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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0203 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS
OF TUE
STATE OF FLORIDA,
PASSED AT AN
ADJOURNED SESSION OF THE SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
18t5$.
JAMES E. BaooME, Governor. F. L. VmLrz'our., Secretary of State. T. W.
IlasyAlub, Comptroller of Public Accounts. CHARLES 11. AUsTiN, Treasurer.
DAVID S. WALKER, Register of Public Lands. M.D. PAP, Attorney General. 1855.
IL V. SMELL, President of the Senate. PHILnI DELL, Speaker of the House
of Representatives. Jon. S. PuaVIANsCE, Secretary of the Senate. ]Uuon A
CORLEY, Clerk of the House of Representatives. .
CuAPTER 715.--[No. 100.]
AN ACT to establish the ad valorem system of Taxation.
SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Capitation t=
tatives of the State of Florida in General Assembly convened, That
hereafter every free white male inhabitant of this State, above the
age of twenty-one years and under the ago of fifty years, except pan.
pers and idiotic and insane persons, shall pay a yearly capitation.tax
of fifty cents.
Sno. 2. Be itfurther enacted, That all real estate, comprising Objeets'ef tax-
.lands and improvements, buildings, inaunfactorles, and mills of all ation.
kinds, distilleries, furnaces, machinery, tan-yards, ferries, toll-bridges
and wharves; all slaves, all bank and other corporate stock; all
money at interest or in possession ; all notesand obligations of what-
ever character; all capital employed in trade by merchants and tra.
ders of every description ; all capital invested in steamships, steam-
boats, sail vessels, lighters and barges; that all pleasure carriages,
stage coaches, vagons, carts and drays ; that all horses, asses, mules,
neat cattle, swine and sheep; that all household furniture, including
gold and silver plate and musical instruments, and that all watches,
shall be taxed at a uniform rate upon the value thereof: Provided, Provh.
That no taxes shall be collected on prop,rty expressly exempted by
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