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 1 O'CLOCK, P.M. The Convention resumed its session and proceeded to business. The President announced to the Convention that he had, during the recess, received an important telegraphic dispatch.

Mr. Pelot moved that the lobby be cleared and that the doors be closed, and that the dispatch then be read; Which was agreed to. The Convention then went into secret session.

The Convention resumed business in open Convention. Mr. Davis offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Convention do receive with pleasure the communication which has been made to this body by the State of South Carolina through her Commissioner, signifying to this Convention that South Carolina has assumed the position of an independent sovereignty, and that we, the People of Florida, in Convention assembled, do heartily recognize the correctness and the justice of the act by which South Carolina has assumed the character which she now occupies, and in which, we, the People of Florida, in Convention assembled, do now receive her Commissioner as a free and sovereign State. Which was referred to the Select Committee on South Carolina Relations. Mr. Pelot, from the Committee on Rules, made the following report: Strike out "House" and insert Convention in all places where it may occur. That President be substituted for "Speaker" in all the rules where "Speaker" occurs.

In the 18th rule, strike out the words, "messages from the Senate lying on the table." Strike out the first part of the 23d rule, which requires one day's notice for the introduction of a bill. Strike out the 24th rule and insert in place thereof, Every bill and resolution introduced into this body may be debated, amended, referred or passed the same day. In the 26th rule, strike out in the second line all after the word passed. Strike out all of the 28th rule. "The Governor and such other person as shall be invited by a vote of the Convention," shall be substituted for the 32d rule. In the 34th rule strike out "joint resolutions."

35th. In case of any disturbance or disorderly conduct in the lobby, or in case the Convention should deem it necessary to go into secret session, the President shall have the power to order the doors to be closed. Strike out rules 48, 49 and 50.