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 [No. 15.] An Ordinance Amending the Seventh Article of the Constitution of this State, entitled "Militia." Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That the Seventh Article of the Constitution of this State be repealed, and in lieu theseof the following adopted:

1. All Militia Officers shall be elected or appointed under such rules and regulations as the General Assembly may from time to time direct and establish. 2. All offences against the Militia laws shall be tried by Court Martial or before a Court and Jury, as the General Assembly may direct. 3. No commission issued under the act approved December 22, 1859, entitled "An act to amend the Militia and Patrol Laws," or any military commission hereafter to be issued under that or any future act of the General Assembly, shall be vacated except by sentence of Court MrrtialMartial [sic]. Done in open convention January 18th, 1861.

[No. 16.]

Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That the second section of the third article of the Constitution be so amended as to read: That the Governor shall be elected for two years instead of four: Provided, That this ordinance shall not take effect until the election for said officer in the year 1865. Done in open Convention, January 18th, 1861.

[No. 17.]

Be it ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, That there shall be established a Court at Key West in this State, which Court shall have and exercise Admiralty jurisdiction only; that the laws of the late United States applicable to, and heretofore governing the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida, be and the same are hereby adopted for the control and government of said Court; that said Court shall be known as the Court of Admiralty for the Southern District of Florida, and that the limits of its jurisdiction shall