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said patient.

 ity to work the public roads. and from serving on juries
 SS. Neither the superintendent nor a phy- sician of said hospitals shall be compelled to attend as a witness to testify as an ex- pert In any case, or on any question of in- sanity or psychologist medicine in the State, provided he shall certify in writing within ten days after the service of the summons that his absence from the hospital, in his best judgment, will interfere with his pro- fessional duties and the welfare of the pa- tients under his care. But defendants in criminal cases and the State by the con- sent of the defendant, and in civil cases, either party may take the deposition of the superintendent or of any of the physi- clans as to all matters involving his or their expert opinion when such testimony is admissible.
 39 The superintendent of said Insane Hospitals has the authority to appoint or to employ one or more suitable persons to act as police officers to arrest intruders, trespassers and persons guilty of improper or disorderly conduct on the property of the hospitals. Said persons shall be charged with all the duties and invested with all the powers of police officers and may eject trespassers from the hospital grounds, buildings or lands, or arrest them, and may without warrant arrest any per son guilty of abuse of a patient, of misde- meanor, of disorderly conduct, of stealing or injuring property, or other offense com mitted on the lands or premises of the said hospitals, and take said person before justice of the peace or other officer charged with trial of such offenders, before whom, upon proper affidavit charging the offense, the person so arrested shall be tried and if found guilty, convicted as in cases of persons brought before such a court on warrant; and said police officers shall have authority to summon a posse comitatus. 40 No public road, railroad or other high way shall be established or continued over or through the lands of either hospital without the consent of the superintendent and resident committee of trustees granted by resolution and recorded in the minutes of the committee.
 A. For the support, repair and improve ment of said hospitals, a sum, regulated by the Board of Trustees not exceeding three dollars a week, or thirty-nine dollars for thirteen weeks, shall be paid by the State quarterly, on the last days of March, June, September and December of every year, for every indigent and criminal patient present on those dates in said hospitals; and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall issue his warrant for that amount on the order of the treasurer of said hospitals, when coun- tersigned by the superintendent; and any balance remaining in the hands of the orJ 5ax nP September of every year shall be placed to the credit of a fund which shall be ex- pended for permanent improvements.
 42 The sections from 2544 to 2574, both in- cluded, of the Code of Alabama of 1896, shall be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Approved December Il, 1900.
 (Official) ROBERT P. McDAYID,
 Secretary of State. No. 156 H. J. R. H. J. R. Raising a committee to visit the State University and to report generally upon the condition and needs of said insti -u- ton.
 Be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring:
 Section l. That joint committee be raised consisting of five from the House and five from the Senate to visit and in- vestigate the State University and to re- port generally upon the condition and needs of said institution.
 Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, That said committee shall not be entitled to per diem of expenses while acting upon said commit tee.
 Sec. 8. Be it further resolved, That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House be designated as members of said committee. Provided that said com mittee shall have the power to administer oaths and require the attendance of wit nesses and the production of papers.
 FRANCIS L. PETTUS, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 D. J. NSADOR,
 President of the Senate, Pro. Fem. Approved Dec. Il. 1900.
 W. D. JELKS,
 Acting Governor. No. 153, S. JR S. J. R. To authorize the destruction of bonds. pre- pared under the act of February 23rd, 1876, but never issued.
 Be 1t resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that:
 whereas, certain DOnuS HerelndIler Qe- scribed, were prepared under the act of February 23, 1876, for refunding the State debit but have never been issued and, Whereas, the time for issuing said bonds has expired by limitation under the act of February IS, 1895, and said unissued bonds have been all the while In the custody of the Governor, therefore. the Governor is hereby authorized to destroy, in the pres ence of the Auditor and the Treasurer the following unissued bonds, now on file in his office: Class A." $5O0, numbered 7561 to SOO0 both inclusive. Class A." s100, numbered s172 to 94OO, both inclusive. Class A." $10o numbered SOO1 to S950, both inclusive. Class "B," $1OOo, numbered 57s to 5s6. both inclu- sive. Class e." 5000, numbered 974 to 1000, both inclusive. Be it further
 Resolved, That the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer shall keep a record of said