said Convention to legislate or transact any business whatsoever other than the adoption of a Provisional Government to be substantially on the basis of the Constitution of the late United States, and a permanent Constitution for the Southern Confederacy upon the same basis, and that in the event of the said Convention undertaking on any pretext whatsoever to exercise any powers other than that above enumerated, that our Delegates are instructed to protest against the same, and to declare in behalf of the State of Florida, that such acts will not be deemed binding on this State.
Done in open Convention, January 17th, 1861.
I, William S. Harris, Secretary of the Convention, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinances and resolutions, are copies of ordinances and resolutions passed at the late session of the Convention of the people of Florida, and have received the assent of the President.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand this the 22nd day of January, A.D., 1861.
WILLIAM S. HARRIS,
Secretary of the Convention.
