The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-08-18
CHAPTER 5372-(No. IL

AN ACT to Enact the General Statutes
OF the State of Florida and to Pro-
vide for the Printing, Sale and Dis
tribution Thereof and Making an
Appropriation for the Compensation
OF the Commissioners appointed to
Revise the Statutes.
BE If Enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Florida:
Section l. That the accompanying
general revision Of the public Statutes
of Florida of a general and per
a19ea b nsture the revissa asd
under an act entitled An Act
to provide for the revision and consoi-
idation of the public statutes or TINS
state" approved June 3, 1908. be. eX-
cept as otherwise provided herein, ana
the same is hereby enacted as Statute
Law under the title of The Genera
Statutes of the State of Florida Ev-
knent nature enacted by the State or
Florida or by the territory of FLORIDA
and every part of such statute not
included in said general statues or
recognized and continued in force Dy
reference therein is hereby repeated
hut no special or local statute is re-
pealed hereby, and for the purpose
of this saving from repeal , any s'a SILL
he taken to be included in sucn excep-
ton, namely: Any statute Tor or cor
corning only a certain county OF CT
tain designated county; any s,dtu'o
FOR concerning or operative in only
norton of the State; any statute lor
or concerning only a certain municlpdi
corporation; any statute Tor OF con
corning only designated !I9 1,;d,,ai
corporation or designated individual
colGorations; any statute lncorporat-
ing a designated Individual corporatt6,l
or making a grant thereto Dul me
foregoing enumeration of classes OF
statutes not repealed shall not be con-
strued to imply repeal OF olher s,d.
Ites which are local or special IN theIr
nature. Statutes passed at tniS ss es-
sion OF the Legislature shall not be re,
nealed or affected by said general
statutes but shall have full erect as
IL passed after the enactment or salo
general statutes except ,;o,, nose are amsn7
datorv of laws omitted from: the SAID
general statutes - ,u
90 into effect and be operative on the
thirtieth day after the date OF the
Governors proclamation announcing
the publication thereof, which procla-
nation he shall make lmmedlateIS
upon the report of the said Comnhs-
sioners that the publication OF SAID
work is complete.
SEC 2 The repeal of any statute by
said general statutes shall not anect
any right accrued before any Such
repeal nor any civil remedy where SUIT
is pending.
Sec 4. Nothing in this act shall pre-
vent the said Commissioners IN the
/ further preparation of said work for
publication. from altering the number
sections or other Sub-dlvlSlonS
reof or supplying any omissions IN
numbering the sections or o,ner SUP ~.
numbering of such sections or Other
subdivisions thereof or from correct,
ing manifest clerical errors; ana
wherever in the report of the SAID
Statutes" or Revision" occur with REL
\ erence to said work the same shall be
struck out and the words General
statutes shall be inserted in place
thereof: and the said work as thus
amended and as amended in this act
shall be the law of this State as pro
vided in Section One of this act In
preparing the copy. of the General
Laws hereby enacted the Commission
ers shall omit Section 1901 of the
draft Of the laws which accompanies
this bill. And they shall amend
Section 1904 of the said draft SO as to
make it read as follows. 15o4.-Effect
OF his action.-Any and all Judg-
ments, DEGREES and orders, heretofore
or hereafter rendered in causes where
the disqualifications appear of record
in the cause shall be void, but where
the disqualification does not so APP
pear. they shall not be subject to col
lateral attack.
Sec. 5. If any section in the civil
partsof said general statutes creating
- me or prescribing a punishment
e5hfiicts with any section in the part
thereof relating to crimes the latter
section shall prevail.
Sec. 6. The Commissioner shall as
soon as possible after the ADJOURN
ment of this session Of the Legisla-
ture amend the general statutes as
submitted by them so as to incorporate
with the body of the text the amend
ments made to any of the statutes OF
this State at the present session
wherever said amendments DO IN eX-
press terms refer to the section of the
Revised Statutes Of 1892 or to sec.
tons and chapters of the laws OF
! Florida enacted since the Revised
Statutes of 1892 They shall omit any
sections or statutes expressly repealed
lat this session of the Legislature;
They shall prefix to the said general
Tstatutes an indeXed copy of the Con-
stitution of the United States and its
amendments. and an indexed copy or
the Constitution of the State of Flor
ida and its amendments and a copy OF
the first eight sections of this act.
the acts Of the present sessions OF the
Legislature which are general and
permanent in their nature except as
shall be Incorporated into the body OF
the work as hereinbefOre provided.
Sec. z. The work prepared as di-
rected in Section Six shall be printed
under the supervision Of the said
Commissioners. The Constitution of
the OHlteu SldleS anu tle SoiiS Itu'Ioii
of the State of Florida with the in
dexes thereto shall be printed in such
type, style and manner as the Commits
sioners may direct. The body of the
general statutes shall be printed in the
type. style and manner of the draft
submitted by said Commissioners and
accompanying this act The marginal
references and the annotations shall
be printed in such type, style and
manner as the Commits toners may di-
rect.
of
the work prepared as directed in this
act Six thousand copies, of which
Three thousand copies shall be bound
and Three thousand copies unbound.
The bound volumes shall be substan-
aly bound in full law shape. The
I6nbOund copies shall be sold for Three
dollars and fifty cents Der cODv and