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Pensacola, and the offices of four Timber Agents, and the office of Inspector or Surveyor of the port of Palatka, be abolished.

Be it further ordained, That the Surveyor-General of the late Federal Government be instructed to deliver over to the Register of Public Lands at St. Augustine all the papers and property appertaining to said office, who shall be authorized to carry on to completion all contracts for surveys heretofore made.

Done in open Convention January 21st, 1861.




[No. 21.]

Whereas, Divers disturbances and breaches of the peace have, within the last twelve months, occurred in the counties of Calhoun and Franklin, accompanied with numerous violations of the criminal laws of the State, which it is not to the interest of the State at this time to prosecute—Therefore,

Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That the Governor of this State be and he is hereby authorized and required to proclaim a general amnesty and pardon for all offences committed in said counties of Calhoun and Franklin during the year 1860.

Done in open Convention January 21st, 1861.




[No. 22.]

Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That this Convention doth assent to the holding of a Convention of States, to be comprised of such slaveholding States as have now, or shall have, before the final adjournment of said Convention, dissolved their connection with the late Federal Union, to be holden at Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, on the 18th day of February next, or at such other time and place as may be agreed upon by the Delegates appointed, for the purpose of forming a Provisional Government for a Southern Confederacy, to continue of force until superseded by the organization of a permanent government; and after said Provisional Government shall have been organized, said Delegates shall proceed to form a permanent government for said Confederacy, each State to have one vote in said Convention, and three persons, citizens of this State and qualified voters therein,