ceptance, whether the same occur or be committed in or out of the State; but the legal disability shall not accrue until after trial and conviction, according to due forfn of lawzot of

3. No person who may hereafter be a bollector or holder of public moneys, shall have a seat in either House of the General Assembly, or be eligible to any office of trust or profit under this State, until he shall havel accounted for and paid into the Treasury, all sums for which he may be accountable

4. No Governor, member of Congress tor of the General Assembly of this State, shall receive a fee be engaged as counsel, agent or attorney, in any civil case or claim against this State, or to which this State shall be a party; during the time he shall remain in office.nivnega bona ud♪ bag beziona ena dĥk!M

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5. No Senator (or Representative: shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the nomes as people.

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6. Members of the General Assembly and all officers, civil or military, before they enter upon the execution of their respective offices, shall take the following oath or affirmation: I do swear (or affirm), that I am duly qualified, according to the Constitution of this state, to exercise the office to which I have been elected (or appointed), and will, to the best of my abilities, discharge the duties thereof, and preserve, defend prot the O Constitution of this State and of the United States of America. 7. Every person shall be disqualified from serving as Governor, Senator, Representative, or from holding any other office of honor or profit in this State, for the term for which he shall have been elected, who shall have been convicted of having given or offered any bribe to procure his election. mort levono Las egas. Laws shall be made by the General Assembly to exclude from office and from suffrage those who shall have been for may hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crime or misdemeanor; and the privilege of suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon, from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practices.ed flad posing on

9. All bivil officers of the States at large shall reside within the State, and all district or coinity officers within their respecactive districts of counties, and shall keep their respective offices dat such places therein as may be required by law.git of opnek, to 10. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to regulate lo by law in what cases, and what deduction from the salaries of public officers shall be made for neglect of duty in their official capacity.

11. Returns of elections for members' of Congress and the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary of State, in manner to be prescribed by law. VOR n

12. In all elections by the General Assembly, the vote shall be viva voce, and in all elections by the people, the vote shall be by ballot, 1940 als de demethyl I

13. No member of Congress or person holding or exercising h any office of profit under the United States, or under any foreign power, shall be eligible as a member of the General Assembly of this State, or hold or exercise any office of profit under the State; and no person in this State shall ever hold two offices of profit at the same time, except the office of Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, Constable and Militia offices. Pr p

14. The General Assembly shall, by law, provide for the ap pointment or election and the removal from office of all officers, civil and military, in this State, not provided for in this Constitution.

15. The power of impeachment shall be vested in the House of Representatives, le due ni bizg oor te me

16. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate, and, when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.

17. The Governor and all civil officers shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this State; but the parties shall nevertheless be liable to indict ment, trial and punishment, according to law.

All which is respectfully submitted.

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D. P. HOGUE,

S. T. OVERSTREET,
W. J. HINES,

100 H. J. PASTEUR.

Which report was received and the accompanying Article was read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on to-morrow.

The Committee on Banking and other Corporations, through their Chairman, Mr. Wright, reported the following article :

1. The General Assembly shall pass no act of incorporation, nor make any alteration in one, 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.

2. No bank charter, nor any act of incorporation granting exclusive privileges, shall be granted for a longer period than twenty years.

3. Banks chartered by the General Assembly shall be restricted to the business of exchange, discount and deposit, and they shall not deal in real estate, nor in merchandise or chattels, except as security for loans or discounts, or for debts due to such. Bank; nor shall they be concerned in insurance, manufacturing, exportation, or importation, except of bullion or specie; nor shall they own real estate, or chattels, except such as shall be necessary for their actual use in the transaction of business, or which may be received in payment of previously contracted debts, or purchased at legal sales to satisfy such debts, of which they shall be required to make sale within three years after the acquisition theroof.

4. The capital stock of any bank shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in suitable instalments, and shall be created only by the payment of specie thereon.

5. All liabilities of such banks shall be payable in specie, and the circulation of no bank shall exceed three dollars for one of capital actually paid in..

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6. No dividends or profits exceeding ten per centum per anon the capital stock paid in shall be made; but all profits, over ten per centum per annum shall be set apart and retained as a safety fund.

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7. Stockholders in a bank, when an act of forfeiture is committed, or when it is dissolved or has expired, shall be individually and severally liable for the redemption of the outstanding circulation, in proportion to the stock owned by each, and no transfer of stock shall exonerate such stockholder from this liability, unless such transfer was made at least one year previous to said forfeiture, dissolution or expiration.

8. Banks shall be open to inspection under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and it shall be the duty of the Gover nor to appoint a person or persons, not connected in any manner with any Bank in the State, to examine at least once a year into their state and condition; and the officers of y Bank 'shall make quarterly returns to the Governor of its state and condition, and the names of the stockholders and shares held by each.

9. Non-user for the space of one year, or any act of a corporation or those having the control or management thereof, or intrusted therewith, inconsistent with, or in violation of the provisions of this Constitution, or of its charter, shall cause its forfeiture; and the General Assembly shall by general law provide a

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a summary process for the sequestration of its effects and assets, and the appointment of officers to settle its affairs, and no forfeited charter shall be restored.

10. The General Assembly shall not pledge the faith and credit of the State to raise funds in aid of any corporation whatever. Which was received and read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Landrum, Mr. Magbee was excused from further attendance on the Convention to-day on account of indisposition.

Mr. Wright offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be tendered to His Excellency William Marvin, Provisional Governor, and to Maj. Gen. Foster, U. S. army, for the facilities afforded by them in the assembling of this body, and that they be invited to a seat on the floor of this Convention;'re out moum, demo

Which was adopted.

On motion, Messrs. Wright, Bush and Maxwell were ap pointed a committee to notify Gov. Marvin and Gen. Foster of the adoption of said resolution.

On motion, the Convention adjourned until to-morrow morn‐ ing, 10 o'clock...

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On motion, the reading of the journal of yesterday was dispensed with and said journal was corrected.

The rule being waived, Mr. Landrum introduced without previous notice an ordinance to ratify marriages between freedmen and freed women and for other purposes;

Which was placed among the orders of the day.
Mr. Long introduced the following resolutions:
Resolution in reference to Jefferson Davis; and,

Resolution in reference to S. R. Mallory, A. K. Allison and D. L. Yulee.

Mr. Davidson offered the following resolution: i a

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to draft suit able resolutions or a petition, praying the President of the Uni ted States to release from imprisonment our fellow citizens Jef ferson Davis, of Mississippi, and Abraham K. Allison, Stephen R. Mallory and David L. Yulee, of Florida, and that the gentleman from Leon, the Hon. Thomas Baltzell, be appointed chairman of said committee.

Which resolution was adopted, and Messrs. Baltzell, Long, Davidson, Spencer and Niblack were appointed a committee in accordance therewith.

On motion of Mr. Long, the resolutions introduced by him were referred to the same committee.

The Committee on the Legislative Department made the fol lowing reportouts esiti in fill

The Committee on the Legislative Department report that it has had under consideration the subjects pertaining to this Department and respectfully submit to the Convention, as the result of their deliberations, the following sections, which shall constitute an article of the Constitution : et et coulaura.

SECTION 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in two distinct branches, the one to be styled the Senate, the other the House of Representatives, and both together, "The General Assembly of the State of Florida," and the style of the laws shall be, "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Florida in General Assembly convened."

SECTION 2. The members of the House of Representatives shail be chosen by the qualified voters, and shall serve for the term of two years, from the day of the general election, and no longer, and the sessions of the General Assembly shall be annual, and commence on the second Wednesday in November in each year.

SEC. 3. The Representatives shall be chosen every two years, on the first Monday in the month of October, until otherwise directed by law.

SEC. 4. No person shall be a Representative unless he be a white man, a citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of the State two years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof a resident of the county for which he shall be chosen, and shall have attained the age of twenty-one years.

SEC. 5. The Senators shall be chosen by the qualified electors, for the term of two years, at the same time, in the same manner, and in the same places where they vote for members of the House of Representatives; and no man shall be a Senator, unless he be a white man, a citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of this State two years next preceding