BOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 24. 1864.- Refer- 
 red to Special Committee on Impressment?, ami ordered to be printed. 
 
 | l'y Mr. Chilton. 
 
 JOINT RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, in relation to 
 impressments and the schedule of prices fixed by Con- 
 federate Commissioners. 
 
 Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representa- 
 tives of the State of Alabama, in (General Assembly convened. That 
 the right of the Confederate Government to impress the private 
 property of its citizens for the public use. is conceded ; and when 
 the public service requires it, but only in such cases, that right 
 should be exercised, and always, as the Constitution requires, with 
 just compensation to the owner of said property. 
 
 Section 2. Be itjurther Resolved, That the good faith of the 
 government, as well as good policy, requires that the citizens should 
 receive the compensation awarded them for impressed property at 
 the time it is taken; and that the policy which has heretofore been 
 adopted, of paying for impressed property in mere certificates of 
 impressment, which cannot be used, either in the payment of public 
 dues or private debts, is, alike, violation of the rights of the citizen 
 and the constitutional obligations of the government. 
 
 Section 3. Be it further Resolved, That the recent schedule of 
 prices fixed by the Commissioners of the several States is arbitrary, 
 unequal and unjust, and should be immediately revised, filing the 
 rates of compensation upon the basis of a fair market valuation for 
 impressed property in the neighborhood where it is impressed. 
 
 Section 4. B( it further Resolved, That all cer'ificates of in- 
 debtedness issued by the Government, in payment for property 
 taken for public use, should be receivable in payment of public 
 dues. 
 
 otioh • r ). Be it further Resolved, Thar, his Excellency, 
 ernor, be, and he is hereby, requested to forward a copy of 
 these resolutions to each one of our Senators and Representatives 
 in Congress. 
 
 Approved November 29th, r 
 
 CRITABT of Stat j 
 
 Montgomery. Ala., Dee L S 
 
 I hereby certify that the foregoing ifl a true copy from the or' 
 nal rolls on file in my otfice. 
 
 P. H. KRITI •• 
 
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