to view and assess the real value of such cattle in money when so affected, provided that such valuation shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars per head. When cattle have been destroyed as thereinbefore provided, upon a certificate of such assessment of value, signed and attested by said assessors or a majority, and approved by the Governor, the State Treasurer is authorized, upon the presentation by the owner of such certificate, to pay such owner two-thirds of the aggregate assessment upon said cattle so destroyed.
The legislature of Delaware at its last session granted thirty-two divorces. That fact would seem to be somewhat persuasive that the marital relations in that gallant, revolutionary, little state were not just now altogether as congenial and harmonious as formerly.
FLORIDA.
An important act, entitled an act to dissolve municipal corporations under circumstances set out therein, and to provide provisional governments for the same, declares, that whenever any city or town in Florida, incorporated under the act of 1869, becomes indebted to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars and defaults in the payment of interest thereon, then the charter of such city or town is thereby repealed, and the corporation thereof dissolved.
Immediately upon the passage of this act the Governor shall issue his proclamation of such fact, and transmit the same with a certified copy of this act, to the Mayor of each and every incorporated city and town in Florida, and immediately after the expiration of fifteen days from the date of the issuance of such proclamation, it shall be the duty of the Governor to ascertain and declare by proclamation what corporations come within the law, and the proclamation is made conclusive evidence of the required facts. The dissolved corporations are declared provisional municipalities, to be governed by a board of seven commissioners to be appointed by the Governor, who
