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 UTS AND RESOLUTIONS 
 
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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS 
 
 FOURTH SESSION 
 
 PROVISIONAL CONGRESS 
 
 CONFEDERATE STATES, 
 
 HELD AT RICHMOND, VA. 
 
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 1862. 
 
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 No. 292.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Authorizing the Transfer of Funds to Foreign Parts. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to 
 transfer and place on deposit, in the hands of any foreign 
 banker, such amount of money, not exceeding two millions 
 of dollars, as the public exigencies may require, and that 
 he be authorized to make the transfer, by remittance of bills 
 or shipment of produce, as he may deem most advantageous. 
 
 Approved November 26, 1861. 
 
 No. 293.] AN ACT 
 
 To admit the State of Missouri into the Confederacy, as a 
 Member of the Confederate States of America. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the State of Missouri be, and is hereby, admitted as a 
 member of the Confederate States of America, upon an 
 equal footing with the other States of the Confederacy, un- 
 der the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the 
 same. 
 
 Approved November 28, 1861. 
 
No. 294.] AN ACT 
 
 To enable the State of Missouri to elect Members of the 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1 . In case the State of Missouri shall adopt and 
 ratify the Constitution for the Permanent Government of 
 the Confederate States of America, the time for holding in 
 said State the first election for members of the House of 
 Representatives, in the Congress of said Confederate States. 
 under said Constitution, shall be such as may be designated 
 by the Legislature of said State; which election shall be 
 conducted, in all respects, according to said Constitution 
 ami the law of said State, then in force for that purpose; 
 and if no provision by law shall have been made for such 
 election, then according to the laws heretofore existing 
 therein for the election of members of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in the Congress of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 2. The State of Missouri shall be entitled to elect 
 thirteen members to the House of Representatives, the same 
 being npon the basis of one member for every ninety thou- 
 sand representative population, and one additional member 
 for a fraction over one half of the ratio aforesaid, under the 
 census of the United States, taken in eighteen hundred and 
 sixty, and being the same basis of representation fixed for 
 the seven original States, in said Constitution for Permanent 
 ( i"\ ernment. 
 
 Approved November 29, 18C1. 
 
 No. 295.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 For the Relief of the "Lumberton Guards," (Company D,) 
 Second Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. 
 
 Wik.rkas, it appears that the Company of Volunteers 
 known as Company D, of the Second Regiment of North 
 Carolina A r olunteers, now serving at Sewcll's Point, in Vir- 
 
ginia, (having been organized prior to the admission of the 
 State of North Carolina into the Confederacy,) was enlisted 
 for the period of six months only, and has been erroneously 
 enrolled for the period of twelve months, 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to 
 discharge the said Company at the expiration of six months 
 from the period when they were sworn in and mustered into 
 the service of North Carolina, according to the terms of 
 their enlistment as aforesaid. 
 
 Approved December 3, 1 SG I . 
 
 No. 296.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Of Thanks to Major-General Sterling Trice, and to the Offi- 
 cers and Soldiers under his command, for Gallant and 
 Meritorious Conduct in the Present War. 
 
 Be it Resolved by the. Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the thanks of the people of the Confederate 
 States are eminently due. and are hereby tendered, to Ma- 
 jor-General Sterling Trice, and the Missouri Army under 
 his command, for the gallant conduct they have displayed 
 throughout their service in the present war, and especially 
 for the skill, fortitude and courage by which they gained 
 the brilliant achievement at Lexington. Missouri, resulting, 
 on the twentieth day of September last, in the reduction of 
 that town and the surrender of the entire Federal Army 
 there employed. 
 
 Beit further resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be 
 communicated by the President to General Trice, and. 
 through him, to the Army then under his command. 
 
 Approved December 3, 1861. 
 
No. 298.] RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Of thanks to Major-General Leonidas Polk, Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral Gideon J. Pillow, Brigadier-General Benjamin F. 
 Cheatham, and the officers and soldiers under their com- 
 mand, for gallant and distinguished services in the present 
 war. 
 
 Whereas, Under the Providence of God, the valor of the 
 soldiers of the Confederate States has added another glorious 
 victory achieved at Belmont, in the State of Missouri, on the 
 seventh day of November last, to those -which had been so 
 graciously vouchsafed to our arms, whereby the reduction 
 of Columbus, in the State of Kentucky, has been prevented, 
 and the contemplated descent of the enemy down the Mis- 
 sissippi river effectually stayed: Therefore 
 
 Be it resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the thanks of Congress are most heartily ten- 
 dered to Major-General Leonidas Polk, Brigadier-General 
 Gideon J. Tillow, Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Cheatham, 
 and the officers and soldiers of their gallant commands, for 
 the desperate courage they exhibited in sustaining for seve- 
 ral hours, and under most disadvantageous circumstances, 
 an attack by a force of the enemy -really superior to their 
 own, both in numbers and appointments; and for the skill and 
 gallantry by which they converte I what at first threatened so 
 much disaster, into a triumphant victory. 
 
 Resohed further, That these resolutions are intended to 
 express what is believed to be the grateful and admiring sen- 
 timent of the whole people of the Confederacy. 
 
 Resolved further, That they be communicated to the com- 
 mands of Major-General Polk, Brigadier-General Pillow, 
 and Brigadier-General Cheatham, by the proper Department 
 of the Government. 
 
 Approved December 6, 1SG1. 
 
 No. 299.] AN ACT 
 
 For the employment of Laundresses in Military Hospitals. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That Superintendents of the different Military Hospitals be, 
 
and they arc hereby, authorized to employ Laundresses for 
 the sick and wounded soldiers, at such rates, and in such 
 numbers, as may be prescribed by the War Department. 
 
 Approved December 7, 1861. 
 
 No. 300.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the appointment of one or more officers to aid 
 the President to sign Commissions in the Army. 
 
 The Congress of tlie Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to delegate 
 power to one or more officers, to be selected by him, to affix 
 the signature of the President to Commissions in the Army. 
 
 Approved December 7, 18G1. 
 
 No. 301.] AN ACT 
 
 For the admission of the State of Kentucky into the Con- 
 federate States of America, as a member thereof. 
 
 Section 1 . The Co?igress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the State of Kentucky be, and is hereby, ad- 
 mitted a member of the Confederate States of America, on 
 an equal footing with the other States of this Confederacy. 
 
 Approved Dec. 10, 1861. 
 
 No. 302. AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the Secretary of War to appoint an Assistant. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, 
 authorized and empowered to appoint an assistant, who shall 
 bo known as the Assistant Secretary of War, who shall per- 
 form such duties as may be assigned him by the Sccretarv, 
 
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 and receive as compensation for his services three thousand 
 dollars per annum. 
 
 Approved, Dec. 10, 1861. 
 
 No. 303.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the appointment of Chief Buglers and Principal 
 Musicians to Regiments in the Provisional Army. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to ap- 
 point a Chief Bugler or Principal Musician, according to 
 corps, to each Regiment in the Provisional Army. 
 
 Approved December 10, 1861. 
 
 No. 304.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the appointment of two additional Clerks and 
 a Draftsman in the Navy Department. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederates States of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is 
 hereby, authorized to appoint one additional clerk, at a salary 
 of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, one other additional 
 clerk at a salary of twelve hundred dollars, and one Drafts- 
 man at a salary of twelve hundred dollars 
 
 Approved January 14, 1862. 
 
 No. 305.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the Enlistment of additional Seamen. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President be authorized to enlist for the war any 
 additional number of Seamen, not to exceed two thousand, 
 that the exigencies of the Naval Service, and the defence of 
 the sea coast and of rivers and harbors may, in his judg- 
 ment, render necessary. 
 
 Approved December 10, 1861. 
 
No. 306.] AN ACT 
 
 Providing for the granting of Bounty and Furloughs to Pri- 
 vates and Non-Commissionecl Officers in the Provisional 
 Army. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That a bounty of fifty dollars be, and the same iB 
 hereby, granted to all privates, musicians and non-commis- 
 sioned officers in the Provisional Army, who shall serve con- 
 tinuously for three years or for the war, to be paid at the 
 following times, to wit: To all now in the service for twelve 
 months, to be paid at the time of volunteering or enlisting, 
 for the next two ensuing years subsequent to the expiration 
 of their present term of service. To all now in the service for 
 three years, or for the war, to be paid at the expiration of 
 their first year's service. To all who may hereafter volun- 
 teer or enlist for three years or for the war, to be paid at 
 the time of entry into service. 
 
 Six. 2. And be it further enacted, That furloughs not ex- 
 ceeding sixty days, with transportation home and back, shall 
 be granted to all twelve months men now in service, who 
 shall, prior to the expiration of their present term of service, 
 volunteer or enlist for the next two ensuing years subsequent 
 to the expiration of their present term of service or for three 
 years or the war; said furloughs to be issued at such times 
 and in such numbers as the Secretary of War may deem most 
 compatible with the public interest ; the length of each fur- 
 lough being regulated with reference to the distance of each 
 volunteer from his home : Provided, That in lieu of a fur- 
 lough, the commutation value in money of the transportation 
 herein above granted, shall be paid to each private, musician 
 or non-commissioned officer, who may elect to receive it. at 
 such time as the furlough itself would otherwise lie granted. 
 
 Sec. 3. This Act shall apply to all troops who have volun- 
 teered or enlisted for a term of twelve months or more in the 
 service of any State, who are now in the service of the said 
 State, and who may hereafter volunteer or enlist in the ser- 
 vice of the Confederate States under the provisions of the 
 present Act. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all troops re-volun- 
 teering or re-enlisting shall, at the expiration of their pre- 
 sent term of service, have the power to re-organize them- 
 
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 selves into companies and elect their company officers, and 
 said companies shall have the power to organize themselves 
 into battalions or regiments and elect their field officers ; and 
 after the first election, all vacancies shall he filled by promo- 
 tion from the company, battalion or regiment in which such 
 vacancies may occur: Provided, That whenever a vacancy 
 shall occur, whether by promotion or otherwise, in the low- 
 est grade of commissioned officers of a company, said vacan- 
 cy shall always he filled by election: And provided further, 
 That in the case of troops which have been regularly enlist- 
 ed into the service of any particular State prior to the for- 
 mation of the Confederacy, and which have by such State 
 been tinned over to the Confederate Government, the officers 
 shall not be elected, but appointed and promoted in the same 
 manner and by the same authority as they have heretofore 
 been appointed and promoted. 
 
 Approved December 11, 1861. 
 
 No. 307.] AN ACT 
 
 To divide the State of Tennessee into three Judicial Dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 . Ti on 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That the State of Tennessee shall constitute 
 three Judicial Districts, to be denominated the Eastern, 
 Middle and Western Districts, the territorial boundaries in 
 which shall be the same as those designated by the laws of 
 the I'nitcd States, before the separation of said State from 
 the Union, 
 
 Sec. ~. There shall be, as heretofore, one District Judge 
 for the whole State, Avhose duty it shall be to hold two terms 
 of his Court every year, in each of said Divisions or Dis- 
 tricts, at the times and places prescribed by law at the time 
 the State withdrew from the United States. 
 
 C. 3. Tt shall be the duty of the President of the Con- 
 federate States to appoint a marshal and attorney, for each 
 of said 1 >istricts. 
 
 Approved December 12, 1861. 
 
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 No. 308.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 To make an advance to the State of South Carolina, on ac- 
 count of her claims against the Confederate State-. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do resolve. 
 That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, 
 and is hereby, appropriated, as an advance on account of 
 any claims of the State of South Carolina upon the Con- 
 federate States ; and that the same be paid to such person as 
 may be authorized by the Legislature of South Carolina, to 
 receive the same. 
 
 Approved December 14, 1861. 
 
 No. 309.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Appointing John D. Morris, of Kentucky, a Receiver under 
 the Act of Sequestration, approved August thirtieth,. 
 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do resolve. 
 That John 1>. .Morris, appointed by the Government of 
 Kentucky, as their special Commissioner, to secure the co- 
 operation of the Confederate States in the sequestration of 
 the property, effects and credits of certain banking corpora- 
 tions of tin' said State, be hereh / clothed with the powers 
 of a receiver, under the Act for the sequestration of the 
 property of alien enemies, approved thirtieth of August. 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, throughout the Confederate 
 St tes, and us such, he alone be authorized to ascertain, 
 seize and sequestrate the property, effects and credits of all 
 the hanking corporations, of the, said State, that may have 
 made loan-, or extended pecuniary aid to the United State-. 
 or the Government of Kentucky, waging war against the 
 Confederate States; ;ind when SO sequestrated, instead 
 of paying the same into the Treasury of the Confederate 
 States, shall account for and pay over the same under bis 
 Commission, to the Government of Kentucky. 
 
 Approved December IG, 1861. 
 
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 No. 310.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the Payment of the Carriers of the Electoral 
 Votes of the Respective States of the Confederacy. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That mileage, at the rate of ten cents a mile and eight 
 dollars per diem, to be computed for the number of days 
 actually required by the ordinary routes of travel to and 
 from the capitals of the respective States to the capital of 
 the Confederacy, be, and are hereby, allowed to the carriers 
 of the electoral votes to the seat of Government. 
 
 Approved December 18, 1861. 
 
 No. 311.] AN ACT 
 
 Further Supplementary to An Act to Authorize the Issue 
 of Treasury Notes, and to Provide a War Tax for their 
 Redemption. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate Stairs of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
 authorized to pay over to the several banks, which have 
 made advances to the Government, in anticipation of the 
 issue of Treasury Notes, a sufficient amount, not exceeding 
 ten millions of dollars, for the principal, of Treasury Notes 
 to pay the principal and interest due upon the said advance, 
 according to the engagements made with them. 
 
 Sec. 2. The time fixed by the said Act, to which this Act 
 is further supplementary, for making assessments, is hereby 
 extended to the first day of January next; and the time for 
 the completion and delivery of the lists is extended to the 
 first day of February next; ami the time for the return of 
 the said lists to the Chief Collector is extended to the first 
 day of March next; and in cases where the time thus fixed 
 shall be found insufficient, the Secretary of the Treasury 
 shall have power to make further extension as circumstances 
 may require. 
 
 Sec. 3. The cash on hand, or on deposit in bank, or else- 
 where, mentioned in the fourth section of said Act, is hereby 
 declared to be subject to assessment and taxation ; and the 
 
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 money at interest, or invested by individuals in the purchase 
 of Bills, Notes, and other securities for money, shall be 
 deemed to include securities Tor money belonging to non- 
 residents, and such securities shall be returned, and the tax 
 thereon paid by any agent or trustee having the same in 
 possession or under his control. The term merchandise shall 
 be construed to include merchandise belonging to any non- 
 resident, and the property shall be returned, and the tax 
 paid by any person having the same in possession as agent, 
 attorney, or consignee. Provided, That the words " money 
 at interest," as used in the Act to which this Act is an 
 amendment, shall be so construed as to include all notes, or 
 other evidences of debt, bearing interest without reference 
 to the consideration of the same. The exception allowed by 
 the twentieth section for agricultural products shall be con- 
 strued to embrace such products only when in the hands of 
 the producer, or held for his account. But no tax shall be 
 assessed or levied on any money at interest when the note, 
 bond, bill or other security taken for its payment shall be 
 worthless from the insolvency ami total inability to pay of 
 the payor or obligor, or person liable to make such payment ; 
 and all securities for money taxable under this Act shall be 
 assessed according to their value, and the assessor shall have 
 the same power to ascertain the value of such securities as 
 the law confers upon him with respect to other property. 
 
 Sec. 4. That an amount of money, not exceeding twenty- 
 five thousand dollars, shall be. and the same is hereby, ap- 
 propriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
 ■ appropriated, to be disbursed under the authority of the Se- 
 cretary of the Treasury, to the Chief State Tax Collectors, 
 for such expenses as shall be actually incurred for salaries 
 of clerks, office hire, stationery and incidental charges ; but 
 the books and printing required shall be at the expense of 
 the Department, and subject to its approval. 
 
 Sec. 5. The lien for the tax shall attach from the date of 
 the assessment, and shall follow the same into every State of 
 this Confederacy; and in case any person shall attempt to 
 remove any property which may lie liable to tax. beyond the 
 jurisdiction of the State, in which the tax is payable, without 
 payment of the tax, the Collector of the District may dis- 
 train upon and sell the same, in the same manner as is pro- 
 vided in cases where default is made in the payment of the 
 tax. 
 
 Sec 6. On the report of any Chief Collector, that any 
 
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 county, town or district, or any part thereof, is occupied by 
 the public enemy, or has been so occupied as to occasion 
 destruction of crops or property, the Secretary of the Trea- 
 sury may suspend the collection of the tax in such region 
 until the same can be reported to Congress and its action 
 had thereon. 
 
 Sec 7. In case any of the Confederate States shall un- 
 dertake to pay the tax to be collected within its limits, before 
 the time at which the District Collectors shall enter upon the 
 discharge of their duties, the Secretaiy of the Treasury may 
 suspend the appointment of such collectors, and may direct 
 the Chief Collector to appoint assessors, and to take proper 
 measures for the making and perfecting the returns, assess- 
 ments and lists required by law ; and the returns, assess- 
 ments and lists so made shall have the same legal validity, 
 to all intents and purposes, as if made according to the pro- 
 visions of the Act to which this Act is supplementary. 
 
 Sec. 8. That tax lists already given, varying from the 
 provisions of this Act, shall be corrected so as to conform 
 thereto. 
 
 Approved December 19, 1S61. 
 
 No. 312.] AN ACT 
 
 Providing for the Transfer of certain appropriations. 
 
 Section I . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That all sums remaining unexpended out of the ap- 
 propriations made by the following acts, to wit : First, "An 
 act making appropriations for the support of the regular 
 army of the Confederate States of America, for twelve 
 months, and for other purposes," approved March eleventh, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one ; Second, " An act making 
 appropriations in addition to those already made for the mil- 
 itary service of the Confederate States of America, for the 
 fiscal year ending the eighteenth day of February, one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and sixty-two," approved May twenty- 
 first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same are 
 hereby, ordered to be transferred for distribution and expen- 
 diture in the manner provided in the second section of an 
 act entitled, "An act making appropriations for the Public 
 
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 Defence," approved on the twenty-first day of August, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Approved December 18, 1861. 
 
 No. 313.] AX ACT 
 
 To establish the date from which the Commissions of certain 
 staff officers shall take effect. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Aim a 
 do enact, That all Surgeons. Assistant Surgeons, Quarter- 
 masters, Commissaries and Assistant Quartermasters and 
 
 Commissaries, appointed and commissioned in the Provision- 
 al Army, and who may have commenced their service before 
 receiving their commissions, shall be entitled to take rank 
 and receive pay from the date when they actually commenced 
 to perform their respective duties, with troops in the service 
 of the Confederacy. 
 
 Approved December 18, 1861. 
 
 No. 314.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Of thanks to Brigadier-General N. G. Evans and the officers 
 and soldiers under lvs command, for their gallant conduct 
 in the battle of Leesburg/*. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it resolved by the Congress of the Confederate 
 States of America, That the thanks of Congress are due, and 
 are hereby tendered to Brigadier-General N. G. Evans, and 
 the officers and soldiers under his command, for the brilliant 
 victory achieved by them over largely superior forces of the 
 enemy in the battle of LeesburgA. 
 
 Approved December 18, 1861. 
 
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 No. 315.] AN ACT 
 
 For the Recruiting Service of the Provisional Army of the 
 Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, 
 authorized to adopt measures for recruiting and enlisting 
 men for companies in service for the War, or three years, 
 which, by the casualties of the service, have been reduced 
 by death and discharges. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of 
 War be, and he is hereby, authorized to detail the company 
 commissioned officers for the above duty, in such numbers 
 and at such times as, in his opinion, will best comport with 
 the public service ; the officers thus appointed to enlist and 
 recruit for their respective companies. 
 
 Approved, December 19, 1861. 
 
 No. 817.] RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Relating to Maryland. 
 
 Whereas, The State of Maryland has suffered the same 
 wrongs which impelled these Confederate States to withdraw 
 from the United States, and is intimately associated with 
 these States by geographical situation, by mutual interest, 
 by similarity of institutions and by enduring sentiments of 
 reciprocal amity and esteem ; and whereas, it is believed 
 that a large majority of the good people of Maryland ear- 
 nestly desire to unite their State with the Confederate . 
 States, a desire which is proved to exist even by the violent, 
 extraordinary and tyrannical measures employed by our 
 enemy to restrain the expression thereof: and whereas, the 
 Government of the United States, by imprisoning members 
 of the Legislature of Maryland, by establishing powerful 
 armies of foreign troops within that State and along, her 
 borders, and by suppressing with armed force the freedom of 
 speech and of elections, has prevented the people and their 
 representatives from adopting the political connection which 
 
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 they prefer, and, in revenge of their preference, has inflicted 
 upon them many outrages, and established over them a for- 
 eign despotism: and whereas, the accession of Maryland to 
 this Confederation will be mutually beneficial, and is essen- 
 tial to the integrity and security of the Confederate Union: 
 be it therefore — 
 
 First. Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the sufferings of the good people of Mary- 
 land, under the oppression of our enemy, excite our pro- 
 found sympathy, and entitle them to speedy and effir 
 exertions on our part for their relief. 
 
 Second. That it is the desire of this Government, by ap- 
 propriate measures, to facilitate the accession of Maryland, 
 with the free consent of her people, to the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Third. That no peace ought to be concluded with the 
 United States, which does not ensure to Maryland the op- 
 portunity of forming a part of this Confederacy. 
 
 Approved December 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 318.] AN ACT 
 
 To Determine the Number of Members the State of Ken- 
 tucky shall be entitled to have in the House of -Represen- 
 tatives of the Congress of the Confederate States, and in 
 relation to the Election and Returns thereof. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the State of Kentucky shall be entitled to 
 have in the House of Representatives of the Congress of 
 the Confederate States, twelve members. 
 
 Sec. 2. These members shall be elected in the manner, at 
 the time, and at the places which have been, or may hereaf- 
 ter be, prescribed by the Legislature of the State, subject 
 to the provisions of the Constitution of the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Sec 3. The persons elected shall be certified by the Gov- 
 ernor. 
 
 Approved December 2 1 , 1861. 
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 No. 319.] AN ACT 
 
 In relation to Taxes on Property which has been, or which 
 is liable to be Sequestered as the Property of Alien 
 Enemies. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the Receivers, 
 under the Sequestration Act, to pay all taxes upon property 
 of alien enemies, which is liable therefor, within their re- 
 spective districts, out of any funds in their hands as Re- 
 ceivers, said payment to be charged to the account of the 
 property upon which the tax has been paid; Provided, how- 
 ever, if it appear to any Receiver that such property, in any 
 case, is not worth more than the taxes for which it is liable, he 
 shall report the facts to the Secretary of the Treasury, whose 
 duty it shall be to instruct the Receiver whether he shall 
 pay the taxes or allow the property to be sold for the taxes. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the Receivers be authorized to sell by order 
 of Court, and in such manner, and upon such terms, as the 
 Court may prescribe, any property within their respective 
 districts, which has been sequestered, or which is liable 
 thereto, for the purpose of raising money for the payment 
 of the taxes aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 3. That whenever a Receiver has not funds in hand, 
 over and above what is necessary for other expenditures, 
 sufficient to pay said taxes, and cannot obtain the same by 
 sale as aforesaid, within the time fixed for the payment of 
 said taxes, he is hereby authorized to give, to the tax col- 
 lector charged with the collection of the taxes, a certificate 
 of the amount due, and he shall specify therein the property 
 upon which the same is due ; and the Secretary of the 
 Treasury shall pay the amount so certified to be due, and 
 shall cause the same to be charged to the Sequestration 
 fund. But the giving of the certificate shall be subject to 
 the same condition precedent as provided in regard to pay- 
 ment in the first section of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury be au- 
 thorized to make agreements with the several States, counties 
 cities and towns for the postponement of the collection of 
 taxes for which the property of alien enemies, sequestered, 
 or liable to be ; and in case any one or more of the States, 
 
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 counties, cities or towns consent to the same, he is hereby 
 empowered to issue certificates for the amount due, bearing 
 interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, which shall 
 bind the Government to pay the same, and -which, when 
 paid, shall be charged to the Sequestration Fund. 
 
 Sec. 5. That whenever the property of an alien enemy 
 sequestered, or liable thereto, has been, or shall hereafter 
 be, sold for taxes, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
 authorized, with the assent of the State in which the pro- 
 perty has been sold, to redeem the same by the payment of 
 the sum or sums required to be paid by citizens in such 
 case, or by the issue of certificates therefor, as herein be- 
 fore provided, should he deem it advisable, and in all such 
 cases, such property shall go into the hands of the Receiver 
 for the district in which the same is situate, and be held and 
 accounted for in the same manner as other sequestered pro- 
 perty; provided the amount of the r.nlemption shall be 
 charged to the Sequestration Fund. 
 
 Approved December 23, 1861. 
 
 No. 321.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend " An Act to Require the Receipt by the Post- 
 masters of the Confederate States of Treasury Notes, in 
 Sums of Five Dollars and upwards, in Payment of Pos- 
 tage Stamps and Stamped Envelopes/' Approved August 
 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That the provisions of " An Act to require the re- 
 ceipt by the Postmasters of the Confederate States, of Trea- 
 sury Notes, in sums of five dollars and upwards, in payment 
 of Postage stamps and stamped envelopes, " approved August 
 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same 
 are hereby, so extended as to require the Postmasters of the 
 Confederate States to receive the Treasury Notes of the 
 Confederate States in payment of postage in sums equal to 
 the denomination of said Treasury Notes, and to receive the 
 same on deposit for advance payment of such postage. 
 
 Approved December 23, 1801. 
 
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 No. 323.] AN ACT 
 
 To Authorize the President to confer Temporary Rank and 
 Command on Officers of the Navy, doing Duty with 
 Troops. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized 
 to confer on any officer of the navy ordered to do duty on 
 shore with troops, such temporary military rank and com- 
 mand, and with such limitations and restrictions as he may 
 deem proper. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any officer of the navy on whom military rank 
 and command shall be conferred, in virtue of the foregoing 
 section, shall retain his rank in the navy, and shall be enti- 
 tled only to the same pay and emoluments that he Avould 
 have received if no such rank and command had been con- 
 ferred on him. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 324.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act entitled An Act to Establish a Uniform 
 Rule of Naturalization for Persons Enlisted in the 
 Armies of the Confederate States of America. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Cot federate S tat es of America 
 do enact, That the provisions of the above recited Act be, and 
 the same are hereby, extended to all persons, not citizens of 
 one of the Confederate States, who are engaged in the naval 
 service of the Confederate States, during the present war 
 with the United States: Provided, however, That the oath 
 therein prescribed may be administered by the Captain or 
 other commanding officer of any national ship, to all per- 
 sons entitled to the benefit of this Act and attached thereto, 
 and that the duties therein imposed upon the Secretary of 
 War, in regard to persons in the military service, shall be 
 performed by the Secretary of the Navy in reference to per- 
 sons in the naval service. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
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 No. 327.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the Appointment of Chaplains in the Navy. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That whenever any vessel of the Confederate States Navy 
 shall be aboul to depart for any point beyond the limits of 
 the Confederate States, the President may, in his discretion, 
 employ a Chaplain for the voyage, who shall receive the 
 same pay and emoluments as Chaplains in the Army. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 328.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for certain Officers of the Revenue Service. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate. States of America do enact, 
 Thai the President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, 
 to employ, during the war, any persons who were officers in 
 the Revenue Service of the United States, but who resigned 
 in consequence of the secession of either of these States, or 
 who may have been removed from office on account of their 
 adhesion to the Confederate States, or any one of them, in 
 such naval or military service as the public interest may re- 
 quire, and at such salary as he may determine : Provided, 
 it shall not exceed the pay to which the officer so employed 
 was entitled to receive from the United States. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1S61. 
 
 No. 329.] AN ACT 
 
 To Authorize the Transfer of a Certain Appropriation. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the unexpended balance of an appropriation made by 
 the Act entitled *'An Act to provide for the pay of officers 
 who have resigned from the United States Navy, and whom 
 it is proposed to add to the Confederate States Navy," ap- 
 
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 proved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 be. and the same h hereby, transferred to the appropriation 
 made in the first section of an Act entitled "An Act mak- 
 ing appropriations for the support of the Navy, for the year 
 ending fourth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 331.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the appointment of additional officers of the 
 
 Navy. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to ap- 
 point the following officers of the Navy, in addition to those 
 heretofore authorized, to wit: two captains; five command- 
 ers; fifty lieutenants; ten assistant paymasters, and thirty 
 assistant surgeons; said appointments to be made from the 
 Navy and from civil life, as the President may sec fit, and 
 to terminate at the end of the war. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 332.] AN ACT 
 
 Making appropriations for the expenses of Government, in 
 the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments, for 
 the year ending eighteen of February, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two. 
 
 Section I . The ( Congress of th e Confederate States of America 
 iL> i unci . That the following sums be, and the same are 
 hereby, appropriated for the objects hereafter expressed, for 
 the year ending the eighteenth of February, eighteen hun- 
 dred and -ixty-two. 
 
Legislative. — For compensation and mileage of members 
 of Congress, seventy-two thousand dollars. 
 
 Executive. — For compensation of private Secretary and 
 Messenger of the President, two hundred and thirty dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Secretary of State, Assistant 
 Secretary of State, Clerks, and Messenger, eight hundred 
 and eighteen dollars and forty-four cents. 
 
 For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, As- 
 sistant Secretary, Comptroller, Auditors, Treasurer and Re- 
 gister, and Clerks and Messengers in the Treasury Depart- 
 ment, twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury 
 Department, three thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of one additional laborer for the Trea- 
 sury Department, one hundred dollars. 
 
 For compensation of Secretary of War. Chief of Bureau. 
 and Clerks and Messengers in the War Department, six 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the War De- 
 partment, ten thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of Secretary of the Navy, and Clerks 
 and Messengers in his office, one thousand and seventy-five 
 dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Navy De- 
 partment, three thousand five hundred dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Post Office 
 Department one thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Attorney General. Assistant 
 Attorney General, Clerks and Messenger in the Department 
 of Justice, four hundred and thirty-four dollars. 
 
 For salary of the Superintendent of Public Printing, 
 five hundred dollars. 
 
 For printing for the several Executive Departments o! 
 the Government, thirty-seven thousand dollars. 
 
 Judiciary. — For salaries of Judges, Attorneys, and Mar- 
 shals, and incidental and contingent expenses of Courts, for- 
 ty-four thousand dollars. 
 
 Miscellaneous. — For compensation of Agents, and for 
 costs of materials, and constructing, repairing and operating 
 telegraph lines, twenty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 I'i i i.ic Debt; — For payment of interest on the Public 
 Debt, three hundred thousand dollars. 
 
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 War Department. — For the pay of officers and privates 
 of the army, volunteers and militia, in the service of the 
 Confederate States, for Quartermaster's supplies of all kinds, 
 transportation, and other necessary expenses, forty-six mil- 
 lions, thirty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For the purchase of subsistence, stores, and commissary 
 property, nine million one hundred and fifty thousand, eight 
 hundred and seven dollars. 
 
 For the ordnance service in all its branches, two million 
 three hundred and forty thousand dollars. 
 
 For the Engineer service, one hundred and thirty-five 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For Surgical and Medical supplies of the Army, two hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 For contingencies of the Army, thirty-four thousand dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For contingent expenses of the Adjutant and Inspector 
 General's office, including office furniture, stationery, printed 
 blanks for the use of the army, postage, telegraphic dis- 
 patches, and so forth, and so forth, six thousand, seven hun- 
 dollars. 
 
 Navy Department. — For provisions, clothing, and con- 
 tingencies in the Paymaster's Department, fifty thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 For contingents enumerated, twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 For medical supplies and surgeon's necessaries, ten thou- 
 sand dollars. 
 
 For equipment and repair of vessels of the nav^, fifty 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For ordnance and ordnance stores, five hundred and fifty 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For purchase and building of steamers and gunboats, for 
 coast defences of the Confederate States, two millions of 
 dollars. 
 
 For repairing and fitting the steamer Merrimac as an 
 iron-clad ship, twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 For floating defences for the Mississippi, five hundred 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For iron and copper for the use of the navy, five hundred 
 and thirty-five thousand [dollars.] 
 
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 For coal for steamers, five hundred thousand dollars. 
 For pay of officers and others employed at the navy yard 
 at Norfolk, Virginia, forty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 333.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplementary to an Act to Authorize the Issue of Treasury 
 Notes, and to Provide a War Tax for their Redemption. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 
 do enact, That the authority granted to the Secretary of the 
 Treasury to issue Treasury Notes by the Act to authorize 
 the issue of Treasury Notes, and to provide a War Tax for 
 their redemption, approved August nineteenth, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-cue, be, and the same is hereby, extended 
 and enlarged, so as to authorize the issue of an additional 
 amount of fifty millions of Treasury Notes of the same 
 character, and subject to the same provisions as the Notes 
 authorized by the said Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Secretary of'the Treasury, with the approval 
 of the President, in addition to the Bonds authorized to be 
 issued by the second section of the said Act, approved 
 August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to which 
 this is supplementary, is hereby authorized to issue Bonds, 
 not to exeeed at any one time an amount of thirty millions 
 of dollars, payable not more than twenty years after date, 
 and to bear an interest not to exeeed six per centum per an- 
 num, interest payable semi-annually; to bo exchanged for 
 Treasury Notes issued under authority of this Act, or of 
 the Act to which this is supplementary ; and said Bonds 
 may, at the option of the holder, be re-converted into Trea- 
 sury Notes, under such rules and regulations as the Secre- 
 tary of the Treasury may prescribe, and the Bonds and 
 Treasury Notes authorized by this Act, to be subject to the 
 same provisions, in all respects, not contrary to the provi- 
 sions of this Act, as the Ponds and Treasury Notes author- 
 
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 ized to be issued by the Act of the nineteenth August, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to which this is supplemen- 
 tary. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 334.] AN ACT 
 
 Making Appropriations to Comply in Part with Treaty 
 Stipulations made with certain Indian Tribes. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appro- 
 priated out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise 
 appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed: 
 
 Creek Indians. — For perpetual annuities for the year 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (under article forty- one of 
 treaty made with the Creeks, July tenth, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-one,) twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars. 
 
 For interest for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 (under article forty-one of said treaty,) and arrearages of 
 same on the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, in the 
 Treasury of the United States, and which should have been 
 invested for educational purposes, twenty-nine thousand dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For annual provision for education for the year eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one, (under article forty-one of said 
 treaty,) seven thousand dollars. 
 
 For annual provisions, (under article forty-one of said 
 treaty,) for wagon makers, smiths and smith-shops, iron and 
 steel, and agricultural purposes, for the year eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-one, and arrearages of same, eleven thousand 
 four hundred and sixty dollars. 
 
 For compensation of delegates who negotiated the treaty, 
 (under article forty-seven of the same,) seven hundred and 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 For the purchase of uniform, sabre, Maynard rifle, and 
 ammunition for principal Chief, (under secret article of said 
 treaty,) two hundred and forty dollars. 
 
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 Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. — For permanent an- 
 nuities, and other amounts, payments and allowances, due 
 July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to the Choctaws, 
 (under article fifty-three of treaty made with the Clioetaws 
 and Chickasaws, July twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one,) ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. 
 
 For interest due July first, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one, on the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, (under 
 same article of said treaty.) held in trust for the Choctaws 
 by the United S ates, under treaty of June twenty-second, 
 eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twenty-five thousand dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For amount of advance agreed to be made to the Choc- 
 taws. (under article sixty-one of said treaty.) fifty thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 For permanent annuity, (under article fifty-six of said 
 treaty.) payable to the Chickasaws, and interest on the in- 
 vestments and funds of the Chickasaws in the Treasury i^\' 
 the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one, twenty-five thousand six hundred and six dollars and 
 eighty-nine cents. 
 
 For advance agreed to be made t > the Chickasaws, (under 
 article sixty-one of said treaty,) two thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of Choctaw and Chickasaw delegates, 
 who negotiated the treaty, (under article sixty-three of the 
 same.) two thousand dollars. 
 
 Seminole Indians. — For arrearages due December thir- 
 tieth, eighteen hundred and sixty, of annual provision for 
 the support of schools, (under article thirty-eight of treaty 
 made with the Seminoles, August first, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-one,) thirteen thousand dollars. 
 
 For arrearages due December thirtieth, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty, of annual provision for agricultural assistance, 
 (under article thirty-eight of said treaty,) two thousand dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For arrearages due December thirtieth, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty, for the support of smiths and smith-shops, (un- 
 der article thirty-eight of said treaty,) two thousand, two 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 For permanent annuity, payable December thirtieth, 
 
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 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (under article thirty-eight 
 of said treaty,) twenty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 For annual provision for the support of schools, payable 
 December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (under 
 same article of said treaty,) three thousand dollars. 
 
 For annual provision for smiths and smith-shops, payable 
 December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (un- 
 der same article of said treaty,) two thousand, two hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 For annual provision for agricultural assistance, payable 
 December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (under 
 same article of said treaty,) two thousand dollars. 
 
 For amount to be expended in the erection of school- 
 houses, (under same article of said treaty,) one thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 For amount to be paid to the heirs of Sally Factor, de- 
 ceased, (under article forty of said treaty,) for negroes killed 
 in Florida, five thousand dollars. 
 
 For amount to be paid to John Jumper, principal Chief, 
 (under article forty-one of said treaty,) for himself, five 
 hundred dollars, and for other delegates to Florida, four 
 thousand, six hundred and fifty dollars — five thousand, one 
 hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Commissioners who negotiated 
 the treaty, (under article forty-two of same,) five hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 Cherokee Indians. — For interest for the year eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one, payable January first, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-two, (under article forty-five of treaty made 
 with the Cherokees, October seventh, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one.) and arrearages of same on permanent general 
 fund of the Cherokees, as invested by the United States, 
 forty-three thousand, three hundred and seventy-two dollars 
 and thirty-six cents. 
 
 For interest for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 payable January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (un- 
 der article forty-five of said treaty,) and arrearages of same 
 on permanent orphans' fund of the Cherokees, as, in part, 
 invested, and, in part, uninvested, by the United States, 
 four thousand, five hundred dollars. 
 
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 For interest for the year eighteen hundred ami sixty-one, 
 payable .Ian nary first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (un- 
 der same article of said treaty.) and arrearages of same on 
 permanent school fund of the Cherokees, as invested by the 
 United States, seventeen thousand, seven hundred and 
 seventy-two dollars. 
 
 For advance agreed to be made to the Cherokees. on ac- 
 count of their lands between the States of Missouri and 
 Kansas, (under article forty-eight of said treaty,) one hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 For moneys due the Cherokee Nation, under the treaty of 
 eighteen hundred and forty-six, as ascertained by article 
 forty-nine of said treatv of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 twelve thousand dollars. 
 
 For nomeys due the treaty party of the Cherokee Nation, 
 or their legal representatives, provided for by tin 1 sixth arti- 
 cle of the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-six. as as- 
 certained by article forty-nine of the said treaty of eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one, ten thousand, three hundred dollars. 
 
 Osagf. Indians. — For two smiths and two assistants, (un- 
 der article twenty-three of treaty made with the Osages, 
 October second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.) for three 
 months ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two. at seventeen hundred and ten dollars per annum. 
 four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 
 
 For houses, shops and tools for same, (under article 
 twenty-three of said treaty.) fifteen hundred dollars. 
 
 For seven hundred and fifty pounds of iron, and eighty- 
 five pounds steel, and coal, for the year eighteen hundred 
 and sixty two. (under article twenty-three of said treaty.) 
 one hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For the hire of one wagon-maker, for three months end- 
 ing February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 (under article twenty-three of said treaty,) at six hundred 
 dollars per annum, one hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For house and shop for same, (under article twenty-three 
 of said treaty,) five hundred dollars. 
 
 For purchase of medicines, (under article twenty-four of 
 said treaty,) for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 two hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
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 For salary of physician for three months, ending February 
 eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at seven hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars, (under article twenty-four of said 
 treaty,) one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 
 
 For purchase of guns and ammunition, to be distributed 
 to the Osagcs, (under article thirty-five of said treaty,) 
 twenty-five hundred dollars. 
 
 For annual addition to school fund for the Osages, paya- 
 ble January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under 
 article forty of said treaty,) five thousand dollars. 
 
 For annual purchase of clothing and other articles, to be 
 distributed to the Osages during the year eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, (under article thirty nine of said treaty,) ten 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For annual interest for the year eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one, on former school fund, payable January first, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (under article forty of said 
 treaty.) one thousand, nine hundred and three dollars and 
 forty-four cents. 
 
 Quapaw Indians, etc — For the purchase of guns and am- 
 munition, to be distributed to the Quapaws, (under article 
 thirty of treaty made with the Quapaws, October fourth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one,) one thousand dollars. 
 
 For the purchase of medicines for the Quapaws, Seneeas, 
 Seneeas and Shawnees, for the year eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two. (under article thirty-one of said treaty,) two hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For compensation of physician for the Quapaws, Seneeas, 
 Seneeas and Shawnees, (under article thirty-one of said 
 treaty,) for three months, ending February eighteenth, eigh- 
 teen hundred and sixty-two, at seven hundred and fifty dol- 
 lars per annum, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and 
 fifty cents. 
 
 For annual provision for the purchase of clothing and 
 other articles for the Quapaws, for the year eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-two, (under article thirty-two of said treaty,) 
 two thousand dollars. 
 
 For hire of one smith and one assistant, (under article 
 thirty-three of said treaty.) for three months, ending Feb- 
 ruary eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at eight 
 hundred and fifty dollars per annum, two hundred and twelve 
 dollars and fifty cents. 
 
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 For house, shop and tools for smith, (under article thirty- 
 three of said treaty.) seven hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For hire of one wagon-maker for Quapaws, (under article 
 thirty-four of said treaty.) for three months, ending February 
 eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. at six hundred 
 dollars per annum, one hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For house, shop, tools and materials for same, (under 
 article thirty-four of said treaty.) seven hundred and fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 For purchase of four wagons, four sets of harness for 
 each, ten yoke of oxen, and ten sets of horse gear complete, 
 (under article thirty-six of said treaty,) one thousand dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For annual provision for purposes of education for Qua- 
 paws. due January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 (under article thirty-seven of said treaty,) twenty-five hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 For annual salaries of first and second Chiefs of Quapaws, 
 due January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under 
 article thirty-eight of said treaty.) two hundred dollars. 
 
 Seneca and Shawnee Indians. — For annual interest due 
 January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the Seneca 
 tribe, on moneys due by the United States, (under article 
 thirty of treaty made with the Senccas, &c, October fourth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one.) twelve hundred and fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 For annual interest due January first, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, to the Senccas and Shawnees, on moneys 
 due by the United States, (under article thirty of said trea- 
 ty,) one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two dollars and 
 ninety-six cents. 
 
 For interest due the Seneca tribe, and the Cayugas among 
 the Senecas and Shawnees, on moneys due them by the State 
 of New York, to wit: one thousand, one hundred and forty- 
 six dollars, due July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one 
 and one thousand, one hundred and fifty-six dollars, due 
 January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under arti- 
 cle thirty-one of said treaty,) two thousand, two hundred and 
 ninety-two dollars. 
 
 For the erection of two school-houses for the Senecas, and 
 the Senecas and Shawnees, (under article thirty-three of 
 said treaty,) two hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
For annual amount to be expended, for the purchase of 
 clothing and other articles, for Senecas, and Senecas and 
 Shawnees, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 (under article thirty-two of said treaty,) two thousand four 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 For salary of male and female teachers, and purchase of 
 stationery and books for Senecas, and Senecas and Shaw- 
 nees, for three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two, at two thousand dollars per annum, 
 (under article thirty-three of said treaty,) five hundred dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For hire of two smiths and two assistants, for three 
 months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two, at one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars, 
 (under article thirty-six of said treaty,) four hundred and 
 twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 
 
 For purchase of coal, twelve hundred pounds of iron, and 
 two hundred pounds of steel, for the year eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, (under article thirty-six of said treaty,) two 
 hundred dollars 
 
 For hire of two wagon-makers for Senecas, and Senecas 
 and Shawnees, for three months, ending February eighteenth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at one thousand, two hun- 
 dred dollars, (under article thirty-seven of said treaty,) 
 three hundred dollars. 
 
 For houses, shops, tools, and materials, (under article 
 thirty-seven,) one thousand dollars. 
 
 For the purchase of guns and ammunition, (under article 
 thirty-nine of said treaty,) to be distributed to the Senecas, 
 and Senecas and Shawnees, one thousand, two hundred dol- 
 lars. 
 
 For medicines for the year eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one, (under article thirty-five of said treaty,) two hundred 
 and fifty dollars. 
 
 Reserve Indians. — For four hundred and one thousand 
 five hundred rations of provisions — the same being daily 
 rations to two thousand, two hundred Indians, at sixteen 
 cents per ration — furnished and to be furnished the Wichita, 
 and other Reserve Indians, by Charles B. Johnson, contrac- 
 tor, from August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 to February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (un- 
 
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 der article fourth of treaty made with Reserve Indians, Au- 
 gust twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.) sixty-four 
 thousand, two hundred and forty dollars. 
 
 For purchase of oxen, wagons, plows, and other imple- 
 ments, (under article fourteen of said treaty,) ten thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 For present purchase of cows, calves, and other stock 
 animals, to be distributed from time to time by agent, (un- 
 der article fourteen of said treaty.) three thousand dollars. 
 
 For hire of smith, assistant and .wagon-maker, for three 
 months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two, at seventeen hundred and ten dollars per annum, 
 (under article sixteen of said treaty,) four hundred and. 
 twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 
 
 For shops for smith and wagon-maker, iron, steel, tools 
 and materials, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) one 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 For purchase of medicines for the year eighteen hundrel 
 and sixty-two, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) four 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 For compensation of physician of Reserve Indians, for 
 three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-two. at seven hundred and fifty dollars per 
 annum, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) one hundred 
 and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 
 
 For pay of ten farmers, for three months, ending Febru- 
 ary eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at five 
 hundred dollars per annum, each, (under article sixteen of' 
 said treaty.) one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For hire of twenty laborers, f< r three months, ending 
 February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at 
 fifteen dollars per month, each, (under article seventeen of 
 said treaty.) nine hundred dollars. 
 
 For subsistence of ten farmers and twenty laborers, for 
 three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-two, (under articles sixteen and seventeen of 
 said treaty,) one thousand dollars. 
 
 For purchase of materials, &C, for the erection of houses 
 for farmers, interpreters and Indians, (under article seven- 
 teen of said treaty.) five hundred dollars. 
 
 Camanche Indians. — For three hundred and twenty-one 
 thousand rations of provisions — the same being daily rations. 
 3. 
 
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 to three thousand Indians, at sixteen cents per ration — fur- 
 nished, and to be furnished, the Camanches, by Charles B. 
 Johnson, contractor, from November first, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-one, to February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two, (under article fifteen of treaty madewith the Ca- 
 manches, August twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty -two,) 
 fifty-one thousand, three hundred and sixty dollars. 
 
 For purchase of oxen, wagons, carts, plows, and other 
 implements, to be distribute^ to the Camanches, (under arti- 
 cle fifteen of said treaty,) five thousand dollars. 
 
 For present purchase of cows, calves, and other stock 
 animals, to be distributed from time to time by the agent, 
 (under article fifteen of said treaty,) twenty-five hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 For hire of smith, striker, and wagon-maker, for three 
 months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two. at seventeen hundred and ten dollars per annum, 
 (under article seventeen of said treaty,) four hundred and 
 twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 
 
 For shops, tools, iron, steel, coal and materials for smith 
 and wagon-maker, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) 
 one thousand dollars. 
 
 For purchase of medicines of Camanches for year eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two, (under article seventeen oT said 
 treaty,) four hundred dollars. 
 
 For compensation of physician for three months, ending 
 February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at 
 seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, (under article 
 seventeen of said treaty,) one hundred and eighty-seven dol- 
 lars and fifty cents. 
 
 For paying individual Seminoles for horses stolen by Ca- 
 manches, (under article twenty-three and schedule B, of 
 said treaty,) three thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven 
 dollars. 
 
 For purchase of materials, &c, for the erection of houses 
 (under article eighteen of said treaty,) five hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three 
 thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, 
 appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, not other- 
 wise appropriated, to provide for the contingencies of office, 
 office rent, &c, of the Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 
 and the contingent expenses, repairs, &c, of the several In- 
 dian Agencies, for nine months, ending February eighteenth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
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 Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That of the aggregate 
 
 amount appropriated by this Act. the sum of two hundred 
 find sixty-five thousand, nine hundred and twenty-seven dol- 
 lars and twenty-five cents ; being the whole amount of ar- 
 rearages, annual payments, and interest due the said several 
 Indians and Tribes, and to lie due by the thirtieth day of Decem- 
 ber, of the present year, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 
 one ; may he paid in coin, if the President shall so direct. 
 And the sum of eighty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 
 for the purchase of coin, if so much be necessary. 
 
 Sfic. 1. And be it further enacted, That the appropriations 
 hereby made may. at the discretion of the President, be forth- 
 with paid into the hands of the proper officers or agents, of 
 the Government and transmitted, in order that they may be 
 promptly paid over to the said tribes of Indians, under the 
 said treaties, when the amendments made by this Gfovern- 
 nteiit shall have been ratified as parts of said several treaties 
 by the respective tribes. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1861. 
 
 No. 33.5.] AX ACT 
 
 Relating to the custody of the returns and certificates of the 
 votes of the Electors for President and Vice-President. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the returns of the votes for President and Vice-Presi- 
 dent by the Electors of the several States, shall be delivered. 
 for the time being, to the Vice-President of the Provisional 
 Government of the Confederate States, who shall deliver the 
 Same to the President pro tempore of the Senate of the Con- 
 federate States on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Approved December 31, 1861. 
 
 No. 336.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for a corps of Engineers for the Provisional Army. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate Statu of America do enact, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to ap- 
 
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 point officers of Engineers in the Provisional Army, to a 
 number not exceeding fifty, and of rank not higher than Cap- 
 tain, whose pay and emoluments shall be the same as those 
 allowed for officers of a like grade in the Permanent Army 
 of the Confederacy, and whose appointments shall expire at 
 the end of the pending war. 
 
 Approved December 31. 1861. 
 
 No. 337.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend "An Act to authorize the President to confer tern- 
 porary rank and command for service with volunteer troops,, 
 on officers of the Confederate Army," approved May twen- 
 ty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Cangress of the Confederate 
 States of America, That the above entitled Act be so amended 
 that, in addition to the power therein granted, the President 
 of the Confederate States be, and he is hereby, authorized to 
 confer temporary rank and command upon officers of the Con- 
 federate Army on duty in the several Bureaus of the Adju- 
 tant and Inspector General, Chief of Engineers and Chief of 
 Ordnance, to cease at the end of the war ; the same to be held 
 without prejudice to the positions in snid Army. 
 
 Approved December 31, 1861. 
 
 No. 338.] AN ACT 
 
 To Provide for the Payment of certain Indian Troops.. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the proper Quartermaster in the Military De- 
 partment of Indian Territory be authorized to pay the offi- 
 cers and men of the company of Creek Mounted Volunteers, 
 raised in the month of August, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one, by authority of the Commissioner of the Confederate 
 States, for local purposes, at the North Fork village, in the 
 Creek country; and of the Cherokee regiments of Colonels 
 Stand Watie and John Drew, and of the Choctaw and 
 
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 Chickasaw regiment of Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, and of 
 the Creek regiment of Colonel Daniel N. Mcintosh, and of 
 the companies of Seminoles raised by the Chief, by authority 
 of the same Commissioner, and of the other troops, called 
 into the service by Colonel Douglas II. Cooper, to aid in 
 suppressing the insurrection of a part of the Creeks, and of 
 any called into service by the Creek A.gent for the same 
 purpose, by direction of the Commissioner, for the times 
 during which all of said troops were in the service, after 
 being organized and before being mustered into the service, 
 in the same manner as if they had been mustered in at tin 
 respective times when they were organized and received bv 
 the Commissioner or either of said officers; which payments 
 shall be made upon special pay rolls for that purpose : Pro- 
 vided, That the allowance in lieu of clothing shall be paid 
 only to such of said officers and men as shall have since 
 been or may be mustered into the service, and time none 
 shall be paid who have deserted or disbanded without per- 
 mission, oi' have taken sides with the insurrectionists among 
 the Creeks. 
 
 Six. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounts of 
 the acting Commissaries and Quartermasters of all said 
 troops shall be settled and paid in the same manner as if 
 the troops with or for which they acted had been regularly 
 mustered into the service at the time when they were organ- 
 ized and received; ami that the debts incurred or moneyi 
 advanced by them, be paid by the Brigade Quartermaster of 
 the 'Brigade commanded by Brigadier-General Albert Pike: 
 Provided further, That said accounts shall be also approved 
 by the said Brigadier-General, and that the prices paid by 
 them be found by him not to have been excessive or exorbi- 
 tant, and the debts to have been contracted in good faith, 
 and the moneys actually advanced. 
 
 Approved December 31, 1861. 
 
 No. 339.] AN ACT 
 
 To Organize the Territory of Arizona. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 .'Jo (./me/. That all that part of the present Territory of New 
 
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 Mexico, included within the following limits, to wit : Be- 
 ginning on the Colorado river, at the parallel of north lati- 
 tude thirty-four degrees, thence with said parallel to the 
 eastern boundary of New Mexico ; thence south with said 
 boundary until it intersects the line of Texas ; and thence 
 with said line to the Rio Grande, and so on to the line of 
 Mexico, on said river, as fixed by the treaty of eighteen hun- 
 dred and fifty-four; thence with the boundary line estab- 
 lished by said treaty between the late United States and 
 Mexico to the Colorado river, thence up the Colorado to the 
 place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, created into 
 a temporary government, by the name of the Territory of 
 Arizona; and nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 
 inhibit the Government of the Confederate States from di- 
 viding said Territory into two or more territories, in such 
 manner and at such times as Congress shall deem oonve- 
 venient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said 
 Territory to any other State or Territory of the Confederate 
 States ; and the institution of slavery in said Territory shall 
 receive all necessary protection, both from the Territorial 
 Legislature and the Congress of the Confederate States : 
 Provided, also, That nothing in this act contained shall be 
 construed to impair the rights of persons or property now 
 pertaining to the Pimos and Maricopas Indians on the Gila 
 river, or the right or claim of the Confederate States to the 
 remainder of the Territory of New Mexico, or to any other 
 territory north of the line of thirty-four degrees north lati- 
 tude. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Executive 
 power and authority in and over said Territory of Arizona, 
 shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for 
 six years, and until his successor shall be duly appointed 
 and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the 
 Confederate States. The Governor shall reside within said 
 Territory, at the seat of government, and shall be com- 
 p.iander-in-chief of the militia thereof: he may grant par- 
 dons and respites for offences against the laws of said Ter- 
 ritory, and reprieves for offences against the laws of the 
 Confederate States, until the decision of the President can 
 be made known thereon ; he shall commission all officers who 
 shall be appointed to office under the laws of said Territory, 
 and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a 
 Secretary of said Territory, who shall reside therein, and 
 
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 hold his office for six years, unless sooner removed by the 
 President of the Confederate States; he shall record and 
 preserve all the laws and proceedings of the Legislature 
 hereinafter constituted, and all the acts and proceedings of 
 the Governor in his Executive Department; he shall trans- 
 mit one Copy of the laws and journals of the Legislature 
 within thirty days after the end of each session, and one copy 
 of the executn e proceedings and official correspondence semi- 
 annually, on the first days of January and July, in each 
 year, to tin- President of the Confederate States, and four 
 copies of the laws to the Vice-President, to he deposited in 
 the libraries of Congress; and in case of the death, remo- 
 val, resignation, or absence of the Governor from the Ter- 
 ritory, tin- Secretary shall he. and he is hereby, authorized 
 and required to execute and perform all the powers and du- 
 ties ol the Governor during such vacancy or absence, or 
 until another Governor shall be duly appointed to fill such 
 vacancy. 
 
 Sec. I. And be it further enacted, That the Legislative 
 power and authority of said Territory shall be vested in the 
 Governoranda Legislative Assembly. The Legislature shall 
 consisl of a Council and House of Representatives. The 
 C Miiicil shall consist of thirteen members, having the quali- 
 fication of voters, as hereinafter prescribed, whose term of 
 office shall continue two years. The House of Representa- 
 tives shall, at its first session, consist of thirteen members', 
 possessing the same qualifications as prescribed for members 
 of the Council, and whose term of office shall continue one 
 year. The number of Representatives may be increased by 
 the Legislature, from time to time, in proportion to the in- 
 crease of the qualified voters. Provided, That the whole 
 number shall never exceed thirty-nine. An apportionment 
 shall be made, as nearly equal as practicable, among the 
 several counties or districts, for the election of the Council 
 and RepresentativcSj giving to each section of the Territory 
 representation in the ratio of its qualified voters, as nearly 
 as may be. And the members of the Council and of the 
 House of Representatives shall reside in. and be inhabitants 
 of, the district or county, or counties for which they maybe 
 elected respectively. The said apportionment shall be based 
 upon the census report of New Mexico for the year I860, 
 made by direction of the late United States. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be if further enacted, That the Governor shall 
 regulate the first election which shall be held for members of 
 
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 the Council and House of Representatives. The first elec- 
 tion shall be held at such time and places, and be conducted 
 in such manner, both as to persons who shall superintend 
 such election and the returns thereof, as the Governor shall 
 appoint and direct, and he shall, at the same time, declare 
 the number of members of the Council and House of Rep- 
 resentatives to which each of the counties or districts shall 
 be entitled under this Act. The persons having the highest 
 number of legal votes in each of the election districts for 
 members of the Council," shall be declared by him to be duly 
 elected to the Council, and the persons having the highest , 
 number of legal votes for the House of Representatives, shall 
 be declared by him to be duly elected members of said 
 House ; and the Governor thereupon shall give to the res- 
 pective members of the Council and the House, so declared, 
 certificates of election, under his official signature. In any 
 case, where it shall be declared, in the first election, that the 
 people have failed to elect, another election shall be ordered, 
 and if any vacancy occurs during the session of the first 
 Legislature, another election shall likewise be ordered by 
 the Governor, under the same rules, to fill such vacancy ; 
 but the first Legislature shall provide by law for all failures 
 to elect, or vacancies which may occur thereafter. And it 
 is hereby provided that no session shall exceed fifty clays ex- 
 cept the first session, which may continue seventy days. 
 And it is further provided that all legislative proceedings 
 shall be conducted in the English language. 
 
 Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That every free white 
 male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one }^ears, who shall 
 be an actual resident of said Territory, and shall possess the 
 qualifications hereinafter prescribed shall be entitled to a 
 vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office 
 in the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and 
 of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the 
 Confederate States : And provided further, That no officer, 
 soldier, seaman or marine, or other person in the army or 
 navy of the Confederate States, or attached to troops in the 
 service of the Confederate States, not being a citizen of said 
 Territory, shall be allowed to vote or hold office in said Ter- 
 ritory. 
 
 Sec 7. And be it further enacted, That the legislative 
 power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects 
 of legislation consistent with the Constitution of the Con- 
 federate States and the provisions of this Act; but no law 
 
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 shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the 
 soil ; no tax shall be imposed upon the property oi' the Con- 
 federate States; nor shall the lands or other property of 
 non-residents he taxed higher than the lands or other 
 property of residents. Every bill which shall have passed 
 the Council and House of Representatives of the said Ter- 
 ritory, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the 
 Governor of the Territory; if he approve, he shall Bign it; 
 but if not, he shall return it. with his objections, to the 
 House in which it originated, who shall enter the objections 
 at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If 
 after such consideration, two-thirds of that House shall 
 agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the ob- 
 jections, to the other 1 1 < > usi-. by which it shall likewise be 
 considered, and. if approved by tWO-thlrds of that House, it 
 
 shall become a law. But in all such cases, the votes of both 
 Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, to be entered 
 on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill 
 
 shall not lie returned by the Governor within si\- days (Sun- 
 day excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the 
 same shall be a law in like manner as if he had Signed it, 
 unless the Legislature, by adjournment, prevent its return, 
 in which ease i! shall not lie a, law: Provided always, That 
 the Governor shall not exercise the veto in cases hereinafter 
 expressly reserved or denied by this Act : Provided further, 
 That the Congress of the Confederate States may, at any 
 time, change, modify, or annul any law that may be passed 
 by the Legislative Assembly, but no change or annulling of 
 the same shall affect or (list nil) any rights acquired previous 
 to the making of such change or alteration. And provided 
 further, That said Congress may. at any time during the 
 existence of said Territorial Government, originate and pass 
 for the people of said Territory any law which Congress 
 may deem expedient or necessary and proper. 
 
 Sec. 8. Ani bs it further enacted, That all Territorial and 
 County officers not herein otherwise provided for. shall be ap- 
 pointed by the Governor, and they shall hold their offices until 
 they are idled by persons appointed or elected conformably 
 to such law as the Legislature shall enact in relation 
 thereto. The Governor shall lay off, for the first election, 
 the election districts for the members of the Council and 
 House of Representatives, where deemed necessary: Pro- 
 vided, alx&ays, That after the first Bession, the Legislature 
 shall exercise the sole power of laying oft' all election districts. 
 
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 Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That no member of the 
 Legislature shall hold or be appointed to any office which 
 shall have been created, or the salary or emoluments of 
 which shall have been increased while he was a member, 
 during the term for which he was elected, and for one year 
 after the expiration of such term ; but this restriction shall 
 not be applicable to members of the first Legislature ; and 
 no person holding a commission or appointment in the mili- 
 tary service of the Confederate States shall be a member of 
 the Legislature, or hold any civil office under the Govern- 
 ment of said Territory. 
 
 Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Judicial power 
 of said Territory shall be vested in a Supreme Court, Dis- 
 trict Courts, Probate Courts, and in Justices of the Peace. 
 The Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and two 
 Associate Justices, any two of whom shall constitute a quo- 
 rum, and who shall hold a term at the scat of government of 
 said Territory annually. They shall appoint a clerk, who shall 
 hold his office during their pleasure, and who shall receive 
 such fees in all cases in said Court, as the Clerk of the Su- 
 preme Court of the Territory of New Mexico is now en- 
 titled to by lav/ ; and they shall hold their offices during the 
 period of six years, and until their successors are duly ap- 
 pointed and qualified. The said Territory shall be divided 
 into three Judicial Districts, and a District Court shall be 
 held in each of said districts by one of the Justices of the 
 Supreme Court at such times and place as may be pre- 
 scribed by law r ; and the said Judges shall, after their ap- 
 pointments, respectively reside in the districts which shall 
 be assigned them. The jurisdiction of the several courts 
 herein provided for, both appellate and original, and that of 
 the Probate Courts and Justices of the Peace, shall be as 
 limited by law. Provided, That Justices of the Peace shall 
 not have jurisdiction of any matter in controversy, when the 
 title or boundaries of land may be in dispute, or where the 
 debt or sum claimed shall exceed one hundred dollars ; and 
 the said Supreme and District Courts respective])'' shall 
 possess chancery as well as common law jurisdiction. Each 
 District Court, or the Judge thereof, shall appoint its clerk, 
 who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the Court for 
 which he shall have been appointed, and who shall also be 
 the Register in Chancery, and shall keep his office at the 
 place where the Court may be held/ Writs of error, bills 
 of exception and appeals shall be allowed in ell cases from 
 
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 the final decision of said District Courts to the Supreme 
 Court, under such regulations as may he prescribed by law. 
 but in no case removed to the Supreme Court shall trial by 
 jury be allowed in said court. Writs of error and appeals 
 from the final decision of said Supreme Court shall be al- 
 lowed, and may be taken to the Supreme Court of the Con- 
 federate States in the same manner and under the same re- 
 gulations as from District Courts of the Confederate States, 
 when the value of the property or the amount in contro- 
 versy to be ascertained by the oath or affirmation of either 
 party or other competent witness, shall exceed one thousand 
 dollars; except only that in all cases involving title to 
 slaves the said writs of error or appeal* shall he allowed and 
 decided by the said Supreme Court without regard to the 
 value of the matter, property or title in controversy'; and 
 except, also, that a, Avrit of error or appeal shall also J)e al- 
 lowed to the Supreme Court of the Confederate States 
 from the decision of said Supreme Court created by this 
 Act, or of any Judge thereof, or of the District Courts 
 created by this Act. or of any Judge thereof, upon any writ 
 of habeas corpus involving the question of personal free- 
 dom; and each of the said District Courts shall have and 
 exercise the same jurisdiction in all cases arising under the 
 Constitution and laws of the Confederate States as is vested 
 in the Circuit and District Courts of the Confederate States ; 
 and the said Supreme and District Courts of said Territory 
 and the respective Judges thereof shall and may grant writs 
 of habeas corpus in adl cases in which the same are granted 
 by the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Confederate 
 States ; and the first six days of every term of said Courts 
 shall be appropriated to the trial of causes arising under 
 the said Constitution and laws; and writs of error and ap- 
 peals in all such cases shall be made to the Supreme Court 
 of said Territory the same as in other cases. The said 
 Clerk shall receive in all cases the same fees which the 
 Clerks of the District Courts of the present Territory of 
 New Mexico receive for similar services until otherwise 
 prescribed by law. The proceedings in all Courts in said 
 Territory shall be conducted in the English language. All 
 Probate Judges in the said Territory shall be appointed by 
 the Coventor, and all Justices of the Peace therein shall be 
 appointed by the dust ices of the Supreme Court. 
 
 Sec. 1 1. And be. it further enacted, that there shall be ap- 
 pointed an Attorney for said Territory who shall continue 
 
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 in office for six years, unless sooner removed by the Presi- 
 dent, who shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dol- 
 lars, payable quarterly, and the same fees as the Attorney 
 General of the present Territory of New Mexico. There 
 shall also 1)3 a Marshal for the Territory appointed, who 
 shall hold his office for six years unless sooner removed by 
 the President, who shall execute all process issuing from the 
 said Courts when exercising their jurisdiction as District 
 and Circuit Courts of the Confederate States ; he shall per- 
 form the duties, be subject to th'3 same regulation and pen- 
 alties, and be entitled to the same fees as the Marshal for 
 the present Territory of New Mexico, and shall, in addition, 
 be paid two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for 
 extra services. 
 
 Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Governor, 
 Secretary, Chief Justice and Associate Justices, Attorney 
 and Marshal, shall be nominated, and by and with the advice 
 and consent of Congress or the Senate, appointed by the 
 President of the Confederate States. The Governor and 
 Secretary to be appointed as aforesaid shall, before they act 
 as such, respectively, take an oath or affirmation before a Dis- 
 trict Judge or some Justice of the Peace in the limits of said 
 Territory duly authorized to administer oaths and affirma- 
 tions, or before the Chief Justice or some Associate Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the Confederate States, to support 
 the Constitution of the Confederate States, and faithfully to 
 discharge the duties of their respective offices ; which said 
 oaths, when so taken, shall be certified by the person before 
 whom the same shall have been taken, and such certificates 
 shall be received and recorded by the said Secretary among 
 the Executive proceedings ; and the Chief Justice and As- 
 sociate Justices, and all other civil officers in said Territory, 
 before they act as such, shall take a like oath or affirmation 
 before the said Governor or Secretary, or some Judge or 
 Justice of the Peace of the Territory, who may be duly 
 commissioned and qualified, Avhich said oath or affirmation 
 shall be certified and transmitted by the person taking the 
 same to the Secretary, to be by him recorded as aforesaid; 
 and afterwards, the like oath or affirmation shall be taken, 
 certified and recorded in such manner and form as may be 
 prescribed by law. The Governor shall receive an annual 
 salary of fifteen hundred dollars as Governor, and five hun- 
 dred-dollars as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The salary 
 of th; Secretary of the Territory shall be the sum of twelve 
 
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 hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly. The Chief 
 Justice and Associate Justices shall each receive an annual 
 salary of eighteen hundred dollars. All salaries shall be 
 paid quarterly at tin- Treasury of the Confederate States. 
 The members of the Legislative Assembly shall be entitled 
 to receive four dollars each per day during their attendance 
 at the sessions thereof, and four dollars each for every twen- 
 ty miles travel in going to and returning from the said 
 sions, estimated according to the nearest usually travelled 
 route There shall lie appropriated annually the sum of 
 one thousand dollars, to he expended by the Governor, to 
 defray the contingent expenses of the Territory ; there shall 
 also lie appropriated annually a sufficient sum to be expeo 1- 
 ed by tie- Secretary of the Territory, and upon an estimate 
 to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the Confed- 
 erate States, to defray the expenses of the Legislative As- 
 sembly, the printing of the laws and other incidental ex- 
 penses j and the Secretary of the Territory shall annually 
 account to the Secretary of the Treasury of the < Jonfederate 
 States for the manner in which the aforesaid sum shall have 
 been expended. 
 
 Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the Legislative 
 Assembly of the Territory of Arizona shall hold its sessions 
 at La Mesilla, which is hereby designated as the seat of gov- 
 ernment of the said Territory, until otherwise provided by law. 
 
 Sec, 14. And be it further enacted, That a Delegate to the 
 Congress of the Confederate States to serve during each Con- 
 gross, may be elected by the voters qualified to elect mem- 
 bers of the Legislative Assembly, who shall be entitled to 
 such rights and privileges as may be provided by the Con- 
 stitution and Laws of the Confederate States. The first 
 election shall be held at such time and places, and be con- 
 ducted in such manner as the Governor shall appoint and 
 direct; and at all subsequent elections, the time ami places, 
 and manner of holding elections shall be prescribed by law. 
 The person having the greater number of legal votes shall 
 be declared by the Governor to be duly elected, and a cer- 
 tificate thereof shall be given accordingly ; and such delegate 
 shall receive mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile, and 
 eight dollars for each day's attendance at the session of 
 Congress. 
 
 Sec. 15. And be it fur/ Iter enacted, That temporarily, and 
 until otherwise provided by law, the Governor of said Ter- 
 ritory- may define the Judicial Districts of said Territory, 
 
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 and assign the Judges who may be appointed for said Terri- 
 tory, to the several Districts, and also appoint the times and 
 places of holding Courts in the several counties or sub-di- 
 visions in each of said Judicial Districts by proclamation to 
 be issued by him ; but the Legislative Assembly at their first 
 or any subsequent session may alter, modify or organize 
 such Judicial Districts, and assign the Judges, and alter the 
 times and places of holding the Courts as to them shall seem 
 proper and convenient. 
 
 Sec. 16. Ani be it further enacted, That the Constitution 
 and all LaAvs of the Confederate States which are not locally 
 inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the 
 Territory of Arizona as elsewhere within the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Sec. 17. And be it farther enacted, That the provisions of 
 this Act be, and are hereby suspended until the President of 
 the Confederate States shall issue his Proclamation, declaring 
 this Act to be in full force and operation, and shall proceed 
 to appoint the officers herein provided to be appointed in and 
 for said Territory. 
 
 Approved January 18, 1862. 
 
 No. 340.] AN ACT 
 
 To make additional Appropriations to defray the Expense of 
 the Public Printing. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the. Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That, in addition to the appropriations heretofore 
 made by law, the following sums be, and the same are here- 
 by, appropriated to pay the expense of the Public Printing 
 up to the eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to-wit: For the War De- 
 partment, twenty thousand dollars; for the Post-Office De- 
 partment, sixteen thousand dollars ; for the Treasury De- 
 partment, five hundred dollars ; for the Department of State, 
 live hundred dollars ; making, in all, the sum of thirty-seven 
 thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Trea- 
 sury not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Approved December 31, 1861. 
 
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 No. 841.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish ;i Mail Route from Hicks' Ford to Lawrence- 
 ville, in Virginia. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact . That the following ad 'itional Post Route be, and 
 the same is hereby, established, namely: From Hicks* Ford, 
 in the county of < rreensville, to Lawrencevilie, in the county 
 of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia. 
 
 Sec. 2. .In/I he if further enacted, That tin- Postmaster- 
 General be hereby authorised to make the first contract for 
 carrying the mail over said route, without the necessity of 
 advertising forbids for said contract, as required by existing 
 law. 
 
 Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its pas- 
 Sage. 
 
 Approved January 2, 1862. 
 
 No. 342.] AN ACT 
 
 To reward the Loyalty of the Principal Chief of the Semi- 
 nole Nation. 
 
 Skciiox 1. The Congress of thi Confederate States of America 
 
 do enact. That the President of the Confederate States be 
 authorized to present to 1 lemha Micco, or John Jumper, a 
 commission, conferring upon him the honorary title of Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel of the army of the Confederate States, but 
 without creating or imposing the duties of actual service Or 
 command, or pay, as a complimentary mark of honor, and a 
 token of good will and confidence in his friendship, good 
 faith and loyalty to this Government, and to procure and 
 present him with a complete uniform of that rank and grade, 
 a sabre and a Maynard rifle, with a liberal supply of ammu- 
 nition for the same. And the sum of two hundred and fifty 
 dollars is hereby appropriated for the purchase of the said 
 uniform and arms. 
 
 Approved January 16, 1S62. 
 
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 No. 343.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for Raising and Organizing, in the State of Mis- 
 souri, additional Troops for the Provisional Army of the 
 Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate 8 tates of America 
 do enact, That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to 
 nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of Con- 
 gress, to appoint and commission in the Provisional Army of 
 the Confederate States, one Major-General and such Briga- 
 dier-Generals to the command of troops, now and hereafter 
 to be raised and organized for the Provisional Army in the 
 State of Missouri, as he may think proper. 
 
 Sec. 2. All officers appointed under the provisions of this 
 Act shall be entitled to receive pay from the date of their 
 respective appointments, and shall be allowed the usual staff 
 appropriate to their rank; and shall be assigned to the duty 
 of raising and organizing Confederate forces in said State, 
 with the view of putting them and their respective com- 
 mands in the field at the earliest practicable period. 
 
 Sec. 3. This Act to take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 The foregoing Act, presented to the President on the 9th 
 of January, 1862, was not approved by him. nor returned 
 to the Congress within ten days (Sundays excepted) after 
 being presented to him ; it therefore became a law on the 
 22d January, 1S62. 
 
 No. 344.] AN ACT 
 
 Making Appropriations for Certain Floating Defences. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Congress of th? Confederate 
 States of America, That the sum of one million of dollars 
 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for floating defences 
 for the Western Rivers, to be expended, at the discretion of 
 the President, by the Secretary of War, or Secretary of the 
 Navy, as he shall direct. 
 
 Approved, January 9, 1862. 
 
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 No. 315.1 RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Of Thatiks to Colonel Edward Johnson, his Officers and 
 Men for Services in the Battle oL Alleghany Mountain. 
 
 First. Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the thanks of Congress are due. and are 
 herebj tendered, to Colonel Edward Johnson, and to the 
 officers and men under his command, for gallant and meri- 
 torious services at the summit of Alleghany Mountain, in 
 Virginia, on the thirteenth day of December, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-one, when for more than six hours, they, 
 with remarkable courage and constancy, sustained an assault 
 made upon their position by fourfold their number, and 
 finally drove the enemy in disorder, and with heavy loss, 
 from the field. 
 
 Sf.com>. That the foregoing resolution he communicated 
 to said command, by the Secretary of War, and be made 
 known in general orders. 
 
 Approved, January 10, 186*2. 
 
 No. 346.] AN ACT 
 
 Making Certain Provisions in Regard to Indian Trust 
 
 Funds. 
 
 Section 1 . The ( 'ongress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That all sums of money, bonds or securities of any 
 kind, belonging to any Indian tribe or tribes, with whom 
 treaties have been, or may be, made by the Confederate 
 States, and of which said sums of money, bonds, and other 
 securities, the Government of the Confederate States is, or 
 may hereafter become, the custodian, as the trustee of such 
 tribe or tribes, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the 
 Confederate States. 
 
 Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of 
 War be, and ho is hereby, authorized to draw his requisition 
 for each and all sums of money deposited in the Treasury, 
 as aforesaid, in favor of said Indians, or any of them, to 
 whom such money may belong, or who may be authorized to 
 receive it. 
 
 Approved, January 10, 1862. 
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 No. 34?.] AN ACT 
 
 Appropriating Two Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand. 
 Six Hundred and Seven Dollars for the Naval Service. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the sum of one hunched and fifteen thousand, six hun- 
 dred and seven dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for 
 the pay of officers of the Navy, on and otf duty, to the first 
 day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and that the 
 further sum of one hundred and eight thousand dollars be, 
 and is hereby, appropriated for the pay of warrant and petty 
 officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, soldiers and boys, and 
 Engineers Department, to the same time, as per estimates of 
 the Secretary of the Navy of the twenty-sixth December, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Approved January 11, 1862. 
 
 No. 348.] AN ACT 
 
 Appropriating Fourteen Millions Eight Hundred and Fifty 
 Thousand Dollars for the Military Service. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the sum of fourteen millions four hundred 
 thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the pay 
 of bounty and transportation, or commutation thereof, for 
 one hundred and fifty thousand men under the Act providing 
 for re-enlistment of twelve months men. 
 
 Sec 2. That the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand 
 dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for expenses under 
 the Act for recruiting recently passed. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the sum of eight hundred dollars be, and is 
 hereby, appropriated for the salary of the Assistant Secre- 
 tary of War, to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and 
 si xi y-two, as per estimates of the Secretary of War, of the 
 twenty-seventh December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Approved January 11, 18G2. 
 
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 No. 350.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplementary to An Act Making Appropriations for Cer- 
 tain Floating Defences, Approved January Ninth, Eigh- 
 teen Hundred and Sixty-Two. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. 
 That the President be, and he is hereby^ authorized to raise 
 a corps for the temporary and special service on the Western 
 waters, to cause to be enlisted a number of men not exceed- 
 ing six thousand, and of such commissioned and non-com- 
 missioned officers, and of such rank, either Naval or Mili- 
 tary, as the President may deem necessary, who shall seve- 
 rally receive such pay and allowances as he may determine. 
 
 Approved January 14, 1862. 
 
 No. 352.] AN ACT 
 
 To Authorize the Secretary of War to Audit and Settle the 
 Claims of Certain Officers therein named. 
 
 The Ccngress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized 
 to audit and settle the claims of all assistant Quartermasters 
 General. Commissaries General and Surgeons, who discharged 
 the duties of said offices, from the date of the transfer of 
 the Battalions or Regiments to which they were attached to 
 the time of the appointment of their successors by the Con- 
 federate Government: Provided, Said officers held commis- 
 sions from their respective States and discharged the duties 
 of said offices under said Commissions, and no other officers*, 
 during the time, were appointed or discharged the duties of 
 the same. 
 
 Approved January 15, 1SG2. 
 
 No. 353.] AX ACT 
 
 To Make the Appointment of Assistant Secretaries of State.. 
 oi the Treasury and of War, Executive Appointments. 
 
 Section 1. Tne Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 
 do enact, That hereafter the appointment of Assistant Secre- 
 
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 tary of State, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and 
 Assistant Secretary of War, shall be made by the President, 
 by and with the advice and consent of Congress. 
 Sec. 2. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved January 16, 1862. 
 
 No. 354.] AN ACT 
 
 To Authorize the Secretary of the Navy to give a Bounty 
 to all Persons Enlisted as Seamen who Enlist for Three 
 Years or for the War. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to give 
 a bounty of fifty dollars to all persons enlisted as seamen, 
 who shall enlist for three years or for the war. And the 
 provisions of this act shall, in like manner, extend to all 
 seamen heretofore enlisted who will extend the term of their 
 enlistment to three years or for the war, said bounty to be 
 paid at the time of said enlistment. 
 
 Approved January 16, 1862. 
 
 No. 355.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplementary to An Act Entitled " An Act to Authorize 
 the Appointment of Additional Officers of the Navy.' 
 Approved December Twenty-Fourth, Eighteen Hundred 
 and Sixty-One. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President is authorized to appoint officers of the 
 regular Navy, to any higher grade under the act above men- 
 tioned, without prejudice to their position under their original 
 appointment. 
 
 Approved January 16, 1862. 
 
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 No. 356.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act entitled " An Act to raise an additional 
 Military Force to serve during the War," approved May 
 eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other 
 purposes. 
 
 Section 1. Thr Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That volunteers offering their service under an Act- 
 entitled " An Act to raise an additional military force to 
 serve during the war," approve 1 May eighth, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-one, may he accepted by the President singly 
 as well as in companies, squadrons, battalions or regiments. 
 
 Sec 2. In all appointments of officers raised under this 
 Act, the field and company officers shall be chosen and ap- 
 pointed in the manner prescribed by the Act entitled, " An 
 Act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to pri- 
 vates and non-commissioned officers in the Provisional Army, ' 
 approved December eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one ; and all vacancies occurring in the said offices after the 
 first election made under this Act, as well as under the Act 
 entitled, " An Act to raise an additional military force to 
 serve during the war,"" approved May eighth, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty-one, shall be filled by promotion, according 
 to grade and seniority, as provided in the said Act of eleventh 
 December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. except in case 
 of disability or other incompetency : Provided, however, 
 That the President be authorized to depart from the pre- 
 scribed rule of promotion in favor of any person specially dis- 
 tinguished by his Commanding General for extraordinary 
 if or some signal act of military skill or gallantry. 
 
 Sec 3. Any vacancies occurring in the ranks of compa- 
 mustered into the Confederate service for three years 
 or for the war, maybe filled by volunteers ; and the com- 
 mander of each of said squadrons, battalions or regiments, 
 organized as aforesaid, may detail one commissioned officer 
 and one non-commissioned officer, and one or more privates, 
 from each company of his command, with the approval of 
 the Brigadier Gejaeral of the brigade to which said squad- 
 ron, battalion or regiment may be attached, to recruit men 
 for said company..: so that the same may contain not more 
 than one hundred and twenty-five, rank and file; and the 
 men so recruited shall be mustered at the time of enrolment 
 
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 and shall be entitled to transportation and subsistence, or 
 commutation of subsistence, till they join their respective 
 companies, and to fifty dollars bounty, to be paid at the 
 time of joining the same. 
 
 Sec. 4. The President be, and he is hereby, authorized 
 to appoint and commission persons as field officers or captains 
 to raise regiments, squadrons,battalions or companies, and the 
 individuals comprising the same shall be mustered at the 
 time of enrolment, and be entitled to pay, transportation 
 and subsistence, from the date of the organization of com- 
 panies ; but the officers so appointed by the President shall 
 not be entitled to any pay or allowance until their respec- 
 tive commands be fully organized and reported to the Secre- 
 tary of War ; and said appointments shall expire if the offi- 
 cer appointed shall not within a reasonable time, not to ex- 
 ceed two months for a company and four months for for a 
 battalion, squadron or regiment, report the corps authorized 
 to be raised by him, organized and ready for duty: Provided, 
 nevertheless, That every officer so commissioned for such pur- 
 pose, shall receive an appointment proportioned to the force 
 he recruits ; And provided, furthermore, That no enlistments 
 under the commission of captains shall be obligatory, unless 
 the number be sufficient to constitute a company. 
 
 Approved January 22, 1S62. 
 
 No. 358.] AN ACT 
 
 For the Relief of A. B. Noyes, Collector of the Port of 
 St. Marks, Florida. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That A. B. Noyes, Collector of the Port of St. Marks, 
 Florida, be allowed, in the settlement of his accounts with 
 the Treasury Department, the sum of seven thousand eight 
 hundred ami eighty-four dollars and eighty-one cents, for 
 and on account of the duties accruing upon a cargo of iron, 
 entered, bonded, and put in warehouse at that Port, on the 
 second day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty, by the 
 Pensacola and Georgia Railroad Company, and which said 
 iron was delivered on the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one, by order of the Governor of said 
 
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 State, to the said Railroad Company, -without the payment of 
 the duties due thereon to the said Collector : Provided, 
 always, That this act shall not be so construed as to waive 
 any rights which the Confederate Spates may have against the 
 State of Florida, for the future payment of the duties so due 
 upon the said railroad iron. 
 
 Approved January 23, 1SG2. 
 
 No. 359.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the Appointment of Officers of Artillery in 
 the Provisional Army and in the Volunteer Corps. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to ap- 
 point, by and with the advise and consent of Congress, in 
 the Provisional Army, and in the Volunteer Corps, officers 
 of Artillery, above the rank of Captain, without refer* 
 to the number of batteries under the actual command of the 
 officers so appointed, not to exceed in number, however, one 
 Brigadier-General for every eighty guns, one Colonel for 
 forty guns, one Lieutenant-Colonel for every twenty-four 
 guns, and one Major for every sixteen guns. 
 
 Approved January 22, 1862. 
 
 No. 360.] * AN ACT 
 
 For the Relief of Dillon Jordan and F. Glackmyer. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the Postmaster-General cause the account of 
 Dillon Jordan and F. Glackmyer, for postal services ren- 
 dered by them respectively, for the Confederate States, at 
 Montgomery, Alabama, and IVnsacola, Florida, between the 
 twenty-ninth day of January and the first June, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one, [to be audited] and that he report to 
 
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 this Congres what sums will be a just and proper com- 
 pensation to said parties respectively for said services. 
 
 Approved January 23, 1862. 
 
 No. 361.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act, entitled "An Act to Collect, for Distri- 
 bution., the Money remaining in the several Post-Offices 
 of the Confederate States, at the time the Postal Service 
 was taken in charge by said Government," approved Au- 
 gust thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That the time limited in said Acts, for presenting 
 claims for Postal Service, be extended to the first day of 
 July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-Gene- 
 ral be, and he is hereby, authorized to collect, either by 
 draft or collection orders, all balances remaining in the hands 
 of Postmasters within the Confederate States, and which 
 they had not paid over at the time the Confederate States 
 took charge of the Postal Service. And the Postmaster- 
 General is hereby authorized to pay over the amounts so 
 collected to any person having claims for Postal Service 
 rendered since the first day of June, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one: Provided, That an accurate account shall be kept 
 in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury, for the Post- 
 Office Department, of all sums collected under this Act, 
 which accounts shall show the amount of money collected, 
 the person from whom collected, and the person to whom 
 paid. 
 
 Sec 3. Be it further enacted, That whatever sum the Post- 
 master-General may collect and pay over, under this Act, 
 for Postal Service rendered since the first day of June, 
 eighteen hundred and. sixty-one, shall be reimbursed out of 
 any money in the Treasury to the credit of the Post-Office 
 Department ; and the sum so reimbursed shall be held as a 
 separate and distinct fund, subject to distribution under the 
 Act to which this is an amendment. 
 
 Approved January 23, 1862. 
 
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 No. 362.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend An Act Entitled " An Act to Establish a Patent 
 Office, and to Provide for the Granting and Issuing of 
 Patents for New and Useful Discoveries, Inventions, Im- 
 provements and Designs," Approved on the twenty-first 
 day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. r Ehe Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 
 do enact. That section forty-nine of the above recited Act 
 be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 
 
 c. 2. And be it further enacted, That every United States 
 patent that was granted and issued to any person, now a 
 citizen of the Confederate States, or avIio shall hereafter be- 
 come so by the accession of new States or Territories, may 
 be revived and continued in full force and effect for the time 
 for which they were originally issued yet unexpired : Pro- 
 vided. Such patents are recorded and a copy of the drawing 
 annexed thereto (if there be a drawing, and if not, a speci- 
 men of the compound or other subject matter, as the case 
 may be) and a model also, if the Commissioner shall deem 
 it necessary, in the Patent Office of the Confederate States. 
 within six months after the close of the present war with 
 the United States; otherwise such patents shall remain null 
 and void ; and all persons claiming the benefit of this sec- 
 tion shall pay to the Commissioner of Patents, for the use of 
 the patent fund, the sum often dollars, and a recording fee. 
 at the rate of ten cents for every hundred Avoids in such 
 patent. That nothing contained in this Act, or that to 
 which it is an amendment, shall be construed to recognize 
 any renewal or extension of any patent granted by the 
 United States heretofore made : Provided, however. That the 
 said patentee shall maintain no suit for a violation of his 
 patent, which violation occurred before the filing of a caveat 
 and the deposit of fees required for the revival of said 
 patent in the Patent Office. 
 
 Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That every instrument 
 of writing conveying any interest — whether it be the whole, 
 a part, or to a specified portion of territory — in and to a 
 United States patent — to any person now a citizen of the 
 Confederate States, or who shall hereafter become so by the 
 accession of new States or Territories, and which was exe- 
 cuted in good faith, prior to the seventeenth day of April, 
 
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 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall lie revived 
 and continued in full force and effect for the term for which 
 the patent, in which an interest is thus held by a citizen of 
 the Confederate States, was originally issued, yet unexpired : 
 Provided, Such instrument of writing shall be recorded in 
 the Patent Office of the Confederate States, within six months 
 after the close of the present war with the United States, 
 and the owner thereof shall deposit in the said office a des- 
 criptive draAving of such character as the Commissioner shall 
 direct, which shall represent the intention or subject matter 
 of the patent to which such instrument of writing relates, 
 or if the invention be a composition of matter, then, in that 
 case, a specimen of the compound, with a written descrip- 
 tion of the method of making and using it, and all persons 
 claiming the benefit of this section shall pay to the Commis- 
 sioner of Patents, for the use of the Patent fund, the sum 
 of ten dollars, and a recording fee, at the rate of ten cents 
 for every hundred words in such instrument of writing : 
 Provided, however, That the Commissioner of Patents shall 
 not admit to record any such instrument, nor shall the same 
 be deemed valid, which has not been recorded in the United 
 States Patent Office, pursuant to the provisions of the 
 eleventh section of the Act of Congress of the fourth day of 
 July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, unless the 
 assignee or owner of such instrument, or his legal represen- 
 tative, shall make oath that it was actually, and in good 
 faith, executed on the day of its date. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty 
 of the Commissioner to endorse on each patent and instru- 
 ment of writing, assigning; interests in the United States 
 Patents as aforesaid, filed for record under the foregoing 
 sections, the date of such filing, and also a certificate under 
 the seal of his office that said patent, or instrument of wri- 
 ting, has been recorded, which certificate shall be evidence 
 of the fact in any court of justice, of the Confederate States, 
 and of the right of the owner thereof to use and enjoy the 
 same, and such patents and instruments of of writing, after 
 they are recorded and certified, shall be returned to the 
 owners thereof. 
 
 Sec 5. And be. it further enacted, That if any such patent, 
 or deed of assignment, as is herein provided for be lost, or 
 cannot be procured from the Patent Office of the United 
 States the person entitled to the same, in whole or in part, 
 or his legal representative, may file for record, with the Com- 
 
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 missioner, an affidavit made before any justice of tlie peace, 
 notary public, or commissioner of any of the courts of the 
 Confederate States, setting forth a description of the patent, 
 the date of the issuance, as nearly as possible, and the subject 
 matter of the patent and the claim, and if there be an as- 
 signment the particulars of the same, which affidavit shall 
 be accompanied by such models, or descriptive drawings, as 
 may be necessary to a proper understanding of the inven- 
 tion, discovery, or design secured by said patent. And said 
 affidavit, -when recorded and certified as aforesaid, shall have 
 the same force, and effect as the recording of the original 
 patent or deed of assignment as hereinbefore provided : 
 Provided, That the fact of the granting and issuance of any 
 such patent or deed of assignment, so alleged to be lost may 
 be controverted cither at law or in equity by any party in- 
 terested : And provided further, That any person desirous of 
 availing himself of the benefits of this Act shall give notice 
 of his intention by publication in the newspaper at the seat 
 of Government of the Confederacy, authorized by law to 
 publish the laws of Congress, which notice shall lie publish- 
 ed weekly for four weeks from the day of application, and 
 shall specify the subject matter of the patent and the pur- 
 pose for which the application is to be made, a copy of which 
 shall be filed in the Patent Office: and for the recording of 
 the affidavit provided for in this section, the Commissioner 
 shall be authorized to charge ten cents for every hundred 
 words therein contained. 
 
 Sec. 6. And be. it further enacted, That no citizen of the 
 Confederate States, nor alien, unless he be a citizen of the 
 United States, shall be debarred from receiving a patent for 
 any invention or discovery, as provided in the Act approved 
 on the twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred 
 and sixty-one, to which this is additional, by reason of the 
 same having been patented in a foreign country more than 
 six months prior to his application: Provided, That the 
 same shall not have been introduced into public ami com- 
 mon use in the Confederate States prior to the application 
 for such patent : And provided, also, That in all cases every 
 such patent shall be limited to the term of fourteen years 
 from the date or publication of such foreign patent. 
 
 Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take 
 effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved January 23, 1862. 
 
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 No. 363.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In reference to the Arms of the Volunteers for Twelve 
 
 Months. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the military exigencies of the Confederate States ren- 
 der it absolutely necessary that the arms of the volunteers 
 now in the service should be kept within the control of the 
 President of the Confederate States ; so that whenever the 
 present volunteers shall be discharged from service, the arms 
 may be placed in the hands of others. 
 
 Approved January 22, 1862. 
 
 No. 364.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the President to call upon the several States 
 for Troops to serve for Three Years or During the War. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the first section of the Act of March sixth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and is hereby, so modi- 
 fied as to authorize the President to call upon the several 
 States, in his discretion, for any number of troops, not ex- 
 ceeding, in the aggregate, the number heretofore authorized, 
 to serve for the term of three years or during the war. 
 
 Sec. 2. In making such requisitions, the President shall 
 take into consideration the number of troops from each State 
 already enlisted for the war at the time of the requisition, 
 and shall, as far as practicable, equalize the same amongst 
 the States according to their respective white population. 
 
 Approved January 23, 1862. 
 
 No. 365.] AN ACT 
 
 To Increase the Clerical Force of the Post-Office Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That there shall be added to the permanent clerical 
 
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 force of the Fost-Office Department five clerks, each of whom 
 shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per year, 
 and five clerks, at a salary of one thousand dollars each per 
 year. 
 
 Sec. 2. That fifteen additional clerks may he appointed, 
 in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury, for the Post- 
 Office Department, five of whom shall receive a salary of 
 twelve hundred dollars each per year, and ten shall receive 
 a salary of one thousand dollars per annum each; and it 
 may be lawful for the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post- 
 Office Department to appoint one of the clerks in said office 
 to sign said Auditor's name, so as to frank mail matter au- 
 thorized by law to*be franked by said Auditor; and said 
 clerk shall be subject to all the pains and penalties for vio- 
 lating the franking privilege now provided by law with re- 
 spect to other officers entitled to such privilege. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-Gene- 
 ral be. and lie is hereby, authorized to appoint one additional 
 messenger for the Post-Office Department, at a compensa- 
 tion not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum, and two 
 additional laborers, at a compensation not exceeding one 
 dollar and a half per day. 
 
 Approved January 23, 1862. 
 
 No. 367.] AN ACT 
 
 To Appropriate Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars 
 to Pay for Ordnance, Ordnance Stores and Equipments. 
 
 The Congress of Vie Confederate Steitcs of America do enact, 
 That the sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
 he, and is hereby, appropriated for the payment of Ordnance, 
 Ordnance Stores and equipments, including outstanding bills, 
 and to meet expenditures to the first of April next for the 
 defences of the Mississippi River; to be expended under 
 the direction of the Navy Department, according to the es- 
 timate of the Secretary of the Navy of the twelfth Decem- 
 ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Approved January 27, 1SG2. 
 
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 No. 368.] AN ACT 
 
 To Establish an Assay Office at New Orleans. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the President is authorized to appoint an 
 assayer at NeAV Orleans, whose duty it shall be to assay and 
 certify the fineness and value of such gold and silver as may 
 be submitted to him to be assayed. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said assayer shall execute a bond to the Con- 
 federate States, with sufficient sureties, in such sum as shall 
 be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, to discharge 
 the duties of his office, and shall take oath faithfully to dis- 
 charge the same, and to support the Constitution of the 
 Confederate States ; thereupon the Secretary of the Trea- 
 sury shall place in his charge and subject to his use, so much 
 of the Mint Edifice at New Orleans, and of the tools and 
 implements therein, as the said Secretary shall deem proper 
 for the said office ; subject, however, to be returned when- 
 ever it may be deemed expedient for the general purposes of 
 the Mint. 
 
 Sec 3. The whole expense of the assaying establishment 
 shall be defrayed by the assayer ; and in order to defray the 
 same and to receive a reasonable compensation for his ser- 
 vices, he shall be entitled to retain from all metals or ores 
 submitted to him for assay, such seignorage or charge as 
 will enable him to receive an annual salary not exceeding 
 three thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec 4. It shall be the duty of such assayer to keep in 
 good order the rooms or buildings, tools and other property, 
 and to restore the same to the Confederate States in like 
 condition ; he shall hold his office for two years, and may 
 employ under him, at such rates as he may agree upon, such 
 workmen and inferior officers as he may see fit. 
 
 Sec o. The said assayer shall, from time to time, as he 
 may be required by the Secretary of the Treasury, make an 
 accurate report of all proceedings at his office in such form 
 as may be required by the said Secretary ; and he and his 
 officers and subordinates shall, at all times, be subject to 
 such orders and regulations as said Secretary may, from 
 to time, make or direct. 
 
 Approved January 27, 1862. 
 
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 No. 369.] AN ACT 
 
 To Authorize the Change of the Names of Vessels in cer- 
 tain cases. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That it shall he lawful for the purchaser of any 
 vessel, sold under a decree of Court as Prize of War, to 
 alter the name thereof, and to fcfestow on the same such 
 name as he may deem proper; which change of name shall 
 be duly certified, on the papers and titles of such vessel, by 
 the Collector of the Port where such sale was made. 
 
 Approved January 27, 1862. 
 
 No. 370.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for recruiting companies now in the service of 
 the Confederate States for twelve months. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of thz Con fcdei'ate States of America 
 do enact, That all companies of volunteers, now in the service 
 of the Confederate States under enlistment for the term of 
 twelve months, may be recruited by enlisting, or receiving 
 volunteers for three years or the war, to a number not to 
 exceed one hundred and twenty-five, rank and file, and com- 
 panies so recruited shall, at the expiration of the term of 
 service of the original company elect their commissioned 
 officers; and vacancies thereafter occurring in the commis- 
 sioned offices of such companies, shall be filled by promo- 
 tion of said commissioned officers, except that vacancies in 
 the lowest grade of such offices, shall be filled by election. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Colonel or commanding officer of the several 
 regiments, battalions and squadrons enlisted for twelve 
 months as aforesaid, may detail one commissioned officer and 
 not exceeding two privates of each company, to recruit for 
 their respective companies, and the officers and privates so 
 detailed, shall be entitled to transportation while so engaged, 
 and the recruits so enlisted shall be entitled to pay, transpor- 
 tation and subsistence from the time and place of enlistment, 
 together with the sum of fifty dollars, as a bounty, upon 
 joining their respective companies. 
 
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 Sec. 3. The original volunteers, in such companies, re- 
 enlisting, according to the terms of the Act entitled "An Act 
 providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to pri- 
 vates and non-commissioned officers in the Provisional Army, 
 may re-enlist in, and form part of the companies to be re- 
 cruited as herein provided; and when all the companies 
 composing the regiment, battalion, or squadron as aforesaid, 
 shall by recruiting as aforesaid, or by re-enlistment and re- 
 cruiting, as aforesaid, have attained at the date of the expira- 
 tion of the term of service of the original companies, the num- 
 ber required by law for a company, the number and designation 
 of such regiment, battalion, or squadron, may continue, or 
 such of said companies as are complete at that date, may reor- 
 ganize into new regiments, battalions, or squadrons, or at- 
 tach themselves to other regiments, battalions or squadrons; 
 and in all such cases the field officers shall be elected, and 
 vacancies thereafter occurring in such field offices shall be 
 filled by promotion, as directed by the act aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 4. Companies organized by re-enlisted twelve months 
 volunteers, under the act aforesaid, may be recruited to the 
 number of one hundred and twenty-five, in the manner pres- 
 cribed in the second section of this act. 
 
 Sec 5. Where, at the date of the expiration of the term 
 of service of the original company, the number of recruits 
 and enlisted men may not amount to the minimum number 
 required for a company, the recruited men may combine 
 with recruits of other companies in like situation, so as to 
 form complete companies ; and in default of such combina- 
 tions, the said recruits may be assigned or distributed to other 
 companies, from the State in which such recruits were enlisted. 
 
 Sec 6. The Secretary of War shall make all needful rules, 
 to carry into effect the foregoing provisions. 
 
 Approved January 27, 1862. 
 
 No. 371.] AN ACT 
 
 For the Relief of the State of Missouri. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby di- 
 rected to issue to the State of Missouri, upon the application 
 
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 of the Fund Commissioners for said State, one million dol- 
 lars in Treasury notes upon the condition that the said State 
 of Missouri deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury of 
 the Confederate States an equal sum in the bonds of the 
 Slate of Missouri, authorized to be issued under an act of 
 the Legislature of said State, entitled " An Act to provide for 
 the defence of said Jitatc. and for other purposes," which bonds 
 shall be held by tmr Secretary of the Treasury until the 
 accounts of the State of Missouri for advances made for 
 military purposes are adjusted as Congress may direct. 
 
 Six. 2. That upon the final adjustment of the accounts of 
 the State of Missouri against the Confederate States, the 
 sum hereby advanced shall be deducted from the amountfound 
 due to said State. 
 
 Sec 3. The sum hereby appropriated shall be applied by 
 the State of Missouri to the payment of troops in the ser- 
 vice of the said State prior to their muster into the Confede- 
 rate service. 
 
 Approved January 27, 1862, 
 
 No. 372.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act supplemental to an Act to establish the 
 Judicial Courts of the Confederate States of America, 
 approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the first section of the above entitled Act be, 
 and the same is hereby, repealed ; and to the end that the 
 causes mentioned in said first section of the Act to which 
 this Act is an amendment, may be brought to trial without 
 unnecessary expense and delay, it shall be lawful for the 
 Judges of the several District Courts to interchange with 
 each other temporarily, and the Judge, whose interest in, or 
 connection with, the causes aforesaid, pending in the Dis- 
 trict Court in which he presides, renders him incompetent to 
 try such causes, shall request such interchange with the 
 Judge of an adjoining District, and the Judge so requi 
 shall, without delay, enter upon such interchange; and the 
 acts and decisions of Judges so presiding by interchange 
 with each other shall be as valid as if done and performed in 
 the Districts for which they were severally appointed. 
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 Sec. 2. The Judges so presiding by interchange, as afore- 
 said, shall cause it to be entered on the records of the Courts 
 in which they so preside, that such interchange has been 
 made according to this Act. 
 
 Approved January 29, 1862. 
 
 No. 373.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act, entitled "An Act to Provide for the Pub- 
 lic Defence," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 d) enact, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the 
 Public Defence," approved sixth March, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-one, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that 
 the provisions of the second section of said Act, limiting 
 the term for which the militia may be called into service, to 
 a period not exceeding six months, shall not apply to men 
 drafted into service by the several States, and furnished by 
 said States to the President, for service for three years or 
 during the war, in response to requisitions made upon said 
 States according to law. 
 
 Approved January 29, 1862. 
 
 No. 374.] AN ACT 
 
 To Aid the State of Kentucky, and for Other Purposes. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate S tates of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby di- 
 rected to issue to the State of Kentucky, upon the applica- 
 tion of the Governor and Council of the Provisional Gov- 
 ernment of said State, the sum of two millions of dollars in 
 Treasury notes, to be expended by said Governor and Coun- 
 cil in raising and organizing, for the Confederate service, 
 troops in said State, supplying the same with clothing, sub- 
 sistence, transportation, arms and ammunition. 
 
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 Sec. 2. The sum appropriated by the first section of this 
 Act is to be drawn from the Treasury of the Confederate 
 States, by the Governor of Kentucky, with the approval of 
 the President of the Confederate States, from time to time, 
 and iii such sums as the Governor of Kentucky may need to 
 carry out the objects of this appropriation, the Governor 
 filing, before making his requisitions upon the Treasury, 
 with the Seer -timates showing the purposes 
 
 and objects to which said sums of money are to be applied.. 
 
 Approved January 29, 1862. 
 
 No. 375.] AN ACT 
 
 To explain An Act entitled " An Act to amend An Act en- 
 titled -An Act to establish a Patent Office, and to provide 
 for the granting and issue of Patents for new and useful 
 discoveries, inventions, improvements and designs," ap- 
 proved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the Act passed by the Congress, entitled "An Act to 
 amend an Act, entitled An Act to establish a Patent Office, 
 and to provide for the granting and issue of Patents, for new 
 and useful discoveries, inventions, improvements and de- 
 signs," approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one, be construed and understood as if the words "be 
 deposited" occurred in the eig] teenth line of the enrolled 
 act, the title whereof is 4 given and set forth fully in this act; 
 the said words "be deposited" to be placed and read next, 
 after the word "necessary" in said line. 
 
 Approved February 3, 1S02. 
 
 No. 376.] AN ACT' 
 
 To transfer funds from the Quartermasters to the Ordnance 
 Department. 
 
 The Congress of the Con [(derate States of America do enact, 
 That three millions of dollars of the sum heretofore appro- 
 
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 priated to the service of the Quartermaster's Department 
 and yet unemployed be, and the same is hereby, transferred 
 and appropriated to the service of the Ordnance Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Approved January 30, 1862. 
 
 No. 378.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplemental to An Act entitled " An Act providing for the 
 granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and non- 
 commissioned officers in the Provisional Army." 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate Staffs of America do enact, 
 That the provisions of the above entitled act, so far as the 
 same are applicable to re-enlistment of twelve months vol- 
 unteers, be, and the same are hereby, extended to troops now 
 in the service of any State for a term not less than three 
 months, who may re-enlist in the service of the Confederate 
 States, according to provisions of said act, for a term which 
 added to their present term of service may amount to three 
 years. 
 
 Approved February 3, 1862. 
 
 No. 379.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize certain financial arrangements at the Treasury. 
 
 Whereas, by the act entitled " an act supplementary to 
 an act to authorize the issue of Treasury Notes, and to pro- 
 vide a War Tax for their redemption," Approved December 
 twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, Treasury 
 Notes to an amount not exceeding thirty millions of dollars 
 were authorized to be converted into Bonds bearing interest 
 at the rate of six per cent, per annum, which bonds should, 
 at the option of the holders be re-convertible into Treasury 
 Notes ; but no appropriation of Treasury Notes to be ex- 
 changed for said bonds, was made. Now the Congress of 
 the Confederate States of America do enact, That any Treasury 
 Notes in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, are hereby 
 
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 appropriated and may be applied by the Secretary of the 
 Treasury to the redemption of said Bonds. And be it fur- 
 ther enacted, That for the purpose of providing such coin as 
 may be required for the use of the Government, the sum of 
 two millions of dollars is hereby appropriated, to be drawn 
 and applied by the Secretary of the Treasury from time to 
 time, as the public exigencies may require. 
 
 Approved February 3, 1S62. 
 
 No. 380.] AN ACT 
 
 Making appropriations for the payment of certain interest 
 due, severally, to the Banks at Memphis, on advances 
 made by them to Major-General Leonidas Polk, for the 
 benefit of the public service. 
 
 Whereas, it appears from the communication of the 
 President of the Confederate States of America, of the 
 
 eleventh of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. that 
 the following sums are respectively due to certain Banks in 
 the city of Memphis, Tennessee, for interest due on certain 
 moiuip* by them advanced to Major-General Leonidas Tolk, 
 for the interest of the public service, viz : Bank of West 
 Tennessee, two thousand, seven hundred and sixty dollars 
 and ninety-four cents ; Bank of Memphis, one thousand fifty 
 dollars; Branch of Union Bank, one thousand, three hundred 
 dollars and sixty-six cents ; Branch of State Bank, six hun- 
 dred and sixty-four dollars ; and Planters Bank, six hundred 
 and ninety dollars and eighty-three cents, amounting in the 
 aggregate to the sum of six thousand four hundred and 
 sixty-six and forty-three one hundredths dollars, the account 
 of which, as being due to said Banks, respectively, as above 
 set forth, is approved by Major-General Leonidas Polk, and 
 its payment recommended by himself and the Secretary of 
 War: Then fore the Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America elo enact, That there be appropriated out of any 
 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
 year ending on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two, the sum of six thousand, four hun- 
 dred and sixty-six and forty-three one hundredths dollars ; 
 which said sum shall be distributed by the Secretary of the 
 
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 Treasury amongst said several Banks, respectively, in ac- 
 cordance with the amounts so shown to be due to them by the 
 foregoing statement. 
 
 Approved February 3, 1862. 
 
 No. 381.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Supplemental to the resolution entitled " A Resolution ap- 
 pointing John D. Morris, of Kentucky, a receiver under 
 the Act of Sequestration," approved August thirtieth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and -which was approved 
 by the President on the sixteenth of December, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do resolve, 
 That in all cases in any Court of the Confederate States in- 
 stituted by authority of the above mentioned Resolution, 
 whenever it shall appear to the Court that the documentary 
 evidence, or witnesses, necessary to establish the facts al- 
 leged in the Petition, and authorize the judgment of the 
 Court, are situated within the territorial limits occupied by 
 the public enemy, the Court may, in its discretion, admit on 
 the hearing the following articles of documentary 'and testi- 
 monial proof: First, a copy of any report or enunciation of 
 the Bank that it had loaned or extended pecuniary aid to the 
 United States or the Government of Kentucky, waging war 
 against the Confederate States ; and such report or enun- 
 ciation may be read from what shall appear to be a copy, or 
 statement of its substance in the journals or Session acts of 
 the Legislature of Kentucky, or from any periodical journal 
 of the State published within the dominions of the enemy, 
 or testimonial proof of the substance of the contents of 
 such documents. Second, Testimonial proof in parol, in 
 letters or any other form of paper writing, of the admission 
 of the President or Cashiers of the Bank, that such loan or 
 pecuniae aid had been made or afforded to the enemy. 
 Third, Circumstantial evidence of facts from which the facts 
 necessary to make out the case are fairly inferable. But 
 in every case the offer of such proof shall be accompanied 
 
with the affidavit of the Receiver that he believes the facts 
 which such evidence tends to prove are true. 
 
 Approved February 3, 1S62. 
 
 No. 382.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplementary to An Act entitled " An Act to amend An 
 Act entitled An Act to raise an additional force to serve 
 during the war, and for other purposes," approved May 
 eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of 'the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the second section of the above recited Act. 
 requiring the election of field and company officers by regi- 
 ments and companies, shall not apply to companies, battal- 
 ions and regiments raised under the fourth section of said 
 Act; but the officers appointed by the President to raise such 
 companies, battalions and regiments shall be the officers of 
 the same; and the commissions of such officers granted by 
 the President, shall, when their respective commands are 
 fully organized, be absolute. 
 
 Approved February 3, 1862. 
 
 No. 383.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to 
 Provide for the Organization of the Navy, approved 
 March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one." ap- 
 proved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; 
 and an Act entitled "An Vet to authorize the President 
 to confer Temporary Hank and Command on Officers of 
 the Navy doing Duty with Troops," approved December 
 twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the second section of an Act, entitled "An Act to 
 amend an Act to provide for the organization of the Navy, 
 approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one," 
 approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 and the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to 
 
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 confer temporary rank and command on officers of the Navy 
 doing duty with troops," approved December twenty-fourth T 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be so amended as to include- 
 officers of the Marine Corps. 
 
 Approved February 5, 1862. 
 
 No. 384.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In regard to the Transfer of certain Indian Trust Funds to- 
 the Confederate States. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the Government of the Confederate States hereby 
 agrees to indemnify the several Staces of this Confederacy, 
 against any loss or liability incurred by them because of the 
 payment or transfer, on the part of the said several States 
 to the Government of the Confederate States, of any stocks, 
 bonds or funds, belonging to certain Indian Tribes, or mem- 
 bers thereof, in pursuance of the Acts of the Congress of 
 May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and Janu- 
 ary tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Approved February 6, 1862. 
 
 No. 385.] AN ACT 
 
 To Provide for Connecting the Richmond and Danville and 
 the North Carolina Railroads, for Military Purposes. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and em- 
 powered to contract, upon such terms and conditions as he 
 may think proper, with any company or companies which 
 have been, or may be, incorporated and organized for the 
 purpose of building and working a railroad, or railroads, so 
 as to connect the Richmond an 1 Danville Railroad with the 
 North Carolina Railroad, at such points as he may deem 
 most advantageous to the Government, or to adopt such 
 other course for building or working, or having the said 
 railroad built and worked, so as to effect the said connection,. 
 
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 in the manner he may think will best promote the public 
 inter 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it fur the r enacted, That, to* enable the Presi- 
 dent to accomplish the object contemplated by this Act, the 
 sum of one million of dollars, in bonds <>f the Confederate 
 States, arc Hereby appropriated, to be issued and applied, by 
 the order of the President, at such times and in such sums 
 as he may deem proper. 
 
 Approved February 10, 1863. 
 
 No. 386.] AN ACT 
 
 To Provide for the Compensation of Gr. II. Oary, Delegate 
 
 from Arizona, for his Attendance at this Session of Con- 
 gress. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress vf the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That G. II. Oury be entitled to ten cents a mile for 
 coming to the City of Richmond, Virginia, and returning 
 home, to be estimated by the usual route of travel, and to 
 eight dollars a day during this session of Congress, from 
 the date of the approval of an Act to organize the Territory 
 of Arizona, to be paid in the same manner provided by law 
 for the compensation of members of Congress. 
 
 [Approved] February 11, 1862. 
 
 No. 387. AN ACT 
 
 To Organize the Clerical Force of the Treasury Department. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States vf America 
 do enact. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is 
 hereby, authorized to appoint in the several Bureaus of his 
 Department, the following clerks: In the Bureau of the 
 Secretary, one chief clerk, four clerks and one messenger. 
 In the Bureau of the Comptroller, one chief clerk, twenty 
 clerks and one messenger. In the Bureau of the Treasurer, 
 one chief clerk, ten clerks, one messenger and one assistant 
 messenger; and subordinate to the Treasurer in the issue of 
 Treasury Notes, one principal clerk, ten clerks for signing, 
 and ten clerks for numbering, and as many cutters and 
 trimmers as the public service may require, not exceeding 
 ten in number. In the Bureau of the Register, one chief 
 
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 clerk, eight clerks and one messenger; and subordinate to 
 the Register in the management of the Produce Loan, one 
 principal clerk an4 two clerks ; and for the issue of Bonds 
 and Stock and for signing Coupons, one principal clerk and 
 five clerks ; and for the signing of Treasury Notes and 
 issuing the' same, ten clerks. In the Bureau of the First 
 Auditor, one chief clerk and one principal clerk, and forty- 
 five clerks, and one messenger and assistant. In the Bu- 
 reau of the Second Auditor, one chief clerk, forty clerks 
 and one messenger. In the Bureau of the War Tax, one 
 chief clerk and three clerks. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury may employ any 
 clerk on trial before his appointment for a term not exceed- 
 ing two months ; and any clerk shall be transferable from 
 any Bureau or duty to any other, at the discretion of the 
 said Secretary, and they shall all be subject to such rules 
 and regulations as shall be established by the Secretary, or 
 by the head of each Bureau respectively. 
 
 Sec. 3. The salaries of the said clerks shall be at the fol- 
 lowing rates per annum, and may be paid to them monthly, 
 or at such other period as may be deemed proper by the Se- 
 cretary of the Treasury ; The chief clerks fifteen hundred 
 dollars ; the principal clerks fourteen hundred dollars ; the 
 other clerks shall be divided into two grades, of whom not 
 more than one half shall receive salaries of twelve hundred 
 dollars each, and the remainder, one thousand dollars each. 
 The cutters and trimmers, if females, shall receive salaries 
 at the rate of six hundred dollars for the chief, and five hun- 
 dred dollars for the rest ; and if males, shall receive the 
 salary of the lower grade of clerks. The messengers shall 
 receive a salary not to exceed five hundred dollars. One of 
 the clerks may be appointed Disbursing Clerk, and for his 
 services as such, shall receive an additional salary of two 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 Approved February 13, 1862. 
 
 No. 388.] AN ACT 
 
 To Transfer the County of Attala, in the State of Missis- 
 sippi, from the Northern to the Southern Judicial Dis- 
 trict of the State of Mississippi. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate S 'tatcs of America 
 do enact, That the county of Attala, in the State of Missis- 
 
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 sippi, shall hereafter form a part of the Southern Judicial 
 District of said State, instead of the Northern District as 
 heretofore, and shand shall be within the jurisdiction of the 
 Courts of the Confederate States of America, held within 
 and for said Southern District. 
 
 Approved February \3, 1S62. 
 
 No. 389.] AN ACT 
 
 To Pay Interest Due the Choctaw Nation upon Stocks of 
 the State of Virginia. 
 
 Section 1. Th C of the Confederate States of America 
 
 do enact, That there be, and is hereby, apropriated for inter- 
 est from January the first, 1861, to January the first 1862^ 
 on four hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the stocfc of 
 the State of Virginia, included in Choctaw Greneral Fund, 
 held in trust by Secretary of the Interior of the United 
 States, which interest has been transferred by said State to 
 Government of the Confederate States, to be paid over to 
 Choctaw Nation of Indians, or persons empowered by such 
 Nation to receive it. twenty-seven thousand dollars. 
 
 Approved February 13, ISO 2. 
 
 No. 390.] AN ACT 
 
 To alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act for th • Seques- 
 tration of the Estates. Property and Effects of Alien Ene- 
 mies, and for Indemnity of citizens of the Confeder- 
 ate States, and persons aiding the same in the existing 
 war with the United States." approved August thirtieth. 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That all and every the lands, tenements and here- 
 ditaments, goods and chattels, rights and credits; and every 
 right and interest therein embraced by said Act of Seques- 
 tration* of which this Act is an alteration and amendment, 
 shall be collected and sold, as provided for in this Act. and the 
 
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 proceeds paid into the Treasury of the Confederate States ; 
 but in no case shall a debt, or other chose in action, be sold. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all money realized under 
 this Act, and the Act to which it is an amendment, shall be 
 applied to the equal indemnity of all persons, loyal citizens 
 of the Confederate States, or persons aiding the same in the 
 present war, who have suffered, or may hereafter suffer, loss 
 or damage by confiscation, by the Government of the United 
 States, or by any State Government, or pretended Govern- 
 ment, acknowledging and aiding the Government of the 
 United States in this war, or by such acts of the enemy, or 
 other causes incident to the Avar, as, by future act of Con- 
 gress, may be described or defined, as affording, under the 
 circumstances, proper cases for indemnity. And all money 
 realized as aforesaid, shall be paid into the Treasury of said 
 Confederate States, as provided by the Act to which this is 
 an amendment ; and the faith of the Confederate States is 
 hereby pledged that the same shall be refunded, as required 
 for the purposes aforesaid. And the Secretary of the Trea- 
 sury shall cause a separate account of said money to be kept 
 in well bound books procured for that purpose. 
 
 Sec 3. Be it farther enacted, That it shall be the duty of 
 every person in actual possession of, or having under his 
 control, any money, property, effects or evidences of debt, 
 belonging to an alien enemy, speedily to inform the Receiver, 
 and to render an account thereof, and at once to pay over to 
 the Receiver and to deliver to him such property and effects, 
 and evidences of debt, and such payment and delivery shall 
 be made Avithout regard to Avhether any proceedings have or 
 have not been instituted to sequestrate the same. And any 
 person who, after giving such information, shall fail so to 
 pay over and deliver on demand, made by the Receiver, shall 
 stand in contempt, and the Receiver shall at once move the 
 Court or Judge to proceed against such party as in other 
 cases of contempt ; and the Court or Judge may imprison 
 the offender until he shall fully comply with the requirements 
 of this Act. And such payment or delivery shall fully ac- 
 quit and discharge the party from all and every claim for or 
 on account of such money, property, effects and evidences of 
 debt. And the Receiver shall give such person a receipt, 
 specifying the amount of money, the property, effects and 
 evidences of debt paid and delivered, and the name of the 
 alien enemy on account of whom the same shall be paid and 
 delivered. Provided, That when the person having the pos- 
 
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 session or control of ;my money of an alien enemy, asserts 
 a debt or claim, against such alien enemy in his own favor, 
 he may file it in Wilting in the proper Court, swearing that 
 he believes himself justly entitled to the same, ami there- 
 upon he shall not bo compelled, in the first instance, to pay 
 over to the Receiver the amount thus propounded and claim- 
 ed by liim ; but the (Joint shall then proceed to examine and 
 try the validity of the said debt or claim, and decree accord- 
 ing to the facts found, and the rights and justice of the case. 
 And if the Couri decides against the debt or claim, the party 
 Betting up the same shall forthwith pay over the sum so re- 
 tained by him. And if the Court shall decree in favor of 
 the debt or claim thus propounded, and it exceeds the entire 
 amount originally in possession of such debtor or claimant, 
 he shall pay no costs; otherwise he shall pay all costs inci- 
 dent to the proceedinj 
 
 Si c. !. This Act, and the Act to which it is an amend- 
 ment, shall not operate to avoid any payment, bona julr 
 to ao alien enemy, or to affect property of any kind, 
 bona fide and absolutely transferred, or conveyed, by any 
 alien enemy to a faithful citizen of the Confederate States, 
 prior to the thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one. 
 
 Sf.c 5. In cases of partnership property and effects, the 
 resident partner, or partners, shall be dealt with in all res- 
 pects as surviving partners in cases of a dissolution of part- 
 nership by the death of one or more of the partners, accord- 
 ing to the laws of the place of the principal place of busi- 
 i of the partnership; and the Receiver shall have the 
 same remedies against such resident partners as the repre- 
 sentatives of a deceased partner would he entitled to in like 
 case. 
 
 Sec. 6. The following persons shall not be taken to be 
 alien enemies under this Act, or the Act to which this is an 
 amendment : 
 
 First. Persons who now have bona Jide become permanent 
 residents of any State of this Confederacy, ami are actually 
 residing and domiciled within the same, yielding and acknowl- 
 edging allegiance thereto, and who have not, during the 
 present war. voluntarily contributed to the cause of the 
 enemy. 
 
 Second. All persons born within any State of this Con- % 
 federacy, or natives of a neutral country, who since the 
 breaking out of the war, have abandoned their domicils and 
 
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 ceased their business in the enemy's country, and all persons 
 aforesaid ay ho have bona fide commenced, or attempted to re- 
 move themselves and effects from the enemy's country, and 
 who have been, and still are prevented from completing said 
 removal by the force or power of the enemy, or who from 
 physical infirmity are incapable of removing. 
 
 Third. All subjects or citizens of neutral countries who 
 cannot be shown to have voluntarily contributed to the cause 
 of the enemy, and all persons who, though citizens of the 
 enemy's country, have abandoned that country on account of 
 their opposition to the war, or sympathy for the people of 
 the Confederate States. 
 
 Fourth. All married women natives of any State of this 
 Confederacy who, or whose husbands shall not be shown to have 
 voluntarily contributed to the cause of the enemy. All per- 
 sons non compos mentis, and all minors whose fathers or 
 mothers, were, or are, natives of this Confederacy and whose 
 property and persons are controlled by guardians resident 
 in the Confederate States, and who have not voluntarily con- 
 tributed to the enemy's cause; and all minors under the age 
 of sixteen years, who were born in any State of this Con- 
 federacy, or in any State exempted from the operations of 
 this Act while their parents were domiciled in such State 
 and who have not taken up arms against the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Fifth. Free persons of color, who, by the laws of any 
 State have been compelled to remove beyond the limits thereof, 
 and are by law prohibited from returning to such State, and 
 who have not in anywise aided the enemy. 
 
 Sec. 7. The next of kin in the direct ascending and des- 
 cending lines of any alien enemy, faithful citizens of any of 
 the Confederate States, or engaged in their military or naval 
 service shall be entitled to have decreed them (they paying 
 all costs) the property, effects and credits of such alien ene- 
 my as if dead, intestate, leaving no other heirs or distribu- 
 tees, chargeable, however, in their hands, as in case of 
 administration or heirship, with the debts of such alien 
 enemies due to faithful citizens, of any Confederate State. 
 
 Sec 8. All sales of property under this Act shall be 
 made by the Receivers at public auction to the highest bidder 
 and on such terms and such notice of the time and place of 
 ^ale as the Court may prescribe, and shall be duly reported 
 to the Court by such Receivers at the term next after such 
 sale; but no conveyance of title shall be made to the pur- 
 
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 chaser of the property until the confirmation of the sale by 
 the Court and the payment of the purchase money according 
 to the torms of the sale ; and no sale shall be valid until 
 reported to. and confirmed by the Court; nor shall any sale 
 be confirmed until the terms shall have been complied with; 
 and the Court may set aside such sale for fraud, want of proper 
 notice, or any material irregularity, or where it shall appear 
 that the Receiver was the purchaser or interested in the 
 purchase, or for substantial inadequacyof price: Provided, 
 however, That sales of personalty may be reported to, and 
 confirmed by the Judge in vacation. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Court may. in its discretion, when special 
 circumstances exist which temporarily depress the value of 
 the property, delay the order of sale, or may direct the Re- 
 ceiver to examine and report whether it would be expedient 
 to make an immediate sale of such property, and on such 
 report, or other satisfactory evidence, showing that a delay 
 in the sale would tend to secure a fairer price, may order 
 such sale to be delayed, and in all such cases the Court may, 
 in the case of real estate, or of a plantation and slaves, 
 order the Receiver to base the same on such terms as the 
 Court may prescribe. 
 
 Sec. Ub In cases where an alien enemy may have con- 
 tracted in writing, before the twenty-first day of May, eigh- 
 teen hundred and sixty-one, to sell real estate to a citizen, 
 or citizens, of this Confederacy, and to make title upon pay- 
 ment of the purchase money, the Court, in decreeing 
 sequestration of the said purchase money, or the residue 
 thereof unpaid, shall further decree that the receiver of the 
 district, in which said real estate is situate, shall, upon 
 payment of said purchase money, or the residue thereof, as 
 aforesaid, make title for such real estate to the purchaser or 
 his assignee. 
 
 Sec 1 1. The Court shall audit and pass on the accounts 
 of the receiver as provided in this Act, and the one to which 
 this is an amendment: but in lieu of the compensation and 
 allowances therein provided for, shall allow such compensa- 
 tion as shall to it seem reasonable and just, following, in this 
 respect, so far as may be applicable, the analogies furnished 
 by the laws of the State in which the Court is held, concern- 
 ing compensation to executors, administrators and trustees; 
 and the Court shall further allow to the receiver all proper 
 expenses attending the execution of his office. And all fees 
 and allowances passed by the Court in favor of any receiver 
 
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 may be retained by liim from any money in his hands ; and 
 all fees and allowances to any receiver beyond the rate of 
 five thousand dollars per annum, except for expenses as 
 aforesaid, shall be forthwith paid by him into the Confede- 
 rate Treasury, to the use of the Confederate States, and 
 Bhall be brought into, and stated and accounted for, in his 
 next account of settlement as Receiver. 
 
 Sec. i2. The Court shall appoint an attorney for each 
 section in which the ''curt shall be holden, and in which no 
 attorney of the Confederate States resides, whose duties it 
 shall be to discharge, within said section, the duties imposed 
 on the attorney of the district by the Act to which this is 
 amendatory; and the compensation of such attorney so ap- 
 pointed shall he the same for business by him done as is now 
 provided by ninth section of said Act for the district attor- 
 ney. 
 
 Sec. 13. The Receiver shall, in all cases, take the posses- 
 sion and control of the money, property and effects of alien 
 enemies, and of such choses in action as shall he in the 
 hands of any agent or third person, except when otherwise 
 provided by this Act, and, on being refused possession, shall 
 sue for Hie same, and such possession shall not be withheld 
 on any pretext of any provisions of the Act to which this 
 is amendatory. The Court may order a delay in the sale of 
 property when it shall be necessary to complete or gather a 
 growing crop, or when it shall he otherwise manifestly to 
 the benefit of the Confederate States to delay the sale; but 
 in all such cases the possession, control and management 
 shall be with the Receiver, or under his control and author- 
 ity. And in the collection of debts or choses in action, no 
 State stay law shall govern, but the same shall be governed 
 by this Act, and the one to which this is an amendment, so 
 far as the latter does not conflict with this Act. 
 
 Skc. 14. It shall be the duty of all persons owing debts 
 to alien enemies, within three months from the passage of 
 this Act. to give information there if to the Receiver of the 
 district in which he or they reside, and in case of corpora- 
 tions or joint stock companies, to the Receiver of the dis- 
 trict in which the principal office of business of such cor- 
 poration or company may be; and such information shall be 
 in writing and sworn to by the debtor, and in case of cor- 
 porations or joint stock companies, by the principal officer 
 of such corporation or company, before any Judge of a 
 Court of record, justice of the peace, notary public, com- 
 
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 missioner of the Court or Receiver under the Act to which 
 this is an amendment, and shall set forth the name or names 
 of the creditor or owner of such debt, the amount he owes 
 or owed on the thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty one. ■ ml whether the Bameis, or has been, secured 
 by mortgage or otherwise ; and the information or confession 
 so made shall be hied by the Receiver in the proper Court of 
 the Confederate States, and such Court shall, on such infor- 
 mation, proceed to decree sequestration and payment of the 
 debt or debts so confessed; and in case any debtor shall, in 
 good faith, confess his indebtedness as aforesaid, but shall be 
 unable to state the true amount of his indebtedness, or shall 
 be in doubt whether the creditor or owner of the debl is an 
 alien enemy, the Court shall proceed to ascertain the char- 
 acter of the creditor or owner, and the true amount of such 
 indebtedness, and to that end shall direct such proceedings 
 as shall he adapted to the nature of the case, and decree ac 
 cording to the facts found. And in all proceedings against 
 persons for debts due by them to alien enemies, the debtor 
 shall he allowed to make any defence, in law or equity, 
 which he might or could have made in a suit brought against 
 him by the creditor to whom such debt was due : Provided, 
 hoicevu-. That no execution shall issue on such decree, except 
 for the interest which shall accrue on the same at the end of 
 each year, until twelve months after peace shall he declared 
 between the Confederate States and the United States, or 
 until otherwise directed by law: And provided, moreover, 
 That, execution may issue for the costs of the proceeding", 
 and the sum so collected tor costs shall he deducted I pom th< 
 principal sum due. 
 
 Sec. 15. The Receivers appointed under this Act, or the 
 Act to which this is an amendment, shall proceed diligently 
 to ascertain and collect the debts due to alien enemies by 
 persons residing in the districts lor which they are a sverally 
 appointed, and shall, on the discovery of any such debts, 
 and after the expiration of three months from the pa 
 this Act. and the debtor shall have failed to give informal 
 of such debt, proceed to institute proceedings to sequestrate 
 the same, ami in such proceeding, which shall he by petith n. 
 as prescribed by said .' ct, to which this is an amendment, 
 and shall he to sequestrate the deht. as well us to ascertain 
 
 the sum due by the debtor, Buch debtor shall be male defen- 
 dant or respondent, as the case i D 1 the p 
 bring such debtor before the Court, or to compel an answer, 
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 shall be in the nature of the writ of garnishment as pres- 
 cribed in said Act, which shall be served on such debtor ; 
 and in case of corporations and joint stock companies, en 
 some member or officer of such corporation or company ; 
 and shall require the defendant to answer on oath whether 
 he is indebted to any alien enemy, or was so indebted on the 
 thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, in 
 what sum, and whether he knows of any other person or 
 persons so indebted, and, on the disclosure by the defendant 
 of such indebtedness by other persons, like proceedings shall 
 be had as in the original cause ; and in case the defendant 
 shall suggest in his answer that the debt due by him or her 
 is claimed or owned by any person not an alien enemy, set- 
 ting forth the name of such claimant, his place of abode, 
 citation shall issue to such claimant to appear and propound 
 his claim on oath at the succeeding term of the Court ; and 
 in case he is absent from the district in which the Court is 
 held, or cannot be found, publication shall be made for the 
 space of one month in some newspaper best calculated to 
 apprise such claimant to appear and propound his claim ; 
 and if such claimant shall fail to appear, his claim shall be 
 barred. On the appearance of the claimant, the Court shall 
 direct an issue to try the same, and shall award the costs 
 against the claimant if the claim be unfounded : Provided, 
 That the entire answer shall be considered by the Court. 
 
 Sec. 1C. All proceedings now pending under the Act to 
 which this Act is an amendment, shall be made to conform 
 to the proceedings directed in this Act, so far as practica- 
 ble, and the judgments rendered therein shall be given in 
 all respects, and have the same operation and effect as judg- 
 ments rendered under the fourteenth section of this Act. 
 
 Sec 17. In all proceedings against debtors who fail or 
 refuse to give information of their indebtedness within the 
 time prescribed in this Act, and the debtor shall be brought 
 before the Court by process, the costs of the proceeding shall 
 be adjudged against such debtor, in case he is found to be 
 indebted to any alien enemy ; and if it shall appear to the 
 Court, on the trial of any cause against such recusant debt- 
 or, that he has wrongly and wilfully refused or failed to give 
 information of his indebtedness, or to state the true amount 
 thereof, with intent to hinder, evade or delay the execution 
 of this Act, or the Act to which this is an amendment, or 
 the jury, in any cause or issue tried by them, shall certify 
 that such debtor has wilfully failed or refused to give infor- 
 
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 nation of his indebtedness, or the true amount thereof, with 
 the intent aforesaid, the Court shall award execution as 
 
 such debtor on the decree or judgment for the whole amount 
 of the debt and the interest due thereon, together with the 
 costs ; in all other case.-, however, execution shall be stayed 
 until the peace aforesaid, except for interest which shall 
 accrue. 
 
 Sec. 18. Incases where proceedings shall be instituted to 
 sequestrate judgments or decrees already rendered, or of 
 claims or debts upon which actions or suits may be pending 
 the Court may. after the decree of sequestration, allow the 
 Receiver to prosecute such suit, action, decree or judgment, 
 in the name of the Confederate States of America; and in 
 - of suits or actions pending, or decrees or judgments 
 rendered in the State Courts, where, by the laws of BU.ch 
 State, it may be admissible, such Receiver may introduce 
 the Confederate States of America, in the proceedings as a 
 party to prosecute such suit or action, or enforce such de- 
 cree or judgment; but in such cases execution shall , - 
 for costs and interest only until further provided by law, or 
 twelve months after the conclusion of peace as aforesaid. 
 
 Skc 19. Attorneys, agents or trustees of any alien enemy 
 having claims for fees or commission on the fund or assets 
 in their hands, shall, on delivery of such fund or assets to 
 the Receiver, make out their accounts for such claims or 
 commissions, and the Court shall consider and allow the 
 same, if ju t and reasonable, to be paid out of such funds or 
 assets ; and where counsel are already engaged in prosecu- 
 ting such pending suits or actions, the Receiver shall be 
 authorized to allow them to continue to prosecute such suits 
 or actions for the Confederate States of America. 
 
 Sec 20. The rate of interest to be paid by debtors shall 
 be regulated by the contract, if by the terms thereof the 
 rate of interest shall be fixed, and if no interest shall be 
 fixed by the contract, then the rate shall be according to 
 the law of the place where the debt is to be paid or the 
 contract performed ; and the judgment or decree shall bear 
 the same rate of interest fixed by law or the contract, and 
 the same shall be punctually paid at the end of each year, 
 or execution shall issue for the same. 
 
 Stic. 21. In no case shall the judgment or decree be 
 a lien on the property of the debtor ; but where the Court 
 shall award execution under this Act, the property of the 
 debtor shall be bound, from the delivery of the writ. 
 
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 Sec. 22. The Court, or Judge in vacation, shall have power 
 to award execution on any judgment or decree, in addition to 
 the cases of recusant debtors, where the Receiver shall make 
 oath that the debtor is fraudulently concealing or disposing of 
 his effects, with intent to evade the judgment, or is about to 
 remove his effects beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, but 
 such execution shall be discharged on the defendant's giving 
 security to the satisfaction of the Court, for the performance 
 or payment of the decree. 
 
 Sec. 23. In proceedings under this Act, and the Act of 
 which it is amendatory, upon affidavit being made by the 
 Attorney representing the Confederate States, or the proper 
 Receiver, that the name of an alien enemy is wholly or partly 
 unknown to him, or that the names of the members of a 
 partnership of alien enemies are unknown to him, the pro- 
 cess and proceedings may be against such partnership by 
 the firm name thereof, stated in such affidavit, or against 
 such alien enemy, whose name is wholly or partly unknown, 
 by such name or proper description as may be known and 
 act forth in such affidavit : Provided, That the Court may, at 
 any time, on motion, cause the full and proper name to be 
 inserted in the record, and used in the proceedings when the 
 same become known to the Court. 
 
 Sec 24. Receivers shall have authority to administer 
 oaths touching any matter incident to proceedings under 
 this Act. 
 
 Sec 25. The sixteenth section of the Act to which this 
 is an amendment, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec 26. All debts due to ar.y alien enemy may be paid 
 in the Eonds and Treasury Notes of the Confederate States, 
 and the same shall be received in payment for all property 
 sold under this Act. 
 
 Sec 27. The fees of all Clerks and Marshals shall be the 
 same for services under this Act and the Act to which this 
 is an amendment, as are allowed for similar services in the 
 Courts of the Confederate States, and shall be a charge upon 
 the general fund derived from confiscations, and shall be 
 paid on the order of the Court. 
 
 Sec 28. The Commissioners authorized by the fourteenth 
 section of the Act to which this is an amendment, shall ap- 
 point a Clerk with a salary of fifteen hundred dollars, to be 
 paid out of the Treasury of the Confederate States ; but such 
 salary, as well as the salary of said Commissioners, shall be 
 charged to the confiscation fund and be deducted therefrom ; 
 
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 and said Commissioners shall moreover have power to ap- 
 point Commissioners to take the examination of witnesses 
 touching the claims which may be propounded before thorn, 
 or may summon witnesses before them to be examined oral- 
 ly ; said Commissioners, and the Commissioners appointed 
 by them to examine witnesses as aforesaid, shall have power 
 to administer oaths to the witnesses and to issue subpoenas, 
 and witnesses failing to appear shall be subject to like penal- 
 ties and process as may be prescribed in the Courts of the 
 Confederate States against defaulting witnesses : Provided, 
 however, That the costs of all proceedings to take testimony 
 shall be paid by the claimant, except in cases where the At- 
 torney General shall apply for leave to take testimony, and 
 the fees of witnesses and Commissioners shall be the same 
 as are allowed in the Courts of the Confederate States in 
 like cases. 
 
 Sec. 29. So much of the Act to which this is an amend- 
 ment as requires the Receivers to settle separately the es- 
 tate of each alien enemy, is repealed, and hereafter each set- 
 tlement shall embrace all the matters ready for settlement ; 
 but the items of the account shall be so specific as to show 
 the sources from which each is derived. 
 
 Sec. 30. Where any judgment has been entered up in any 
 of the Courts of the Confederate States under the Act to 
 which this is an amendment, inconsistent with the provisions 
 and spirit of this Act, the same, on motion, shall be set aside 
 or amended in accordance with the terms and provisions of 
 this Act, 
 
 Sec. 31. The provisions of the Act to which this Act is an 
 amendment, so far as the same may conflict with this Act, 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved, February 15, 186 2. 
 
 No. 391.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish certain Tost Routes therein named. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the following Post Routes be, and they are 
 hereby, established, to wit: First. From Tarborough, by 
 way of Bethel and Flat Swamp, to Williamston, in the State 
 
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 of North Carolina. Second. From Bengal, in Bullock coun- 
 ty, by way of William Deloaches' Mills, in said county, and 
 Benjamin Brewton's Mills, in Tatnall county, to Reidsville, 
 in said last-named county, in the State of Georgia. Third. 
 From Burnsville, North Carolina, via Jack's Creek, Poplar 
 Hollow, Longmore's, in Washington county, Tennessee, 
 John Blair's, to Jonesborough, in the State of Tennessee/ 
 Fourth. From Laurel Valley, in North Carolina, via Stans- 
 bury Gap, to Duck Town, in the State of Tennessee. Fifth. 
 From Shepherdsville to Swansboro', in the county of On- 
 slow, North Carolina. Sixth. From Saiidersville to Had- 
 not's, in said last-named county and State. Seventh. From 
 Gatesville to Mintonsville, in Gates county, North Carolina. 
 Eighth. From Dixie, otherwise called Bu Bayou, on the 
 Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas railroad, to Winnsboro', 
 in the State of Louisiana. Ninth. From Holly's Wharf, on 
 Chowan river, to Ballard's Bridge, in Chowan county, in the 
 State of North Carolina. Tenth. From Mount Pleasant to 
 Perryville, on the Tennessee river, via Newburg, Palestine 
 and Linden, in the State of Tennessee. Eleventh. From 
 Louisville, in the county of Winston, via Ashfordsville, in 
 said county, Multona Springs, Phcenix Mills, Birketsville, 
 and Rocky Point, in the county of Attala, to West Station, 
 in the county of Holmes, in the- State of Mississippi. 
 Twelfth. From Grain's Creek to Carbonton, via Cowles' 
 Store, Pocket, Gillam's Store, and Underwood's Tall House, 
 in the State of North Carolina. Thirteenth. From Vaiden 
 to Sidon, in the county of Carroll, in the State of Missis- 
 sippi. Fourteenth. From Raymond, in the county of Hinds, 
 to Port Gibson, in the county of Claiborne, in said State of 
 Mississippi. Fifteenth. From DeKalb, in the county of 
 Kemper, to Philadelphia, in the county of Neshoba, in said 
 State. Sixteenth. From Concordia, in the county of Boli- 
 var, to Williams Port, on the Sun Flower river, in said 
 State. Seventeenth. From Canton, in the county of Madi- 
 son, to Shugnalak, in the county of Noxuba, via Philadel- 
 phia:, in the county of Neshoba, in said State. Eighteenth. 
 From Oxford, in the county of Lafayette, to Fulton, in the 
 county of Itawamba, in said State. Nineteenth. From Bates- 
 ville, in Panola county, to Byham's- Creek, in said State. 
 Twentieth. From Fulton, in Itawamba county, to Gunstown, 
 on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, in said State. Twenty- 
 first. From Smithville to Richmond, in said State of Missis- 
 sippi, Twer ty -second. From Moscoav, on the Memphis and 
 

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 Charleston railroad, to Antona, on the Memphis ami Ohio 
 railroad, in the State of Tennessee, via Macon, Oakland and 
 Hickory Wythe, in said State. Twenty-third. From Mem- 
 phis, vi:i Ralston, to Portersrille, in said State last named. 
 Twenty -fourth. From "Waldo, on the Florida railroad, by 
 Fort Crane, to My < !anopy, in th ; State of Florida. Twenty- 
 fifth. From Warsaw to Gainsville, in the State of Alabama. 
 Twenty-sixth. From Hicksford in the county of Greens- 
 ville, to Lawrencevilje, in the county of Brunswick, in the 
 State of Virginia. Twenty-seventh. From Hartsville, in 
 Sumner county, via Driver's Store, on the cast fork of 
 Goose Creek, and Cartersville, to Lafayette, in the county 
 of Macon, in the State of Tennessee. Twenty-eighth. From 
 Rock Hill. York District, via Taylor's Creek, Wall ice, 1-ew- 
 isville, Rich Hill Cross Roads, Cedar Shoals. Landsford, to 
 Coats' Tavern, in the State of South Carolina. Twenty- 
 ninth. From Shelby Depot, on the Memphis and Ohio rail- 
 road, in the county of Shelby, in the State of Tennessee, to 
 the town of Portersville, in Tipton county, in said State. 
 Thirtieth. From Statesbnrg, via Providence, Harmony Col- 
 . Bradford Springs, to Mill Grove, in South Carolina. 
 Thirty-first. From Wedowee, Alabama, to Corn Grove, via 
 Abicochee, in said State. Thirty-second. From Akernathy, 
 Alabama, to Bowdon, in the State of Georgia. Thirty- 
 third. From Syllacogger, Alabama, to J. J. Richards', in 
 Coon county, in said State. Thirty -fourth. From Copper- 
 ville, Cherokee county, North Carolina, to Aquone, Macon 
 county, North Carolina. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 392.] AN ACT 
 
 For the Relief of the State of Missouri.. 
 
 Skction 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby di- 
 rected to issue to the State of Missouri, upon the applica- 
 tion of the Fund Commissioners for said State, one million 
 dollars in Treasury notes, upon the condition that the said 
 State of Missouri deposit with the Secretary of the Treasu- 
 ry of the Confederate States an equal sum in the bonds of 
 
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 the State of Missouri, authorized to be issued under an act 
 of the Legislature of said State, entitled "An Act to provide 
 for the defence of the State of Missouri, and for other pur- 
 poses,*' which bonds shall be held by the Secretary of the 
 Treasury until the accounts of the State of Missouri for 
 advances made for military purposes are adjusted, as Con- 
 gress may direct. 
 
 Sec. 2. That upon the final adjustment of the accounts of 
 the State of Missouri against the Confederate States, the 
 sum hereby advanced shall be deducted from the amount 
 found due to said State. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 393.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplemental to "An Act to put in operation the Govern- 
 ment under the Permanent Constitution of the Confede- 
 rate States of America," approved May 21st, 1S61. 
 
 'Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That on the assembling of the Senators elected 
 under the provisions of the Permanent Constitution of the 
 Confederate States, according to the directions contained in 
 the above recited act, it shall be the duty of the Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the Provisional Government to call the Senate to 
 order, to appoint a Secretary of the Senate for the time 
 being, administer the oath of office to the Senators, and 
 preside over the body until the President of the Senate for 
 the time being shall be elected, as provided by the Act 
 aforesaid; and in the absence of the Vice-President, the 
 oldest Senator then present shall perform the duties afore- 
 said. And on the assembling of the members of the House 
 of Representatives, elected as aforesaid, under the direction 
 of the Act aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the President of 
 the Congress of the Provisional Government to call the 
 House to order, appoint a Clerk of the House for the time 
 being, administer the oath of office to the members, and 
 preside over the body until a Speaker shall be elected, and 
 in the absence of the President of Congress, the oldest mem- 
 ber of the House then present shall perform the duties afore- 
 said. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
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 No. 394.] AN ACT 
 
 To make Appropriations for the Expense- of Government in 
 the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments, from 
 the eighteenth of February to the first of April, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two, and for other purposes. 
 
 Section 1. Th Congress of Vie Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That the following sums he. and the same are here- 
 by, appropriated for the objects hereafter expressed, from 
 the eighteenth of February to the iirst of April, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Legislative. — For compensation and mileage of Senators, 
 four thousand live hundred dollars. 
 
 For compensation and mileage of members of the House 
 of Representatives, twenty-fiv^ thousanl dollars. 
 
 Executive. — For compensation of the President of the Con- 
 federate States, four thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Vice-President of the Confede- 
 rate State-, one thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Private Secretary and Messenger 
 of the President, three hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Secretary of State, Assistant 
 Secretary of State. Clerks and Messengers, one thousand 
 three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-four cents. 
 
 For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, As- 
 sistant Secretary, Comptroller. Auditors, Treasurer and 
 Register, and Clerks and Messenger in the Treasury De- 
 partment, fifteen thousand dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury 
 Department, two thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Secretary of War, Chief of Bu- 
 reau, and Clerks and Messengers in the War Department, 
 four thousand dollars. 
 
 For contingent ami incidental expenses of the War De- 
 partment, ten thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and 
 Clerks and Messengers in his office, three hundred and twen- 
 ty-five dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Navy De- 
 partment, live hundred dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Postmaster General, Chiefs of 
 Bureaus, and Clerks and Messengers in the Post Office De- 
 
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 partment, four thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dol- 
 lars, thirty-eight cents. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Post Office 
 Department, two thousand dollars. 
 
 For compensation of the Attorney-General, Assistant 
 Attorney-General, Clerks and Messenger in the Department 
 of Justice, one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars. 
 
 For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department 
 of Justice, five hundred dollars. 
 
 For. salary of Superintendent of Public Printing and 
 Clerk and Messenger in his office, six hundred dollars. 
 
 For printing for the several Executive Departments of the 
 Government, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. 
 
 Judiciary. — For salaries of Judges, Attorneys and Mar- 
 shals, and for incidental and contingent expenses of Courts, 
 twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 War Department. — For the pay of the Officers and Pri- 
 vates of the Army, Volunteers and Militia, in the service of 
 the Confederate States; for Quartermasters' supplies of all 
 kinds, transportation and other necessary expenses, twenty- 
 six million two hundred and ninety-one thousand five hun- 
 dred and two dollars. 
 
 For purchase of subsistence, stores and commissary prop- 
 erty, four million five hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 For the Ordnance service in all its branches, two million 
 six hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 
 
 For the Engineer service, sixty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 For Surgical and Medical supplies of the Army, one hun- 
 dred and twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 For contingencies of the Army, sixteen thousand dollars. 
 
 For the contingent expenses of the Adjutant and Inspec- 
 tor General's office, including office furniture, stationery, 
 printed blanks for the use of the Army, postage, telegraphic 
 dispatches, and so forth, three thousand three hundred dol- 
 lars. 
 
 Navy Department. — For contingent enumerated, ten thou- 
 sand dollars-. 
 
 For coal for steamers, one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 For pay of officers and others employed at the Navy 
 Yard, at Norfolk, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. 
 
 For repairs of buildings adjoining the gateway of the 
 Navy Yard, at Norfolk, Virginia, five thousand dollars. 
 
 Miscellaneous. — For compensation of three Commissioners, 
 appointed under the fourteenth section of the Act of August 
 
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 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, providing for the 
 sequestration of the estates of alien enemies, and for the in- 
 demnity of citizens of the Confederate States, two thousand 
 two hundred and twenty dollars. 
 
 For contingent expenses of said Commissioners, five hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 For wanes of A . and for printing, under the Act 
 
 of Congress of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-on. -. providing for a War Tax. one hundred and twen- 
 ty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 For salaries of Chief Collectors of War Tax. under the 
 . eleven thousand and thirty-three dollars. 
 
 For transmission of the funds of the Confederate States, 
 one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 For the purchase of diplomatic books for the use of the 
 Department of State, fifteen hundred dollars. 
 
 For the purchase of a year's supply of sugar and mo- 
 lasses for the army, one million one hundred and thirteen 
 thousand four hundred dollars. 
 
 For redemption of Treasury Notes issued under the Act 
 of May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and 
 burned or otherwise rendered unfit for circulation by the 
 holders, thirty thousand dollars. 
 
 For pay of warrant and petty officers, seamen, ordinary 
 seamen, landsmen and boys, and the Engineer's Department 
 of the Navy, as bounty, authorized by Act of Congress, 
 approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 two, one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 For bounty of fifty dollars to each non-commissioned offi- 
 cer, musician and private, who may enlist for three years or 
 during Avar, on the basis that one hundred thousand men 
 will enlist, the sum of five millions of dollars. 
 
 For the transportation of the above men from the place of 
 enlistment to the Army, in the field, one million of dollars. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 395.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize and provide for the Organization of the Mary- 
 land Line. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That all native or adopted citizens of the State of 
 
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 Maryland who have heretofore volunteered, are now in, or 
 may hereafter volunteer in the service of the Confederate 
 States, may, at their option he organized and enrolled into 
 companies, -squadrons, battalions and regiments, and with 
 the First Maryland Regiment, and several companies now 
 in service, into one or more brigades, to be known as the 
 Maryland Line ; said organization to be in accordance with 
 existing laws. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1S62. 
 
 No. 396.] AN ACT 
 
 To Relinquish any Claim on the part of the Government to 
 any Share in certain Prizes. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the Government of the Confederate States do hereby 
 relinquish all claim to any portion of the proceeds of the 
 sale of certain vessels and their cargoes captured in the 
 Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River, on or about the 
 twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 
 by George M. Hollins, Captain in the Confederate States 
 Navy, and certain officers of the Navy, and private citizens 
 under his command ; said prizes having been made without 
 the participation of any vessel of the Confederate States or 
 other Government aid. 
 
 Approved Febuary 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 397.] AN ACT 
 
 To Fix the Rank of certain Officers. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the rank of commissioned officers of regiments, batta- 
 lions, squadrons and companies, who continue in service by 
 re-election in regiments, battalions, squadrons or companies, 
 organized of troops re-enlisting under the Act providing for 
 the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and non- 
 
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 commissioned officers in the Provisional Army, approved 
 December eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and 
 the Act supplemental thereto, approved February third, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or under the Act to provide 
 for the recruiting companies now in the service of the Con- 
 federate States for twelve months, approved January twenty- 
 ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. shall date from the 
 time of their original election or appointment: Prodded, 
 such officers shall be re-elected or appointed to offices of the 
 same grade in the same corps. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 398.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish Judicial Courts in certain Indian Territories. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confedi rate States of America 
 do enact, That in order to secure the due enforcement of so 
 much of the laws of the Confederate States in regard to 
 criminal offences or misdemeanors, and to civil remedies, as 
 is, or may be, in force within the Indian country west west 
 of Missouri and Arkansas, south of Kansas and north of 
 Red River, the country owned and occupied by the Cherokee 
 Nation, as the boundaries of the same are defined by treaty 
 between that nation and the Confederate States, is hereby 
 erected into and constituted a Judicial District of the Con- 
 federate States, for the special purposes and with the juris- 
 diction in this Act and in existing laws and the treaty afore- 
 said provided, to be called and known as the District of 
 Cha-lah-ki ; and the whole country owned and occupied by 
 the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, as the boundaries of 
 the same are defined by treaty between these nations and the 
 Confederate States, including the country west of the ninety- 
 eighth degree of west longitude, leased by said nations to 
 the Confederate States, is hereby erected into and constituted 
 a Judicial District of the Confederate States, for the special 
 purposes and with the jurisdiction in this Act and in exist- 
 ing laws, and the treaty aforesaid provided, to be called and 
 known as the Tush-ca-hom-ma District. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the country 
 owned and possessed by the Creek Nation, or Muskoki Con- 
 federation, all that country owned and possessed by the Sem- 
 
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 inole Nation, all that country occupied and held by the 
 Great and Little Osage Tribes of Indians, and all that coun- 
 try occupied by the Quapaws, the Seneca Tribe, formerly 
 known as the Senecas of the Sandusky, and the Senecas 
 and Shawnees, formerly known as the Senecas and Shawnees 
 of Louistown, as the said countries are described and their 
 limits defined in the treaties with the said several nations, 
 tribes and bands of Indians, are hereby annexed to, and 
 shall, for all the purposes of this Act, constitute and con- 
 tinue an integral pare of the Cha-lah-ki Judicial District 
 hereby established. 
 
 Sec. 3. And' be it further enacted, That the jurisdiction of 
 each Court hereinafter created shall be co-extensive with 
 the limits of the district for which it is created, as such dis- 
 trict is hereinafter defined. 
 
 Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That in each of the said 
 two districts there is hereby created, and shall hereafter be 
 held, semi-annually, a District Court of the Confederate 
 States, with such jurisdiction in such matters, civil and 
 criminal, to such extent and between such parties as is here- 
 inafter provided. 
 
 Six. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be ap- 
 pointed by the President of the Confederate States, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the Senate or the Provisional 
 Congress, one Judge of the District Courts of the Confede- 
 rate States for the said Cha-lah-ki and Tush-ca-hom-ma 
 Districts, who shall reside permanently in one or the other 
 of said districts, and hold his office during the term of four 
 years ; and there shall also be appointed one marshal and 
 one attorney for each of said Districts, all of whom shall 
 hold their offices during the term of four years, and reside 
 permanently in their respective districts. 
 
 Sec. G. And be it further enacted, That the attorneys shall 
 receive the same fees and salary as are now allowed to the 
 district attorneys for the Western District of Arkansas ; and 
 the marshals shall each be entitled to the same fees as are 
 now allowed to the marshal for the Western District of Ar- 
 kansas ; and each such marshal shall also, in addition, be 
 paid two hundred and fifty dollars annually, as a compensa- 
 tion for extra services. 
 
 Sec 7. And be it further enacted, That the District Judge 
 for the Cha-lah-ki and Tush-ca-hom-ma Districts shall ap- 
 point a clerk and may also be interpreter for each Indian 
 language spoken in the district, for each of the District 
 
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 Courts over which lie presides. Each of said clerks shall 
 also be the register in chancery, shall hold his office during 
 the pleasure of the Court, shall keep his office at the place 
 where the Court is held, shall receive the same fees and com- 
 pensation as arc now allowed by law to the clerk of the Dis- 
 trict Court for the Western District of Arkansas, and shall 
 be qualified in like manner, and perform like duties as the 
 Clerks of other District Courts of the Confederate Sti 
 Each interpreter shall he employed during the pleasure of 
 the Court, and paid such compensation as the Judge shall 
 fix, net exceeding three dollars per day, for each day of the 
 session. The marshals shall give bond and bo qualified like 
 the marshals of the Confederate States in other districts; 
 and the marshals, clerks and interpreters shall he selected 
 from among the citizens of the Choctaw or Chickasaw and 
 Cherokee nations, respectively. 
 
 Si e. 8. .'.nil In- if farther enacted, That the District Court 
 for the Tush-ea-hom-ma District shall be held at Boggy 
 Depot in the Choctaw Nation; and that the District ( 
 for the Cha-lah-ki District shall he held at Tahlequah, in 
 the Cherokee Nation, or at the seat of Government of the 
 Cherokee Nation, whenever that shall be removed from 
 Tahlequah to any other point or place. 
 
 Si ( . !!. And he it further enacted, That the terms of said 
 District Court for the District of Cha-lah-ki shall he holden 
 on the first Mondays oi March and September; and the said 
 District Court lor the District of Tush-ca-hom-ma, shall be 
 holden on the Third Mondays of April and October in each 
 and every year. 
 
 Sec. 10. And be it further enacted. That in all criminal 
 trials in said District Courts, and in all suits therein at com- 
 mon law, the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate ; 
 and prosecutions for all offences hereby made cognizable in 
 said District Courts, shall be commenced by presentment or 
 indictment of a Grand -Jury. 
 
 Sec. 11 And be it further enacteA; That each of the said 
 District Courts shall have, possess and exercise criminal 
 jurisdiction, co-extensive with the limits of the District, to 
 try and punish persons guilty of any offence against the 
 laws of the Confederate States, in force within the District, 
 the punishment whereof, when there committed, is provided 
 for by law, or treaty of the Confederate States; and to en- 
 force the execution of all laws of the Confederate States, 
 declared to be in force in the Indian country, or within the 
 
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 limits of an Agency Reserve, or of the Forts or Military- 
 Posts therein. And the said District Courts shall respec- 
 tively have jurisdiction to try, condemn and punish offend- 
 ers against any of such laws or treaties, to adjudge and 
 pronounce sentence, and cause execution thereof to be done, 
 in the same manner as is done in other District Courts of 
 the Confederate States ; to which end each of said District 
 Courts shall possess the powers heretofore possessed by 
 Circuit Courts of the United States, so far as the same shall 
 be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, or of 
 the Treaties with the several Indian Nations, Tribes and 
 Bands. 
 
 Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That each of said Dis- 
 trict Courts shall have the same admiralty jurisdiction as 
 other District Courts of the Confederate States, against 
 persons residing, or vessels and other subjects of admiralty 
 jurisdiction found within the district ;• and in all civil suits 
 at law or in equity, where the matter in controversy is of 
 greater value than five hundred dollars, between a citizen 
 or citizens of any State or States of the Confederate States, 
 or of any Territory or Province of the same, or an alien or 
 aliens, and a citizen or citizens of the District, or a person 
 or persons residing therein ; which jurisdiction shall be 
 exercised in such manner and witli like pleadings and pro- 
 cess, as in other District Courts of the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the said District 
 Courts for the Districts of Tush-ca-hom-ma and Cha-lahki, 
 respectively, shall have no jurisdiction to try and punish 
 any person for any offence committed prior to the 12th day 
 of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and sixty-one, in the said Tush-ca-hom-ma District ; 
 or prior to the seventh day of October, in the same year, in 
 the Cha-lah-ki District, as hereby constituted ; nor shall 
 any action in law or equity be maintained in the said Dis- 
 trict Court of Tush-ca-hom-ma District where the cause of 
 action accrued before the twelfth day of July, in the year 
 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight; 
 and in the said District Court of the Cha-lah-ki District, 
 where the cause of action accrued before the seventh day of 
 October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and sixty-one ; except where the action is brought by 
 the Confederate States, or by a State of the Confederacy, 
 for its or their own use and benefit. 
 
 Sec 14. And be it further enacted, That each of the said 
 
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 District Courts shall have jurisdiction in all civil suits in- 
 stituted by the Confederate States, or by one or more States 
 of the Confederacy, against any person or persons, whether 
 white men or Indians, residing or found within the District; 
 and in all civil suits the same practice shall govern, the 
 same proceedings be had in all respects, before and after 
 judgment or decree, and the same costs be adjudged, and be 
 in the same manner collected, as now in the District Court 
 of the Confederate States for the Western District of Ar- 
 kansas ; and the forms of all original, mesne, and final pro- 
 cess shall be the same a^ are now used in that Court. 
 
 Sec. lo. And be it further enacted, That all the proceed- 
 ings in said Courts shall be had and recorded in the Eng- 
 lish language ; and no person shall be competent to serve as 
 a juror who is not a citizen of the District; that all citizens 
 of the District, being free males, without mixture of negro 
 blood, and over the age of twenty-one years, if competent 
 by the general rules of law, shall be competent to serve as 
 jurors, preference being given to those who can speak and 
 understand the English language; and every Indian tried 
 in said Courts having the right to a jury of one-half of his 
 own Nation ; that the practice in all criminal cases therein, 
 including the right of challenge of jurors, shall be the same 
 as in the District Court of the Confederate States for the 
 Western District of Arkansas; and that within the sphere 
 of its jurisdiction hereby defined, each of said Courts shall 
 be invested with the same powers as said District Court 
 of the Western District of Arkansas; its proceedings shall 
 have the same validity as those of that Court, and shall be 
 authenticated in the same mode and have the like faith and 
 credit everywhere. 
 
 Sec 16. And be it further enacted, That when any white 
 person, not by birth, adoption, or otherwise, a citizen or 
 member of any Indian Nation or tribe, as such citizenship 
 is defined by law or treaty, shall be tried in either of said 
 District Courts for any criminal offence, such person shall 
 be entitled, upon demand, arid as of right, to a jury of white 
 men, to obtain which a writ of venire facias may, if neces- 
 sary, issue to the Marshal of an adjoining District in a 
 State, commanding him to summon a panel of twenty per- 
 sons to serve as jurors in the given case, which writ shall 
 be served by such Marshal, and the attendance of the panel 
 compelled, if necessary, by attachment: and out of such 
 panel and talismen, summoned in like manner, if necessary, 
 7 
 
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 the jury shall be selected, no challenge being in such case 
 allowed the prisoner, except for cause. 
 
 Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That all existing pro- 
 visions of law, relating to the powers, duties or modes of 
 proceeding and action of the District Courts of the Confed- 
 erate States, of a general nature, not locally inapplicable 
 and not contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall extend 
 and apply to said District Courts ; that their judgments and 
 decrees shall have the same effect as those of such other 
 courts, and sales of property thereunder shall be made and 
 evidenced, and title thereby pass, in the same manner as 
 under judgments and decrees of said District Court for the 
 Western District of Arkansas. 
 
 Sec 18. And be it further enacted, That the Common Law 
 of England and the Statutes of England, of a general na- 
 ture, made prior to the fourth day of July, seventeen hun- 
 dred and seventy-six, in aid of and raodifjnng or adding to the 
 Common Law, so far as the same have not been changed, al- 
 tered, annulled or repealed by the laws, customs and usages 
 of the Cherokee Nation, shall govern in each of said dis- 
 tricts, in all matters within the civil jurisdiction of the said 
 District Courts. 
 
 Sec 19. And be it further enacted, That, whenever any 
 person is convicted of any offence, amounting to felony, at 
 Common Law, or by Statute, in either of the said District 
 Courts, and part of the punishment inflicted is imprison- 
 ment, such punishment shall be imprisonment and confine- 
 ment at hard labor, for the whole term adjudged ; and it 
 shall be lawful for the Court by which the sentence is passed, 
 to order the same to be executed in any State Prison or Pen- 
 itentiary in an adjoining State, the use of which may be al- 
 lowed by the Legislature of the State for such purpose , and 
 the expenses attendant upon the execution of such sentence 
 shall be paid by the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec 20. And be it further enacted, That bills of exceptions, 
 writs of error, and appeals from the decisions of each of said 
 District Courts, shall be allowed, and may be taken to the 
 Supreme Cuurt of the Confederate States, in the same 
 manner and under the same regulations as from other Dis- 
 trict Courts of the Confederate States, where the value of 
 the property or the amount in controversy, to be ascertained 
 by the oath of either party, or of any other competent wit- 
 ness, shall exceed one thousand dollars ; but in cases involv- 
 ing the question of title to slaves, such writs of error or 
 
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 appeals shall be allowed to and decided by the said Supreme 
 Court, without regard to the value of the matter, property 
 or title, in controversy ; and from any decision of cither of 
 said Courts, or the Judge of cither, upon any writ of habeas 
 corpus, involving a question of personal freedom, a writ of 
 error or appeal shall lie allowed to said Supreme Court. 
 
 Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That writs of error 
 shall lie to the Supreme Court, in behalf of the acctised, from 
 the decisions of the said District Courts, in all criminal 
 cases where the life or liberty of the accused is put in jeo- 
 pardy ; and the writ of error in such cases shall operate [as] a 
 supersedeas when it is so directed by the Judge of the District 
 Court, or by a Judge of the Supreme Court; and the Su- 
 preme Court shall provide such rules for the regulation of 
 this remedy in error as shall prevent abuse thereof, or the 
 escape of persons accused of crime. 
 
 Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That the District Judge 
 for the Cha-lah-ki and Tush-ca-hom-ma Districts shall re- 
 ceive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, to be 
 paid quarter-yearly from the date of his commission, at the 
 Treasury of the Confederate States ; and there shall be ap- 
 propriated annually the sum of one thousand dollars to de- 
 fray the contingent expenses of each of said courts. 
 
 Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall 
 take effect as to each Nation, Tribe or Band therein named, 
 from the date of the ratification of the treaty, by such Nation, 
 Tribe or Band. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 399.] AN ACT 
 
 To Provide for an increase of the Quartermaster and Com- 
 missary Departments. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That in addition to the number of Quartermasters, Assistant 
 Quartermasters, Commissaries and Assistant Commissaries, 
 now allowed by law, the President shall have authority to 
 appoint as many of said officers, as shall, in his discretion, 
 be deemed necessary at permanent posts and depots; said 
 appointments to terminate at the close of the war, or sooner 
 
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 if the services of the officer can be advantageously dispensed 
 with : Provided, That no Quartermaster, Assistant Quarter- 
 ter, Commissary or Assistant Commissary, be authorized to 
 employ a clerk ; but the commanding officer of Quartermas- 
 ters, Assistant Quartermasters, Commissaries or Assistant 
 Commissaries, shall detail from the ranks under his com- 
 mand such person or persons as may be necessary for service 
 in the offices of said Quartermasters, Assistant Quartermas- 
 ters, Commissaries and Assistant Commissaries. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 400.] RESOLUTION 
 
 • 
 
 In relation to payment to Disbursing Clerk of appropriation 
 for removal of the Seat of Government. 
 
 Resolved, That the Committee on the Removal of the Seat 
 of Government, be authorized from the appropriation for 
 that object, to pay to the widow of Samuel Melvin, the de- 
 ceased disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars for the services 
 of the said clerk in disbursing the said appropriation. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 401.] AN ACT 
 
 Appropriating the sum of one thousand one hundred and 
 ten, twenty-two hundredths dollars for the relief of the 
 Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company, being the 
 difference between fifteen and twenty-four per cent, duty 
 on railroad iron paid at Pensacola, in May, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That for the purpose of carrying into effect the second sec- 
 tion of an act approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-one, entitled "An Act to define with more, cer- 
 tainty the meaning of an act entitled ' An Act to fix the 
 duties on articles therein named,' " approved March fifteenth, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the sum of one thousand 
 
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 one hundred and ten, twenty-two hundredths dollars, be, and 
 the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the 
 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to William 
 D. Dunn, President of the Mobile and Great Northern Rail- 
 road Company, being the difference between fifteen and 
 twenty-four per cent, duty on railroad iron of the value of 
 twelve thousand and three hundred and thirty-five seventy- 
 five hundredths dollars withdrawn from warehouses at Pen- 
 sacola in the month of May, eighteen hundred and sixty - 
 ono. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1SG2. 
 
 No. 402.] AN ACT 
 
 Concerning the pay and allowances due to deceased Soldiers. 
 
 Section 1. Tlie Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the pay and allowances due to any deceased 
 volunteer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, 
 in the army of the Confederate States, shall be paid to the 
 widow of the deceased, if living; if not, to the children, if 
 any ; and in default of widow or children, to the father, if 
 living, and if not, to the mother of such deceased volunteer. 
 
 Sec. 2. The pay and allowance due as aforesaid shall be 
 paid by the paymaster or proper officer charged with the 
 payment of the troops, to the person or persons entitled to 
 the same, or to his or her authorized agent, attorney, or 
 guardian, upon the pay-roll made out and certified by the 
 captain or commanding officer of the company to which the 
 deceased was attached, which pay-roll the captain or com- 
 manding officer as aforesaid shall make out and deliver to 
 the person or persons entitled to such pay and allowance, or 
 to his, her or their authorized agent, attorney, or guardian, 
 and shall state in such pay roll the name of the deceased 
 volunteer, the company and regiment to which he was at- 
 tached, and the date of his enlistment and death; and the 
 paymaster or officer to whom said pay-roll shall be directed, 
 shall pay the same according to the tenor thereof, and shall 
 file such pay-roll with the pay-rolls of the army. 
 
 Approved February lo, 1862. 
 
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 No. 403.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the connection of the Railroad from Selma, 
 in Alabama, to Meridian, in Mississippi. 
 
 Whereas, The President in his Message of the 17th of 
 December has expressed the opinion that the completion of 
 the Mississippi and Alabama River Railroad, so as to con- 
 nect Selma, in Alabama, with Meridian, in Mississippi, is 
 indispensable for the successful prosecution of the war, in 
 which opinion Congress fully concurs ; now, therefore : 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized 
 to advance to the President and Directors of the Alabama 
 and Mississippi River Railroad Company, the sum of one 
 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of com- 
 pleting the Railroad connection between Selma, in Alabama, 
 and Meridian, in Mississippi, upon such terms and condi- 
 tions as he may deem best to secure the early completion of 
 said Railroad connection, and to secure the return of the 
 money so advanced. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1862. 
 
 No. 404.] AN ACT 
 
 To compensate Dillon Jordan and F. Glackmeyer, for ser- 
 vices rendered the Government. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the sum of four hundred and fourteen thirty-six 
 one hundredths dollars be paid to Dillon Jordan, of Pensacola, 
 Florida, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise 
 appropriated, in full for services rendered, as reported by 
 the Postmaster-General ; and the further sum of four hun- 
 dred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the 
 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to F. Glack- 
 meyer, in full, for services similarly reported. 
 
 Approved Feb. 15, 1S62. 
 
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 No. 405.] AN ACT 
 
 To define and establish the Compensation of Members of the 
 Congress of the Confederate States of America in refer- 
 ence to mileage. 
 
 Section 1. T'nc Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 
 do enact, That in addition to the compensation allowed by 
 law to members of Congress, each member for each ses- 
 sion shall be allowed eight dollars for every twenty miles, ac- 
 tually and necessarily travelled by other than Railroad or 
 Steamboat transportation, in coming from, and returning to, 
 his place of residence from the place where the Congress 
 may assemble, in lieu of the mileage now allowed over said 
 space. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1862. 
 
 No. 406.] AN ACT 
 
 To Repeal An Act therein named. 
 
 The. Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That an Act entitled, " An Act to provide for raising and 
 organizing, in the State of Missouri, additional troops for 
 the Provisional Army of the Confederate States," endorsed, 
 "passed January ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," 
 be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1862. 
 
 No. 409.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the Preservation and Future Publication of 
 the Journals of the Provisional Congress, and the Pro- 
 ceedings of the Convention which framed the Provisional 
 and Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the President of the Congress be, and he is 
 hereby, authorized and instructed to have prepared, by per- 
 
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 sons selected by him and sworn to secrecy, two copies of 
 the Journals of the Provisional Congress, and the Proceed- 
 ings of the Convention which framed the Provisional and 
 Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States, which, 
 after having been examined by him and certified to be cor- 
 rect, shall be sealed and endorsed as true and exact copies 
 of the originals. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That one of the copies of 
 the Journals and Proceedings aforesaid shall be deposited in 
 the office of the Department of Justice, under the care of 
 the Attorney-General, and the other retained by the Presi- 
 dent of Congress; and the originals of the same, similarly 
 sealed and endorsed, shall be deposited with the Secretary of 
 State; all of which copies and originals shall be preserved, 
 with the:r seals unbroken, until their publication shall be 
 ordered by the Congress of the Confederate States. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1862. 
 
 No. 410.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend "An Act to provide for the Safe Custody, Printing, 
 Publication and Distribution of the Laws, and to provide 
 for the Appointment of an additional Clerk in the De- 
 partment of Justice," approved August fifth, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the laws and resolutions required by said Act 
 to be published in the gazettes, shall be published weekly, 
 for two weeks, instead of weekly for one month ; and the 
 compensation therefor shall be two dollars per page, esti- 
 mated according to said Act, instead of one dollar and a half 
 per page, as therein provided. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the third section of said Act be so amended 
 as to authorize the Attorney-General to cause three thou- 
 sand copies of the Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, 
 and of all the Acts and Resolutions and Treaties of the 
 Provisional Government of the Confederate States which are 
 not secret, to be published in one volume, at the close of the 
 present session of Congress, arranged, and with marginal 
 notes, and indexed, as provided in said Act. 
 
 Sec 3. That the volumes published under this Act shall 
 
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 be subject, in every respect, to tbe provisions of the Act of 
 which this is amendatory ; except that, if paper of the quality 
 required by the previous Act cannot be obtained, such paper 
 may be used as the Superintendent of the Bureau of Print- 
 ing may select : Provided, That the Attorney-General may 
 postpone the binding in calf until one year after the termi- 
 nation of the present war; and he may cause the volume 
 published under 'this Act [to be] so bound, without regard 
 to the number of pages. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1862. 
 
 No. 411.] AN ACT 
 
 To make Disposition of Negro Slaves captured from Hostile 
 
 Indians. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do mad, That all negroes who are slaves, belonging to hos- 
 tile Indians who arc members or citizens of any one of the 
 tribes of Indians friendly to this Government, and who have 
 been, or ina}' hereafter be, captured by troops or persons in 
 the service of the Confederate States, shall be delivered to 
 the Superintendent of Indian Affairs west of Arkansas. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said Superintendent shall carefully inform 
 himself of the persons and tribes to whom each negro be- 
 longs, and shall promptly notify the Executive, or Head 
 Chief of the proper tribe or tribes, to receive the same, at 
 some convenient place, and shall deliver said negro or ne- 
 groes, to said Executive, or Head Chief of said friendly 
 tribe or tribes, as captured property, to be held by said tribe 
 or tribes until such provisions and orders shall be made by 
 this Government as shall seem just and wise, and shall take 
 receipts for the same. 
 
 Sec 3. That the said Superintendent shall, at or before 
 the time of such delivery, make out a record, showing the 
 name and age and value of each slave received by him, and 
 shall report the same, and the fact of such delivery, or other 
 disposition of each of said negroes, to the Commissioner of 
 Indian Affairs, together with all the facts of time, place and 
 circumstances of the capture, and by whom captured; but 
 in no case shall any free negro who is so captured be given up 
 by virtue of this Act. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1862. 
 
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 No. 413.] AN ACT 
 
 To Fix the Date at which the Bounty shall be Paid to Sol- 
 diers Enlisting for the War. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the bounty of fifty dollars, allowed by existing laws to 
 soldiers enlisting for the war, or re-enlisting for two years, 
 or recruited, shall be payable as soon as the volunteer en- 
 titled thereto shall have been sworn into the Confederate 
 service, and shall have been pronounced by any Surgeon, or 
 Assistant Surgeon of the Confederate States, after inspec- 
 tion, as being fit and able to do military service. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1862. 
 
Confederate States of America, ) 
 Department of Justice. ) 
 
 I do hereby certify that the foregoing Laws and Resolu- 
 tions have been carefully compared with the original Rolls 
 on file in this Department. 
 
 JAMES M. MATTHEWS, 
 
 Law Clerk. 
 Richmond, March 19, 1862. 
 
I N DEX. 
 
 \ ('COUNTS— 
 
 Of Acting (Commissaries and Quartermasters of In- 
 dian Troops; how settled and paid, - - 37 
 
 Of Receivers under f-equestration Act; how-lobe 
 settled, and wlut to embrace, 85 
 
 ADVANCEMENTS— 
 
 To South Carolina, on account of her claims against 
 theC. *»., - U 
 
 Of Postage in Treasury Notes, - - - 19 
 
 ALIEN ENEMIES— 
 
 Taxes on Properly of, liable to Sequestration, - 18-19 
 
 Amendment of the Act for the Sequestration of the 
 
 Estates, Property and Effects of, - 75-85 
 
 Settlements by Receivers of their Estates, - - 85 
 
 Who are not to be taken as Alien Enemies, - 77—79 
 
 APPEALS— 
 
 Allowed to Supreme Court from decisions of Dis- 
 trict Courts in certain Indian Territories, - 98-99 
 APPOINTMENTS— 
 
 Of certain Officers made Executive appointments, - 51-5:? 
 
 Of Officers to raise Regiments, Companies, &c, - 54 
 
 Of Officers of Artillery in the Provisional Army, 
 and in the Volunteer Corps, 55 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS— 
 
 For payment <>f Salaries of Clerks, office hire, &c, 
 
 to be disbursed to Chief State Tax Collectors, - 13 
 
 Transfer of certain appropriations,- - - 14,21 
 
 For expenses of Government for the year ending 
 
 February 18, L862, 22-25 
 
 To comply in part with Treaty Stipulations with 
 
 certain Indian Tribes, - 26-3$ 
 
 For the contingencies of office of the Superin tenden- 
 cy of Indian Affairs, and of the several Indian 
 Agencies, ------ 34 
 
 May" be paid in coin. Appropriation to purchase 
 
 coin, ------ .55 
 
 Additional, to defray the expense of the Public 
 
 Printing, ------ 46 
 
 To reward loyalty of Principal Chief of Seminole 
 
 Nation, "__---- 47 
 
 For certain Floating Defences, - - - 48 
 
 For the Naval Service, 50 
 
 For the Military Service, - - - - 50' 
 
89 
 
 -91 
 
 
 99 
 
 100- 
 
 101 
 
 37- 
 
 -46 
 45 
 
 APPROPRT \TIONS— Continued. 
 
 For Ordnance, Ordnance Stores and Equipments, - 61 
 
 For the relief of the State of Missouri, - - 64-65 
 
 For raising and organizing Troops in Kentucky, and 
 
 supplying same with clothing, &c, 66 
 
 For the redemption of certain Bonds, - - 68-69 
 
 For the purpose of providing coin, 69 
 
 For the payment of interest due Banks at Memphis, 69-70 
 To connect the Richmond and Danville with the N. 
 
 Carolina Railroads, for military purposes, - 73 
 
 For the expenses of Government, in the different 
 Departments, from the 18th February to 1st of 
 April, 1862, ------ 
 
 To pay contingent expenses of Courts in certain In- 
 dian Territories, - 
 For the relief of the Mobile &, Great Northern R. R. 
 Company, ------ 
 
 ARIZONA— 
 
 Territory of, organized, - 
 
 Delegate to Congress from, - - - - 
 
 Act suspended till President's Proclamation, - 46 
 
 ARMS— 
 
 Of Volunteers for twelve months, to be under the 
 
 President's control, - - - - 60 
 
 ARMY— 
 
 Officers to affix signature of President to commis- 
 sions in, ------ 7 
 
 Appointment of Chief Bugler or Principal Musician, 8 
 
 Bounty and Furloughs to Privates, Musicians and 
 
 Non-commissioned officers, - 9 
 
 Transportation, _____ Q 
 
 Commutation value in money of the transportation 
 
 in lieu of furlough, ----- 9 
 
 Re-organization of troops re-volunteering or re-en- 
 listing, at the expiration of their present term of 
 service, ------ 
 
 Vacancies; how filled, 10 
 
 Officers in, rendering service before receiving com- 
 missions; their rank and pay, 15 
 Rec ruiting and enlisting of men for companies re- 
 duced by casualties, 16 
 President authorized to confer temporary rank and 
 command on officers of the Navy, doing duty with 
 troops, ______ 20 
 
 Appointment of officers of Engineers in the Provi- 
 sional Army. Their rank, pay and emoluments, 35-36 
 Temporary rank and command upon officers of the 
 
 Army, on duty in certain Bureaus, - - 36 
 
 When such appointments to cease. To be held with- 
 out prejudice to their positions in the Army, - 36 
 Provision for raising and organizing additional 
 
 troops in the State of Missouri, - 48, 103 
 
 Appropriation for Military service, - - - 50 
 
 Volunteers may be accepted singly as well as in 
 
 companies, ------ 
 
 10 
 
 53 
 
3 
 
 ARMY— Continued. 
 
 Appointments of Field and Company Officers under 
 Act to raise additional military force to serve du- 
 ring the war. Vacancies tilled by promotion, - 53 
 Vacancies in the ranks of companies may be filled 
 
 by vol u n 1 i ergj - - _ _ _ 53 
 
 Officers, &c, may be detailed to recruit for compa- 
 nies, ------- 53 
 
 When recruits to be mustered in. Transportation, 
 
 subsistence and pay, - 53—54 
 
 Appointment of persons as field officers or Captains, 
 
 to raise Regiments, Companies, Ac. Pay, - 54 
 
 When appointments to expire, - - 54 
 
 When enlistment under commission of Captain not 
 obligatory, ------ 54 
 
 App ttnent of Officers of Artillery in the Provi- 
 sional Army, and in the Volunteer Corps, - 55 
 President authorized to call on the Slates for troops, 
 ^ to serve for three years, or during the war, - 69 
 Troops to be equalized nmongst the States, - GO 
 Provision for recruiting Companies, now in the ser- 
 vice, for twelve months, - 63—64 
 Payment of Troops in Missouri, - 
 Term for whirl, militia called into service not to ap- 
 ply to certain men drafted into service by the 
 States, ------ 66 
 
 .Appropriation for raising and organizing troops in 
 Kentucky, and supplying the same with clothing, 
 &'., - 
 Officers appointed to raise certain Companies, Bat- 
 talions and Regiments, to be the officers of the 
 same, ------ 71 
 
 Commissions of such officers made absolute, - 71 
 
 Organization of the Maryland Line, - - 91—92 
 
 Pay and allowances due to deceased Soldiers, - 11 
 
 Date at which bounty paid to soldiers enlisting for 
 
 the war, ----__ jpg 
 
 ARTILLEKV- 
 
 Appointment of officers of, in the Provisional Ar-. 
 
 inv, and in the Volunteer Corps, - 55 
 
 ASSAY OFFICES— 
 
 Established at New Orleans, - - - - G2 
 
 Duties of Assay er. Bond and oath, - - G2 
 
 To have charge of the Mint Edifice, tools, &c, - 61 
 
 To defray expenses of the Assaying establishment, 68 
 
 Assayer's compensation, - - - - G2 
 
 May employ workmen and inferior officers, - 02 
 
 Report of Assavcr's proceedings, - - - G2 
 
 ASSIST A NT S ECR E V ARIES— 
 
 Appointments of, made Executive appointments, - 51-52 
 ATTALA COUNTY— 
 
 To form part of Southern Judicial District in Mis- 
 sissippi, ------ 7.^75 
 
 ATTORNEYS— 
 
 For Judicial Districts in Tennessee, - - 10 
 
 66 
 
 60-67 
 
4 
 
 ATTORNEYS— Continued. 
 
 For Judicial Districts in certain Indian Territories, 94 
 
 BANKS— 
 
 Appropriation to pay interest due the Banks at 
 
 Memphis, ------ 69-70 
 
 BILLS OF EXCEPTIONS— 
 
 Allowed to Supreme Court from decisions of Dis- 
 trict Courts in certain Indian Territories, - 98-99 
 BOUNTY— 
 
 Granted to privates, musicians and non-commis- 
 sioned Officers, ----- 
 
 To persons enlisting as seamen, or who extend their 
 
 enlistments, ----- 52 
 
 To recruits, ----- -53-54,63 
 
 To'State troops who re-enlist in the service of the 
 
 C. S., 68 
 
 Date at which to be paid to soldiers enlisting for 
 
 the war, ------ 106 
 
 BUGLERS— 
 
 President authorized to appoint Chief Bugler to 
 
 each Regiment in the Army. - 8 
 
 CARRIERS— 
 
 Of Electoral votes of the States ; their mileage and 
 
 pay, _-___- 12 
 
 CHAPLAINS— 
 
 Appointment in the Navy, - - - 21 
 
 Pay and emoluments, - - 21 
 
 CHOCTAW NATION— 
 
 Payment of interest to, upon stocks of the State of 
 
 Virginia, ------ 75 
 
 CLAIMS— 
 
 Of certain officers to be audited by Secretary of War, 51 
 
 CLERKS— 
 
 In the several Bureaus of the Treasury Department, 73-74 
 May be employed on trial, subject to rules, - 74 
 
 Salaries, ------ 74 
 
 Of Board of Commissioners under Sequestration 
 
 Act. His salary, - - - , - - 84 
 
 COIN— 
 
 Appropriation to provide same for the Government, 69 
 
 COMMISSARIES— 
 
 Accounts of, of certain Indian troops, 37 
 
 Appointment at permanent posts and depots, - 99-1CO 
 
 Not allowed Clerks, - - - - 100 
 
 Persons from the ranks may be detailed to serve in 
 
 their offices, - 100 
 
 COMMISSIONERS — 
 
 Board of, under Sequestration Act, may appoint a 
 
 Clerk, - 84 
 
 Also Commissioners to take the examination of wit- 
 nesses, ------ 85 
 
 May administer oaths to witnesses and issue sub- 
 
 poonas, ------ 85 
 
 COMMUTATION— 
 
 In lieu of furloughs, - 9, 68 
 
5 
 
 CONGRESS— 
 
 Representation of Kentucky in House of Repre- 
 sentative?, ------ 17 
 
 Delegate from Tcrritor}* of Arizona, - - 45 
 
 His compensation, ----- 73 
 
 Duties of the President of, under the act to put in 
 operation the Government under the Permanent 
 Constitution, _____ 88' 
 
 Mileage allowed members, - 103 
 
 Preservation and future publication of journals, - 103-104 
 •CONVENTION— 
 
 Preservation and future publication of the journals 
 of the, which framed the Provisional and Perma- 
 nent Constitutions ----- 1(13-104 
 
 COURTS— 
 
 When to be held in judicial districts in Tennessee, 10 
 
 Judges of District four's may interchange with each 
 
 (>t her temporarily, ----- 6S 
 
 Decisions of judges presiding by interchange made 
 valid, - - - - - 65 
 
 Interchanges to be entered on the records, - - 66 
 
 Judicial Courts in certain Indian Territories estab- 
 lished, ------ 93-09 
 
 DECEASED SOLDIERS— 
 
 Act concerning the pay and allowances due to - JP91 
 
 DEFENCES— 
 
 Appropriations for Floating Defences, 48 
 
 Of the Mississippiriver, appropriation to meet expen- 
 ditures for, ------ 01 
 
 DISTRICT ATTOB N EYS— 
 
 A ppointment of, for Tennessee, - - - TO 
 
 DISTRICT COURTS— 
 
 Judges of, may interchange. temporarily, - - 65 
 
 Their acts and decisions made valid, 05 
 
 Interchanges to be entered on the records, - C6 
 
 In certain Indian Territories, - 93—99 
 
 To be held semi-annually, 94 
 
 Appointment of Judge, Marshal and Attorney ; term 
 
 of office, ------ 9i 
 
 Clerk and Interpreter, Register in Chancery. 94-95 
 Where to be held. When terms to commence. - 95 
 
 Jurisdiction, - 95-Q7 
 
 Effect of judgments and decrees, - 98 
 
 ELECTIONS— 
 
 Mileage and pay allowed carriers of the Electoral 
 
 votes of the. States - -. - - 12 
 
 Custody of the returns and certificates of the votes 
 
 of the Electors for President and Vice-President, 35 
 
 ELECTORAL VOTES— 
 
 Carriers of, allowed mileage and pay, - - 1" 
 
 Custody of the returns and certificate of the votes 
 
 of the Electors for President and Vice-President, 35 
 
 ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT— 
 Custody of the returns and certificates of the votes 
 for, -------35 
 
ENGINEERS— 
 
 President authorized to appoint officers of, in the 
 
 Provisional Army, ----- 35-36 
 
 Rank, pay and emoluments, 36 
 
 Appointments to expire at the end of the war, - 36 
 
 ENLISTMENTS— 
 
 Of additional seamen for the war, - S 
 
 Re-organization of troops, re-enlisting at the expira- 
 tion of their present term of service, - - 9-10 
 For companies reduced by casualties, - - 16 
 EVANS, BRIGADIER-GENERAL— 
 
 Resolution of thanks to, and to the officers and sol- 
 diers under his command, 15 
 EVIDENCE— 
 
 Nature of evidence admissible in cases instituted by 
 au'hority of resolution, appointing Receiver in 
 Kentucky under Sequestration Act, - - 70-71 
 
 Affidavit required of Receiver, - 70-71 
 
 Examination of witnesses touching claims before 
 
 Board of Commissioners under Sequestration Act, 85 
 
 Costs of proceedings to take testimony, by whom to 
 
 be paid, ______ 85 
 
 EXECUTIVE APPOl NTMENTS— 
 
 Appointments of certain officers made such, - 51- 2 
 
 FLOATING DEFENCES— 
 
 Appropriations for, for the "Western Rivers, - - 48 
 
 FEES— 
 
 Of Clerks and Marshals under Sequestration Act, 84 
 
 Claims for, by Attorneys, Agents, &c, of alien ene- 
 mies, on the funds in their hands, 83 
 FUNDS— 
 
 Transfer of, to Foreign parts, _ _ _ 3 
 
 Issue of further Treasury Notes and Bonds. Bonds 
 
 convertible into Notes, - 25 
 
 Provisions in regard to Indian Trust Funds, - 49, 72 
 
 Transfer of funds from the Quartermasters to the 
 
 Ordnance Department, _ _ _ _ 67-08 
 
 FURLOUGHS— 
 
 Granted to privates, musicians and non-commission- 
 ed officers, ------ 9 
 
 Allowance in lieu of furlough, - 9 
 
 To State Troops who re-enlist in the service of the 
 
 Confederate States, 68 
 
 GLACKMEYER, F— 
 
 Act for the relief of, 55 
 
 Compensation for services rendered the Govern- 
 ment, _.___- 1P>2 
 GOVERNMENT— 
 
 Appropriation for expenses of for the year ending, 
 
 February 18, 1802, 22-25 
 
 Act to put the Government in operation under the 
 
 Permanent Constitution, 88 
 
 Appropriation for the expenses of, from February 
 
 18, to April 1, 1862, - 89-91 
 
 Relinquishment of the share of,, in certain prizes, 92. 
 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES— 
 
 Number of members in, to which the State of Ken- 
 tucky is entitled. Election of, - - 17 
 INDIAN TERRITORIES— 
 
 Judicial Courts established in, - - 93-99 
 
 INDIANS— 
 
 Appropriations to comply in part with treaty stipu- 
 lations with Indian Tribes, - 26-3$ 
 Also for contingencies of offices of ^uperintenden- 
 
 cy of Indian Affairs and Indian Agencies, - 34 
 
 Appropriations may be paid in coin, - - 35 
 
 Provision for the payment of certain Indian Troops, 3G-37 
 Allowance in lieu of clothing, 37 
 
 Accounts of acting Commissaries and Quartermas- 
 ters of said Indian Troops. Debts incurred or 
 monies advanced by them, 37 
 
 Act to reward the loyalty of the Principal Chief of 
 
 the Seminole Nation, 47 
 
 Provisions in regard to Indian Trust Funds, - 49 
 
 Indemnity to States for transferring certain Indian 
 
 Trust Funds to the Confederate States, - - 72 
 
 Payment of interest due the Choctaw Nation upon 
 
 stocks of the State of Virginia, - - - 7f» 
 
 Disposition of negro slaves captured fiom the In- 
 dians, ______ 105 
 
 JOHNSON, COL. EDWARD— 
 
 Resolution of thanks to. - - - - 49 
 
 JORDAN DILLON - 
 
 Act for the relief of, ----- 55 
 
 Compensation for certain services rendered the Gov- 
 ernment, ------ 102 
 
 JUDGES— 
 
 Of District Courts may interchange, temporarily, 65 
 
 Th sir acts and decisions made valid, - - 66 
 
 Interchanges to be entered on the records of the 
 
 Courts, ------ 66 
 
 In certain Indian Territories. Term of office, - 94 
 
 Their salaries, ----- 99 
 
 JUDICIAL DISTRICTS— 
 
 County of Attala, Mississippi, to form part of Sou- 
 thern Judicial District in that State, - - 74-75 
 Established in certain Indian Territories, - - 93-94 
 Court to be held semi-annually, 94 
 Appointment of Judge, Marshal and Attorney. 
 
 Term of office, 94 
 
 Clerk and Interpreter, 94 
 
 Register in Chancery, - 95 
 
 JUMPER, JOHN— 
 
 . Act to reward his loyalty as principal Chief of the 
 
 Seminole Nation, ----- 47 
 
 JURISDICTION— 
 
 Of District Courts in certain Indian Territories - 95-97 
 KENTUCKY— 
 
 Admission of, _____ 7 
 
 Number of members entitled to in the House of 
 
8 
 
 KENTUCKY-Continued. 
 
 Representatives. How and when to be elected, - 
 Appropriation for raising and organizing troops in 
 
 and supplying same with clothing, &c, - 
 Governor of to make estimates before making re- 
 quisitions upon the Treasury, - 
 LABORERS— 
 
 Additional for Postoffice Department, 
 LAUNDRESSES— 
 
 May be employed for military Hospitals, - 
 LAWS— 
 
 Printing, publication, and distribution of, - 
 Binding, ______ 
 
 LIEN— 
 
 For taxes, ---___ 
 Judgment or decree under the Sequestration Act 
 
 not to operate as a lien, - 
 Execution to bind property of the deb'.or from the 
 delivery of the writ, _ _ _ _ 
 
 LUMBERTON GUARDS— 
 
 When President authorized to discharge said Com- 
 pany, ______ 
 
 MAIL ROUTES— 
 
 From Hicks' Ford to Lawrenceville, in Virginia, es- 
 tablished, ---___ 
 Certain others established, - - - _ 
 
 MARINE CORPS— 
 
 Temporary rank and command may be conferred 
 on officers of doing duty with troops, 
 MARSHALS— 
 
 For Judicial Districts in Tennessee, 
 
 In certain Indian Territories, _ _ _ 
 
 To give bond, _____ 
 
 MARYLAND— 
 
 Resolutions relating to, - 
 
 Organization of Maryland line, - 
 MELVIN, SAMUEL, dec'd— 
 
 His widow to be paid for certain services rendered 
 by him, ______ 
 
 MESSENGERS— 
 
 Additional Messenger for the Postoffice Depart- 
 ment, ------ 
 
 MICCO HEMHA— 
 
 Act to reward his loyalty as principal Chief of the 
 Seminole Nation, _ _ _ 
 
 MILEAGE— 
 
 Allowed carriers of Electoral votes 
 Allowed members of Congress, 
 MILITIA— 
 
 Term for which, called into service, not to apply to 
 certain men drafted into service by the states, - 
 MISSISSIPPI RIVER— 
 
 Appropriation for Ordnance, Ordnance Stores and 
 Equipments for defences of, 
 
 17 
 66 
 
 or 
 
 61 
 
 6-7 
 
 104-105 
 104-105 
 
 13 
 
 83 
 83 
 
 4-5 
 
 47 
 
 85-87 
 
 71-72 
 
 10 
 94 
 
 95 
 
 16-17 
 
 91-92 
 
 100 
 61 
 
 '17 
 
 12 
 103 
 
 66 
 
 61 
 
MISSOURI— 
 
 Admission of, - •> 
 
 Election of members to the House of Representa- 
 tives from, ___--- | 
 
 Provision for raising and organizing additional 
 
 troops in, - - - - - - 48,103 
 
 Advancement to in Treasury Notes, - 64-65,87-88 
 
 Advancement to be deducted from amount found 
 due the Suite by the C. S. on adjustment of ac- 
 counts, _.---- 65, 88 
 
 How advancement to be applied. - C r . 
 
 MORRIS, JOHN )>.--- 
 
 Appointed Receiver under Sequestration Act in 
 Kentucky, with special powers, 11 
 
 Evidence admissible in cases instituted by authority 
 
 of resolution under which he is appointed. - 70-71 
 
 MUSICTANS- 
 
 President authorized to appoint Principal Musician 
 to each regiment in the army, - 8 
 
 Bounty and furlough to, - - - - '.' 
 
 NATURALIZATION— 
 
 Extended to persons not citizens of the ('. S. en- 
 gaged in the naval service of the C. S., - - 20 
 
 Oath required. By whom to be administered, - 20 
 
 NAV\ 
 
 President authorized to confer temporary rank a r d 
 command on officers of, doing duty with troops, 20 
 
 Also on officers of the Marine Corps, - - 71-72 
 
 Appointment of Chaplains in, 
 
 Appointment of additional officers in, - - 22 
 
 Appropriation for the Naval service, - - r )0 
 
 Appointment of officers to higher grade without 
 
 prejudice to their position, - 52 
 
 NAV\ DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Appointment of additional Clerks and a Draftsman 
 in. Their salaries, - 8 
 
 Certain appropriations for defences of Mississippi 
 
 river to be expended under its direction, - (31 
 
 NOTES, A. B.— 
 
 Act for the relief of, as Collector of the Port of St. 
 
 Marks, Florida, - 54-55 
 
 OFFICERS— 
 
 Superintendents of Hospitals may employ Laun- 
 dresses, __.--- 6-7 
 
 To affix signature of the President to commissions 
 
 in the army, - 7 
 
 Additional Clerks and Draftsmen to be appointed 
 in the Navy Department, - 
 
 Election of upon organization of troops re-volun- 
 teering or re enlisting, - 9-10 
 
 Vacancies, how tilled, - - - - Id 
 
 Marshal and Attorney for each Judicail District in 
 
 Tennessee, _ _ - - - It) 
 
 Rank and pay of certain officers in the army who 
 commenced service before receiving their com- 
 
10 
 
 OFFICERS— Continued. 
 
 missions, --____ 15 
 
 Provision in behalf of certain officers who were in 
 
 the Revenue service of the U. S., 21 
 
 Appointment of additional officers in the Nav} r , - 22 
 
 President authorized to appoint officers of Engi- 
 neers in the Provisional Army, - 35-36 
 
 Temporary rank and command on officers of the 
 
 Army on duty in certain Bureaus, 36 
 
 Appointment of Major-General and Brigadier-Gen- 
 erals to command troops in Missouri. Their pay 
 and staff, - - - - - - 48 
 
 Appointment and qualification of in the Territory 
 
 of Arizona, _____ 44 
 
 Claims of certain officers to be audited and settled 
 
 by the Secretary of War, 51 
 
 Appointments of certain officers made Executive ap- 
 pointments, _____ 51-52 
 
 Officers of the Navy may be appointed to higher 
 grade without prejudice to their position under 
 original appointment, 52 
 
 Appointments of under the Act to raise an addi- 
 tional military force to serve during the war. Va- 
 cancies, how filled, 53 
 
 May be detailed to recruit men for companies, - 53 
 
 President may appoint, to ruise regiments, compa- 
 nies, &c. Pay, transportation and subsistence, - 54 
 
 "When such appointments to expire, - - 54 
 
 Of Artillery in the Provisional Army and in the 
 
 volunteer corps, ----- 55 
 
 To recruit for Companies now in the service for 
 
 twelve months, ----- 63 
 
 Officers appointed by the President to raise Com- 
 panies, Battalions, and Regiments, to be the offi- 
 cers of the same, ----- 71 
 
 Commissions of such officers to be absolute, - 71 
 
 Temporary rank and command conferred on offi- 
 cers of the Marine corps doing duty with troops, 71-72 
 
 Rank of certain officers fixed, - 92-93 
 
 Appointment of Quartermasters and Commissaries 
 at permanent posts and depots, - - - 99-100 
 
 ORDNANCE— 
 
 Appropriation for ordnance, ordnance stores and 
 
 equipments, ----- 61 
 
 ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Transfer of funds to, from the Quartermaster's De- 
 partment, ------ 67-68 
 
 OURY, G. II.- 
 
 His compensation as delegate in Congress from 
 
 Arizona, ------ 73 
 
 PARTNERSHIP— 
 
 Process and proceedings where the names of the 
 members of a partnership of alien enemies are 
 unknown, - 84 
 
tl 
 
 PARTNERSHIP— Continued. 
 
 Resident partners to be dealt with as surviving 
 
 partners, - - - - - - 77 
 
 PATENTS— 
 
 United States Patents continued in force, - - 57 
 
 Assignments of such patents - 57-5S 
 
 Endorsement on patents and assignments. - 58 
 
 Affidavit where patent or assignment is lost ■ r can- 
 not be procured from U. S. Patent Office, - 58- 59 
 Notice by applicant, - 59 
 Taking out patent in foreign country not to debar 
 
 citizens or aliens, - - - - - 59 
 
 Limitation of term. ----- 59 
 
 How certain act relating to U. S. patents to lie con- 
 strued, ------ 07 
 
 PERMANENT CONSTITUTION— 
 
 Act to put the Government in operation under, - 88 
 
 PILLOW, BRIGADIER-GENERAL— 
 
 R( solution of thanks to, 6 
 
 POLK, MAJOR-GENERAL— 
 
 Resolution of thanks to, - - - 6 
 
 POSTAGE— 
 
 Treasury notes receivable on deposit for advanced 
 
 payment of, - 19 
 
 POSTAL SERVICE— 
 
 Certain accounts for to be audited, - - - 55-56 
 
 Time for presenting claims for limited, - - 56 
 
 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Clerical force increased. - C0-G1 
 
 Auditor of the Treasury for, to appoint clerk to 
 
 sign his name, 61 
 
 Additional messenger and laborers, and their com- 
 pensation, ------ Til 
 
 POSTMASTERS— 
 
 To receive on deposit Treasury notes for advanced 
 
 payment of postage, - 19 
 
 Balances remaining in their hands at a certain time 
 
 to be paid to the Postmaster-General, - - 56 
 
 Posmaster-General to pay the amounts collected to 
 
 persons having claims for postal service, - 56 
 
 Reimbursement out of Treasury for amount paid 
 
 over, ______ 5Q 
 
 POSTM AST ER-( ! ENER AL— 
 
 Authorized to contract for carrying the mail from 
 
 Hicks' Ford to Lawrenceville, in Virginia, - 47 
 
 To cause the accounts of certain persons, for postal 
 
 services, to be audited, - 55-56 
 
 To collect and pay over certain balances remaining 
 in the hands of postmasters, account thereof to 
 be kept, ------ 56 
 
 Reimbursement out of the Treasury for the amount 
 
 paid. How the sum reimbursed to be disposed of, 56 
 
 May appoint additional messenger and Laborers for 
 
 Post-Oflicc Department, GI 
 
12 
 
 POST ROUTES— 
 
 From Hicks' Ford to Lawrenceville, Virginia, es- 
 tablished, ------ 47 
 
 Certain others established, - 85-87 
 
 PRESIDENT— 
 
 Authorized to discharge the "Lumberton Guards," 4-5 
 
 To communicate copy of resolution of thanks to 
 
 Major-General Price, - 5 
 
 May delegate power to officers to affix his signa- 
 ture to commissions in the army, - 7 
 
 Authorized to enlist additional seamen for the war, 8 
 
 To appoint marshal and attorney for each judieial 
 
 district in Tennessee, 10 
 
 Authorized to confer temporary rank and com- 
 mand on officers of the navy doing duty with 
 troojis. ------ 20 
 
 Authorized to employ, during the war, in the mili- 
 tary or naval service, certain persons who were 
 officers in the revenue service of the U. S., - 21 
 
 May appoint additional officers in the navy, - 22 
 
 Authorized to appoint officers of Engineers in the 
 
 Provisional army, their number, rank and pay, - 35-36 
 
 Authorized to confer temporary rank and com- 
 mand upon officers of the army on duty in cer- 
 tain bureaus, _____ 35 
 
 To appoint certain officers in the territory of Ari- 
 zona, ______ 44 
 
 Proclamation under act organizing the said territo- 
 ry, - - - - - - 46 
 
 To appoint and commission major-general and 
 brigadier-generals of troops to be raised in Mis- 
 souri, ______ 48 
 
 Appropriation for certain floating defences, to be 
 
 expended at his discretion, 48 
 
 Authorized to raise a corps and cause enlistment's 
 for temporary and special service on the western 
 waters, - - - - - - 51 
 
 Authorized to appoint officers of the regular navy, 52 
 
 May accept volunteers singly as well as in compa- 
 nies, &c, ______ 53 
 
 And appoint and commission persons as field offi- 
 cers or captains, to raise regiments, squadrons &c, 54 
 
 To have the control of the arms of volunteers for 
 
 twelve months, ----- 60 
 
 Authorized to call upon the several States for 
 
 troops to serve for three years or during the war, 60 
 
 May confer temporary rank and command on offi- 
 cers of the marine corps doing duty with troops, 71-72 
 
 To contract for the connection of the Richmond and 
 Danville with the North Carolina railroads, for 
 military purposes, _____ 72-73 
 
 To appoint judges, marshals and attorneys for ju- 
 dicial districts in certain Indian territories, - 94 
 
13 
 
 PRESIDENT— Continued. 
 
 Authorized to appoint Quartermasters, Assistant 
 Quartermasters, Commissaries and Assistant 
 Commissaries, at permanent posts and depots, - !»'.'- 100 
 
 Authorized to make advancements to complete the 
 railroad connection between Selma, Alabama, 
 and Meridian, Mississippi, - 102 
 
 PRICE, MAJOR GENERAL— 
 
 Resolution of thanks to, and to the officers and 
 
 soldiers under his i ommand, - - 5 
 
 PRINTING— 
 
 Of the Laws, .... - 104-K5 
 
 Compensation for, ----- K>4 
 
 PRIZES— 
 
 Relinquishment on the part of the Government to 
 its share in certain prizes, 92 
 
 PROCLAMATIONS— 
 
 Of President under act organizing Territory of 
 
 Arizona, ------ 4G 
 
 PUBLICATION— 
 
 Of the Journals of the Provisional Congress, and 
 the proceedings of the Convention which framed 
 the Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, - 10,3-104 
 Printing, publication and distribution of the laws, 104-105 
 
 PUBLIC DEFENCE— 
 
 Amendment of act providing for, 66 
 
 PUBLIC PRINTING— 
 
 Additional appropriation to defray expense of, - 46 
 
 Superintendent of the Bureau of may select paper 
 
 for the printing of the laws, _ - - 105 
 
 QUARTERMASTERS— 
 
 Accounts of the, of certain Indian troops, - - 37 
 
 Appoinlment of, at permanent posts and depots, 90—100 
 Persons detailed from the ranks to serve in their 
 
 ofti.es, - 100 
 
 QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Transfer of funds from to the Ordinance Depart- 
 ment, 67-63 
 
 RAILRO \1)S— 
 
 Connection of the Richmond and Danville with the 
 
 North Carolina Railrods for military purposes, 72 73 
 Appropriation for, ----- 73 
 
 Appropriation for the relief of the Mobile and 
 
 Orcat Northern Railroad Company, - - 100-101 
 
 Advancement to complete the railroad connection 
 between Selma, in Alabama, and Meridian, in Mis- 
 
 sissippi, 
 
 102 
 
 RANK— 
 
 Of certain officers who commenced service before 
 
 being commissioned, - 15 
 
 Temporary rank and command on officers of the 
 
 Navy doing duty with troops, 20 
 
 ^lauk and pay of officers of Engineers in the army, 35-36 
 
71-72 
 
 92-93 
 
 76 
 
 76-77 
 
 77 
 
 78-79 
 
 79 
 
 79 
 
 79 
 
 79-80 
 
 14 
 
 RANK— Continued. 
 
 Temporary rank and command on officers of the 
 Marine corps, _____ 
 
 Of commissioned officers who continue in service 
 by re-election to date from the time of their ori- 
 ginal election or appointment, - 
 RECEIVERS— 
 
 May move against parties for contempt, under Act 
 Sequestrating the property of alien enemies, 
 
 To give receipts for money, property, &c, - 
 
 Remedies against resident parties, - _ - 
 
 Sales of property by, _ - - - - 
 
 Not to be purchasers, - 
 
 May be required to lease property, - 
 
 Court to audit and pass on their aecounts, - 
 
 Compensation. Expenses attending their office, 
 
 To take possession and control of money, property 
 
 and effects of alien enemies, 80 
 
 Under what circumstances the sale of such proper- 
 ty may be deferred, 80 
 
 Information to be given to, by persons owing debts 
 
 to alien enemies, - - - - - 80 81 
 
 The same to be filed in the proper Court, - - 81 
 
 To ascertain and collect the debts clue to alien ene- 
 mies, and institute proceedings to sequestrate the 
 same, 81 82 
 
 Nature of the proceedings, - _ - - 81-82 
 
 May prosecute suits, judgments, &c, in the name of 
 
 the C. S., after decree of sequestration, - - 83 
 
 To retain rhe counsel engaged in prosecuting pend- 
 ing suits for the Confederate States, - - 83 
 
 Oath by, that debtor is fraudulently concealing or 
 
 disposing of his effects, 84 
 
 May administer oaths, 84 
 
 Settlements by, to embrace all matters ready fo-r 
 
 settlement. Items of the accounts to be specific, 85 
 
 RECRUITING — 
 
 For companies reduced by casualties, - - 16 
 
 Officers, &c, may be appointed to recruit for com- 
 panies, ----- 53 
 
 Men mustered at time of enrollment. Transporta- 
 tion, bounty and subsistence, - 53-54 
 
 Officer to receive appointment proportioned to the 
 
 force he recruits, ----- 54 
 
 For companies now in the service for twelve 
 
 months, ______ 63-64 
 
 RESOLUTIONS— 
 
 Of thanks to Major General Price, and to the officers 
 
 and soldiers under his command, - _ - 5 
 
 Also, to Generals Polk, Pillow and Cheatham and 
 
 the officers, &c, under their command, - - 6 
 
 To make an advance to South Carolina, on ac- 
 count of her claims against the Confederate 
 States, ______ 11 
 
15 
 
 RESOLUTIONS— Continued. 
 
 Appointing John D. Morris of Kentucky a Receiver 
 under the Sequestration Act, 11 
 
 Of thanks to Brigadier General Evans and the 
 
 officers and soldiers under his command, - - [5 
 
 Relating to Maryland, - 16-17 
 
 Of thanks to Colonel Johnson, his officers and 
 men, ----- _ 49 
 
 In reference to the arms of the volunteers for 
 
 twelve months, ----- fiO 
 
 Supplemental to t ho resolution appointing John I). 
 Morris of Kentucky, a Receiver under the Seques- 
 tration Art. - 70-71 
 
 In regard to the transfer of certain Indian Trust 
 
 Funds, ------ 7 -j 
 
 In relation to payment to Disbursing Clerk of ap- 
 propriation for removal of the Seat of Govern- 
 ment, - 100 
 REVENUE SERVICE— 
 
 Provision in behalf of certain officers who were in 
 
 the Revenue service of the United ."tales, - 21 
 
 SALARIES 
 
 Of Assistant Secretary of War, - 7-S 
 
 Of additional Clerks and laborers in the Post-Ofiicc 
 
 Department. 61 
 
 Of Clerks and messenger in the Treasury Depart- 
 ment, -_-___ 74 
 
 Of Clerk of Board of Commissioners under the Se- 
 questration Act, ----- 84 
 SEAMEN— 
 
 Enlistment of additional seamen for the war, - £ 
 
 Bounty to those enlisting, or who extend their en- 
 listments, ------ 52 
 
 SEAT OF G%VERNMENT - 
 
 Cojnmitte on Removal of, authorized to pay for ser- 
 vices of Disbursing Clerk of appropriation made 
 for - - - - - - - <J9 
 
 SECRET \ I! V ( ) F T 1 1 El N A V Y— 
 
 To appoint additional clerks and a draftsman in the 
 
 Navy Department, ----- s 
 
 His duties under amended Naturalization Act, 20 
 
 Appropriation for certain floating defences to be ex- 
 pended by, at discretion of the President, - 48 
 
 Authorized to give bounty to persons enlisting as 
 seamen, or who extend their enlistments, - - 52 
 
 SECRETARY OF STAT! 
 
 Appointment of Assistant Secretary made Execu- 
 tive appointment, - 51-52 
 SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY— 
 
 Authorized to transfer funds to foreign ports, - 3 
 
 Authority to, to issue Treasury Notes, extended, - 25 
 
 May issue further bonds, 25 
 
 Authorized to pay to the Banks the amount of cer- 
 tain advances made by them to the Goverument, 12 
 
16 
 
 SE IRETARY OF THE TREASURY- Continued, 
 
 May extend the time for making assessments of 
 taxes, and for completion and delivery of tax 
 lists, Ac., -__-__ 12 
 
 When he may suspend the appointment of District 
 Tax Collectors, _____ 14 
 
 May direct Chief Collectors to appoint Assessors, 14 
 
 Appointment of Assistant Secretary, made an Ex- 
 ecutive appointment, - _ _ _ 51-52 
 
 Duties of under act establishing Assay office at 
 
 New Orleans, ----- 62 
 
 To issue Treasury Notes to State of Missouri, 64-65,87-88 
 
 Also to the State of Kentucky, - 6G— 67 
 
 May apply Treasury Notes to the redemption of 
 
 certain bonds. _____ 68—69 
 
 To draw and apply appropriation to provide coin, 69 
 
 To distribute appropriation to pay interest due 
 
 Banks at Memphis, - 69-70 
 
 Authorized to appoint Clerks in the several Bu- 
 reaus of his Department, - 73—74 
 
 May employ Clerks on trial, 74 
 
 May establish rules and regulations in his Depart- 
 ment, - 74 
 SECRETARY OF WAR— 
 
 Authorized to appoint an Assistant Secretary. His 
 
 duties and salary, - 7-8 
 
 To regulate the issuing of furloughs, - - 9 
 
 To adopt measures for recruiting and enlisting men 
 
 for companies reduced by casulties, - - 16 
 
 Authorized to detail Company commissioned officers 
 
 for this duty, _____ 16 
 
 Appropriation for certain Floating Defences may be 
 
 expended by, at discretion of the President, - 48 
 
 Authorized to draw requisition for money deposit- 
 ed in the Treasury in favor of Indian Tribes, - 49 
 
 To audit and settle claims of certain officers, - 51 
 
 Appointment of Assistant Secretary, made an Ex- 
 ecutive appointment, - 51-52 
 
 To make rules for the recruiting of companies of 
 
 volunteers now in the service for twelve months, 63-64 
 SEQUESTRATION— 
 
 Resolution appointing John D. Morris of Kentucky, 
 
 a receiver under the Sequestration Act, - 11 
 
 Taxes on property which has been or may be se- 
 questered, _____ 18-19 
 
 Amendment of the Act for the Sequestration of the 
 
 estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, - 75-85 
 SLAVES— 
 
 Disposition of, captured from hostile Indians, - 195 
 
 SOLDIERS— 
 
 Pay and allowances due deceased soldiers, - 101 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA— 
 
 Advancement to on account of her claims against 
 
 the C. S., - 11 
 
17 
 
 STATES— 
 
 President authorized to call on the States for troops 
 to serve for three years or during the war, 
 
 Indemnity to, for transferring certain Indian Trust 
 Funds, ------ 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING 
 
 May select paper for the printing of the Laws, 
 SUPREME COURT 
 
 "Writs of error, &c, allowed to, from decisions of 
 District Courts in certain Indian Territories, 
 TAXES 
 
 Time for making assessments extended. 
 
 The time also extended for the completion and de- 
 livery of the tax lists, and their return to the 
 chief Collector, - 
 
 Secretary of the Treasury may make further ex- 
 tension, - 
 
 Cash on hand or elsewhere, liable to assessment 
 and taxation, - 
 
 Certain words and phrases construed. 
 
 Not to be assessed on money at interest when payor 
 or obligor of the note, bond, &0., is insolvent, 
 
 Other securities for money to be assessed accord- 
 ing to their value, - 
 
 Power given Assessors "to ascertain value of such 
 securities. - 
 
 Appropriation for payment of salaries of Clerks, 
 otHce hire, &C, 
 
 liicn for taxes, - 
 
 Removal of property subject to tax out of the State, 
 
 Collector of the District may distrain and sell the 
 same, 
 
 When collection of Tax may be suspended, 
 
 Secretary of the Treasury may suspend the ap- 
 pointment of District Collectors, 
 
 When chief Collector to appoint Assessors, 
 
 Making and perfecting returns, assessments, and 
 lists, ------ 
 
 Change of Tax lists, - 
 
 Provision as to taxes on property which has been 
 or is liable to be sequestered as the property of 
 alien enemies, ------ 
 
 TENNESSEE— 
 
 Divided into three Judicial Districts, 
 
 Marshal and Attorney for each District, 
 TERRITORIES— 
 
 Organization of territory of Arizona, 
 
 Judicial courts established in certain Indian terri- 
 tories. - \ 
 TRANSFER OF FUNDS— 
 
 To foreign parts, - 
 
 Of certain appropriations, - - - 14, 
 
 From the Quartermaster's to the Ordnance Depart- 
 ment, ------ 
 
 60 
 
 72 
 
 105 
 
 98-99 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 12-13 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 13 
 13 
 
 13 
 13-14 
 
 14 
 14 
 
 14 
 14 
 
 18-19 
 
 10 
 10 
 
 37-46 
 
 93-99 
 
 3 
 21-22 
 
 67-68 
 
18 
 
 TRANSFER OF FUNDS— Continued. 
 
 States to he indemnified for transferring certain In- 
 dian trust funds to the C. S., - - - 72 
 TRANSPORTATION— 
 
 Granted to twelve months men in service re-volun- 
 teering or re-enlisting, - 9 
 TREASURY— 
 
 Secretary of, to pay to the banks, in Treasury notes, 
 the amount of their several advances to the Gov- 
 ernment, ------ 12 
 
 Notes to be received on deposit for advance pay- 
 ment of postage, ----- ]9 
 
 Certain Indian trust funds to be deposited in the 
 
 Treasury, ------ 49 
 
 Secretary of, may issue additional amount of Trea- 
 sury notes, ----- 25 
 
 May issue further bonds, - . - - - 25 
 
 Bonds may be exchanged or re-converted into Trea- 
 sury notes, ------ 25 
 
 Reimbursement out of the Treasury to the credit 
 of the Post-Office Department, for amounts re- 
 ceived of postmasters, and paid over by the Post- 
 master-General, ----- 56 
 
 Appropriation out of, to aid the State of Kentucky, 66-67 
 
 Treasury notes may be applied by the Secretary of 
 
 the Treasury to the redemption of certain bonds, 68-69 
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Clerical force in, organized, - 73-74 
 
 Secretary may employ clerks in, on trial, 74 
 
 Clerks transferrable. Subject to rules, - - 74 
 
 Salaries of clerks and messengers, - - - 74 
 
 TREATIES— 
 
 Appropriations to comply in part with treaty stipu- 
 lations with certain Indian tribes, - - 26-33 
 VACANCIES— 
 
 Occurring in certain offices filled by promotion, ac- 
 cording to grade and seniority, 53 
 
 When this rule may be departed from, - - 53 
 
 In companies, may be filled by volunteers ; officers 
 and privates detailed to recruit for companies, - 53-54 
 VESSELS— 
 
 When names of, may be changed, 63 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENT— 
 
 Custody of the returns and certificates of the votes 
 
 of the Electors for President and Vice-President, 35 
 
 Duties of, under act to put in operation the Gov- 
 ernment under the Permanent Constitution, - 88 
 VOLUNTEERS— 
 
 May be accepted singly, as well as in companies, &c, 53 
 
 Vacancies in companies may be filled by, - - 53 
 
 Appointment of officers of artillery in the volun- 
 teer corps, ------ 55 
 
 Arms of twelve months volunteers to be under the 
 
 control of the President, 60 
 
19 
 
 VOLUNTEERS— Continued. 
 
 Provision for recruiting companies of, now in the 
 
 service for twelve months, ... 63-64 
 
 WAR— 
 
 Assistant Secretary of, his duties and salary, - 7-8 
 
 Enlistment of additional seamen for the war, - 8 
 
 President authorized to call on the States for troops 
 
 to serve for three years or during the war, - 60 
 
 WESTERN WATERS— 
 
 Appropriation for floating defences for, 48 
 
 Enlistments for temporary and special service on 
 the, ------- 51 
 
 WITNESSES— 
 
 Examination of, touching claims due to alien ene- 
 mies, ---... 85 
 Oaths. Subpoenas against, 85 
 Penalty for failing to appear, 85 
 WRITS OP ERROR— 
 
 Allowed to Supreme Court from decisions of Dis- 
 trict Courts in certain Indian territories, - 98-99 
 
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