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 ORDINANCE OF SECESSION. We, the people of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish and declare, That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the Confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America, and from the existing Government of the said States; and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States onght to be, and the same is hereby totally annulled, and said Union of States dissolved; and the State of Florida is hereby declared a Sovereign and Independent Nation; and that all Ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all laws or part of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognized or assent to said Union, be and they are hereby repealed. Which was read and the substitute concurred in, and 100 copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Convention. On motion of Mr. Dawkins of Alachua, the Convention went into Committee of the Whole on the report of the Judiciary Committee.

Some time being spent therein, the Committee rose and reported the ordinance back to the Convention without amendment, and recommended its passage. Mr. Ward of Leon offered the following amendment:

Be it further ordained, That this Ordinance shall not take effect until the Convention shall be advised of the action of the Conventions of Georgia and Alabama. Mr. Allison of Gadsden offered the following as an amendment to the amendment:

Be it further ordained, That the Ordinance of Secession shall not take effect until the Governor of this State is officially informed that the States of Georgia and Alabama have dissolved their connection with the government heretofore known as the United States of America. Be it further ordained, That in case both of said States refuse to secede as aforesaid, then said Ordinance shall not take effect until it has been submitted to the legal voters of the State of Florida and ratified and affirmed by them.

Mr. Daniel of Duval moved to adjourn to 10 o'clock to-morrow morning; Which was lost.

On the question of the adoption of the amendment to the amendment the vote was:

Yeas—Messrs. Alderman, Allison, Baker of Jackson, Beard, Collier, Coon, Davis, Gregory, Hendricks, Henry, Hunter, Kirksey, Lamb, Love, McCaskill, McLean, McNealy, Morrison,