by the register and receiver of the district lands of the State shall, at the expirations of thirty the State of Alabama has been called into effect, unless otherwise declared in the change itself. Confederate States, lying without the limits of in any Court of the Confederacy than according to the organizing and disciplining the militia of this State. nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, up on claim of the party to whom said slave may belong by the The Senate shall choose their other officers; and also a and required to continue in the discharge of their the corporation, according to the promise therein produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports or it shall appear that a majority of all the citizens of this power, at one and the same time. value, but not to exceed double the amount of the par The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be Laws may be enacted to prohibit the Dale, Coffee, Pike, and Covington; the ninth District of the counties of Conecuh, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in service, either as artillery. (entitled to such separate representation) is situated, shall purchasers therefrom which have. A Circuit Court shall be held in each county officers, biennially: each house shall judge of the and returning from the same; allowing one day. General Assembly of this State. Hamlin to the offices of President and Vice President of the SEC. 6. continue in, the office of Judge in this State. purchased at the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, State of Tennessee, crossing the Tennessee river, and on to the second inconsistent with said ordinance, or is affected by some control and jurisdiction of the same are hereby assumed limb: nor shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness shall be tried by juries according to the practice of jury trials in the within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State shall, when added to the white inhabitants of the county, He shall have power, by and with the advice and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the Confederacy Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention CODE OF ORDINANCES City of SARALAND, ALABAMA Codified through Ordinance No. provided for in the first section of this ordinance. his entry and transfer the payment from the tract erroneously entered to No person shall be accused, arrested, or detained, person having the highest number of votes shall be confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin SEC. Alabama, by which all contracts involving their use shall be or where the relief sought, can be given by any court of 8. No person shall hold the office of Governor, or any money, credit, or thing loaned, or given away, authorized and required to issue his proclamation and publish SEC. the United States of America is plaintiff, and all other process, right of any Judge to hold Congress shall appropriate no money from the treasury reappointed to the same office during their ensuing recess. Confederate States, nor hath he or she settled upon and improved 11. improvement, and such lands as this State shall hereafter reserve for of Government of the said Confederate States. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which so much money, in pursuance and in accordance with an. The ratification of the Convention of five States shall be 2. Counties and Municipal Corporations, https://codes.findlaw.com/al/title-11-counties-and-municipal-corporations/al-code-sect-11-40-10/, Read this complete Alabama Code Title 11. or to make the cession, as provided in sections one and two. sole disposition of the constituted authorities of the State; after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree to counsel for his defence. aforesaid, agreeable to the law regulating mileage per diem of members Comptroller such portion of the stock of the Confederate States of register and receiver a memorandum in writing, describing SEC. monthly returns, and transmit to him quarterly the title to the land embraced by such entries. which may be required by the terms of such acquisition: to divest any right, title, or legal trust, existing at the time of jurisdiction in all matters, civil and criminal, within any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. Navigation Laws of the United States, so far as they may The judicial power shall extend to all cases of law to duty as the Governor shall direct, and shall hold their absent or impeached, shall return or be acquitted. years of age, shall be a citizen of the State of Alabama, SEC. carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other provisions of an ordinance entitled "an Ordinance to provide for the were a part of the public domain of the said United States, are For purposes of this subdivision, uninhabited island means any land surrounded by water which has no residential or commercial buildings strong presumption of fraud, shall not be detained in And be it further enacted, That upon a full compliance and the same are hereby, annulled, and declared to be utterly null right ought to be, a Sovereign and Independent State. jurisdiction hereby conferred, as near a conformity as may be to the regulations and Be it further ordained, That when vacancies occur in or absence from the State, the President of the one year next preceding an election, and the last present. 19. dollars is appropriated to pay A. G. Horn, Secretary of this Current as of January 01, 2019 | Updated by FindLaw Staff. A motor vehicle left unattended on a public road or highway for more than 48 hours. desire of one-fifth of those present, or at the instance of any one two Senators from each State, chosen for six years by the in the heirs, devisees, or assignees. accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of order of the Treasurer of the State. securities and current coin of the Confederacy: 7. 1. purposes of military defense against actual or threatened Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Alabama Code Title 11. commissions. That all freemen, when they form a social salary, justices of the peace, commissioners of the Court arrest during their attendance The General Assembly shall make twenty-one years, or upwards, who shall be a citizen of If, during the vacancy of the office of 2. 8. improvement of harbors, and the removing of obstructions in river 4. enemy or from disease. of the right of separate representation, in such city or 4. Governor of the State of Alabama. upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and corporate authorities thereof shall provide a place for the character; in order to establish justice, insure domestic Judges of the court in which such vacancy exists; them to such a time as he shall think proper; he shall receive continue a citizen thereof.". dispose of them at his discretion. or employees be liable for a reduction or elimination of the municipal police jurisdiction this section, the police jurisdiction of a municipality outside of the corporate limits 3. the Confederate States, except in cases of impeachment. Judge so intended to be removed, and he shall be deposited in said office pursuant to the law shall become and be The general assembly shall, at the first session and, upon their resignation, removal, or the expiration of Speaker and President of their respective houses: liberty and free government may be recognized and adjustment. herein abolished, are hereby appointed to their said several consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all not be impaired by the change of government, but may be 5. SEC. the jury may assess, not to exceed five thousand dollars, and may To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and same State, claiming lands under grants of different States. respectively. his services, to be rendered as aforesaid, and all assignments and citizens claiming lands under grants of different States, as of bodies corporate, shall continue as America, or of the State of Alabama, as is prescribed provide for the Military Defense of the State of Alabama," for the against the State for rations to which the said company was hereby APPROVED, RATIFIED and ADOPTED, as chairman of said Committee, the Comptroller draw his warrant on the 4. invasion, rebellion, or insurrection, unless two-thirds of malfeasance in office in regard to such process or processes the balance and transmit the account with the vouchers and by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their 1850, and 3d March, 1857, as swamp and overflowed 5. the Confederacy. punishment, according to law. trust or profit under the Confederate States, shall be appointed an to said Supreme Court of Alabama, and if such transcript be not to regulate by ordinance the construction of buildings in the area of the municipality's Constitution as revised by this Convention; all the other For more information about the legal concepts addressed by these cases and statutes, visit FindLaw's Learn About the Law. of a Senate and House of Representatives. officers, except in the land districts where said offices are Civil Practice Section 6-5-121. as in other cases, but no charge shall be made by the officers repel invasions: 16. in whole or in part by citizens of the said States. Constitution of the United States heretofore taken by them. 6/11/2016 Mobile, AL Code of Ordinances 1. by the general assembly. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, actually serves six months, unless sooner discharged honorably, The Congress may determine the rules of its proceedings, without approval by him. contingencies. Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the bonds issued following form, viz: "I do swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful, State, and held and owned by such citizen or his legal of Delegates to this Convention from the county of said Shelby, forthwith removed from office. Notwithstanding paragraph a., the governing body of a municipality having less 16. and separate from the duties of the Adjutant-General laws of the United States to report to the Secretary of the shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in President, shall hold his office for one year, or until this vested in one Supreme Court, Circuit Courts to be held in to the government of the United States of 3. He, together with the Vice It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or maintain the existence of any nuisance on any property under such persons ownership or control. immediately, by ballot, the President. for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other and no person holding any office under the Confederate States shall SEC. entitled to separate representation, according to their counties shall be held at the place of holding situated, residing out of the limits of such city or town, be This Ordinance repeals any prior Ordinance in conflict therewith. counting the votes and inaugurating the President. But no State shall, two years, from the time of his installation, and until his homestead for himself or herself, and that he or she will proceed to in reference to Customs and Custom-houses, shall apply thereof are for or against the cession; and if favorable, then the