all after the words "I do swear (or affirm) that I" and before the words "will to the best of my abilities;"

Which motion was agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Baltzell, the Convention reconsidered the vote agreeing to the motion of Mr. Walker.

The question being again taken upon the motion of Mr. Walk er, it was not agreed to.

Mr. Maxwell moved to amend said article by striking out the 2d clause;

Which motion was not agreed to.

The article was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday.

Mr. Wiggins offered the following resolution:

Which was adopted.

Resolved, That the Chairman of each Committee be instructed to call the attention of the Convention to any change proposed in his report to the existing constitutional provisions, previous to the taking of the vote on the adoption of such reports. The article on Banks and other Corporations was read the second time.

Mr. Baltzell moved to amend the article by substituting the following in lieu of the 10th clause:

"Neither the State, nor any City, Town or County, shall either directly or indirectly, make an obligation, guarantee or endorsement in aid of any corporation or private enterprise whatever."

Mr. Bush moved to amend the article by adding the following clause:

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Provided, however, that these provisions shall not operate to prevent the operation of Banks that may be created by the Federal Government under the laws of Congress for that purpose."

On motion, the article and proposed amendments were postponed until Tuesday next and made the special order for that day.

Mr. Magbee moved that the Convention adjourn until Monday, 10 o'clock;

Which was not agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, the Convention took a recess until 3 o'clock, P. M.

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The Convention resumed its session-a quorum present. The report of the Committee on the Legislative Department was taken up and read and the accompanying article was read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday

next.

The article on Census and Apportionment of Representation was read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next.

The article on the Right of Suffrage and Qualifications of Officers was read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next.

The article on the Executive Department was read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next.

The article on Militia was read the first and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next.

The Ordinance in reference to Boundaries was read the second time, and, on motion, was referred back to the Committee on Boundaries.

The article upon the Preamble, Declaration and Bill of Rights was read the second time, and, on motion of Mr. Hogue, the consideration thereof was postponed until the other parts of the Constitution had been reported upon,

The Ordinance to ratify marriages between Freedmen and Freedwomen, and for other purposes, was read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next.

The Ordinance on Public Domain and Internal Improvements was read the second time, and, on motion, the consideration thereof was postponed until Monday next.

On motion, the Convention adjourned until Monday morning, 9 o'clock.

The Convention met pursuant to adjournment-a quorum present.

The Rev. J. E. DuBose officiated as chaplain.

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On motion the reading of the journal of Saturday was dispensed with.

On motion of Mr. Coulter, Mr. William H. Holden, delegate from Orange County, was sworn and took his seat.

Mr. Bush offered the following motion:

That the regular hour of the meeting of this Convention shall be 9 o'clock, A. M.; that if the orders of the day have not been disposed of the Convention will at l 'o'clock, P. M., take a recess until 3 o'clock, P. M., and that this regulation be observed during the balance of the session;

Which was agreed to.

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Mr. Hogue moved that the Committee on Engrossment, &c., be also a Committee on Enrolled Ordinances and authorized to report them as enrolled for the signatures of the President and Secretary of the Convention;

Which was agreed to.

Mr. Johnson moved that Messrs. Niblack and Walker be added to the Committee on Finance, Accounts and State Liabilities, of which Mr. Livingston is chairman.

Upon which, the yeas and nays were called for by Messrs. Johnston and Scott, the vote was:

Yeas-Messrs. Gettis, Johnston and Kelly-3.

Nays Mr. President, Messrs. Baltzell, Bush, Callaway, Coulter, Forman, Green, Hines, Hogue, Lassiter, Leslie, Long, Love, McLellan, Mickler, Niblack, Overstreet, Pasteur, Richard, Richards, Simmons, Taylor, Whidden, Whitchurst, Williams, Wilson and Wright-27.

So the motion was not agreed to.

Mr. Long move that after the word "motions,"" introduction of Ordinances," be inserted in the 18th Rule of the Rules of the House adopted by this Convention;

Which was agreed to.

Mr. Coulter introduced an ordinance to annul all liabilities of the State of Florida incurred between the 10th day of January, 1861, and the 27th day of October, 1865;

Which was placed among the orders of the day.

The rule being waived, Mr. Bush introduced the following ordinance:

An ordinance to annul certain ordinances and resolutions of the last Convention of the people of Florida, and certain acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, passed since the tenth day January, 1861, and to make valid the proceedings of the courts of said State, held since the 10th day of January, 1861, and to legalize marriages solemnized since that date, for other purposes;

was placed among the orders of the day. Mr. Hogue introduced the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to take into consideration the existing law in relation to idleness and vagrancy, and to report by ordinance or otherwise, what action, if any, should be taken by this Convention upon the subject;

Which was adopted.

Mr. Bush from the Committee on the Judicial Department, made the following report:

The committee to which was referred the Judicial Department of the proposed Constitution of the State of Florida report the following provisions as the result of their deliberations for the action of the Convention:

SECTION 1. The judicial power of this State, both as to matters of law and equity, shall be vested in a Supreme Court, Courts of Chancery, Circuit Courts, and Justices of the Peace, provided the General Assembly may also vest such civil or criminal jurisdiction as may be necessary in Corporation Courts, and such other Courts as the General Assembly may establish, but such jurisdiction shall not extend to capital cases.

SEC. 2. The Supreme Court, except in cases otherwise directed in this Constitution, shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which shall be co-extensive with the State, under such restrictions and regulations, not repugnant to this Constitution, as may from time to time be prescribed by law, provided that the said Court shall always have power to issue writs of injunction, mandamus, quo warrants, habeas corpus, and such other remedial and original writs as may be necessary to give it a general superintendence and control of all other Courts.

SEC; 3. The Supreme Court shall be holden at such times and places as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 4. The State shall be divided into convenient Circuits, and for each circuit there shall be a Judge, who shall, after his election or appointment, reside in the circuit for which he has. been elected or appointed, and shall, as well as Justices of the Supreme Court, receive for his services a salary of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, which shall not be diminished during his continuance in office, but the Judges shall receive no fees or perquisites of office, nor hold any other office of profit under the State, the United States, or any other power.

SEC. 5. The Circuit Courts shall have original jurisdiction in all matters, civil and criminal, not otherwise excepted in this Constitution.

SEC. 6. A Circuit Court shall be held in such counties and at such times and places therein as may be prescribed by law, and the judges of the several Circuit Courts may hold Courts for each other, and shall do so when directed by law.

SEC. 7. The General Assembly shall have power to establish and organize a separate Court or Courts of original equity jurisdiction, but until such Court or Courts shall be established and organized the Circuit Courts shall exercise such jurisdiction.

SEC. 8. The General Assembly shall provide by law for the appointment, in each county, of an officer to take probate of wills, to grant letters testamentary of administration and guardianship, to attend to the settlement of the estates of decedents and of minors, and to discharge the duties usually appertaining to Courts of Ordinary, subject to the diretion and supervision of the Circuit Courts, as may be provided by law.

SEC. 9. A competent number of Justices of the Peace shall be, from time to time, appointed or elected in and for each county, in such mode and for such term of office as the General Assembly may direct, and shall possess such jurisdiction as may be prescribed by law; and, in cases tried before a Justice of the Peace, the right of appeal shall be secured under such rules and regula tions as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 19. That there shall be elected, at the time and places prescribed by law, by the qualified electors of the State, a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of this State, who shall reside in this State; and at the same time there shall be elected, by the qualified electors of each of the respective Judicial Circuits of this State, one Judge of the Circuit Court, who shall reside in the Circuit for which he may be elected; and the said Chief Justice and Associate Justices, and Circuit Judges shall continue in office for the term of six years fromunless sooner removed, under the provisions in this Constitution for the removal of Judges by address or impeachment and for wilful neglect of duty or other reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient for impeachment shall remove any of them on the address of two-thirds of the General Assembly: Provided, how ever, That the cause or causes shall be stated at length in such address and entered on the journals of each House: And provi ded further, That the cause or causes shall be notified to such Justice or Judge so intended to be removed, and he shall be admitted to a hearing in his own defence before any vote or votes for such removal shall pass, and in such cases the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered on the journals of each house respectively.

SEC. 11. The said election shall be conducted, and the returns thereof made in the manner prescribed by law for the election of members of Congress.

SEC. 12. That whenever the General Assembly shall create a Chancery Court, under the provisions of this Constitution, the Judges thereof shall be elected in the manner provided in the last two sections of this article, and shall hold their offices and