The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-11
GENERAL LAW S
Enacted BY the Legislature of Alabama

and provide for its mode of procedure
and prescribe penalties for violation of
its orders
Section !. Be it enacted by the Leg
islature of Alabama, That a Commission
to be known as a Railroad Commission
Of Alabama. consisting of a president and
two associates, who shall be competent
persons, and qualified electors of this
State, is established; their terms of of
flee shall be for four years; at the cleo
ton to be held in the State on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember Nineteen hundred and eight, and
every four years thereafter a president
of said Commission shall be elected by
the qualified electors of this State, and at
the election to be held in the State on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in in November 1910, and every four
years thereafter, two associates who,
with the president shall constitute said
Commission. shall be elected by the quail
flied electors of the State The result of
such election shall be ascertalned and de-
clared by the same authority and in the
same manner as are the results of elec-
ton for Chief Justice and Associate JUS
tees Of the Supreme Court; the persons
elected to fill said offices shall enter upon
the discharge of their respective duties
on the first Monday in March after their
election, and shall continue in office un-
til their successors are elected and
qualified, If any vacancy should occur
in either of said offices, caused by
death, resignation, or otherwise, the same
shall be filled by appointment by the
Governor. the appointee holding for the
balance of the unexpired term. Provided
that no two of said Railroad Commission
ers shall be elected or appointed from
the same Congressional District. Provid-
ed further. that the members of the Rail-
road Commission elected in November,
1904, and November, 1906 shall continue
10 hold such offices, and that the terms
of office of said members shall be and re-
main as prescribed by the Act approved
October /. 1903. under which they We're
elected and provided further, that in the
event any person elected to the office of
Railroad Commissioner at the election
held in November, 1906, or any person
hereafter elected to such office, shall fail
or refuse from any cause to qualify for
the office to which he which he was
elected, the Governor shall appoint to
the office some person possessing the
qualifications prescribed in this Act, who
shall discharge the duties of the office
until the person elected qualities; but if
the person SO failing or refusing to quail
tfy shall be or become ineligible or dis
qualified from holding the office and shall
fail or refuse to qualify, such failure or
refusal shall be held to create a vacancy
in the office, which vacancy shall be filled
by appointment by the Governor, the ap-
pointee to hold for the term for which
the person so failing or refusing to quail
ify was elected.
Sec q The Commission shall be known
as the RAILROAD Commission OF Ala
bama," and the members thereof shall be
state officers, and before entering upon
the discharge of their duties they shall
take the oath of office prescribed for
other State officers. The Commission
shall have a seal with the words. Rail
road. Commission of Alabama with
prescribe
Sec 3. No person owning any stock in
any railroad corporation, or in the en-
ployment of any railroad corporation or
of any person, firm, company or associa-
ton owning or operating railroad in
this State, shall be eligible to the office
of Railroad Commissioner.
peached and removed from office by the
Supreme Court for the same causes and
In the same manner as other State Off
GERS; and any Commissioner who shall
accept any gift, gratuity, emolnment or
employment from any person. firm, cor
poration, company or association. owning
or operating a railroad in whole or in
part in this State during his continuance
in Office except permit for himself. or
any employee of the Commission, to pass
over the railroad of such person, corpo-
cation, company or association, on official
business, shall forfeit his office and may
he impeached and removed from office
therefor, or for any other cause of i'm
peachment.
Sec. b. The president of such Commits
sion shall receive salary of thrty-five
hundred dollars per annum. and the as
sociate commissioners shall each receive
a salary of three thousand dollars per
annum and they may employ a clerk at
a salary not exceeding twenty-four hun
bred dollars per annum, and a stenog-
rapher at a salary not exceeding twelve
hundred dollars per annum. and may en-
ploy such experts as may be necessary
TO perform any service it may require of
them; provided that the amount expend-
ed for such experts shall not exceed
twenty-five hundred dollars in any one
year; such salaries to be paid as the
salaries of other State officers are paid.
All money paid out under the provisions
Of this section, including such sum as
may be necessary to procure office fur
niture and stationery. and to pay other
office expenses, shall be paid on war
rants drawn by the Auditor on the
Treasurer: but such office expenses shall
not exceed five hundred dollars per an
mum.
Sec. 6. Such Commissioners shall have
an office at the Capitol. and there meet
on the first Monday of every month. and
shall remain in session until all business
before them is disposed of: and they shall
hold other sessions at such times and
places as may be necessary for the prop