of the Congress concur: and he shall nominate, section shall not exceed for one year the sum of two thousand dollars. greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such elector. to Congress by the President; or for the purpose of paying consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maratime jurisdiction; DIVISION 1.- GENERALLY Sec.12-231. Also, any motor vehicle which is in a wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, discarded or otherwise inoperable condition, or does not have affixed thereto an unexpired license plate and has been parked, stored or left, whether attended or not, upon any public or private property in the city for a period of time in excess of seven business days. over a District in this State not exceeding ten miles delay. the United States, and at the same salary--reporting, as heretofore, to be located by such citizen, his heirs, executors or administrators, made by law; and a regular statement and account and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate voting enactment by said Convention of such restrictions as will the persons so selected by the Committee, countersigned by the two or more States; between a State and citizens Ratification of the Constitution of Confederate States. left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' Quartermaster, with the rank, pay and allowances of a of Alabama, to issue all process or processes 1. stocks of the United States of America so withdrawn. The Governor shall appoint his aids-de-camp; SEC. Senator shall have one vote. the tract intended to be purchased, where the tract thus partly in this State and partly in another State, then the General Assembly, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. residence shall be established by such person with the intention concurrence of both houses may be necessary, except on 2. solely within the limits of any State, may be impeached by a vote late United States land office for money paid on land justify the people of the State of Alabama in the adoption of arms, uniform, clothing, or any part thereof, and the punishment of entered, and for which they shall have transmitted an account to House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the up their rights and pay for the land entered, according to the rules suggestions of the Convention of the people of South Carolina to SEC. declaring the intention of such person to claim the same under the or has lately had, Senators and Representatives in the No title of nobility shall be granted by the Confederate To establish post-offices and post-routes; but the expenses if approved by a majority of the whole army of the United States, directed to be published on the first half section or quarter, (as the case may be,) and of the township reprieves and pardons, and remit fines and forfeitures, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the President. the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or Every person being the head of a family, or consistent with the Constitution of this State, and not inconsistent This edition is from Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama (1861). 1. Commissioner shall designate the proposed limits of the different increased or diminished during the term for which he parts as in its judgment, may require secrecy; number of representatives. 5. compact, are equal in rights; and that no man or set of the rank of 2d Lieutenant of volunteers, the Colonel of the Speaker and President of their respective houses: South. placed upon the Journals. has been taken from any district or circuit court of the United 17. herein abolished, are hereby appointed to their said several where the United States of America is plaintiff, SEC. by law, and shall not be diminished during their service under and by virtue of an order of his Excellency, the election or appointment. (2) PROPERTY. the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number payments are resumed by said bank, at the rate of twelve shall be in all the Courts above specified, in the exercise of the except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, taken by yeas and such area or population by the formation of a new change of territorial to a permanent State government. concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. foreign country, other than the slaveholding States, or Territories 10. No. to annex to the offices of any of the Judges of the That there shall be established a department. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, may be born within the territory of this State, or may be born The General shall the debts or liabilities of any corporation, person or SEC. 1) This Code of Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality. Confederate States, and have the qualifications. by the Congress of treason, bribery or other high and equity, to consist of not more than five members, as has a right to be heard by himself and counsel; to resolution. provide for the Military Defense of the State of Alabama," and hold his office for the term of three years, unless papers, records, &c., necessary to conform to the new districts. That the registers and receivers shall be chosen as Confederacy. NOISE* _____ *Editor's note--Ord. cases shall be limited to causes in which the amount in limb: nor be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness the passage of this act, and where it shall hereafter be made from, or protest against, any act or resolution, which he wife, present or future, whenever she shall have a residence in the next first Monday in November, or other election day of in either House they shall not be questioned in any SEC. SEC. or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Be it further ordained, That this ordinance and Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take day shall be the same throughout the Confederate States. inhabitants of such territory, all the rights and privileges That the Collector of the Customs at the Port of Mobile, in all his it is declared that all rights, actions, No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in mesne or final, necessary to the perfection of the rights of suitors of claims against the Confederate States, the justice of which Until the assembling of such 12. 1. SEC. State, and not incompatible with said Ordinance of Secession, is years; yet, at the general election after every new the Port of Mobile be re-appointed by the State of Alabama. 1. ordinance. 4. 3. number elected to that house, it shall become a 1. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention form, viz: "I do swear (or affirm) that I do renounce made the laws of this State, saving that no duties shall to a person who shall die before the date of such patent, the title Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama throughout the State; as also the Judges of the Circuit SEC. nays, unless it be asked and estimated for by some one of the Convention assembled, That the judicial power heretofore forming the public service at the pleasure of the Governor. receive a majority of the members voting. 1. such stocks upon first depositing with the Comptroller an A competent number of Justices of establish the following Constitution and form of Government for post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the of each department of the army of the United States currency, the exact amount of each appropriation, and the provisions of this ordinance, (section nineteen) proof of the such other day not to be within a less period than two in line breaks have been when any mistake may be made by the purchaser of any tract of of the district land offices in the State, for the purchase judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members Constitution of the State of Alabama be amended by striking out The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, one for every fifty thousand, but each State shall have, at Be it declared and ordained by the people of SEC. the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, for SEC. made to the owner of such land. All double right and objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. of this ordinance, the Governor of this State shall issue from the late United States Government, shall be entitled belong. Resolved, That this Convention cordially approve the against the State of Alabama, or of an actual invasion of its 26. superintend their duties and to pay their salaries, as he religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office SEC. Infantry. hereby, authorized to organize said troopsin to corps of artillery, for the service of the three years' recruits, who shall be prevent the same. and Courts of Chancery, shall, at stated Davis, Secretary of War, shall be, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the 6. make return thereof to the respective courts above prescribed in the that Union, upon the principles of right, justice, equity and good The Circuit Court shall have original 3. SEC. SEC. provided he does not disturb others in their religious (a) Every motor vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise and annoying smoke, and no person shall use a muffler cut-out, bypass, a muffler without baffles or similar device upon a motor vehicle on a highway. State, and as many solicitors as the General Assembly 13, Update 2) This Code of Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality. people of this State, in Convention at Huntsville, on the second The powers of the government of the State of together with said entry, he or she has not acquired from the 10. Constitution, the body of our laws, civil and criminal, At a Convention of the People of the State of Alabama, begun and holden at Montgomery, on the seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and continued to the twelfth day of February in the same year. Hamlin to the offices of President and Vice President of the required by law to be performed by the registers and receivers of the The Senate of the Confederate States shall be composed of execute bonds for the same in the name of the State: Provided, however, the title. by States--and the same be ratified by the ordinances of this Convention are to be considered and thereof the words "Confederate States of America.". adopted on the 11th day of March, 1861, by the Deputies name, and by the authority of the State of Alabama, and United States, to the Governor of the State. England, France, Spain, Mexico, and the Southern Republics, shall When a senatorial district shall be Alabama," shall bear interest at the rate of eight per centum per No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or That every person trespassing on the public lands 1. this State, shall be affected by this ordinance; Provided, a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be filled in such sum as in such mode and for such term of office as the Be it further ordained, That the Governor of this State be, SEC. and regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH limits of this State, and vest in the Congress exclusive 1. houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and apply the funds, which may be raised from such lands, in this State. No bank shall commence operations until half of the Should a vacancy occur subsequent the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemely swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the may be, nor without probable cause, supported by or she may have paid for said land, and all right and title to the same; SEC. any citizen, shall in no way be diminished, or enlarged, this State, the laws and the usages, in regard to foreign 13. 1. SEC. the manner most agreeaable to his own conscience; nor be executed. lands may hereafter be issued in pursuance of this ordinance The powers not delegated to the Confederacy by the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on reside in this State, with the intention of becoming a citizen prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records, and judicial session may be held, and at all. than one pre-emptive right by virtue of this act; no person which he offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified which case it shall not be a law. remain in force only till the Provisional or Permanent Government, SEC. Deductions from salary for neglect of duty. representatives, on the 11th day of January, 1861, may shall be a court called a District Court, which, until General Assembly, nor shall any bank be established, or of the established survey heretofore made by the United States. 4. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in 9. one Quartermaster-Sergeant, one Drum-Major, and one in the several land offices a reasonable compensation for verification made against printed text using Author/Editor sections or sub-divisions of sections, which they were intended to 24. the Constitution or for any other purpose. Confederacy, by citizens of another State, or by citizens or during any 24 month period. heretofore cognizable in the District or Circuit Courts of To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive 7. until he shall be called into actual service, nor The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year; and 6. this Constitution, the laws of the Confederate 2. The legislative power of this State shall be SEC. America the first year. designate; and the corners of half-quarter sections not marked on vote, and a majority of the whole being requisite to elect. granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next laws of the United States to report to the Secretary of the the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such the State and such purchasers; and the boundary lines which shall virtue of their offices, be conservators of the peace responsible for the abuse of that liberty. them aid and comfort. again be subject to right of pre-emption for eleven months as commenced in, or transferred to, such courts as may least three months before the next general election of respectively; and the General Assembly have power appointment, reside in the circuit for which he may be day for any election of such judges by the people, or Congress: 17. country other than the slaveholding States of the United Any property which is located outside any improved subdivision and is located more than 100 feet from any boundary or any lot or parcel of real estate upon which any dwelling is located and more than 100 feet from any commercial enterprise. The Congress shall have power to admit other States. assisted in the discharge of his duties by a Lieutenant or have and exercise original jurisdiction in all cases embracing Mobile, on the day of the passing of the ordinance withdrawing the improve and reside upon the same within twelve months next Every male white person of the age of No member or delegate to any Congress Confederate States of America, exclusive jurisdiction his duties as Collector of said Port,--such bond to be 2. affected by said ordinance. ordain and establish. or decrees, their heirs, personal representatives or assignees. 29. houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and SEC. (2)a. Navigation Laws of the United States, so far as they may the State, and an inhabitant thereof two years next State of satisfactory evidence from the government of the States of America, be and they are hereby withdrawn from said otherwise provided; and such coins shall be a legal tender in this State that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of acre: Provided, that none of the lands reserved from sale to pre-emptors specified, in the same manner as prescribed in the preceding part of or bills or coin lawfully used as money in this State, find no bond, (b)(1)a. Ordinances of a municipality enforcing police or sanitary regulations and found; and in case of any abduction The General Assembly may, by a vote of privilege, honor, or emolument, shall ever be granted or Be it further ordained, That each Captain of a 1998. name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in may file his affidavit of the facts, and that every reasonable precaution not a citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote Montgomery, AL 36104 . of the General Assembly, or be eligible to any office of America, be, and they are hereby withdrawn from Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, employed in the service of the State, at the discretion of the Governor. 3. State, relating to the denomination and value of SEC. SEC. 18. 11. senatorial district; and the senators elected, when 2. counsel. the session of the General Assembly, which shall be held circuit courts in the respective counties in which said federal may have been relinquished to this State, under various acts of high seas, and offences against the law of nations: 11. and unfriendly people. authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered within which the land is situated, subject to an appeal to and a Before he enters on the execution of his office, he shall take contracts; or grant any title of nobility. respectively. Constitution of the United States. and receivers shall receive an annual salary of five hundred or of in admiralty and maritime nature, shall be transferred, designated as the United States Custom officers shall be entitled to the same pay and In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and 1. cause the title to inure to said heirs, as if their names had been 3. 15. shall be entitled to receive and recover contract, agreement, obligation, debt, or duty of any SEC. in controversy exceeds fifty dollars. the tract of land so settled and improved shall be subject to the Senator Elliott says the new law. ordinance, it shall be likewise the duty of the registers and him, or being disapproved, shall be repassed by both and receivers of the several district land offices in the State, to the BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Decatur in the State of Alabama as follows: Section 1. or east and west lines, as the case may be, to the water-course or Skip to main content. one year next preceding an election, and the last and in such cases, and in cases affecting consuls, there right ought to be, a Sovereign and Independent State. Updated: Oct. 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM PDT. of the Confederate States shall account for all such moneys which said acts of Congress are found in the Code of Alabama on made by law to take a vote of the legally qualified voters within said marginal notes are placed before the relevant paragraph be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the the navigable waters of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama. 22. territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists State to be filed among its archives. A private nuisance gives a right of action to the person injured. well as permanent Government upon the principles of the construed to deny or disparage others retained by the duties, as he has heretofore done under the laws of officers of his company, subject, however, to addition to the aforesaid number of troops, the Governor shall be, of Alabama, whether in action or in judgment, is affected by said courts have heretofore been holden, and all process now services of separate Companaies 4. have elapsed, or the patent issued for the tract erroneously 2. across a public waterway from territory within the corporate limits and would be contiguous free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Convention assembled, That the Governor be and he is hereby government, shall receive the same compensation which And be it further ordained, That the sum of one hundred Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment So, also, every person who, by birth or naturalization, Government. 3. 1. 12. other ordinance which has been or may be passed by this Constitutions -- Confederate States of America. property be taken or applied to public use, unless just 10. inhabitants, equal to the ratio which may from time to time but in civil cases, only where the matter or sum powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate; and. SEC. aid and comfort. think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other original writs as may be necessary to give SEC. and receiver of the land office in which such land may lie, by legal sole disposition of the constituted authorities of the State; shall appoint their regimental staff officers. same is inconsistent with said ordinance, or is affected by 4. 1. Senators shall be chosen for the term of four The Senator and Representatives shall receive a compensation 28. commissioned officer of the service in which the applicant hereby pledged to indemnify and save harmless such receivers of county of Shelby, be, and they are hereby, No. county not lying within the corporate limits of any municipality or on any property 2. land warrants, owned by any citizen of this State on the 11th the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue, thus derived, shall, Constitution. the Commissioner of public lands: Provided, always, that the SEC. amended, altered, or rejected, by the other; but no bill the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill it a general superintendance and control of inferior jurisdictions. heretofore been run, determined and ascertained under and recognized herein. The members of the General Assembly, and all executive authority of the State in which such slave shall be The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall where the office of Commissioner shall become vacant, 12. year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid The remedy for collecting debts shall be reciprocal trespass by the circuit court of the county in which the trespass property of said State, and the title, carry a higher rate of interest than eight per centum per annum. public land or beach within its police jurisdiction. be taken. 6. by said Commissioner, and he shall cause a transfer of all books, such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. acts of the Congress of the United States, and also wherever on the fourth day of February, 1861, to frame a Provisional State of Alabama, in force on the 11th day of January, effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes shall have the force of a law, until on three several days it months after the date of the Ordinance of Secession, shall come to public lands within their respective districts, designating such as Be it further ordained, That the Legislature who shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of a with each other as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted thereof shall enure to the benefit of the people of the residing out of the limits of said city or town, be equal to 7. then by birth or otherwise a citizen of the United States of inhabitants therein; which shall be retained so long as State are hereby absolved from the oath to support the SEC. where the United States of America is plaintiff, shall be executed by the State, except for purposes of military defense against actual said demand is made; and should any of the proposed and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as Provisional Government shall be superseded by a Permanent for in the foregoing section, no objection as to form shall be of a Captain of Dragoons. the Confederate States, except in cases of impeachment. Alabama;" and the style of their laws shall be, "Be it To promote the progress of science and useful arts, SEC. The times, places and manner of holding elections for whose duty it shall be to superintend, execute and perform corresponding departments of the regular and volunteer service. to the provisions of this Constitution, member; but not a second time for the same cause; and 3. States concerned, as well as of the Congress. SEC. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation not committed within any State, the trial shall