The age-herald., 1899-03-05

-@.--- -A A--- A - - 7 officers and employees of the senate and house of representatives and for the incl dental expenses of the session of the Gen. eral Assembly, beginning on Tuesday after the second Monday in November, 1900, fifty thousand dollars are hereby appropriated, ana no appropriation herein made shall be construed to be an addition to appropria- tion for the same purpose or purposes made by separate act heretofore passed, or that may be hereafter passed at this session, and, provided further. that the appropria- tions for the same purposes or any of them In section one of general appropriation act, approved December 9th, 1898. shall be con strued to be embraced in the appropriations hereinbefore made, in section one of this act, and shall not be deemed to be an addi- ton thereto.
 Approved February 23d 1899.
 eofficiaD ROBERT P. McDAVID,
 LII Secretary of State. No. s21. AN ACT H. 145l To increase the state revenue of the pub- lie schools of the state of Alabama.
 Section l. Be 1t enacted by the general as- sembly of Alabama, That an annual tax of ten cents shall be imposed on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of all taxable property within the state; and that the revenue derived therefrom. to- gether with the annual appropriations from the general fund, shall be applied solely to the maintenance of the public school af the state
 D Ca, bot tha provisions of this act shall take effect im- mediateiy after it's adoption.
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
 Approved February 23, 1S99
 (official.) ROBERT P. McDAvID,
 Secretary of State. No S2S AN ACT H. III. For the protection of fish in the Tombig- bee, Warrior and Black Warrior rivers. and Mulberry, Locust and Sipsey forks of the Black Warrior river, in the state of Alabama.
 Section 1. Be It enacted by the general assembly of Alabama, That from and after the passage of this act 1t shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch or capture, or to attempt to take, catch or capture any fish out of the streams hereafter named with any kind of nets. seines, dip nets, traps or any other method of catching and entrapping fish. except with rod, hook and line, within one-fourth of a mile of any dam or fishery now exist ing or which may hereafter be built or constructed across the Tombigbee, Warrior and Black Warrior rivers and Mulberry. Locust and Sipsey forks of the Black War rior river, in the state of Alabama. It shall , also be unlawful for any person or persons by any device to hinder or obstruct the fin approach of fish to any fishway now or which may hereafter be constructed on or in the streams named in this section. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of Tuscaloosa county to destroy or remove trap or traps or other obstruction that now or may here after be erected or constructed within one fourth of a mile of any dam or fishway that has been or may hereafter be built or constructed across the Warrior river in said Tuscaloosa county, which interfereS with or prevents the passage of fish to
 
 fshways.
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That any person who violates the first section of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by fine of not more than two hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or at hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
 Sec 4 Be 1t further enacted, That one half of the fine imposed upon any person or persons under this act shall go to the party making the complaint against such yiolator or violators of section l of this act.
 Approved February 23, 1899.
 (Official) ROBERT P. McDAVID,
 Secretary of State. No S44 AN ACT H. 8S6. To amend section 42S9 of the Code of Ala bama.
 Be 1t enacted by the general assembly of Alabama, That section 42S9 of the code of Alabama be, and the same Is, hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: ''The judge of probate must also, when trial by jury is demanded, cause the jury box to be brought into court, and, after having the same well shaken, shall draw therefrom the names of twenty persons to serve as jurors, and he shall immedia/iy thereafter make out a list of said names so drawn, with an order to the sheriff to summons them to appear on the day set for trial, and from the persons so sum- moned and in attendance, jury shall be oreAnzed to try said contest. If from any cause there should not be jury selected from the jury so drawn, the court must order the sheriff forthwith to summons sufficient number of men qualified to serve as jurors to complete the jury. The judge