Be it resolved, That the President of this Convention appoint three of this Convention as a Committee, to wait upon his Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Florida, and request that his Excellency report to this Convention how many troops he has raised, for what purpose he has raised them and by whose anthority he raised them.
Mr. Rutland moved that the rules be waived and the resolution be put upon its passage;
Upon which motion the yeas and nays were called for and were:
Yeas—Mr. President, Messrs. Allison, Barrington, Beard, Bethel, Chandler, Coon, Cooper, Daniel, Davis, Gettis, Glazier, Hendricks, Henry, Hunter, Irwin, Jones, Kirksey, Lamar, Lamb, Leigh of Sumter, Lewis, Love, McCaskill, McLean, McNealey, Mays, Morrison, Morton, Newman, Nicholson, Palmer, Parkhill, Rutland, Sanderson, Saxon, Sever, Spencer, Solana, Stephens, Woodruff and Yates—42.
Nays—Messrs. Dawkins, Devall, Finegan, Folsom, Gary, Helvenston, Lea of Madison, McGahagin, Pelot, Pinckney, Tift, Turman and Ward—13.
So the Convention refused to waive the rules.
Mr. Allison of Gadsden, offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be respectfully requested to communicate to the Convention, at as early a moment as possible, all the correspondence he may have had in relation to the seizure of the Forts and Arsenals situated within this State; and also the all circumstances connected therewith.
Which was laid on the table until to-morrow.
Mr. Parkhill of Leon, from the Committe on Militia and Internal Police, made the following report:
The Standing Committee on Militia and Internal Police, to whom was referred an Ordinance to amend the seventh Article of the Constitution of this State, concerning Militia,
REPORT:
Your Committee have examined the said Ordinance and recommend that it do not pass.
In their opinion the seventh Article of our Constitution covers and embraces the ground proposed in the first and second sections of said Ordinance, and as no additional power would be conferred upon the Legislature by the proposed amendment, they can see no necessity for it.
As to the third section, relieving military officers from the disqualifications of the sixth Article of the Constitution, the Convention having refused to repeal said Article, your Committee
