The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-15
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
WHEREAS. The Legislature

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1905, under the Constitution Of 1885,
Of the State of Florida. did pass five
Joint Resolutions proposing Amend
ments to the Constitution of the State
of Florida. and the same were agreed
TO by a vote Of three-ffths OF all
the members elected to each House;
that the vote on said Joint Resolutions
were entered upon their respective
Journals, with yeas and nays there
on, and they did determine and d.
rect that the said Joint Resolutions
be submitted to the electors of the
State at the General Election in No
vember, 1906.
NOW THEREFORE,, I, H. CLAY
CRAWFORD, Secretary of State Of
the State of Florida, do hereby give
Eotice that GENERAL ELECTION
will be held in each County in Florida
on Tuesday next succeeding the first
Monday in November. A. D., 1906, tine
Said Tuesday being the SIXTH DAY
OF NOVEMBER, for the ratification
or rejection of the said Joint ReSolu-
tons proposing Amendments to the
Constitution of the State of Florida,
| viz:
ARTICLE XVIII.
That the following amendment to
Article XVI of the Constitution of the
State of Florida be and it is hereby
agreed to and shall be submitted to
the electors of the State at the gen.
eral election, to be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember A. D., 1906, for ratification or
rejection.
Section 80. The Governor, the
Comptroller, the State Treasurer. the
Attorney General and the Commits
sioner of Agriculture Of the State Of
Florida, and their successors in office,
are hereby constituted and designated
as board Of drainage commissioners
and are hereby authorized and EN-
powered to establish a system Of
canals, drains, lewees, bikes and re-
servoirs of such dimension and
depths, as in the judgement of said
board of drainage commissioners is
deemed advisable, to drain and re-
claim the swamp and overffowed
lands within the State of Florida, or
such parts Or portions thereof as is
deemed best by said board of drain
age commissioners from time to time,
and to provide for the irrigation of
| the lands reclaimed, and to maintain
such canals. drains, levees, dikes, and
reservoirs in such manner as will be
most advantageous to the territory so
drained, the State of Florida. it's in
habitants and the commerce thereof.
Section 33. That the board of
drainage commissioners are hereby
authorized and empowered to estab-
lsh drainage districts and fix the
boundaries thereof in the State of
Florida. That the board of drainage
commissioners be and it is authorized
and empowered to prepare list or
lists of all the alluvial or swamp and
overlooked taxable lands within such
drainage district or districts, and
levy thereon an acreage tax not ex-
ceeding ten cents per acre per annum
to be fixed annually by said board of
drainage commissioners, and the va
rious tax assessors Of the various
counties embraced in part or in whole
within such drainage district or dis
tricts shall receive such list or lists
and enter the same upon the tax rolls
OF the county Or counties In which
such lands may lie and the amount so
levied by the board of drainage COM
| missiOners in such manner and form
as may be prescribed by the board of
drainage commissioners from time to
time, which amounts shall be collect
| ed by the various tax collectors of
the counties wherein such levees have
been made as other taxes are collect
ed in accordance with law, and pay
over said amounts collected to the
board of drainage commissioners, said
commissioners shall have a lien supe
rior to all other Hens upon the taxa
BILE lands in any such drainage dis
.ricts to be enforced by tax levy, for
the cost of any work done under the
provisions hereof, or done prior to the
adoption of this amendment under the
provisions of an act of the Legislature
passed in 1905.
Section "a. That the board Of
drainage commissioners be and it is
authorized to exercise the right OF
| eminent domain in the condemnation
OF land for the location of it's canals,
drains, levees, bikes and reservoirs
for the purposes aforesaid and may
enter upon. take and use such land as
1t may, pending condemnation pro-
ceedings, deem necessary for such
purposes, and In ascertaining the com.
| pensation to be paid for such land OF
right of way, benefits to be derived
from such drainage shall be consider
ed by the jury.
Section 35. The Legislature may
provide for the assessment Of bene-
! fits derived by lands by reasons of
such drainage, and the collection
thereof; the proceeds therefrom shall
be paid to the board of drainage CON-
missiQners to be used by them for
such drainage purposes.
Approved May q. 1905.
ARTICLE xxx.
That Section nine CO. of Article five
| 90 of the Constitution OF the State of
Florida be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows, viz:
Section g. The salary of each
Justice of the Supreme Court shall be
four thousand (s4,00O.OO) dollars a
year. The salary of each Circuit
Judge shall be three thousand FIVE
hundred (s3. 5O0.00) dollars a year"
That the foregoing amendment to
Section 9 of Article v. of the Consti-
tuition Is hereby agreed to and the
same shall be submitted to the cleo
tors of the State for approval or re-
lection at the next general election Of
representatives as required by Sec
ton I Article XVII of the COnstitu