ALABAMA. 



ALIKHANOFF. 



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Allowing parents or personal representative of a mi- 

 nor child to sue a person or corporation for a wrongful 

 act or omission causing any personal injury to or death 

 of such minor. 



To increase the facilities for instruction and for the 

 treatment of the pupils of the Alabama Institute for 

 the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. 



To provide for the payment of the interest on the 

 State debt payable outside of the State. 



To authorize the State Treasurer to dispose of cer- 

 tain uncurrent funds now in the treasury. 



To prevent the violation or evasion of prohibitory 

 laws, and of the laws requiring license to sell spiritu- 

 ous, vinous, or malt liquors. 



To set apart to widows and minors the property ex- 

 empt from administration and debts under the laws of 

 Alabama without any administration thereon. 



To provide the manner in which corporations and 

 non-residents must give security for costs when suing 

 in this State. 



To make an appropriation for the enlargement of 

 the Capitol, and to furnish the same. 



To divide the State into nine judicial circuits, and 

 to fix the times and places of holding courts therein. 



For the substitution of lost or destroyed indictments. 



For the assessment and collection of taxes for the 

 use of this State and the counties thereof, and to de- 

 fine the duties of officers engaged about the said as- 

 sessment and collection of taxes. 



To amend an act to establish a Department of Agri- 

 cuiture for the State. 



To amend section 1 of an act to give landlords of 

 store-houses, dwelling-houses, and other buildings, 

 a lien on the goods of their tenants for rent. 



To amend an act to permit defendants to make 

 statements hi their own behalf in all trials of indict- 

 ments, complaints, or other criminal proceedings. 



An act to protect and encourage industry 

 within the State of Alabama declares that 



Any person who shall, by force or threats of vio- 

 lence to person or property, prevent or seek to pre- 

 vent any person from doing work or furnishing mate- 

 rials, for or from contracting to do work,, or furnish 

 materials to any person, firm, or corporation engaged 

 in any lawful business, or who shall in like manner dis- 

 turb, interfere with, or prevent or attempt to disturb, 

 interfere with or prevent the peaceable exercise of any 

 lawful industry, business, or calling, by any other per- 

 son within the State of Alabama, shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and on conviction must be fined not less 

 than $10, nor more than $500, and may also be impris- 

 oned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for 

 the county for not more than twelve months. 



An act was passed to submit to the people 

 of the State at the general election to be held 

 on the first Monday in August, 1886, an amend- 

 ment to section 7, Article XI, of the Constitu- 

 tion, providing a special tax of one fourth of 

 one per cent, for the city of Birmingham to be 

 applied to the payment of interest on the bonds 

 of said city, and for a sinking fund to pay off 

 said bonds at the maturity thereof. 



At the same time there is to be submitted a 

 proposition amending section 5 of Article XI 

 of the Constitution, so as to read as follows 

 (amendment in italics) : 



SECTION 5. No county in this State shall be author- 

 ized to levy a larger rate of taxation in any one year, 

 on the value of the taxable property therein, than one 

 half of one per centum : 



Provided, That to pay debts existing at the ratifi- 

 cation of this Constitution an additional rate of one 

 fourth of one per centum may be levied and collected, 

 which shall be exclusively appropriated to the pay- 

 ment of such debts, or the interest thereon. 



Provided further, That to pay any debt or liability 



now existing against any county, incurred for the 

 erection of the necessary buildings or other ordinary 

 county purposes, or that may hereafter be created for 

 the erection of necessary public buildings, or bridges, 

 or for the construction or ^mprovement of public roads, 

 any county may levy and collect such special taxes as 

 may have been or may hereafter be authorized by 

 law, such tax when levied for the improvement or con- 

 struction of public roads not to exceed one half of one 

 per centum ^n any one year, which taxes so levied and 

 collected shall be applied exclusively to the purposes 

 for which the same shall have been levied and col- 

 lected. 



The entire number of acts, memorials, and 

 joint resolutions passed by the Legislature and 

 approved was 450. The number of the session 

 of 1882-^83 was 358. 



Crime. The number of convictions in the 

 State during 1883 was 2,812 ; the number of 

 acquittals, 1,265 ; the number of nol. pros., etc., 

 1,296; the number of prosecutions, 5,373. The 

 predominant crimes were assault and battery, 

 and grand larceny. During 1884, the convic- 

 tions were 3,210; acquittals, 1,376 ; nol. pros., 

 etc., 1,645 ; prosecutions, 6,231. The predomi- 

 nant crime was concealed weapons. Eleven 

 counties are not included in the report for 

 1883, and fourteen for 1884. The death-pen- 

 alty was inflicted only once in 1883, and in 

 1884 ten times. The crimes that merited this 

 punishment are rape and murder. 



Relative to the carrying of concealed weap- 

 ons, a journal of the State says: 



It would thus seem that the law is powerless to 

 suppress a practice that does so much harm and no 

 good. The trouble about the crime is, that the carry- 

 ing of concealed weapons is sustained by public sen- 

 timent, and to be convicted of the offense carries with 

 it no opprobrium whatever. There is no lack of duty 

 performed on the part of the law officers. 



The same journal says respecting the death- 

 penalty : 



This startling increase is by no sort of means an 

 indication that capital crimes are on the increase 

 among us. It simply goes to show that the lynchings 

 which were so horribly frequent in 1882 and 1883 have 

 awakened the people, the courts, and the juries to the 

 imperative necessity of enforcing the law. It was 

 not that crime grew worse, but that public sentiment 

 grew better. 



ALASKA. See UNITED STATES. 



ALIRHANOFF, Lient.-Col., formerly called Mak- 

 sut Ali Khan, chief of the Merv Oasis. He 

 was born at Lesghin in 1846. He was edu- 

 cated at the gymnasium in Tiflis, and passed 

 through the military school of Constantine. 

 He served first in Russia in the Soumsky regi- 

 ment of hussars, and returned to the Caucasus 

 as adjutant to the chief of Central Daghestan, 

 and afterward to the military commander of 

 Daghestan district. Subsequently he was at- 

 tached for special service to the Grand Duke 

 Michael, Imperial Lieutenant of the Caucasus, 

 who placed him in 1873 on the staff of Col. Lo- 

 makin, with whom he went through the Khi- 

 van campaign, in which he received a wound in 

 the leg. For bravery he received the orders of 

 Vladimir and Stanislas, and was promoted to 

 be major. He accompanied Gen. Lomakin in 



