Punishment for disobedience of writ. pointment or authority may be doing, or about to do any unlawful act or thing, which may in anywise injuriously affect the interests or rights of any person or persons applying for said writ, and the proceedings provided for in the foregoing sections of this chapter shall be applicable to cases falling. within the intent and meaning of this chapter. (a) SEC. 8. Any person who shall disobey any writ of prohibition issued under this chapter, shall be punishable as for contempt by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. (a) Proceedings by AttorneyGeneral. Parties. Petition. 12 Fla., 190-191. Proceedings without Attorney-General. CHAPTER 166. PLEADINGS AND PRACTICE-QUO WARRANTO. 1. Proceedings upon writs of quo warranto by Attorney-General. 2. Proceedings in such cases without Attorney-General. 3. Force and effect of judgment. 4. Dismissal of proceedings, how and when to be had. SECTION 1. In all proceedings upon writs of quo warranto, information in the nature of such writs or civil actions instituted to obtain the remedies obtainable by such proceedings, where the Attorney-General institutes the action and does not make all the persons claiming the title to the office parties, then, and in that case, it shall be within the power of the court to make parties defendant of all persons so claiming the office and not made parties by the Attorney-General: Provided, That the said persons so desiring to be made parties shall be required to set forth by petition under oath a prima facie case of right and title to the office before the court can be required to make the order, and to give security to the satisfaction of the court for the payment of all costs which may be awarded against him. (a) SEC. 2. Any person claiming title to an office which is exercised by another shall have the right, upon refusal by the Attorney-General, to institute proceedings in the name of the State upon such claimant's relation, or upon the AttorneyGeneral's refusal to file a complaint setting forth his name as the person rightfully entitled to the office, to file on information, or institute an action in the name of the State against the person exercising the office, setting up his own claim. In this case the court is authorized and required to determine the right of the claimant to the office if he so desires: Provided, however, That in this, as well as in all other proceedings of this character, no person shall be adjudged entitled to hold an office except upon full proof of his title to the office. (a) (a) Secs. 8 and 9, Chap. 3002, Act of Feb. 10, 1877. (a) Secs. 1 and 2, Chap. 1874, Act of Feb. 2, 1872. SEC. 3. In all cases where an individual institutes an action Judgment. without the consent of the Attorney-General, the judgment shall be conclusive as between the parties other than the State; such judgment shall not be a bar to any quo warranto proceeding by the State, nor shall a judgment in such proceeding instituted by the Attorney-General be a bar to proceedings by any claimant other than the parties thereto. The party recovering the judgment shall, however, be entitled to exercise the office until removed by quo warranto proceedings, or until his right thereto shall otherwise cease. (a) SEC. 4. Where the Attorney-General institutes an action set- Dismissal of ting forth the name of the person rightfully entitled, or files on proccedings. information upon the relation of a party claiming title, the Attorney-General shall not have the right to dismiss such proceedings without the consent of the claimant, but the court shall investigate the claim and determine the right, if so desired by the person upon whose relation the information is filed; and such claimant may have counsel of his own choice to control the proceedings in his behalf. (a) SECTION 1. The Public Printer for the State shall be elected by a joint ballot of the two Houses of the Legislature, who shall hold his office for two years and until his successor shall be elected. (a) Public printer. how elected. SEC. 2. He shall keep his office at the seat of government, what printer and shall do all the printing, binding, etc., required by either shall do. House of the Legislature or by law. (a) SEC. 3. The State Printer shall be the servant of the Legislature, and, as such, responsible for the custody and safe-keeping of all papers and documents entrusted to his care to be printed, and must insert the words "public property" in all books printed for the State. (a) SEC. 4. The rate of compensation for the printing, binding, (a) Secs. 3 and 4, Chap. 1874, Act of Feb. 2, 1872. (a) Secs. 1, 2 and 3, Chap. 1662, Act of Aug. 6, 1868. Responsibility. Compensation. etc., ordered by the Legislature shall be such as may be agreed upon by the joint action of the committees on printing of the two Houses and the printer; the printing for the departments such as may be agreed upon by the heads of the respective de partments and the printer: Provided, That in case of diss greement as to the rates to be paid, the matter in dispute shal be referred to the joint action of the Legislature. (a) SEC. 5. The State Printer, when required, shall deposit Copies of work to be deposited copies of all work by him executed with the Comptroller, with his bill, which shall be sworn to, and the Comptroller shali then issue his warrant for the amount upon the Treasurer. (a) with Comptroller. Warrant. Printing of Reports Supreme Court. SEC. 6. The Comptroller is hereby authorized, from time to time as the work may progress, to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer for any sum not exceeding eighty per centum of the amount of public printing actually done by the printer under legal authority. (a) SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the printer who may from time to time be employed to print the laws of the State, on being furnished with the manuscripts by the Attorney-General. whose duty it shall be to furnish the same, to print two hundred copies of the same, for which he shall receive the same compensation as he shall be entitled to receive for printing the statute laws of the State; and the said two hundred copies shall be printed and bound in the same manner as the statute laws of the General Assembly. (b) CHAPTER 168. PRIVATE SECRETARY. 3. Shall copy laws. 1. How appointed; duty. SECTION 1. The Governor of this State may appoint and How appointed, duty and salary, commission a fit and proper person, to hold his oflice during the pleasure of the Governor, as Governor's Secretary, and as clerk for the Executive Department, and who shall attend daily, during office hours, at the Capital, and perform such duties in the office of the Governor as he may be directed by the Governor to perform. (a) Secretary of Governor's Secretary to copy laws. SEC. 2. The Private Secretary of the Governor shall receive such a per diem as will make his compensation equal to the sum of five hundred dollars per annum. (b) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Private Secretary of the Governor, under the supervision of the Secretary of State, to copy the laws passed at each session of the Legislature. (b) (a) Secs. 4, 5 and 6, Chap. 1662, Act of Aug. 6, 1868. (b) Sec. 8, Chap. 2, Act of July 23, 1845. (a) Sec. 3, Chap. 3, Act of July S 1845. (b) Secs. 1 and 2, Chap. 3053, Act of March 2, 1877. CHAPTER 169. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 1. The P. E. Church made body politic; powers, &c., given same. 2. Parishes, how admitted. a body politic. powers. SECTION 1. The Bishop and elergy and laity of the several The P. E. parishes, composing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Church made Diocese of Florida, be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body corporate, by the name and style of "The Protestant Name and Espicopal Church in the Diocese of Florida ;" and they and their successors shall have full power to acquire, and be possessed of, and hold for the use and benefit of the said church, real and personal estate, and to sell, convey and dispose of the same, and to receive and dispose of or convey all gifts, grants and donations of every description whatsoever, which may be made to the same, and shall have power by their corporate name aforesaid of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and of using all necessary and proper steps for recovering any property whatever, which said church may hold or claim, and also the power to make all necessary rules and regulations for the securing as well the said property as of all the moneys, rents, issues and profits growing out of the same, or any part thereof, and shall have a corporate seal which they may renew, alter and change at pleasure. (a) K be admitted. SEC. 2. All parishes of said Diocese which may hereafter be Parishes may formed and established within the same, shall be admitted to the benefits and privileges of said incorporation, upon the principles prescribed, or which may hereafter be prescribed by the rules of said church, established in council for the governernment of the parishes composing the same, and upon no other principles whatever. (a) SEC. 3. No lands, tenements, hereditaments, money or other Alienation things given to, or acquired at any time, or at any place, for of lands. the use and benefit of said church, shall be incumbered or alienated without the consent of the said Diocese, in council assembled, or of the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Diocese under the direction of the council. (a) (a) Secs. 1, 2 and 3, Chap. 3352, Act of Feb. 1, 1881. K Boards of 3. Power of Board as to Quar- or posted. antine of vessels. 4. Power as to Quarantine against countries or localities; Quarantine to be published. 5. Vessels, &c., subject to what rules and regulations; rules of Quarantine to be published. 6. Board of Health to appoint Port Inspectors; powers and duties of such Inspectors. 7. Quarantine Physician to be appointed; residence; powers. 8. When Board of Health allowed to order vessels into Quarantine. 9. Penalty for vessel to anchor off city or town without permission. 10. Penalty for not taking vessel into Quarantine; master of vessel may be quarantined. 11. Penalty for landing persons or goods from vessel, or going on board vessel after proclamation of Quarantine. 12. Penalty for person to leave Quarantine limits, or on board vessels, or from one vessel to another without permission. 15. Board of Health may order land Quarantine; powers and duties; Quarantine jurisdiction of cities and towns. 16. Jurisdiction of Circuit Courts as to this law; jurisdiction of Mayors. 17. When vessels liable for attachment. 18. Practice in cases of such attachment. 19. Same as other cases of attachment. 20. Expenses of Quarantine offi. cers, by whom paid; fees for Port Inspectors; fees for disinfection, &c., by whom paid; remedies when masters of vessels refuse to pay such fees. 21. Office of Physician and Port Inspector may be united. 22. Governor to appoint Board of Health. 23. Who to be ex-officio members of. 24. Term of office. 25. Powers and jurisdiction. 26. Powers as to Quarantine. 27. Proviso as to repeal. SECTION 1. The mayor, aldermen, and city physician, if there be one, of every incorporated city or town in this State of less than three hundred registered voters shall be, and are hereby constituted a Board of Health for said incorporated city or town, and when there is no incorporated town or city the |