General to re port sales du ring rebellion. laws and the Constitution of this State provide that all acts done in aid of said rebellion are illegal; Therefore, be it resolved by the people of the State of Florida, Surveyor represented in Senate and Assembly, That the Surveyor-General of the State be, and he is hereby, required to prepare a full report of all State and school lands that have been sold or disposed of in any way whatsoever, between the dates of January the tenth (10), one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and October the twenty-fifth (25), one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and transmit the report aforesaid to this Assembly during the first week of its next session. Approved August 3d, 1868. Requesting grant of U. 5. Arsenal at Chat tahoochee. [No. 4.] JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Governor to ask for the Grant to the Be it resolved by the people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, That his Excellency the Governor is hereby requested to communicate with the General of the army of the United States, and the Secretary of War, and to ask their approval for the grant to the State of Florida of the United States Arsenal at Chattahoochee, the buildings and grounds belonging thereto, to be used for a State penitentiary, or in the event of the refusal of the United States to convey the same to this State, to ask for the use of the said buildings and premises for a term of ten years for the purposes aforesaid. Resolved further, That the Representatives of this State in Congress be requested to introduce an act granting said buildings and premises known as the United States Arsenal, at Chattahoochee, to this State, to be used for a State penitentiary. Resolved further, That a duly certified copy of these resolutions be transmitted to his Excellency the Governor, and a copy to each Senator and to the Representative of this State in Congress. Passed July 10th, 1868. Preamble. [No. 5.] JOINT RESOLUTION of the Legislature of the State of Florida, Petitioning Congress for an Appropriation for the Improvement and Placing in a Condition of safe Navigation, Moccasin Sluice in the Apalachicola River. WHEREAS, During the late civil war obstructions were placed in the Apalachicola river at a point about sixty miles above its entrance into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico at the city of Apalachicola, in the county of Franklin, in this State, and these obstructions, which it is believed were so placed and located at the instance and request of citizens of the States of Georgia and Alabama, and against the repeatedly expressed and urgently moved objections of the citizens of Florida, and particularly those of the city of Apalachicola and county of Franklin, to whom they were known to be wholly unnecessary, and calculated to injure the commerce of said city, county, and State, have ever since they were placed, been and do now, wholly obstruct and prevent the navigation of the said river by its natural course at that point; AND WHEREAS, In consequence of said obstructions all steamboats, barges, cotton boxes, lumber, timber, and log rafts, are compelled, in navigating the said river to its mouth or any point below the said obstructions, to pass through a difficult, narrow, and hazardous channel way, known as Moccasin Sluice, which was forced open by the river current after the placing and locating the aforesaid obstructions, and which is often obstructed and rendered very hazardous of passage by fallen trees, logs, and drift; AND WHEREAS, By this great danger and hazard to navigation the commerce of the city of Apalachicola and the State of Florida is greatly injured; AND WHEREAS, The said Moccasin Sluice is susceptible of such improvement as would make it easy and safe of navigation, whereby the whole section of the State of Florida bordering on said Apalachicola river would be greatly benefitted and improved, as would the entire State; therefore, Grant by Con Be it resolved by the people of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the Congress of the United States of America be, and is hereby, earnestly petitioned to ap- gress requested. propriate and grant, under the advice and direction of a qualified engineer or other competent person, such an amount of the public funds as will make and render the said Moccasin Sluice of easy and safe navigation, and to have the same applied to the said purpose. Senators in 2d. That our Senators and Representatives in Congress are hereby requested and instructed to use all means in their power Congress. to secure the purposes of this resolution. Copies for 3d. That the Governor of this State be, and is hereby, requested to have a copy of this resolution, with the accompanying warded. petition, forwarded to our Senators or Representative in Congress, with instructions to lay the same before said body. Approved August 6th, 1868. 24 Preamble. Attorney General to report history of claims against the State. [No. 6.] CONCURRENT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General to search WHEREAS, It is thought that parties are claiming large amounts Approved August 3d, 1868. Grant of lands requested. [No. 7.] A RESOLUTION asking the Revival of the grant of Alternate Sections of Land WHEREAS, By reason of the conflict of arms which prevailed in Therefore, be it resolved, That our Senators and Representa- 1 i Railroads in said States, approved May 17, 1856, and that the operation of said act be extended to a term of years from the passage of an act reviving the aforesaid grant; but nothing herein contained shall be construed as a request to grant any lands to companies heretofore chartered by any State of the Union, or by any act of Congress. Approved August 5th, 1868. [No. 8.] JOINT RESOLUTION of the Legislature of the State of Florida, requesting the Senators and Representative of Florida in Congress of the United States to procure the enactment, by Congress, of a Statute exempting certain property in the State of Florida from Forced Sale under process of the United States Courts. WHEREAS, Doubts do exist whether the real and personal property exempted from forced sale under any process of law in this State by Article IX. of the Constitution of the State of Florida under which this State was admitted into the Union. of the United States of America, is also, by virtue of said Article in said Constitution, exempted from sale under process issuing out of the Courts of the United States; Exemptions Therefore, be it resolved by the people of Florida represented in Senate and Assembly, That our Senators and Representative in the Congress of the United States be, and are hereby, requested, and the Congress of the United States is hereby petitioned to cause the enactment of a statute or act of Congress exempting requested. from forced sale under any process or execution issuing from the courts of the United States, such property, real and personal, as is exempted from sale under any process of law issuing from the courts of this State by said Article IX. of the said constitution of this State, so that, by thus incorporating the provisions of said Article of said constitution into an act of Congress, citizens residing in other States of the Union will be placed upon the same footing as the citizens of this State are to their debtors residing in the State of Florida. Governor to this resolution. Resolved further, That the Governor of this State is hereby requested to forward, at his earliest convenience, a copy of this forward copy of resolution to our Senators and Representative in Congress, and to request them to procure the passage and enactment of such a statute as is hereinbefore indicated. Approved August 3d, 1868. ders to be published. [No. 9.] RESOLUTION relative to Publication of Rules of Senate and Assembly. Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the Assembly cause to Rules and or be printed and bound in suitable form, five hundred (500) copies of the rules and orders of the two Houses, with lists of the several standing and special committees, the constitutions of the United States and the State of Florida, together with the names of the Executive officers of the State, the judiciary, the members of the State Constitutional Convention, and of the Legislature, with their post-office address. Adopted July 13th, 1868. Aid from Uni ted States to sustain State government. [No. 10.] RESOLUTION requesting Aid from the United States to Preserve Order. WHEREAS, Owing to the recent establishment of civil government in the State of Florida, and the marked hostility in our midst to the constituted authorities of the State, imminent danger exists of insurrection, violence, and disturbance of the peace; therefore, Resolved, the Assembly concurring, That the President of the United States be and is hereby called upon in the name of the people of Florida to order the commanding officer of the United States troops in the State, to render such aid and assistance to preserve order and maintain the law, as the Governor of the State may from time to time require. Adopted July 9th, 1868. Preamble, [No. 11.] JOINT RESOLUTION concerning Teachers of Freedmen's Schools during the year 1868. WHEREAS, Sundry persons were encouraged by pledges of State aid to engage in teaching freedmen's schools, during the year 1868, which persons have taught under certificates granted by Rev. E. B. Duncan, Superintendent of Freedmen's Schools; |