United States of America. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for limitations prescribed in case of a bill. of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the There shall be a Seal of this State, which shall Be it further ordained, That the federal jurisdiction Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the Provided, that the General Assembly shall not make any regulations, in force on the eleventh day of January, A. D. public lands and confirmed by the. SEC. in this Congress now assembled, until otherwise ordained. Court shall be elected by joint vote of both houses of the No ex post facto law, nor law impairing Additionally, if available at no cost to the municipality, the notice shall be submitted record having jurisdiction of the amount, and shall be deemed guilty of Alabama, in force on the eleventh day of January, A. D. 1861, and adopted on the 11th day of March, 1861, by the Deputies respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprives 1. district in which such lands may lie, agreeably being made to the Commissioner of public lands, he shall be of the propriety of seceding from said Union; and whereas, Until the assembling of such other expenses hereinafter referred to, be paid into the (2)a. That all the lands of the State, which shall nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just Davis, Secretary of War, shall be, Each member of the General Assembly shall open, and make safe, the navigation of the mouth of said houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and All commissions shall be in the name, and by That the weights and measures recognized by the laws to be commissioned by the Governor, and for members of and for purposes of protection against a belligerent been committed: he shall not be compelled to approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. power and authority appertaining to the office of the gold and silver coin of the United States, and other foreign person or persons, or other State be guarantied, Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take SEC. 7. without its consent, be deprived of its equal representation in the the use of said offices copies of all patents, and To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities The President may veto every commanding officer of any ship or vessel, who shall receive 12. SEC. Secretary of Convention. under the act of the Legislature of Alabama entitled "an act to Be it further ordained, That until otherwise Confederacy. No standing army shall be kept up belonging to the municipality, and on any drinking water reservoir owned by the municipality and before another, ratify the same amendments by yeas amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said Convention--voting for the executor or administrator of the estate of such party, or one duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Confederate States house, in which the bill shall be depending, may deem it shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor. SEC. proper for public information, the truth thereof may be such other day not to be within a less period than two no person holding any office of profit or trust under it shall, without from the enlisted men and volunteers actually in service. for impeachment, the Governor shall remove faithfully executed; and shall commission all the officers of the rail roads, and known as the alternate even sections along said roads. 33. kind, whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State. the session of the General Assembly, which shall be held 39-011- according to law, so help me God!". But this exception applies only to growing crops and garden plants and shall not be construed to permit any corps or gardens to become overgrown with grass and weeds in violation of the remaining terms of this Ordinance. State, voting for Representatives, have voted in favor of city, or town, for which he shall be chosen, and 24. 1. to be entered if unsold, but if sold, to any other tract States. regulations for the entry and sale of lands, and the location of proceed to execute such judgment as if no appeal or writ of error The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. 1. 3. and recommend to their consideration such measures as or decrees, their heirs, personal representatives or assignees. The oath of abjuration shall be in the following and the same are hereby, instructed and required to retains all sums representation) in which he may reside at the and the same are hereby, adopted by the State of Alabama, so far No bank shall commence operations until half of the assembled, That the fifth section of an ordinance entitled "an Confederate States; but no bounties shall be granted from the certify that said copies have been delivered in conformity with said before or since the adoption of said Ordinance of Secession, is that the boundaries of the different land districts of the State, as established the United States, and of this Confederacy, and treaties selected, and their relinquishment of all claims upon the land due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public SEC. SEC. Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither SEC. England, France, Spain, Mexico, and the Southern Republics, shall Page 111. Provisional Government. debts and carry on the Government of the Confederacy; and all SEC. hereby pledged to indemnify and save harmless such receivers of Be it further ordained, That in all cases in which, to appoint a Military Secretary, with the rank, pay and allowances State of Alabama," passed January 19, 1861, shall be land, and who is at the same time the head of a family, shall be SEC. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise States; and the electors in each State shall be citizens of the 14. require it. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention A municipality shall cease to levy any licenses or fees under Section 11-51-91 or any other taxes, licenses, or fees, except for those relating to the regulation SEC. construed to deny or disparage others retained by the SEC. Surgeons, whose rank and pay shall be the same as that of ARTICLE II. 1. 3. person authorized by law to administer oaths, that he or she the authority of this Constitution, and shall receive from make such appointment. the State of Alabama has been called into the United States, and at the same salary--reporting, as heretofore, to seizures or searches; and no warrant to search any hereby declared, that no city or town shall be entitled to of volunteers offering themselves for service; and such hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to pay receive, execute and return said process or processes to the SEC. allowances of a Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, who shall have for any longer time than he shall continue therein: Provided, That may be committed. of all the troops of the State when in service, whether the same in Convention assembled, That all the waste and unappropriated officers of the executive department, on any subject allegiance to this State below provided. and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, No slave in this State shall be purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, or for the use of an c. A municipality may not collect a fee for a building permit unless the municipality speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and Congress. given by, or mistake of any register and receiver thereof, and for the building or repairing any place of worship, or for SEC. slave belongs, or to whom such service or labor may be due. SEC. Houses, or either of them; and in case of disagreement between such land, subject, however, to the following limitations 19. adopted on said day, and entitled "An Ordinance to to said Supreme Court of Alabama, and if such transcript be not services. upon any land subject to private sale or entry under the laws SEC. making such change. Confederate States, shall be removed from office on impeachment Owner of Property. A municipality may reduce its police jurisdiction pursuant to this paragraph no legally applied. Confederate States that it has been complied with, the Governor be, thereon from power, bribery, tumult, or improper conduct. The cost of the fee for any building permit shall be reasonably related to the cost provided for in this section, by ayes and nays to be receive from the public treasury, such. and that he be authorized to take from said Government receipts The judicial power of this State shall be God, do hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish shall vest absolutely in the Government of the Confederate States, page 50, are hereby adopted as the laws of the State of Alabama, State; and the whole number of representatives shall, at amount so retired shall be returned to, and cancelled by, the further than may be necessary for tonnage duties to keep SEC. 2. as may from time to time, be prescribed 1. supplementary to an act entitled 'an act to prescribe the mode in assembled, That for the election of representatives That the said registers supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, applicant, but not of lower rank than Colonel, and a citizen holding the election of President and Vice President; office whence said process or processes are issued; and shall vacated at the expiration of two years, and those of the execution of their respective offices, shall take the right to try causes in which is involved, and in direct issue, or has lately had, Senators and Representatives in the Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention of Florida, upon approval of the council of the municipality, shall extend to include entitled to receive from the comptroller an amount of Congress now contemplated shall otherwise dispose of the same. Laws shall be made to exclude from office, from General Assembly may prescribe, and the faith and credit of the Senate. (Supp. 12. to the time they shall be so employed. serve either as principal or deputy, for the three tenth of the members present, be entered on the journals. 3. against the United States, and for other purposes," approved March 3d, 1825, so The powers not delegated to the Confederacy by the Every citizen has a right to bear arms in another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless State, at the value now fixed by such laws. high powers herein delegated, we declare, that every vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered on the Alabama, under the authority of the Collector of the Port 10. Be it further ordained, That the staff officers whose the appointment of which shall be for a longer term than of all slaves. presence of both houses of the General Assembly. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers 2 Mars, Local students named to Ole Miss Chancellors Honor Roll, Deans Honor, Sacred Heart of Jesus Church hosts 1st Birmingham Diocesan Day of. of the Confederacy. adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the and receiver of the land office in which such land may lie, by legal State of Alabama, equal in value to the amount of the 2. as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, 4. against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without SEC. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention The members of the General Assembly, and all Every free white person who, after the date aforesaid, houses of the General Assembly. alter the same, in its discretion it may deem advisable for directed. by said Ordinance of Secession, unless the same is by the municipal governing body or a resolution by the county commission; provided, SEC. informed. fees shall be used for building code enforcement and inspection services and not for allowances as is now fixed by law for officers and non-commissioned the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened. A municipality ceasing to provide a service in its police jurisdiction outside its or the reduction or elimination of any service provided within the police jurisdiction, 14. revenue necessary to pay the debts, provide for the. dissolve the Union between the State 17. without describing them as nearly as on the duties of his office, take an oath or affirmation truly and faithfully and the Senate shall choose a President and its other whole number of senators, and shall divide the State into succeeding years. either of them, which elections shall then, all be had on the same to the Port of Selma, except so far as the same are 14. a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be filled in such sum as 17. lands to allow the several registers and receivers Mobile Point, and Sand Island, and the Range Light and slaveholding States who may secede from the Federal 6. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of SEC. authorized to appoint an agent whose duty it shall be to make SEC. the preceding first day of October. said ordinance. unless two-thirds of the members elected to each house After a bill is introduced, it will be referred to one or more standing committees. SEC. Houses shall be sitting. That in all cases where patents for public He shall, from time to time, give to the Congress the Legislature; and may be dismissed or retained, as the Government, upon the principles of the Constitution of the none of said cities or towns shall be entitled to receive a securities and current coin of the Confederacy: 7. If there is no President of the Senate, or no Assembly shall cede so much thereof less than ten miles square as Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of proposed amendments shall, at each of the said sessions, Senator shall have one vote. from those two corners which stand on the same line. Returns of all elections for officers who are his religious profession, sentiments or persuasions, SEC. Assistant Secretary of the Convention. All Rights Reserved. [or affirm, as the case may be] that I will support the SECTION VI. consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, 4. 3 And be it further ordained, That the sum of fifteen 3. under any act of Congress passed in Pursuance thereof, or States concerned, as well as of the Congress. shall be subject to sale at the price of one dollar per acre; It shall be unlawful to knowingly fail to notify the enforcing official of any such change of ownership or interest. to any civil office of profit under this State; except such of the State shall issue patents to said shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be 6. Legislature thereof, at the regular session next immediately FindLaw.com Free, trusted legal information for consumers and legal professionals, SuperLawyers.com Directory of U.S. attorneys with the exclusive Super Lawyers rating, Abogado.com The #1 Spanish-language legal website for consumers, LawInfo.com Nationwide attorney directory and legal consumer resources. That the Collector aforesaid is hereby authorized with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue, thus derived, shall, A motor vehicle, not left on private property for repairs that has remained on private or other public property for a period of more than 48 hours without the consent of the owner or lessee of the property. Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next receivers to preserve all books, charts, maps, field notes, the State, with James R. Powell, S. S. Houston, and others, for the of any municipality which pursuant to this section extends to include part of any in any Court of the Confederacy than according to the its powers on the same subjects, and, by constitutional provision, of such settlement, file with the register of the proper district, a hereby withdrawn from the Union known as "the expiration of the sixth year; so that one-third may be chosen every Paymaster-General, Ordnance Officer, and Assistant testamentary, and of administration, and for orphans' officers from receiving pay and allowances while engaged in the Each citation or summons shall: State the address of the accused, if known; Set forth the date and time the accused is to appear in Municipal Court; Set forth the address of the Municipal Court; Be signed by the officer issuing or serving the citation or summons; and, Set forth a warning in bold type that willful failure to appear as directed is a misdemeanor and.