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Powers of within two miles of the town; to establish hospitals, jails, houses of detention and correction, and to make regula tions for the government of the same; to make regula. tions to secure general health of the inhabitants and to prevent and to remove nuisances; to provide the town wtih water, by waterworks within or beyond the boundary of the town; to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize and establish fire departments; to provide for lighting the town by gas or other illuminating material or in any other manner; to make appropriations to open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave, or otherwise improve, clean and keep in repair, streets, alleys and sidewalks; to erect and establish and keep in repair culverts, sewers and gutters; and to make appropriations for lighting the streets and public buildings and for the erection of all buildings necessary for the use of the town; to have full power and authority to levy and collect any amount of occupational on any business they may see fit, not to be less than fifty per cent of the State tax; to license, tax and regulate auctioneers, taverns, peddlers, retailers of liquor or other intoxicating beverages; to license, tax and regulate all privileges taxable by the State; to license, tax and regulate hackney carriages, carts, omnibuses, wagons and drays, and to fix the rate to be charged for the carriage of persons and property within the town; to regulate, license, suppress or prohibit any theatrical and other exhibition, show, circus, parade and amusement; to establish and operate a dispensary in said town when in their judgment the best interest of the town demands it; to provide by ordinance and resolution all necessary regulations for the establishing and operating said dispensary when a majority of the said Council shall favor the same, and that all profits arising out of or from said dispensary after the paying of the State and county tax required by law for selling intoxicating liquors shall go to the town for the improvement of said town by order of the Town Council; and, Provided further, That when the Town Council decides to establish the said dispensary that they shall not be required to do anything more than to pay the said State and county tax as may be required by law; Provided further, That this authority shall in no way conflict with the local option law now in force; to regulate or prohibit or suppress all gambling houses, 1907. Powers of bawdy and disorderly houses and obscene pictures and literature; to regulate and license the sale of firearms and to suppress the carrying of concealed weapons; to regu-Mayor and late and establish markets; provide for the arrest, impris- Council. onment and punishment of riotous and disorderly persons within the town, by day or by night, and for punishment of all breaches of peace, noise, disturbance and disorderly assemblies; to pass all ordinances necessary for the health, convenience and safety of the citizens, and to carry out the full intent and meaning of this act, and to accomplish the object of this incorporation; to impose penalties upon the owners, occupants or agents of any house, walk or sidewalk or other structure which may be dangerous or detrimental to the citizens, unless after due notice in the manner to be provided by ordinance the same to be removed or repaired; to provide for inclosing and improving and regulating all public grounds belonging to the town, in or out of the corporate limits; to provide for the appointment of a police force, and to impose fines, forfeitures, penalties and terms of imprisonment, at hard labor or otherwise, for a breach of any town ordinance, but no penalty shall exceed three hundred dollars, and no term of imprisonment shall be for a longer term than three months for the same offense; to regulate and provide for the construction or paving of streets, and for the construction and repair of sidewalks and foot pavements; to provide for the construction of sewers and drains, and for keeping them in repair, and to assess thereupon the property which shall be especially benefited by the improvement, in proportion to the amount of such benefit or upon the abuttors in proportion to the frontage, or upon the lands drained thereby which receive a benefit; the reasonable cost of such construction and repairs shall be equally assessed against said property, and shall be a lien thereon, and enforced by suit in any court having jurisdiction; to take all appropriate grounds for wid ening streets or any part thereof, or for laying out new streets or avenues when the public convenience may require it, and to assess the cost and expense of the same пpon the property especially benefited thereby in the manner herein last provided in the case of sewers and drains. Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 1907. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 3, 1907. Ordinance declared legal and valid. CHAPTER 5843-(No. 248). AN ACT to Legalize and Validate an Ordinance of the Town of Plant City, Florida, Entitled an Ordinance to Provide for the Issuing of Bonds by the Said Town of Plant City, Fla., in the sum of Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars for the Purpose of Acquiring, Own ing and Operating a System of Waterworks in Said Town, and for the Sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars, for the Purpose of Owning, Operating and Maintaining a System of Sewerage in Said Town, and Providing for the Issue and Sale of Said Bonds and for the Expenditure of the Proceeds of the Sale of Such Bonds, Passed by the Council of the Town of Plant City, Fla., on the 1st Day of January, 1907, and Approved by the Mayor of the Town of Plant City, Fla., on the 1st Day of January, 1907, and to Legalize and Validate the Special Election Held on the 2nd Day of March, 1907, by the Qualified Electors of the Town of Plant City, Fla,, Under the Provisions of the Said Ordinance, and to Legalize and Make Valid Any and All Bonds Issued by the Town of Plant City, Fla., Under Said Ordinance and the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Council of the Said Town Under Said Ordinance. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That an ordinance of the town of Plant City, Fla., entitled an Ordinance to provide for the issuing of bonds of the town of Plant City, Fla., in the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of acquiring, erecting, constructing, installing, building, owning and operating a system of waterworks 1907. declared valid. et vaid. Election de in said town, and in the sum of five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars for the purpose of installing, building, owning, operating and maintaining a system of sewerage in said ordinance town, and providing for the expenditure and disbursing legal and of the proceeds received from the sale of said bonds passed by the Council of the town of Plant City, Fla., on the 1st day of January, 1907, and approved by the Mayor of the town of Plant City, Fla., on the 1st day of January, 1907, be, and the same is, hereby declared legal and valid; and that the special election held in the town of Plant City, Fla., by the qualified electors of said town, on the 2nd day of March, 1907, as provided for by the said ordinance, be, and the same is, hereby declared legal and valid; that negotiable bonds of the town of Plant City, Fla., which shall be the direct and absolute obliga- Bonds legaltions of the said town may be issued to the amount of ized, etc. twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of acquiring, erecting, constructing, installing, building, owning and operating a system of waterworks in said town, and in the sum of five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of installing, building, owning, operating and maintaining a system of sewerage in said town as provided for in said ordinance, in such form and containing such recitals and provisions as the Council of the town of Plant City, Fla., may, by resolution, determine or have heretofore, by resolution, determined; and that any and all such bonds of the town of Plant City, Fla., issued, or which may hereafter be issued by the town of Plant City, Fla., under said ordinance, and in pursuance of the ratification of said ordinance, by the special election held on the 2nd day of March, 1907, be, and the same are, hereby declared legal and valid, and said bonds shall not be held invalid on account of any irregularity, defects or imperfections whatsoever, in the proceedings taken or to be taken by the town of Plant City, Fla., in the issuing of said bonds, or the issuing of the said bonds in excess of any amount limited by the laws of Florida, at the time of the election aforesaid, or the passage of the ordinance aforesaid, and all the defects or other irregularities in such proceedings, or issuing of said bonds in excess of any limit of indebtedness that may be prescribed by the laws of Florida, at the time of the holding of the election aforesaid, or the passage of the ordinance aforesaid, are hereby cured and the issuing and sale of said bonds as pro 1907. vided for by said ordinance, are hereby authorized and permitted. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed and no proceedings for the issue and sale of said bonds shall be required other than as provided in said ordinance and in this act. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor, or its becom. ing a law without such approval. Approved May 13, 1907. Territorial boundaries. CHAPTER 5844—(No. 249). AN ACT to Abolish the Present Municipal Government of the Town of Quincy, in the County of Gadsden, and State of Florida, and to Establish, Organize and Con. stitute a Municipality to be Known and Designated as the City of Quincy, and to Define its Territorial Boundaries, to Provide for its Jurisdiction, Powers, and Priv ileges. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That the present municipal government of the town of Quincy is hereby abolished. Sec. 2. That the municipality to be known and desig nated as the City of Quincy is hereby established, organized and constituted in the County of Gadsden, and State of Florida, the territorial boundaries of which shall be as follows: Begin at a point one-third of one mile east of the center of the courthouse square in said town, run thence north one-half of one mile; thence west one and one-half miles; thence south one mile; thence east to a point one-half of one mile south from the point of beginning; thence north to the point of beginning. Sec. 3. That no obligation or contract of said munici |