1887 CHAPTER 3699-[No. 19.] AN ACT to Abolish the Office of State Printer and to Create a System of Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. The office of State Printer is hereby abolished. SEC. 2. All the public printing of the State of Florida shall be let out upon contract to the lowest responsible bidder, who shall furnish all paper and other material used in printing and binding. SEC. 3. No member of the Legislature or other officer of this Sta e shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in such con tract. SEC. 4. All the public printing of this State shall be done in the State, and the bond given by any contractor for such print ing shall so state. Office of State ished. to be let to the State officers ested in printing contracts. not to be inter Printing must be done in State tutions to ad SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to give thirty days' notice, by publica- Commissioners tion in one or more newspapers of this State, calling for bids of State Instito do the State printing, as required in this act. The said vertise for bids for printing. notice by the Commissioners shall specify that separate prices be named for each kind of work and materials to be furnished, carefully classifying them, with an estimate or estimates of the amount of work and material of each class. Said notice further stating the mode of proceeding to let such contract, the What notice to amount of bond required, and when the said bond shall be contain. entered into by the accepted bidder; also retaining the right to reject any and all bids. Said notice shall be given immediately after this act shall become a law, the first contract to expire October 1st, 1889, immediately after which date a new When contracts contract shall be entered into, previous notice having been to expire. given in the manner prescribed above for the first contract, the same being renewed by the Commissioners every two years thereafter. SEC. 6. The Secretary of State must furnish true and accu rate copies of all the laws, resolutions, petitions and memorials Duty of Secrepassed by the Legislature to the contractor, who shall be tary of State. bound by his contract to prepare and complete the said matter, printed and bound for use, within sixty days after the adjournment of any Legislature. The said contractor shall be fur nished by the Attorney-General with an index to each of the Duty of AttorJournals of the two branches of the Legislature, which, with ney-General. the said Journals, shall be printed and bound without any delay. The Attorney-General shall also furnish copy to the 1887 Different con tracts fo- different printing. Repeal. said contractor for printing the Supreme Court Reports, and the same shall be printed and bound without delay. SEC. 7. The Board of Commissioners may make different contracts for different kinds or classes of printing or binding. SEC. 8. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved June 3d, 1887. Preamble. County Commissioners. when to order election as to sale of liquors, wines or beer. CHAPTER 3700-[No. 20.] AN ACT to Provide for the Proper Enforcement of the Provisions of WHEREAS, Article XIX of the Constitution of 1885 provides that, on petition of one-fourth of the registered voters of any county to the County Commissioners of such county, said County Commissioners shall order an election to be held in said county to determine whether or not spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold in said county; and, whereas, said Article further provides that in any precinct which votes against the sale of such spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in such county, it shall be unlawful to sell such liquors; and, whereas, said Article XIX of said Constitution provides no penalty against those persons transgressing the provisions thereof; therefore, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida, That: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of each county in this State, upon the presentation to said board at a regular or special meeting thereof of a written application asking for an election in the county in which said application is made, to decide whether the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines or beer shall be prohibited therein, and signed by one fourth of the registered voters of said county, to order an election in said county, not oftener than once in every two (2) years, to decide whether the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines or beer shall be prohibited in said county, and shall cause the Clerk of said board to give at least thirty (30) days' notice of said election by publishing the same in one newspaper in each and every town in said county, if a newspaper or newspapers be published in said county, and if none, then by posting up at least ten written notices of said election in the most public places in said county, one of which shall be at the court house in said county. That the Clerk of of Circuit Court, the Circuit Court in said county in which said election shall be ordered, within three days after the ordering said election, "hat notice given. Duties of Clerk 1887 shall appoint a deputy registration officer in each voting precinct in said county, and within ten days from date of ordering said election notify said persons of their appointment as deputy registration officers, and also, through the Sheriff of said county, furnish said officers with the proper registration books in which to register all persons who may be entitled to registration under the laws of Florida, and the persons so appointed shall give notice by posting up at least three (3) written notices, in each election precinct, that the registration books Registration of will be opened at the polling place in each precinct for the space of ten (10) days preceding the tenth (10th) day before said election; that said registration officers shall register all persons entitled under the laws of Florida to registration as in case of a general election, and shall return said registration books to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the proper county at least five (5) days before said election. 66 electors. tions. years. That said election shall be held and conducted in the manner prescribed by law for holding general elections, except as Mode of conherein provided. That inspectors of election shall be appointed ducting elecand qualified as in cases of general elections, and they shall canvass the vote cast and make due returns of the same to the County Commissioners within five (5) days after said election. At said election the ballot used shall be a plain white piece of Ballots. paper, written or printed one side either "for selling" or against selling ;" and should a majority of the votes legally cast at any such election be against selling, then no intoxi cating liquors, wines or beer shall be sold in the county in which said election was held until otherwise determined by an election, which shall not be held oftener than once in every Election to be two years; but should a majority of those legally voting cast only every two their ballots for selling, then such liquors, wines or beer may be sold in said county until otherwise determined by an election to be held in pursuance of this act; Provided, That intoxicating liquors, either spirituous, vinous or malt, or patent Liquors not to alcoholic bitters, shall not be sold in any election district in be sold in any which a majority vote was cast against the same at said elec- polls against it. tion; Provided, further, That should it be determined at said election that liquors, wines or beer be sold in the county in License to be which said election was held, then the person or persons wishing to make such sales shall obtain a license and pay all such tax or taxes as may be prescribed by law for carrying on such business; Provided, further, That all elections ordered under this act shall be held within sixty days from the time of pre- tions to be held. senting such application; but if any such election should thereby take place within sixty days of any State or National election, it shall be held within sixty days after any such State or National election. precinct that paid if county votes for sale of liquors. When snch elec 1887 SEC. 2. If such county at such an election votes in favor of the sale of such liquors within such county, then any person If county votes or persons in any precinct which at said county election voted in favor of the sale of such liquors, paying the proper license tax to the proper officer in said county, shall have granted to him proper license for selling such liquors in such precinct. for sale of liquors, persons paying license authorized to sell the same. lations of this act. SEC. 3. Any person who shall sell or cause to be sold any Penalty for vio- liquors, as provided in this act, in any county voting against the sale of such liquors in such county, contrary to the pro visions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. Circuit Court SEC. 4 The Circuit Courts of each circuit in which such has jurisdiction counties are situated shall have jurisdiction in all such offences as described in section 3 of this article. of all offenses. Act to go into effect at once. SEC. 5. This bill shall go into effect and become operative from and after its passage. Approved June 2, 1887. Clerk to estimate amount and make requisition on Comptroller to pay jurors and witnesses. send amount necessary to CHAPTER 3701-[No. 21.] AN ACT to Prescribe the Manner of Payment of Jurors and Witnesses to be Paid by the State. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That within four weeks of the commencement of any term of the Circuit Court in and for any county in this State, whether the same be a regular, special or adjourned term, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of such county shall make an estimate of the amount necessary for the payment of jurors and witnesses to be paid by the State at said term of court, and shall forward such estimate to the Comptroller of the State; and at the time of forwarding such estimate the Clerk shall make his requisition upon the Comptroller for the amount of such estimate, and the Comptroller shall have power to reduce the amount if in his judgment the requisition is excessive. SEC. 2. Upon the receipt of such estimate and the requisition Comptroller to from the Clerk of the Circuit Court, the Comptroller shall receipt to the Treasurer for the amount of said requisition, or so much thereof as he may deem necessary for the pay of said jurors and witnesses to be paid by the State, and transmit the same to such Clerk of the Circuit Court. pay jurors and witnesses. 1887 counties. SEC. 3. If the Comptroller shall have reason to believe that the amount appropriated by the Legislature is insufficient to meet the expenses of jurors and witnesses in all the counties Comptroller at the next ensuing term of the Circuit Court, he shall have may apportion appropriation power to apportion the moneys in the treasury appropriated among the for that purpose among the several counties, basing such apportionment upon the amount expended for the payment of jurors and witnesses in each county at the last regular term of the court; and in such case he shall draw from the Treasurer only the amount so apportioned to each county; and when the amount so apportioned to any county is insufficient to pay in full all the jurors and witnesses to be paid by the State at any term of the court, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall apportion the money received by him pro rata among the jurors and witnesses entitled to pay at such term, and shall give to each juror and witness a certificate of the amount of compen- When certifisation still due, which certificate shall be allowed by the Comptroller as other demands against the State. cates to issue. burse moneys SEC. 4. All moneys drawn from the treasury under the provisions of this act, by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, shall Clerk to disbe disbursed by said Clerk of the Circuit Court as far as and to account needed in payment of jurors and such witnesses as are to be for balance. paid by the State for the legal compensation for services at the term of the court for which said moneys were drawn, and to no other purpose; and should any of the said moneys remain in the hands of said Clerk unexpended after the payment of all said jurors and witnesses properly on the pay roll at any term of the Circuit Court, the Clerk shall transmit the same to the Comptroller within ten days after the adjournment of such court, and, upon failure to do so, shall be suspended Clerk to be susfrom office by the Governor until the next meeting of the ure to return Legislature, when the Governor shall report his action to the balance. Senate. SEC. 5. Should the compensation of jurors and witnesses to pended for fail be paid by the State at any term of the Circuit Court exceed Clerk to make the [amount] estimated by the Clerk, and therefore be insuf- requisition for deficiency. ficient to pay in full said jurors and witnesses, said Clerk shall make his further requisition upon the Comptroller for the amount necessary to pay such deficiency, and the amount required shall be drawn from the treasury and transmitted to the Clerk in the same manner as the original requisition or order. triplicate pay SEC. 6. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of the several courties of this State shall make out a pay roll in triplicate, which Clerk to make shall contain the name of every juror and witness to be paid rolls. by the State who shall have attended every session of such court, which pay roll shall state the number of days which |