ARTICLE XVII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1. Any person debarred from holding office in the State of Florida by the third section of the fourteenth article of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which is as follows:

"No person shall be a Senator or Represenative in Congress, or elector of President or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability," is hereby debarred from holding office in this State: Provided, That whenever such disability from holding office shall be removed from any person by the Congress of the United States, the removal of such disability shall also apply to this State, and such person shall be restored, in all respects, to the rights of citizenship as herein provided for electors.

SEC. 2. Any person elected to the Senate of the United` States by the Legislature of this State, or any person elected by the people, or appointed to office by the Governor of the State, or by any officer of the State, under the provisions of the Constitution adopted by the convention of the people, convened on the 25th day of October, 1865, shall not be empowered to hold such office after the same position or office shall have been filled by election or appointment under the provisions of this Constitution. Provided, That all officers holding office under the provisions of the Constitution adopted the 25th day of October, A. D. 1856, and not provided for in this Constitution, shall continue to hold their respective offices, and discharge the duties thereof, until the Governor shall, by his proclamation, declare such offices vacant.

SEC. 3. The several judicial circuits of the Circuit Courts, shall be as follows: The first judicial circuits shall be composed of the counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington and Jackson; the 2d judicial circuit shall be composed of the counties of Gadsden, Liberty, Calhoun, Franklin, Leon, Wakulla and Jefferson; the 3d judicial circuit shall be composed of the counties of Madison, Taylor, Lafayette, Hamilton, Suwanee and Columbia; the 4th judicial circuit shall be

composed of the counties of Nassau, Duval, Baker, Bradford, Clay and St. Johns; the 5th judicial circuit shall be composed of the counties of Putnam, Alachua, Levy, Marion and Sumpter; the 6th judicial circuit shall be composed of the counties of Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk and Monroe; the 7th judicial circuit shall be composed of the counties of Volusia, Brevard, Orange and Dade.

SEC. 4. The salary of the Governor of the State shall be $5,000 per annum; that of the Chief Justice shall be $4 500; that of each Associate Justice shall be $4,000; that of each Judge of the Circuit Court shall be $3,500; that of the Lieutenant-Governor shall be $2,500; that of each Cabinet officer shall be $3,000. The pay of the members of the Senate and House of Bepresentatives shall be $500 per annum, and in addition thereto ten cents per miles for each mile traveled from their respective places of residence to the capital, and the same to reBut such distances shall be estimated by the shortest general public thoroughfare. All other officers of the State shall be paid by fees as per diem fixed by law.

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SEC. 5. The Legislature shall appropriate $2,000 each year for the purchase of such books for the Supreme Court library as the said Court shall direct.

SEC. 6. The salary of each officer shall be payable quarterly upon his own requisition.

SEC. 7. The tribe of Indians located in the southern portion of the State, and known as the Seminole Indians, shall be entitled to one member in each house of the Legislature. Such members shall have all the rights, privileges and remuneration as other members of the Legislature. Such members shall be elected by the members of their tribe, in the manner prescribed for all elections by this Constitution. The tribe shall be represented only by a member of the same, and in no case by a white man: Provided, That the representatives of the Seminole Indians shall not be a bar to the representative of any county by the citizens thereof.

SEC. 8. The Legislature may at any time impose such tax on the Indians as they may deem proper; and such imposition of tax shall constitute the Indians citizens, and they shall thenceforward be entitled to all the priviliges of other citizens, and thereafter be barred of special representation.

SEC. 9. In addition to other crimes and misdemeanors for which an officer may be impeached and tried, shall be included drunkenness and other dissipations; incompetency, malfeasance in office, gambling or any conduct detrimental to good morals, shall be considered sufficient cause for impeachment and conviction.

Any officer when impeached by the Assembly shall be

deemed under arrest, and shall be disqualified from performing any of the duties of his office until acquitted by the Senate. But any officer so impeached and in arrest may demand his trial by the Senate within ten days from the date of his impeach

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SEC. 10. The following shall be the oath of office for each officer in the State, including members of the Legislature: "I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States, and of the State of Florida, against all enemies, domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, loyalty and allegiance to the same, and that I am entitled to hold office under this Constitution. That I will well and faithfully perform all the duties of the office of which I am about to enter: so help me God.”

SEC. 11. The Legislature may provide for the donation of the public lands to actual settlers. But such donation shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one person.

SEC. 12. All county officers shall hold their respective offices at the county seats of their counties.

SEC. 13. The Legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all statutes and laws of general nature. All decisions of the Supreme Court, and all laws and judicial decisions shall be for free publication by any person. But no judgment of the Supreme Court shall take effect and be operative until the opinion of the court in such a case shall be filed with the clerk of said court.

SEC. 14. The Legislature shall not create any office, the term of which shall be longer than four years.

SEC. 15. The Governor, Cabinet and Supreme Court shall keep their offices at the seat of Government. But in case of invasion or violent epidemics, the Governor may direct that the offices of the Government shall be removed temporarily to some other place. The session of the Legislature may be adjourned for the same cause to some other place; but in such case of re. moval, all the Departments of the Government shall be removed to one place. But such removal shall not continue longer than the necessity for the same shall continue.

SEC. 16. A plurality of votes given at an election by the people shall constitute a choice when not otherwise provided for by this Constitution.

SEC. 17. The term of the State officers elected at the first election under this Constitution, not otherwise provided for, shall continue until the first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1873, and until the installation of their successors, excepting the members of the Legislature.

SEC. 18. Each county and incorporated city shall make pro