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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0239 and id is 1 raw text is: 42 LAWS OF FLORIDA.
1863. the disposal of the Governor, to affoyd aid and assistance to the
- Wqside Homes or Hospitals in this State, established to aid and
assist the soldiers of the Confedeidite States, and that the Comp.
troller issue his warrant on tho, order of the Governor to the
Treasurer, and the Treasurer shall pay the same.
Passed the Senate Decemaber 3, 1863. Passed the House of Representatives
Decelnber 3, 1863. Approved by the Governor December 8, 1803.
CHIAPTEr 1,422-[No. 39.]
AN ACT to prevent and punish all persons Planting and Cultivatinv, in the
State of Florida, over a certain quantity of land in Cotton and Tobacco during
the continuance of the present war.
Sltcrio 1. Be it enacted b'y the Senate and 1house of -Repre-
sentatives of the State of 1 orida in Ceneral Assembly convened,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be law-
Prohibiting cot- fill for any person or persons, whether residing in this State or
toy,. not, to plant and cultivate, in any county in this State, by them-
selves, agents or employees, or allow the same to be done, a great-
Hands. er number of acres of land in cotton than one acre for each hand
owned or employed by them between the ages of fifteen and
sixty, and when said persons may own or employ hands over sixty
years of age and under seventy, and over nine and under fifteen,
two of said hands. shall 1)e counted as one haud ; therefore said
person or persons may plant and cultivate one acre of land in
cotton, and no intre, for every two of said hands so owned and
employed by them.
. Sxc. 2. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons
whatever violating the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of n
lIer~nity, inisleineanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined for ev-
ery acre so planted, more than one acre to the hand, and so oil
in proportion to the number of hands emnployed, the sum of one
thousand dollars for each and every acre so planted above the
number specified, one-half of which sum shall be, in ease whore
there is a prosecutor or informer, paid to said prosecutor and
Informer. informer, the other half paid to the County Commissioners of
the County where the misdemeanor is committed, for the benefit
of indigent soldiers' families in said county.
SEc. 3. Be it further enacteil, That any person or persons who
may intend or desire to prosecute any person or persons for the
violation of this act, may, upon application to any Justice of the
Peace of said county, supported by affidavit that lie has good
reasons to believe that the provisions of this act have been viola-
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