State of Florida Executive Department Tallahassee August 11th 1868 Whereas Section 20, Article 16 of the constitution of this state provides "The Legislature shall at the first session adopt a seal for the state, and such seal shall be of the size of the American silver dollar, but said seal shall not again be changed after its adoption by the Legislature and the Governor shall by his proclamation announce that said seal has become the great seal of the state," And whereas the Legislature of this state at the first session thereof under the new constitution passed an act in the following words, which said act was was approved by the Governor, viz: "Be it resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of Florida that a seal of the size of the American silver dollar having in the center thereof a view of the sun's rays over a high land in the distance, a cocoa tree, a steamboat on the water and an Indian female scattering flowers in the foreground encircled