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Independent Nation: and that all ordinances heretofore adopted in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded: and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union be and they are hereby repealed.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 10th, A. D. 1861.

John C. McGehee President.

[column 1]
A.W. Nicholson [of Escambia County]
S. H. Wright [of Escambia County]
R. D. Jordan [of Holmes County]
Adam McNealy [of Jackson County]
Thomas Y. Henry [of Gadsden County]
E. C. Love [of Gadsden County]
A. J. Lea [of Madison County]
W. H. Sever [of Taylor County]
E. P. Barronton [of Lafayette County]
Joseph Finegan [of Nassau County]
James G. Cooper [of Nassau County]
Jas. H. Chandler [of Volusia County]
David G. Leigh [of Sumter County]
James Gettis [of the 20th Senatorial District]
S. S. Alderman [of Jackson County]
Alexander L. McCaskill [of Walton County]

[column 2]
S. J. Baker [of Calhoun County]
S. B. Stephens [of the 7th Senatorial District]
Freeman B. Irwin [of Washington County]
McQueen McIntosh [of the 5th Senatorial District]
Saml W. Spencer [of Franklin County]
D. D. McLean [of the 4th Senatorial District]
Lewis A. Folsom [of Hamilton County]
Green H. Hunter [of Columbia County]
Jas. A. Newman [of Suwannee County]
Arthur J. T. Wright [of Columbia County]
Isaac S. Coon [of New River County]
John J. Lamb [of Clay County]
Isaac N. Rutland [of the 19th Senatorial District]
Wm. Pinkney [of Monroe County]
Winer Bethel [of Monroe County]
Joseph A. Collier of Jacksonville [of Jackson County. William Harris may have written "of Jacksonville" after his name, not Joseph A. Collier, who was from Jackson County.]
John C. McGehee [of Madison County]

[column 3]
Jackson Morton [of Santa Rosa County]
E. E. Simpson [of Santa Rosa County]
Danl Ladd [of Wakulla County]
David Lewis [of Wakulla County]
Thompson B. Lamar [of Jefferson County]
J. Patton Anderson [of Jefferson County]
Thomas M. Palmer [of Jefferson County]
William S. Dilworth [of Jefferson County]
J. M. Daniel [of Duval County]
T. J. Hendricks [of Clay County]
J. P. Sanderson [of the 16th Senatorial District]
Jas. B. Owens [of Marion County]
Summerfield M. G. Gary [of Marion County]
W. McGahagin [of Marion County]
Asa F. Tift [of Monroe County. Tift's signature looks like "Taft" on the Ordinance, but he is listed as Asa F. Tift on the 1860 Census and in the 1863 Journal of the House of Representatives.]
James L. G. Baker [of Jackson County]

[column 4]
Abraham Kurkindolle Allison [of Gadsden County]
John Beard [of Leon County]
James Kirksey [of Leon County]
G. W. Parkhill [of Leon County]
Geo. T. Ward [of Leon County]
W. G. M. Davis [of Leon County]
Joseph Thomas [of Hamilton County]
Mathew Solana [of St. Johns County]
Jas. O. Devall [of Putnam County]
R. G. Mays [of the 17th Senatorial District]
John C. Pelot [of Alachua County]
James B. Dawkins [of Alachua County]
William W. Woodruff [of Orange County]
W. B. Yates [of Brevard County]
John Morrison [of Walton County]
Attest William S. Harris, Secretary [of Duval County. Harris may have written "of Jacksonville" after his name, not Joseph A. Collier, who was from Jackson County.]