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 in said courts, shall be subject to the practice and proceedings which now or may hereafter regulate the Circuit Courts of the State. Done in open convention January 15, 1861.

[No. 4.] An Ordinance to remove disabilities arsing under the fifth section of the sixth article of the Constitution. Be it Ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That all persons laboring under any disability from holding office under the fifth section of the sixth article of the Constitution, are hereby reinstated and empowered to hold office, either civil or military, under this State, as fully as if such disability had not atached. Done in open Convention, January 15, 1861.

[No. 5.]

Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That the third and eighth sections of the sixth article of the Constitution of this State be, and the same are hereby annulled. Done in open Convention, January 15, 1861.

[No. 6.]

, The General Assembly has construed the Constitution to mean, that the term of the Governor elect does not commence until October next, after said election: Be it ordained by the people of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That said construction be so altered and changed that the Governor elect of this State shall be inaugurated and take his seat on the second Monday of the first Session of the General Assembly after his election: Provided, That this amendment shall not go into effect until the Session of the General Assembly in 1865; and that the next election for Governor shall be held on the first Monday in October, 1865: Provided further, That the same officers now authorized to canvass the