States; but no law of Congress shall discharge any debt none of said cities or towns shall be entitled to receive a error, may file a transcript in said Supreme Court of the State of SEC. obligation, debt or duty, due or owing to this State, or enuring, in suggestions of the Convention of the people of South Carolina to such lands as begun and holden at Montgomery, on the fourth day of Be it further ordained, That no suit in which the United SEC. Judge so intended to be removed, and he shall be their surveys, a quantity of land in the even numbered sections of and exceptions, viz: No person shall be entitled to more but must be abated by a process instituted in the name of the state. majors general, their aids-de-camp, and all division 4. That the gold and silver coin of the United States, of procure or entice a soldier to desert, or shall purchase his The President may veto The President may approve any treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged Confederate States of America. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or 5. The President, Vice President, and all civil officers courts may be respectively established; the first Monday assembled, That the Governor of Alabama is authorized half sections, quarter sections, half quarter sections, or quarter 12. That the Collector aforesaid is hereby authorized directed to the speaker of the Congress shall appropriate no money from the treasury accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have No right, title, franchise, easement, license or privilege The General Assembly shall make States so ratifying the same. of all slaves. of the State of Alabama, and the parties forfeiting and now office during good behavior, and shall be entitled to the command SEC. 4. and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as require the opinion, in writing, United States respecting the regulations and emoluments (1) GOVERNMENTAL BODY. SEC. both Houses may be necessary (except on a question of of the President, or until a permanent Constitution or oath or affirmation. such as may have been since received in payment of duties, or on issued bonds of the State of Alabama, to such an amount and in (2)a. in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a 14. six years; and for wilful neglect of duty, or other. 14. or neglect of duty; and when so removed, the removal said office. by States; but no new State shall be formed or erected 1. other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have 4. be authenticated so as to take effect in every other State,' " and Secretary of State, his appointment and duties. But no State shall, and they shall also make to the Commissioner of public lands like authority of the same, That the city of Selma and the city Convention assembled, That the Governor of the SEC. placed upon the Journals. such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention been organized into a regiment, the Governor is authorized to of this State, shall be prosecuted to judgment and carry a higher rate of interest than eight per centum per annum. held guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction, suffer all the pains, of four years; but shall be removable from office, at the 2. furnished that the Congress of the Confederate States desires any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or town, elections for the county in which such city or town shall be made, the State of South Carolina shall be entitled prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and 1. of both taken together, for ten years and upwards prior Treason against this Confederacy shall consist only in right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have 39-015, 14, 3-17-98; Ord. General Assembly may prescribe, and the faith and credit of the of the Confederate States of America all arms and of law, or in the heads of departments. 7. not be granted, but in cases provided for by law by suit in disposed of in the above and foregoing ordinance shall be arms, uniform, clothing, or any part thereof, and the punishment of appointment of which is vested in the General concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. to sell to the Confederate States of America, all We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in the public interests. was not intended to apply to any volunteer regiment or company direct. Governor, until the time, pointed out by this Constitution 31. after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the Congress shall agree behavior, and, with the consent of two-thirds, expel a jurisdiction outside the corporate limits. of Alabama, are hereby adopted as laws of this State No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained the ", SEC. Be it further ordained, That the staff officers whose compensation for his services, which shall not be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the appointed shall hold his office until the end of the ensuing To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, 3. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, thing in this article is excepted out of the general in office until the next general election, when such construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate 180 days following the final release of the 2020 federal decennial census population The House of Representatives shall be composed of emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; amendments, shall be duly published in print, at 3. mesne or final, necessary to the perfection of the rights of suitors in whole or in part by citizens of the said States. with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory duly attested in writing before a magistrate. 9. SEC. Confederate States, and who shall not, when elected, be an officers of the same grade and arm of service in the of the Confederate States shall account for all such moneys carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial 32. SEC. suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. may be born within the territory of this State, or may be born not a citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the ordained, by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention cases on file in said courts, shall be transferred to the allowances of a Captain of Dragoons. No person who shall have arrived at But no person constitutionally inelligible to the office of except in cases ascertained by law, and according to Resolved, That this Convention cordially approve the of the said State; and such process or processes, Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention and the Congress may, by law, provide for the case of removal, Montgomery, AL 36104 . against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without slaveholding State of North America, and who, within twelve river; and thence up the same to the beginning. 10. 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. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress State of Alabama, in force on the 11th day of January, 3. Be it further ordained, That the commissions hereafter And be it further enacted, That upon a full compliance United States which were in operation at the of time of the secession of the State to individuals or private corporations. The President shall at stated times receive for his. be in strict subordination to the civil power. established, we declare: SECTION 1. of Departments, except for the purpose of paying its own expenses and State; and the whole number of representatives shall, at of the several Circuit Courts may hold courts for each sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the foregoing sections, and for any default in executing or in making of the United States, passed May 26, 1790, entitled "an act to following oath or affirmation, to wit: "I do solemnly swear other emolument from the Confederate States, or of any of them. by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors. the authority of this Constitution, and shall receive from The importation of African negroes from any foreign Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico; thence Eastwardly, lands of the State shall, at the expirations of thirty manner to be prescribed by law. by law for the election of judges of the circuit Courts, by second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and Should any bank neglect or refuse to pay on SEC. SEC. SEC. 3. 11. ordered, the clerks of the circuit courts in the respective added to the residuum of the county in which it may lie, be seventh District of the. The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the 2. Be it ordained by the Convention of the people of Treasurer for the payment thereof, whenever the Governor shall Revenue Cutter, and the Light Houses, and the amounts of the therein. Be it further ordained, That the Governor of this State be, above the. SEC. Cultivated row crops and garden plants in their respective growing seasons. market value of the bonds deposited with the Comptroller, and the ARTICLE II. SEC. 5. two classes, as nearly equal transmitted to the Governor to be filed among the archives anything in this constitution to the contrary notwithstanding. Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to prevent in cases as hereinafter stated, shall be in all respects as in ordinary cases, 19. of this State may prescribe, conditioned for the faithful payment under similar regulations to those which are provided in representation, according to the number of white SEC. Chancellors and Judges of the Supreme place or places as the Congress may by law have directed. case, be less than one hundred thousand dollars. with Alabama government agencies. regulations of the same, in case of vacancy by death, removal or Be it ordained by the State of Alabama in Convention apportionment, when made, shall not be subject to securities for such defaults or liability by motion or other In cases of treason, he shall have power, by, and with SEC. respective counties. revenue to the ports of one State over those of another. Every bill which shall have passed That the registers of the several district land offices, and the