The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-07-27
CHAPTER z4o1-(No. 14a.l

Ot1Af / EN- 74Ol-NNO. 1857
AN ACT Providing for the Creation of Okee.
chobee County in the State of Florida, and
for the Organization and the Government
Thereof.
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature of the State
Section u !. That the County of okeechobec
in the State of Florida, be, and the same is,
hereby created and established. Such county
shall comprise and include all that certain ter
ritory of the counties of Saint Lucie, Osceols
and PAIN Beach which is described as follows
Beginning at Vht northeast corner of section
l. township % south, rases' 36 east, thence run.
ming west s miles to fhe northwest corner OF
township "a south, range 36 east, thence north
to the northeast corner of township SO south
range as east, thence west on the line dividing
townships 3s and 80 south, to the kissimmee
River thence in southerly direction in the
middle of the Kissmnee River TO the normal
water level on the boundary of Lake Okee
chobee, thence easterly meandering the shores
of Lake Okeechobee on normal water level to
the line dividing ranges 36 and 81 east, town
ship 3S south, thence north between ranges
36 and 81 east, to the point of beginning, being
parts of St. Lucie, Osceola and Palm Beach
Counties as they are now constituted by the
Laws of Florida.
Sec. ?. The said county shall be part OF
Fourth Congressional District, a part of the
Thirteenth Senatorial District, and part OF
the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and said county
shall have one member in the House of Rep
resentatives of the State of Florida.
Sec. 3. The City of Okeechobee shall be
the Temporary county seat of said county.
Sec d. The Governor of the State of Flor
ida shall on or before the first day of Septem:
ber, 1917, appoint all the officers in which said
county may be entitled under the Constitution
and Laws of the State of Florida.
Sec. S. 1t shall be the duty of the Board OF
Public Instruction of Okeechobee County to
hold its first meeting on the first Monday OF
September, 1917,
Sec. 6. II shall be the duty of the Board of
County Commissioners of Okeechobee County
10 hold its first meeting on the first Monday IN
September, 1917, and at said meeting the said
Board shall make arrangements for the tenn
porary carving on of the county government.
Sec ?. The courts of Okeechobee. County
shall have civil and criminal jurisdiction
throughout the said county over causes of ac-
tinn Which shall have accrued and over crimes
and misdemeanors which shall have been COM
mitted within the territory embraced in the
said county, as hereby constituted prior to the
first day of September, 1917 in the same man.
ner and to the same extent as if said county
had been in existence when such crimes and
misdemeanors were committed.
Sec 8. All actions and prosecutions and all
proceedings in guardianship or administration,
and anv and all other actions, prosecutions or
proceedings that may be pending in Saint
Lucie, Osceola and Palm Beach counties in the
Circuit Court or in any other court or before
anv officer or board of said counties on the
FIRST day of September, 1917, whereof any
court, officer or board of Okeechobee County
would have had exclusive jurisdiction if said
county had been in existence when such action
or proceeding was instituted, shall be transfer.
red to the corresponding court, officer or board
of Okeechobee County having jurisdiction. OF
such matters; and all pleadings, papers and doc
uments in any way pertaining to any such &C
tion, prosecution or proceedings shall be de
Iivered by the clerk or other officer of Saint
Lucie, Osceola and Palm Beach counties hsv
ing custody thereof, to the proper officer ot
Okeechobee County.