The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-02-15

1 <AAU4y u1u ma -. 10 o. GUN1kt8O an &C
retaung 70 actions at Law, and 20 authorize mar
| ried women to execute bonds and undertaking,
| in such actions
Assembly bill No 15e: to be entitled an &C
to make certain regulations Of practice and
pleading in actions of ejectment.
memorial to Congress asking the establish
| ment Of mail routes frem Belleyille TO Mouti
| cello, from Live Oak to Belleville, from Fort
Dade 70 Barlow, from Sumteryille to Barlow
from Mary Esther to Bo " Bayou.
Senate bill No. 25: TO be entitled an act
IN relation to the punishment ofcrimes and mis-
demeaners
Assembly bill No. 157 to be entitled an &C,
quent tenants
Assembly joint resolution making the Senate
and Assembly Committees on Public Lands a
Joint Committee.
Assembly bill No. 70: to be entitled an act to
amend the first section of an act entitled an act
to procure the attendance OF witnesses in criminal
prosecutions, approved March 2, 1877; was read
the third time and put upon its passage and lost
On motion, the Assembly took a recess until
FOUR O'CLOCK Pm.
The Assembly resumed its session.
Assembly bill No. IA: TO be entitled an act to
suppress gaming was read the second time,
amended, discussed and laid upon the table.
Ine following were introduced under a sus-
BY Mr.. Bryan, 81 Orange Assembly bill No
1sO: to be entitled an act to amend an act to
incorporate the st. Johns and Lake Eustis Rail-
way Company.
BY Mr.. Conant-Assembly bill No 1871: to be
entitled an act for the relief of Albert Fries Of
Duval County
Assembly bill No. 157: to be entitled an act
for the better protection of laborers in this State
was read the second time and indefinitely post
poned.
Assembly bill No 13S to be entitled an act to
amend Section of an act to establish a uniform
system of common schools and q university;
indefinitely postponed
The following were read the first time and re-
ferred
By Mr.. Whdden-resolution to amend the
Constitution as follows:
SECTION 1. That the Constitution of the State
be so amended as to give to the Governor the
power of suspension of any OF the above-men-
toned officers until the meeting of the next Gen
eral Assembly thereafter for any of the following
causes, to-wit: For malfeasaDce in any of their
said offices, for habtual drunkenness, for commit
ting any crime involving moral turpitude, for
incorrectly keeping the records of any of their
said offices, or for mutilating or emascuating any
paper or any record in their custody or control
SECTION 2. That whenever it shall appear to
the satisfaction of the Governor that any officer
of said State is guilty of any of the above often
ces enumerated in the first section of this act, ii
shall be the duty of the Governor 10 suspend the
officer until the meeting of the next General As
sembly, and Immediately appoint some fit and
proper person to discharge the duties OF such Of
hcer so suspended until action has been taken
thereon and the matter settled and disposed OF; ;
referred to the Committee on Constitutional
Amendments.
BY hr. Bryan, of Orange-Assembly bill No.
1SO: to be entitled an act to incorporate the St
Johns and Lake Eustis Railway Company to the
Committee on Railroads.
BY Mr. Conant-Assembly bill No 1871 to be
Cd a.Cff Co.. ls<f l1~o-& E-.o -
Duval county; to the Committee on Claims
BY Mr.. Fildes-Joint resolution to amend
Section 16 of Article If the Constitution of Flor
ida, as follows:
SECTION 26. The Governor ehall be assisted
by Cabinet of administrative officers consisting
OF Secretary OF State. Attorney General, Comp
troler, Treasurer and Commissioner of Immigra-
ton. Such officers shall be elected by the peo-
pie and shall hold their Offices the same time as
the Governor, or until their successors shall be
qualified to the Committee on Constitutional
Amendments.
Senate bill No. 119: to be entitled an act to
provide for the assessment and collection of tax
es upon Improvements on public lands, and for
the protection of occui, ing claimants of said
lands; TO the Committee on Finance and Taxa
ton.
Senate bill No 1873: to be entitled an act to
amend Section of an act to amend an act to
provide for the registration of electors and the
holding of elections, approved August g. 1868,
and approved February II, 1872; to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections.
Assembly bill No. 1903: to be entitled an act re
quiring bond TO be given by plaintiffs in at
tachments sued out before Justices of the Peace ;
to the Committee on Judiciary.
Memorial asking Congress to establish mail
route from Madison, Florida, to Quitman, Ga
TO the Committee on Post Routes
communication was received from the
Governor stating that he had signed and depos
tied in the Office of the Secretary OF State the
following acts and memorials, which originated
in the Assembly, to- wit
An act TO authorize the Circuit Courts of this
State TO convict and sentence criminals in certain
cases also,
An act TO prevent the selling, hiring, bartering,
lending or giving to minors under sixteen years
Of age or to persons of unsound mind, certain
FIRE arms or other dangerous weapons; also,
An act TO authorize Hiram Wilson, minor Of
Columbia county, to take charge of and control
his estate /; also,
An act to authorize Irwin Jol rs to erect a
mill-dam across Samson river creek and TO back
water on certain swamp and overhowed lands {;
also,
Memorial to the Congress of the United States
asking an appropriation for the purpose OF max
ing navigable the Santa Fe river from its mouth
to the Natural Bridge between Columbia and
Alachua counties; also,
Memorial for an appropriation from Congress
to clear out and make navigable Peace creek, in
South Florida also,
Memorial TO Congress asking an appropriation
for the clearing ont and rendering navigable the
following streams, to-wit: The Ocklockonee
Crooked and New rivers also,
Memorial asking for an appropriation for q
public building al Key West also,
An act to define the boundary line between
the counties of Leon and Jefferson, in this State.