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An Act to provide for levying a Poll Tax. 1823 140 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0023 and id is 1 raw text is: Justices may take oath of or- flee helbre a coImnissi.ncr appointed by the Governir 140 of the peace shall be appointed by the Governor, and there shall he no judge or justic e of tile pence conve- nient, befure whom he call take the oath prescribed by law,.it shall be JIawfuI for suchjustice of the peace to take the oath before any person named by the Gover- Mlol. Attested, F. J. FATIO, C GEO. M U1RAY, President of the Lcgieati-ve Council. (Approved July 3d, 1823,) WM. P. DUVAL,: Governor of thie Territory of Florida. AN ACT To provide for levying a Poll Tax. Be it enacted by the Gowrrnor and Legialative Coun- cil of'the Trriary q/ Florida, That from itnd after tile first day UNJaliary, which %ill be iN tile year one thou- stid eight Imndred and twenty-four,' there shall be le- Poll tax to be le- vied ald collected )early and cver) year, a tax oftwen- vied 11, free • ty fiv.e cents upon the head of'each and every free male white males and inhabitant of this territory, who shall be of the age of shes twenty one years and upwards, and upon each and e- vry abli bpodied blave above the age 'of seventeen year., uiilnot exceeding tile age offifty years, to be paid by the. owner of such slave or slaves. Sli 1. lie it farther enacted, That it shall be the duty of every free male inhabitant of this territory who ,hall be subject to Uaation under the provisions of this act, oin or lt ire the third Mondayof February in rach and every. yeiu', to enter his name with the clerk of the Persons liable to county in which such inhabitant shall reside; and eve- taxation to inake ry pel'son who shall be owner of anj slave or slaves, ret-ims tte clerk Uo the shll, on the same clay, deliver to the said clerk a sche- county dule conlaining an account of the number of slaves, which he, Omw or they may own, and which hiy this law ale subject to taxation ; and it shall be the duty of said clerk to kIcep t list of al: such persons, with the num- ber of slaves owned bi) huch pc'sons set opposite to their tIsnims ; and lie said clerk shall annually, on ow before the first day of Aiarch, in every year deliver to

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