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 executive, and striking out word "judicial," 7th line; and striking out word "judicial," in 9th line; and with these amendments they recommend said ordinance be adopted. And your Committee further report, that in their opinion said ordinance numbered 3 is not necessary, inasmuch as the necessary consequence of the independence of the State is the destruction of all foreign power and jurisdiction within her territory, and that the adoption of the ordinance, whereby the separate and independent sovereignty of the State was declared, of itself abolished all jurisdiction heretofore possessed in this State by the government of the United States under the Constitution of the United States. They therefore recommend that the ordinance numbered 3 do not pass. W. G. M. DAVIS, Chairman. Which, on motion, was received and eighty copies of the ordinances reported ordered to be printed for the use of the Convention. Mr. Daniel of Duval, from the Committee on Postal Affairs, made the following report:

The Committee on Postal Affairs respectfully REPORT: That sound policy and a proper regard for the social and commercial intercourse of the country dictate, that all laws concerning Postal arrangements made by the government of the United States while Florida was one of those States, should be treated by the State of Florida as being in full force, so long as the existing government of said remaining States will allow them so to be considered; and until some alterations should be made therein by that government, none should be made by this. But as it is to be apprehended that, (under the new relations now assumed by this State,) great and radical changes in, and most probably an entire suspension of all mail facilities will at an early day be made, it becomes the duty of this Convention to make all needful provisional arrangements for this service. Your Committee, however, see no sufficient reason to think that any such change will be made, so long as Georgia shall remain a member of the existing Confederacy. But as it is now assumed to be as certain as any event yet to take place can be, that Georgia will, within a few days, withdraw herself from said Confederacy, it is reasonable to presume that, after that event, no mail will be dispatched by the existing government to any point within the territory of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or Florida. But we can see no just cause to doubt that the mails will be carried as usual along the existing routes in the States of North Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana, as far as the most Southern Distributing Offices in the two former, and