The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-21

ds to fedu as IollONSs 4tVu to4fo1 1dfIlai knowledge of girl over 12 and under 1t years of age.-Any person who has car nal knowledge Of any girl over l2 and under 16 years of age, or abuses such girl in the attempt to have carnal knowledge of her, must on conviction be punished at the discretion of the jury, by Imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than ld years This section, however. shall not apply to boys under It years of age. Approved March IT, 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State.
 No. l66) AN ACT (fI. 546. To provide for the maintenance and sup
 port of the Alabama Home of Refuge,
 and to make appropriation therefor.
 Section l. Be it enacted by the legis. lature of Alabama: That there is hereby appropriated out Of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the Ala bama Home Of Refuge. the sum of Sl50 per year for each inmate in said home, said appropriation to begin on the first day of January, 1915.
 Sec. ?. That the state auditor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasury
 
 Home of Refuge quarterly, for the pay ment of the amount hereby appropriated, and that the treasurer, other officer of said home. shall make an affidavit at the beginning of each quarter, showing the number of inmates in said home on that date. and the number so ascertained shall be the basis upon which the ap- propriation herein made shall be call culated and paid.
 Approved March l, 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State.
 lNo. 153. AN ACT tH. 535. To provide for the prompt publication of general acts of the legislature. Be 1t enacted by the legislature of Ala bama
 l. That imm ediately after every gen. eral act has been approved by the gov ernor. and delivered to the secretary of state, the latter shall have it cor reetly transcribed, and the copy placed in the hands of the public printer, who must as soon as practicable print twelve hundred and fifty G250) copies in ac- eordance with section three t3) herein after. of which the secretary of state must distribute two t21 to every mem Der and officer of the legislature, and to every state officer having an of- flee in the capitol; twenty-five t2o) copies to the supreme court library, two hundred and fifty t250) copies to the department of archives and history; and shah mail one copy to every judge and to every clerk Of a court of record in this state, one CD copy to every solicitor, or assistant or deputy solicitor. and one CD copy to every sheriff and county officer in this state.
 g. That acts required to be printed hereby must be printed on good White paper. to be approved by the governor, of octave form, twenty-six t26) ems measure in width, eleven CID point type, solid, with not less than forty six (46) lines to the page, but no marg- inal notes shall be printed adjacent to any act
 g. That the acts must be printed in the order in which they are approved, and each act must be complete In IL self. and whereof more than four t4) pages. must be stitched. stapled or pasted on the side so as to make a pamphlet of not less than 6S9 inches in size. At the head of each separate act so printed shall be the following words in appropriate type and in two lines namely: Alabama general laws. Reg ular session. 1915, followed by the act, in connection with the title to which shall be the governors number on the left, and the particular house number on the right with the name Of the au- thor thereof.
 4 The governor shall see that the public printer prints and delivers the acts promptly and If for any cause nc cannot print them so they may be ae- livered to the secretary of state within three (3) days of the delivery of the copy to the publisher the governor shall forthwith contract for this print ing with some publisher who will print and deliver the general acts as fast as they are passed.
 B. That in making the contract TOT the publication of the acts of the legls- lature the governor shall require the printer to give bond in such sum as he may direct, conditioned that the general acts shall be printed as herein pro yided and delivered to the secretary of state within three f3) days from the receipt of the copy by the printer anu Chat a volume of the general acts snail be printed, bound and delivered to the secretary of state within forty t4ot days from the adjournment of the ses- sion of the legislature, provided that if a recess be taken for a longer time than thirty (30) days. that all or the general acts passed before the recess, shall be immediately printed, bound and delivered collected in pamphlet form.
 Approved March 9. 1915.
 official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State.
 No 1e5) AN ACT VI. @'', To authorize and require the board oi
 revenue of counties of 100000 population
 or over, according to the last or any
 subsequent federal census, to appoint
 and to fix the compensation of officers
 to enforce the provisions of the law
 for the prevention of cruelty to animals
 and to confer upon said officers the
 power of deputy sheriff.
 Be it enacted by the legislature or Ala
 bama:
 Section 1. That the board of revenue or counties of 100000 population or over, ac- cording to the last or any subsequent federal census, shall have the power ana it shall be its duty to employ suitable person or persons who shall be charged especially with the duty of enforcing the laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals and to fix the compensation or such officer or officers, which compeh-