Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1905-09-08
CHAPTER ss7s.-tNo. ~


Compensation OF the Commissioners sp
pointed to Revise the Statutes.
Be II Enacted BY the Legislature of tn
section I. That the accompanying gen
erai revision OF the public Statutes OF Flor
ida OF q general and permanent nature
revised ana reported by the Commissioner
under an act entitled IAN Act to provid,
Public sn: :a ssSs0 On sns % q tn
:. 1908. be, except as otherwise provided
herein. and the same IL hereby enacted a
statue Law under the title OF "The Gen.
eral Statutes OF the State Of Florida" Nv.
ery statute OF q general and permanent ma
ture enacted by the State Of Florida or b,
the territory of Florida and every part o.
statutes or recognized and continued " fore,
BY reference therein 10 hereby repeal Il, bu,
no special or local statute Is repeery Nhere
py, ana for the purpose Of this 50; Nron
classes shall be taken to be included ID
such exception. namely: Any statute fol-
or concerning only certain county or certain
DESIGNATED county; any statute for concerning
or operative IN only a portion OF the State
any statute for or concerning only a Ger.
tain municipal corporation; any statute for
corporation; any statute Incorporation a
designated individual corporation or max
Ing q grant thereto; but the foregoing emu
meration Of classes of statutes not repealed
shall not be continued to imply O repeal
OF other statutes which are local or spe-
cial In their nature Statutes passed at this
session OF the Legislature shall not be re-
pealed or affected by said general statutes
but shall have full effect as II passed after
the enactment Of said general Statutes ex-
cept those acts passed at this session which
are amendatory OF laws omitted from the
Sec. 2. Said general statutes shall go
into effect and be operative on the thirtieth
day after the date Of the Governors proc
Ia txxs -
Of, which proclamation he shall make i'm
mediately upon the report of the said Com
missioners that the publication Of said work
10 complete.
Sec. s. The repeal Of any statute by said
general statutes shall not affect any right
accrued before any such repeal nor any
civil remedy where suit is pending.
the said Commissioners in the further prep
aration Of said work for publication. from
altering the number OF sections or other
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sub-diyisions thereof or In reference to the
numbering OF such sections or other sub.
divisions thereof or from correcting manifest
clerical errors; and wherever fr thc report
4 the said Commissioners tbe words .Re-.
sgses,,Ss 49, Ia SAID e II 4, ' ss
struck out and the words General statutess
shall be inserted In place thereof: and the
said work an thus amended and as amend
cd In this act shall be the law Of this State
preparing the copy Of the General Laws
hereby enacted the Commissioners shall omit
Section 1901 Of the draft Of the laws which
amend Section 1904 OF the said draft SO
as to make II read as follows; 1So4.-Ef-
feet Of his action.-Any and all Judgments
DEGREES and orders, heretofore or hereafter
rendered In causes where the disqualified
lions appear of record in the cause, shall
be void, but where the disqualification does
not 30 appear. they shall not be subject to
collateral attack.
Sec. 5. II any section In the civil part
Of said general statutes creating crime
or prescribing a punishment conflicts with
any section In the part thereof relating 10
crimes the latter section shall prevail.
Sec. 8. The Commissioners shall as soon
as possible after the adjournment OF this
session Of the Legislature amend the general
statutes as submitted by them so as to In
amendments made to any Of the statutes OF
this State at the present session Wherever
said amendments, do In express terms retef
to the section OF the Revised Statutes or
1892 or to sections and chapters OF the laws
Of Florida enacted since the Revised Sat
utes Of 1892. They shall omit any sec
session of the Legislature. They shall pre-,
NJ to the said general statutes an indexed
copy Of the Constitution of the United states
and Its amendments. and an indeed copy
of the Constitution Of the State OF Florida
and its amendments and a copy of the nrst
eight sections off this act. They shall add
an appendix containing the acts or the pres
ent session OF the Legislature which are
general and permanent in their nature ex-
cept such as shall be Incorporated into
the body Of the work as herenbefore pro-
vided.
Sec. 7. The work prepared as directed
In Section Six shall be printed under .he
supervision Of the said Commissioners. the
Constitution of the United States and the
Constitution of the state Of Florida Win .ne
indexes thereto shall be printed IN such
type. style and manner as the Commits sion,
ers may direct. The body OF the genera
statutes shall be printed IN the type styie
Commissioners and accompanying this act.
The marginal references and the annotatlons
shall be printed in such type style ana man
nes as the Commissioner, may y,u Gree q, the
work prepared as directed In this act sis
thousand copies, of which Three thousand
copies shall be bound and Three thousanu %
be substantially bound in full law sheep.
The unbound copies shall be sold for Three
dollars and fifty cents per copy and the
bound copies for 1--WE dollars per copy py
Sec. 0. The said. Commissioners shai,
award the contract for the printing ano
binding Of the said work to the iowes.
him a good and suIicient bond In such sum il,
as they may think proper for the faitnfui
performance Of the contract. such con.raee
shall contain an express: provision ina ,,, no
Cos
shall be printed than 10 therein PROVIDED Ios
and that all copies printed shall be oehVereo
70 the Secretary Of State.
Sec. 10. Copies Of the said general stat
utes shall be distributed In the same nun, !,
Der and to the same persons as pampnies,
laws OF the Legislature are by law dlrec,sui
to be distributed and one bound COPY sna.,
be given to each member OF this Lessa'uie
and to each Of the saia Commissioner
Sec. IL. The Comptroller is hereby au
thorzed and directed to draw his thIee
warrants upon the State Treasurer ior w
sum OF Fifteen hundred dollars each pave
BILE to the three Commissioner Ben)amln
s. Lddon. Thomas r. West and James " - -
Koonce respectively for their compensa..iio 2
In making said revision and consoiioa'tp.
as heretofore fixed by the act providlns 10,
such revision and consolidation, ana IN.
sum OF Forty-hve hundred dollars Is neIeo,
appropriated to pay said warrants out o,
any money In the Treasury not other"'s'
appropriated.
Sec ~. The sum of Ten thousand ooi
lars or 80 much thereof as may be necessaIs
10 hereby appropriated. from any money
In the Treasury not otherwise appropria,te ~.
10 pay for the publication OF the genera Iar ,
as aforesaid, for five hundred dollars 10 49,
OF the said Commissioners for the ca. as
duties imposed upon them by this o. =.
FOR clerical hire and for other expenses ~
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