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 make any alternation therein, unless with the assent of at least two-thirds of each house, and unless public notice in one or more newspapers in the State shall have been given for at least three months immediately preceding the Session at which, the same may be applied for," shall be restricted in its operation to private corporations having exclusive privileges or monopolies, and shall not apply to any corporation chartered exclusively for and on behalf of the State, nor to any Internal Improvement, Manufacturing, Steamboat, Express, Telegraph, or other business Company, seeking merely the use of a corporate name and the exemption of its stockholders from individual liability as partners; Which was laid on the table and 80 copies ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison of Gadsden called up the following: 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 office in the year 1865; Which was laid on the table for the present. The President announced that the hour had arrived for the special order of considering the nominations made to this Convention for delegates to a Southern Convention. Mr. Mays moved that the persons nominated by the Governor to this Convention as delegates to the Southern Convention be confirmed collectively; Which was agreed to. Upon the nominations of Mr. Jackson Morton, Mr. J. P. Anderson and Mr. Jas. B. Owen, the vote was: —Mr. President, Messrs. Allison, Barrington, Beard, Chandler, Cooper, Daniel, Davis, Dawkins, Devall, Dilworth, Finegan, Folsom, Gary, Gettis, Glazier, Golden, Hendricks, Henry, Irwin, Jones, Kirksey, Lamar, Lamb, Lea of Madison, Leigh of Sumter, McGahagin, McIntosh, Mays, Nicholson, Pelot, Pinckney, Sanderson, Saxon, Spencer, Solana, Thomas, Tift, Turman and Yates—40. —Messrs. Coon, Hunter, Lewis, Love, McCaskill, McLean, McNealey, Morrison, Newman, Rutland and Stephens—11. The Chair declared Jackson Morton, J. P. Anderson, and Jas. B. Owens, duly confirmed as delegates to said Convention. Mr. Davis of Leon moved to reconsider the vote of confirmation of the Delegates to the Southern Convention, and moved that his motion be laid on the table; Which was agreed to.