Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-25
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To Provide for the Publication and Dis
 tribution of the Code,of Alabama.

To Provide for the Publication and Dis
 tribution of the code,of Alabama.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the general
 assembly of Alabama, That the governor
 shall secure to the state the copyright
 of the code of Alabama adopted at this
 session of the general assembly.
 Sec. 9 The commissioner who codified and revised the statutes of the state is required to supervise the publication of the code. He shall read all proof, cor rect all manifest errors, compare the
 copy with the original manuscript, and see that the code as printed corresponds accurately with the original as adopted. Sec. B. The commissioner shall, in ar ranging the code. have the certificate hereinafter provided for, and the act adopting the code, and this act, printed in the first volume, next after the title page; then the constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto, with cita- tions under each section to the decisions of the supreme court of the United States construing the section; then the constitu- tion of Alabama 1875, with citations un- der each section to the decisions of the supreme court of Alabama construing that section, or a section of a previous constitution of Alabama substantially
 the same with brief and concise state
 ments of the questions decided, so far as such statements may be practicable; then sections 905 and 906 of the revised statutes Ol lHc OHltcu OldleS IeidllIB IO lHc du- identification of public records and judicial proceedings; then the table of contents of the civil code; then the civil code, from sections one to forty-two hundred and | ninety eight, both included, as shown on the manuscript; then the rules of court and practice; then the index to the first volume, including therein the index to the constitution of Alabama, 1875. The sec ond volume shall contain the certificate hereinafter provided for. the Declaration nf Ind f ho tplo nf mi fada ation, the constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto; the ordinance of 17S7; the act of congress of April 2, 1798, for the government of the Mississippi territory, and the act of May 10, 1900, supplementary thereto; the ar ticles of cession and agreement entered into by the United States and the state of Georgia, April "A, 1902; the act of March 27, 1894, and the act of May A. 1872, en- larging the boundaries of the Mississippi 1 establishing the Alabama territo- l ry, and the act of April 20, 1S1S amendatory thereof; the act of ! March 2, 1919, for the admission of Ala l bama into the union and the resolution l of December 14 1919, declaring the ad- ] mission of Alabama into the union; the l acts of congress known as the recon l struction acts; the several acts of com 1 gress of March ?, 1927; July 4, 1886; Au- 1 gust 16, 1842 January 27, 1S47, and Au 1 E uSl II, 1o4o, dS IOuIlu Otl DdS6S OU IO 0l, inclusive. of the code of Alabama, 1876; 1 the several constitutions of the state of 1 Alabama which have been heretofore in 1 force, with the amendments thereto and | the constitution now in force, with the 1 date of their going into effect; then the 1 table of contents of the criminal code, | then the criminal code, then the index to l the criminal code; then the comparative l table of sections contained in both the l civil and criminal codes,i showing the
 
 l the code of 1886 bears in this code, and | showing also the sections of the former | code which are omitted from this code. 1 He shall substitute for any section, as shown on the manuscript, the same sec tion as amended by any act passed at the present session of the general assembly, l as fully and completely as though such l section had been originally written into | the manuscript, with marginal notes
 showingj7t the date of such amendment. l and the page of the pamphlet acts where found. He shall also incorporate all oth- CT acts of a general and public nature passed at the present session of the gen | eral assembly and which affect or repeal sections of the code as adopted, and shall omit all repealed sections. The com missioner must give to each new section number, and prefix thereto an appro- l priate headline; and if 1t shall be deemed necessary he may renumber the sections | as shown by the manuscript and in that | event he must change all cross references 1 accordingly.
 | Sec. A. The commissioner must insert | after each section and before the next | section, annotations giving full citations | to the decisions of the supreme court | construing or mentioning such section, | or the act on which it is based, and, as l far as practicable, brief and concise l statement of the question decided by the cases cited. .t
 Sec 5. That 1000 copies of the code shall be printed and bound for the use of 1 the state. The paper and binding there of must be of the best material and
 workmanship. The pages shall be the
 same size as the pages of the code of | 1886, and the same number of ems and 1 type for the text, numbers of sections,
 head lines of sections, annotations, cita- l tions and marginal references as in that | code; but the table of contents and the 1 subjects of chapters shall be in such | type as the commissioner may direct
 or approve. The code shall be bound in l two volumes, in law sheep of the best 1 quality and in the best style of work l manship.
 Sec G. When the printing of the code is 1 completed and the same has been by the l commissioner compared with the origi- | nal manuscript as herein required, he 1 must certify that the same has been com ! pared with the original manuscript as i adopted by the general assembly, and 1 that the code as printed is the same as 1 adopted, which certificate must be print l ed in each copy of each volume of the
 code; and the code thus printed and pub I lished must be received as law in all courts and in all proceedings before any 1 board, body, or officer in this state, sub l ject to correction by the original manu- l script, which shall be suitably bound and
 labelled and kept on file in the office of
 the secretary of state.
 Sec. 2. Within thirty days after the ad- I journment of the present session of the ] general assembly the governor shall fix a maximum price for printing and bind i ing the code, not to exceed $4 copy for l the two volumes, and thereupon the sec l retary of state must advertise for bids 1 to print the code in accordance with , this act, such advertisement to be in- l serted in two daily newspapers published 1 In the state. Each bid must be in l sealed envelope addressed to the secre- l tary of state, and indorsed: Bid for l printing and binding the code of Ala bama," and must be accompanied by a ! bond in not less than s30,000, with resi-