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FLORIDA. 



Included in the amount of exports is an 

 amount of $18,451,899, foreign merchandise, 

 which is exported after having been entered in 

 this country, and retained in store for a longer 

 or shorter period ; the remainder, $883,925,- 

 947, is domestic merchandise. 



FLORIDA. The vote of the State in the 

 last presidential election was 51,018: for the 

 Garfield electors, 23,654; for the Hancock 

 electors, 27,964; majority for Hancock, 4,310. 

 The Legislature, consisting of 22 Republicans 

 and 85 Democrats in both branches, convened 

 on the 4th of January and adjourned on the 

 4th of March. On the 18th of January Charles 

 W. Jones was re-elected United States Sena- 

 tor. Among the laws enacted at this session 

 are the following : 



An act to prevent illegal voting in the State. 



An act to suppress gaming. 



An act to provide for the assessment and 

 collection of taxes upon improvements on the 

 public lands, and for the protection of occupy- 

 ing claimants of said lands. 



An act to enable a married woman to dis- 

 pose of her separate property by last will and 

 testament. 



An act to incorporate the Live Oak and 

 Rowland's Bluff Railroad Company. 



An act to prevent the selling as butter of 

 oleomargarine, or any spurious preparation 

 purporting to be butter. 



An act relating to the arrest of fugitives 

 from justice from other States. 



An act to repeal and dissolve municipal cor- 

 porations under certain circumstances, and to 

 provide the manner in which such cities may 

 become reincorporated. 



An act for the better protection of passen- 

 gers on railroad-cars, and the employes of 

 railroad companies. 



An act to make the public use of indecent 

 or obscene language a misdemeanor, and pro- 

 vide for the punishment thereof. 



An act relating to landlords' lien, for what, 

 and upon what it exists. 



An act to incorporate the Carrabelle and 

 Thomasville Railroad Company. 



An act relating to the intermarriage of white 

 persons with persons of color. 



An act for the benefit of sheep-raisers, and 

 for the protection of sheep and other stock 

 against dogs. 



An act to encourage the planting of oysters 

 in the waters of this State, and to protect the 

 rights of owners thereof. 



An act to prevent the selling, hiring, barter- 

 ing, lending, or giving to minors under sixteen 

 years of age, or to any person of unsound 

 mind, certain fire-arms or other dangerous 

 weapons. 



An act to dissolve municipal corporations 

 under circumstances therein stated, and to 

 provide governments for the same. 



An act to incorporate the Orange Ridge, 

 DeLand and Atlantic Railroad Company. 



An act to confirm the organization of the 



Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River 

 Railway Company, and to grant certain ferry 

 privileges and lands to said company. 



An act to amend sections 2, 3, and 4 of an 

 act entitled "An act to incorporate the St. 

 John's and Lake Eustis Railway Company," 

 approved February 20, 1879. 



An act to provide for calling out the organ- 

 ized and enrolled militia of this State to aid 

 the civil authorities. 



An act to incorporate a company, and to 

 facilitate the construction and equipment of a 

 railroad from Green Cove Springs, upon the 

 St. John's River, in Clay County, to the town 

 or village of Melrose, in Alachua County, un- 

 der the style of the Green Cove Springs and 

 Melrose Railroad Company. 



An act to grant certain lands to the East 

 Florida Railway Company. 



An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating 

 liquors within two miles of any camp-ground 

 used for religious worship in this State. 



An act to prevent the improper living to- 

 gether of certain persons. 



An act to reapportion the congressional dis- 

 tricts of this State. 



An act to amend the first section of chapter 

 3138, Laws of Florida, entitled " An act pre- 

 scribing a uniform rate of fare upon railroads." 

 approved March 11, 1879. 



An act to designate the holidays to be ob- 

 served in the acceptance and payment of bills of 

 exchange, bank-checks, and promissory notes. 



An act to incorporate the Pensacola and At- 

 lantic Railroad Company, and to grant certain 

 lands to the same. 



An act to authorize the appointment of a 

 committee to investigate the issue of the bonds 

 of 1873, and the origin and disposition of the 

 same. 



An act to enlarge the equity jurisdiction of 

 the circuit courts. 



An act to encourage the construction of ca- 

 nals between the Matanzas and Halifax Rivers, 

 and between the Mosquito and Indian Rivers, 

 commonly known as the Haulover. 



An act to enable settlers on State lands to 

 obtain titles thereto. 



An act to incorporate the Palatka and Indian 

 River Railway Company. 



An act to authorize the trustees of the Inter- 

 nal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida 

 to protect the interest of the said fund by be- 

 coming a bidder and purchaser of the railroads 

 from Lake City to Quincy, and the branch to 

 Monticello, and from Tallahassee to St. Marks, 

 should the same be sold, as provided in the sev- 

 enth clause of the decree in the case of J. Fred 

 Schutte and others, complainants, vs. the Jack- 

 sonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Com- 

 pany and others, defendants, rendered in the 

 Circuit Court of the United States, Fifth Judi- 

 cial Circuit, Northern District of Florida, by 

 the Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, Circuit Justice, 

 and filed the 31st of May, 1879, and for other 

 purposes. 



