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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0242 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF FLORIDA. 13
from Militia duty, except the following: 1st, Every person .1864.
who is or may become physically unable to perform Militia
duty, to be ascertained in such manner as the Governor slall
prdscribe; 2d, ministers of religion who now are in the reg-
ular discharge of their ministerial duties; 3d, Judges of the
Supreme and Circuit Courts ; 4th, millers, not exceeding one
for each mill; 5th, ferrymen on post routes ; 0th, physicians
of 40 years of' age; 'tl, members and officers of the ,egisla-
ture when in actual session : 'Provided, That nothing hierein
shiall be 9o construed as to deprive the members and officers
of the Legislature fron attending any regular or extra ses-
sion of the Legislature without delay, let or hindrance.
Sic. 11. Be it furth er enacted, 'That this State is hereby
divided into three Militia districts. The first district shall Mlitiadistrict.
comprise all that part of the State that lies east of' the Su-
wannee river ; the second district all that part lying be-
tween thie Suwannec and Apalachicola river, and the. third
district all that part lying west of the Apalachicola river.
Simc. 12. Be 'dfurti r enacted That all laws and parts of Repen'.
laws inconsistent with this act be and they are hereby re-
pealed.
Passed the Senate November 0.0, 1864. Passed the House of Representatives
j December 2, 1864. Approved December 5, 1 61.
ChA.PTER 1,434-[No. 5.]
AN ACT to amend the laws relating to Slaves.
SECTION 1. .Be it enactedI by the Senate anl House q f 7e)-
resentatives of the State of fflorida in General Asebly eon-
venec, That it shall be the duty of the Sheriffs of the sere- puty of tsohrt
ral counties in this State to ascertain and inform against all in reatyon to
persons, and to arrest and commit to jail all slaves, who te dAir o'ime.
shall violate the laws of this State made and provided against
slaves hiring their own time.
Sire. 2. We it further enacted, That if any Sheriff shall
wilfuilly refuse or fail to discharge the duties as iinposed by Sheriff neL-
this act, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in a sum '1g daty, naud.
not less than five hundred, nor more than one thousand dol-
lars.
Passed the Senate November 26, 1804, Passed the Iouse of Reprcscntativcs
December 1, 1864. Approved by the Glovernor December 5,1864.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsfl0242&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)