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over. Nor does it apply to social clubs
duly incorporated under the laws of the
state. A further provision is that it
shall not apply to localities where Ii
quors are now sold within 500 feet of
Incorporated towns of over 500 inhabi-
tants or to saloons that were existing
in towns of 200 or more inhabitants.
The bill by Loftin to regulate the
kind and size of boats to be used by
the bar pilots of the several ports of
this state and to provide for the reg
istering and licensing of such boats,
is a measure that will be watched with
great interest by every seaport in the
state 1t provides that the bar pilots
for those ports of this state, from
which there cleared during the year
ending Dec. 81, 1902, or from which
shall clear in any year hereafter, be-
ginning Jan. l and ending Dec. 81, for
foreign ports, not less than $50 steam
vessels which loaded in the ports from
which they cleared, shall be required
to carry on their business as such pilots
in steam vessels of not less than fifty
tons burden. 1t further provides that
the bar pilots of all other ports of the
state shall carry on their bills as such
pilots in steam or sail vessels of such
tonnage and size as the Board of Pilot
Commissioners for such ports may
deem suitable.
A further provision is that before
any pilot boat shall be used in the
business of plotting, her tonnage, class,
and name, and name of the managing
owner, shall be registered with the
Board of Pilot Commissioners of the
port where she is to engage in such
business Under the provisions of
the act, when a vessel so registered
and licensed shall cease to be en-
ployed in the business of plotting for
the port where she is registered, her
managing owner shall within ten days
thereafter, notify the pilot commits
sioners of such port and surrender to
them her license, and she cannot again
be used - a pilot boat again for such
port. unless re-registered and licensed.
The committee substituted for Sem
ate bills Nos. 10, IL, As, 65 and IS, pro-
viding pensions for disabled soldiers
and sailors, and widows of all soldiers
and sailors who were killed or died
during the Civil War, or who have
since died, of the state of Florida, will
be taken up in few days 1t deals
very literally with it's beneficiaries,
and will no doubt pass without oppo-
sition.
House Bill No. 2S3, providing for
the division of the state into eight jul
dicial circuits, was taken up on its Sec
ond reading and passed with amend
ments On motion of Rivers it was
advanced to it's third reading and pass
ed by a unanimous vote. The coun-
ties composing the various circuits, are
as follows:
First-Santa Rosa, Escambia, Wal
ton, Holmes, Washington, Jackson.
Second-Liberty, Calhoun, Franklin,
Gadsden, Jefferson, Wakulla, Leon.
Third-Madison, Hamilton, Taylor,
Lafayette, Suwannee, Columbia.
Fourth-Nassau, Duval, Clay, St.
Johns.
Fifth-Marion, Citrus. fernando,
Sumter, Lee.
Sixth-DeSoto. Polk, Manatee, Pas
co, Hillsborough, Monroe.
Seventh-Volusia, Brevard. Orange,
Dade, Osceolo.
Eighth-Alachua, Bradford, Levy,
Putnam, Baker.
The most important measure, from
a laboring mans point of view, intro
duced in the Legislature this session
is the bill by Loftin of Escambia to
protect employees under contracts for
wages, and against extortion and
other abuses by employers. There was
strong opposition to the bill by those
who evidently had axes to grind. In
other words, by those who have inter-
ests at stake, and would be compelled
to pay their employees in cash in lieu
of commissary checks. All sorts of
devices were resorted to to kill the
measure. The bill says:
ut shall be unlawful for any indi-
vldual company or corporation, other
than city or county, when the contract
of employment is based upon wages,
to be paid in the lawful money of the
United States, to pay employees, in lieu
of said money, in script, trade checks,
orders or coupons, or other evidences
of Indebtedness, except upon special
mutual agreement with the individual
employees"