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RESOLUTIONrelatve to enforcing the sixth section or, the Ihternal Ini-
provement act.
B3e it reoloed by the Sfenate and 11uRe of JRepresentatves Of Trustoos I. li.
the State qf Florida in General Asemnb6ly eonveled, That the Fnnd to enrorcu
Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund be and they are theprovhisonm
hereby authorized and empowered, with fill authority and power, ,
to compel, in such m:ner as they may think most expedient and
proper, the due observance of all the provisions of the sixth
clause of the sixth section of an act to provide for and eneour-
a ge a liberal system of Internal Improvement in this State,, ali-
proved January 6th, 1855.
Patssed the House of Representa~tives Jamry 14, 1860. Pas.ed the Set-
-Ito Janua ry 15, 186., Approved by the Govertr Jauuary 10, 1860.
[No. 12.]
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION on Federal Relations.
WAIiREAM, by the surrender of the armies of the Confederate
States, the State of Florida, in common with her sister States
of the South, was left in a defenceless and helpless condition, Preamble.
after a protracted, bloody and desolating war, by, which the
property of her citizens was in great part destroyed and their
enterprises paralyzed: Am) WHEREAs, the policy to be pur.
sued towards the defeated section became, the all absorbing
'question of the day: A W.WMnUAs, it is urged by ime, that
the South should he dealt with with the :utmost rigor;i that
there should be a general confiscation of the property' of the
South ' that'all, in any degree engaged in or sympathizing
-with the war, should be disfranchised; that tile leaders should
be capitally punished, and that the free blacks and the' few
unionists should be alone entrusted with political power: ANi
'VutnEAs, the policy inaugurated by His Excellency, Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States, with a view to tfie.
early restoration of the Southern States to their former politi-
cal relations with the government of the United States, has
been marked in an eminent degree by wisdom and inagnanim.
ity, and a spirit of conciliation: AND WiIEREAS, the State of
Florida has fully, freely and lionestly met and cancelled all the
specified conditions preliminary to such restoration:](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsfl0258&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)