CHAPTER 5865-(No. 270). AN ACT to Incorporate and Establish a Municipal Government for the Town of Wellborn, in Suwannee County, Florida; to Provide for its Officers and Prescribe Its Powers; and to Repeal Chapter 5371 of the Laws of Florida, the Same Being an Act Entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Wellborn in Suwannee County." Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: tion. 1907. Section 1. That a municipal corporation is hereby Incorporacreated and established in the County of Suwannee under the corporate name of Wellborn, and that the corporate bounds or limits shall comprise the following described territory, to-wit: The northeast quarter and the east half of the north- Territory. west quarter of Section sixteen (16), Township three (3), south of Range fifteen (15) east. Sec. 2. That said municipality is hereby granted all the Powers. powers given to such corporations under the general laws of the State; also the power to fix the valuation upon property within its limits, both real and personal, for the purposes of municipal taxation; also to fix and collect a license tax upon any and all lines of business, professions and occupations carried on and conducted within the corporate limits of said town; Provided, That when any Proviso. business, profession or occupation is taxed by the State then the said town shall not collect more than fifty per cent of the State tax on such business, profession or occupation. Sec. 3. That the corporate authority of said town shall Corporate authority. be vested in a Mayor, Marshal, Clerk, Tax Collector, Tax Assessor, Treasurer and Town Council, and such other officers as may from time to time be provided for by law and ordinance. The Town Council shall consist of five members. The offices of Marshal and Tax Collector may be held by one and the same person. The offices of Clerk, Treasurer and Tax Assessor may be held by one and the same person. All the officers of said town shall be quali 1907. Terms of officers, etc. Compensation. Powers and duties. Elections. Former ordi- fied voters of said town; Provided, That the offices of Marshal and Tax Collector may be held by other than a qualified voter. Sec. 4. That the present officers of said town shall hold their several offices until the next general election of said town as is now provided for by ordinance, or until their successors are elected and qualified. That at the first general election in said town, after this act shall go into effect, there shall be elected all of the officers provided for in three of this act; Provided, That at the first election held under this act two members of the Town Council shall be elected to serve for a term of one year, and three members of said Town Council shall be elected to serve for a term of two years. The terms of all the officers of said town, except members of the Town Council, shall be for one year from the date of their election; the term of the members of the Council shall be for two years. That all the officers of said town shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified. Members of the Town Council shall not hold any other office under the town government. Sec. 5. The officers of said town shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by ordinance. Sec. 6. The powers and duties of the officers of said town shall be such as shall be prescribed by ordinances, said ordinances to be in conformity to the Constitution and laws of Florida. Sec. 7. The Town Council shall provide by ordinance the time and manner of conducting all town elections, for the registration of voters and the certifying the returns of such elections, same to conform to the election laws of the State as applying to municipalities. All residents of said town who are qualified to vote at State and county elections shall be qualified to vote in said town if reg. istered therein. Sec. 8. That all ordinances of said town now in force, that are not in conflict with this act and the laws of the State, shall be and remain in force and effect until amended or repealed by the Town Council. 1907. pay one half Sec. 9. When the County Commissioners of Suwannee County shall levy and collect a road tax upon the real and County Compersonal property in said county they shall pay over to missioners to the town of Wellborn one-half of the said road tax that of city taxes collected to is collected upon the real and personal property in said the town. town. Sec. 10. That Chapter 5371 of the Acts of 1903 and of the laws of Florida is hereby repealed. Sec. 11. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved May 23, 1907. CHAPTER 5866—(No. 271). AN ACT to Enlarge the Territorial Limits of the City of Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: territory. Section 1. That in addition to the territory now within Additional the City of West Palm Beach, as established by Chapter 5367 Laws of Florida, the limits of said city be and are hereby extended to embrace all of Sections 20, 29, 30, 31, 32 and west of 33, in Township 43 south, Range 43 east; the south of Section 25, southeast of southeast of 26, east of 35, and all of 36, in Township 43 south, Range 42 east; Section 1, east of 2, east of 11, all of 12, 13, east of 14, northeast of northeast quarter of 23, north of 24, in Township 44 south, Range 42 east; west of Section 4, all of 5, 6, 7, 8, west % of 9, west of 16, all of 17, 18, north of 19, north of 20, north of northwest of 21, in Township 44 south, Range 43 east; and the right of way for the outlet canal 1907. owers of West Palm Beach. 150 feet wide from Lake Clarke to Lake Worth through part of Township 44 south, Range 43 east. Sec. 2. That as to the territory by this act added to its territorial limits, the municipal corporation of West Palm Beach is empowered to enact and enforce ordinances limited to and specially applicable to such territory and within the police powers of said city, for the protection of persons and property and for the maintenance and protection of embankments built or to be built and drains cut or to be cut for the drainage and protection from overflow of the lands embraced therein, and to prevent the pollution of the waters thereon or adjacent thereto from which the water supply of said city is or may be drawn, and for the assessment and collection of taxes to enable said city to properly maintain and protect such aitches and embankments, which ordinances and taxation shall not be operative within that part of said city embraced in Section 21 and all that part of Section 22 lying west of the center of Lake Worth in Township 43 south of Range 43 east, and the rate of taxation assessed and levied by said city may be at a different rate as to the land embraced in such added treritory from the tax assessed and levied upon the territory embraced within said city's corporate limits by Chapter 5367 Laws of Florida, and shall be limited to such rate as shall enable said city to maintain and protect said embankments and ditches; and the inhabitants of said added territory shall not be required to pay any other and further municipal taxes than such as may be so assessed and levied for maintenance and protection of said embankments, ditches, and police protection of said territory herein and hereby added to said city; Provided, Always, that the moneys obtained from taxes assessed and collected from the territory of the City of West Palm Beach, as described in Chapter 5367 Laws of Florida, shall at no time be used to pay any judgment or decree for damages recovered against said city in any suit or suits arising or accruing by reason of the said city assuming the powers and duties prescribed in this act and for the non-feasance or misfeasance of its Council or officers acting thereunder. Sec. 3. The Mayor of said city shall have the same jurisdiction to enforce all ordinances within the police powers of said city and such other ordinances as may be appli cable, and to punish persons violating such ordinances within said added territory as he now has to enforce ordinances and punish violations thereof within the territory named in Chapter 5367 Laws of Florida. *206T extended. Sec. 4. The police power of the City of West Palm Police power Beach be and the same is hereby extended to cover and embrace all public and private roads now existing or that may hereafter be constructed connecting the added territory with the City of West Palm Beach as described in Chapter 5367 Laws of Florida. Approved June 3, 1907, CHAPTER 5867-(No. 272). AN ACT to Revise and Amend the City Charter of the Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That Chapter 4497 of the Laws of Florida, approved May 18th, 1895, shall be and is hereby amended so as to read as follows: boundary. That a municipal corporation is hereby created in the Incorporation County of Hillsborough under the corporate name of West Tampa, and the corporate bounds or limits thereof shall comprise the following described territory, to-wit: Beginning at the point where the Hillsborough River Territorial intersects the half section line running east and west dividing Section eleven (11), Township twenty-nine (29) south, range eighteen (18) east, thence running west to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section ten (10) in the same Township and Range; thence running south to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section fifteen (15) in the same Township and Range; from thence run east on the section line dividing Sections fifteen (15) and twenty-two (22) to the southeast corner of said Section fifteen (15) in the same Township and Range; from thence run south on the section line divid |