State Ex Rel. Swanson v. Strickland

(dissenting). — I think the purpose of Section 21 of Article III as amended was to require absolute compliance therewith, and that no longer should any presumption of the sufficiency, or the publication, of the notice be indulged merely because the legislative journals recited that proof had been “established in the Legislature.”

It clearly makes the validity of special and local legislation dependent upon such compliance, which compliance must be shown by journal entries. Board of Public In struction v. Brown, 114 Fla. 711, 154 So. 850; Milner v. Hatton, 100 Fla. 210, 129 So. 593. I do not…