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No. Chapter.
CONTENTS.
STATUTES.
Titles.
Page.
1..1,625..An Act to provide for the Registration of Electors and the hold-
ing of Elections. Approved August 6, 1868.
2..1,626..An Act to provide for the organization and government of the
Supreme Court. Approved August 1, 1868.
3..1,627..An Act to organize the County Courts of the several counties of
the State, and to prescribe the Mode of Practice of said Courts.
Approved August 4, 1868.
4..1,628..An Act relating to Jurors. Approved August 1, 1868.
5..1,629.. An Act to transfer suits and proceedings in the late Courts of
this State to the Courts organized under the present Constitu-
tion. Approved July 28, 1868.
6..1,630..An Act concerning Forcible Entry and Detainer.
Approved
August 4, 1868.
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7..1.631..An Act fixing the times for holding the Circuit Courts of this
State. Approved August 5, 1868.
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8..1,632..An Act to enforce Mechanics' and Laborers' Lien on Buildings
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and other Property. Approved August 4, 1868. 9..1,633..An Act relating to Vacancies in Office. Approved August 6, 1868, 33
10..1,634..An Act to Fund the Outstanding Debt of the State. Approved
August 6, 1868.
11..1,635.. An Act to establish a State Penitentiary and for the government
and support thereof. Approved July 29, 1868.
12..1,636..An Act to provide for organizing and disciplining the Militia of
the State. Approved August 6, 1868.
13..1,637..An Act to provide for the punishment of Crime and Proceedings
in Criminal Cases. Approved August 6, 1868.
14..1,638..An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Towns and
to establish a uniform system of Municipal Government in this
State. Approved August 6, 1868.
15..1,639.. An Act to provide for the Creation of Corporations and to Pre-
scribe their General Powers. Approved August 8, 1868. .
16..1,640.. An Act supplementary to an Act entitled An Act to provide for
the Creation of Corporations and to prescribe their general
powers and liabilities. Approved August 7, 1868.
17..1,641..An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Benevolent and Chari-
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table Societies. Approved August 6, 1868.
18..1,642..An Act to Incorporate the Pensacola and Louisville Railroad
Company. Approved July 16, 1868.
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19..1,643.. An Act to Incorporate the Withlocooche and Lake Pansoffka
Canal and Steamboat Company. Approved August 5, 1868.
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20..1,644..An Act to organize the Southern Inland Navigation and Improve-
ment Company. Approved July 28, 1868.
21..1,645..An Act to Incorporate the Jacksonville and St. Augustine Rail-
road Company. Approved August 3, 1888.
22..1,615..An Act for the relief of William E. Jackson, Edward Thomas,
William Spear, John Craig, James B. Walker and their asso-
ciates now owning and operating the Railroad from Jackson- ville to Lake City. Approved July 29, 1868.
23..1,647.. An Act to Incorporate the Wekiva Steamboat Company.
24..1,648..An Act to Incorporate the Apalachicola Channel Company. Ap-
proved August 5, 1863.
25..1,649.. An Act to Incorporate the Ocklawaha River and Lake Apopka
Steamboat and Canal Company. Approved August 6, 1988.
26..1,650..An Act to Incorporate the Pensacola and Perdido Railroad Com-
27..1,651..An Act to Incorporate the St. Johns and Halifax Navigation and
Improvement Company. Approved August 6, 1868.
28..1,652..An Act to Incorporate the Suwannee Steamboat Company.
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proved August 3, 1863.
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29..1,653..An Act to Incorporate the Jacksonville Hotel Company. Ap-
proved August 6, 1868.
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30..1,654..An Act to Incorporate the Palatka Hotel Company. Approved
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31..1,655..An Act to provide for making a Digest of the Laws of Florida.
Approved August 6, 1868.
159
32..1,656..An Act to provide for the Publication of the Laws and of Official
and Legal Advertisements. Approved July 31, 1868.
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33..1,657..An Act relating to Seals of Courts and Clerks. Approved Au-
gust 5, 1868.
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31..1,658..An Act to provide for a Correct List of the Owners of Real Prop-
erty in the several counties of this State. Approved August
6, 1868.
35..1,659.. An Act to more effectually provide for the Good Order of Society
and to Suppress Disorderly Proceedings. Approved August
36..1,660..An Act the better to procure and secure Protection to Life,
Liberty and Property in the State of Florida. Approved Au-
gust 6, 1863.
37..1,661..An Act to prescribe the Duties of State Attorneys. Approved
38..1,662..An Act to provide for the Election of a State Printer. Approved
39..1,663..An Act prescribing, on the part of this State, the manner of
appointing Electors of President and Vice-President.
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40..1,664..An Act relating to the taking of Testimony upon Trials in the
Courts of this State. Became a law without the approval of
the Governor.
41..1,665.. An Act to provide for holding an Election for Representative in
Congress. Approved August 6, 1868.
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42..1,666..An Act to provide an Office for the Superintendent of Public
Instruction. Approved August 5, 1868.
43..1,667..An Act to permanently locate the County Site of Suwannee
County, and for other purposes. Approved August 1, 1868. . 168
44..1,668..An Act to locate the County Site of Sumpter County, and for
other purposes. Approved August 3, 1868.
45..1,669 An Act relating to the Penning and Milking of Cattle in this
.
46..1,670..An Act for the Regulation of Pilots and Pilotage. Approved
August 3, 1868.
47..1,671..An Act authorizing the Board of Commissioners of Pilotage to
appoint Stevedores, and for other purposes. Approved July
31, 1868..
48..1,672.. An Act concerning Marks and Brands of Beef and Stock Cattle.
Approved August 5, 1868. .
49..1,673..An Act to change the County Lines between St. Johns and Put-
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nam Counties. Approved July 30, 1868.
50..1,674..An Act to Ratify an Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States known as Article XIV. Approved July 31, 1868. 175
51..1,675..An Act making the Scrip issued by the Constitutional Conven-
tion receivable for all State Dues. Approved August 3, 1868. 176
52..1,676..An Act for the Repealing of the Relief Ordinance. Approved
July 29, 1868.
53..1,677..An Act to provide for the enforcement of Section VII., Ordinance
IX., entitled An Ordinance for submitting the Constitution to
the People for Ratification. Approved August 5, 1868.
54..1,678..An Act to revive an Ordinance of the Constitutional Convention
entitled "An Ordinance to inquire into the Condition of the
Union Bank of Florida." Approved August 6, 1868.
55..1,679.. An Act to legalize the Ordinance passed in the Constitutional
Convention called "An Ordinance abolishing County Criminal
Courts." Approved July 31, 1868.
56..1,680..An Act to legalize the Ordinance passed in the Constitutional
Convention called "An Ordinance to provide for the means of
Defraying the Expenses of this Convention." Approved July 31, 1868..
57..1,681..An Act to authorize the Governor of this State to Raisc Funds
to Pay the Expenses of the present Legislature. Approved
July 27, 1868.
58..1,682..An Act to raise Additional Revenue for the State. Approved
August 5, 1868.
59..1,683..An Act to provide for the payment of the Members, Officers,
Attaches, and other expenses of the First Legislature held
under the Constitution of the State of Florida. Passed over
the Governor's veto by a two-thirds vote August 6, 1868.
60..1,684..An Act to make appropriation for the expenses of the State
Government of the State of Florida for the fiscal year ending
thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight. Approved August 6, 1868.
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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
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1..Joint Resolution requesting the Secretary of State to investigate the
Printing Accounts of the late Constitutional Convention. Approved
2..Joint Resolution to adopt a Seal for the State. Approved August 6, 1868. 3..Concurrent Resolution relative to State Lands. Approved August 3, 1868.
4..Joint Resolution requesting the Governor to ask for the grant to the
State, for the use thereof, of the U. S. Arsenal at Chattahoochee.
Adopted July 10, 1868.
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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. Approved August 6, 1868.
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6..Concurrent Resolution instructing the Attorney-General to search into
the history of the Claims against the State. Approved August 3,
1868.
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7..A Resolution asking a Revival of the Grant of Alternate Sections of
Land for Building Railroads. Approved August 5, 1868.
8..Joint Resolution of the Legislature relative to procuring the enactment
by Congress of a Statute exempting certain property from Forced
Sale under process of the U. S. Courts.
9..Concurrent Resolution relative to the Printing and Binding of a Legis-
lative Manual. Adopted July 13, 1868. .
10..Concurrent Resolution calling for U. S. Troops to Preserve Order and
Maintain the Law.
11..Joint Resolution concerning Teachers of Freedmen's Schools during
the year 1868. Approved August 6, 1868.
12..Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives relative to the establishment of a Mail Route in Volusia county. Approved July 31, 1868.
13.. Memorial relative to the establishment of a Mail Route from Tampa to
Clear Water Harbor. Approved July 31, 1868.
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14.. Memorial to Congress praying for a Mail Route from Mellonville,
Orange county, to Ocala, Marion county. Approved July 29, 1868. 189
15..Memorial to Congress relative to the establishment of a Mail Route
from Alafia, Hillsboro county, to Pine Level, Manatee county. Passed
16..A Memorial to Congress requesting the establishment of certain Mail
Lines in West Florida. Passed July 21, 1868.
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