Opinion of the Justices

To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives

State Capitol

Montgomery, Alabama

Dear Sirs and Madam:

By resolution of 10 March 1977 you requested the Justices of this Court to give *516their advisory opinion on certain questions relating to the constitutionality of the substitute for House Bill 501 of the present session of the Alabama Legislature. The questions are:

“1. Is the law proposed by the substitute for the bill, H. B. 501, a local or a general law under Section 110 of the Constitution?”

Because of the failure to add the words “or any subsequent Federal Census” to the…