Ala. Code § 33-2-39
The proceeds from the sale of any of the bonds shall be paid into the state treasury and kept by the State Treasurer in a separate account and paid over to the secretary-treasurer of the department from time to time in such amounts as shall be directed by the Governor and the money so paid over to the secretary-treasurer of the department shall be held and used only for the accomplishment of the purposes of this article, and specifically for payment of the cost of acquiring, by construction or otherwise, maintaining and operating, or any of them, dock facilities along navigable streams and waterways now or hereafter existing within the state, in aid of commerce and use of navigable waterways of the state. The cost of acquiring any dock facilities shall be deemed to include, inter alia, (1) fees of engineers and attorneys and other expenses incidental to such acquisition; (2) the cost of issuing those of the bonds that may be issued to provide funds for such acquisition; and (3) interest on such bonds during such period of time, not exceeding three years from the date of the completion of said dock facilities, as may be specified in the order or resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds as the period of time estimated by the department to be required for placing the said dock facilities in profitable operation.
Ala. Code § 33-2-39 (1975)