[1616] See Edwin DeLeon, “Ruin and Reconstruction of the Southern States,” in the Southern Magazine, Jan., 1874.
[1617] Ala. Test., p. 1409.
[1618] State Journal, April 19, 1874.
[1619] Ala. Test., p. 1409. The Radical newspapers that had the public printing made money from the tax sale notices by dividing each lot into sixteenths of a section, advertising each, and charging for each division. The author of the tax sale law was Pierce Burton, a Radical editor.
[1620] Scribner’s Monthly, Aug., 1874; King, “The Great South.”
[1621] Southern Argus, Jan. 17 and Feb. 8, 1872; Scribner’s Monthly, Aug., 1874; Herbert, “Solid South,” pp. 64, 67. Colonel Herbert believes that during the six years of Reconstruction the state gained practically nothing by immigration, while it lost more by emigration than it had by the Civil War.
[1622] Auditor’s Reports, 1869-1873; Comptroller’s Reports, 1861-1865, 1866; Patton’s Report, 1867, to the Convention; Journal Convention of 1867, pp. 46, 123; Ku Klux Rept., pp. 169, 317, 1055.
[1623] The following is a partial list compiled from the session laws:—
Issues of County Bonds
| 1868. | Walker County | $14,000.00 | |
| 1868. | Dallas County | 50,000.00 | |
| 1868. | Bullock County | 40,000.00 | |
| 1868. | Limestone County | 100,000.00 | |
| 1869. | Hale County | 60,000.00 | |
| 1869. | Greene County | 80,000.00 | |
| 1869. | Pickens County | 100,000.00 | |
| 1870. | Baldwin County | 5,000.00 | |
| 1870. | Bibb County | 5,000.00 | |
| 1870. | Choctaw County | (?) unlimited | |
| 1870. | Crenshaw County | 10,000.00 | |
| 1872. | Pickens County | 30,000.00 | |
| 1873. | Butler County | 12,000.00 | |
| 1873. | Jefferson County | 50,000.00 | |
| 1873. | Montgomery County | 130,000.00 | |
| 1873. | Madison County | 130,000.00 | |
| (?) | Dallas County | 140,000.00 | |
| (?) | Chambers County | 150,000.00 | |
| (?) | Lee County | 275,000.00 | |
| (?) | Randolph County | 100,000.00 | |
| (?) | Barbour County | (?) | |
| (?) | Tallapoosa County | 125,000.00 |