security for costs, and may tax the costs in such manner, as may be just and equitable. MINES AND MINING, SCHOOL FOR (Political Code) MINING, QUARRYING, AND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES (Civil .999-1038 .7418-7420 .1971-1974 .4205-4230 MINORS AND WIDOWS; EXEMPTIONS (Civil Code)... MINUTES (Civil Code).. MISCEGENATION (Criminal Code).... MISCONDUCT OF OFFICERS (Criminal Code). MISTAKE (Civil Code).... .4505-4511 .5732, 5733 .7430-7490 .6756, 7129, 7622 MISDEMEANORS (Criminal Code) MISSISSIPPI (Political Code).. 83 .5368, 4140, 2649, 2650 MOBILE BAY AND HARBOR (Criminal Code). MOBS (Criminal Code) MONEY (Civil Code) MONEY-LENDING (Political Code). .7869-7871, 7811 .7721-7726, 7400-7401 MONOPOLIES, TRUSTS, AND COMBINES (Criminal Code).. MONTEVALLO SCHOOL (Political Code) MONTGOMERY, COUNTY OF (Civil Code). 2361 .7579-7582 .1912-1932 .5928-5930, 6113, 6114 ..8, 1759 1043. Appropriation for specific 1044. Intent of appropriation. Aug. 6, 549, § 1. 1039. Monument Commission established. "The Alabama Monument Commission" shall consist of eight Confederate 1907, p. branches of the service, to be appointed by the governor, and also of the incumbents for the time being of the offices of the commander of the Alabama division United Confederate Vet Aug. 6, 1907, p. 549, § 1. Ib,, $ $ 1, 2 and 3. Ib., $4. Aug. 16, 1907, p. 753, § 1. erans, the commander of the Alabama division United Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the director of the state department of archives and history. 1040. Officers of commission. The governor of the state shall be the president, and the director above named shall be secretary and historian, of the commission. 1041. Powers and duties of monument commission.-The commission is empowered to adopt rules for its guidance and for the execution of the powers and duties herein imposed, and five members shall constitute a quorum. It shall keep a careful record of its proceedings, and shall make an annual report to the governor, to be printed as other official reports. In the ordinary conduct of its business and in attendance upon meetings, the members shall serve without charge or compensation, but if it is found necessary by the commission for a member or members to inspect personally or visit a military park, or other point in connection with the marking, monumenting, locating, or identifying the same, or any point or place therein, then, and in such event, the actual expenses of such member or members may be paid while so engaged. The commission shall act for and officially represent Alabama on all subjects, inquiries, and matters connected with or growing out of the part performed by troops from this state in the war between the Confederate States and the United States, which may arise in connection with the location and identification of their position or part in any battle or engagement, or upon any battlefield, or in connection with the appropriate determination, location, identification, or marking of such part or position, or in connection with the appropriate marking or monumenting of spots or occurrences made historic by their services or sacrifices, whether in the several military parks or on some other battlefield, or in prison or other cemeteries or other historic spots or places. The commission, unless otherwise provided, shall have charge of the erection and shall direct the expenditure of all appropriations for the placing of monuments, memorials, or markers to Alabama troops in the war as above set forth. 1042. Appropriation for expenses of commission. The sum of one thousand dollars is appropriated for the expenses of the commission in the execution of its duties, the said sum to be drawn only on the approval of the governor. 1043. Appropriation for specific monuments.-To enable the Alabama Monument Commission to erect suitable and dignified monuments, in the National Military Parks at Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and at such other places as the monument commission may, in its judgment, see fit to erect a monument to commemorate the heroic deeds of Alabamians, and suitable monuments and head-stones over the graves of Alabamians who died in prison, there is appropriated a sum sufficient to pay not more than twenty-five thousand dollars for each one of the monuments to be erected in the National Military Parks, and a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for any other monument erected by the monument commission. 1907, p. 758, § 2. 1044. Intent of appropriation.-It is the intent of the pre- Aug. 16, ceding section to make the appropriation available till all monuments have been erected which the monument commission determine should be erected, and no part of it shall be drawn till actually needed and with the approval of the governor, who may direct the expenditure for monuments so as not to embarrass the financial condition of the treasury. 1045. Monument commission may join with other commissions in erecting monuments, or may supplement other monument funds. With the approval of the governor, the monument commission may join with any committee of citizens in erecting any monument, or may supplement the amount raised by any camp of the United Confederate Veterans, or camp of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, or chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, or any Ladies' Memorial Association, to erect a monument, provided that not more than twenty-five thousand dollars be expended in any one fiscal year. Ib., § 3. CROSS REFERENCES. MONUMENT COMMISSION (Political Code).... 1039-1045 MORTGAGED PROPERTY (Disposing of Property Unlawfully) (Crim inal Code) MORTGAGES (Civil Code). MOTIONS (Civil Code).. MOUNTAIN CREEK HOME (Political Code) ....7342, 7343, 7423 .4894-4900, 3359 et seq., 4160 .2838, 3680 et sep., 5899 et seq. MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL (Political Code) 2038-2053 .838- 878 2 Municipalities Declared Bodies Corporate and Classified. CHAPTER 32. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. 1046-1460. ARTICLE 1. MUNICIPALITIES DECLARED BODIES CORPORATE AND CLASSIFIED. 1046-1052. ARTICLE 2. ARTICLE 3. ARTICLE 5. INCORPORATION, MODE OF; ELECTION for. 1053-1069. LIMITS, ANNEXATION AND BOUNDARIES OF MUNICIPALITIES; EXTENTION OF LIMITS OF CITIES OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND CONSOLIDATING MUNICIPALITIES. 1126-1132. ANNEXATION AND MERGER OF CONTIGUOUS MUNICIPALITIES; ABSORBED, MERGED OR ANNEXED CORPORATIONS; ADMINISTRA- OFFICERS; POWERS, DUTIES, REMOVAL, IMPEACHMENT, ETC. COUNCIL, POWERS AND DUTIES OF. 1192-1198. CLERKS OF MUNICIPALITIES; POWERS AND DUTIES OF. 1199 ARTICLE 7. ARTICLE 8. ARTICLE 9. ARTICLE 10. ARTICLE 11. 1203. ARTICLE 12. ARTICLE 13. ARTICLE 14. ARTICLE 15. POWERS, AUTHORITIES AND DUTIES OF MUNICIPALITIES. 12601295. TREASURER, POWERS, RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF. 1204-1207. ARTICLE 20. RAILROAD TRACKS, BRIDGES, VIADUCTS, TUNNELS, ETC., PROVIDED FOR. 1296-1301. 1302-1308. CEMETERIES, GRAVEYARDS, BURIAL GROUNDS, CARE AND MAIN TENANCE OF. 1309, 1310. ARTICLE 24. LICENSE TO CARRY ON BUSINESS, TRADES, ETC. 1338-1347. SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION. 1348-1358. ARTICLE 25. ARTICLE 26. ARTICLE 27. ARTICLE 29. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS, BETTERMENTS, POWER TO CONSTRUCT MUNICIPAL BONDS FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES. 1421-1435. EMINENT DOMAIN, CONDEMNATION; RIGHTS AND POWERS AS FOREIGN MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS OF ADJOINING STATES; PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CITIES AND TOWNS. 1450- Municipalities Declared Bodies Corporate and Classified. 1046. Municipalities declared bodies politic and corporate. All municipal organizations now existing in the State of Alabama, whether incorporated under the general laws of the state, or by special act of the legislative department of the state government, and now exercising corporate powers or functions, and all towns and cities that may hereafter be incorporated under the provisions of this chapter, shall be bodies politic and corporate, using a common seal, which may at any time be changed, and having perpetual succession, under the name now used or hereafter assumed, as provided in this chapter, and each under such name as the "City of or "Town of Aug. 18, 1907, p. 790, § 1. 1047. Elections; time of holding; terms of office.-No Ib., § 2. municipal election for officers, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be held after the 1st day of January next until the third Monday in September, 1908, when a general municipal election shall be held. Officers elected and qualified after the passage of this act and before the first day of January, 1908, and persons holding office on the 1st day of January, 1908, shall, unless removed, be continued in office until the first Monday in October thereafter. Officers elected before the passage of this act whose terms shall not have expired on the first Monday in October, 1908, shall hold office until their terms expire under the provisions of the law under which they were elected, except as herein provided, and the terms of office of all persons elected on the third Monday in September, 1908, shall, in such cases, begin on the expiration of the terms of the persons then holding office, and the persons so elected shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. Provided, however, the term of no officer of the city holding office on the first day of January, 1908, shall in any event extend beyond the term of the mayor holding office at said time, except as herein provided. Until the officers elected at the general municipal election on the third Monday in September, 1908, shall have assumed their duties of office, the corporate organizations of the several cities and towns of the state shall be and remain as now provided by law, and such municipal corpora 35-AC-VOL I |