Article Section Laws requiring enumeration of inhabi tants in 1875, avoided... Board of Education abolished..... Salaries of existing State officers not effected by Constitution.. Seal, Great-Provided for.... Secretary of State custodian of... Schedule 66 State grants and commissions sealed with. Searches and Seizures-Unreasonable, prohibited; war rant for... Secession--Right of denied.... Secretary of State-See Executive Department. Senate-See Legislative Department, Representation. secured..... Servitude-Involuntary, prohibited, except for crime.. Slavery-Prohibited..... Soldiers--See Militia, quartering Solicitors--See Judicial Department. Speaker of House-See Legislative Department. Special Privileges--Irrevocable grant of, prohibited.... Boundaries of...... Not to engage in works of internal improve- State Auditor--See Executive Department. Salary of to be reduced, etc...... State Treasurer-See Executive Department. Salary to be reduced, etc.. State University-See Education. Suffrage and Elections-Right of suffrage shall be pro tected, etc....... No educational or property qualification for suf- VIII People vote by ballot, and persons in representa tive capacity, viva voce....... Who not permitted to register, vote, etc. Duty and power of General Assembly to pass General Assembly must pass laws against use of แ Secretary of State.... Article Section Returns of elections of certain officers made to VIII 7 Superintendent of Education--See Education. Salary to be reduced; how increased. Salaries of judges to be reduced, etc....... No taxation for benefit of railroads, etc.. Governor shall present to General Assembly esti- Taxes on property shall be ad valorem, but Gen- Taxing power shall not be delegated... No new State debt shall be created, except, etc.. Limit to county rate of... Property of corporations, etc., how taxed.. General Assembly no power to require counties tion..... Telegraph Companies-See Corporations. Tithes-Compulsory, prohibited. Titles-Honorary, State shall not grant.... 8 XI Transportation Companies-See Corporations. Treason-What is, and proof of .... No attainder of; conviction of not to work cor- Disqualification on conviction of. Treasurer-See Executive Department; State Treasurer. Trust Funds-General Assembly shall not authorize in vestment of in corporate bonds or stocks, etc Venue-Changed by courts only, etc... Veto-Power vested in Governor.... Governor may veto single item of appropriation bill...... Warrant-How may issue... Witnesses-Right of accused in regard to......... HAND-BOOK OF ALABAMA. PART FIRST. NAME, GEOGRAPHY, RIVERS, POPULATION, PRINCIPAL HISTORICAL EVENTS, AND INDIAN TRIBES ONCE INHABITANTS OF ALABAMA. NAME OF ALABAMA. The State of Alabama derived its name from the great river Alabama, which drains its centre. The river took its name from the Alabamas, an early tribe of Indians who once lived upon its banks, at or near the site of the present city of Montgomery. From what the tribe derived its name, or the meaning thereof, is not known.* GEOGRAPHY OF ALABAMA. General Boundaries of Alabama.-The general boundaries of Alabama are as follows: Beginning at the point where the thirty-first parallel of north latitude crosses the Perdido *The popular idea of the origin of the name, Alabama, and the meaning of the word, here we rest, took its rise in a pretty legend connected with this tribe of Indians. It is said they were expelled from Northern Mexico during the rude assaults upon that kingdom by Cortez, and in their wanderings in search of other homes, crossed a noble river, now the Alabama, when one of their chieftains, impressed with the beauty of the new-found country, and the security which the mighty stream flowing behind him afforded against pursuing enemies, struck his spear in the ground beneath the shade of a magnificent oak, and exclaimed, Alabama:- that is to say, Here we rest; -and from this incident it is generally believed the tribe was thereafter known as the Alabamas. The old seal of the State (a skeleton map of Alabama suspended on a tree), and which continued to be the seal until changed in 1868, was evidently designed to perpetuate this supposed incident. river, thence east to the western boundary line of Georgia; thence northerly along said line to the southern boundary of Tennessee; thence west along the southern boundary line of Tennessee, crossing the Tennessee river, and on to the second intersection of that river by said line; thence up that river to the mouth of Big Bear creek; thence by a direct line to the northwest corner of Washington county in this State as originally formed; thence southerly along the line of Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico; thence eastwardly, including all islands within six leagues of the shore, to the Perdido river, thence up that river to the place of beginning. Boundary Between Alabama and Georgia.-The west bank of the Chattahoochee river to the point on Miller's Bend next above the mouth of Uchee creek; thence in a direct line to Nickajack. 66 Boundary Between Alabama and Florida. The Mound" or "Ellicott" line, blazed all the way from near Irwin's Mills, on the Chattahoochee river, to the Perdido, and further designated by mounds of earth one mile apart. Latitude and Longitude of Alabama.-Alabama lies between latitude 30°, 10' and 35° N., and longitude 84°, 53' and 88°, 30' W. Area of Alabama.--Square miles, 52,250; divided-water surface 710, land surface 51,540. Acres, 32,462,080. Islands of Alabama.-These are four in number, and lie in the Gulf of Mexico, near the entrance to Mobile Bay. They are: Dauphin, Petit Bois, Mon Louis, and Turtle Back Islands. Sea Coast of Alabama.-Alabama has only about sixty miles of sea coast, extending from the Perdido river to the Mississippi line; a large portion of the southern boundary of the State being cut off from the Gulf of Mexico by an intervening strip of Florida.* Mountain Ranges and General Topography of Alabama. The Alleghany mountains exhaust themselves in Northeastern Alabama, rendering that portion of the State's surface uneven and broken, although the elevation is nowhere * Efforts have been made to annex this strip to Alabama, but so far without success. A commission was at one time appointed to treat with Florida on the subject. Alabama proposed to pay $1,000,000 for it. very great. The range extends west, with a slight bend to the south, and forms the dividing line between the waters of the Tennessee river and the other rivers of Alabama, the former emptying into the Ohio at Paducah, and all the latter ultimately flowing southward into the Gulf of Mexico. From this range the face of the country slopes to the south, and is somewhat uneven as far as the centre of the State, where begin the rolling prairies, pine barrens and fertile alluvial bottoms. The extreme southern portion is flat, and but slightly elevated above the level of the gulf. Montgomery, on the Alabama By the United States census of 1890, the population of Alabama was 1,513,017; divided white, 830,796; colored, 681,431; Chinese, 40; Indians, 750. Montgomery is distant from Mobile, by river, about 350 miles; by rail, 180 miles. |