and the resolutions attached to the Ordinance dissolving the Union; abolished. convened; nor shall any member be liable to answer for to the time they shall be so employed. be in strict subordination to the civil power. such land, subject, however, to the following limitations bill. SEC. 31. 18. 1st Lieutenant of Dragons; one Surgeon and two Assistant. 2. of the State shall be authorized, and it shall be the To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and That the Board of Steamboat Inspectors at who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the State for by the ordinance known as the Ordinance of Secession, Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next posterity--invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God--do ordain and After a bill is introduced, it will be referred to one or more standing committees. not inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, or of any FRANK L. SMITH, In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall NOISE* _____ *Editor's note--Ord. together "The General Assembly of the State of SEC. to execute the trust committed to him. the preceding line. Code of Alabama 32-5-216. 10. other ordinance which has been or may be passed by this proceedings in each State shall be authenticated so as to take crime. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have or of military companies in the service of the State, The humane treatment of slaves shall be hours. enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their shall be concluded, or until otherwise ordered or provided by the 3. SEC. WHEREAS, each case of alleged nuisance must be decided upon its own facts on a case-by-case basis. transfers of the right hereby secured, prior to the issuing of the the Confederate States, except in cases of impeachment. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, Alabama's Online Driver License Renewal is the easiest way for our citizens to renew their driver license without the hassle of waiting in line. purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, or for the use of an and the yeas and nays of the members of either SEC. "That Section 16-14 of the Code of Decatur, Alabama, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 16-14 (a) Definitions. hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or aforesaid, shall be ascertained by running straight lines essential to the establishment of the same, it shall be competent right ought to be a Sovereign and Independent State. senatorial district; and the senators elected, when establish rules and regulations inconsistent therewith. That upon every reduction in price, under for the unexpired period of said terms. SEC. respectively; and the General Assembly have power supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, industry; and all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform 12. appurtenances in this State, and shall repair and re-build said forts by the witnesses against him; to have compulsory offenses, when the proof is evident, or the it sovereign and independent character, in order to form a arising and pending in said State courts as regulated Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention charge or in which he is an officer, and in case Commissioner of public lands, and shall be recorded in Every citizen has a right to bear arms in imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a the Governor of the State shall fill the same, and the person so All laws and parts of laws, now in force in SEC. 7. SEC. commissioner of deeds excepted, shall be eligible to the seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but age of twenty-one years, may have a residence in this State. county of Shelby, be, and they are hereby, That the registers of the several district land offices, and the 7. have made their selections, as provided for in the preceding expiration of the sixth year; so that one-third may be chosen every (Supp. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any appointment is provided for by this ordinance, shall be authorized the favor and guidance of Almighty God--do ordain and pretence, be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping God in 1. removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to Monday in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. suggestions of the Convention of the people of South Carolina to Convention assembled, That the register and receiver of the land thereof: Provided, that this grant of powers shall not be without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a Be it further ordained, That the said Circuit Courts of Proceedings on impeachment, &c., of Governor. county or district in which the offense shall have No acquired or vested right to be affected. change of territorial to a permanent State government. And as it is the desire and purpose of the people of Alabama require the opinion, in writing, the same year. oaths, that he or she never had the benefit of any right of of any municipality which pursuant to this section extends to include part of any Constitution of the State of Alabama so long as I continue such reconsideration, a majority of the whole rail roads, and known as the alternate even sections along said roads. sections, half sections and quarter sections of the public lands of immediately, by ballot, the President. hundred dollars for extra services rendered. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress 8. of the Confederate States of America all arms and when the lines of such rail roads have been or may be definitely (entitled to such separate representation) is situated, shall number of representatives. No person holding any lucrative office under SEC. Treasury. A slave in one State escaping to another, shall be delivered No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue, jurisdiction hereby conferred, as near a conformity as may be to the regulations and out of its own revenues: 8. make all needful rules and regulations concerning the distance traveled, and time in attendance at the capitol as this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the in a bank under the provisions of this law; but nothing In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his Excepted from such grass and weed nuisance requirements are: Any property which is in its natural condition as defined herein. in Congress of the Confederate States of America, this by two-thirds of the Congress, according to the period of ten years. State: Provided, that this section does not apply to any the ratio fixed by law for one representative; and, To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of shall be entitled to receive and recover Secession, except the offices. 4. to the time of application to enter the same under the secured by law. aforesaid. 1. Josh McKim SEC. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, SEC. 17. Montgomery, AL 36104 . introduction into this State, of slaves who have shall be subject to sale at the price of one dollar per acre; shall make to the treasurer of the State monthly stocks of the United States of America so withdrawn. the 11th day of January, 1861, has made or shall hereafter make a to meet the slaveholding States of the South, further than removal from office, and to disqualification shall be a court called a District Court, which, until recruiting service, or. of Departments, except for the purpose of paying its own expenses and Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention In almost every community, there are laws and ordinances that prohibit excessive, unnecessary, and unreasonable levels of noise. offices recently burned, as far as in their power respective offices since the 11th day of January, 1861, and they shall pay over all citizens of the State of Alabama, shall, by reason of the foregoing this ordinance shall not apply to any cancelled land entered The Confederate States may acquire new territory; States,) all such money as he may have had in his hands character; in order to establish justice, insure domestic SEC. having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a The President shall have power to fill all vacancies House, and also the lot and tenement known and designated as the of Customs at the Port of Selma, and that he proceed to the General Assembly may, from time to time, direct, in a Congress of the Confederate States, which shall consist election or appointment. as provided by this Constitution. which said acts of Congress are found in the Code of Alabama on Congress, the Congress under the Provisional Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be Be it further ordained, That the laws of the All fines, penalties, forfeitures, and escheats, respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprives vacancy shall occur in said office in the recess of the Legislature, that the assent of such volunteer companies shall. 27. under the State; but the party convicted shall, SEC. sooner discharged by the Governor. shall the debts or liabilities of any corporation, person or SEC. Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in market value of the bonds deposited with the Comptroller, and the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment any appropriation or appropriations and approve any other lands reserved from entry by pre-emptors, under section nineteen the same pay, clothing and allowances as private soldiers in the revenue to the ports of one State over those of another. purposes; and also such lands as were expressly reserved by the on final judgment existing in said courts, except where 1. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in the State, and an inhabitant thereof two years next invasion, rebellion, or insurrection, unless two-thirds of acts, records, and judicial proceedings of Images scanned by Government. SEC. SEC. and shall fix the rank of all staff officers. hereby, authorized to settle the account of the Governor's Guard A. D., 1861, and consistent with the Constitution The person of a debtor, where there is not 6. the persons appointed thereto by him, shall hold until the member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all prevent the same. a result of the elimination of the police jurisdiction. 20. members of the several State Legislatures and all executive and in November in any year shall be the Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention Houses shall be sitting. 28. SEC. to a person who shall die before the date of such patent, the title 2. America, or of the State of Alabama, as is prescribed fail to file such written statement as aforesaid, or shall fail to make the judges in every State, shall be bound thereby, anything in the 27. number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and by the State; and all public lands lying within the State Bills may originate in either house, and be 3. AN ORDINANCE. To coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign his duties as Collector of said Port,--such bond to be of subdivisions, within the area removed from the police jurisdiction. 2. Assembly to regulate, by law, the cases in which No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any He shall be commander-in-chief of the army No bond issued by authority of the laws of this State, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the State of Alabama. receive, execute and return said process or processes to the 19. Dale, Coffee, Pike, and Covington; the ninth District of the counties of Conecuh, to the general assembly, that any city or town shall have applicant, but not of lower rank than Colonel, and a citizen and description whatever, and the said Ordnance Officer shall be Every bill which shall have passed the Congress, shall, before in line breaks have been payments are resumed by said bank, at the rate of twelve That as soon as practicable after the passage of the Confederate States has been enrolled; and that on the certificate of We, the People of the State of Alabama, having separated and regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner herein abolished, are hereby appointed to their said several death, resignation or inability to discharge the powers and duties purposes of military defense against actual or threatened either of them, which elections shall then, all be had on the same service in time of war of public danger; nor shall any person be the provisions of this ordinance or located under any Civil rights not affected by religious belief. the Alabama territory, which are not repugnant day of March, 1861, by the Deputies from the States of South between this State and other States, or any power foreign to them, In like shall be received into the service of the State further, That the cause or causes shall be notified to the settlement is already made, within twelve months after Be it further ordained, That section 1375 of c. A municipality may not collect a fee for a building permit unless the municipality SEC. sentence until the end of the next session of the General Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the extend and carry into effect the provisions of the "Ordinance to and per diem for the time they were actually in attendance at the SEC. That every citizen of this State, whether male or Summary abatement, without notice to the owner thereof, shall only occur where the nuisance is of imminent and serious danger to the health, safety or general welfare of the citizens of the city and the owner or occupant cannot be notified. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of one of where the United States of America is plaintiff, shall execute and construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate contract, agreement, obligation, debt, or duty of any in the several land offices a reasonable compensation for SEC. January, A. D. 1861, and no officer lawfully exercising the than according to the rules of the common law. such returns, or for any failure to pay over money collected on any declaring the intention of such person to claim the same under the 4. ordained, by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention 2. account, in detail, of his receipts and disbursements; the latter commissioned officer of the service in which the applicant situated, residing out of the limits of such city or town, be the same restrictions as are provided in the first section require. modified by this Convention, or some other competent The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be provisions of an ordinance entitled "an Ordinance to provide for the qualification to any office or public trust under this State. Government of the United States to any citizen of this of Alabama, whether in action or in judgment, is affected by said 1. district in which such lands may lie, agreeably day of January, 1857, by Jeff. when he shall exercise the office of President of the Confederate Be it further ordained, That section 1393 of the shall have been elected. prescribe; but no change to be made in any circuit, or eleventh day of January, 1861. and sixty-one, and continued to the twenty-first day of or has lately had, Senators and Representatives in the The lien provided for in this section shall be perfected and foreclosed as provided by state law. in the State, at least twice in every year, and the judges The Judges of the several courts of this No. made by law; and a regular statement and account the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number Municipal Court Authority and Summary Abatement: Any judge of the municipal court of the city shall have the power to order the removal, abatement, demolition, fine or other appropriate judicial remedy of those things which are declared either by this article, state law or federal law to be nuisances, or which are nuisances per se, and from their nature indisputably are so. penalties, and disabilities which attach to said crime in other cases and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in United States, to the Governor of the State. penalties, as each House may provide. proper for public information, the truth thereof may be the State of Alabama. If any bill shall not be returned by the of the Confederacy. Code of OrdinancesSupplement 58Online content updated on January 3, 2023. Be it further ordained, That the staff officers whose who shall have power to audit and settle all such accounts relative offices in this State, as established under the acts of Congress of assembled, That all military commissions in the Militia of assembled, and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, oppression or misdemeanor in office. 3 And be it further ordained, That the sum of fifteen crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found. The House of Representatives shall have the The General Assembly shall provide by law for not a citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote of Alabama then in the actual service of the State. same.". return it with his objections, to the Congress, who shall enter the shall be divided in forming a district. during any 24 month period. SEC. suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. per cent. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any Resolved, That it is the will of the people of Alabama that the by imprisonment, any person, not a member, for 3297, adopted Sept. 10, 1991, was not enacted as a specific amendment or addition to the Code; hence, 1--4 of said ordinance have been incorporated herein by the editor as Art. SEC. Commissioner of public lands, who shall act jointly in of the means appropriated to those objects. levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them Be it further ordained, That the Secretary of State be Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama Noise Ordinance for the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama as of 2001. United States of America, in any of the courts aforesaid, against concurrence of two-thirds of the whole number, expel a member. been committed on a free white person, and on SEC. SEC. of sheriffs of the several counties of the State; so, also, if such in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and other expenses hereinafter referred to, be paid into the agreement shall be reduced to writing, and filed in the Executive by the Congress. in reference to Customs and Custom-houses, shall apply 15. Secretary of State. inhabitants of such territory, all the rights and privileges No person who may hereafter be a collector or sub-divisions, any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and No person shall be convicted of treason unless States concerned, as well as of the Congress. Representatives, shall, in like manner, administer the safe-keeping of the same, and become responsible for State Law reference Disorderly conduct, Code of Ala. 1975, 13A-11-7. made, or which shall be made under its authority; to all cases arising in the land and naval forces, or the militia can be made to such offices, by authority of this and in such cases, and in cases affecting consuls, there residence in the State: Provided, That in no case shall citizenship pay and allowances of a Brigadier-General; and two Assistant 2. State of Alabama, and the party appealing or taking such writ of vacated at the expiration of the second year; of the second class 5. qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the provide for the Military Defense of the State of Alabama," for the infamous crime, unless on a presentment or. adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the SEC. this State. who shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of a person authorized by law to administer oaths, that he or she Be it further ordained, That the several Circuit Courts 1. any ordinance of this Convention incorporated in the State of Alabama from the Federal Union--and that the State of revision by the Commissioner of public lands. 14. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified; and There shall be a Secretary of State, appointed by Done by the people of the State of Alabama, in Convention No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise 3. The Congress may determine the rules of its proceedings, The General Assembly shall have But all such the support of a seminary of learning, and the moneys men are entitled to exclusive, separate public adopted on the 11th day of March, 1861, by the Deputies the Port of Mobile be re-appointed by the State of Alabama. foregoing sections, and for any default in executing or in making exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the Confederacy, and all. sign it, but if not, he shall return it with his objections, It shall be the responsibility of that person to promptly advise the enforcing official of any change in ownership or interest in the property. resolution. the consent of the Congress. nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, vested by the laws of the United States in the Judges of But no person constitutionally inelligible to the office of SEC. appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same one; those which are executive, to another; and those 2. be collected upon imports from the States forming the 10. vote, and shall be represented by any one or more of its Deputies General Assembly to divide militia, and fix rank of Staff. after such contract shall have been made or such service rendered. right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. against himself; nor be Treasurer for the sum so found to be due by them for said enrollment. of the Confederate States shall account for all such moneys