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fruit which now will yield him a substantial return waited for and won. 

 It has taken less than half a score of years for the piney-woods pioneer 

 to make a new home which yields him ample support and sure increas- 

 ing income for the future. 



WHAT THE RICH IMMIGRANT CAN DO. 



To the man of capital, Florida offers a large variety of specialties to 

 employ it surely and profitably, whether as an investment looking to 

 the future for increase, or present employment and quick returns. 

 There are millions of acres of United States, State, and railroad lands, 

 Spanish grants of large areas, and private improved and unimproved 

 lauds, which can now be bought cheaply. These comprise timber lands, 

 which are increasing in growth and value every year, also improved 

 lands already cleared and ready to cultivate, now unoccupied by reason 

 of death of owners, or want of means to hire labor and purchase stock. 

 A few thousand dollars judiciously invested in lands would be sure to 

 pay a profit. Manufactories of cotton, and cotton-seed oil mills, starch 

 factories, rice mills, paper mills, tanneries, saw mills, furniture shops, 

 &c., offer good opportunities for present profit. 



There are many good openings for mercantile business, purchasing 

 the staples of the country, such as cotton, sugar, sirup, naval stores. 

 Fruit raising on a large scale can be done with assured profit; with 

 means, one can have hundreds of acres in trees, and millions of oranges 

 and lemons to sell or ship. The shrewd real estate dealer can buy and 

 sell at a profit; the money-lender loan at high interest, with ample se- 

 curity. All this has been done, is done, and doing now. If the capital- 

 ist would desire to farm on a large scale, no better field than here. 

 There are hundreds of large plantations in Middle Florida, lying con- 

 tiguous, which can be bought low, and a farm of 100 to 10,000 acres 

 can be made, and planted in cotton, cane, corn, rice, tobacco, and other 

 crops. Labor is plenty and cheap, crops sure and good, always in de- 

 mand, and fair prices rule. 



HOMESTE .ID AND OTHER EXEMPTIONS. 



One hundred and sixty acres, or one-half acre of land within city or 

 town, owned by the head of a family residing in the State, together 

 with $1,000 of personal property, and the improvements on the real 

 estate, *hall be exempted from any forced sale under any process of law ; 

 and real estate shall not be alienable without the joint written consent 

 of wife and husband. In addition to the above exemption, there shall 

 be exempted from sale by any legal process, to the head of a family, 

 one thousand dollars in any kind of property which said head of fam- 

 ily may select, in cases where the indebtedness was contracted or judg- 

 ment obtained before the 10th day of May, 1865. Taxes can only be 

 levied for State, county, and municipal purposes. Married women are 

 protected by law in the ownership and control of property separate and 

 apart from the husband. 



