[SEC. 3.] That every person or persons subscribing to the capital stock of said Palatka Hotel Company shall, at the time of thus subscribing, pay to said commissioners, or one of them, twenty-five per cent. of the amount by him, her, or them subscribed to the capital stock of said company. Amount stock to be paid. Directors and elected. [SEC. 4.] That the subscribers to the capital stock of said company shall, as soon as there is twenty-five thousand dollars subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and the cash payment has been made as required by this act, shall proceed to elect six directors, who shall from one of their number elect a president to be president and vice-president, who shall act as President of the Palatka Hotel Company for one year after his election. Said company shall have the power and are hereby authorized to clect a treasurer and secretary, who shall hold their respective offices for the time aforesaid, unless sooner removed for neglect of duty or incapacity; and they are hereby authorized to make, form, and enforce all necessary rules and regulations for the government of said company. [SEC. 5.] That the said Palatka Hotel Company shall have the authority to acquire and hold real or personal property by purchase, gift, grant, bequest, or otherwise; erect, build, and put up a hotel and houses, and make any and all other improvements thereon for the benefit of said company, and to sell the same to any person or persons, or corporations, make and execute a good and sufficient title therefor to the purchaser or purchasers thereof; to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued in their corporate name and capacity, make contracts and be contracted with, and do all other act[s] necessary to have and receive the benefits of this act, and carry out the business of the said Palatka Hotel Company. General pow ers. Shall not do ness. [SEC. 6.] That the said Palatka Hotel Company shall not at any time do the business of banking, nor shall the capital stock banking busiof said company exceed one hundred thousand dollars. Approved August 4th, 1868. CHAPTER 1,655.-[No. 31.] AN ACT to Provide for making a Digest of the Laws of Florida. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ a commission of not more than three men, learned in the law and familiar with its practice, to make a complete and accurate digest of all the laws of Florida of a general nature, which are not in conflict with the present constitution, and which it may be thought best to retain in force. Member of commission. SEC. 2. The said commission shall also prepare such additional Shall prepare laws as the present exigency requires, and report the same to the next session of the Legislature for such action as the Legislature may think proper to take. additional laws. Shall prepare and forms. SEC. 3. The said commission, in connection with the Justices of the Supreme Court, shall also prepare and report to the next code of practice session of the Legislature a code of practice in criminal cases (which may be similar to the one now in use in the State of Kentucky), with suitable forms attached. An they shall correct all the apparent clerical errors in the code of practice in civil cases passed at the present session of the Legislature, and have one thousand copies of said code published with the forms prepared by the committee who prepared the code, in a volume separate from the other laws, to be distributed by the Secretary of State; the code of practice in civil cases to be published as soon as it can be done. eral laws. SEC. 4. After the close of the next session of the Legislature Digest of gen- the said commission shall have all the laws of a general nature digested and published; the code of practice in civil and criminal cases in one volume, and the other general laws in another. Such number of copies shall be published as may be thought will be required. missioners shail SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That upon the completion of all the labor authorized by this act, and when it shall have received the approval of the Governor and Supreme Court, the CompWhen com- troller of Public Accounts is hereby instructed to draw his warbe paid rant on the Treasurer for such sum as may be approved by the Governor, not exceeding three thousand dollars, and the Treasurer is instructed to pay the same in the event there are sufficient funds in the treasury, and in the event there are not, then the holder of said warrant is authorized to receive a treasury certificate therefor, which shall be in all respects receivable for public dues as other treasury certificates are. Allowance for clerk. How paid. Repeal. SEC. 6. That a sum not exceeding $500.00, in case the Supreme Court and Governor deem it necessary, may be applied by such commission to the payment of such clerk as may be employed to perform duties in connection with the commission, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, upon the order of the commission, to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for that sum, and such warrant, when paid, shall be of like character and effect as that authorized to be paid for the commission. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the ordinance passed by the Constitutional Convention, in the year 1868, to provide for the making of a digest of the laws of Florida, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved August 6th, 1868. CHAPTER 1,656.-[No. 32.] AN ACT to provide for the Publication of the Laws and of Official and Legal Advertisements. Three newspapers to be official papers. SECTION 1. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to designate three newspapers, published respectively in the city of Tallahassee, the city of Jacksonville, designated as and the city of Pensacola, which shall be known as "the official papers of the State of Florida," and in each of which all general laws passed at any session of the State Legislature shall be published, and also all official orders, notices, and advertisements, pertaining to the State of Florida, or to any department of the State government. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to furnish to each of the said papers correct copies of all the laws passed at any session of the State Legislature, within thirty days after the adjournment thereof. Duty of Secre tory of State to of laws. furnish copie s SEC. 3. The rate of compensation to be paid the said papers for publishing the laws and official advertisements as aforesaid, Compensation. shall be the same as that now paid by the United States for the publication of the laws of Congress, and for the official advertising of the United States. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the circuit judge of each judicial circuit to designate one newspaper, published within his circuit, or in some circuit next adjoining thereto, which shall be known as "the official paper of the judicial circuit," and in which all legal notices and advertisements relating to the said circuit court, or to any county or probate court, within the said circuit; all legal notices of any description required by law to be published by any person or persons; and all notices and advertisements of sheriffs and other county officers in any county within the said circuit, shall be published. One newspa per of each cir to be desig nared as the offi cial paper. Duty of pub SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the publisher of each paper so designated to publish all notices and advertisements without lisher. delay; Provided, That he shall not be compelled to publish any notice or advertisements, unless the fee allowed by law is tendered therewith. SEC. 6. The rate of compensation to be paid the said papers compensation. for the said official and legal advertisements shall be the same as that paid to the State official papers, as per section 3 of this act. Notices not valid unless SEC. 7. No legal notices or advertisements, after the passage of this act, shall be valid, or have any force or effect, unless the same shall be published in the paper designated [as] aforesaid published as di as the official paper of the circuit in which the said advertise rected. Repeal. ment is published. And whenever any law now in force, or which may be hereafter passed, requires the publication of any notice or advertisement, it shall be understood that said publication shall be made in an official paper designated as aforesaid. SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved July 31st, 1868. Attorney devise General shall devels for circuit and the use of the county courts. CHAPTER 1,657.-[No. 33.] AN ACT relating to Seals of Courts and Clerks. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Attorney-General, immediately after the passage of this act, to devise suitable seals for the use of the circuit courts and county courts in each county, or to approve and adopt the seals now in use in any county, where the same may be appropriate, and he shall deposit in the office of the Secretary of State, and in the office of the clerk of the supreme court, immediately after he shall have devised or adopted the same, a true description of each such seal, with an impression thereof in wax, wafer, or other material, which description shall be duly certified by him. SEC. 2. Wherever it shall be deemed necessary to devise a New seals to new seal for the circuit court of any county, the Attorney-General is hereby authorized to cause to be manufactured the necessary seal and press for using the same, and he shall also cause to be manufactured the necessary presses and seals for the use of the several county courts in this State, and he shall transmit to the clerk of the courts in each county the presses and seals devised for such county, and from and after the day of receiving such seals by the clerk of any county, such seals shall be respectively the seals of the circuit court and of the county court of such county as the same may be designated by the AttorneyGeneral. be made when and how. to be charged to each county. SEC. 3. The cost and expense of procuring and transmitting Cost of same said seals shall be paid out of the State treasury, the account therefor being first audited and allowed by the Comptroller, upon the certificate of the Attorney-General; and the amount paid for the presses, seals, and expense of transmission for each county shall be charged to each such county, and shall be paid to the Treasurer by such county. A sum sufficient to meet the expenses above mentioned is hereby appropriated. SEC. 4. The seal provided for each county court shall be the Seal of county official seal of the county court in all civil and criminal matters, court. including probate business, wherein seals are required to be used, and shall also be the official seal of the clerk as clerk of the board of county commissioners. Present seals SEC. 5. Until such seals shall be devised and procured, and received by the several clerks as aforesaid, the seal heretofore used as the seal of the circuit court of each county shall continue to be used as the seal of the circuit court for such county, and shall be used. the court shall recognize such seal, whether used before or after the passage of this act, as the proper seal of said circuit court; and the seal heretofore used as the seal of the probate court shall be recognized as the seal of the county court, and of the clerk of the board of county commissioners, until a new seal shall be procured and received as aforesaid. Approved August 5th, 1868. CHAPTER 1,658.-[No. 34.] AN ACT to provide for a Correct List of the Owners of Real Property in the be Maps to prepared by ral. SECTION 1. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: That the SurveyorGeneral of this State shall cause to be prepared a complete set of township maps of all the lands lying in each county of this Surveyor-GeneState, which shall be substantially bound, and upon each of which shall be designated the lands which have been or may hereafter be granted by the Congress of the United States to the State of Florida, and if any part of the land so granted may have been sold, shall designate the parties to whom sold. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Surveyor-General to transmit to the clerks of the circuit courts of the several counties the township maps aforesaid, and to keep and transmit a monthly statement of the lands sold by him during each month to the clerks of the courts of the several counties, specifying in each list the parties to whom sold, and such other particulars as he may deem necessary, and it shall be the duty of the clerks of the circuit courts of each county to post the entries of such lands upon the township maps which may have been before that time furnished them. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Surveyor-General shall, for the duties required of him in the previous sections, be entitled to receive such compensation as may be allowed by the Governor, and may retain the same from any moneys in his hands resulting from the sale of said lands. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the clerks of the circuit courts of the several counties shall have such maps open at all times during office hours for the inspection of the assessor of sent clerks of courts and monthly stateto be made. Maps to be ments of sales Compensation. |