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That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the Confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America, and from the existing government of said States; and that all political connection between her and the government of said States ought to be and the same is hereby totally annulled and said Union of States dissolved, and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent Nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded, and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union, be and they are hereby repealed.

Done in open Convention, January 10th, 1861.

Be it Ordained by the People of the State of Florida, in Convention Assembled, That until otherwise provided by the General Assembly of the State of Florida, no duties shall be collected upon imports from the States forming the late Federal Union, nor upon the tonnage of vessels, owned in whole or in part by the citizens of said States, nor shall any act of Congress regulating foreign commerce, or prescribing forms to be observed by foreign vessels, be held or deemed applicable to said State.

That all the official acts of the officers in which it is usual and proper to set forth the authority under which they act, the style of the documents hereafter issued by them, or any of them, shall be in the name of the State of Florida: Provided, That these Ordinances shall not go into effect, so far as they may be applicable to any Collector of Customs in this State, until such time as the Governor of said State shall, by public proclamation, have given ten days notice