The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-04
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

| tWttlEREAS, The Legislature "
1905, under the Constitution OF 1889
of the State of Florida. did pass flve
Joint Resolutions proposing Amend
ments to the Constitution of the State
OF Florida, and the same were agreed
| to by a vote of three-fourths or al
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 di
rect that the said Joint Resolutions
be submitted to the electors of the
State at the General Election in No
vember. 1906.
NOW THEREFORE,, l, H. CLAY
CRAWFORD, Secretary of State OF
the State of Florida, do hereby give
Eotice that a GENERAL ELECTION
will be held in each County in Florida
OH Tuesday next succeeding the first
Monday in November. A. d. 1906, the
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 a board of drainage commissioners.
and are hereby authorized and EN-
powered to establish a system of
canals, drains, levees, 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 overlooked
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 o~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 SO. That the board of
drainage commissioners are hereby
authorized and empowered to estab-
lish 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
all the alluvial or swamp and over
flowed 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 shah 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 liens upon the taxa
Bile lands in any such drainage dis
tricts to be enforced by tax levy, for
the cost Of any work done under the
provisions hereof, Or done prior to the
adoption Of the provisions of an act OF
the Legislature passed in 1905.
Section "a. That the board Of
drainage commissioners be and it is