The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-07

ty treasurers to require bond from any assistant and provide for the premium on such bond. The bill will go to the senate.
 By the passage of a senate bill by Mir. Mcdowell. Jr., the Alabama room at the Confederate Memorial Museum at Rich mond, Va, is maintained at expense of the state.
 Thursday in the house was local bill day and several minor measures were adorted. There was no opposition to the local bills, which affects only one coun- ty, and much progress toward closing , the calendar was made. However, there ren aimed several important Jefferson county bills, which will come up Friday and Tuesday.
 BUDGET BILL READY 1 The state budget commission bill, i passed by the senate and house, was signed by Speaker Merritt and officials of the senate Thursday morning. The bill will now go to the desk of Governor | Kilby for his signature before it be- ! comes a law. This is one of the admin | istration measures that was rushed | through the two branches of the legis- lature and which met with little oppo- | sition. It provides for the naming of a commission to study the states financ CS anu u PIONluS IOE ts QAi | ing the next four years.
 Oysters cannot be shipped in the shell out of the state by water. in a bill intro 1 duced in the house by Holmes of Bald win and in the senate by Craft of Mo- bile is finally adopted. Senator Craft in introducing this bin, made it clear that he was doing so by request of a delegation of oyster men of Mobile and | Baldwin counties.
 | {l4 ~ gto fA yNf-T- tected from the commercial fishermen
 who are said to be catching and trans
 porting shrimp from the waters around
 Mobile. The bill is entitled as follows
 ITO prohibit the shipment of oyster:
 in the shell out of the state of Alabama
 by water, and provide for the culling oi
 the oysters, when taken from the water'
 of the state, and prescribing who shal
 take oysters from the waters, or shrimp
 from the waters of the state, and upoi what terms, and prohibiting the catch
 ing or transportation of shrimp from th' | waters of the state, except by bonafid'
 residents of the state for not less thai
 one year, and requiring dealers in oys
 ters to pay a license"
 Section of the bill reads That it shall be unlawful for anyon
 to catch from the waters of this state i without permission of the inspector wh | , ters or shrimp from the waters of thi
 state without paying to the oyster in
 spector for the benefits of the oyste
 fund, not less than 1 per annum fo
 each boat used in the catching or trans
 portationf of such shrimp or oysters, an
 if the said boat, boats have capa
 city of more! than one ton, then at tn = rate of S ton. and each retail deale z shall pay license of B a year for tn \ privilege of selling oysters in this state. Section deals with the inspection c | oysters at the reef, and defines the pow CT of the inspecte4-to condemn certai oysters that do not appear to be properl ' culled.
 | t.Section says: Ut shall be unlawft ! for any person, firm or corporation t | seine, catch or attempt to catch ar | salt water shrimp between the 18th da | of December and the 10th day Of Janu | ary, and from June l to July 1. pro vided, that the closed season herein pro
 vided for shall not apply to the seinin | and catching of salt water shrimp
 be used only in the fresh state at til | local markets, or for local domestic cor | sumption"