The Sec. 19. Application for licenses to operate motor ve hicles, as a chauffeur, may be made by mail, or otherwise, to the Comptroller, upon blanks prepared under his authority. The fee provided for herein shall be deposited with the application. Such application shall be verified and shall state the age of the applicant, and no license shall be issued to any person under the age of eighteen years. Before a chauffeur's license is granted, the applicant shall pass such examination as to his qualifications as the Comptroller shall prescribe. To each person to whom a license is granted shall be assigned some distinguishing number or mark, and the license issued shall be in such form as the Comptroller shall determine; it may contain special restrictions and limitations concerning the type of motor power, horse power, design and other features of the motor vehicles which the licensee may operate thereunder; it shall contain the distinguishing number or mark assigned to the licensee, his name, place of residence and address, and a brief description of the licensee for the purpose of identification. Comptroller shall furnish, without extra charge therefor, to each chauffeur so licensed a suitable metal badge with the distinguishing number or mark assigned to him thereon. This badge shall thereafter be worn by the chauffeur, affixed to his clothing in a conspicuous place at all times while he is operating or driving his motor vehicle upon public highways. Such badge shall be valid only during the term of the license of the chauffeur to whom it is issued as aforesaid. Every person licensed to operate motor vehicles as a chauffeur under this Act shall endorse his usual signature on the margin of the license issued to him, in a space provided thereon for the purpose, immediately upon the receipt of such license, and such license shall not be valid until so endorsed. E.ery application for a license filed under the provisions of this Section shall be accompanied by a fee of $2.00, and all licenses issued hereunder shall expire on January first of each year; provided, however, that the fee for licenses granted on or after July first in any year shall be onehalf the annual fee provided for herein. Sec. 3. The provisions of this Act shall take effect and become operative July 1, 1918. Approved June 5, 1917, Chap. 7277 1917 Appropriation CHAPTER 7277-(No. 19.) AN ACT Making Appropriations for Salaries and Expenses of the State Government for Six Months of the Year 1917, and for the Year 1918, and for Six Months of the Year 1919. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That the following sums be, and are hereby appropriated for the salaries and expenses of the State Government for the six months from July 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917: Salaries Executive Department... .$ 13,800.00 Auditing and Distribution Clerk, Tax Redemption Dept..... 750.00 Bookkeeper in Tax Redemption Department.. 600.00 Recording Clerk, Tax Redemption Department 600.09 540.00 spectors Traveling Expenses State Superintendent Salary Two Rural School Inspectors. Commissioner of Agriculture. Chief Clerk, Department of Agriculture......$ $ 1,000.00 125.00 .... 2.000.00 1,250.00 Divisions 750.00 Clerk in Land Divisions.. 750.00 Clerk in Pure Food and Drugs, Stock Feed, Assistant State Chemist, Feed Stuff Analyst. 900.00 500.00 2,250.00 Traveling Expenses Three Food and Drug 1,500.00 Samples and Incidentals, Pure Food Division. Postage, State Chemist Janitor, State Laboratory Prison Department. 500.00 500.00 540.00 125.00 150.00 Salaries, Chaplains State Convicts.... .$ 750.00 1,250.00 |