Page:Alabama State Constitution of 1901.djvu/22

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thereof; provided, this shall not prohibit the Legislature from altering or rearranging the boundaries of the city, town, or village;

  1. Creating, extending, or impairing any lien;
  2. Chartering or licensing any ferry, road, or bridge;
  3. Increasing the jurisdiction and fees of justices of the peace or the fees of constables;
  4. Establishing separate school districts;
  5. Establishing separate stock districts;
  6. Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percentages, or allowances of public officers;
  7. Exempting property from taxation or from levy or sale;
  8. Exempting any person from jury, road, or other civil duty;
  9. Donating any lands owned by or under control of the State to any person or corporation;
  10. Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures;
  11. Providing for the conduct of elections or designating places of voting, or changing the boundaries of wards, precincts, or districts, except in the event of the organization of new counties, or the changing of the lines of old counties;
  12. Restoring the right to vote to persons convicted of infamous crimes, or crimes involving moral turpitude;
  13. Declaring who shall be liners between precincts or between counties.

104. The Legislature shall pass general laws for the cases enumerated in this section, provided that nothing in this section or article shall affect the right of the Legislature to enact local laws regulating or prohibiting the liquor traffic; but no such local law shall be enacted unless notice shall have been given as required in section 106 of this Constitution.

105. No special, private, or local law, except a law fixing the time of holding courts, shall be enacted in any case which is provided for by a general law, or when the relief sought can be given by any court of this State; and the courts, and not the Legislature, shall judge as to whether the matter of said law is provided for by a general law, and as to whether the relief sought can be given by any court; nor shall the Legislature indirectly enact any such special, private, or local law by the partial repeal of a general law.

106. No special, private, or local law shall be passed on any subject not enumerated in section 104 of this Constitution, except in reference to fixing the time of holding courts, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published, without cost to the State, in the county or counties where the matter or thing to be affected may be situated, which notice shall state the substance of the proposed law and be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in such county or counties, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then by posting the said notice