Excerpt from Acts of the Second Called Session, 1861 and of the First Regular Annual Session of the General Assembly of Alabama: Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on the 28th Day of October and Second Monday in November, 1861 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the comptroller of public accounts, upon receiv ing the transcripts of record from the several counties in this State, showing the number and names Of indigent families of absent volunteers in each of said counties, and the estimated amount necessary to render them adequate aid during each year, to apportion the amount of the special tax collected under the authority of this act, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, among all the counties of this State, according to the list of the names of indigent families of absent volunteers, and the estimate showing the amount required by each, pre pared and certified to his office by the court aforesaid, and the amount of such fund coming to each county, shall be paid over to the judge of probate of such county, and laid out and expended under the direction and control of the court of county commissioners of such county, and the court shall cause to be kept an account showing in detail for whose account the money was expended, for what particular article, and the price paid for each article, and of whom purchased, and shall re turn to the comptroller of public accounts, showing the disbursement of said fund. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.