The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-05
CHAPTER 33l5-TNo. g.
Approved March :. 1881.

AN ACT Dissolve Municipal Corporations under Circumstances
therein stated and to Provide Governments for the Same
The People Of the State Of Florida represented in Senate
and ASSEMBLY, do enact fotlo~s Section l. That whenever
any in this State Incorporated under the for
the Incorporation of cities and towns approved the 4i day of
February A D. 1869. is indebted of hun
ded thousand dollars the interest of which has remained
paid for longer the charter of such city town
Shall be the is hereby repealed and
the incorporation thereof dissolved dissolution shall
take effect the proclamation of the Governor of the State
be made as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 9 That the written application of hundred
citizens of such city made to the Judge of the
Circuit Court of the Circuit which such city stu
aed by satisfactory evidence that such city or town
pnd indebted in the Of hundred thousand dol
lars that the for five years
remains unpaid shall be his duty make certificate of such
facts and the said application proofs and certificate
be filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
That the presentation of certified copy Of such
certificate the Governor of the State shall be his duty to
declare proclamation that the charter Of such city
town repealed and dissolved which proclamation snail Oe
published in newspaper Of such city town for
month"; Prordd homere That the officers of such dissolved
corporation shall continue to be the custodans of the books
records papers, money, evidences of debt and property of
and description both real and personal of such
corporation shall the functions
their respective Offices be preserve
the and good order of such city until the esab
shment of another government and the and
qualification Of officers under whom it shall be the duty
officers of such defunc corporation transfer and de-
liver promptly demand all books records papers, eviden
debt and property Of nature and descr
tion, both real and personal
SEC That the refusal of such officers any of them
and other property real personal of such deunct
required by section OF this shall he deemed
felony and conviction thereof the officer officers
vcted punished by fine exceeding thousand
dollars Imprisonment exceeding twelve months both
such fine and imprisonment the discretion Of the
SEC That time after the first publication of the
Governors proclamation provided for in section Of this
the petition of twenty residing within
the limits of city in this State the charter OF
which has been repealed and the incorporation dissolved under
shall be the duty Of the Governor with the advice
and of the Senate appoint Mayor and five Alder
men, residents Of such city who shall exercise the
powers hereinafter provided and shall hold
their Office years. and until their successors
pointed qualified In of vacancy caused by fail
accept resignation, DEATH otherwise certificate
Mayor Of such the Governor shall fill the same
by appointment
SEC That all such cities and towns for which Mayor
and Aldermen shall be appointed provided for in section
hereby declared be provisional municipalities the boun
dae of which shall be coxensve with the boundaries OF
such defunct cities and And the said Mayor and AL
deme and such officers may be appointed by them, and
be ved with all the and authority rights and prv
eyes, and charged with all the duties which conferred
the Mayor and Aldermen and other officers and the nhab
under and by virtue Of the said act to provide for the
Of cities and towns approved 9Th February, A.
D. 1859 Chapter 1885, and the amendments thereto except
hereinafter provided and be Inconsistent with this
act. IN
SEc T. That the Mayor and Aldermen appointed shall
the ocal provided in section Of Chapter 1885,
certified copy Of the together with certified copy
Of the petition to the Governor shall be fled in the Office OF
the Circuit Court Of the county in which such
city situated it shall be by him entered Of record