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 votes for Representatives in Congress shall canvass the votes for Governor, and if the Legislature should not meet in the year of the election of Governor, he shall be qualified by any Judge of the Circuit or Supreme Court. Done in open Convention, January 17th, 1861.

[No. 7.] Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That, until otherwise provided by this Convention, all offices, not judicial, which existed in this State under the Constitution and laws of the United States on the 10th day of January of the present year, are hereby created offices by, in and under the authority of the State of Florida; and all persons who held such offices at the time aforesaid are hereby constituted and appointed officers of said State and continued in the offices by them respectively held as aforesaid until they resign to the Governor or be removed by him; and such persons shall receive the same pay and emoluments as such officers as they were entitled to receive under the laws of the United States: Provided, That all persons so authorized to hold offices under the State of Florida shall take an oath of allegiance to this State to be prescribed by law. Done in open Convention, January 17th, 1861.

[No. 8.]

Be it Ordained by the People of the State of Florida, in Convention Assembled, That the Governor of the State of Florida be, and he is hereby authorized to accept the services of any citizens of the State of Florida, who are, at the date of this Ordinance, in either the military or naval service of the late Federal Union, (provided said services are tendered within sixty days after notice of the passage of said Ordinance,) and such persons shall be entitled to such rank as the Governor and Council of State may deem right to accord to them, the same pay and emoluments to which they would have been entitled, had they continued in the service of the late Federal Union; and said persons shall, until otherwise provided by the General