CHAPTER 5755-(No. 160). AN ACT to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Brevard County, Florida, to levy an additional tax of two mills each year, for the purpose of buying machinery to build hard surface roads in said county. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 1907. missioners of levy a two hard roads tioned. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of County County ComCommissioners, of Brevard County, Florida, upon the Brevard presentation to them of one or more petitions signed by County to a majority of the registered voters, who are freeholders. mill tax for of said county, asking for an additional levy of two mills when petitaxes for each year, for two years, for the purpose of buying machinery to build hard surface public roads in said county, to levy a tax of two mills each year, for two years, upon all property in said county subject by law to taxation, in addition to the other taxes required by law to be levied. missioners as Sec. 2. The levy of said taxes provided herein shall be Levy to be made by made by the said Board of County Commissioners at the County Comtime required by law for the levy of other county taxes, other county and in the manner required by law for the levy of other tax levies. county taxes. Approved May 21, 1907. CHAPTER 5756-(No.161). AN ACT to Legalize and Validate an Election Held in Special Tax School District Number 1, of Dade County, Florida, on the 18th day of September, A. D. 1906, and to Legalize and Validate the Issue of Certain Bonds Sold or to be sold by the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County, Florida, under authority of and in pursuance of said election. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That the election held in Special Tax School 1907. District Number 1 of Dade County, Florida, on the 18th Eelction for day of September, 1906, as ordered by the County Board of Public Instruction of said county, be, and the same is. trict validat- hereby declared legal and valid. special tax school dis ed. Bond issue validated. County Commissioners to vide for pay Sec. 2. That the issue of forty thousand ($40,000) dollars negotiable bonds, bearing five per cent interest, as voted for in said election, and as sold or to be hereafter Sold or to be Sold by the Board of County CommissionCounty, Florida, be and the same is hereby declared legal and valid, and those bonds shall be and are hereby declared legal and valid, and these bonds shall be and are hereby declared a direct obligation and lien upon the assessable properties of said Special Tax School District Number 1 of Dade County, Florida, and any irregularities, defects or imperfections whatsoever in the proceedings relating to the said election and said issue of bonds. are hereby declared to be cured. Sec. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of Dade levy special County, Florida, are hereby authorized, and it shall be tax and pro- their duty, to levy and assess a special tax upon all asment of sessable property in said Special Tax School District to interest on provide for the payment of, principal and interest of the said bonds as provided for in the published notice of said election. principal and bonds. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval. Approved May 1, 1907. CHAPTER 5757-(No. 162). AN ACT to Provide a Road and Bridge Fund for Gadsden County, Florida, to Provide for the Assessment and Collection of the Same and to Prescribe the Manner and Method of Building, Erecting and Maintainin Public Roads and Bridges in Said County. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Each County Commissioner's District in 1907. Gadsden County is hereby declared a road district for the purpose of this act, and the roads and bridges in said Commissiondistricts shall be under the supervision of the Board of ers' district County Commissioners, except the roads and bridges road district, within the limits of incorporated cities and towns. declared etc. Commission ered to es Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby County empowered to open and establish such new roads and ers empowbridges, and alter, repair and change such roads and tablish and bridges that are now established, as in their judgment change roads the public welfare of the county may require, in the manner hereinafter provided. Manner of der the di Sec. 3. The construction of all new roads and bridges, work, mateand the repairment of all roads and bridges which are rial, etc., unnow established, shall be done in the manner, and built rection of of such material as the County Commissioners may deem the County best; Provided, however, that the width of all public ers. roads shall not be less than thirty feet. Commission Proviso. Employment ma terials tion of County Com missioners Sec. 4. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby pabor and authorized to employ such labor by the day or month as all tools and they may deem necessary to work said roads and bridges, under direcand to provide such machinery, teams, tools and other materials as may be necessary for the proper carrying on of missioners. the building, construction and opening of any new roads or bridges, and the repairment of any roads and bridges that are now established, in the said county of Gadsden. Sec. 5. The Board of County Commissioners are hereb County Comauthorized to let any work on the roads and bridges out may contract on contract, when in their judgment such work can be bidder, redone so, to the advantage of the county. In awarding any quire bond of work on the roads and bridges on contract, the same etc. shall be let to the lowest bidder, after due notice for bids. based upon specifications and plans to be furnished by the Board of County Commissioners, and upon the contractor complying with such terms as to bond as the board mav require. Provided, the Commissioners shall have the right to accept or reject all bids. with lowest contractor, missioners superinten Sec. 6. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby County Comauthorized to employ some suitable person or persons to may employ be Superintendent of Roads and Bridges, who shall be dent and under the control of the board, and the board shall prescribe pre- rules. scribe rules and regulations for the government of such 1907. superintendent, and shall have the right to remove said superintendent at their pleasure for cause or dispense Right to re- with his services upon thirty days notice. The amount of compensation to be paid the Superintendent of Roads and Bridges shall be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners. move Supt. and fix his compensation. heretofore under con Public roads Sec. 7. The public roads and bridges in said county established heretofore established according to law or which may trol of Coun- have become public by right of prescription, are hereby ty Commis- declared to be public roads and bridges, and under the control and management of the Board of County Commissioners. sioners. Procedure in the estab new or change of old roads. any land or material. Sec. 8. Whenever the Board of County Commissioners lishment of shall determine to establish any new road or change any old road in said county, they shall proceed in the same manner, as is now provided by law for the establishment of new roads or the changing of old roads. The said Right to ap-board shall have the right to appropriate any land or propriate material necessary for the construction and repair of any road, and in case the owner of the land or material and the board shall not be able to agree as to the price paid or to be paid for the same, the board shall have the right to proceed to condemn the land or material required in demn land, the same manner now as is provided by law for the condemnation of the right of way and the appropriation of material. May con etc. Tax levy for road purposes. Sec. 9. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized to levy, and said board shall levy a tax not to exceed five mills in any one year for road purposes, and the same, when collected, shall be paid over to the County Treasurer of Gadsden County, and by him kept in a separate fund, which fund shall not be expended for any other purpose than for work on the public roads and bridges in said county, and in paying the salary of the superintendent, and in providing the necessary material, tools, implements and teams for the work on said roads and bridges; Provided, however, that one-half of the amount realized from said special tax on the property in incorporated cities or towns shall be turned over to the mu to be used on nicipal authorities of said cities or towns to be used in the repairing, working and maintaining the streets there One-half of tax on town property to be turned over to town streets. of, as may be required by the ordinances of said cities or towns. 1907. ject to road dollars. failure to Sec. 10. Every male person except those living in in- Persons subcorporated towns and cities, between the ages of eighteen duty. and forty-five years, residing in said county for thirty days or longer, shall be required to work on the public roads and bridges of said county eight days in each year, Defaulter to when summoned, as is now required by law so to do, or in pay fine of 8. default thereof to pay eight dollars to said county as hereinafter provided. Said sum shall be paid to the sheriff of said county semi-annually as follows: Four dollars on or Pay fine to Sheriff, etc. before the first Monday in June of each year, and four dollars on or before the first Monday in December of each year. Any person who shall fail to work on the roads Penalty for when summoned and shall fail such sum to the work roads.. sheriff of said county on or before the date aforesaid. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or be sentenced to work at hard labor on the public roads of said county for not more than thirty days. The sheriff shall turn over to the Treasurer of said county the money Disposition collected from this tax, and by the Treasurer it shall be collected conveyed into said special fund provided for in Section 9 from tax. of this act. The officers aforesaid shall keep and use receipts provided by the Board of County Commissioners. Officers to which receipts shall be so made as to be detached from a keep and use stub upon which stub shall be entered a record of each transaction covered by the receipts given, and each of said officers shall deliver his stubs to the Board of County Commissioners for their inspection at each regular meeting of said board. of money receipts. victs to work hired out, Sec. 11. The Board of County Commissioners are County conhereby authorized and empowered to require all convicts roads unless confined in the county jail to labor upon the public roads etc. and bridges of said county, or in the event that said convicts may be hired out under the provisions of law to contractors, then the money derived from the hire of said county convicts shall be paid to the County Treasurer and by him kept in the fund provided for in Section 9 of this act. Sec. 12. The funds derived and paid into the separate Funds to be fund provided in this act shall be divided by the Board of divided. |