Ala. Code § 9-11-33
All hunting and fishing licenses, both resident and nonresident, shall be numbered consecutively at the time they are printed. Blank licenses shall be furnished by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to the judges of probate of the several counties of the state or the license commissioner and to such other person or persons not residing at the county seat as may be designated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources to issue hunting and fishing licenses, and the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall deliver not less than 15 days before October 1 of each year to the judges of probate of this state and to such other person or persons so designated as many such licenses as may be required and shall charge with same all those to whom licenses have been so issued. On October 1 of each year or within 10 days thereafter each officer or person to whom licenses have been so issued shall return to the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources all unused licenses and all stubs of licenses issued during the preceding fiscal year.
Ala. Code § 9-11-33 (1975)