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the board, and to grant licenses to all who shall pass satisfactory examinations. 1. To keep a registery of the licensed practitioners of dentistry in the State, transcript from which, certified under the seal of the board by the officer having custody thereof, shall be evidence of the license of any practitioner therein named. Approved March 4, 1901.
 (Ofncial) ROBERT P. McDAVID.
 Secretary of State. No. s15. AN ACT s. 2s1. To amend an act to amend section 263O of the Code of 1S96
 Section l. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That an act to amend section 2e9O of the Code of 1S96 approved February 2s 1899, be, and the same Is, hereby amended so as to read as follows. to-wit All contracts for the payment of interest upon the loan or for bearance of goods, money, things in ac- ton, or upon any contract whatever, at higher rate than is prescribed in this chapter, are usurious, and cannot be en- forced either at law or In equity. except as to the principal. Nor shall the bor- rower of money at a luxurious rate of in- terest ever in any case be required to pay more than the principal sum borrow ed, and if any interest has been paid the same must be deducted from the princi- pal and judgment rendered for the bal ance only.
 Approved March f. 1901
 (Ohicial) ROBERT P. McDAVID,
 Secretary of State. No. 1O17. AN ACT H. 1442 To provide for the annexation of West Florida to the State of Alabama, with the assent of the State of Florida and the Congress of the United States.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama That the Governor be- and he Is, hereby empowered to ap- point three commissioners on the part of the State of Alabama to confer with a ..e commission on the part of the gov ernment of the State of Florida to pro- vide for the annexation of that part of Florida to Alabama known as West Flor ida, and more particularly described as follows: All the said territory and juris- diction now held by the State of Florida in and to and over that portion of the territory of the State of Florida lying and being west of the thread of the Chat tahoochee and AppalachIcola rivers and west of a line running due south from the thread of the mouth of the Appalach- icola river, being west so as to pass be- tween the islands of St. George and St. Vincent known and called West Florida. Sec 9 Be it further enacted, That said commissioners be, and they are, hereby authorized and empowered in behalf of this State to do and perform all acts req uisite and necessary to perfect and con- summate the agreement for the cession of the aforesaid territory to the State of Alabama, and whatever agreement for the cesson of said territory to the State of Alabama may be made and entered in- to by said commissioners shall be re- ported back by them to the Governor of the State of Alabama; provided that no such agreement shall be binding upon the State of Alabama until the same shall be ratified and confirmed by the Legislature of Alabama and approved by the Governor.
 Approved March 4, 1901.
 (Omcial) ROBERT P. McDAvID,
 Secretary of State. No. 946. AN ACT B. R. '. Providing for the appointment of com mission by the Governor for the pur pose of soliciting subscriptions for the purchase of suitable silver service for the new battleship, Alabama"
 Resolved by the Senate of Alabama, the House concurring That the Governor be, and he is, hereby authorized to appoint a committee consisting of one from each Congressional district and four from the State at large (the last named gentleman to reside in the city of Montgomery, who shall be empowered to solicit and receive contributions for the purpose of purchasing a handsome and richly en- graved silver service for the magnificent battleship named in honor of our beloved State and in memory of the world-famed cruiser, Alabama" commanded by the ilustrious Semmes and sunk by the Kearsarge off the coast of France during the war between the States; said commit tee to be also authorized to purchase a suitable service with the fund thus col lected and to arrange a programme with appropriate ceremonies incident to pub lie presentation thereof at such place as the committee may designate, and to adopt such other measures as may be necessary to render the occasion honora ble and memorable in the history of the State. Provided, that the committee shall receive no compensation for their ser vices in the discharge of the duties i'm posed upon them by this resolution, and all expenses incurred in and about the same shall be paid out of the fund so raised Provided further, that Max Ham burger, Jr., president of the Mobile Press Club, be made member of the said com mission.
 Approved March 4, 1901.
 (Oficial.) ROBERT P. McDAvID,
 Secretary of State. No. HAS. AN ACT H. 1545. To incorporate and establish a prepara- tory school of miners and mining for the State of Alabama, to be located at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama. That ]. J. May field, D. N. c. Snow, Hugh Morrow, T. H. Aldrich H. W. DeBardeleben J. Collier Foster and s. Friedman and their suc- cessors in office be, and the same are hereby constituted a body corporate, to be known and styled "A preparatory