Ala. Code § 2-9-6
All expenses incurred under this title or any other provision of this code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the operation of the department shall be paid by warrants drawn by the comptroller on the Agricultural Fund upon the requisition of the commissioner. Said requisition shall be itemized and sworn to and accompanied by an itemized statement of expenses by any person in whose favor a warrant is to be drawn, verified by affidavit that such statement is correct and such amount is unpaid, with such other information or evidence as the board may require. Thereupon, a warrant or warrants shall be drawn by the comptroller upon the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury for the amounts so requisitioned.
Ala. Code § 2-9-6 (1975)