missioner. Fees. responsible person, appointed for that purpose by the judge of the county court. The person appointed to take marks and brands is hereby required to take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully perform the duties of the office to which he has been appointed, which oath may be administered by the county judge or clerk of the county court, said oath to be recorded in the clerk's office, before said appointee enters upon the duties of To be com- his office. The person so appointed and qualified shall be styled Commissioner of Marks and Brands of Cattle, and shall be entitled to ten (10) cents per head for all beef or other cattle that he may be called upon to record the marks and brands of, and ten cents per mile for all necessary travel to and from his place of abode, as compensation, to be paid by the party or parties driving or shipping the same. The commissioners aforesaid shall deposit a copy of all marks and brands recorded as required by this act in the office of the county clerk within ten days after taking the same, and shall also keep a copy, each of which shall be open for the inspection of all that may be concerned. It shall be the duty of all and every person or persons intending to drive or ship cattle, to notify the commissioner of the time and place. Penalty for from which such cattle are to be driven or shipped, at least five days previous to driving or shipping the same. Any person or persons neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this act, or attempting to evade its true meaning, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars per head in addition to the value of the cattle so driven, and be subject to such other penalties as the court may inflict. Duties. violating this act. Repeal. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved August 5th, 1868. Division of county. CHAPTER 1,673.-[No. 49.] AN ACT to change the County Lines between St. Johns and Putnam counties. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: That the county line between St. Johns and Putnam counties be changed so as to commence at the intersection of the range line between ranges twenty-seven and twenty-eight with Deep creek, running thence south on said line to Dunn's lake, and that said line be, and the same is hereby, declared to be the county line between said counties. That that part of St. Johns county now lying and being between said line and the St. Johns river be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a part and parcel of Putnam county. That all the citizens and inhabitants residing within the lines aforesaid, are hereby, declared to be citizens and inhabitants of Putnam county, entitled to all the privileges of citizens and inhabitants of said county of Putnam, and required to do all their county business and duties, therein. Approved July 30th, 1868. CHAPTER 1,674.-[No. 50.] AN ACT to Ratify an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, known as Article XIV. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: That the following amendment to the constitution of the United States, as proposed by the Congress of the United States, and known as Article Fourteen (XIV.,) be, and the same is hereby, ratified and adopted. Constitution- adopted. SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State al amendment shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Provisions of SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice-President of the Uni- amendment. ted States, Representative in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall have [bear] to the whole number of male citizens, twenty-one years of age, in such State. SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or Elector of President and [or] Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an Executive or Judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the Uni ted States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for [the] payment of pensions, and bounties for service in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States, nor any State, shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims, shall be held illegal and void. SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article. Approved July 31st, 1868. Scrip made receivable for CHAPTER 1,675.-[No. 51.] AN ACT making the Scrip issued by the Constitutional Convention receivable for all State Dues. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and all public dues. Assembly, do enact as follows: That from and after the passage of this act, the scrip issued by the Constitutional Convention that assembled at the city of Tallahassee on the twentieth day of January, A. D. 1868, signed by N. C. Dennett, of the financial committee of said Constitutional Convention, and countersigned by Horatio Jenkins, president of the Constitutional Convention aforesaid, shall be received for all State dues of whatsoever nature or character, or any of the public lands. All laws and parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of this act be, and they are hereby, repealed. Rellef ordi Approved August 3d, 1868. CHAPTER 1,676.—[No. 52.] AN ACT for the Repealing of the Relief Ordinance. SECTION 1. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact [as follows]: That an ordinance nance repealed. entitled "An ordinance for the relief of the people of Florida," adopted by the Constitutional Convention of this State, January 21st, 1868, be and the same is hereby repealed, and sales shall hereafter take place on the days now designated by law. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, in conflict with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 29th, 1868. CHAPTER 1,677.-[No. 53.] AN ACT to provide for the Enforcement of Section 7, Ordinance 9, entitled An Costs of regis The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Section 7, Ordinance 9, is hereby declared to be in full force and effect, and it tration to be shall be the duty of the Comptroller to audit the claims of the boards of registration and judges of election of the several counties. SEC. 2. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the aforesaid claims, so audited, out of the first money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as soon as practicable. SEC. 3. That the presidents of the boards of registration in the several counties be required to forward to the Comptroller of the State a certified list of all members of the boards of registration, and judges of elections, their post-oilice address, and amounts due them. Approved August 5th, 1868. paid. Duty of presi dent of board. CHAPTER 1,678.-[No. 54.] AN ACT to revive an Ordinance of the Constitutional Convention entitled An WHEREAS, The Constitutional Convention of the State of Florida Ordinance declared in force. pointed as a committee by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of said ordinance shall have, and hereby have, authority to send for persons and papers, and the report of said committee shall be submitted to the Governor on or before the next session of the Legislature. Approved August 6th, 1868. ed. CHAPTER 1,679.-[No. 55.] AN ACT to legalize the Ordinance passed in the Constitutional Convention, called An Ordinance abolishing County Criminal Courts. peace, SECTION 1. The people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: That from and after the passage of this act, the county criminal court of this State All fees and shall be abolished, and all fees, costs, and charges of every kind costs discharg- whatsoever, due or to become due to any justice of the constable, clerk of the circuit court, or the county criminal court, sheriff, or any officer of the State for services, issuing warrants, arresting accused, preparing docket and papers confining prisoners, or for any service whatever in and about said county criminal court, are declared illegal and void, and fully satisfied and extinguished, and it shall not be lawful for any board of county commissioners of this State, or any Treasurer, State or county, to allow or pay out any money or moneys for any such services; Provided, A small allowance not to exceed the actual cost of the provisions shall be allowed for the feeding of accused defendants and prisoners bound over to or fined in said county criminal courts, and nothing shall be so construed as to deprive judges and solicitors of their fees. ed. SEC. 2. That all fines, penalties, and disabilities ordered enterFines rescinded up or created in said county criminal courts, are hereby rescinded and removed; all prisoners found guilty in said county criminal courts are hereby pardoned and released, and all judgments, executions, bonds, and recognizances now outstanding and unsatisfied, originating or created in said courts, are hereby declared null, void, and paid off. Cases ferred. SEC. 3. That all cases now pending in said court shall be transtransferred to the courts having jurisdiction of the same, and the officer transferring them to said court shall be allowed the regular fees now allowed for such services. Passed in open Convention February 24th, 1863. |