ALABAMA. 



other than those already acting as mine bosses 

 shall be employed as such, unless he have a certifi- 

 cate from the board. The Inspector of Mines is 

 further required to visit all underground mines at 

 least once in three months, to examine them, and 

 order such changes as are needed to secure the 

 health and safety of miners. His orders may be 

 enforced by the courts. The act applies only to 

 mines where more than 20 persons are employed. 



The oyster industry was regulated by an act 

 that forbids the taking of oysters by non-resi- 

 dents of the State, prohibits the export of oys- 

 ters in the shell except during a single month, 

 requires the use of oyster tongs and nothing else 

 in their taking, and imposes a license tax of ten 

 cents a barrel on all oysters taken in the State. 



Provision was made to establish the Quaran- 

 tine Board of Mobile Bay, which is authorized 

 to take land and erect at the entrance of Mobile 

 Bay the buildings, wharves, and other structures 

 necessary for a quarantine station. It shall make 

 quarantine regulations, and shall cause every in- 

 coming vessel to be inspected by its officers. 

 The sum of $25,000 was appropriated on condi- 

 tion that Mobile County contribute the remain- 

 der of the total amount needed to complete the 

 necessary buildings, and further undertake to 

 pay the cost of maintaining the station above 

 the income derived from quarantine fees. 



The State was redistricted for members of both 

 branches of the General Assembly, and the fol- 

 lowing new congressional districts were estab- 

 lished : First District, counties of Marengo, Choc- 

 taw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, and Mobile ; 

 Second District, Montgomery. Pike, Crenshaw, 

 Covington, Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, Baldwin, 

 and Wilcox; Third District, Lee, Russell, Bul- 

 lock, Barbour, Dale, Henry, Coffee, and Geneva ; 

 Fourth District, Dalton, Chilton, Shelby, Talla- 

 dega, Calhoun, and Cleburne ; Fifth District, 

 Lowndes, Autauga, Tallapoosa, Elmore, Macon, 

 Coosa, Chambers, Randolph, and Clay; Sixth 

 District, Sumter, Pickens, Greene, Tuscaloosa, 

 Lamar, Fayette, Marion, and Walker: Seventh 

 District, De'Kalb, Marshall, Etowah, Cullman, St. 

 Clair, Wilson. Cherokee, and Franklin ; Eighth 

 District, Jackson, Madison, Limestone, Morgan, 

 Lauderdale, Lawrence, and Colbert ; Ninth Dis- 

 trict, Jefferson, Bibb, Hale, Perry, and Blount. 



The State Supreme Court was enlarged from 

 four to five members. The office of Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, heretofore filled by ap- 

 pointment of the Governor, was declared elect- 

 ive, and provision was made for an election in 

 1892 and every second year thereafter to choose 

 an incumbent Following the precedent set by 

 the General Assembly of 1889, the legislators 

 appropriated $350,000 annually for the public 

 schools in 1891 and 1892. A school for deaf, 

 dumb, and blind children of the negro race, 

 called the Alabama School for Negro Deaf Mutes 

 and Blind, was established at Talladega, on a 

 site given to the State, and $12,000 were appro- 

 priated for buildings. The Ladies' Memorial 

 Association of Montgomery secured $10,000 

 from the State to aid in completing a monu- 

 ment to the Confederate soldiers, after being re- 

 fused by the preceding General Assembly. An 

 appropriation of $12,500 was granted for the 

 purchase of land and the erection of buildings 

 for farm purposes near the Alabama Insane Hos- 



pital, whereon some of the inmates may be em- 

 ployed; and $10,000 was given to the Medical 

 College of Alabama at Mobile for remodeling 

 the buildings and purchasing apparatus. For 

 each of the years 1891 and 1892 the expenditure 

 of $13,500 on an encampment of the State troops 

 was authorized. 



Other acts of the session were as. follow: 



To incorporate the Confederate Association of Ala- 

 bama. 



To incorporate the cities of Girard, Ozark, Ashe- 

 ville, and Bridgeport. 



To provide for the sale or lease of school indemnity 

 lands, certified to the State by the United States, and 

 for the disposition of the proceeds. 



To establish new charters for the cities of Birming- 

 ham and Decatur. 



To prohibit the sale, furnishing, or giving to any 

 minor under eighteen years of age of cigarettes, to- 

 baaco, or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor. 



Authorizing the issue of $450,000 in bonds by the 

 city of Birmingham for internal improvements. 



Authorizing the issue of $400,000 in bonds by the 

 city of Montgomery for constructing water works. 



Providing that, when any person dies leaving no 

 husband or widow or children, or their descendants, 

 but leaving parent or parents, his or her property 

 shall pass to both parents in equal portions, or if only 

 one parent is alive, half shall go to him or her and 

 half to the brothers and sisters and their descendants ; 

 provided that, if there be no such relatives, the whole 

 shall go to the surviving parent. 



Imposing upon each peddler of clocks a State license 

 tax of $500, and a county license tax of $250 for each 

 county in which such business is carried on. 



To provide for the teaching in the public schools of 

 physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the 

 effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics 

 upon the human system. 



Extending the scope of the geological survey of the 

 State. 



To provide for the apportionment of the school 

 fund to the various townships and school districts ac- 

 cording to the entire number of children of school 

 age. 



Increasing the amount of time which the Governor 

 may deduct for good behavior from the sentence of 

 prisoners. 



To provide for the legal examination of dead bodies 

 of persons believed to have been poisoned. 



To prohibit the payment or allowance of claims 

 against the estates of decedents, which have been 

 barred by the statute of limitations in the life of such 

 decedent. 



To prevent justices of the peace and notaries public 

 from sentencing defendants to hard labor for costs. 



To punish persons who keep cock-pits, or who pub- 

 licly fight cocks. 



To dispose of lands bid in by the State for taxes. 



To establish the legal weights of agricultural prod- 

 ucts. 



To prohibit pools, trusts, or combines to regulate or 

 control the prices of products, goods, wares, and mer- 

 chandise, and imposing penalties for violations of the 

 act. 



Giving to every mechanic, firm, association, cor- 

 poration^ or other person who shall work on or furnish 

 material, fixtures, engine, boiler, or machinery for any 

 building, article, improvement, or utility on land, or 

 for altering, repairing, or beautifying the same, a lien 

 therefor on such building, article, "improvement, or 

 utility, and on the lot of "land on which the same is 

 situated, and also a lien for costs, including a reason- 

 able attorney's fee, not to exceed $25. 



Establishing at Springville a school of industrial 

 arts and sciences for the destitute children of Confed- 

 erate soldiers and sailors, known as the Confederate 

 Children's Industrial School, to be under State con- 

 trol, but supported by private funds. 



