The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-12
The Code Commissioner
 Makes Report. SUGGESTS FOUR CLASSES
Judge Mayfield's Work a Compre-.
 henSive Volume.
Would Increase Judges Salaries and Provide Court stepogrpphsrs--BIll Submitted to Provide for Ad-
 mission to Bar.

 tions of cities and towns of the state of Alabama, and for their incorpora- ton, organization and government has been recommended to Governor Jelks by Hon. J. J. MayfeId, Code Commits sioner of the State, who mace his re- port on the qualification of the laws or Alabama yesterday.
 According to a bill which Judge May field submitted to the Governor the cit- les and towns of the state would be di- vided into four classes. The first class would include all cities having popw- 1atios of 25,000 or more. Tue second class would include all towns having population of from 2,000 to 25,000. The third class would consit of towns with a population of more than 100, but less than 2,00O. Unincorporated villages with a population of less than lOU :wou.i be included in the fourth class.
 In his report, also, Judge Mayfieid makes a recommendation that 8 law be passed to increase the salary of the chief justice and associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and of the circuit judges and chancellors of the State. The salary for the members of the Su- ureme Bench should be $5,00O, while the salary for the circuit judges and the chancellors, he would have placed at Ss.500. In addition to this amount. the circuit judges and chancellors should have, according to the recommends tion. an expense account of not to ex- ceed $500 year.
 The Commissioner made seven other recommendations, for the passage of laws. in addition to the report on the qualification proper
 Report is InvOIuminOus.
 The qualification report, which was handed to Governor Jelks. is a volum- Inous document of several hundred typewritten pages. In q predatory note. the Commissioner says 1t con- tains BOA chapters or subjects with subdivisions. the whole including 7,- 05S -ations. The chapters are ar ranged in alphabetical order. In the po- litical Code. there are forty-three chapters, containing 1,S51 sections. The Civil Code has 105 chapters. including 3.Ga9 sections. and the Criminal Code consists of 154 chapters In which are included 154S sections. In addition to this, there is large amount of prefa- tory matter, including the Declaration of Independence. the Articles of Con- federation. the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Ala banla. and ordinances and acts dat tug from that of 17S7 for the govern ment of the Northwest Territory down to the present time.
 The recommendations for new laws to complete and harmonize those al- ready in existence, are made in a sepa- rate report, which, together with drafts of bills were submitted for the consid- eration of the Governor. This report follows
 Proposed Legislation.
 "To His Excellency, William D. Jelks,
 Governor of Alabama:
 Under the provisions of Section IL, of An Act to provide for the revision, codification, etc, of the public statutes of the State. '(Acts 1903. D. 29S), the Fo init to you such bills as he may deem necessary or proper for perfecting, harmonizing or improving the system of laws of Alabama w44ach he cannot embrace in the Code.
 Tn accordance with this provision, I. as Commissioner, beg leave to submit to you drafts of proposed bills, which appear necessary to me to harmonize or perfect the laws of this State as codified by me. A number of these bills I would have codified, but for the fact that one branch or other of the Legislature has at some previous ses- sion, either declined or failed to pass a similar bill to the one proposed then pending in the Legislature. They are deemed so important by me, and so necessary, that I thought they should have the full and separate cons.dera- tion of Your Exeellency and the Legis- lature before they were enacted or codified
 The proposed bills arc as follows:
 "First--A bill to be entitled an act to provide for the classification of cities and towns in the State of Ala bama. and for their incorporation, or ganization and government. and to de fine their powers, duties, liabilities and Jurisdiction.
 "Second-A bill to be entitled an ast t) establish law uniform with the lays of other States as to negotiable instruments.
 "Third-A bill to be entitled an act to establish @ law uniform with the laws of othr States for the acknowl- cdgement and execution of written in- struments. "Fourth-A bill to be entitled an act to establish a law uniform with tho laws of other States relative to the probate in this State of foreign wills
 "Fifth-A bill to be entitled an act to establish a law uniform with the laws of other States relative to the execu- tion of wills.
 "Sixth-A bill to be entitled an act to fix the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Circuit Courts and the Chancellors Of this State, and to provide fJr the trav- cling expenses of said Circuit Judges and Chancellors.
 "Seventh-A bill to be entitled an act 
 laws of other. States, relating to tho sealing of deeds and other written ln- struments.
 "Eighth-A bill to be entitled an act to provide for court stenographers or onicfal court reporters for the State of Alabama.
 "Nfnth-A bill to be entitled an act to regulate admission to the Bar, and to create a Board of Examiners and specify it's duties
 The old "WRIker JiIi."
 .Tho first bill mentioned above pro- vides a municipal Code of Laws for this state: if is substantially :hs bill known as the Walker Bill which passed the lower House of the last Legislature, but failed in the Senate. have made some few changes but they are very slight. There have been some objections urged to this bill. some of which may have merit: but upon the whole. t IS, in my opinion. the best code of municipal laws I have ever examined. I codlhed this subject once as part 7f my work