Ordinance of Secession of Florida

We, the people of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish and declare: That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the Confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America, and from the existing Government of said States: and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States ought to be and the same is hereby totally annulled, and said union of States dissolved: and the State of Florida is hereby declared a Sovereign and Independent Nation: and that all ordinances heretofore adopted in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded: and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union be and they are hereby repealed.

Done in open Convention, January 10^th. A.D. 1861.

John C. McGehee President.
A.W. Nicholson	S. J. Baker	Jackson Morton	Abraham Kyrkyndale	Allison
A. J. T. Wright	S. B. Stephens	E. E. Simpson	Danl Ladd	John Beard
R. D. Jordan	Freeman B. Irwin		David Lewis	James Kirksey
Adam McNealy	McQueen	McIntosh	Thompson B. Lamar	G. W. Parkhill
Thomas Y. Henry	Saml W. Spencer		J. Patton Anderson	Geo. T. Ward
E. C. Love	D. D. McLean		Thomas M. Palmer	W. G. M. Davis
A. J. Lea	Lewis A. Folsom		William S. Dilworth	Joseph Thomas
W. H. Sever	Green H. Hunter		J. M. Daniel	Mathew Solana
E. P. Barronton	Jas. A. Newman		T. J. Hendrick	Jas. O. Devall
Joseph Finegan	Arthur J. T. Wright		J. P. Sanderson	R. G. Mays
James G. Cooper	Isaac S. Coon		Jas. B. Owens	John C. Pelot
Jas. H. Chandler	John J. Lamb		Summerfield M. G. Gary	James B. Dawkins
David G. Leigh	Isaac N. Rutland		W. McGahagin	William W. Woodruff
James Gettis	Wm. Pinkney		Asa F. Tift	W. B. Yates
S. S. Alderman	Winer Bethel		James L. G. Baker	John Morrison
Alexander L. McCaskill	Joseph A. Collier of Jacksonville
Attest. William S. Harris, Secretary.