The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-19
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama.

| gether with the appropriate annota-
 tioas and correct citations and cross
 references, and this copy only, shall be sent to the printer and immediately shall be substantially bound in books, | of convenient size, and deposited and Kept In the office of the Secretary of State.
 g, The commission for codifying the | general acts of the present Legisla.
 ture which have been approved and in- corporated Into the manuscript by the Joint Committed, and for performing
 all of the duties required of him in and about the publication of the Code, shall receive five thousand dollars, two thou sand dollars to be paid when his copy
 is delivered to the printers. two thou sand dollars when the work Is deliv-
 cred to the binders, and one thousand dollars when the ten thousand sets are delivered to the Secretary of State. 10. Upon the delivery of ten thou sand sets of the Code to the Secretary of state. the Governor must thereupon make proclamation announcing that fact, and that the Code will so into effect and become operative on the thirtieth day after the date of the proclamation.
 II. The Secretary of State must re- tain, for the use of the State in it's courts, and for it's officers and public
 institutions and libraries the five thou
 sand sets of the State Edition, no copy of which shall ever be sold, and every
 copy of which shall forever remain the
 property of the State of Alabama. Any
 person found in possession of any vol-
 ume or copy of the State Edition of
 the Code, except in the court, office, in-
 stitution or library where they are
 properly deposited for public use, shall
 be guilty of misdemeanor.
 12. Of the State Edition the Seere-
 tary of State shall transmit. to every
 department of the United States gov
 ernment and to the Congressional Li- brary,.one copy; to the executive Of ev- cry State and Territory, two copies; to
 the Librarian of the University, ten copies; Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the Alabama Girls Industrial School. the Deaf, Dumb and Blind In- stitutes and the Insane Hospitals and every Normal school and Agricultural School and experiment station, two copies; and shall deliver to the Ldbra- rian of the Supreme Court ten copies, for the use of the Library; to the De- partment of Archives and History two copies; to the head of every depart- ment in the State Capitol. one copy; to every court of record and every sep arate division of 8 court of record Tn the State, two copies; the medical col lego at Mobkles two copies; to every Sheriff, Solicitor, County Supefinten- dent of Education. Board of Revenue, Tax Assessor, Tax Collector and Coun- ty Treasurer, Justice of the Peaces ev- cry Notary with the powers of Jus tice of the Peace, every public library which Is not named after any person, and to every bar library, one copy The title to all of which copies shall for ever remain in the State of Alabama, and shall never become the personal property of any person or corporation however long they may have had pos session thereof.
 IS. The Secretary of State shall, from the sale Edition of the Code, dis tribute to every judge of a court of record In the State of Alabama, Sena- tor and Representative, Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House, one set of the Sale Edition, which shall be his personal property.
 IA For the purpose of making correct distribution of the Code to the County officers entitled thereto, the Secretary of State shall deliver to eV- cry Probate Judge the number of eop- 'fea as by the written requfsition of therl Probate Judge may be shown that his County is entitled to receive. The re- ouisition must give the name and Of flee of every officer for whom the re- duisition is made, and the Probate
  whom Code Is delivered a receipt specifying whether it ipof the State Edition or the Sale Edition, which re- eeipt he must file in the office of the Secretary of State; and shah be respon- sihIe for all. copies delivered to him and for which he has not filed the re- ceipts of the officer entitled thereto in the office of the Secretary of State.
 IS. That all copies of the State Edt- tion left after the distribution above l provided for, the Secretary of State shali preserve for official use ana shall l not sell any of them. All the rest of the Sale Edition he may sell at six dol lars per copy of three volumes, but shall not sell to any one individual, | les.
 16. That to secure 6 speedy deIiv- | cry of the Code, and to have 1t printed and found fully in accordance l with specifications and requirements | of this Act, the Secretary, of State. the | Code Commissioner and the Chairman | of the Joint Legislative Committee, who read inc Code, are hereby con stituted a Commission, whose duty 1t shall be to open and examine all of the bids made for printing the Codes, and certify them to the Governor in the order in which the bids are made. rat ing them according to the price of the bid, and the character Of the work usually done by the bidder. That be- fore the Secretary of State shall re- ceive any Code or the Governor pay | any part of the contract price, this Commission shall carefully compart the work, quality of paper and of bind ing with the specifications, and sbal certify to the Secretary of State and the Governor whether the work has been done strictly in accordance with the specifications prescribed by law.
 IT, Within ten days after the ap- proval of this Act. the Secretary of State must advertise, for thirty days, for bids for printing this Code, and tho Commissioner shall have all Of the necessary copy ready to be deliv- cred to the contractor as soon as the contract is signed and the contract shall bind him to print all of the books and thoroughly dry. season and press the same, and to deliver them all With in six months from the date of the con-
 IS To facilitate the indexing and proper noting of cross references to the Acts of the present session of the Legislature which has been incorpor- ated into the Code, the Secretary Of State shall have printed three thousand 6veshundred copies of the general Acts of the present session of the Legisla- ture. to be printed on sixty pound laid hook paper, pure rag stock; to be .land- sewed in sections of sixteen pages on Ave bands, and to be trimmed to the size of~the Supreme Court of Alabama parorts and hound in linen buckram