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 of this Convention, or until, by proclamation by the Chief Magistrate of the State of Florida, they shall be suspended or discontinued; and that all amounts falling due under said contracts be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury of the State of Florida not otherwise appropriated: Provided, Payment shall not be received by the contractors under existing contracts made by them with the government of the United States.

3d. That the General Assembly of the State of Florida do provide for the appointment or election of a competent person who shall, for the State of Florida, discharge all the duties heretofore performed by the Post Master General of the United States, so far as the same may be applicable to a sovereign State, subject however to such modifications as the said General Assembly may prescribe, and whose duty especially it shall be to negotiate with the proper authorities of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, for the joint payment of the expense of transporting the mails over such routes as may have one of their termini in either of said States and the other in Florida. Done in open Convention January 19th, 1861.

[No. 19.]

Be it Ordained by the People of the State of Florida in Convention Assembled, That the Circuit Courts of this State, until otherwise provided for by the permanent government of a Southern Confederacy, shall, in their respective circuits, possess and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction which were possessed and exercised by the courts heretofore known and designated as the Northern District courts of the United States, and heretofore existing in this State under the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Be it further Ordained, that all unfinished business remaining in said Northern District courts, shall be transferred to the appropriate circuit, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the General Assembly of this State. Done in open Convention January 19th, 1861.

[No. 20.] Be it ordained by the people of the State of Florida, That the Surveyor-General's, the several Inspectors' offices, the Boats and hands at the several Custom Houses, the Navy Agent's office at