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or set devices, or by gigging, or with hook and line, in East, Blackwater, Escambia or Pensacola Bays, or Santa Rosa Sound, or the waters of Perdido Bay or the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of said counties; Provided further, That no seine or net shall be set or used nearer than three-quarters of a mile from the mouth of any fresh water bayous, streams or basins in said counties.

Sec. 4. Any person or persons violating the provisions of the foregoing sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Approved June 5, 1911.

1911

CHAPTER 6302—(No. 183).

AN ACT to Declare Valid a Proposed Issue of County Bonds of the County of St. Lucie Heretofore Authorized to be Issued Under Chapter 6016 of the Laws of Florida; to Cure All Irregularities and Defects Existing in Said Bonds; to Authorize the County Commissioners of Said St. Lucie County to Sell and Deliver Said Bonds and to Carry Out any Contract Existing for the Sale and Delivery of Said Bonds; to Define the Purposes for Which the Proceeds Shall Be Used and the Manner of Disposing of Such Proceeds; and to Require the Levy of Taxes for the Payment of Interest and for Providing a Sinking Fund and Validating the Levy and Collection of Taxes for Interest and Sinking Fund.

Whereas, on May 26, 1909, the Governor approved that certain Act known as Chapter 6016 and entitled: "An Act to Authorize the County of St. Lucie, State of Florida, to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Building Hard-Surface Roads and Certain Public Docks; for the Election of Bond Trustees, and Prescribing Their Duties, Imposing Penalties for the Violation of this Act, and for Other Purposes," and under the terms of said Act an election was duly called and held and the returns of such election were canvassed and the result declared;

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Bond issue validated.

County Commissioners to carry out contract.

and the issue of bonds provided for in said Act were approved by a majority of the electors of St. Lucie County authorized by said Act to vote and voting at such elec tion.

And Whereas, The bonds so authorized to be sold and delivered for the purposes prescribed by said Act have been duly advertised and contracted to be sold; whereas, doubts regarding the validity of the manner of the passage of said Chapter 6016, and also doubts as to the validity of so much of said Act as relates to the election, the term of office and of the duties of the Road Bond Trustees prescribed in said Act have been raised; therefore,

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. That the proposed issue of county bonds in the aggregate sum of $200,000, voted to be issued by the electors of the County of St. Lucie at an election held on the 1st day of December, A. D. 1909, by a majority vote for the purpose of building certain hard-surface roads and certain public docks be, and the same is hereby, validated; and any and all irregularities in said issue, whether by the doing of anything that should not have been done, or the omission or failure to do anything that should have been done be, and the same is hereby, cured; and said proposed issue of bonds and each bond of said issue is hereby declared a valid and binding obligation of said St. Lucie County upon the sale and delivery of said issue and each bond of said issue, as herein provided. The bonds herein referred to are the proposed issue of bonds under Chapter 6016, dated June 1, 1910, with interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually (June 1st and December 1st); and each of the denomination of $1,000; and the principal of which is to be paid, $20,000 in ten years; $30,000 in fifteen years; $40,000 in twenty years; $50,000 in twenty-five years, and $60,000 in thirty years.

Sec. 2. That the County Commissioners of said St. Lucie County are hereby authorized to sell and deliver said bonds and to carry into effect any contract heretofore made by them for the sale and delivery of said bonds.

Sec. 3. That the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be used for the purposes mentioned and set forth in said Act known as Chapter 6016; and shall be received, managed, distributed, paid out and in all respects handled as if the said bonds had been issued and the proceeds collected under the provisions of the general laws of the State of Florida providing for the receiving, managing, distributing, paying out and handling of moneys arising from the sale of bonds issued under those provisions of the general laws of the State of Florida for the issuance of bonds for county purposes, and the said Board of County Commissioners are authorized and empowered to do all things and appoint all officers and agents the said board could or should do or appoint had the said bonds been authorized under the provisions of the general laws of Florida relating to issue of bonds for county purposes.

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Disposition

of proceeds arising

from sale of bonds.

Trustee.

Sec. 4. That the office of Road Bond Trustee provided Road Bond for or attempted to be provided for in said Act be, and the same is hereby, abolished.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Board of County Tax levy. Commissioners to levy annually, by tax upon the taxable property in the county, a sum sufficient to meet the amount annually required to be raised to pay the interest and as a sinking fund to meet the principal of the bonds; and that all resolutions of said board at a meeting held on July 4, 1910, be legalized and validated, and all taxes levied and collected for interest and sinking fund be declared legally and validly levied and collected.

Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the Governor, or upon its becoming a law without such approval.

Approved April 20, 1911.

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County Court abolished.

Disposition of pending

cases.

CHAPTER 6303-(No. 184).

AN ACT to Repeal Chapter 6014 of the Laws of Florida, Entitled "An Act to Organize and Establish a County Court in and for St. Lucie County, Florida, and to Prescribe for the Appointment of a Prosecuting Attorney, and Prescribe the Terms Thereon."

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. That Chapter 6014 of the Laws of Florida entitled "An Act to Organize and Establish a County Court in and for St. Lucie County, Florida, and to prescribe for the appointment of a Prosecuting Attorney, and prescribe the terms thereon," and approved May 17th, 1909, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the County Court organized and provided for therein be and the same is hereby abolished.

Sec. 2. That all suits pending and undetermined in said court at the time this Act shall go into effect, and all judgments of said court unsatisfied shall be transferred by the Clerk of the said County Court to the court having jurisdiction of said causes, and such courts shall have the power to try and determine said causes and issre executions upon all judgments recovered therein or hereby transferred to said courts, and to do all things necessary and proper for a complete determination of said causes. Sec. 3. That this Act shall take effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved May 1, 1911.

CHAPTER 6304—(No. 185).

AN ACT Authorizing and Empowering the Board of
County Commissioners of St. Johns County to Issue
County Warrants or Script in the Aggregate Sum of
Thirty Thousand Dollars, to Take up Certain Promis-
sory Notes, Which Were Given for the Purpose of
Building Hard Surfaced Roads in St. Johns County.

Whereas, The citizens of St. Johns County petitioned the
County Commissioners of said county to construct and
build a hard surfaced road from St. Augustine to Jack-
sonville, and St. Augustine to Hastings; and,
Whereas, Certain of said citizens for said county made
and executed certain promissory notes, payable to the
order of said County Commissioners, said notes aggre-
gating the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00);
and,

Whereas, It was a condition of the making and giving
of said notes that application would be made to the Leg-
islature for authority for said commissioners to take
up said notes with county warrants or script bearing
legal interest; and,

Whereas, The said sum of thirty thousand ($30,000.00) dollars has been in whole or in part expended by said County Commissioners in the construction and building of aforesaid roads; therefore,

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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Authority to

est-bearing warrants.

Section 1. The County Commissioners of St. Johns County be and they are hereby authorized and empowered issue interto issue county warrants or script in the aggregate sum of thirty thousand ($30,000.00) dollars, said warrants or script to bear legal interest from date of issue, to take up and refund the certain promissory notes set forth in the preamble of this Act.

Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved May 13, 1911.

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