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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0165 and id is 1 raw text is: 20 CHAP. 74-75. Solicitors' Fees, Criminal Laws in force.
1840. lowing manner, and not otlherwise, that is to say-In all criminal
prosecutions, the Solicitor's fee shall be taxed in the bill of coats
and collected by the Sheriff with the other costs of the case, and be
)'roviso. by him paid over to the Solicitor: Provided, That in all instances
where said fee or any part thereof cannot be so collected, and it shall
so appear by the return of the Sheriff, then the same shall be a
charge upon the Treasury of the State.
St.c. 2. Be it fitrher enacted, That all acts or parts of acts con.
iteeul. flicting with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.
[Passed the Senate, December 22, 1840. Passed the House of Representa-
tives, Decembcr 20, 1846. Approved, December 29, 1840.]
CHAPTER 75.-[No. 5.]
AN ACT amendatory of the Criminal Laws now in force in this State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Florida in General Assembly convened, That
Punishment of hereafter, if any person shall be convicted, whether upon indictment
i'ertain off'n- now pending or hereafter to be presented, of any of the offences, the
punishment of which under the provisions of an act approved, Febru.
ary 27th, 1839, entitled, an act to amend an act entitled, an act
relating to crimes and misdemeanors, approved, February 10th,
1832, is prescribed to be a fine not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
nor less than two hundred dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding
six months, nor less than thirty days, at the discretion of the court,
he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
and not less than ten dollars, and imprisoned tbr any time not ex.
ceeding six months and not less than one month, at the discretion of
the court.
Sc. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons
*11itg likIior shall either himselfor by his servant, or agent, sell or barter to any
'' .,, slave or slaves, any vinous or spirituous liquors of any description,
without au express license in writing from the person having control
Trrading wilh of said slave or slaves authorising said slave to purchase the same, or
Slves. buy or barter with any slave or slaves any article whatever, without
license as aforesaid, he, she, or they so offending, on conviction
thereof before the Circuit court, shall be fined in a sum not less
than twenty.Iive dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or im.
prisoned not exceeding three months, at the discretion of the Judge.
Sic. 3. Be itfirther enacted, That hereafter it shall not be l'tw.
*'ir. ini~aris ul for any person in this State to carry arms of any kind whatsoever
w.. secretly, on or about their person, and if any dirk, pistol or other
arm or weapbn, except a common pocket knife, shall lie seen or
known to be secreted upon the person of any one in this State, such
person so oibntlding, shall on conviction, be fined not exceeding five
hundred dollars and not less than live dollars, or mprisoned not ex.
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