decisions of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Appeals, eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800.00). (11) For compensation of the stenographer to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00). (12) For compensation of one assistant clerk to the clerk of the Supreme Court, nine hundred dollars ($900.00). (13) For compensation of one stenographer to the clerk of the Supreme Court, four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00). (14) For compensation of one servant to the Supreme Court, two hundred ten dollars ($210.00). (15) For compensation of thirty-six circuit judges, fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00) each. (16) For compensation of thirtysix circuit court solicitors, twelve hundred dollars ($1200.00) each. (17) For compensation of the first deputy solicitor of the tenth circuit, twelve hundred dollars ($1203.00). (18) For compensation of second deputy solicitor of the tenth circuit, nine hundred dollars ($900.0). (19) For compensation of the third deputy solicitor of the tenth circuit, nine hundred dollars ($900.00). (20) For compensation of the deputy solicitor of the Bessemer division of the tenth judicial circuit, twelve hundred dollars ($1200.00). (21) For compensation of one supernumerary judge, two thousand dollars ($2,000.00).

MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS.

Section 4. That there is hereby appropriated, for the purposeshereinafter specified, to be paid out of any money in the State treasury, the following sums of money for that part of the fiscal year beginning April 1, 1919, and ending September 30, 1919. (1) For insurance on the capitol, furnishings therein, the Supreme Court library, and the collections of the department of archives and history, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), to be expended only by and with the approval of the governor. (2) For the arrest of absconding felons, fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00). (3) For the removal of prisoners, three thousand dollars ($3,000.00). (4) For distributing the public documents of the several executive, judicial and legislative departments of the State, four hundred dollars ($400.00). (5) For interest on the agricultural and mechanical college bonds (Alabama Polytechnic Institute), ten thousand one hundred forty dollars ($10,140.00). (6) For interest on the bonded debt of the State, one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($180,000.00). (7) For stationery and office supplies, including typewriters, for the several executive offices, departments, commissions, bureaus and boards, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court library, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00). (8) For fuel, light and water in the capitol, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). (9) For the contingent fund of the governor, ten thousand dollars, ($10,000.00). (10) For repairing and

refurnishing the capitol building and grounds, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). (11) For interest on the funds arising from sale of lands of the Alabama Girls' Technical Institute, ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00). (12) For postage and post office box rent for the several executive offices, departments, commissions, bureaus and boards, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court library, thirty-five hundred dollars ($3500.00). (13) For feeding prisoners in county jails $100,000, provided that $35,000 of this appropriation shall only be paid when in the opinion of the governor the condition of the treasury will permit. (14) For interest on the 16th Section fund, the valueless 16th Section fund, the surplus revenue fund, and the school indemnity land fund, for the use of the public. schools of the State, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($87,500.00). (15) For interest on temporary loans of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) to be disbursed annually only by and on the order of the governor, nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00). (16) For public printing and binding of the several executive, judicial and legislative departments of the State, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00). (17) For the compensation of the secretary of State for preparing copies of the acts for the public printer, ten cents (10c) for each one hundred words. (18) For the repair and up keep, and new furnishings of the governor's mansion, to be expended solely by the governor of the State, and only for actual repairs, additions or furnishings made and delivered, the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).

EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS.

Section 5. That for the payment of all obligations of the State, not herein specially enumerated, such annual sum as may be necessary is hereby appropriated, and that whenever any office has been created, or whenever the salary of any existing officer has been increased and the money has not been expressly appropriated to pay the salaries of the officers whose offices have been created, or to pay the salaries which have been so increased, such sum or sums as may be necessary to pay the same at the rate, and in the manner required by the existing laws is hereby appropriated. Provided, however, that there is hereby appropriated for the contingent fund of the governor covering the period of time from the date of enactment of this bill to April 1, 1919, the sum of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars, and there is hereby appropriated for postage and post office box rent for the several executive offices, departments, commissions, bureaus and boards, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court library one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars to cover the period from the date of the enactment of this act to April 1, 1919. This item to follow just after the first preceding appropriation.

Approved February 19, 1919.

No. 180.)

(H. 178-Van de Graff.

AN ACT

To provide for the incorporation of societies of persons seeking to promote the development or betterment of communities, municipalities or counties in the State, or other public purposes, without pecuniary profit to the individual members; and to exempt the property of such societies from taxation.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

(1) Whenever ten or more persons desire to form a society to promote the development or betterment of communities, municipalities or counties in this State, or for the promotion of other public purposes, without pecuniary profit to the individual members, they may become incorporated and entitled to all the powers and privileges of private corporations, and their members made subject only to limited libility for the obligations of the society in the following manner: Such persons shall first adopt a constitution and by-laws and elect officers thereunder, and its president or other officer shall file for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such society is located a copy verified by affidavit of such constitution and bylaws, which shall state the name and object or purposes of the organization, and the measure of personal liability for its obligations to be assumed by its individual members; and the manner in which its constitution and by-laws may be amended.

(2) The constitution and by-laws of such society may be amended at any time as provided for at its organization, but no amendment shall take effect until a copy thereof verified by the affidavit of the president or other officer of the society is recorded in the office of the probate judge of said county, nor shall any such amendment lessen the liability of the individual members as against the claims of existing creditors of the society.

(3) The property of corporations formed in good faith hereunder for other than pecuniary purposes and not for individual profit shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation and licenses; but if used for any other purpose than legitimately pertains to the object of such society, it shall not be so exempt.

Approved February 19, 1919.

No. 181.)

AN ACT

(H. 21-Ross.

To amend the caption, and sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten of "An act to protect women and children from desertion and non-support by husbands and parents; making it a misdemeanor for a hunband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife, or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his or her child, or children, under the age of sixteen years; prescrib

ing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support or desertion; and providing for the taking of recognizances; and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; also providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chiefs of police and sheriffs and other peace officers, probation officers, in certain contingencies, and designating the courts which shall have jurisdiction of such matters. Approved September 16th, 1915.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama:

Section 1. That the caption of "An act": To protect women and children from desertion and non-support by husbands and parents; making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife, or for a parent to desert or to neglect to provide for the support of his or her child, or children, under the age of sixteen years; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support or desertion; and providing for the taking of recognizances; and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; also providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chiefs of police and sheriffs and other peace officers, probation officers, in certain contingencies and designating the courts which shall have jurisdiction of such matters; approved September 16th, 1915, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "An act relating to desertion and non-support of wives by husbands and of children by parents; making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife, or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his or her child or children under eighteen years of age; prescribing the penalty therefor; designating the courts which shall have jurisdiction to try such misdemeanor, and prescribing the procedure and authority of such courts in such cases; defining the obligation of counties in such cases; providing for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of such desertion or non-support; providing for the taking and forfeiture of bonds and recognizances, and directing to whom, fines, and the proceeds of such bonds, when forfeited, shall be paid in such cases; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duty and authority in such cases; providing that sheriffs, police, and other peace officers shall act as probation officers in certain contingencies; determining the venue and establishing rules of evidence in such cases.

Section 2. That section one (1) of said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: That any husband who shall, without just cause, desert or wilfully neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife; or any parent who shall, without lawful excuse desert or wilfully neglect

or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child, or children, under the age of eighteen years, (whether such parent have custody of such child, or children, or not), she or they being then and there in destitute or necessitious circumstances, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be sentenced to a term in the county jail, or at hard labor for the county for a period of not more than twelve months, or the fine may be in addition to either the sentence to jail or to hard labor. When any such person is so sentenced to hard labor for the county, the county from which said person is so sentenced shall out of the general funds of said. county pay fifty cents for each day said prisoner is so confined. at hard labor, to the clerk of said probate or juvenile court, as the case may be, for the use of defendant's wife or for the use of his child, or children, under eighteen years of age, or both, as the case may be; and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners or board of revenue, of such county, to make the allowance, herein provided for, every two weeks, and to issue a warrant for same on the county treasurer, who shall pay same to said clerk. Should a fine be imposed on such defendant by the said probate or juvenile court, and be paid to the clerk of such court, said clerk shall hold said fine for the use of defendant's wife or for the use of his child, or children, or both; should such fine be imposed by the circuit court on appeal, and be paid to the clerk of the circuit court, said clerk shall pay said fine to the clerk of the probate or juvenile court, as the case may be; to be held by said last named clerk for the use of defendant's wife, or his child, or children, or both. All funds coming into the hands of the clerk of the probate or juvenile court for the use of defendant's wife, or his child, or children, or both, shall be expended or disbursed for such use under the direction of the judge of said probate or juvenile court. Said clerk shall make monthly reports to said judge of such expenditures. Persons sentenced to serve a term in jail or at hard labor, under the terms of this act, may, if released by the court, before the expiration of their term of sentence, as is herein provided for, be placed on probation for the remainder of such term, upon the same terms and conditions, and in the manner herein prescribed for the probation of offenders not serving sentences.

Section 3. That section two (2) of said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Proceedings under this act may be instituted upon complaint made under oath or affirmation by the wife or child, or by any officer mentioned in section seven of this act upon information received, or by any other person having knowledge of the facts, against any person accused of either of the above named offenses. It shall be the duty of any officer mentioned in section seven of this act, when,