1911 electors under the laws of the State of Florida, shall be entitled to vote. The Town Council shall provide by ordinance the mode of conducting elections and the registration of voters, for certifying the returns of elections and such other regulations as may be necessary. Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved May 24, 1911. Assess ized. CHAPTER 6353-(No. 234). AN ACT to Legalize the Assessments and Levies of Taxes for the Years 1910 and 1911 by the Town of Gretna, Florida. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That all collections of taxes heretofore made by the Town of Gretna, Florida, for taxes assessed and levied by said Town of Gretna for the years 1910 and 1911 severally, are hereby legalized and confirmed. Sec. 2. That the assessments and levies of taxes as ments legal- made and entered upon the several assessment rolls of said Town of Gretna for the years 1910 and 1911 severally, and including the levies of all special taxes for whatsoever purpose, are hereby legalized and confirmed; Provided, That before the collection of any such taxes for the year 1910 shall be further enforced, the Town Council of said town shall cause a notice to be published in a newspaper published in said town at least two times within a period of fourteen days from the date of the first publication requiring all persons interested desirous of having any corrections made in the assessment for said year, whether in the listing, valuation of property or otherwise, to file with the clerk of said town on or before a day named in said notice, their petitions to said Town Council, setting forth their objections to said assessment, and corrections desired to be made. Such notice shall name the time when, and the place where the said Town Council shall meet for the purpose of equalizing said assessments and making proper corrections. 1911 From the date of the publications of the notice pro- Notice. vided for herein, and including the day named therein as the last day for filing said petitions, the public shall have access to the said assessment roll at the office of the clerk of said town during each day, Sundays excepted, from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of examining the same and petitions for the corrections thereof. All petitions for corrections of assessments so filed within the time prescribed with the clerk shall be by the clerk delivered to the Town Council, and the said council shall investigate concerning the same by committees or otherwise, and upon the day named therefor in said notice shall sit for the purpose of equalizing said assessment and correcting the same, and shall consider and act upon said petitions, and the reports of its said committees, and shall make such changes in the valuation of property or otherwise as may be in their opinion necessary to the proper, just and legal equalizing of said assessment. The Town Council shall give opportunity to such petitioners as may have filed their petitions and objections to said assessment roll as herein before provided, to be heard in person or by attorney, in open session by written or oral argument, and on such evidence as may be presented to sustain such petitions, and the Town Council shall sit from day to day until all said petitions and objections and reports shall have been passed upon and the corrections, if any corrections there be, of the said assessment roll, shall have been completed. Correction zation of assessments. and equali If the Town Council shall increase the valuation of Ibid. any property on the assessment roll or make any other changes in said assessment roll, except by a reduction of the valuation or in accordance with petitions submitted to the council, all persons affected by such changes shall have similar notice and opportunity to be heard as herein provided. Such notice shall contain the name of the owner or person in whose name the property is assessed, or in case such owner is unknown, a brief description of the property. 1911 Ibid. All changes made by the Town Council shall be noted by the clerk and collector of taxes in the copy of said assessment roll, which shall be in his possession, and upon the completion of said corrections upon said petitions presented by such day as aforesaid and the noting thereof in said assessment roll, after being approved and adopted by ordinance by the Mayor and the Town Council of said town, shall stand as the assessment roll for said year, and the payment of all uncollected taxes appearing thereon may be enforced as provided by law. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 3, 1911. Incorporation validated. All acts, or- Authority to issue bonds. CHAPTER 6354-(No. 235). AN ACT to Declare Legal the Incorporation of the Town Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That the Town of Hampton, in the County of Bradford, incorporated under the general laws for incorporating cities and towns in this State, is hereby declared to be in all respects a legally incorporated town, with all the powers incident thereto, under the laws of This State. Sec. 2. That all ordinances heretofore passed, and all acts and deeds heretofore done by and through the Mayor, Town Council, Tax Assessor and Collector, and other officials of said town not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the State, are hereby declared to be legal and valid. Sec. 3. That the Town Council of said Town of Hampton shall have power with the approval of the majority of the qualified electors of said town actually voting at the election to be held for the purpose, to issue bonds bearing not a greater rate of interest than six per centum per annum, to an amount not to exceed twenty thousand dollars, and to run for a period of not more than thirty years; the issuing of such bonds shall be for the purpose of establishing a system of waterworks and also for illuminating purposes, and for none other. 1911 tion. Sec. 4. That before any such bonds are issued, the Bond elecquestion of issuing them as well as the amount to be issued shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of said town, in such manner and after such public notice as may be deemed necessary by the Town Council, and should a majority of the votes actually cast by said electors be in favor of issuing the bonds, and the amount to be issued in the case, it shall be lawful for them to be issued, otherwise not. bonds. Sec. 5. That the bonds issued under this Act shall be Terms of of such denomination as the Town Council of said town may determine, bearing a rate of interest not to exceed six per centum per annum, with coupons attached for the interest which shall be payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July, and the bonds shall become due and payable at any time, not greater than thirty years, as said corporate authorities may determine. tees. Sec. 6. That there shall be selected by said Town Bond TrusCouncil, a Board of three Trustees, who shall serve as a Board of Public Works, and who shall each give bond in a sum to be fixed and approved by the Town Council, conditioned for the faithful performance of this duty. It shall be the duty of said trustees as soon as the bonds herein authorized have been executed to offer the same for sale, by notice stating the amount of bonds for sale, the rate of interest, and when and where the sum shall become due and payable, advertised in a newspaper published in said County of Bradford, and also in not less than two other newspapers published in cities reputed to be money centers if deemed necessary. The trustees shall receive bids for the purchase of said bonds, or any part of the issue thereof, on or before the expiration of sixty days from the date of said publication. The trus tees shall have the right to reject any or all bids, and readvertise the bonds or any portion of the same remaining 1911 Depository and custodian of bonds. unsold, but in no case shall such bonds be sold at a greater discount than four per cent. of their par value. Sec. 7. That the Town Council may designate what bank or banks or other financial agent shall receive and be the custodian of said bonds and all moneys arising from the sale of the same, but the trustees shall otherwise control, manage and apply such moneys to the uses and purposes specified in this Act, taking care to protect and secure the best interest of the town in the disbursement thereof. Sec. 8. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved May 24, 1911. Territorial boundaries. CHAPTER 6355-(No. 236). AN ACT to Establish the Municipality of the Town of Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. A municipality to be called and known as the Town of Hilliard is hereby established in Nassau County, the territorial boundaries of which shall be as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of Section eight, Township three north, Range twenty-four east; thence run east one and one-half miles; thence run south one mile; thence run west one and one-half miles to the southwest corner of Section eight, Township three north, Range twenty-four east; thence run north one mile to point of beginning. Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, may purchase, lease, receive and hold property real and per sonal, within said town, and may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the same for the benefit of the town; and may purchase, lease, receive and hold property, real and per |