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MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 Richmond, Va., March 5, 1863. 
 
 2b the Senate and House of Representatives : 
 
 I herewith enclose, for your information, a copy of an ace of the 
 Legislature of South Carolina, offering a guaranty by that State of 
 the bonds of the Confederate States, to which I invite your special at- 
 tention. 
 
 JEFFERSON DAVIS. 
 
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 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 
 
 At a General Assembly begun and holden at Columbia, on the 
 fourth Monday in November, in the year of our Lord one 
 thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and thence continued 
 by divers adjournments to the eighteenth day of December, in 
 the same year — 
 
 An Ad to provide for a gunranfy by the State of the Bonds of the Con- 
 federate States. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of .Represe7itntires nov) met and 
 sitting in General AssewMy, and bx) the authority of the. same. That the 
 Governor of the State, for the time being, be and he is hereby author- 
 ized and directed to endorse the guarantee of the State upon the 
 bonds of the Confederate Stated of America, upon the application of 
 the government of tlie said Confederate States, to an amount equal 
 to the proportionate share of the State of South Carolina, of the sura 
 of two hundred millions of dollars in the .ratio of the represon ration 
 of said State in the House of Representatives of the Coiifede- 
 , rate Congress, thereby pledging the faith and the funds of the 
 State for the payment of the principal of the said bonds, and 
 the interest to accrue thereon : Proinded, That such of the bonds, as 
 shall be sold within the Confederate States, shall be disposed of to 
 the highest bidder : And provided further. That in the sale, whether in 
 this country or abroad, of these bonds, this State and the citizens 
 thereof shall have the right to purchase the bonds under its guaran- 
 tee, in preference to all purchasers at equal bids. 
 
 In the Senate House, the eighteenth day of December in the year 
 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and 
 in the eighty-seventh year of the sovereignty of the indepen- 
 dence of the Stale of South Carolina. 
 
 W. D. PORTER, 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 A. P. ALDRICH, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE, ) 
 Columbia, S. C, Dec. 27, 1862. S 
 
 1 hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of an act, entitled 
 "An act to provide for a guaranty by the State of the bonds of the 
 Confederate States," ratified the ISth day of December, A. D,, 1862, 
 and now on file at this office. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal of the State. 
 
 WM. R. IIUNTT, 
 Deputy Secrttary of State. 
 
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