The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

appear at said hearing and object to and
contest the same. On questions of law
that may arise at the hearing appeals may
be taken to the circuit court of the county
on the same terms and conditions which
are required in appeals from the decisions
of justices of the peace. The court of coun-
ty commissioners or board of public reve-
nue. may grant or refuse the petition In
their discretion. If they grant the petition
they shall elect a dispenser, having the
same qualifications that are required in
this act Of town or city dispenser and
| said court of county commissioners or
board of public revenue shall conduct the
dispensary in the same manner and under
the same restrictions. terms, conditions and
privileges that are required In this act OF a
board of aldermen conducting a town or
city dispensary. The rural dispensers shall
be subject to the same terms, conditions
and restrictions, and shall have the same
privileges which in this act are imposed on
town or city dispensers, and are by them
enjoyed. Counties conducting rural dis
pensaries shall pay to the state the same
license tax which is required of the retail
dealer in liquor doing business in the coun-
try The profits of the business shall be
the property of the counties conducting
said rural dispensaries.
Sec. 13. This act shall not be construed
to repeal any law, local or general, that
tends to prohibit, retard. restrain or re-
strict the traffic in spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors, or Intoxicating drinks of any
kind, but this section shall not be con-
strued to exclude Russell county from the
operations of this act, except as to Girard
beat No /, in said county.
Sec IA. The term Legislative body"
where 1t apears in this act. is intended to
include the iaw-making body of the towns
and cities mentioned. whether the said
body is called mayor and aldermen, board
OF mayor and aldermen, council, town
council, city council intendant and town
council, or some other name. No gates,
doors, windows or other openings shall
| connect any dispensary with any adjacent
| house or lot so as to permit ingress and
| egress into and out OF such houses or lot
| from and into the dispensary.
Sec. To- All laws and parts of laws that
conflict with the provisions Of this act, ex-
| cept those referred to In the thirteenth
section Of this act, are hereby repealed.
Sec 16. This act shall go into effect on
the LIST day of January nineteen hundred
Q900) Provided, that this act shall not app
ply to the counties of Dallas, Walker, Gull
man. Winston, Madison Montgomery,
Lawrence, Morgan, Blount Mobile, Pick
ems, Lee. Tallapoosa. Coosa. Talladega,
Barbour, Shelby. Lauderdale, Marengo,
Crenshaw Covington, Tuscaloosa, Fay
cite, Etowah, Macon, Calhoun, Marshall,
Jefferson, Baldwin and Greenville, in But
Ter county, Roanoke in Randolph county,
and Unontown in Perry county, and Col
bert county, except in the town of Chero-
kee in said county. Provided, that the pro-
visions Of this bill shall not apply to the
manufacture and sale Of domestic wines in
Cleburne and Marion counties made and
manufactured out of grapes grown In said
counties and manufactured In said coun-
ties.
Sec. II. That the county of Lowndes be
included in the provisions OF this act and
shall go into effect thirty days after the
| adjournment of the legislature, in SO far as
| the county of Lowndes is concerned.
| Sec. is. That all funds derived from the
violation Of this act in the county of
Lowndes shall go to the general fund of
| the county.
| Approved February 49, 1892
VomciaD ROBT r. M DAVID,
Secretary of State.
No. 552 AN ACT 8. 200.
To provide for the regulation of corpora
tons, companies or associations transact
ing the business of life insurance in this
state upon the mutual cooperation or
assessment plan.
Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of Alabama, That no corporation,
company or association hereafter chartered
under the laws of this state for the pur-
pose of transacting life insurance upon the
| mutual cooperative or assessment plan
| shall be permitted or licensed to commence
| business until at least one hundred persons
| eligible under the proposed plan of organ
| ization shall have subscribed in writing, to
| be insured therein, in the aggregate amount
| Of at least two hundred and fifty thousand
| dollars, and shall have each paid or become
| obligated to pay the amount of at least one
| quarter Of one maximum estimated annual
| premium for his or her age at time of entry
on the amount of insurance respectively
| subscribed for and which shall be held in
| trust for the benefit of said corporation or
| their benefciaries; nor until every such
| corporation, company or association shall
| have deposited with the insurance depart
| ment of the state of Alabama a sum equal
| to the largest amount of insurance, which
| under its plan of organization it is author
| lied to write upon one life. Provided. new
| ertheess, that such deposit shall not be
| less than the sum of five thousand dollars;
which said deposit shall be invested in such
securities as are now required by law to
be deposited by insurance corporations;
and each such corporation, company or as
ISOLATION shall each year thereafter, at the
| time of filing its annual statement, deposit
| in like securities with the insurance de-
partment the sum of one thousand dollars
| on each million of insurance in force on the
| last day of the last calendar year, as
shown by its said annual statement, Until
| said corporation, company or association
| shall have so deposited with said insurance
| Of toto Of