The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-19
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted By the Legislature of Alabama

acted by the Legislature of Alabama
 l. The governor shall secure to the state the copyright of the Code of Alabama, adopted at this session of the legislature
 2. The commissioner who codifed and revised the statutes of the state is re- quired to supervise the publication of the code He shall read all proof, correct all manifest errors. clerical and otherwise, and compare it with the original mann- script as signed by the chairman of the joint committee of the legislature. and see that the code as printed corresponds accurately with the original adopted.
 8. The commissioner shall, in arranging the code have the certificate hereinafter provided, for and An act adopting the code" printed in the first volume next after the title page and all of the pre- paratory matter that appears In both vol umes of the code of 1896, together with an act of cession of the state of South Carolina of that part of the territory of Alabam, before that cession claimed by the state of South Carolina and the Con stitution of 1901, toget1er with all of the matter contained in Section 1, to 1851 of the manuscript of the new Code and the codfied Acts of the present session of the legislature incorporated therein by the Joint committee and an index to this vol tune. This volume shall have three titles. the top one bearing the words Political Code of Alabama: the middle one bearing the number T in large figure and the bottom title showing the number of Sec tions from one to -. The second volume shall contain all of the matter as shown in Sections 1852 to 55l0 in the manuscript and the Codified Acts of the present session of the legislature incorpo- rated therein by joint committee and the rules of court and have on the top title the words "Ciril Code of Alabama" fig ure 70" on the middle title, and Sections ~--to--on the bottom title and the in- dex to this volume The third volume shall contain the Constitutions in of 1875 and 1901 in parallel columns. all matter shown on the manuscript of the new Code from Sections 5511 to 75OS and the codfied Acts of the present session of the legislature Incorporated therein by joint committee and an index 10 this vol mme. All Acts of the legislature passed on and after the ninth day of July, 1eo7 amending any section of the Code of 1S96 shall be substituted in place of the amend ed Sec-on and become q part of the Code. All other general Acts passed on and after the ninth day of July, 1907 shall be inserted at the proper place ac- cording to it's subject matter and be printed in the same type and style of the Code leaving off its title and enacting clause. and numbering the sections of the Act with the appropriate number in the Code.
 4 The commissioner shall insert im- mediately after every section of the Code, and before the next section annotations giving full citations to the decisions of the Supreme Court construing that Sec tion. Whenever a section Is sub-dlvlded, the annotations shall be inserted after the appropriate subdivisions. and those to the Section generally without reference 10 any particular subdivision, shall be printed below the Section
 ,. The commissioner shall prepare and insert at the proper place appropriate chapters, titles and subdivisions of titles Tor every chapter briefly expressive of
 
 script has been revised and amended by the joint committee, and after all the Acts passed on and after the 9th day of July, 1907, have been properly inserted number the sections of the Code consecu- lively and shall then verify and correct the cross references to Sectors of this Code so as to make them correspond ac- curately with the number of the Code given by him. The Code Commission shall insert in every volume of the Code cross reference to all subjects or titles treated in the other volumes of the Code
 6. That ten thousand copies of sets of the three Codes shall be printed and bound for the use of the state Of these, five thousand gets to be known as the 'State Edition" for the use of the state in Its courts and for it's officers and in- stitutions shall be printed on seventy pound book paper 2sx42 ream of five hun dred sheets pure rag stock paper to be of deep cream or buff tint. The impression of the great seal of the state shall be borne on both boaId backs. The bind ing shall he number one English buck ram linen or flax, of drab or olive col or O. the same quality or shade as sample in the office of the secretary of state which is Identified by the signature of the chairman of the joint committee. Five thousand sets snail be printed for sale. on seventy pound 2Sx42, ream of five hundred sheets, number one eastern ma cline finish paper, equal In every re- pect with that made tY the West Vir- ginla Pulp and Paper company at the Duncan mills Mechanicsville. New York, no be bound in number one English buck ram linen or flax, of the color of raw leather The ten thousand set shall have the first and last sections of every vol nme reinforced by mystic Holland buck ram to extend not Iess than two inches. over the board backs, double sewed through sections to reinforce the lining and to have pasted up joints The ordi- nary case style of binding must not be accepted. All the books to be hand sewed, on six bands and made up in six teen page sections, boards laced on by twines by which the board Is sewed. All boards shall be number one tar board, thickness number twenty. There shall be three titles on every volume as here inabove prescribed and stamped with gen. ulne gold leaf. Composition shall be in eleven point modern for text; eight point for citation and index; six point for foot