enforcement of this section and proceed themselves to enforce it, the state board of health acting in the place of the county board of health and the state health officer in the place of the county health officer.

Approved September 9, 1927.

GENERAL LAWS

(AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS)

OF THE

LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA

PASSED AT THE

SPECIAL SESSION OF 1926

HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY,

WM. W. BRANDON, Governor.

CHARLES. S. MCDOWELL, JR., Lieutenant-Governor.
JAS. B. ELLIS, President Pro Tem. of the Senate.

HUGH D. MERRILL, Speaker of the House.

Montgomery, Alabama.

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1927.

GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE

To the Legislature of Alabama:
Gentlemen:

After careful consideration and due deliberation, with a review of the public's welfare, and with an earnest desire to cooperate with my successor in office, I reached the conclusion that an emergency existed, such as contemplated in the Constitution, and I have called you into extraordinary session in order that there shall be no cessation in road building in this great State.

Upon careful examination it has been found that the incoming administration will be unable to continue a road-building programme unless funds are supplied. After a conference with the Governor-elect, Hon. Bibb Graves, a programme was agreed upon to give to the people of Alabama an opportunity to pass upon the question of a Twenty-Five Million Dollar bond issue for the purpose of building roads. All but $2,000,000.00 of the $25,000,000.00 heretofore authorized have been issued and sold and the proceeds applied to the building of roads. Much good has been done, many roads have been built but still more needs to be done and Alabamians are called upon to "take no backward step" but continue the work until good roads are built in every county in the State and the gaps in those already built are constructed, giving to field and farm transportation facilities second to none in the South. Therefore, I have issue a proclamation calling you here, naming only two subjects in my proclamation to be considered by you under this call, to-wit:

1. To submit to a vote of the electorate of Alabama a Constitutional Amendment authorizing the issuance and sale by the State of Alabama of bonds not to exceed in value twenty-five million ($25,000,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining roads, highways, and bridges in the State, said bonds to be in addition to those heretofore authorized for such purposes.

2. To enact a law levying a tax of two cents per gallon on gasoline or other substances or substitutes for the same as the motive power of self-propelled vehicles of all kinds, said tax to be in addition to that already levied upon such substances.

So you will observe that the motive that prompted the call was that funds be made available to the incoming administration as early as possible so that no delay may be had in this undertaking for our development. Bills will be introduced covering these two subjects and I earnestly urge the passage of both as speedily as possible.