February and the Fall Term of the Circuit Court of said county shall be held on the second Tuesday in September in each year. 1911 upon election. Sec. 20. The foregoing sections of this Act shall take Act effective effect upon their ratification by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the votes cast at an election to be held in the territory herein before set forth as the County of Pinellas. Sec. 21. The election provided for in Section 20 of this Act shall be held on the Second Tuesday of November, A. D. 1911. The County Commissioners and the Super visor of Registration of Hillsborough County shall dis charge such duties in connection with the calling and holding of said election as are now required of them by law for general elections, and the said election shall be governed in all respects by the law for holding general elections, except as otherwise provided herein, or not inconsistent herewith. No notice of said election shall be necessary. Those who are duly qualified to vote within the territorial limits of said proposed County of Pinellas shall be qualified electors at said election. Approved May 23, 1911. Election, duty of Commisqualificators. sioners and tion of elec CHAPTER 6248-(No. 129). AN ACT to Amend Section 2 of Chapter 5595, Acts of 1905, Relating to the Construction of a Line of Railway From the Mainland of Florida to Key West. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That Section 2 of Chapter 5595, Laws of Amendment. Florida, approved May 3, 1905, entitled An Act to encour age and secure the construction of a line of railway from the mainland of Florida to Key West; to provide for a fair and equitable assessment of taxes of the corporation constructing it; and to grant right of way over the submerged and other lands belonging to the State, and over the waters of the State, and to authorize the filling of the submerged lands, and to construct buildings, docks and depots thereon, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1911 Extension of time. Sec. 2. That the corporation so filing the plat as set forth in the first section of this Act shall begin the actual work of construction within six months from the filing of the same, and shall have said railway completed and in operation to Key West within nine years after the passage of this Act. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved May 18, 1911. Authority of Alachua County to issue interest-bearing warrants. CHAPTER 6249-(No. 130). AN ACT Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That the Board of County Commissioners in and for Alachua County, Florida, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue and negotiate time warrants bearing interest not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable from the road fund, for the purpose of raising funds for, or paying for, the grading, paving and constructing hard-surfaced roads in the County of Alachua. Said roads to extend from the Suwannee River dividing Alachua and Lafayette counties, beginning at a point to be determined, thence to the county line dividing Alachua and Bradford Counties at a point between Waldo and Hampton, and which said road shall run via Trenton, Newberry, Gainesville and Waldo; also a road from the county line dividing Alachua and Marion Counties to the Santa Fee River dividing Alachua and Columbia counties, via Micanopy, Gainesville, Hague, Alachua and High Springs. Sec. 2. That this Act shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved May 19, 1911. H CHAPTER 6250-(No. 131). AN ACT to Authorize and Empower the Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County, Florida, to Issue Interest-Bearing Coupon Warrants for the Purpose of Borrowing Money for the Erection of School Buildings, and Providing for the Payment Thereof. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. The Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County, Florida, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue interest-bearing coupon warrants in the sum of not exceeding fifty thousand ($50,000.00) dollars, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. Said warrants shall be issued in denominations of $100.00, $500.00, $1,000.00 and $5,000.00. None of said warrants shall be issued to run for a longer period of time than twenty years. Said warrants. shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number one, and each interest coupon shall bear the number of its warrant. Each of said warrants shall have attached thereto interest coupons, each coupon representing and calling for a semi-annual payment of interest on its warrant. Each warrant and interest coupon shall be signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the said Board of Public Instruction, and each warrant and interest coupon shall be dated and shall also bear their due date. Said warrants shall be issued upon the common school fund of Alachua County, Florida. Authority money. Sec. 2. Under the provisions of Section One of this Act the Board of Public Instruction of the said county shall be to borrow empowered to borrow money for the purpose of constructing suitable public school buildings, in the said county. Duty of Sec. 3. Under this Act it shall be the duty of the said Board of Public Instruction and its successors, each year Board. during the time said warrants shall run to set apart out of the county school funds of Alachua County, Florida, sufficient moneys to meet and pay said coupon warrants and the interest thereon as the same shall become due. 1911 Payee. Board to give notice of issue. Sec. 4. The coupon warrants herein provided for shall be issued payable to the order of the party to whom issued. The interest coupons shall be made payable to bearer. Sec. 5. Before said Board of Public Instruction shall issue said warrants they shall give notice of their intention to do so by publication in a newspaper published in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, for a period of thirty days. Such notice shall show the amount of the warrants that it is proposed to be issued, the purpose for which said warrants are to be issued, the denomination of the warrants and the time which said warrants are to run. Said warrants shall be sold to the highest bidder for cash. The Board shall have the authority to decline any and all bids. Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 3, 1911. Protection of certain fish in Alachua County. CHAPTER 6251-(No. 132). AN ACT to Prohibit the Catching of Fish Known as Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That all persons are prohibited from catching or removing from the fresh water lakes, ponds, and fresh water streams in the County of Alachua fish known as black bass (or fresh water trout) which are less than ten inches in length from fork of tail to tip of nose, jack fish (or pickerel) less than twelve inches in length from fork of tail to tip of nose, speckle perch (or croppie) less than eight inches in length from fork of tail to tip of nose, bream less than six inches in length from fork of tail to tip of nose, chub (or warmouth perch) less than six inches in length from fork of tail to tip of nose. And any person who shall in violation of this section catch or remove from any of the fresh waters of Alachua County any of the fish as above described shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as by statute in such cases made and provided. Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to have or keep in his possession any of the fish mentioned and described in Section 1 of this Act, or to sell or offer for sale such fish in the County of Alachua. And any person who shall have in his possession or shall sell or offer for sale such fish shall upon conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as by statute in such cases made and provided. Sec. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect August 1st, 1911. 1911 Unlawful to have fish in possession. CHAPTER 6252—(No. 133). AN ACT to Prescribe the Time for Shooting Wild Ducks in the Waters of Indian River, Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River North, in Brevard County and Adjoining County of Volusia, and Regulating the Number and Time of Day of Killing Wild Ducks, Prohibiting the Sale of the Same and Fixing a Penalty for the Violation of This Act. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or per sons to shoot wild ducks between the first day of April, and the first day of November, in the waters of Indian River, Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River North, in Brevard, and Volusia Counties, and no one person shall kill more than twenty-five wild ducks in one day. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to shoot or kill wild ducks in said waters of Indian River, Mosquito Lagoon and Protection of wild ducks. |