may allow additional time for answering, providing such extension of time shall not prevent the issuing of said temporary writ as prayed for. If upon the final hearing, the allegations be sustained to the satisfaction of the court or judge, the court or judge shall make a decree restraining the respondents and all other person or persons from continuing the nuisance. When any injunction has been granted, it shall be binding on the respondents throughout the county. Any violation thereof shall be contempt. of court and punished as hereinafter provided. If on the hearing for a temporary injunction, it shall further appear that the person owning, in control, or in charge of the nuisance so enjoined has received five days notice of the hearing, and unless such person shall show to the satisfaction of the court or judge that the nuisance complained of has been abated, the court or judge shall issue an order closing the place against its use for any purpose until final decision shall be rendered on the application for a permanent injunction. Such order shall also continue in effect for such further period the restraining order above provides if already issued, or if not issued, shall include such an order restraining, for such period, the removal or interferance with the personal property and contents located thereat or therein as hereinbefore provided, and such restraining order shall be served and the inventory of such property shall be made and filed as hereinbefore provided; provided, however that the owner or owners of any real property or personal property so closed or restrained, or to be closed or restrained, may appear at any time between the filing of the complaint and the hearing of the application for a permanent injunction and, upon payment of all costs incurred, and upon the filing of a bond payable to the State by the owner of the real property, with sureties, or a surety company, to be approved by the clerk, in the full value of the property to be ascertained by the court, or, in vacation, by the judge, conditioned that such owner or owners will immediately abate the nuisnace and prevent the same from being established or kept until the decision of the court or judge shall have been rendered on the application for a permanent injunction, then, in that case, the court or judge in vacation, if satisfied of the good faith of the owner of the real property and of innocence on the part of any owner of the personal property of any knowledge of the use of such personal property as a nuisance, and that with reasonable care and diligence such owner could not have known thereof, shall deliver such real or personal property, or both, to the respective owners thereof, and cancel or refrain from issuing at the time of the hearing on the application for the injunction as the case may be, any order or orders closing such real property or restraining the removal or interference with such personal property. The release of any personal or real property under the provisions of this section shall not release it from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability to which it may be subjected by law.

Section 5. That the action when brought shall have precedence over all other cases except injunctions. In such action, evidence of the general reputation of the place or any admission or finding of guilt of any person under the original laws against prostitution, lewdness, or assignation, at any such place shall be admissible for the purpose of proving the existance of said nuisance and shall be prima facie evidence of such nuisance and of knowledge of, and acquiescence and participation therein, on the part of the person or persons charged with maintaining such nuisance as herein defined. If the complaint is filed for the State by a citizen of the county, it shall not be dismissed except upon a sworn statement of the complainant or relative and his attorney or of the officer filing the complaint, setting forth the reasons why the action should be dismissed and the dismissal be approved by the attorney filing the bill in writing or in open court. If the court or judge is of the opinion that the action ought not to be dismissed, he may direct the solicitor to prosecute such action to judgment at the expense of the county, and if the action is continued more than one term of the court, any person who is a citizen of the county, or the attorney general or the solicitor may be substituted for the complainant and prosecute said action to judgment. If the action is brought by a person who is a citizen of the county and the court finds that there were no reasonable grounds or cause for said action, the costs may be taxed against such person. If the existence of the nuisance be established upon the trial, a judgment shall be entered which shall perpetually enjoin the respondents and any other person or persons from further maintaining the nuisance at the place complained of and the respondents from maintaining such nuisance elsewhere in the county.

Section 6. If the existence of the nuisance be admitted or established in an action as provided in this act, or in a criminal proceeding in the circuit court, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment in the case which order shall direct the removal from the place of all personal property and contents used in conducting the nuisance, and not already released under authority of the court as provided in section 4, and shall direct the sale of such thereof as belonged to the respondents notified or appearing, in the manner provided for the sale of chattels under execution. Such order shall also require the renewal for one year of any bond furnished by the owner of the real property as provided in section 4, or if not so furnished, shall continue for one year any closing order issued at the time of granting the temporary injunction, or if no such closing order was then issued, shall include an order directing the effectual closing of the place against its use for any purpose, and so keeping it closed for a period of one year unless sooner released; provided, however that the owner of the place so closed and not released under bond as hereinbefore provided may now appear and

obtain such release in the manner and upon fulfilling the requirements as hereinbefore provided. The release of the property under the provisions of this section shall not release it from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability to which it may be subject by law. Owners of unsold property and contents so seized must appear and claim same within ten days after such order of abatement is made and prove innocence to the satisfaction of the court, of any knowledge of said use thereof and that with reasonable care and diligence they could not have known thereof. Every defendant in the action shall be presumed to have had knowledge of the general reputation of the place. If such innocence be so established, such unsold personal property and contents shall be delivered to the owner; otherwise, it shall be sold as hereinbefore provided. If any person shall break and enter or use a place so directed to be closed, he shall be punished for contempt as provided hereinafter. For removing and selling the personal property and contents, the officer shall be entitled to charge and receive the same fees as he would for levying and selling like property on execution; and for closing the place and keeping it closed, a reasonable fee shall be allowed by the court.

Section 7. That in case the existence of such nuisance is established in a criminal proceeding in a court not having equitable jurisdiction, it shall be the duty of the solicitor or prosecuting officer to proceed promptly under this act to enforce the provisions and penalties thereof, and the finding of the defendant guilty in such criminal proceedings, unless reversed or set a-side, shall be conclusive as against the defendant as to the existence of the nuisance. The proceeds of the sale of the personal property as provided in the preceding section, shall be applied in payment of the costs of the action and abatement including the complainant's costs, or so much of such proceeds as may be necessary, except as herein-after provided.

Section 8. That in case of the violation of any injunction or closing order granted under the provisions of this act, or of an restraining order of the commission of any contempt of court in proceedings under this act, the court, or in vacation, the judge thereof, may summarily try and punish the offender. The proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court a complaint under oath, setting out and alleging facts constituting such violation, upon which the court or judge shall cause a warrant to issue, under which the defendant shall be arrested; he may be released on bond, pending the hearing, to be fixed by the judge. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may demand the production and oral examination of witnesses. A party found guilty of contempt under the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $200.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one nor more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Section 9. Should any provision or item of this act be held unconstitutional, such fact shall not be held to invalidate the other provisions and items thereof.

Section 10. That this act shall take effect on its passage and approval by the governor.

Approved February 12, 1919.

No. 54.)

AN ACT

(S. 25-West.

To prescribe the limitation within which actions to test the validity of municipal bonds or elections to levy taxes or to issue bonds shall be commenced.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, That no action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any municipality of this State for the purpose of issuing bonds or levying taxes, or to attack the issuance of bonds pursuant to such election, unless the said action be commenced within six months from the date of declaring the result of said election. Approved February 12, 1919.

No. 55.)

(H. J. R. 28-Ross.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION.

Be it resolved, by the Legislature of Alabama, That the proper authorities of the United States of America, be and they are hereby requested to use all available means to expedite the return of all American troops whose presence is not absolutely required over seas.

Be it further resolved, That said authorities be and they are hereby requested to hasten the demobilization of all troops now in camp in the United States, and if not incompatible with the public interests, we request the immediate discharge of all men formerly engaged in the tillage of the soil.

Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and to the secretary of war.

Approved February 11, 1919.

No. 56.)

(H. J. R. 33-Benners.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION.

That a joint committee of the two houses consisting of the representatives and senator from Jefferson county be raised to

sit during the recess to consider and report appropriate legislation dealing with the salaries of county officials of Jefferson county and the compensation of their employees and the allowances to be paid out of the county treasury for the expenses of such officials; also with reference to the cost and results of working convicts on the public roads of said county and any other matters of local legislation relating to said county and its affairs. That said committee shall have the power to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses and to require the production of books and papers.

The services of such committee shall be without expense to the State.

Approved February 11, 1919.

No. 57.)

(H. J. R. 36-Dickson.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION.

Whereas, The great war that has devastated a large part of the continent of Europe has turned the eyes of the restless peoples of the world toward the peaceful shores of the United States, and

Whereas, The tide of immigration caused by the discontent of these peoples with the conditions under which they live would overwhelm this country with an undesired and undesirable foreign population to the injury of Americans and their cherished institutions:

Therefore, be it resolved, by the House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, the Senate concurring, that the laws of the country designed to protect our citizens from this immigration should be strengthened and enforced, particularly as those laws apply to those peoples with which the United States is and has been at war.

Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the senators and representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States.

Approved February 11, 1919.

No. 58.)

AN ACT

(S. 82-Carmichael.

To provide for elections to authorize any county in the State to levy and collect a special county tax for public school purposes not to exceed thirty (30) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property in such county; to authorize any school district, in any county that may be levying special county taxes for school purposes of not less than thirty (30) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of