1907. No irregularity will exempt property benefited from the Iten, etc. work on said improvement, and the failure to register or record the said certificate, or any mistake or inaccuracy in such certificate, either in the name of the owner of the lot or in the omission of such name, or in any other mat. ter, or any mistake or inaccuracy in the registering or recording of the said certificate, shall not affect said lien. Said lien shall be canceled in the same manner as mortgages are required to be canceled. The said lien shall be foreclosed by a suit in equity as other liens are, under the statutes of the State of Florida. Sec. 5. No error in the proceedings by the Mayor and City Council or of any official of the city in the creation of such lien, or in the proceedings leading up to the comple tion of the said work, shall, after the said work has been payment of done, exempt the property benefited as aforesaid from the payment of the lien aforesaid, but if any such improvement shall have been completed without any resort to the courts by a lot owner to prevent the making of the same, such lot owner shall not have the right thereafter to allege any informality, irregularity or illegality in any of the steps prior to said completion. Omitted paid by city may be assessed in another district, etc. Sec. 6. That if any part of any street, alley or public assessments way, improved as aforesaid, shall not be included in any assessment district, created, as aforesaid, by the city, and the city shall pay for the improvement of said part, it may thereafter, if further improvements be determined upon, include such omitted part in another assessment district and assess a due proportion of the cost thereof, in accordance with this act, upon the lots and parcels of land fronting the street, alley or public way in said other district, and upon any railroad or railroads in such district compellable to contribute thereto, and shall enforce the payment of all sums so apportioned in the manner provided in this act. Improvement of streets. Sec. 7. In the event that any part of the money raised by the sale of bonds of the city shall be used for any such improvement, it shall be the duty of the Board of Bond Trustees now or to be provided for, by law, or such other person or persons as may have imposed upon them substantially similar powers, to recommend to the Coun cil the streets to be improved, and the material to be used for such improvement, and the making of all con ment of of Board of thereto, etc. tracts for the doing of such work, and the supervision and 1907. control thereof shall be done by the Board, or such other person or persons as aforesaid, subject at all times, how. Improveever, to the approval and control of the City Council. If, streets, duty however, such improvement is made without the use of Public money raised from the sale of bonds, the making of all Works contracts and the supervision and control of the work shall be done by the Board of Public Works, now pro. vided for or to be provided for by law, or such other per sons as may have imposed upon them substantially similar powers, subject at all times, however, to the approval and control of the City Council. Council to Sec. 8. That the City Council shall have the right to pass Right of all such ordinances not inconsistent with this act as may pass ordibe necessary to supplement this act, or to further pro- nanoes. vide for the effectual making of the improvements and of the assessments aforesaid and payment for the said improvements or any of them. Sec. 9. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent here. with are hereby repealed. Sec. 10. That this act shall take effect immediately upon the approval thereof by the Governor. Approved May 7, 1907. CHAPTER 5834-(No. 239). AN ACT to Authorize the City of Pensacola to Loan Its Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: to lend Section 1. That the City of Pensacola is hereby author- Pensacola ized to lend from time to time such of its money as it authorized may not immediately need for municipal purposes, to such money to bank or banks, for such time or times, at such interest and banks. upon such security as the City Council may deem best. Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved May 22, 1907. 1907. Authority to designate depository and deposit money. Proviso. Proviso. Duty of Council to bids from banks, etc. CHAPTER 5835-(No. 240). AN ACT to Provide for the Deposit in a Bank or Banks and for the Loan and Investment of Funds of the City of Pensacola, and for the Obtaining of Interest Thereon. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the City Council of the City of Pensacola to designate as a depository or as depositories of all of said city's funds, such bank or banks located in said city as offer the best rate of interest for such funds, as the City Council may by ordinance or resolution determine from time to time to deposit upon interest, and as furnish such security as may be required and approved by the said City Council; Provided, however, that the designation of any one or more depositories for any one or more of said funds shall be for a period of not less than six months nor more than two years, at the option of said City Council. Provided, further, that the sinking fund provided by law and ordinance for the retirement of bonds now issued, or that may be issued, shall be invested or loaned as the City Council may, by ordinance or resolution, determine from time to time; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall affect the powers or duties of the Council or the Board of Bond Trustees, as prescribed by the act approved May 12, 1905, entitled; "An Act to authorize the City of Pensacola to issue negotiable bonds for municipal purposes and to provide for the payment thereof." Sec. 2. That for the purposes of this act, it shall be the advertise for duty of the City Council to advertise once each week for four weeks prior to each designation of a depository or depositories, in a newspaper published in said city, a request for bids from the banks of said city for such depos its, and such request shall state the time and place of receiving such bids, and as near as may be, the prospective sums of money, which shall remain upon deposit subject to call by the City Council upon notice or notices, the length of which time shall be fixed in the advertisement, and those which shall remain upon deposit for a fixed period of time, which time shall be fixed in the advertisement; such request shall also be for bids for such deposit of funds sub ject to check as shall bear interest on daily balances. 1907. of funds Sec. 3. That upon the designation by said City Council of any one or more banks in said city as a depository Custodian or as depositories of said respective funds, it shall be the required to deposit. duty of the custodian of such fund or funds for which a depository, or depositories, has been designated by the said City Council to place said fund or funds in the depository or the respective depositories so designated for such fund or funds, upon notice from the said City Council of such designation. Sec. 4. That this act shall take effect upon and from its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved May 23, 1907. CHAPTER 5836-(No. 241). AN ACT Requiring the Recorder of the City of Pensacola, Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: be a practic Section 1. That the Recorder of the City of Pensacola, Recorder to elected at the general municipal election in the year one ing lawyer. thousand nine hundred and nine (1909), and always thereafter shall be a practicing lawyer in said city of Pensacola. Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Approved June 3, 1907. 1907. Salary of CHAPTER 5837—(No. 242). AN ACT to Amend Section 34 of An Act Entitled "An Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That Section 34 of Chapter 4513, Laws of 1895, be, and the same is, hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 34. That the Mayor shall receive a salary to Mayor to be be fixed by the Council, at not less than twelve hundred dollars and not more than twenty-five hundred dollars a year." fixed by Council. Sec. 2. All laws and part of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall go into effect upon its approval by the Governor. Approved June 3, 1907. ་ |