mm m M m mm ■'pW m K'i;'-'!'; I'l mt. M ■mm §' 'M- (!>!>> 1;$!' ;iii'!.ft i ill -^HM COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON FLOWERS MEMORIAL COLLECTION DUKF. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DURHAM. N. C. PRESENTED BY W. W. FLOWERS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Duke University Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/acttoreducecurreOOconf /i A *7.^. K\ ^.■1 ^>v-^ M>-. t^-C AN ACT To reduce the Currcvcy, and to authorize a nciv issue of Treasury Notes. The Covgrrss of thr. Confederate States of America do enact, That the holders of all treasury notes above the denomination of five dollars, not bearing interest, shall be allowed until the first day of April 18(i4, east of the Mississippi river, and unfil'lst day of July 1864, west of the Missis- sippi river, to fund the same, and until the periods and at the places stated the holders of all such treasury notes shall be allowed to fund the same in registered bonds payable twenty years after their date, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum, payable on the 1st day of Janu- ary and July of each year. Skc. 2. The. Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorircd to issue the bonds required for the funding provided for in the preceding section ; and until the bonds can be prepared, he may issue certificates to answer the purpose. Such bonds and certificates shall be receivable, without interest, in payment of all government dues payable in the year 1864, except export and import duties. Sec. 3. That all treasury notes of the denomination of one hundred dollars not bearing interest, which shall not be presented for funding under the provisions of the first section of this act, shall, from and after the first day of April 1864, east of the Mississippi river, and the first day of July 1864. west of the Mississippi river, cease to be receivable in the payment of public dues, and said notes, if not so presented at that time, shall, in addition to the tax of thirty-three and one-third cents imposed in the 4tli section of this act, be subject to a ta.x of ten per cent, pel" month until so presented; which taxes shall attach to said notes wherever circulated, and shall be deducted from the face of said notes whenever presented for payment or f(U- funditifl^and said notes shall not be ex- changeable for the new issue of m-asury notes provided fSr in this act. Sec. 4. That on all said treasury notes not funded or used in payment of taxes at the dates and places prescribed in the first section of this act, 209(j08 there shall be levied at said daU-s and |)lac('S a tax of thirty-three and one- third cents for every dollar promised on the face of said notes. Said tax ehall attach to said notes wherever circulated, iMd shall be coUectod by deducting the same at the treasury, its depositaries, and by the tax collec- tors, and by all government ofiBcers receiving tlie same, whenever presented for payment or for funding or in payment of government dues, or for pos- tage, or in exchange for new notes as herein after provided, and said trear Bury notes shall be fundable in bonds as provided in the. first section of this act, until the 1st day of Januarj' 18(55, at the rate of sixty-six and two-thirds cents on the dollar, and it shall be the duty of the tsecretary of the Treasury, at any time between the Jst of April, east, and the Ist of July 1864, west of the Mississippi river, and the 1st of January 1865, to substitute and exchange new treasury notes for the same, at the rate of sixty -six and two-thirds cents on the dollar: protided, that notes of the .de- nomination of one hundred dollars shall not be entitled to the privilege of said exchange: prodded, further, that the right to fund any of said trea- sury notes after first day of January 1865, is hereby takeu away : and proridcd further, that upou all such treasury notes which may remain outstanding on the first day of January 1865, and which may not bo exchanged for new treasury notes as herein provided, a tax of one hun drcd per cent, is hereby imposed. Sec. 5. That after the first day of April next all authority heretofore given to the Secretary of the Treasury to issue treasury notes shall be, and is hereby revoked : provided, the Secretary of the Treasury may, after that time, issue new treasury notes, in such form as ho may pre- scribe, payable two years after the ratification of a treaty of peiK-e with the United States, said new issues to be receivable in payment of all public duoB except oxport and import duties, and to be issued in e.vchange for old notes at the rate of two dollars of the new for three dollars. of the old issues, whethot* said old notes be surrendered for exchange by the holders thereof or be received into the treasury under the provisions of this act ; and the holders of the new notes or of the old notes, except those of the denomination of one hundred dollars, after they are reduced to sixty-six and two-thirds c^'uts on the dollar, by the tax aforesaid, may convert the same into call certificjites, bearing interest at the. rate of four per cent, per annum, aud payable two years after the ratification of a txeaty of peace with the United States, unless sooner converted into new DOtes. Sec. 6. That to pay the expemes # the government not otherwise provided for, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue eix per cent, bonds, to an amount not exceeding five hundred millions of dollars, the principal and interest whereof shall be free from taxation ; and for the paymoAit of the interest thereon, the entire net receipts of any export duty hereai'lcr laid on the value of all cotton, tobacco, and naval stores, which shall be exported from the Confederate States, and the not proceeds of the import duties now laid, or so much thereof as may bo necessary to pay annually the interest, are hereby specially pledged : provided, that the duties now laid upon imports and hereby pledged shall hereafter be paid in specie, or in sterling exchange, or in the coupons of said bon^s. Skc. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized from time to time, as the wants of the treasury may require it, to sell or hypo- thecate for treasury notes, said bonds or any part thereof, upon the best terms he can, so as to meet appropriations by Congress, and at the same time reduce and restrict the amount of the circulation in treasury notes within reasonable and safe limits. Sec. 8. The bonds authorized by the sixth section of this act may be either registered or coupon bonds, as the parties taking them may elect, and they may be exchanged for each other under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The}- shall he for one hundred dollars, or some multiple of one hundred dollars, and shall, together with the coupons thereto attached, be in such form and of such authentication as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The interest shall be payable half yearly, on the iirst of January and July in each year — the principal shall be payable not less than thirty years from their date. Skc. 9. All call certificates shall be fundable, and shall be taxed in all respects, as is provided for the treasury notes, into which they are con- vertible. If not converted before the time fixed for taxing the treasury notes, such certificates shall from that time bear interest upon only sixty- six and two-thirds cents for every dollar promised upon their face, and shall be redeemable only in new treasury notes at that rate ; but after the passage of this act no call certificates shall be issued until after the first day of April 1864. Skc. JO. That if any bank of deposit shall give its depositors the bonds authorized by the 1st section of this act in exchange for their deposits, and specify the same on the bonds by some distinctive mark or token, to be agreed upon with the Secretary of the Treasury, then the said depo- sitor shall be entitled to receive the amount of said bonds in treasury notes bearing no interest and outstanding at the passage of this act: pro- rifled, the said bonds are'presenfed before the privilege of funding said notes at par shall cease, as herein prescribed. 8kc. 11. That all treasury notes heretofore issued of the denoniiDation 200608 of five dollars shall continue (o be receivable in pRytnent of public dnea, OB provided by law, and fundable at ])ar under the provisions of tliis act, oritii the 1st day of July 1864, east, and uutil the Ist day of October 1864, west of the Mississippi river, but after that time they shall be subject to a tax of thirty threi' and one-third cents on every dollar promised on the face thereof, said tax to attach to said notes wlierever circulated, and said n6tes to be fundable and exchangeable for new treasury notes, as herein provided, subject to the deduction of said tax. Sec. 12. That any state holding trea.<;ur\' notes, received before the times h<"rein fixed for taxing said notes, shall be allowed until the 1st day of January IBOf), to fund the same in six per cent, bonds of the Confe- derate States, payable twenty years after date, and the iutorest payable Bemi-anuually. But all treasury notes received by any State alter the tinio fixed for taxing the same, as aforesaid, shall be held to have bet^n received diminished by the amount of said tax. The discrimination be- tween the notes subject to the tax, and those not so subject, shall be left to the good faith of each State, and the certificate of the governor thereof shall in each case be conclusive. Sec. 13. That treasury notes heretofore issued, bearing interest at the rate of seven dollars and thirty cents on the hundred dollars per annum, shall no hmgcr be received in payment of public dues, but shall bt; deemed and considered bcmds of the Confederate States, payable two years after a ratification of a treaty of peace with the United States, bearing the rate of interest specified on their face, payable on the first day of January in each and every year. Sec. 14. That the Secretary of tlie Treasury be, and he is hereby au- thorized, in case tlie exigencies of the government should require it, to pay the demand of any public creditor whoso debt may be contracted after the passage nf this act, willing to receive the same, in a certificate of indebtedness to be issued by said Secretarj', in such form as he may deem jirnper, payable two 3'ears after a ratification of a tii'aty of peace with the Tnitcd States, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, and transferable only by special endorse- ment under regulations to bo prescribed by the Secretary of the Troasury, end said certificate shall be exempt from taxation in princii)al and interest. Skc. 15. The Secretary of the Treasury is autliorized to increase tjie number of depositories so as to meet the rements of this act, and with that view to employ such of the banks of the several states as he may deem expedient. Skc. K). 'i'hc Secretary of the Treasury shall forthwith advertise this act in such newspapers published in the several states and by such other means as'fchall secure immediate publicity, and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall each cause it to be published in genera) orders for the information of the army and navy. Sec. 17. The forty-second .section of the act for the a-ssessnient and collection of taxes, approved May 1st, 1863, is hereby repealed. Skc. 18. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and re- quired, upon the application of the holder of any call certificate— which by the first section of the act ' to provide for the funding and further issxie of treasury notes,' approved March 23d, 1863, was required to be * thereafter deemed to be a bond'— to issue to such holder a bond therefor upon the terms provided by said act. Approved February 17, 1864. AIN ACT To lemj additional Taxes for the common defence and support of the Government. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, that in addition to the taxes levied by the act to lay taxes for the common de- fence, and to carry on the government of the Confederate States, approved 24th of April 1863, there shall be levied from the passage of this act, on the subjects of taxation herein after mentioned, and collected from every person, copartnership, association or corporation, liable therefor, taxes as follows, to wit: I. Upon the value of property, real, personal and mixed, of every kind and description, not herein after exempted or taxed at a different rate, five per cent. : provided, that from this tax on the value of property, employed in agriculture, shall be deducted the value of the tax in kind derived therefrom, as assessed under the law imposing it, and delivered to the government : provided, that no credit shall be allowed beyond five per cent. II. On the value of gold and silver wares and plate, jewels, jewelry and watches, ten per cent. III. The value of property taxed under this section shall be assessed on the basis of the market value of the same or similar property in the neighborhood where assessed in the year I860, except in cases where lands, slaves, cotton or tobacco have been purchased since the 1st day of January 1862; in which case, the said land, slaves, cotton and tobacco 80 purchased shall be assessed at the price actually paid for the same by the owner. Sec. 2. On the value of all shares or interests held in any bank, bank- ing company or association, canal, navigation, importing and exporting, insurance, manufacturing, telegraph, express, rail road and dry dock com- panies, and all other joint stock companies of every kind, whether incor- porated or not, five per cent. The value of property taxed under this section shall be assessed upon the basis of the market value of said property in the ncigbborbood wbers 8 assessed, in puch cnrrency as may bo in general use fherc, in the pur- chase and sale of such property, at the time of .'isscssmcnt. Sec. 3. I. Upon Ibo amouot of all gold and silver coin, gold dust, gold or silver bullion, whether hold by banks or other corporations or in- dividuals, five per cent.; and upon p.ll moneys held abroad, or upon the amount t»f all bills of exchange, drawn therefor on fiioign eountries, a tax of five per cent. ; such tax upon money abroad to be assessed and collected according to the value thereof at the place whero the tax is paid. II. Upon the amount of all solvent credits, and of nil bank bills, and all other paper issued as currency, exclusive of uonintcrest bearing con- federate treasury uotej^, and not employed in a registered busincjis, the in- come derived from which is taxed, five pi-r cent. Sec. 4. Upon profils made in trade and business, as follows: I. On all profits made by buying and selling spirituous liquors, flour, wheat, com, rice, sugar, molasses or syrup, salt, bacon, pork, hogs, beef or beef cattle, sheep, oaf.s, hay, fodder, raw hides, leather, horsis, mules, boots, shoes, cotton yarns, wool, woolen, cotton or mixed cloths, hats, wagons, harness, coal, iron, steel or nails, at any time between the first of .January IHG3 and the first of .lanuary ldR5, ten per cent., in addition to the lax on such profits as income ujider the act to lay taxes for the common defince, and carry on the government of the Confederate States, approved April 24, 1863. II. On all profits made by buying and selling money, gold, silver, foreign exchunge, stocks, notes, debts, credits, or obligations of any kind, and any inerchandise, projx'rty or efTecls of any kind, not enume- rated in the preceding paragraph, between the times named therein, ten per cent., in addition to tbo tai oii such profits a.n income, under the act aforesaid. III. On the amount of profits exceeding twenty-five per cent., made during either of the years 18(5:1 and 18() I, b.v any bank or banking com- pany, insurance, canal, navigation, importing and exporting, telegraph, express, rail roiid, nianufacluring, dry dock, «)r other ji)inl stock company of any -8ciij»lion, wliclher ineorj)orated or not, twenty-live per cent, on such excess. 8k»;. 5. The following exenij>tions from taxation under this act shall be allowed, to wit: I. Property of each lie;id of a tanniy to the value of five hundred dol- lars; and for each tninor child of the family to the further value of one hundred dollars; and for each son actually engaged in the' army or navy, or who has died or been killed in the military or naval service, and who was a member of the family when he entered the service, to the further ' vahio of five hundred dollars. II. Property of the widow of any officer, soldier, sailor or marine, wh* fnay have died or been killed in the military or naval service, i)r where there is no widow, then of the familj', being minor cliildren, to the value of one thousand dollars. III. Property of every officer, soldier, sailor or marine, actually en- gaged in the military or uaval service, or of such as have been disabled in such service, to the value of one thousand dollars : provided, that thft above exemptions shall not apply to any person, whose property, exclu- sive of household furniture, shall be assessed at a value exceeding one thousand dollars. IV. That where property has been injured or destroyed by the enemy, or the owner thereof has been temporarily deprived of the use or occu- pancy thereof, or of the means of cultivating the same, by reason of the presence or proximity of the enemy, the assessment on lAich property may be reduced, in proportion to the damage sustained by the owner, or th« tax assessed thereon may be reduced in the same ratio by the district col- lector, on satisfactory evidence submitted to him by the owner or assessor. Sec. G. That the taxes on property, laid for the year 18(54, shall be assessed as on the day of the passage qf this act, and be due ai.d col- lect€d on the first day of June next, or as scjon after as practicable, al- lowing an •extension of ninety days west of the Mississippi river. The additional taxes on incomes or profits for the year 1863, levied by this ^^ct, shall be assessed and collected forthwith; and the taxes on income* or profits for the year 1864 shall be assessed and collected according to the provisions of the tax and assessment acts of 1863. Skc. 7. So much of the tax act of the iJ4th day of April 1863, as levieg a tax on incomes derived from property or eftects, on the amount or valu« of which a tax is levied by this act, and also the first section of said act, are suspended for the j'ear 1864; and no estimated rent, hire, or interest on property or credits herein taxed ad valorem, shall be assessed or taxed as incomes under the tax act of 1663. Skc. 8. That the tax imposed by this act on bonds of the Confederate States heretofore issued, shall in no case exceed the interest on the same, and such bonds when held by or for minors or lunatics, shall bo exemp4 from tax in all cases where the interest on the same shall not exceed one thousand dollars. Approved February 17, 1864. 2 AN ACT To organize Forces to serve during the v)ar. The Congress of the Confediratr Stutes of America do cnnci, that from and after the passage of this act, all white men, residents of the Con- federate States, between the ages of seventeen and fifty, shall bo in the military service of the Confederate States for the war. Sec. 2. That all the persons afoi'esaid, between the ages of eighteen and forty- five, now in service, shall bo retained, during the present war with the United States, in the same regiments, battalions and companies to which they belong at the. passage of this act, with the same organization and officers, unless regnlarly transferred or discharged, in accordance with the laws and regulations for the government of the army : proridcd, that companies from one state, organized against their consent, expressed at the time, with regiments or battalions from another state, shall have the privilege of being transfened to organizations of troops in the same arm of the service from the state in which said companies were raised ; and the soldiers from one state in companies from another state shall be allowed, if they desire it, a transfer to organizations from their own state in the same arm of the service. Sec. 3. That, at the expiration of six months from the lirst day of April next, a bounty of one hundred dollars, in a six per cout. govern- ment bond, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue, shall be paid to every rion-commissioned oflSccr, musician and private who sh&Ji then be in the service, or, in the event of his death previous to thr-. period of such payment, then to the person or persona who would be entitled by la\»' to receive the arrearages of liis pay ; but no one shall be entitled to the bounty herein provided, who shall, at any tiinp-<^n'i»>" f' "^ period of six motfths next after the said first day of April, be absi lu iiuurhis commaiid without leave. Sec. 4. That no per-rin -.!« dl be relieved from the opMation of thi.s act by reason of having been heretofore discharged from the army, where no disability now ( xi.sts» nor .Khali those who have furnished substitutes he any longer exempted by reason thereof: prorulrd, that no person hei''to 12 fore excnipti'd on account of icligiouH opinionp, and who hna paid the fax levied to relieve him fri>m service, shall ho nviuired to render military Hftrviee under this act. Sec. 5. That all whiti' male residents of the diufederate States, betwoeu the apes of seventeen and eighteen and forty-five and fifty years, shall t-.nroll themselves, at such times auj places, and under such regulations ■M the President may prescribe, the time allowed not being less than thirty days (or those east, and sixty days for those west of the Mississippi river; and any person who shall fail so to enroll himself, without a rea- son:iMe excuse therefor, to be judged of by the I'resident, shall be placed in service in the field for the war, in the same maimer as though he were betwe^ or retain in his employment any person in any of their said departments or bureaux, or in anj' of the duties mentioned in the eighth section of this act, in violation of the provisions hereof, shall, on conviction thereof, by a court martial or military court, be cashiered ; and it shall be the duty of any department or district commander, upon proof by the oath of any credible person, that any such officer has violated this pro- vision, immediately to relieve such officer from duty ; and said commander shall take prompt measures to have him tried for such oflTence; and any commander as aforesaid failing to perform the duties enjoined by this section, shall, upon being duly convicted thereof, be dismissed from the service. Sec. 10. That all laws granting exemptions from military service be and the same arc hereby repealed, ami hereafter none shall bo exempted t'xcept the following : I. All who shall be held unfit for military ^'^■rvice, under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. II. The Vice President of the Confederate Slates; the members and officers of congress and of the several state legislatures, and such other confederate and state officers as the President or the Governors of the respective states may certify to be necessarj' for the proper administration of the confederate or stale governments, as the case may be. III. Every minister of religion authorized to ])reach according lo ihe 14 rultw i>f bis churc)), and who, at the passngc of this uct, shall be regu- larly emplojed in the dischavgt^ of his ministerial duties; supcrintcudentH and physicians of lusylums of the deal, dumb and blind and of the insane; one editor for each newspaper beinp published at the time of the passage of this act, and such employees as said editor may certify on oath to be indispensable to the publication of such newspaper; the public printer of the confederate and state governments, and such jotirnej'men printers OS the said public printer shall certify on oath to be indispensable to per- form the public printing; one skilled apothecary in each apothecary store, who was doing business as such apothecary on the tenth day of October eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and has continued said business, without intermission, since that period ; all physicians over the age of thirty years, who now are, and for the last seven years have been, in the actual and regular practice of their profession ; but the term phVsician shall not include dentists; all presidents and teachers of colleges, theo- logical seminaries, academies and schools, who have been regularly en- gjiged as such for two years next before the jiassagc of this act : provided, that the benefit of this exemption shall extend to those teachers only whose schools are composed of tweut}' students or more; all superin- tendents of public hospitals established by law before the passage 'of this act, and such physicians and nurses therein as such superiutendeut shall certify on oath to be indispensable to the proper and efHcient ■ mauagenieut thereof. IV^ There shall be exempt one person as overseer or agriculturist on each farm or plantation upon which then; are now, and were, upon the first day of January last, fifteen able-bodied field hands, between the ages of sixteen and fiftj', upon the following conditions: 1. This exemption shall only Ijc granted in cases in which there is no white male adult on the farm or plantation, not liable to military service, nor unless the person claiming the exemption was, on tho first, day of January eighteen hundred and sixty-four, either the owner and manager, or over- seer of said plantation; but in no' case shall more than one person bo exempted for one farm or plantatii)n. '2. Such person shall first execute u bond, payable to the Confederate" States of America, in such form, and with such security, and in such penalty, as tho Secretary of War may prejicribe, conditioned that he will deliver to the government, at some rail road depot, or such other place or places as may bo designated by the Secretary of War, within twelve months then next ensuing, one hundred pounds of bacon, or, at the election of the government, its equivalent in pork, and one hundred pounds of net beef (said beef to be delivered on foot) for each able-bodied slave on the farm or plaqtation, within the • 15 above said ages, whether said slaves be worked in the field or not ; which said bacon or pork and beef shall bo paid for by the government at the prices fixed by the commissioners of the state under the impressment act : provided, that when the person thus exempted shall produce satis- factory evidence that it has boon impossible for him, by the exercise of proper diligence, to furnish the amount of meat thus contracted for, and leave an adequate supply for the subsistence of those living on baid farm or plantation, the Secretary of War shall direct a commutation of the same to the extent of two-thirds thereof in grain or other provisions, to be delivered by such person as aforesaid, at equivalent rates. ?>. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the marketable surplus of pro- visions and grain now on hand, and which he may raise from year to year, while his exemption continues, to tiie government or to the families of soldiers, at prices fixed by the commissioners of the state under the impressment act: provided, that any person, exempted as aforesaid, shall be entitled to a credit of twenty-five per cent, on any amount of meat which he may deliver within three months from the passage of this act : provided further, that persons coming within the provisions of this exemption shall not bo deprived thereof by reason of having been enrolled since the first day of February eighteen hundred and sixty-four. In addition to the foregoiug exemptions, the Secretary of War, under the direction of the President, may exempt or detail such other person as he may be satisfied ought to be exempted on account of public necessity, and to insure the production of grain and provisions for the army and % the families of soldiers. He may also grant exemptions or details, on W such terms as he may prescribe, to such overseers, farmers or planters as he may be satisfied will be more useful to the country in the pursuits of agriculture than in the military service: provided, i\\a,i such exemp- tions shall cease whenever the farmer, planter or overseer shall fail dili- gently .to employ, in good faith, his own skill, capital and labor ex- clusively in the production of grain and provisions, to be sold to the government and the families of soldiers at prices not exceeding those fixed at the time for like articles by the commissioners of the state under the impressment act. V. The president, treasurer, auditor and superintendent of any rail road compaby engaged in transportation for the government, and such oflficers and employees thereof as the president or superintendent shall certify, on oath, to be indispensable to the efficient operation of such rail road : provided, that the number of persons exempted by this act on any rail road shall not exceed one for each mile of such road in actual use for military transportation, and said exempts shall be reported by name and 16 depcriprion, with the ntiniRS of any who may have Inft the employment of" said company, or who may ceas<- to be indispensable to the efficient operation of its road, at least once a monih, to the Secretary tif War, or Hiich officer as he may desi^nati* for th«t purpose: and yrovidrd further, that such president or superintendent shall, in ejich hucIi monthly report. ••t>rlify on oath, that no person liable to military ««.'rvice has been em- .,i,.vn,? })Y bW v"'¥':" ii >'.»•' ■^'■'> *j>p i>«.ssut,i of this jici, i»i tmy popit'on in v.hich it was pi-.\ctiial)lo to employ one 'lOt liablo to miiitaiy service, and I'Hpable of performing effiiiently th^ duties of such position. And in cases where rail roads have fallen iuto the hands of tho enemy, and a por- tion of the rolling stock of such roads is being used ou other roads not i« the- enemy's hands, the president and superintendent of said first named roads shall be exempt. VI. Tiiat nothing herein contained shall be construed as n'pealing the act approved April fourteenth, eighteen hmulrcd and sixty-three, entitled an act to exeuipf contractors for c.irrying the mails of the Confi'derate Stateti, and the drivers of post coacln;s and hacks, from military service: provided, that the exemptions granted under this act shall only continue \vhilst the persons exiempted are actually engaged in their respective pur- .suits or occupations. vSec. Jl. That the president be and be is hereby authorized to grant details, under general rules and regulations to be issued by the war de- partment, either from persons betw<'en forty-live and fifty years of age, or • from the army in the field, in all cases when, in his judgment, justice, equity and necessity require such details, and he may revoko such orders ^W of details whenever he thinks proper: provided, that the power herein ^a p'anted to tjje president ^ - '- -^ • -i - ^ , -- ;^- i rhaV, notbecon- ^fTH.d ht lutlwriz'' ).h> . u c tutnisli- ing sujiplies of uny kind u_> Ui'j g.jv, iinin'iit, \)\ c ;is