The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-29

Approved August @Ius 1SN'' Official: Frank N Julian.
 Secretary of State.
 No s7sa AN ACT, tH. 551. To amend an act entitled An Act to au-
 thorize and require the commits
 sioners court of Pickens county
 to set apart and appropriate money
 from the general fund or salu
 county with which to pay and dis-
 charge certificates of State wH-
 nesses issued by the foreman or
 the grand jury and the clerk or
 the circuit court of said county
 fees which by law become good
 claim against the fine and ror1elt-
 ure fund of said county as here
 matter provided in section two or
 this act, and to regulate the man
 ner of said payments, and nxing
 the amount of said witness Tee,
 approved December IS, 1900.
 section 1. Be it enacted by the leg islature of Alabama, That an act en- titled an act to authorize and require inc commissioners court Of Pickens County to set apart and appropriate money from the general fund or salo county with which to pay and dfscnarge certificates of state witnesses issued bv the foreman of the grand jury ana the clerk of the circuit court or saio county, fees which by law become good claim against the fine and TOT feiture fund of said county as herein- after provided in section two oL n.s ss act. and to regulate the manner of said nayments and fixing the amount or said witness fee. approved December 1g. 1900, be and the same is herepy am ended so as to read as follows Sec. 2. That the county treasurer or said county is hereby authorized ana directed to place all moneys now or hereafter accruing to the Tine and TOT fetture fund of said county to the cred- it of the general fund of said county and to pay state witnesses before the Srand iurv and the circuit court of said county their fees and all other claims now payable or hereafter pay ahle ont of such fine and forfeiture fund out of such general fund or the
 Sec. s3 The State witnesses in at tendance before the grand jury Of salo county shall be entitled to certlIlcate from the foreman of the grand Jury for the sum of seventy i've cents per diem for attendance and five cents per mile travelled each way, while attend ing court and for ferriage actually naId. and the State witness in attend ance upon the circuit court of said county shall be entitled to certificate for attendance, milage and ferriage Tn like sum and at then same rates as rrovided for witnesses before the grand iurv in this section to be signed by the clerk of the circuit court.
 Sec f. That 1t shall be the duty or the county treasurer of said county on presentation of any of the certiricates nrovided for in the foregoing section
 xzytf further dorsement from such general fund of the county and to cancel the same keepinR a record of the amount Of the same which certificates shall be Vouch- ers for the said treasurer on ms set tIement, provided said certificates snail he presented for payment within SIX months after the issuance Of the same or on failure shall be forever barred.
 Sec 5S That in cases in which the defendant is convicted the amount of certificates issued as above provided for shall be charged as costs against soid defendant and collected as other costs and shall be paid into the treas urv of said county to the credit or sala general fund.
 Sec e. That within thirty days after tha adiournment of the regular or any snecial term of the circuit coutt or sald county, it shall be the duty or the cIerk of said court to eertliy to the couu1S treasurer, the amount Of the certlIl- cates of witnesses before the grand Jury and State witnesses in the circuit court in each case where the State has se- cured a conviction. and when said wit ness fees are collected 1t shall be the duty of the clerk to pay the same over to the county treasurer. and for per forming said service he shall be enti- led to a fee of fifty cents for each case where there Is conviction so cer- tified. .
 Sec. T. That all laws and parts or ,,s ;r conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed.
 Approved July 19. 1907.
 Official; Frank N. Julian. tf.:as Secretary of State.