the Circuit or Supreme Court of the State to be prosecuted by the Attorney General of the State, the court shall find and give judgment that Section 1 of this act has been violated as charged, and if a foreign or non-resident corporation, its right to do business in this State ceases. SEC. 3. The violation of this act by any officer, employee, agent, attorney or other representative of a corporation, shall be prima facie evidence that such officer, employee, agent, attorney or other representative of such corporation is acting for and in behalf of such corporation. SEC. 4. Any person or persons who shall aid, abet, or advise a violation of this act shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished as in Section 1 of this act, SEC. 5. Violations of this act shall be prosecuted in the county where such payment or contribution is made. SEC. 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the Governor. Approved June 2, 1897. CHAPTER 4539-[No 25.] AN ACT to Regulate Admissions to the Bar of this State, to Create a Board of Legal Examiners, and to Provide for a Uniform System of Legal Examinations. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Creation State Examiners. SECTION 1. That the State Board of Legal Examiners is hereby created, to consist of five (5) members, who shall be appointed by the Supreme Court of Florida, one of whom shall hold his office for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, and each until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, and Tenure of each year thereafter another examiner shall be appointed for the term of five years in the stead of the examiner whose term shall have expired. Said Board shall have the power to make by-laws and rules necessary for the fu fillment of their duties. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Board of Legal Examiners to examine all applicants for admission to the bar of this State, in respet to their intellectual, moral and professional qualifications, in accordance with such uniform and general regulations as they may adopt and publish. office. Powers of Doard. Duties of the Board of Legal 1897 Examinations by board. Two members of board may When said Board, after such examination, shall be satisfied of the qualifications and fitness of an applicant, and upon his taking the oath required by law, they shall grant him a certificate to that effect, which certificate, when registered as hereinafter provided, shall entitle him to practice law in all of the courts of this State. SEC. 3. That said Board shall hold at least one-examination a year in each of the circuits of this State, from which applications shall be received. Two members with the authority of said Board, may conconduct exami- duct any such examination, in accordance with the rules of the Board; Provided, That the subjects for such examination shall first be prescribed by the said Board. nations. Pro' iso. Fee. Expenses of board not chargeable to State. Clerk Supreme Court to file certificates. Fee. SEC. 4. Said Board of Legal Examiners shall be entitled to collect from each person examined, a fee not to exceed the sum of five dollars, which fees shall be used to defray the expenses of said Board. The expenses of said Board shall not be paid or chargeable to this State. SEC. 5. All certificates so issued by said Board shall be filed with, and registered by, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, for which service he shall be entitled to the same fee as is now provided by law for certificates of admission to the Supreme Court. SEC. 6. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith, or any part hereof, are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from its approval by the Governor. Approved June 5, 1897. Temporary certificate to practice medicine. Proviso. CHAPTER 4540-[No. 26.] AN ACT to Prescribe the Mode of Issuing Temporary Certificates of Qualification by the Boards of Medical Examiners, Defining the Duties of the Members and Secretaries of the Same, and Prescribing a Punishment for a Breach Thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That any member of the several Boards of Medical Examiners in this State shall be authorized to grant a temporary certificate of qualification to any applicant desiring to practice medicine in this State, upon examination, until the next regular meeting of the board; Provided, however, That the applicant has never before received a similar certificate from any member of the several boards. All temporary certificates shall cease to be of force at the regular meeting next after the granting of the same. 1897. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the member granting a temporary certificate to notify the secretary of the board of which he is a member of his action, and it shall be the duty Duty of member granting of the said secretary to notify the secretaries of the several temporary other boards in the State, whose duty it shall be to notify the members of the several boards of the granting of said certificate. certificate. violation o a.t. SEC. 3. Any member or secretary of the said several boards who shall be found violating the provisions of this Penalty for act, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 4. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved June 5, 1897. CHAPTER 4541-[No. 27.] AN ACT to Repeal Chapter 4177 of the Laws of Florida, Entitled an Act Concerning County Boards of Health, and to Provide for the Disposition of Funds and Effects in Possession of County Boards of Health. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That Chapter 4177 of the Laws of Florida, entitled an act concerning County Boards of Health, and to provide for the disposition of funds and effects in possession of County Boards of Health, approved May 25, 1893, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 1, 1897. Repeal. CHAPTER 4542-[No. 28] AN ACT to Amend Section 13 of Chapter 4346 of the Laws of Florida, Being an Act Entitled an Act to Define and Declare What Shall be Deemed Nuisances Injurious to Health, and to Provide for the Removal Thereof and Punishment Therefor. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That Section 13 of Chapter 4346 of the Laws of Florida, being an act entitled "An act to define and declare 1897. what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health, and to provide for the removal thereof and punishment therefor," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. That all fines and penalties imposed by any penalties, how section of this act shall be collected by prosecution in the State Court having jurisdiction thereof. Fines and collected. SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in confiict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved May 27, 1897. Summoning jury. CHAPTER 4543-[No. 29.] AN ACT to Amend Section 3011 of the Revised Statutes of Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That Section 3011 of the said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3011. Jury to be summoned. Every coroner as soon as he shall be notified of the dead body of any person supposed to have come to his death by violence or criminal negligence of another, found lying within his district, shall make out his warrant, directed to a constable of the district, if there be one, and if not, then to any constable of the county or to the Sheriff, requiring him forthwith to summon a jury of good and lawful men of the county, not less than six in all, to appear before the coroner at the time and place expressed in the warrant, and to enquire, upon view of the body (naming the person, if known, there lying dead), how and in what manner and by whom he came to his death. Approved June 7, 1897. Tenure of office. CHAPTER 4544- [No. 30.] AN ACT to Prescribe the Term of Office for Notaries Public, and to Provide a Time When the Commissions of Notaries Heretofore Appointed Shall Expire, and to Declare Valid the Acts of Notaries When Commissions are More Than Four Years Since Issued. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That all Notaries Public hereafter appointed shall hold said office for four years. 1897. Commissions expired. SEC. 2. That all Notaries Public heretofore appointed, whose commissions does not bear date of the expiration, said Expiration of commissions shall terminate four years after the date thereof. commission. SEC. 5. That all Notaries Public heretofore appointed, whose commissions bear date of more than four years since issued, said commissions are hereby declared expired. SEC. 4. That any and all notarial acts heretofore done by any notary public whose commission is more than four years old, are hereby declared valid. SEC. 5. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved June 3, 1897. Notarial acts declared valid. CHAPTER 4545 -[No. 31.] AN ACT to Require all Taxes on Lands Sold for Partition to be Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: SECTION 1. That hereafter when lands are sold for partition under a decree of a Court of Chancery, all taxes, State, county and munipal, due thereon at the time of such sale, shall be paid out of the purchase money. SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 4, 1897. out of purchase money. Tax to be aid CHAPTER 4546-[No. 32.] AN ACT to Prevent the Adulteration of Candy. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Manufacture of adulterated SECTION 1. No person shall by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person or corporation, manufacture for sale, or knowingly sell or offer to sell any candy adulterated by the admixture of terra alba, candy barytes, talc or any other mineral substance, by poisonous colors or flavors or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health. prohibited. |