December 31, 1924 and that of Samuel Will John of Selma, Alabama, on December 31, 1925, and every trustee shall hold office till his successor is elected. Approved February 7, 1919. No. 26.) (S. J. R. 37-Bedsole. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Whereas, Dr. John Little, treasurer of "The Alabama Insane Hospitals," died on February 1, 1919, leaving the office of treasurer of the hospitals vacant, which cannot be filled for several days, which will cause inconvenience and suffering, not to relieve the hospitals and let them draw from the treasury the amount that the treasurer would have drawn: Be it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that the State auditor is authorized and directed to draw a warrant in favor of James T. Searcy, superintendent, for the amount due the hospitals on February 1, 1919, and the State treasurer is authorized and required to pay the same to James T. Searcy, Superintendent, or order. Approved February 7, 1919. No. 28.) AN ACT (S. 28-Bedsole. To amend section 883 of the Code of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, That section 883 of the Code of Alabama be amended so as to read as follows: 883. Salt springs may be leased and timber sold. The governor may lease the salt springs and lands granted to the State under the second clause of the sixth section of the act of Congress of March 2, 1819, to the best advantage, in conformity with the provisions of the grant, and may sell the timber on said lands. or any part thereof whenever he shall deem it to the interest of the State to do so. Approved February 7, 1919. No. 29.) AN ACT (H. 39-Dunaway. To establish and provide for state-wide eradication of the cattle fever tick (margaropus annulatus) and any other tick that shall be found to carry à disease-producing infection to cattle or any other domestic animals. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 1. That State-wide tick eradication shall be taken up in all counties that shall be at any time partially or completely tickinfested, under the State live stock sanitary board as hereinafter provided in this act and as provided in all other laws or parts of laws of Alabama not in conflict with this act. 2. That the county commissioners or county board of revenue of each county in Alabama shall provide or install or build, in their respective counties, the necessary number of concrete dipping vats and also provide the necessary chemicals, solutions and all other materials required for making, filling, replenishing and operating the required number of dipping vats. Each county shall furnish all the materials required for keeping the required vats filled with a standard tick killing arsenical dip having the composition and strength as required by the regulations of the Alabama live stock sanitary board and of the United States bureau of animal industry. 3. That the required number of dipping vats in a county shall be determined by the State veterinarian and the State and Federal Inspectors in charge of tick eradication in the county. The required number of dipping vats shall be based upon the extent of area infested or exposed to tick infestation in a county. As a rule vats shall be four miles apart unless unforeseen emergencies require them to be otherwise. Provided that any person who already has a dipping vat be allowed to use the same for dipping his own or neighbor's cattle under the supervision of the regular authorities. 4. That the county commissioners or county board of revenue in each county shall pay a reasonable salary to as many inspectors as shall be required in the county. An inspector shall have at least twelve vats and the required number to guard county. lines, look after isolated vats, quarantined ranges, and premises and quarantined cattle. The inspectors paid by the county shall be commissioned as State inspectors and work under the direction of the State veterinarian or the State or Federal inspector in charge of the county. 5. That every person, firm, company or corporation having in possession or in charge as owner, agent or otherwise one or more cattle in a tick infested or quarantined county or on a tick infested or quarantined premise, range, farm or pasture, that has not been released from State and Federal quarantine, shall dip the cattle regularly once every two weeks on the day and at the vat specified by the inspector in charge of the vat most convenient or nearest to the cattle. One printed or written dipping notice, given by the inspector to the person or persons in charge of or in possession of the cattle, shall be legally sufficient to require the owner, agent, firm or person in charge to dip the cattle regularly every two weeks until released from quarantine. 6. That all horses, mules and asses kept in tick infested lots, pens, pastures or ranges shall be dipped regularly every two weeks, in the same way and under the same requirements as for cattle, until released from State or Federal quarantine. 7. That all stray cattle, horses, mules and asses running at large or quarantined or tick infested ranges, commons, pastures or fields shall, if such cattle, horses, mules and asses have not been dipped as provided herein, shall be taken up by the sheriff, quarantined and dipped regularly once every two weeks, and fed and cared for at the expense and risk of the owner of the animals. The sheriff shall apply to a justice of the peace or to the county court to have the animals condemned as strays and sold at public auction. The justice of the peace or the county court shall post notices of the sale of the animals in three public places. in the precincts where the stock is taken up, and in one county paper, giving the time and place of the sale. The sale shall not be made until ten days after the notices have been posted and printed. The proceeds of the sale shall go to pay all costs of taking up, feeding, confining, selling and dipping, and if there be a balance it shall go into the county treasury to be applied on tick eradication. Every one of the animals mentioned in this section. whose owner cannot be found by the inspector shall be regarded as a legal stray and subject to the provisions of this act. The owner may redeem the animal within thirty days after the sale by proving ownership to the court and paying all costs. 8. That no ticky cattle, horses, mules or asses shall be driven, moved or transported in any way into Alabama. 9. That the county commissioners or county board of revenue in a county released from State or Federal quarantine shall provide and pay a reasonable salary to one or more inspectors or as many inspectors as shall be required to guard exposed county boundary lines, to look after local quarantined premises, ranges, pens, lots, pastures or fields, and, when necessary, supervise the lling and replenishing of dipping vats, the dipping of quarantined cattle, horses, mules, or asses. When a county becomes reinfested with ticks, that county shall pay the expenses of disinfection of all infested places, premises, ranges and cattle under the direction of the State veterinarian or a State inspector, according to law and the regulations of the State live stock sanitary board. 10. That if any section of this act shall be legally found invalid or unconstitutional the remaining sections shall not be unconstitutional or invalid. 11. That all cars in which animals are transported in Alabama shall be cleaned and disinfected at the expense of the railroad company after each time of use or before the cars are used to transport other animals. 12. That if a county court of commissioners or a county board of revenue shall fail or refuse to comply with the requirements of sections 2, 4 and 9 of this act each member thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, each member shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). 13. That if any court of county commissioners, or board of revenue of a county shall fail or refuse to make adequate appropriations, or provision to execute in good faith this law, any State inspector or owner of cattle, may apply to a circuit judge for a writ of mandamus to compel a faithful compliance with this and all other laws cognate hereto, and the judge shall hear the application at any time, or place where he may be, after one day's notice to the members of the court or board, and a failure to obey promptly the command of the writ shall be a misdemeanor, as well as a contempt. 14. That all laws and parts of laws not in conflict with this act shall remain in full force and effect and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 15. That each failure to dip quarantined animals after receiving legal notice shall be a misdemeanor. Each movement of quarantined animals without a permit from an inspector shall be a misdemeanor. That it is not required to establish the ownership of quarantined animals in order to convict a person in charge of the animals for failure to bring the animals to the vat for dipping them. 16. That any person or persons, firm, corporation or company violating the provisions of this act except as provided in sections 12 and 13, shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each and every violation. 17. That this act shall become effective immediately after approval by the governor. Approved February 7, 1919. No. 30.) (H. J. R. 31-Rules Committee. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 1. There is hereby created a joint committee to be composed of three senators and five representatives, who are hereby authorized and required to examine and consider, during the recess of the Legislature, the compilation of all the existing statutes of Alabama, of a general nature, as compiled and submitted to this Legislature by Sam'l Will John or any other person or persons. 2. The committee shall have authority to employ a skilled stenographer and typewriter who shall be paid such fair wages as the committee may be able to obtain such services for. 3. The committee shall consider any such proposition of the compiler, Såm'l Will John, or any other person or persons to publish the statutes as a Code, and may agree upon the number and arrangement of the volumes, and upon the paper, type and binding, and the price to be paid by the State upon the delivery of the required number of sets of the Code to the governor and report a bill embodying all the terms of the contract to the Legislature for consideration. 4. The presiding officer of the Senate shall appoint the senators and the speaker shall appoint the representatives to be members of this committee. Any vacancy occurring in the membership of this committee shall be filled by the officer who appointed the member who vacated his membership on the committee. 5. This joint committee shall also consider the question of re-establishing the chancery courts and the proper recircuiting the circuit courts and report their conclusions thereon by bill or otherwise; That the joint committee created by House Joint Resolution numbered 31, to consider, among other things, the compilation of the statutes of Alabama submitted by Sam'l Will John, be and it is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to make a full survey of the entire judicial system of the State and to report to this Legislature, after the recess, recommendations, bills and laws for the improvement of the judicial system, with a particular view to the simplification of procedure in all the courts of the State and the economical printing and binding of the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court. 6. The speaker of the House and president pro-tem of the Senate shall be ex-officio members of the committee. Approved February 7, 1919. No. 31.) AN ACT (S. 74-Acker. To better secure the administration of the financial affairs of the State in respect to expenditures and appropriations; and for that purpose to establish a State budget commission, and prescribe rules and regulations governing the same. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama as follow: Section 1. That there is hereby constituted and established a State budget commission which shall be composed of three members as follows: The governor, the attorney general and the State auditor, of which commission the governor shall be chair man. Sec. 2. That on or before the first day of April, 1919, and thereafter on or before the 15th day of October, quadrennially, beginning in the year 1922, there shall be filed with the budget |