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ARTICLE XV. General Provisions. Section 1. The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for
the emancipation of slaves. Section 2. The General Assembly shall have power to pass laws to prevent
free negroes, mulattoes, and other persons of color from immigrating to this
State, or from being discharged from on board any vessel in any of the ports
of Florida. Section 3. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war
against it or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person
shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the
same overt act, or his confession in open court. Section 4. Divorces from the bonds of matrimony shall not be allowed
but by the judgment of a court, as shall be prescribed by law. Section 5. The General Assembly shall declare by law what parts of the
common law, and what parts of the civil law, not inconsistent with this Constitution,
shall be in force in this State. Section 6. The oaths of officers directed to be taken under this Constitution,
may be administered by any Judge or Justice of the Peace of the State of Florida,
until otherwise prescribed by law. Section 7. The Courts of this State shall never entertain jurisdiction of any grants of land, in the Floridas, made by the King of Spain, or by his authority, subsequent to the twenty-fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighteen, nor shall the said Courts receive as evidence, in any case, certain grants said to have been made by the said King of Spain in favor of the Duke of Alagon, the Count Punon Rostro, and Don Pedro de Vargas, or any title derived from either of said Grants.
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