Terms Used In Alabama Code 16-31-1

  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Whenever the American Legion or the American Legion Auxiliary of the State of Alabama shall donate to the State of Alabama, and actually pay in cash to the Treasurer of said state, a sum of money amounting to $1,250.00, there shall be considered as established a free scholarship of the value of $750.00 per year in board and such fees or other charges as that amount would cover or include over and above board for the benefit of the student receiving the benefit of the same or appointed to such scholarship at any public institutions of higher learning, that such scholarship shall be and is hereby established for each sum of $1,250.00 so donated to the state.