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No. 8
An Ordinance
Abolishing County Criminal Courts.
Be it Ordained by the People of Florida in Convention
assembled, That from and after the passage of this ordinance, the County
Criminal Courts of this State shall be abolished, and all fees, costs, and
charges of every kind whatsoever, due or to become due, to any justice of the
peace, constable, clerk of circuit court, or of the county criminal court,
sheriff, or any officer of this State, for services, issuing warrants, arresting
accused, preparing docket and papers, confining prisoners, or for any service
whatever, in and about said county criminal court, are declared illegal and
void, and fully satisfied and extinguished; and it shall not be lawful for any
Board of County Commissioners of this State, or any Treasurer, State or county,
to allow or pay out any money or moneys for any such services; Provided, A small
allowance, not to exceed the actual cost of the provisions, shall be allowed for
the feeding of accused defendants and prisoners, bound over to or fined in said
county criminal courts, and nothing shall be so construed as to deprive judges
and solicitors of their fees.
Be it further ordained,
That all fines, penalties, and disabilities ordered, entered up, or created in
said county criminal courts are hereby rescinded and removed; all prisoners
found guilty in said county criminal courts are hereby pardoned and released,
and all judgments, executions, bonds, and recognizances, now outstanding and
unsatisfied, originating or created in said courts, are hereby declared null,
void, and paid off.
Be it further ordained, That all
cases now pending in said court shall be transferred to the circuit court, and
the officer transferring them to said circuit court shall be allowed the regular
fees now allowed for such services.
Passed in open Convention, February 24th, 1868.
HORATIO JENKINS, JR., President.
SHERMAN CONANT, Secretary.
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