ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS 
 
 SECOND SESSION 
 
 PROVISIONAL CONGRESS 
 
 CONFEDERATE STATES, 
 
 HELD AT MOXTGOMEIiY, ALA. 
 
 RICHMOND 
 
 ENQUIRER BOOK AND JOB PRESS. 
 BY TYLER, WISK, ALLEGRK & SMITH. 
 
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ACTS AND RESOLUTiOX?. 
 
 No. 102.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the appointment of Clmplains in the Army. 
 
 Sfxtion 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That there shall he appointed l\y the President 
 such number of chaplains, to serve with the armies of the 
 Confederate States during; the existing war, as he may deem 
 expedient ; and the President shall assign them to such regi- 
 ments, brigades or posts as he may deem necessary ; and the 
 appointments made as aforesaid shall expire ■whenever the 
 existing war ehall terminate. 
 
 Skc. 2. Themonthl}' pay of said cliaphiins shall be eighty- 
 five dollars; and said pay shall be in full of all allowances 
 whatever. 
 
 Approved May 3, 1861. 
 
 No. 103.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Of thanks to Brigadier General G. T. Beauregard and the 
 Army under his command, for their conduct in the affair 
 of Fort Sumter. 
 
 Beit unaniinously resolved by the Cons:ress of the Confederate 
 States of America, That the thanks of the people of the Confed- 
 erate States are due, and through this Congress arc hereby ten- 
 dered, to Brigadier General G. T. Beauregard and the officers, 
 military and naval, under his command, an<l to the gallant 
 troops of the State of South Carolina, for the skill, fortitude 
 and courage by which they reduced and caused the surren- 
 
dcr of fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, on the 
 tAvelfth and thirteenth days of April, 1861. And the com- 
 mendation of Congress is also hereby declared of the gen- 
 erosity manifested by their conduct towards a brave and 
 vanquished foe. 
 
 Be it further resolved. That a copy of this resolution be 
 communicated by the President to General Beauregard, and 
 through him to the army then under his command. 
 
 Approved May 4, 1861. 
 
 No. 104.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 To extend the provisions of a Resolution approved March 4, 
 
 1861. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the resolution passed by this Congress and approved 
 March the fourth, 1861, in relation to patents and caveats, 
 be extended to citizens of all the slaveholding States. 
 
 Approved May 4, 1861. 
 
 No. 105.] AN ACT 
 
 Providing for a Regiment of Zouaves in the Army of the 
 Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That there shall be added to the military establish- 
 ment of the Confederate States one regiment of Zouaves, to 
 be composed of one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one 
 major, and ten companies ; and each company shall consist 
 of one captain, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, 
 one sergeant major, one quartermaster's sergeant, four ser- 
 geants and eight corporals, and ninety privates. And to the 
 regiment there shall be attached one adjutant and a quarter- 
 master, to be selected from the lieutenants. And one 
 assistant surgeon shall be appointed for the regiment, in ad- 
 dition to those already authorized by law for the medical de- 
 partment. The monthly pay of the officers of the regiment 
 of Zouaves shall be the same as that of officers of infantry 
 of the same rank ; the allowances shall also be the same as 
 those provided by law for officers of infantry ; and the ad- 
 
jutant and quartermaster shall receive ten dollars per month 
 in addition to their pay as lieutenants. The monthly pay of* 
 the enlisted men of said regiment of Zouaves shall be as 
 follows : sergeant major and quartermaster's sergeants, 
 twenty dollars ; sergeants, seventeen dollars ; corporals, 
 thirteen dollars ; and privates, eleven dollars each ; together 
 with the same rations and allowance for clothing as are re- 
 ceived by all other enlisted men. 
 
 Approved May 4, 1861. 
 
 No. 108.] AN ACT 
 
 To admit the Commonwealth of Virginia as a mcnd^er of the 
 Confederate States of America. 
 
 The Commonwealth of Virginia having in a Conven- 
 tion of her People ratified and adopted the Constitution of 
 the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of 
 America, therefore 
 
 The Congrcsft of the Confederate. States of America do enact. 
 That the Commonwealth of Virginia be and is hereby ad- 
 mitted as a member of the said Confederate States, upon an 
 equal footing with the other Confederate States, under the 
 Constitution for the Provisional Government of the same. 
 
 Approved May 7, 1861. 
 
 No. 109.] AN ACT 
 
 To raise an additional Military Force to serve during the 
 
 War. 
 
 Skction 1. The Congresn of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact, That in addition to the volunteer force authorized 
 to lie raised under existing laws, the President be and he is 
 hereby authorized to accej>t the services of volunteers who 
 may offer their services, without regard to the place of en- 
 listment, cither as cavalry, mounted riflemen, artillery, or 
 infantry, in such proportion of these several arms as he may 
 deem expedient, to serve for and during the existing war, 
 unless sooner discharged. 
 
 k>Kc. 2. That the volunteers so offering their services may 
 be accepted by the President in companies, to be organized 
 
by liim into squadrons, battalions or regiments. The Presi- 
 dent shall appoint all field and staff officers, but the compa- 
 ny officers shall be elected by the men composing the 
 company ; and if accepted, the officers so elected shall be 
 commissioned by the President. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any vacancies occurring in the ranks of the 
 several companies mustered into service under the provisions 
 of this act, may be filled by volunteers accepted under the 
 rules of such companies ; and any vacancies occurring in 
 the officers of such companies shall be filled by elections in 
 accordance "with the same rules. 
 
 Sec. 4. Except as herein differently provided, the volun- 
 teer forces hereby authorized to be raised shall in all regards 
 be subject to and organized in accordance with the provisions 
 of " An act to provide for the public defence," and all other 
 acts for the government of the armies of the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Approved May 8, IbGl. 
 
 No. 110.] AN ACT 
 
 To make further provision for the Public Defence. 
 
 Whereas, War exists between the United States and the 
 Confederate States ; and whereas the public welfare may re- 
 quire the reception of volunteer forces into the service of 
 the Confederate States, withouc the formality and delay of a 
 call upon the respective States : 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact, That the President be authorized to receive into 
 service such companies, battalions or regiments, either 
 mounted or on foot, as may tender themselves, and he may 
 require, without the delay of a formal call upon the respec- 
 tive States, to serve for such time as he may prescribe. 
 
 Sec 2. Such volunteer forces who maybe accepted under 
 this act, except as herein differently provided, shall be or- 
 ganized in accordance with and subject to all the provisions 
 of the act entitled " An act to provide for the public defence," 
 and be entitled to all the allowances provided therein ; and 
 when mustered into service, may be attached to such divis- 
 ions, brigades or regiments as the President may direct, or 
 ordered upon such independent or detached service as the 
 President may deem expedient: provided, however, that 
 
battalions and regiments may be enlisted from States not of 
 the Confederacy, and the President may appoint all or any 
 of the field officers thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. The President shall be authorized to commission all 
 officers entitled to commissions, of such volunteer forces as 
 may be received under the provisions of this act. And upon 
 the request of the officer commanding such volunteer regi- 
 ment, battalion or company, the President mny attach a su- 
 pernumerary officer to each company, detailed from the reg- 
 ular army for that purpose, and for such time as the Presi- 
 dent may direct. 
 
 x\prR0VED May 11, 1861. 
 
 No. 111.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend "An Act vesting certain powers in tlie Postmaster 
 General," approved March 15, 18G1. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact, That the provisions of "An Act vesting certain 
 powers in the Postmaster General," approved March 15, 1861, 
 be so amended as that he be and hereby is authorized on and 
 after a day to be named by him in a proclamation to be is- 
 sued by him for that purpose, to take the entire charge and 
 direction of the postal service of the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 2. A7}d be it further enacted, That the Postmaster Gen- 
 eral be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to annul 
 contracts, or to discontinue or curtail the service and pay on 
 them, when he shall deem it advisable to dispense with the 
 service, in whole or in part, or to place a higher or different 
 grade of service on the route, or when the public interests 
 shall require such discontinuance or curtailment for any 
 other cause, he allowing one month's extra pay on the amount 
 of service dispensed with, in full of all damages to the con- 
 tractor. 
 
 Sec. 3. And he it further enacted. That the railroads in the 
 Confederate States be and they are hereby divi<led into three 
 classes, on the following basis, viz : The great through lines 
 connecting important points and conveying heavy mails, to 
 class number one ; completed railroads connecting less im- 
 portant points, but carrying heavy mails for local distribu- 
 tion, to be class number two; and roads on which less im- 
 portant mails arc conveyed, short branch roads, and such un- 
 
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 finished roads as do not carry great mails or connect impor- 
 tant points, shall be class number three. 
 
 Sec. 4. Aiid be it ftirther enacted, That in contracts made 
 with railroad companies for carrying the mail once a day, on 
 schedules to be agreed on, the Postmaster General may allow 
 them compensation not exceeding the following rates, viz : 
 On first class roads, one hundred and fifty dollars per mile ; 
 on second class roads, one hundred dollars per mile ; and on 
 third class roads, fifty dollars per mile ; the amount of com- 
 pensation to be determined by the importance and value of 
 the services to be performed : Provided, That if one-half of 
 the services on any railroad is required to be performed in 
 the night time, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General 
 to pay twenty-five per cent, in addition to the above named 
 maximum rates of pay : Provided, further. That the agents, 
 messengers, and other traveling employees of the post-office 
 department shall pass free of charge over such roads, respec- 
 tively ; and this act shall take effect and be of force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 9, 1861. 
 
 No. 113.] AN ACT 
 
 Relative to Telegraph Lines of the Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact, That during the existing war, the President be 
 and he is hereby authorized and empowered to take such con- 
 trol of such of the lines of telegraph in the Confederate States, 
 and of such of the offices connected therewith, as will enable 
 him effectually to supervise the communications passing 
 through the same, to the end that no communications shall be 
 conveyed of the military operations of the Government to en- 
 danger the success of such operations, nor any communica- 
 tion calculated to injure the cause of the Confederate States, 
 or to give aid and comfort to their enemies. 
 
 Sec. 3. The President shall appoint trustworthy agents 
 in such offices, and at such points on the various lines as he 
 may think fit, whose duty it shall be to supervise all commu- 
 nications sent or passing through said lines, and to prevent 
 the transmission of any communication deemed to be detri- 
 mental to the public service. 
 
Sec. 3. In case the owners and managers of said lines 
 shall refuse to permit such supervision, or shall fail or re- 
 fuse to keep up and continue the business on said lines, the 
 President is hereby empowered to take possession of the same 
 for the purposes aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 4. The President shall from time to time issue in- 
 structions to the agents so appointed, and to the operators of 
 th.e various lines, to regulate the transmission of communi- 
 cations touching the operations of the Government, or calcu- 
 lated to aftcct the public welfare. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the President, at his discretion, maA^ employ 
 the operators of the lines as the agents of tlie (iovernment. 
 so that in this as in all other respects there may be as little 
 interference Avith the business and management of such lines 
 as may be compatible with the public interest. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the compensation of the agents appointed un- 
 der this act, where such agents are not ollicers of the com- 
 pany, and the expense attending the execution of the provi- 
 sions of this act, shall be paid out of the Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 7. That no communications in cypher, nor enigmati- 
 cal, or other doubtful communication, shall be transmitted, 
 unless the person sending the same shall be known to the 
 agent of the Government to be trustworthy, nor until the 
 real purport of such communication shall be explained to 
 such agent. 
 
 Sec. 8. That the President is hereby authorized, whenever 
 it may be found necessary or advisable for the successful 
 prosecution of the war, to extend existing lines of telegraph, 
 or make connections between the same, the expense of con- 
 tracting such additional lines to be paid out of any money in 
 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Sec. 9. That all present and future officers of the telegraph 
 lines engaged in receiving and transmitting intelligence with- 
 in the Confederate States shall, as soon as practicable after 
 the passage of this act or after their appointment, take and 
 subscribe before any judicial officer of any one of the Con- 
 federate States, the following oath : "I, A. Ji., do solemnly 
 swear that I will support and maintain the Constitution of 
 the Confederate States of America, and will not, knowingly, 
 directly or indirectly, transmit through the telegraph any 
 communication or information calculated to injure the cause 
 of the Confederate States, or to give aid or comfort to their 
 enemies." 
 
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 Sec. 10, That if any person shall knowingly send or trans- 
 mit any message or communication touchi^ig the military 
 operations of the Govei^nment, without the same being first 
 submitted to the inspection of the agent of the Government, 
 or any message calculated to aid and promote the cause of 
 the enemies of the Confederate States, he shall be subject to 
 indictment in the district court of the Confederate States, and 
 on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than five hun- 
 dred dollars, and imprisoned for a term not less than one 
 year. 
 
 Approved May 11, 1861. 
 
 No. 114.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In regard to the military expenditures made by the State of 
 South Carolina. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica, That the expenditures made by the State of South Ca- 
 rolina for the pay and maintainance of the troops employed 
 in the defence of the Charleston harbor, under the com- 
 mand of Brigadier General Beauregard, were intended to 
 be pi'ovided for by an act making appropriations for the sup- 
 port of three thousand men, for twelve months, to be called 
 into service at Charleston, South Carolina, under the third 
 and fourth sections of an act of the Congress, to raise 
 provisional forces for the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica, and for other purposes ; and that the amount of such 
 expenditures be audited by the proper officer of the Treasury 
 Department, and that the amount which shall be found due, 
 be paid to the State of South Carolina, from the appropria- 
 tion made by the Act aforesaid. 
 
 Approved May 10, 1861. 
 
 No. 115.1 AN ACT 
 
 To amend "An Act to Provide for the Public Defence," 
 approved March 6, 1861. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enacts That the President may receive into the service 
 of the Confederate States any company of light artillery, 
 ■which by said act he is authorized to do, with such complc- 
 
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 mcnt of officers and men, and with such equipments as to him 
 shall seem proper; anything in said act of the Gth of Murj.:, 
 1861, to the contrary, notwithstanding. 
 
 Approved May 10, 1861. 
 
 No. US.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an act entitled " An Act to fix the pay of mem- 
 bers of thu Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica," approved March 11, 1861. 
 
 Skction 1. The Congress of the. Confederate States of ylmer~ 
 ka do enact, That the above entitled act, approved INIarch 11, 
 1861, be so amended and construed as to provide, that in 
 computing the mileage to which members are entitled, the 
 distance shall be estimated by the usual route of travel from 
 the residence of the member to the place where Congress 
 may assemble. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect 
 and lie of force from its passage. 
 
 Approved May 11, 1861. 
 
 No. no.] AN ACT 
 
 In relation to the Confederate Loan. 
 
 Whereas, Under and b}' virtue of the act to raise money 
 for the sujiport of the government, and to provide for the 
 defence of the Confederate States of America, approved 
 February 28, 1861, the Secretary of the Treasury did pro- 
 ceed to offer five millions of said loan, conformably to the 
 provisions of said act: And whereas, in many portions of 
 the Confederate States the currency was and is composed of 
 notes of banks which have suspended specie pvymeiit, not of 
 necessity, but as a measure of public policy: And whereas, 
 certain of said banks did agree to redeem in coin or its 
 equivalent such of their notes as should be paid in by subscri- 
 bers to said loan : And whereas, the Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury, in view of the exigencies of the times, and with a de- 
 sire to give to the people of all parts of the Confederate 
 States the opportunity of subscribing to said loan, did au- 
 
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 thorize the loan commissioners to receive the notes of the 
 banks hereinbefore referred to ; and to avoid inconvenience 
 and the risk of transit, has authorized the said loan commis- 
 sioners to deposit the moneys received by them in said banks : 
 Now, therefore, 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. 
 That all of the acts and doings of the Secretary of the 
 Treasury, of his subordinate officers, and of the loan com- 
 missioners, consistent with the facts recited in the foregoing 
 preamble, are hereby confirmed and made valid, any laAV, 
 usage or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding : and the 
 said Secretary, his subordinate officers, and the loan com- 
 missioners, are hereby authorized to continue so to act in 
 regard to the said loan, until the whole amount authorized 
 by said act shall have been fully subscribed for, and their 
 duties regarding the same shall have determined ; and the 
 said Secretary is authorized to make and continue the de- 
 posits of moneys received or to be received on account of 
 the said loan in any of the said banks ; and the Treasurer of 
 the Confederate States is authorized to draw checks or war- 
 rants on said banks on account of said deposits, payable 
 eiher in coin or its equivalent, or in current bank notes, as 
 the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. 
 
 Approved May 11, 1861. 
 
 No. 120.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act entitled " An Act further to provide for 
 the organization of the Post-Office Department," approved 
 March 9, 1861. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That from and after the passage of this act, the 
 annual salary of the chief of the contract bureau, the chief 
 of the appointment bureau, and the chief of the finance 
 bureau, shall be three thousand dollars ; and that hereafter, 
 as the office of either of them shall be vacated, the appoint- 
 ment of his successor shall be made by the President of the 
 Confederate States, by and with the advice and consent of 
 the Congress ; and the clerks, draftsmen and other employees 
 of the department shall be appointed by the Postmaster 
 General. 
 
 Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That in case of the 
 death, resignation, absence or removal from office of the 
 
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 Postmaster General, all his poAvcrs and duties shall devolve 
 on and be performed by the chief of the contract bureau, 
 until a successor shall be appointed and arrive at the gene- 
 ral post-office to perform the business, or until the return of 
 the Postmaster General: Provided, however, The said chief 
 of the contract bureau shall make no permanent appoint- 
 ment of clerks. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be 
 allowed to each of the bureaus of the department, and also 
 to the inspection office, a principal clerk, at an annual sala- 
 ry of fourteen hundred dollars each. And the Postmaster 
 General is hereby authorized to employ ten additional clerks, 
 at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars each; also 
 four clerks, at an annual salary of one thousand dollars 
 each ; also one watchman, at an annual salary of five hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the clerk charged 
 with the disbursement of the contingent and salary funds of 
 the department be allowed an additional compensation of 
 two hundred dollars per annum ; and that this act take eifect 
 and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 11, 1861. 
 
 No. 121.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend " An Act to prescribe the Rates of Postage in 
 the Confederate States of America, and for other pur- 
 poses," approved February 23, 1861. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That so much of the first section of an act en- 
 titled " An act to prescribe the rates of postage in the Con- 
 federate States of America, and for other purposes," ap- 
 proved February 23, 1861, as relates to sealed packages 
 containing other than printed or written matter, including 
 money packages, be and the same is hereby so amended as 
 to re(iuire that such packages shall be rated by weight, and 
 charged the rates of letter postage. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the second section 
 of said act be amended as follows, to-wit : That all newspa- 
 pers published within the Confederate States, not exceeding 
 three ounces in weight, and sent from the office of publica- 
 tion to actual and bona fide subscribers within the Confcdc- 
 
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 rate States, sliall be charged with postage as follows, to-wit: 
 The postage on the regular numbers of a newspaper pub- 
 lished weekly shall be ten cents per quarter ; papers pub- 
 lished semi-weekly, double that amount; papers published 
 thrice a week, treble that amount ; papers published six times 
 a week, six times that amount; and papers published daily, 
 seven times that amount. And on newspapers Aveighing 
 more than three ounces there shall be charged on each ad- 
 ditional ounce, in addition to the foregoing rates, on those 
 published once a week, five cents per ounce or fraction of an 
 ounce per quarter; on those published twice a week, ten 
 cents per ounce per quarter ; on those published three times 
 a Aveek, fifteen cents per ounce per quarter ; on those pub- 
 lished six times a week, thirty cents per ounce per quarter ; 
 and on those published daily, thirty-five cents per ounce per 
 quarter. And periodicals published oftener than bi-monthly 
 shall be charged as newspapers. And other periodicals, 
 sent from the office of publication to actual and bo7ia fide 
 subscribers, shall be charged with postage as folloAVS, to-wit: 
 The postage on the regular numbers of a periodical publish- 
 ed within the Confederate States, not exceeding one and a 
 half ounces in weight, and published monthly, shall be two 
 and a half cents per quarter, and for every additional ounce 
 or fraction of an ounce two and a half cents additional ; if 
 published semi-monthly, double that amount; and periodi- 
 cals published quarterly or bi-monthly shall be charged two 
 cents an ounce ; and regular subscribers to newspapers and 
 periodicals shall be required to pay one quarter's postage 
 thereon, in advance, at the office of delivery, unless paid at 
 the office where published. And there shall be charged up- 
 on every other newspaper, and each circular not sealed, 
 hand-bill, engraving, pamphlet, periodical and magazine, 
 which shall be unconnected with any manuscript or written 
 matter, and not exceeding three ounces in weight, and pub- 
 lished within the Confederate States, two cents ; and for 
 each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce two cents ad- 
 ditional ; and in all cases the postage shall be pre-paid by 
 stamps, or otherwise, as the Postmaster General shall direct. 
 And books, bound or unbound, not weighing over four 
 pounds, shall be deemed mailable matter, and shall be charg- 
 ed with postage, to be pre-paid by stamps or otherwise, as 
 the Postmaster General shall direct, at two cents an ounce 
 for any distance. And upon all ncAvspapers, periodicals and 
 books, as aforesaid, published beyond the limits of the Con- 
 federate States, there shall be charged postage at double the 
 foregoing specified rates. The publishers of newspapers or 
 
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 periodicals within the Confederate States may send and re- 
 ceive to and from each other, from their respective offices of 
 pnhlication, one copy of each publication free of postage. 
 All newspapers, unsealed circulars, or other unsealed print- 
 ed transient matter, placed in any post-office not for trans- 
 mission hut for delivery only, shall he charged postage at 
 the rate of one cent each. 
 
 Sec. .3. And be it further enacted, That the third section 
 of the ahove recited act he and the same is hereby so amended 
 as to authorize the Postmaster General to provide and fur- 
 nish ten cent stamps and stamped envelopes ; and that the 
 provisions, restrictions and penalties prescribed by said sec- 
 tion of said act for violations of the same in relation to two, 
 five, and twenty cent stamps and stamped envelopes, shall, 
 in all respects, apply to the denomination of stamps and 
 Stamped envelopes herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 4. And he it further enacted. That the proviso con- 
 tained in the fifth section of the said act be so amended as 
 to extend to the chiefs of the contract, appointment and 
 finance bureaus of the Post-Office Department the privilege 
 therein conferred upon the Postmaster General, his chief 
 clerk, and the auditor of the treasury for the Post-Office 
 Department, of transmitting through the mails, free of post- 
 age, any letters, packages, or other matters relating exclu- 
 sively to their official duties or to the business of the Post- 
 Office Department, subject to the restrictions and penalties 
 prescribed by the said proviso ; and that this act take effect 
 and be of force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 13, 1861. 
 
 No. 122.] AN ACT 
 
 To suspend the operations of the Mints. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congrefts of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That from and after the first day of June ensu- 
 ing, the operations of the several mints in the Confederate 
 States be susjiended ; and that all officers therein sljall cease 
 to exercise their functions or to receive any salaries; and 
 that all moneys and bullion in the hands of any officer shall 
 forthwith be transferred to the Treasurer of the Confederate 
 States. 
 
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 Sec. 2. That the mint at New Orleans, with the tools 
 implements and all appurtenances, be placed by the superin- 
 tendent in charge of some fit person, to be approved by the 
 Secretary of the Treasury ; and that the said Secretary be 
 authorized to accept the superintendent as such custodian, 
 and to allow him, or such other person as may be appointed, 
 the use and occupation of the portion heretofore used as a 
 dwelling, in consideration of his undertaking the charge and 
 safe-keeping of the whole establishment. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury, until other- 
 wise directed by law, be authorized to take the same course 
 in relation to the mint and public property connected with 
 it at Dahlonega, 
 
 Approved May 14, 1861. 
 
 No. 123.] AN ACT 
 
 To organize further the Bureau of Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Printing. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact, That the salary of the Superintendent of Public 
 Printing shall be three thousand dollars, payable as other 
 salaries of heads of bureaus in the several departments. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Superintendent of Public Printing shall be 
 entitled to a messenger, who shall receive a salary of three 
 hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 3. The publication of the laws and journals of Con- 
 gress shall be exclusively under the direction of the Super- 
 intendent of Public Printing, subject to the supervision and 
 control of the Attorney-General. And the Superintendent 
 may contract with publishers of newspapers as to the terms- 
 of publication of the laws and journals, not exceeding in 
 compensation the rates usually paid by other advertisers for 
 similar work. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Superintendent shall have authority to con- 
 tract, by advertising for soaled proposals, for all paper ne- 
 cessary to do all the printing ordered by Congress or either 
 one of the executive departments. In all cases the contrac- 
 tor shall furnish the paper at such times and in such quan- 
 tities as the Superintendent shall require, and shall give 
 
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 bond, witli two good sureties, for tlie faithful performance of 
 the contract. 
 
 Sec. 5. All orders for printing by Congress or any of the 
 executive departments shall be sent to the Superintendent of 
 Public Printing, to be by him delivered to the printer or 
 contractor: and the printing, -when completed, shall be re- 
 turned to the Superintendent, to be received or rejected, 
 and by him delivered according to the order. 
 
 Sec. 6. All laws and parts of hiAvs militating against this 
 act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved May 14, ISGl. 
 
 No. i24.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the transfer of Appropriations. 
 
 Section 1.- The Congress of the Cojife derate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact. That durins; the recess of Congress the President 
 of the Confederate States may and he is hereby authorized — 
 on the application of the secretary of the proper depart- 
 ment, and not otherwise — to direct, if in his opinion neces- 
 sary for the public service, that a portion of the moneys 
 appropriated for a particular branch of expenditure in that 
 department be applied to another branch of expenditure in 
 the same department; in which case a special account of 
 moneys thus transferred shall l)e laid before Congress during 
 the first week of the next ensuing session. 
 ^ Sec. 2. This act shall continue and be of force until the 
 end of the existing war, and no longer. 
 
 Approved May 14, 1861. 
 
 No. 125.] AN ACT 
 
 To define the Limits of the Port of New Orleans, and for 
 other purposes. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the port of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, 
 shall embrace and include all the waters, inlets and shores 
 on both sides of the river Mississippi, within the whole par- 
 ish of Orleans, that part of the parish of Jeffersoii on th©; 
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 right bank of said river to the upper line of the Destrehan 
 canal, and that portion of the said parish of Jefferson on 
 the left bank of the Mississippi river to the upper limits of 
 the town or fiiubourg of Hurtsville. That the ports of deli- 
 very known as bayou St. John's, Lake Port, and Port Pont- 
 chartrain, and the customs officers authorized therefor, be 
 and the same are hereby abolished and discontinued, and all 
 the vraters, inlets and shores embraced within the limits of 
 said ports be added to and included in the port of New 
 Orleans, 
 
 AppROVED-May 14, 1861. 
 
 No. 126.] AN ACT 
 
 Re'^ulating the sale of Prizes, and the distribution thereof. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Co7ifederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That all prizes of vessels and property captured 
 by private ai-med ships, in pursuance of the act passed by 
 Con^'-ress recognizing the existence of war between the Uni- 
 ted States and the Confederate States, and concerning lett^ers 
 of marque, prizes and prize goods, which may be condemned 
 in any court of the Confederate States, shall be sold at pub- 
 lic auction by the marshal of the district in which the same 
 shall be condemned, Avithin sixty days after the condemna- 
 tion thereof — sufficient notice of the time and place and con- 
 dition of sale being first given — on such day or days, on 
 such terms of credit, and in such lots or proportions as may 
 be designated by the owner or owners, or agent of the ©wner 
 or owners, of the privateer which may have captured the 
 same : Provided, That the term of such credit shall not ex- 
 ceed ninety days. And the said marshal is hereby directed 
 to take and receive from the purchaser or purchasers of 
 such prize vessel and property, the money therefor, or his, 
 her or their promissory notes, with endorsers, to be approved 
 by the owner or owners of the privateer, to the amount of 
 the purchase, payable according to the terms thereof. 
 
 Sec. 2. That upon all duties, costs and charges being 
 paid according to law, the said marshal shall, on demand, 
 deliver and pay over to the owner or owners of the priva- 
 teer, or to the agent of such owner or owners of the priva- 
 teer which may have captured such prize vessel and property. 
 
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 a just and equal proporf' i of the funds received on account 
 of the sale thereof, akd of the promissory notcni directed to 
 be taken as aforesaid, to which the said owner or owners may 
 be entitled, according to the articles of agreement between 
 the said owner or owners and the officers and crew of the 
 said privateer; and a just and equal proportion of the pro- 
 ceeds of the sale as aforesaid, shall, on demand, be also paid 
 over by the said marshal to the officers and crew of the said 
 privateer, or to their agent or agents. And if there be nO' 
 written agreement, it shall be the duty of the marshal to« 
 pay over, in manner as aforesaid, one moiety of the proceeds, 
 of the sale of such prize vessel and property to the owner 
 or owners of the privateer which may have captured the- 
 same, and the other moiety of the said proceeds to the agent 
 or agents of the officers and crew of the said privateer, tO' 
 be distributed according to law, or to any agreement by them 
 made : Provided, The said officers and crew, or their agent or 
 agents, shall have first refunded to the owner or owners, or 
 to the agent of the owner or owners of the privateer afore- 
 said, the full amount of advances which shall have been, 
 made by the owner or owners of the privateer to the officers, 
 and crew thereof. 
 
 Sec 3. That for the selling prize property and receiving, 
 and paying over the proceeds as afo^resaid, the marshal shall 
 be entitleil to a commission of one per cent, and no more, 
 first de<lucting all duties, costs and charges which may 
 have accrued on said property : Provided, That on no case 
 of con<lemnation and sale of any one prize vessel and cargo 
 shall the commissions of the marshal exceed two hunlred 
 and fifty dollars. 
 
 Sfx. 4. /That it shall be the duty of the marshnl, within 
 fifteen days after any sale of prize property, to file in the 
 office of the clerk of the district court of the district wherein 
 such sale may be made, a just and true account of the sales 
 of such prize property, and of all duties ;md charges there ■ 
 on, together with a statement thereto annexed of th? pro- 
 missory notes taken on account thereof, which account shall 
 be verified by tlie oath of the said marshal; and if the said 
 marshal shall vilfully neglect or refuse to file such account, 
 he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars for 
 each omission or refusal as aforesaid, to be recovered in an 
 action of debt by any person interested in such sale, and 
 duing for the sai<l penalty, on account of the party or par- 
 ties interested in the prize vessel or property sold as afore- 
 said, in any court having cognizance thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the owner or owners of any private armed 
 
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 vessel or vessels, or their agent or agents, may, at any time 
 before a libel shall be filed against any captured vessel or 
 her cargo, remove the same from any port into which such 
 prize vessel or property may be first brought, to any other 
 port in the Confederate States, to be designated at the time 
 of the removal as aforesaid, subject to the same restrictions 
 and complying with the same regulations with respect to the 
 payment of duties which are provided by law in relation to 
 other vessels arriving in port with cargoes subject to the pay- 
 ment of duties : Provided, That before such removal the said 
 captured property shall not have been attached at the suit of 
 any adverse claimant, or a claim against the same have been 
 interposed in behalf of the Confederate States. 
 
 Approved May 14, 1861. 
 
 No. 128.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for Auditing the Accounts of the Post-Office 
 Department. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ame- 
 rica do enact, That it shall be the duty of the First Auditor 
 of the Treasury to receive all accounts arising in the Post- 
 Office Department or relative thereto ; to audit and settle 
 the same and certify their balances to the Postmaster Gen- 
 eral: Provided, That if either the Postmaster General, or 
 any person whose account shall be settled, be dissatisfied 
 therewith, he may within twelve months appeal to the Comp- 
 troller of the Treasury, whose decision shall be final and 
 conclusive. The said Auditor shall report to the Postmas- 
 ter General, when required, the official forms of papers to 
 be used by postmasters and other officers and, agents of the 
 department concerned in its receipts and payments, and the 
 manner and form of keeping and stating its accounts. He 
 shall keep and preserve all accounts, with the vouchers, 
 after settlement. He shall promptly report to the Postmas- 
 ter General all delinquencies of postmasters in paying over 
 the proceeds of their offices. He shall close the accounts 
 of the Department quarterly, and transmit to the Secretary 
 
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 of the Treasury quarterly statements of its receipts and 
 expenditures. He shall register, charge and countersign all 
 warrants upon the treasury for receipts and payments issued 
 by the Postmaster General, when "warranted by law. He 
 shall perform such other duties in relation to the financial 
 concerns of the department as shall be assigned to him by 
 the Secretary of the Treasury or the Postmaster General 
 and shall make to them, respectively, such reports as either 
 of them may require respecting the same. He sliall state 
 and certify quarterly to the Postmaster General accounts of 
 the moneys paid pursuant to appropriations, in each year, 
 by postmasters, out of the proceeds of their offices, towards 
 the expenses of the department, under each of the heads of 
 the said expenses specified in the appropriations ; upon 
 which the Postmaster General shall issue warrants to the 
 Treasurer of the Confederate States, in order that tlie same 
 may be carried to the credit and debit of the appropriation 
 for the service of the Post-Office Department, on the books 
 of the Auditor of the Treasury. He shall superintend the 
 collection of all debts due to the department, and all penalties 
 and forfeitures imposed on postmasters for failing to make re- 
 turns, or to pay over the proceeds of their offices, and he 
 shall direct suits and legal proceedings, and take all such 
 measures as may be authorized by law to enforce the prompt 
 payment of moneys due to the department. 
 
 Sec. 2, Ajid be it further enacted. That the said Auditor 
 shall have charge of all lands and other property which shall 
 be assigned, set off or conveyed to the Confederate States in 
 payment of debts, and of all trusts created for the use of 
 the Confederate States in payment of debts due them on ac- 
 count of the Post-Office Department ; and to sell and dis- 
 pose of lands or other property assigned or set off to the 
 Confederate States in payment of debts, or being vested in 
 them liy mortgage or other security for the payment of debts 
 due to the said department, under such rules and regulations 
 as may be prescribed by the Postmaster General. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint a 
 chief Clerk to aid the First Auditor of the Treasury in 
 auditing tlie accounts of the Post-Office Department, who 
 shall receive a salary of two tliousand dollars per annum ; 
 and shall ajipoint fifteen additional clerks, with salaries of 
 twelve hundred dollars each, and fourteen other clerks, with 
 salaries of one thousand dollars each, to aid the First Audi- 
 tor of the Treasury in auditing the accounts of the Post- 
 Office Department. And he shall appoint one messenger for 
 
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 the Treasurv Department, who shall be allowed a salary of 
 five hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be itfwther enacted, That the said Auditor of the 
 Treasury shall be allowed to send through the mail all com- 
 munications, relating exclusively to the Post-Office business, 
 free of charge, under the same rules, regulations and re- 
 strictions, and subject to the same penalties as are now pre- 
 scribed with respect to transmission free of charge by the 
 heads of bureaus of the Post-Office Department. And this 
 act shall go into eftect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 16, 1861. 
 
 No. 106.] AN ACT 
 
 Recognizing the existence of War between the United States 
 and the Confederate States : and concernino- Letters of 
 Marque, Prizes and Prize Goods. 
 
 Whereas, The earnest efforts made by this Government 
 to establish friendly relations between the Government of 
 the United States and the Confederate States, and to settle 
 all questions of disagreement between the two Governments 
 upon principles of right, justice, equity and good faith, 
 have proved unavailing by reason of the refusal of the 
 Government of the United States to hold any intercours^e 
 with the commissioners appointed by this Government for 
 the purposes aforesaid, or to listen to any proposals they 
 had to make for the peaceful solution of all causes of diffi- 
 culty between the two Governments : and whereas the Pre- 
 sident of the United States of America has issued his pro- 
 clamation making requisition upon the States of the 
 American Union for seventy-five thousand men for the pur- 
 pose, as therein indicated, of capturing forts and other 
 strongholds Avithin the iurisdiction of and belonsring to the 
 Confederate States of America, and has detailed naval arma- 
 ments upon the coasts of the Confederate States of America, 
 and raised, organized and equipped a large military force to 
 execute the purpose aforesaid, and has issued his other pro- 
 clamation announcing his purpose to set on foot a blockade 
 of the ports of the Confederate States : and whereas, the 
 State of Virginia has seceded from the Federal Union and 
 
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 entered into a convention of alliance offensive and defensive 
 with the Confederate States, and has adopted the Provisional 
 Constitution of the said States, and the States of IMarylaiid, 
 North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. Arkansas and Mis- 
 souri, have refused, and it is believed that the State of Dela- 
 ware and the inhabitants of the territories of Arizona and 
 New Mexico, and the Indian territory South of Kansas, will 
 refuse to co-operate Avith the Government of the United States 
 in these acts of hostilities and wanton ago-ression, which arc 
 plainly intended to overawe, oppress and finally sulijugatc 
 the people of the Confederate States : and Avhereas, by the 
 acts and means aforesaid, war exists between the Confede- 
 rate States and the Government of the United States, and 
 the States and territories thereof, except the States of Mary- 
 land, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, 
 ^Missouri and Delaware, and the territories of Arizona and 
 New Mexico, and the Indian territory South of Kan>a- 
 Therefore, 
 
 Sf.ctiox 1. The Congress of the Confidcrale States of Amcr- 
 ica do enact, That the President of the Confederate States is 
 hereby aiithorized to use the whole land and naval force of 
 the Confederate States to meet the war thus commenced, and 
 to issue to private armed vessels commissions, or letters of 
 marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think 
 proper, under the seal of the Confederate States, against the 
 vessels, goods and effects of the government of the United 
 States, and of the citizens or inhabitants of the states an-l 
 territories thereof: Proi'idcd, hoivevcr, That pro})erty of the 
 enemy (unless it be contraband of Avar) laden on board a 
 neutral vessel, shall not be subject to seizure under this act . 
 And provided further. That vessels of the citizens or inhabi- 
 tants of the United States now in the ports of the Confede- 
 rate States, except such as have Ijcen since the oth of April 
 last, or may hereafter be. in the service of the goverriment 
 of the United States, shall be allowed thirty days after the 
 publication of this act to leave said ports and reach their 
 destination; and such vessels and their cargoes, excepting 
 articles contra1)and of war, shall not be subject to caj^ture 
 under this act during said period, unless they shall have 
 previously reached the destination for which they Avere bound 
 on leaving said ports. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the President of the Confederate States shall 
 be and he is hcrel)y authorize»l and empoAvered to revoke ami 
 iinnul, at pleasure, all letters of marc^uc and reprisal Av],i'j)i 
 he maj at anv time grant pursuant to tliis act. 
 

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 Sec. 3. That all persons applying for letters of marque 
 cind reprisal, pursuant to this act, shall state in writing the 
 name and a suitable description of the tonnage and force of 
 the A'essel, and the name and place of residence of each 
 owner concerned therein, and the intended number of the- 
 crew ; which statement shall be signed by the person or per- 
 sons making such application, and filed with the Secretary 
 of State, or shall be delivered to any other officer or person 
 who shall be employed to deliver out such commissions, to 
 be by him transmitted to the Secretary of State. 
 
 Sec. 4. That before any commission or letters- of marque 
 and reprisal shall be issued as aforesaid, the owner or owners 
 of the ship or vessel for which the same shall be requested, 
 and the commander thereof for the time being, shall give- 
 bond to the Confederate States, with at least two responsi- 
 ble sureties not interested in such vessel, in the penal sum 
 of five thousand dollars, or if such vessel be provided with 
 more than one hundred and fifty men, then in the penal sum' 
 of ten thousand dollars, with condition that the owners, 
 officers and crcAv who shall be employed on board such com- 
 inissioned vessel, shall and will observe the laws of the Con- 
 federate States, and the instructions which shall be given 
 them according to law for the rogulation of their conduct, 
 and will satisfy all damages and injuries which shall be done 
 or committed contrary to the tenor thereof, by such vessel 
 during her commission, and to deliver up the same when 
 revoked by the President of the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 5. That all captures and prizes of vessels and pro- 
 perty shall be forfeited and shall accrue to the owners, officers 
 and crews of the vessels by whom such captures and prizes- 
 shall be made, and on due condemnation had shall be dis- 
 tributed according to any written agreement Avhich shall be 
 made between them ; and if there be no such Avrittcn agree- 
 ment, then one moiety to the owners and the other moiety 
 to the officers and crew, as nearly as may be according to , 
 the rules prescribed for the distribution of prize money by 
 the laws of the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec 6. That all vessels, goods and effects, the property 
 of any citizen of the Confederate States, or of persons resi- 
 dent within and under the protection of the Confederate 
 States, or of persons- permanently within the territories and 
 under the protection of any foreign prince, government or 
 state in amity with the Confederate States, which shall have 
 been captured by the United States, and which shall be re- 
 captured by vessels commissioned as aforesaid, shall be 
 restored to the lawful owners, upon payment by them of a 
 
just and reasonable salvage, to be determined by the mutual 
 agrooment of the parties concerned, or by the decree of any 
 court having jurisdiction, according to the nature of each 
 case, agreeably to the provisions established by law. And 
 such salvage shall be distributed among the owners, officers 
 and crews of the vessels commissioned as aforesaid, and 
 making such captures, according to any written agreement 
 which shall be made between them ; and in case of no such 
 agreement, then in the same manner and upon the principles 
 hereinbefore provided in cases of capture. 
 
 Sec. 7. That before breaking bulk of any vessel which 
 shall be captured as aforesaid, or other disposal or conversion 
 thereof, or of any articles which shall be found on board the 
 same, such captured vessel, goods or eifects shall be brought 
 into some port of the Confederate States, or of a nation or 
 state in amity with the Confederate States, and shall be pro- 
 ceeded against before a competent tribunal ; and after con- 
 demnation and forfeiture thereof shall belong to the owners, 
 officers and crew of the vessel capturing the same, and be 
 distributed as before provided ; and in the case of all cap- 
 tured vessels, goods and effects which shall be brought with- 
 in the jurisdiction of the Confederate States, the district 
 courts of the Confederate States shall have exclusive origi- 
 nal cognizance thereof, as the civil causes of admiralty and 
 maritime jurisdiction; and the said courts, or tlic courts, 
 being courts of the Confederate States, into Avhich such cases 
 shall be removed, and in which they shall be finally decided, 
 shall and may decree restitution in whole or in part, when 
 the capture shall have been made without just cause. And 
 if made without probalde cause, may order and decree dam- 
 ages and costs to the party injured, for which the owners and 
 commanders of the vessels making such captui'cs, and also 
 the vessels, shalt be liable. 
 
 Skc. 8. That all persons found on board any captured 
 vessels, or on board any re-captured vessel, shall be reported 
 to the collector of the port in the Confederate States in 
 which they shall first arrive, and shall be delivered into the 
 custody of the marshal of the district, or sovic court or 
 military officer of the Confederate States, or of any state in 
 or near such port who shall take charge of their safe keep- 
 ing and support, at the expense of the Confctlerate States. 
 
 Sf.c. 9. That the President of the Confederate States is 
 hereby authorized to establish and order suitable instruc- 
 tions for the better governing and directing* the conduct of 
 the vessels so commissioned, their officers and crews, copies 
 of which shall be delivered by the collector of the customs 
 
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 to the commanders, when they shall give bond as provided. 
 
 Sec. 10. That a bounty shall be paid by the Confe^lerate 
 States of $20 for each person on board any armed ship or 
 vessel belonging to the United States at the commencement 
 of an engagement, ■which shall be burnt, sunk or destroyed 
 by any vessel commissioned as aforesaid, which shall be of 
 equal or inferior force, the same to be divided as in other 
 cases of prize money ; and a bounty of $25 shall be paid to 
 the owners, officers and crews of the private armed vessels 
 commissioned as aforesaid, for each and every prisoner by 
 them captured and brought into port, and delivered to an 
 agent authorized to receive them, in any port of the Con- 
 federate States ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is here- 
 by authorized to pay or cause to be paid to the owners, officers 
 and crcAvs of such private armed vessels cominissioned as 
 aforesaid, or their agent, the bounties herein provided. 
 
 Sec. i 1. That the commanding officer of every vessel hav- 
 ing a commission or letters of marque and reprisal, during 
 the present hostilities betAveen the Confederate States and 
 the United States, shall keep a regular journal, containing 
 a true and exact account of his daily proceedings and trans- ■ 
 actions Avith such vessel and the croAv thereof; the ports and 
 places he shall put into or cast anchor in ; the time of his 
 stay there and the cause thereof; the prizes he shall take 
 and the nature and probable value thereof; the times and 
 places when and where taken, and in what manner he shall 
 dispose of the same ; the ships or vessels he shall fall in 
 with ; the times and places when and where he shall meet 
 with them, and his observations and remarks thereon ; also, 
 of whatever else shall occur to him or any of his officers or 
 marines, or be discovered by examination or conference with 
 any marines or passengers of or in any other ships or ves- 
 sels, or ])y any other means touching the fieets, vessels and 
 forces of the United States, their posts and places of station 
 and destination, strength, numbers, intents and designs; 
 and such commanding officer shall, immediately on his arri- 
 val in any port of the Confederate States, from or during 
 the continuance of any voyage or cruise, produce his com- 
 mission for such vessel, and deliver up such journal so kept 
 as aforesaid, signed with his proper name and hand-Avriting, 
 to the collector or other chief officer of the customs at or 
 nearest to such port ; the truth of Avhich journal shall be 
 verified by the oath of the commanding officer for the time 
 being. And such collector or other chief officer of the cus- 
 toms shall, immediately on the arrival of such vessel, order 
 the proper officer of the customs to go on board and take an 
 
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 account of tlic officers and men, the number and nature of 
 the guns, and whatever else shall occur to him on examina- 
 tion material to be known ; and no such vessel shall be per- 
 mitted to sail out of port again until sucli journal shall 
 have l)cen delivered up, and a c?rtificate obtained under the 
 hand of such collector or other chief officer of the customs 
 that she is manned and armed according to her commission ; 
 and upon delivery of such certificate, any former certificate 
 of a like nature which shall have been obtained by the com- 
 mander of such vessel shall be delivered up. 
 
 Sec. 12. That the commanders of vessels having letters of 
 marque and reprisal as aforesaid, neglecting to keep a jour- 
 nal as aforesaid, or wilfully making fraudulent entries there- 
 in, or obliterating the record of any material transaction 
 contained therein, Avhere the interest of the Confederate 
 States is concerned, or refusing to produce and deliver such 
 journal, commission or certificate, pursuant to the preceding 
 section of this act, then and in such cases the commissions 
 or letters of marque and reprisal of such vessels shall be 
 liable to be revoked; and such commanders respectively 
 shall forfeit for evei-y such offence the sum of $1,000, one 
 moiety thereof to the use of the Confederate States, and the 
 other to the informer. 
 
 Sec. 13. That the owners or commanders of vessels hav- 
 ing letters of marque and reprisal as aforesaid, who shall 
 violate any of the acts of Congress for the collection of the 
 revenue of the Confederate States, and for the prevention of 
 smuggling, shall forfeit the commission or letters of marque 
 and reprisal, and they and the vessels owned or commanded 
 by them shall be liable to all the penalties and forfeitures 
 attaching to merchant vessels in like cases. 
 
 Sec. 11. That on all goods, wares and merchandise cap- 
 tured and made good and lawful prizes of war, l)y any pri- 
 vate armed ship having commission or letters of marque and 
 reprisal under this act, and brought into the Confederate 
 States, there shall be allowed a deduction of 33 1-3 percent, 
 on the amount of duties imposed by law. 
 
 Sec. 15. Tliat five per centum on the net amount (after de- 
 ducting all charges and expenditures) of the prize money 
 arising from captured vessels and cargoes, and on the net 
 amount of the salvage of vessels and cargoes re-captured by 
 private armed vessels of the Confederate States, shall be 
 secured and paid over to the collector or other chief officer 
 of the customs, at the port or place in the Confederate States 
 at which such captured or re-captured vessels may arrive, 
 or to the consul or other public, agent of the Confederate 
 
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 States residing at the port or place not within the Confederate 
 States at which such captured or re-captured vessel may 
 arrive. And the moneys arising therefrom shall he held and 
 are herehj pledged by the government of the Confederate 
 States as a fund for the support and maintenance of the 
 widoAvs and orphans of such persons as may be slain, and 
 for the support and maintenance of such persons as may be 
 wounded and disabled on board of the private armed vessels 
 commissioned as aforesaid, in any engagement with the 
 enemy, to be assigned and distributed in such manner as 
 shall hereafter be provided by law. 
 
 Approved May 6, 1861. 
 
 No. 129.] AN ACT 
 
 To increase the Military establishment of the Confederate 
 States, and to amend the " Act for the establishment and 
 organization of the Army of the Confederate States of 
 America." 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That the President shall be authorized to raise 
 and organize, in addition to the present military establish- 
 ment, one regiment of cavalry and two regiments of infan- 
 try, whenever in his judgment the public service may require 
 such an increase, to be organized in accordance with exist- 
 ing laws for the organization of cavalry and infantry regi- 
 ments, and to be entitled to the same pay and allowances pro- 
 vided for the same respectively. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the five general olficers provided by existing 
 laws for the Confederate States, shall have the rank and de- 
 nomination of " General," instead of " Brigadier General," 
 which shall be the highest military grade known to the Con- 
 federate States. They shall be assigned to such commands 
 and duties as the President may specially direct, and shall 
 be entitled to the same pay and allowances as are provided 
 for brigadier generals, and to two aids-de-camp, to be select- 
 
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 ed as now provided by law. Appointments to the rank of 
 general, after tlic army is organized, shall be made by selec- 
 tion from the army. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the President be authorized, whenever in his 
 judgment the public service maj'' require the increase, to add 
 to the corps of engineers one lieutenant colonel, who shall 
 receive the pay and allowances of a lieutenant colonel of 
 cavalry, and as many captains, not exceeding five, as may 
 be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 4. That there be added to the quartermaster gene- 
 ral's department one assistant quartermaster general with 
 the rank of lieutenant colonel, and two quartermasters, with 
 the rank of major ; and to the commissary general's depart- 
 ment, one assistant commissary, with the rank of major, and 
 one assistant commissary, with the rank of captain ; and to 
 the me<lical department, six surgeons and fourteen assistant 
 surgeons. 
 
 Sec 5. That the President be authorized to appoint as 
 many military store-keepers, with the pay and allowances 
 of a first lieutenant of infantry, as the safe-keeping of the 
 public property may require, not to exceed in all six store- 
 keepers. 
 
 Sec 6. That there be added '6 the military establishment 
 one quartermaster sergeant for each regiment of cavalry and 
 infantry, and one ordnance sergeant for each military post, 
 each to receive the pay and allowances of a sergeant major, 
 according to existing laws. 
 
 Sec 7. That there may be enlisted for the medical de- 
 partment of the army, for the term already provided by law 
 for ilhcr enlisted men, as many hospital stewards as the ser- 
 vice may require, to be determined by the Secretary of War, 
 under such regulations as he may prescribe, and who shall 
 receive the pay and allowances of a sergeant major. 
 
 Sec -S. That until a military school shall be established 
 for the elementary instruction of officers for the army, the 
 President shall be authorized to appoint cadets from the 
 several states, in number proportioned to their representa- 
 tion in the House of Representatives, and ten in addition, to 
 be selected by him at large from the Confederate States, who 
 shall be attached to companies in service in any branch of 
 the army, as supernumerary officers, with the rank of cadet, 
 who shall receive the monthly pay of forty dollars, and be 
 
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 competent for promotion at such time and under such regu- 
 lations as may bo prescribed b_y the President, or hereafter 
 established by law. 
 
 Sec. 9, That the President be authorized to assign officers 
 of the army of the Confederate States to staff duty with 
 volunteers or provisional troops, and to confer upon them, 
 whilst so employed, the rank corresponding to the staif duties 
 they are to perform. 
 
 Sec. lU. There shall be allowed and paid to every able- 
 bodied man vrho shall be duly enlisted to serve in the army 
 of the Confederate States, a bounty of ten dollars ; but the 
 payment of five dollars of the said bounty shall be deferred 
 until the recruit shall have been mustered into the regi- 
 ment in which he is to serve. 
 
 Sec U. That the provision of the third section of the act 
 of the Congress of the United States, making appropria- 
 tions for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of 
 the government for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, 
 A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, approved June 
 twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty, which declares 
 that no arms nor military supplies whatever, which are of a 
 patented invention, shall be purchased, nor the right of 
 using or i^pplying any patented invention, unless the same 
 shall be authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor 
 explicitly set forth, that it is for such patented invention, (if 
 of force within the Confederate States, shall be suspended 
 in its operation for and during the existing Avar. 
 
 Approved May IG, 1861. 
 
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 No. 130.] ' AN ACT 
 
 To provide a Compensation for the Disbursing Officers of 
 the several Executive Departments. 
 
 Sfxtiox 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, Tliat the Secretaries of the State, Treasury, War 
 and Navy Departments, and of the Department of Justice, 
 and of the Post Office Department, shall appoint one of their 
 clerks as a disbursing clerk ; and such clerk sliall be allowed, 
 in addition to his compensation as clerk, the additional sum 
 of two hundred dollars per annum, for disbursing-the funds 
 of said departments which may be required to pass through 
 their hands. And that all laws and parts of laws now in 
 force relating to this subject be repealed; and that this act 
 take eft'ect and be of force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approvi.o May 16, 1861. 
 
 In relation to Marine Hospital. 
 No. 131.] AN ACT 
 
 Besolird hy the Congj-ess of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the expenses of the marine hospitals in the Confederate 
 States be limited to the amounts received for their support; 
 and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to 
 place ^n}' such hospitals as may be practicable under the 
 charge of any corporate or State authority which will under- 
 take to keep open the same as a hospital for the sick, and to 
 receive tluMcin such seamen as the funds allowed by law for 
 their support will enable them to provide for. 
 
 Approved May 16, 1861. 
 
 No. 132.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act entitled '* An Acts to provide for the ap- 
 pointment of Chaplains to the Army," approved May 
 third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of Vie Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That so much of the second section of the above 
 
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 recited act as fixes the pay of chapTains in the army at 
 eio-hty-five dollars be repealed, and that the pay of said 
 chaplains be fifty dollars per month. 
 
 Approved May 16, 1861. 
 
 No. 133.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the President to continue the Appointments 
 made byhim in the Military and Naval service during the 
 recess of Congress or the present session, and to submit 
 them to Congress at its next session. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That the President be authorized to continue 
 the appointments made by him in the military and naval 
 service during the recess of Congress or the present session, 
 and to sul)mit them to Congress at its next session. 
 
 Approved May 16, 1861. 
 
 No. 134.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize a Loan and the issue of Treasury Notes ; and 
 to prescribe the punishment for t orging the same, and for 
 forging Certificates of Stock and Bonds. 
 
 Section 1, The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, -with the 
 assent of the President of the Confederate States, issue fifty 
 millions of dollars in bonds, payable at the expiration of 
 twenty years from their date, and bearing a rate of interest 
 not exceeding eight per cent, per annum until they become 
 payable, the said interest to be paid semi-annually. The 
 said bonds, after public advertisement in three newspapers 
 within the Confederate States for six weeks, to be sold for 
 specie, military stores, or for the proceeds of sales of raw 
 produce or manufactured articles, to be paid in the form of 
 specie or with foreign bills of exchange, in such manner and 
 under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secreta- 
 ry of the Treasury, with the assent of the President. But 
 
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 it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to re- 
 port, at its next ensuing session, to the Congress of the 
 Confederate States, a precise statement of his transactions 
 under this law. Nor shall the said bonds be issued in frac- 
 tional parts of the hundred, or be exchanged by the said 
 Secretary for Treasury notes, or the notes of any bank, cor- 
 poration or iiulividual, but only in the manner herein pre- 
 scribed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be 
 so construed as to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury 
 from receiving foreign bills of exchange in payment of these 
 bonds. 
 
 Sec. 2. Ayid be it further enacted, That in lieu of bonds, 
 to an amount not exceeding twenty millions of dollars, the 
 Secretary of the Treasury, with the assent of the President, 
 may issue treasury notes to the same amount, without inter- 
 est, and in denominations of not less than five dollars — the 
 said notes to be receivable in payment of all de])ts or taxes 
 due to the Confederate States, except the export duty on 
 cotton, or in exchange, for the bonds herein authorized to 
 be issued. The said notes shall be payable at the end of two 
 years from the date of their issue, in specie. The holders 
 of the said notes may at any time demand in exchange for 
 them bonds of the Confederate States, payable at the end of 
 ten years, and bearing an interest of eight per centum per 
 annum, to be paid semi-annually. The Secretary of the 
 Treasury is hereby authorized to issue the said bonds, but 
 not in fractional parts of the hundred. But if after the ex- 
 piration of two years, when the treasury notes shall be due, 
 the Secretary of the Treasury shall advertise that he will 
 pay the same, then the privilege of funding shall cease after 
 six months from the date of the advertisement, unless there 
 shall be a failure to pay the same on their presentation. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it fin-thcr enacted. That in lieu of tlie notes 
 authorized by this act, Avhich may be redeemed, other notes 
 may be issued within the period of ten years as aforesaid : 
 Provided, however. That the amount of such notes outstand- 
 ing, together with the stock in which the said treasury notes 
 may have liccn funded under the provisions of this act, shall 
 not exceed the sum of tAventy millions of dollars. But the 
 Secretary of the Treasury may, upon application of the 
 holder of a bond thus funded, redeem it by giving in ex- 
 change treasury notes issued under the provisions of this 
 act, to such extent as that the entire amount of notes tlicn 
 issued, together with the amount of the bonds in Avhich they 
 may have been funded, shall not exceed twenty millions of 
 dollars. 
 
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Sec. 4. And be it finiher enacted, That the faith of the| 
 Confederate States is hereby pledged to provide and establisl 
 sufficient revenues for the reguhxr payment of the interest] 
 and for the redemption of the said stock and treasury notes.^ 
 And the principal sum borrowed under the provisions of this 
 act and the interest thereon, as the same shall from time to 
 time become due and payable, shall be paid out of any money 
 in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Sec. 5. And he it further enacted, That this act shall be 
 deemed to contain all the provisions, limitations and penal- 
 ties of the act entitled an act to authorize the issue of treas- 
 ury notes, and to prescribe the punishment for forging the 
 same, and for forging certificates of stocks, bonds, or coupons 
 and approved March ninth, 1861, which shall be considered 
 as parts of this act, save the first, second and tenth sections, 
 and save so much as relates to interest upon treasury notes. 
 
 Sec 6. And he it further enacted, That for the purpose of 
 raising ten millions of dollars within the present calendar • 
 year, and of providing for the ultimate redemption of the 
 debt herein authorized to be contracted, the Secretary of the 
 Treasury is hereby directed to collect information in regard 
 to the value of the property, the revenue system, and the 
 amount collected during the last fiscal year in each of the 
 Confederate States, and to report the same to Congress at its 
 next session, so as to enable it to lay a fair, equal and con- 
 venient system of internal taxation, for the purpose of se- 
 curing the payment of the interest and principal of the debt 
 hereby authorized to be created, in such manner as may fully 
 discharge the obligation herein contracted by the pledge of 
 the faith of the Confederate States to pay the principal and 
 interest of the said debt when due. 
 
 Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That any State may pay 
 into the treasury, in anticipation of the tax aforesaid, any 
 sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars, in specie or 
 its equivalent; and if the same be paid on or before the first 
 day of July next, the said State shall be allowed to set off 
 the same with ten per cent, additional from the quota to be 
 assessed upon the said State. 
 
 Approved May 16, 1861. 
 
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 No. 135.] AN ACT 
 
 To admit the State of North Carolina into the Confederacy, 
 on a certain condition. 
 
 The State of North Carolina having adopted measures 
 looking to an early Avitbdrawal from the United States, aud 
 to becoming in the future a member of this Confederacy, 
 "which measures may not be consummated before the approachr 
 ing recess of Congress : Therefore, 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the State of North Carolina shall be aibaitted a mem'- 
 ber of the Confederate States of America, upon an equal 
 footing with the other States, under the Constitution for the 
 Provisional Government of the same, upon the condition 
 that the convention of said State, soon to assemble, shall 
 adopt and ratify said Constitution for the Provisional Gov- 
 ernment of tlie Confederate States, and shall transmit to the 
 President of the Confederate States, before the re-assembling 
 of Congress, through the Governor of said State, or some 
 other proper organ, an authentic copy of the act or ordi- 
 nance of said convention so adopting and ratifying said Pro- 
 visional Constitution; upon the receipt ■\vhereof the Presi- 
 dent, by proclamation, shall announce the fact ; -whereupon, 
 and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, 
 the admission of said State into this Confederacy, under 
 said Constitution for the Provisional Government, shall be 
 considered as complete, and the lavrs of this Confederacy 
 shall thereby be extended over said State as fully and com- 
 pletely as over the other States now composing the same. 
 
 Approved May 17, 1861. 
 
 No. 137.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In rehition to Imports from the States of Virginia, North 
 Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. 
 
 Resolved, That all imports from the States of Virginia, 
 North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, be exempted 
 from the payment of duties ; and that this exemption extend 
 to imports from the said States now in warehouse. 
 
 Approved May 17, 1861. 
 
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 No. 138.] AN ACT 
 
 To admit tlie State of Tennessee into the Confederacy, on a 
 certain condition. 
 
 The State of Tennessee having adopted measures looking 
 to an early withdrawal from the United States, and to be- 
 coming, in the future, a member of this Confederacy, which 
 measures may not be consummated before the approaching 
 recess of Congress : Therefore, 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the State of Tennessee shall be admitted a member of 
 the Confederate States of America, upon an equal footing 
 with the other States, under the Constitution for the Provi- 
 sional Government of the same : upon the condition that the 
 said Constitution for the Provisional Government of the 
 Confederate States shall be adopted and ratified by the pro- 
 perly and legally constituted authorities of said State ; and 
 the Governor of said State shall transmit to the President of 
 the Confederate States, before the re-assembling of Con- 
 gress, after the recess aforesaid, an authentic copy of the 
 proceedings touching said adoption and ratification by said 
 State of said Provisional Constitution ; upon the receipt 
 whereof the President, by proclamation, shall announce the 
 fact ; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the 
 part of Congress, the admission of said State of Tennessee 
 into the Confederacy, under said Constitution for the Pro- 
 visional Government of the Confederate States, shall be 
 considered as complete ; and the laws of this Confederacy 
 shall be thereby extended over said State, as fully and com- 
 pletely as over the other States now composing the same. 
 
 Approved May 17. 1861. 
 
 No. 139.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the extension of the Mail Service of the Con- 
 federate States in certain cases and upon certain condi- 
 tions. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That the Postmaster-General be and he is hereby 
 authorized to extend the mail service of the Confederate 
 States over all such States and territories as shall, by their 
 
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 legislative or executive authority, request the same to be 
 done, between this and the meeting of the next session of 
 the Congress ; and that this act take eifect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 20, 1861. 
 
 No. 140.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish a Mail Eoute from Vcrmillionville, in the State 
 of Louisiana, to Orange, in the State of Texas, and for 
 other purposes. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That the following mail route be and the same 
 is hereby established, to-Avit: From A^crmillionvillc, in the 
 State of Louisiana, to Orange, in the State of Texas. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster- 
 General be and he is hereby authorized to make the first 
 contract for carrjnng the mail over said route without the 
 necessity of advertising for bids for said contract, as re- 
 quired by existing law ; and that this act take effect and be 
 in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 17, 1861. 
 
 No. 141.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide an Additional Company of Sappers and Bombar- 
 diers for the Army. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That there be added to the military establish- 
 ment of the Confederate States one company of sappers and 
 bombardiers, to consist of one captain, two first lieutenants, 
 one second lieutenant, ten sergeants or master-workmen, ten 
 corporals or overseers, two musicians, thirty-nine privates 
 of the first class, and thirty-nine privates of the second 
 class, who shall be instructed in and perform all the duties 
 of sappers and bombardiers, and shall, moreover, under the 
 orders of the chief engineer, be liable to serve, by detach- 
 ments, in overseeing and aiding laborers upon fortifications 
 or other works under the engineer department, and in su- 
 pervising finished fortifications, as fort-keepers, preventing 
 injury and making repairs. 
 
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 Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the colonel of the 
 engineer corps, subject to the approval of the Secretary of 
 "War, to prescribe the number, quantity, form, dimensions, 
 &c., of the necessary vehicles, arms, pontons, tools, imple- 
 ments, and other supplies for the service of said company as 
 a body of sappers and bombardiers. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the monthly pay of the captain of said com- 
 pany shall be one hundred and forty dollars ; of each first 
 lieutenant, one hundred dollars ; of the second lieutenant, 
 ninety dollars ; of the sergeants, thirty-four dollars ; of the 
 corporals, twenty dollars ; of the musicians, thirteen dollars ; 
 of the first class privates, seventeen dollars ; and of the 
 second class privates, thirteen dollars. And the said com- 
 missioned ofiicers shall be entitled to the same allowances as 
 all other commissioned officers of the army, and the same 
 right to draw forage for horses as is accorded to officers of 
 like rank in the engineer corps ; and the enlisted men shall 
 receive the same rations and allowances as are granted to all 
 other enlisted men in the army. 
 
 Approved May 17, 1861. 
 
 No. 142.] AN ACT 
 
 To admit the State of Arkansas into the Confederacy. 
 
 The people of the State of Arkansas, in sovereign con- 
 vention, having passed an ordinance dissolving their politi- 
 cal connection with the United States, and another ordi- 
 nance adopting and ratifying the Constitution for the Pro- 
 visional Government of the Confederate States of America : 
 Therefore, 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the State of Arkansas be and is hereby admitted into 
 this Confederacy, upon an equal footing with the other 
 States, under the Constitution for the Provisional Govern- 
 ment of the same. 
 
 Approved May 20, 1861. 
 
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 No. 145.] AN ACT 
 
 Amendatory of an Act to provide for the organization of 
 
 the Navy. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Co7\fcdcratc States of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That from and after the passage of tliis act, the 
 corps of marines shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant 
 colonel, one major, one quartermastor Avith the rank of 
 major, one paymaster Avith the rank of major, one adjutant 
 Avith the rank of major, one sergeant major, one quarter- 
 master sergeant, ten captains, ten first lieutenants, twenty 
 second lieutenants, forty sergeants, forty corporals, and eight 
 hundred and forty privates, ten drummers and ton fifers and 
 two musicians. 
 
 Sf.c. 2. The pay and emoluments of the officers and en- 
 listed men shall be the same as that of the officers and en- 
 listed men of like grade in the infantry of the army, except 
 that the paymaster and the adjutant shall receive the same 
 pay as the quartermaster, and the adjutant shall be taken 
 from the captains and subalterns of the corps and separated 
 from the line. The rations of enlisted marines shall be 
 the rations allowed by law to seamen. All acts inconsistent 
 with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved May 20, 1S61. 
 
 No. 146.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act to provide for the organization of the Na- 
 vy, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do ennct, That the President be and he is hereby authori- 
 zed to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of 
 Congress to appoint all officers of the navy of the United 
 States, who have resigned or may hereafter resign their com- 
 missions on account of the secession of any or all of the 
 Confederate States, and who nuiy be fit for active service, to 
 the same rank and position in the navy of the Confederate 
 States which they held in that of the United States : Pro- 
 vided, however, That no officer shall be so appointed avIio may 
 at any time have committed any act of hostility against the 
 Confederate States or any one thereof. 
 
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 Sec. 2. That the President be authorized to assign officers 
 of the navy to mij duty connected with the defence of the 
 country, and suitable to their rank, Tvhicli he may deem pro- 
 per. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the President be authorized to appoint six 
 assistant paymasters of the navy, each to receive a salary of 
 one thousand dollars when employed at sea, and seven hun- 
 dred dollars when not thus employed; and all paymasters 
 of the navy shall be taken from the grade of assistant pay- 
 masters. 
 
 Approved May 21), 1S6L 
 
 No. 147.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish a separate Port of Entry at Sabine Pass, in the 
 County of Jefferson, in the State of Texas, and to pro- 
 vide for the appointment of a Collector therein. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That all that part of the collection district for 
 the District of Texas included in the county of Jefferson in 
 the State of Texas, embracing all the waters, islands, bays, 
 harbors, inlets, shores and rivers in the same, shall be a 
 collection district, to be called the District of Sabine Pass, 
 and Sabine Pass shall be the port of entry for said district. 
 
 Sec. 2. A collector for the said district of Sabine Pass 
 shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and con- 
 sent of Congress, who shall reside at Sabine Pass, and hold 
 his office for the terms and the time prescribed by law for 
 the like office in other districts, and who shall be entitled to- 
 a salary not exceeding seventeen hundred and fifty dollars 
 per annum, including in that sum the fees allowed by law; 
 and the amount he shall collect in any one year for fees^ 
 exceeding the said sum of seventeen hundred and fifty dol- 
 lars, shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury of the 
 Confederate States of America. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws now in force, con- 
 travening the provisions of this act, be and the same are 
 hereby repealed, and that this act take effect from and after 
 its passage. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 148.] AN ACT 
 
 To put in operation the Government under the Permanent 
 Constitution of the Confederate States of America. 
 
 Sf.ction 1. T'hc Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That an election shall be held in the several states of 
 this Confederacy, on the first Wednesday in November, ei2;h- 
 teen hundred and sixty-one, for members of the House of Re- 
 presentatives in the Con_a;ress of the Confederate States under 
 the permanent constitution, which election shall be conduct- 
 ed ill all respects according to said Constitution and the laws 
 of the several states in force for that purpose ; and in states 
 which may not have provided by law for such election, ac- 
 cording to the laws heretofore existing in such states for the 
 election of members of the House of Representatives in the 
 Congress of the United States. And on the same day the 
 several states shall elect or appoint Electors for President 
 and Vice President of the Confederate States of America, 
 according to said Constitution, and in the manner prescribed 
 by the laws of the several States made for that purpose ; 
 and in states Avhere no such laws may exist, according to the 
 laws heretofore in force in such states for the election or ap- 
 pointment of Electors for President and Vice President of 
 the United States. 
 
 Sf.c. 2. The Electors for President and Vice President 
 shall meet in their respective states on the first Wednesday 
 in December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and proceed 
 to vote for President and Vice President, and make out lists, 
 certif)^ the same, and forward the same to the President of 
 the Senate ; all as directed by the said Constitution in that 
 behalf. 
 
 Sf.c. 3. The members of the House of Representatives so 
 elected, and the Senators who may be elected by the several 
 states according to the provisions of said Constitution, shall 
 assemble at the seat of government of the Confederate States, 
 on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-tv,o ; and the said memliers of the House of Represen- 
 tatives shall proceed to organize by the election of a Speak- 
 er, and the Senators by the election of a President of the 
 Senate for the time being ; and the President of the Senate 
 shall, on the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, open all the certificates ; and the votes for 
 I'resident and Vice President shall then be counted, as 
 directed by said Constitution. 
 
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 Sec. 4. The President of the Confederate States shall be 
 inaugurated on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That in case the State of 
 Virginia shall adopt and ratify the Constitution for the per- 
 manent government of the Confederate States of America 
 before the elections in this act provided for, she shall be en- 
 titled to elect sixteen members to the House of Representa- 
 tives ; and the State of North Carolina, in like case, ten 
 members ; the State of Tennessee, in like case, eleven ; and 
 the State of Arkansas, in like case, four members ; the same 
 being upon 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, in each of 
 said states, 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 Con- 
 stitution for permanent government. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the same rules and 
 principles shall be observed as to the number of Presidential 
 Electors in the states aforesaid as in the other seven original 
 states. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 149.] AN ACT 
 
 Making Appropriations in addition to those already made 
 for the Military Service of the Confederate States of 
 America, for the fiscal year ending the eighteenth day of 
 February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That there be appropriated for the pay of the 
 oflBcers and privates of one hundred regiments of infantry, 
 and for quartermaster's supplies of all kinds for the same, 
 and transportation, including horses, wagons, harness, am- 
 bulances and other necessary expenses, for the fiscal year 
 ending the eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and sixty-two, twenty-seven millions nine hundred and 
 thirty-two thousand four hundred and ninety-three dollars 
 and twelve cents. 
 
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 Sec. 2. That there be appropriated for the pay, quarter- 
 master's supplies of all kinds, transportation and other ne- 
 cessary expenses for one regiment of legionary formation, 
 composed of one company of artillery, four couTpanies of 
 cavalry, and six companies of voltigeurs, five hundred and 
 fifty thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. That there be appropriated for the purchase of 
 subsistence stores and commissary property for one hundred 
 thousand troops, for the fiscal year ending the eighteenth of 
 February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, five 
 millions four hundred and sixty-four thousand two hundred 
 and fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents. 
 
 Sec. 4. That there be appropriated for the ordnance ser- 
 vice, for the fiscal year ending the eighteenth of February, 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two — for the preser- 
 vation of public buildings, quarters, barracks, &c., at the 
 arsenals, armories, and depots ; for the repairs and preser- 
 vation of ordnance stores ; for the pay of clerks, draughts- 
 men, colorers, superintendents, overseers, &c. ; for the pur- 
 chase of horses, mules, forage, stationery, and contingencies 
 of ordnance service ; for the purchase of heavy ordnance 
 and carriages, with shot and shell for the same; for sixteen 
 field batteries of six pieces each, with harness, implements 
 and ammunition ; for fifty thousand stands of small arms ; 
 for five thousand pistols and holsters ; for sabres, swords, 
 carbines and pistols ; for five thousand sets of cavalry 
 equipments : for five thousand sets of cavalry accoutre- 
 ments; for one hundred thousand sets infantry accoutre- 
 ments ; knapsacks, haversacks and canteens ; for two and 
 one-half million pounds of powder ; for materials for the 
 same ; for lead, copper and materials for percussion caps 
 and for friction tubes ; for additional shops and storehouses 
 at Mount Vernon Arsenal, Alabama, and Augusta Arsenal, 
 Georgia ; for machinery, steam engine and tools ; for cap 
 machine ; for bullet machine ; for repairs of buildings and 
 machines at Harper's Ferry — four millions four hundred 
 and forty thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 5. That there be appropriated for medical and hos- 
 pital supplies, for the year ending eighteenth of February, 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the sum of three 
 hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. G. That there be appropriated for the contingent 
 service of the War Department, for the year ending the 
 eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-two, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. 
 
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 Sec. 7. That there be appropriated for contingent ex- 
 penses of the Adjutant and Inspector General's Department, 
 including office furniture, stationery, printed blanks for the 
 use of the army, record books, postage, telegraphic de- 
 spatches, &c., for the year ending the eighteenth February, 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the sum of eight 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 8. That there be appropriated for the pay of sur- 
 geons, assistant surgeons, and chaplains, for the year ending 
 the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred 
 and sixty-two, the sum of three hundred and twenty-nine 
 thousand nine hundred and one dollars. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 150.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an act relative to Telegraphic Lines of the Con- 
 federate States, approved May eleventh, one thousand 
 eight hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ame- 
 rica do enact, That the sixth section of the " act relative to 
 telegraph lines of the Confederate States " be and the same 
 is hereby so amended as to authorize the President to allow 
 such compensation as may be reasonable and proper, in ad- 
 dition to what may be allowed by the telegraph companies, 
 to such of the agents of said companies as he may charge 
 with special and important duties, where such agents are 
 deemed trustworthy and acceptable both to him and the com- 
 panies concerned. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 151.] AN ACT 
 
 Making appropriations for the Legislative and Executive 
 expenses of Grovernraent for the year ending eighteenth 
 of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ame- 
 rica do enact, That the following sums be and the same are 
 hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, 
 
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 for the year ending the eighteenth of February, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two : 
 
 legislative — For compensation and mileage of members of 
 Congress, twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation 
 of officers of Congress, six thousand dollars. For contin- 
 gent expenses of Congress including printing, five thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 Department of State — For compensation of two additional 
 clerks, tAvo thousand dollars. For the publication and print- 
 ing of acts and resolutions of Congress, twenty-two thou- 
 sand five hundred dollars. For necessities and exigencies 
 under laws already passed, or which may be passed, or from 
 causes which now exist or may hereafter arise, and unfore- 
 seen emergencies, forty thousand dollars — to replace same 
 amount in State Department. 
 
 Treasury Department — For this amount to pay interest on 
 loan of February '28, 1861, five hundred thousand dollars. 
 For additional expenses under the act *' to raise money for the 
 support of the Government and to provide for the defence of 
 the Confederate States of America, " approved February 28, 
 1861, thirty thousand dollars. For incidental and contin- 
 gent expenses of the Treasury Department, twenty thou- 
 sand dollars. 
 
 Miscellaneous — For compensation of two watchmen to 
 guard the executive buildings, at four hundred dollars each, 
 and for lighting the same, sixteen hundred dollars. For 
 rent of executive building corner of Bibb and Commerce 
 streets, three thousand dollars. For rent of executive 
 building on Bibb street, between Coosa and Commerce 
 streets, two thousand dollars. For rent of building of Noble 
 & Brother and others, three thousand dollars. For furni- 
 ture for executive mansion, nine hundred and eighty-seven 
 dollars and fifty-eight cents. For furniture of executive 
 offices and halls, six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and 
 twenty-one cents. For work done on executive buildings 
 by order of committee of Congress, six hundred and thirty- 
 five dollars and fifty-two cents. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 152.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for certain Deficiencies in the Appropriations for 
 the Post-Office Department for the year ending February 
 18, 18G2. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Ame- 
 rica do enact, That the following sums shall be and are here- 
 by appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated, for the service of the Post-Office 
 Department for the year ending February 18th, 1862: For 
 increased compensation of the chiefs of the contract, appoint- 
 ment and finance bureaus, one thousand one hundred and 
 six dollars and one cent. For compensation of disbursing 
 clerk, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-seven 
 cents. For compensation of watchmen, three hundred and 
 sixty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents. For compensa- 
 tion of four principal clerks, at fourteen hundred dollars 
 each, four thousand and thirty-six dollars eighty cents. 
 For compensation of ten clerks, at twelve hundred dollars 
 each, eight thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars 
 and twenty cents. For compensation of four clerks at one 
 thousand dollars, two thousand nine hundred and sixteen 
 dollars and forty cents. To supply deficiency in the appro- 
 priation for the compensation of the Postmaster General, 
 clerks and messengers in his office, made by the act approv- 
 ed 9th day of March, 1861, and entitled "an act further to 
 provide for the organization of the Post-Office Department, " 
 ten thousand dollars. For the compensation of agents, and 
 for cost of materials, and constructing, repairing, and ope- 
 rating telegraph lines, and for other expenses which may be 
 incurred under said act, thirty thousand dollars ; Provided, 
 That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized, with the 
 approval of the President, to employ officers of the telegraph 
 companies as agents to perform the services specified in the act 
 entitled " an act relative to telegraph lines of the Confederate 
 States," approved 11th day of May, 1861, But the com- 
 pensation allowed to such agents shall in no case exceed 
 that provided for other agents by said act, and shall be fixed 
 by the Postmaster General, with the approbation of the Pre- 
 sident. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
No. 153.] AN ACT 
 
 Concerning the transportation of Soldiers and allowance for 
 Clothing of Volunteers, and amendatory of the Act for 
 the establishment and organization of the Army of the 
 Confederate States. 
 
 Sfxtion 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, When transportation cannot be furnished in kind, 
 the discharged soldier shall be entitled to receive ten 
 cents per mile in lieu of all travelling pay, subsistence, for- 
 age, and undraAvn clothing, from the place of discharge to 
 the place of his enlistment or enrollment, estimating the dis- 
 tance by the shortest mail route, and if there is no mail 
 route, by the shortest practicable route. The foregoing to 
 apply to all officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, 
 artificers, farriers, blacksmiths and privates of volunteers, 
 when disbanded, discharged or mustered out of service of 
 the Confederate States ; and it shall also apply to all volun- 
 teer troops, as above designated, Avhen travelling from the 
 place of enrollment to the place of general rendezvous or 
 point -where mustered into service : Provided, That nothing 
 herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive the 
 mounted volunteers of the allowance of forty cents a day 
 for the use and risk of his horse, which allowance is made 
 from the date of his enrollment to the date of his discharire, 
 and also for every twenty miles travel from the place of his 
 discharge to the place of his enrollment. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the fourth section of the act of March 6, 
 1861, "To provide for the public defence," be amended as 
 follows, viz: There shall be allowed to each volunteer, to be 
 paid to him on the first muster and pay rolls after being re- 
 ceived and mustered into the service of the Confederate 
 States, the sum of twenty-one dollars, in lieu of clothing 
 for six months ; and thereafter the same allowance in money 
 at every subsequent period of service for six months in lieu 
 of clothing ; Provided, That the price of all clothing in 
 kind received by said volunteers from the Confederate States 
 government shall be deducted first from the money thus al- 
 lowed ; and if that sum be not sufficient; the balance shall 
 be charged for stoppage on the muster and pay rolls ; and 
 that all accounts arising from contracts, agreements, or ar- 
 rangements for furnishing clothing to volunteers, to be duly 
 certified by the company commander, shall be paid out of the 
 said semi-annual allowance of money. 
 
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 Sec. 3. That the twenty-first section of the act for the 
 oro-anization of the army of the Confederate States be so 
 aniended as to allow to aids-de-camp and to adjutants forage 
 for the same number of horses as allowed to officers of the 
 same grade in the mounted service. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 154.] AN ACT 
 
 To be entitled an Act to amend " An Act to raise an addi- 
 tional Military Force to serve during the War." 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That so much of the second section of the act en- 
 titled an act to raise an additional military force to serve 
 during the w^ar, passed May eighth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-one, be so amended as to authorize the President, on 
 the application of any commanding officer of a regiment or 
 battalion authorized by said act, to assign a subaltern of the 
 line of the army to the duties of adjutant of said regiment 
 or battalion. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 155.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the President to confer temporary rank and 
 command, for service with volunteer troops, on Officers 
 of the Confederate army. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That the President shall be authorized to confer 
 temporary rank and command, for service with volunteer 
 troops,^ on officers of the Confederate army; the same to be 
 held without prejudice to their positions in said army, and 
 to have effect only to the extent and according to the assign- 
 ment made in general order. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 156.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the Incidental Expenses of the Pubiio Service 
 ■within the Indian trilies. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States I'o enact. That tlie 
 sum of one hundred thousand dollars he and the same is 
 herehy appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated, to meet the incidental expenses of 
 the puhlic service "within the Indian tribes, for the year end- 
 ing February the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 two. l>ut a particular and specific account of the expendi- 
 tures under this act shall be made and reported to Congress 
 at its next session after the expiration of the period herein 
 named. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 153.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In relation to certain Accounts, 
 
 Resolved by the Cong7-ess of the Confederate States of America, 
 That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to pay, 
 out of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department, all 
 accounts contracted for work done or furniture provided for 
 the use of the executive office, or in the executive buildings, 
 not properly chargeable to the contingent fund of cither of 
 the other departments. 
 
 Approved Mav 21, 1S61. 
 
 No. 159.] AN ACT 
 
 To divide the State of Texas into tAvo Judicial Districts, and 
 to provide for the appointment of Judges and officers in 
 the same. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of tlie Confederate States ef America 
 do enact ^ That the State of Texas be and the same is hereby 
 divided into two judicir.l districts in the following manner, 
 to wit: all the territory of the State of Texas Avithin and 
 West of the following named counties shall compose one 
 district, to lie called the Western District, to wit : Matagor- 
 da, Wharton, Colorado Fayette, Washington. Burleson, 
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 Milan, Fall, McLellan, Hill, Jolmson, Tarrant, Wise, Mon- 
 tague ; and all the territory East of said counties shall con- 
 stttute the Eastern District of Texas. 
 
 Sec. 2. There shall be appointed a judge and marshal for 
 said Western District. The said judge shall hold two terms 
 each year of said court, at the city of Austin, and at Browns- 
 ville, in the county of Cameron, at the times prescribed by 
 the laws of the Uniteil States for the holding of the district 
 courts of the United States, at said places. 
 
 Skc. 3. All the laws of the United States relative to the 
 district courts of Texas, and the powers and jurisdiction of 
 the same, so far as they are consistent with the Constitution 
 and the laws of the Confederate States, are hereby re-enact- 
 ed and continued in full force. 
 
 Approved May 21, 186L 
 
 No. 162.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide Revenue from Commodities Imported from 
 Foreign Countries. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact, That from and after the 31st day of August next, 
 a duty shall be imposed on all goods, products, wares and 
 merchandize imported from abroad into the Confederate 
 States of America, as follows : 
 
 On all articles enumerated in schedule A, an ad valorem 
 duty of twenty -five per centum. On all articles enumerated 
 in schedule B, an ad valorem duty of twenty per centum. 
 On all articles enumerated in schedule C, an ad valorem 
 duty of fifteen per centum. On all articles enumerated in 
 • schedule D, an ad valorem duty of ten per centum. On all 
 articles enumerated in schedule E, an ad valorem duty of 
 five per centum. And that all articles enumerated in sched- 
 ule F, a specific duty as therein named. And that all ar- 
 ticles enumerated in schedule G, shall be exempt from duty,, 
 to wit : 
 
 Schedule A, (twenty-five per centum ad valorem.) 
 
 Alabaster and spar ornaments ; anchovies, sardines and all 
 other fish preserved in oil. 
 
 Brandy and other spirits distilled from grain or other ma- 
 terials, not otherwise provided for; billiard and bagatelle 
 tables, and all other tables or boards on which games are 
 played. 
 
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 Composition tops for tables, or other articles of furniture; 
 confectionary, comfits, sweetmeats, or fruits preserved in 
 sugar, molasses, brandy or other liquors ; cordials, absynthe, 
 arrack, curacoa, kirsehenwesser, liquors, maraschino, rata- 
 fia, and all other spirituous beverages of a similar character. 
 
 Glass, cut. 
 
 Manufactures of cedar-wood, granadilla, ebony, mahog- 
 any, rosewood and satin-wood. 
 
 Scagliola tops, for tables or other articles of furtiture ; 
 segars, snufl^, paper segars, and all other manufiicturcs of 
 tobacco. 
 
 Wines — Burgundy, champagne, clarets, madeira, port, 
 sherry, and all other wines or imitations of wines. 
 
 Schedule B, (twenty per centum ad valorem.) 
 
 Almonds, raisins, currants, dates, figs, and all other dried 
 or preserved fruits, not otherwise provided for ; argentine,, 
 alabata, or German silver, manufactured or unmanufactured;, 
 articles embroidered with gold, silver or other metal, not 
 otherwise provided for. 
 
 Balsams, cosmetics, essences, extracts, pastes, perfumcs- 
 and tinctures, used for the toilet or for medicinal purposes : 
 bay rum, beads of amber, composition or wax, and all other 
 beads ; benzoatcs ; bracelets, braids, chains, curls or ring- 
 lets composed of hair, or of which hair is a component part, 
 not otherwise provided for ; brooms and brushes of all kinds. 
 
 Camphor, refined; canes and sticks, for Avalking. finished 
 or unfinished; capers, pickles, and sauces of all kinds, not 
 otherwise provided for ; card cases, pocket-books, shell 
 boxes, souvenirs, and all similar articles, of whatever mate- 
 rial composed, not otherwise provided for ; compositions of 
 glass, set or unset; coral, cut or manufactured. 
 
 Feathers and flowers, artificial or ornamental, and parts 
 thereof, of whatever material composed ; fans and fire screens 
 of every description, of whatever material composed. 
 
 Grapes, plums, and prunes, and other such fruit, when 
 put up in bottles, cases, or cans, not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Hair, human, cleansed or prepared for use. 
 
 Manufactures of gold, platina or silver, not otherwise 
 provided for; manufactures of papier mache; molasses.. 
 
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 Paintings on glass ; pepper, pimento, cloves, nutmegs, 
 cinnamon, and all otlier spices ; perfumes and perfumery, of 
 all sorts, not otherwise provided for ; plated and gilt ware of 
 all kinds, not otherwise provided for ; playing cards ; pre- 
 pared vegetables, fruits, meats, poultry and game, sealed or 
 enclosed in cans or otherwise. 
 
 Silver plated metals, in sheets or other form ; soap, cas- 
 tile, perfumed, Windsor, and other toilet soaps ; sugar of all 
 kinds ; syrup of sugar. 
 
 Epaulettes, galloons, laces, knots, stars, tassels, tresses, 
 and wings of gold or silver, or imitations thereof. 
 
 Schedule C, (fifteen per cent, ad valorem.) 
 
 Alum ; arrow-root ; articles of clothing or apparel, inclu- 
 ding hats, caps, gloves, shoes and boots of all kinds, worn 
 by men, women or children, of whatever material composed, 
 not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Baizes, blankets, bockings, flannels and floor-cloths, of 
 whatever material composed, not otherwise provided for ; 
 baskets, and all other articles composed of grass, osier, 
 palm-leaf, straw, whalebone or willow, not otherwise provi- 
 ded for; beer, ale and porter, in casks or bottles; beeswax; 
 beri'ies and vegetables of all sorts used for food, not other- 
 wise provided for ; blue or roman vitrol, or sulphate of cop- 
 per ; bologna sausages ; braces, suspenders, webbing, or 
 other fabrics composed wholly or in part of Indian rubber, 
 not otherwise provided for ; breecia ; burgundy pitch ; but- 
 tons and button moulds of all kinds. 
 
 Cables and cordage, of whatever material made ; cadmium ; 
 calamine ; calomel and all other mercurial preparations ; 
 carbonate of soda ; castor beans ; castor oil ; candles and 
 tapers of spermaceti, stearine, parafine, tallow or wax, and 
 all other candles ; caps, hats, muS"s and tippets, and all other 
 manufactures of fur, or of which fur shall be a component 
 part; caps, gloves, leggins, mits, socks, stockings, wove 
 shirts and draAvers, and all similar articles worn by men, 
 women and children, and not otherwise provided for ; car- 
 pets, carpeting, hearth-rugs, bed-sides, and other portions 
 of carpeting, being either Aubusson, Brussels, ingrain, 
 Saxony, Turkey, Venetian, Wilton, or any other similar 
 fabric, not otherwise provided for ; carriages and parts of 
 carriages; castorum; chains, of all sorts; cider and other 
 beverages not containing alcohol, and not otherwise provi- 
 
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 ded for ; chocolate ; cliromatc of load ; ehromate, bi-chro- 
 matc, hydriodate, and prussiate of potash ; clocks and parts 
 of clocks ; coach and harness furniture of all kinds ; cobalt ; 
 combs of all kinds ; copper bottoms ; copper rods, bolts, 
 nails, and spikes; copper in sheets or plates, called brazier's 
 copper, and other sheets of copper, not otherwise provided 
 for ; copperas, or green vitriol, or sulphate of iron ; corks ; 
 cotton cords, gimps, and galloons ; cotton laces, cotton in- 
 sertings. cotton trimming, laces, cotton laces and braids ; 
 court plaster; coral, manufactured; crayons of all kinds; 
 cubebs ; cutlery of all kinds. 
 
 Delaines ; dolls and toys«of all kinds ; dried pulp ; drugs, 
 medicinal. 
 
 Eartlien, china, and stone ware, and all other wares com- 
 posed of earthy and mineral substances not otherwise provi- 
 ded for ; encaustic tiles ; ether. 
 
 Felspar ; fig-blue ; fire-crackers, sky-rockets, Roman can- 
 dles, and all similar articles used in pyrotechnics ; fish, 
 whether fresh, smoked, salted, dried or pickled, not other- 
 wise provided for ; fruits, preserved in their own juice, or 
 pie fruits; fish glue, or isinglass; fish skins ; fiats, braids, 
 plaits, sparterre and willow squares, used for making hats or 
 bonnets; floss silks, feather beds, feathers for beds, and 
 downs of all kinds ; frames and sticks for umbrellas, para- 
 sols, and sunshades, finished or unfinished ; Frankford l)lack ; 
 fulminates, or fulminating powders ; furniture, cabinet and 
 household, not otherwise provided for; furs, dressed on the 
 skin. 
 
 Ginger, dried, green, ripe, ground, preserved or pickled : 
 glass, colored, stained or painted ; glass, window ; glass 
 crystals for watches ; glasses or pebbles for spectacles ; glass 
 tuml)lers, plain, moulded and pressed, bottles, flasks, and 
 all other vessels of glass not cut, and all glass not otherwise 
 provided for; glue; grass cloth ; green turtle ; gum benzoin 
 or benjamin ; guns, except muskets and rifles, fire-arms, and 
 all parts thereof not intended for military purposes ; gunny 
 cloth ajid India baggings, and India mattings of all sorts, 
 not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Ilair, curled, moss, seaweed, and all other vegetable sub- 
 stances used for beds or mattresses ; hair pencils ; hat bodies 
 of cotton or wool ; bats and bonnets, for men, women and 
 children, composed of straw, satin-straw, chip, grass, palm- 
 leaf, willow, or any other vegetable substance, or of hair, 
 
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 whalebone, or other materials, not otherwise provided for ; 
 hatter's plush, of whatever material composed ; honey. 
 
 Ink and ink powder ; ipecacuanha ; iridium ; iris or orris 
 root ; iron castings ; iron liquor ; iron in bars, bolts, rods, 
 slabs, and railroad rails, spikes, fishing plates and chairs 
 used in constructing railroads ; ivory black. 
 
 Jalap ; japanned ware of all kinds not otherwise provided 
 for ; jet, and manufactures of jet, and imitations thereof; 
 jewehy, or imitations thereof; juniper berries. 
 
 Laces of cotton, of thread, or other materials not other- 
 wise provided for ; lampblack ; lastings, cut in strips or 
 other patterns, of the size or shape for shoes, boots, bootees, 
 slippers, gaiters or buttons, of whatever material composed ; 
 lead pencils; leaden pipes; leather, japanned; leeches; 
 linens of all kinds; liquorice, paste, juice or root ; litharge. 
 
 Maccaroni, vermicelli, gelatine, jellies, and all other sim- 
 ilar preparations not otherwise provided for ; machinery of 
 every description not otherwise provided for ; malt ; mag- 
 nesia ; manganese ; manna ; manufactures of the bark of 
 the cork tree ; manufactures of silk ; manufactures of wool 
 of all kinds, or worsted, not otherAvise provided for ; manu- 
 factures of hair of all kinds not otherwise provided for ; 
 manufactures of cotton of all kinds not otherwise provided 
 for ; manufactures of flax of all kinds not otherwise provi- 
 ded for ; manufactures of hemp of all kinds not otherwise 
 provided for ; manufactures of bone, shell, horn, pearl, ivory, 
 or vegetable ivory, not otherwise provided for; manufac- 
 tures, articles, vessels and wares, not otherwise provided for, 
 of brass, copper, iron, steel, lead, pewter, tin, or of which 
 either of these metals shall be a component part ; manufac- 
 tures, articles, vessels and wares of glass, or of which glass 
 shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for ; 
 manufactures and articles of leather, or of which leather 
 shall be a component part, not otherwise provided for ; man- 
 ufactures and articles of marble ; marble paving tiles, and 
 all other marble more advanced in manufacture than in slabs 
 or blocks in the rough not otherwise provided for ; manu- 
 factures of paper, or of which paper is a component mate- 
 rial, not otherwise provided for ; manufactures of wood, or 
 of which wood is a component part, not otherwise provided 
 for ; matting, china or other floor matting, and mats made 
 of flags, jute, or grass; medicinal preparations, drugs, roots 
 and leaves in a crude state, not otherwise provided for ; 
 morphine ; metallic pens ; mineral waters ; musical instru- 
 ments of all kinds, and strings for musical instruments, of 
 
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 wliip-gut, cat-gut, and all other strings of the same ma:o- 
 rial ; mustard in bulk or in bottles ; mustard seed. 
 
 Needles of all kinds, for sewing, darning and knitting; 
 nitrate of lead. 
 
 Ochres and ochrey earths ; oil-cloths of every description, 
 of whatever material composed; oils of every descrij^tion, 
 animal, vegetable and mineral, not otherwise provided for ; 
 olives; opium; orange and lemon peel; osier or willow, 
 prepared for basket-makers' use. 
 
 Paints, dry or ground in oil, not otherwise provided for; 
 paper, antiquarian, demy, drawing, elophant. foolscap, impe- 
 rial, letter, and for printing newspapers, hand-bills and other 
 printing, and all other paper, not otherwise provided for ; 
 paper boxes, and all other fancy b:xes; paper envelopes ; 
 paper hangings, paper for walls, and paper for screens or 
 fire-boards ; parchment ; parasols and sun-shades, and um- 
 brellas ; patent mordant; paving and roofing tiles, and 
 bricks, and roofing slates, and fire-brick; periodicals and 
 other works, in course of printing and re- publication in the 
 Confederate States; pitch; plaster of paris, calcined ; plum- 
 bago ; potassium ; putty. 
 
 Quicksilver; quills; quasia, manufactured or unmauufao- 
 tured. 
 
 Eed chalk pencils ; rhubarb ; roman cement. 
 
 Saddlery of all kinds, not otherwise provided for ; saffron 
 and saffron cake ; sago ; salts, epsom, glauber, rochelle, and 
 all other salts and preparations of salts not otherwise pro- 
 vided for; sarsaparilla ; screws of all kinds; sealing wax; 
 seines; seppia ; sewing silk, in the gum and purified; shad- 
 docks; skins of all kinds, tanned, dressed or japanned; 
 slate pencils ; smaltz ; soap of every description not other- 
 wise provided for ; spirits of turpentine ; spunk ; squills ; 
 starch; stereotype plate; still bottoms; sulphate of barytos, 
 crude or refined; sulphate of quinine, and ([uinine in all its 
 various preparations. 
 
 Tapioca; tar; textile f^ibrics of every description, not 
 otherwise provided for; twine and pack tliread, of Avhatever 
 material composed; thread lacings and insertings; tj'pes, 
 old or new, and type metals. 
 
 Umbrellas; Vandyke brown; vanilla beans; varnish ot all 
 kinds; vellum; Venetian red; velvet in the piece, compo-cd 
 wholly of cotton, or of cotton and silk, but of which cotton 
 
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 is the component material of chief value ; verdigris ; Ver- 
 million ; vinegar. 
 
 Wafers ; water colors ; whalebone ; white and retl lead ; 
 white vitriol, or sulphate of zinc ; whiting, or Paris white ; 
 window glass, broad, crovm or cylinder; woolen and worsted 
 yarns, and woolen listings ; shot of lead, not otherwise pro- 
 vided for; wheel-barrows and hand-barrows; wagons and 
 vehicles of every description, or parts thereof. 
 
 Schedule D, (ten per centum ad valorem.) 
 
 Acids of every description, not otherwise provided for ; 
 alcornoque ; aloes; ambergris; amber; ammonia and sal 
 ammonia ; anatto, roucon, or Orleans ; angora Thibit, and 
 other goats' hair, or mohair, unmanufactured, not otherwise 
 provided for ; annis-seed ; antimony, crude or regulus of; 
 argol, or crude tartar; arsenic; ashes, pot, pearl and soda; 
 asphaltum ; assafoetida. 
 
 Bananas, cocoa nuts, pine apples, plantains, oranges, and 
 all other AYest India fruits in their natural state ; barilla ; 
 bark of all other kinds, not otherAvrse provided for; bark, 
 Peruvian; bark, guilla; bismuth; bitter apples ; bleaching 
 powder of chloride of lime ; bones, burnt ; boards, planks., 
 staves, shingles, laths ; scantling, and all other sawed lum- 
 ber ; also spars and hewn timber of all sorts, not otherwise 
 provided for; bone-black, or animal carbon, and bc^ne-dust; 
 bolting cloths ; books, printed, magazines, pamphlets, peri- 
 odicals, and illustrated newspajpers, bound or unbound, not 
 otherwise provided for ; books, blank, bound or unbound ; 
 borate of lime ; borax, crude or tincal ; borax, refined ; 
 bucliu leaves; box-wood, unmanufactured; Brazil paste; 
 Brazil wood, brazilotto, and all dye-woods in sticks ; bris- 
 tles ; bronze and Dutch metal in leaf, bronze liquor and 
 })ronze powder; building stones; butter; burr stones, 
 wrought or unwrought. 
 
 Cabinets of coins, medals, gems, and collection of anti- 
 quities ; camphor, crude; eantharides ; cassia and cassia 
 buds; chalk; cheese; chickory root; chronometers, box or 
 ship, and parts thereof; clay, burnt or unburnt bricks, pav- 
 ing and roofing tiles, gas retorts, and roofing slates ; coal, 
 coke and culm of coal; cochineal; cocoa nuts, cocoa and 
 cocoa shells ; coculus indicus ; coir tarn ; cedilla, or tow of 
 hemp or ilax ;, cowhade down ; cream of tartar ; cudbear. 
 
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 Diamonds, cameos, mosaics, gems, pearls, rubies, and 
 other precious stones, and imitations thereof, when set in 
 gold or silver, or other metal ; diamond glaziers, set or not 
 set ; dragon's blood. 
 
 Engravings, bound or unbound; extract of indigo, ex- 
 tracts and decoctions of log-wood and other dje-AVOod, not 
 otherwise provided for; extract of madder ; ergot. 
 
 Flax, unmanufactured; flaxseed and linseed; flints and 
 flint ground; flocks, Avaste or shoddy ; French chalk ; furs, 
 hatters', dressed or undressed, not on the skin ; furs, un- 
 dressed, when on the skin. 
 
 Glass, when old and fit only to be re-manufactured ; gam- 
 boge ; gold and silver leaf; gold-beaters' skin; grindstones; 
 giinis — Arabic, Barbar}^ copal, East Indies, Senegal, sub- 
 stitute, tragacanth, and all other gums and resins, in a crude 
 state, not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Hair, of all kinds, uncleansed and unmanuf;\ctured; hemp, 
 unmanufactured; hemp seed, and rape seed; hops, horns, 
 horn-tips, bone, bone-tips, and teeth, unmanufactured. 
 
 Ivory, unmanufactured, ivory nuts, or vegetable ivory. 
 
 Jute, sisal grass, coir, and other vegetable substances, 
 unmanufactured, not ^otherwise provided for. 
 
 Kelp ; kermes. 
 
 Lac spirits, lac sulphur, and lac dye ; leather, tanned, 
 band sole, and upper of all kinds, not otherwise provided 
 for ; lemons and limes, and lemon and lime juice, and juices 
 of all other fruits Avithout sugar ; lime. 
 
 Madder, ground or prepared; madder root; marble, in the 
 rough slab or block, unmanufactured; metals, unmanufac- 
 tured, not otherwise provided for; mineral kermes; mineral 
 and bituminous substances in a crude state, not otherwise 
 provided for ; moss, Iceland ; music, printed Avith lines, 
 bound or unbound. 
 
 Natron; nickel; nuts, not otherwise provided for; nut 
 galls ; nux vomica. 
 
 Oakum; oranges, lemons, and limes, orpiment. 
 
 Palm loaf, unmanufactured ; pearl, mother of; pineap- 
 ples; jdantains ; platina, unmanufactured; polishing stones; 
 potatoes; prussian blue; pumice and pumice stone. 
 
 Rattans and reeds, unmanufactured ; red chalk ; rotten 
 stone. 
 
 SaflloAver; sal soda, and all carbonates and sulphates of 
 soda, by AvhatcA'cr names designated, not otherAvise provided 
 
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 for ; seedlac ; sliellac ; silk, raw, not more advanced in manu- 
 facture tlian singles, tram and thrown, or organzine ; sponges; 
 steel, in bars, sheets and plates, not further advanced in 
 manufacture than by rolling, and cast steel in bars ; sumac ; 
 sulphur, flour of. 
 
 Tallow, marrow, and all other grease or soap stock and 
 soap stuffs, not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Tea ; terne tin, in plates or sheets ; teazle, terrea japoni- 
 ca, catechu ; tin, in plates or sheets, and tin foil ; tortoise 
 and other shells, unmanufactured; trees, shrubs, bulbs, 
 plants and roots, not otherwise provided for: turmeric. 
 
 Watches and parts of watches ; woad or pastell ; woods, 
 viz : cedar, box, ebony, lignum-vitie, granadilla, mahogany, 
 rose-ATOod, satin-wood, and all other woods, unmanufactured. 
 
 Iron ore, and iron in bloom, loops and pigs. 
 
 Maps and charts. 
 
 Paintings and statuary not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Wool, manufactured, of every description, and hair of 
 the Alpaca goat and other like animals. 
 
 Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or botany, not 
 otherwise provided for. 
 
 Yams. 
 
 Leaf and unmanufactured tobacco. 
 
 Schedule E. (five per centum ad valorem.) 
 
 Articles used in dyeing and tanning not otherwise pro- 
 vided for. 
 
 Brass, in bars or pigs, old and fit only to be re-manufac- 
 tured ; bells, old ; bell metal. 
 
 Copper, in pigs or bars ; copper ore ; copper, when old 
 and fit only to be re-manufactured ; cutch. 
 
 Diamonds, cameos, mosaics, pearl, gems, rubies, and other 
 precious stones, and imitations thereof, when not set. 
 
 Emery, in lump or pulverized. 
 
 Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels ; Fuller's earth. 
 
 Gums of all sorts not otherwise provided for; gutta per- 
 cha, unmanufactured. 
 
 Indigo ; India rubber, in bottle, slabs or sheets, unmanu- 
 factured ; India rubber, milk of. 
 
 Junk, old. 
 
 Plaster of Paris or sulphate of lime, ground or unground; 
 raw hides and skins of all kind undressed. 
 
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 Sheathing copper— hut no copper to he considered as such, 
 except in sheets forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches 
 ^v-ide and Aveighing from eleven to thirty-four ounces ; shea- 
 thing or yellow metal not wholly or part of iron ; sheathing 
 or yellow metal; nails expressly for sheathing vessels; 
 sheathing paper ; stave holts and shmglc holts. 
 
 Tin ore, and tin in pigs or hars ; type, old and fit only to 
 he remanufactured. 
 
 Wold. 
 
 Zinc, spelter, or tcntenegue, unmanufactured. 
 
 Schedule F. (Specific Duties.) 
 
 Ice— one dollar and fifty cents per ton. 
 Salt— ground, hlown, or rock— two cents per 1)ushel, of 
 fifty s-ix pounds per hushel. 
 
 Schedule G. (Exempt from Duty.) 
 
 Books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instru- 
 ments, philosophical apparatus, and all other articles what- 
 ^eJ, imported Vor the use of the Confederate States; hooks, 
 pamphlets, periodicals, and tracts, published by rrhgious as- 
 sociations. 
 
 All philosophical apparatus, instruments, hooks maps and 
 charts statues, statuary, busts and casts, of marble, bronze, 
 alabaster, or plaster of paris; paintings and drawings; 
 etchings; specimens of sculpture ; oabinets of coins ; med- 
 als gems, and all collections of antiquities ; Provided The 
 same be specially imported in good faith for the use of any 
 society incorporated or established for philosophical and lite- 
 rary purposes or for the encouragement of the fine arts, oi 
 for the use or by the order of any church, college, academy, 
 school or seminary of learning in the Confederate States. 
 Bullion, gold and silver. 
 
 Coins, gold, silver and copper; ofTee; cotton; copper, 
 ^•hen imported for the mint of the Confederate States. 
 
 Garden seeds, and all other seeds for agricultural and hor- 
 ticultural purposes ; goo.ls, wares and merchandise the 
 growth, produce or manufacture of the Contc crate States, 
 exported to a foreign country and brought back to the Con- 
 federate States in the same condition as when ei'^povted, up- 
 on which no drawback has been allowed: Provided, Ihat all 
 
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 regulations to ascertain the identity thereof, prescribed by 
 existnv^^hiAvs, or which may be prescribed by the Secretary 
 of the Ireasiiry shall be complied with. Guano, manures, 
 and fertilizers of all sorts. 
 
 Household effects, old and in use, of persons or families 
 irom foreign countries, if used abroad by them, and not in- 
 tended ior any other purpose or purposes, or for sale. 
 
 Models of inventions or other improvements in the arts • 
 Provided, That no article or articles shall be deemed a model 
 which can be fitted for use. 
 
 Paving stones ; personal and household effects, not mer- 
 chandise, of citizens of the Confederate States dying abroad. 
 _ Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or botany; pro- 
 vided the same be imported in good f\iith for the use of any 
 society incorporated or established for philosophical, acrri- 
 cu tural or horticultural purposes, or for the use or by°the 
 order of any college, academy, school or seminary of learn- 
 ing in the Confederate States. 
 
 Wearing apparel, and other personal effects not merchan- 
 dise; professional books, implements, instruments, and tools 
 ot trades, occupation or employment, of persons arriving in 
 the Confederate States : Provided, That this exemption shall 
 not be construed to include machinery, or other articles im- 
 ported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for 
 sale. 
 
 Bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, wheat, flour and bran of 
 wheat flour and bran of all other grains, Indian corn and 
 meai, barley, rye, oats and oat meal, and living animals of 
 all kinds, not otherAvise provided for; also all agricultural 
 productions, including those of the orchard and garden in 
 tlieir natural state, not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Gunpowder, and all the materials of which it is made. 
 
 Lead, in pigs or in bars, in shot or balls, for cannon, 
 muskets, rifles or pistols. 
 
 Rags, of whatever material composed. 
 
 Arms of every description, for military purposes, and 
 parts thereof, munitions of war, military accoutrements, and 
 percussion caps. 
 
 Ships steamers, barges, dredging vessels, machinery, 
 screw pile jetties, and articles to be used in the construction 
 ot harbors, and for dredging and improving the same 
 
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 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That tlicro t^hall be levi- 
 ed, collected and paid on each and every non-enumerated 
 article -which bears a similitude, cither in material, quality, 
 texture, or the uses to which it may be apj^lied, to any enu- 
 merated article chargeable with duty, the same rate of duty 
 which is levied and charged on the enumerated article by the 
 foregoing schedules, which it most resembles in any of the 
 particulars before mentioned; and if any non-enumerated 
 article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles 
 on which different rates of duty are chargeable, there shall 
 be levied, collected and paid on such uon-cnumcrated article 
 the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which 
 it resembles, paying the highest duty : Provided, That 
 on all articles manufactured from two or more materials, 
 the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which 
 any of its component parts may be chargeable : Provided 
 further. That on all articles Avhich arc not enumerated in the 
 foregoing schedules and cannot be classified under this sec- 
 tion, a duty of ten per cent, ad valorem shall be charged. 
 
 Sec. 3. A7id be it further enacted. That all goods, wares 
 and merchandise which may be in the public stores as un- 
 claimed, or in warehouse under warehousing bonds, on the 
 31st day of August next, shall be suliject, on entry thereof 
 for consumption, to such duty as if the same had been im- 
 ported, respectively after that date. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That on the entry of any 
 
 goods, Avares or merchandise, imported on or afrer the 31st 
 
 day of August aforesaid, the decision of the collector of the 
 
 customs at the port of importation and entry, as to their 
 
 liability to duty or exemption therefrom, shall be final and 
 
 conclusive against the owner, importer, consignee or agent 
 
 of any such goods, wares and merchandise, unless the 
 
 owner, importer, consignee or agent shall, within ten days 
 
 after such entry, give notice to the collector, in writing, of 
 
 ihis dissatisfaction with such decision, setting forth therein 
 
 distinctly and specially his ground of objection thereto, and 
 
 ■' '1. within thirty days after the date of such decision, appeal 
 
 •from to the Secretary of the Treasury, whose decision 
 
 lu'h appeal shall be final and conclusive; and the said 
 
 1-, wares and merchandise shall be liable to duty or ex- 
 
 t ion therefrom accordingly, any act of Congress to the 
 
 lary notwithstanding, unless suit shall be brought with- 
 
 lirty days after such decision, for any duties that may 
 
 ■ l)een paid, or may thereafter be paid on said goods, or 
 
 in thirty days after the duties shall have been paid iu 
 
 s wdicre such goods shall be in bond. 
 
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 Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful 
 for the owner, consignee, or agent of imports which have 
 been actually purchased or procured otherwise than by pur-' 
 chase, on entry of the same, to make such addition in the 
 entry to the cost or value given in the invoice as, in his 
 opinion, may raise the same to the true market value of 
 such imports in the principal markets of the country whence 
 the importations shall have been made, and to add thereto 
 all costs and charges which, under existing laws, would form 
 part of the true value at the port where the same may be en- 
 tered, upon which the duty should be assessed. And it shall 
 be the duty of the collector within whose district the same 
 may be imported or entered, to cause the dutiable value of 
 such imports to be appraised, estimated and ascertained, in 
 accordance with the provisions of existing laws ; and if the 
 appraised value thereof shall exceed by ten per centum, or 
 more, the value so declared on entry, then in addition to the 
 duties imposed by law on the same, there shall be levied, col- 
 lected and paid a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem, on 
 such appraised value : Provided, nevertheless, That under no 
 circumstances shall the duty be assessed upon an amount 
 less than the invoice or entered value, any law of Congress 
 to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 Sec. 6. Ayid be it further enacted, That so much of all acts 
 or parts of acts as may be inconsistent with the provisions of 
 this act, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 163.] AN ACT 
 
 To define with more certainty the meaning of an Act enti- 
 tled " An Act to fix the duties on articles therein named," 
 approved March the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one. 
 
 Section 1. Tlie Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That the above recited act shall be so construed 
 as to embrace all railroad rails, spikes, fishing plates and 
 chairs, used in the construction of railroads, which were im- 
 ported and were in bond at the date of its passage. 
 
 Sec 2. Be it further eriacted, That the Secretary of the 
 Treasury is hereby directed to refund to such railroad com- 
 
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 panies a? have, since the passage of said act, paid on an}- of 
 the above enumerated articles imported as aforesaid a great- 
 er rate of duty than is prescribed by said act, the amount 
 over and above said rate. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 1G4.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Rescinding a Resolution providing for a Digest of Laws, 
 approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one. 
 
 1. B( solved by the Congj-ess of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the resolution approved March twelfth, eigh- 
 teen hundred and sixty-one, providing for a digest of laws, 
 be and the same is hereby rescinded. 
 
 2. Besolved, That W. P. Chilton and John Hemphill, 
 committee of this Congress appointed under the resolution 
 rescinded, be allowed eight dollars per day for their attend- 
 ance as said committee during the recess of Congress, to bo 
 ascertained and paid at the per diem of members of Con- 
 gress in session. 
 
 3. Resolved, That the committee aforesaid be and they are 
 hereby recjuired to deposit in the office of the Attorney 
 General the digest, so far as it has progressed, with the ma- 
 terials collected by them, with a statement or report expla- 
 natory thereof. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 166.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish a Patent Office, and to provide for the Granting 
 and L^sue of Patents for New and Useful Discoveries, In- 
 ventions, Improvements and Designs. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Ame- 
 rica do enact. That there shall be established and attached 
 to the Department of Justice, an office to be denominated 
 the Patent Office, the chief officer of which shall be called 
 the Commissioner of Patents, to be appointed by the Presi- 
 dent, by and with the consent of the Congress, whose duty 
 it shall be, under the direction of the Attorney General, to 
 
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 superintend, execute and perform all sucli acts and things 
 touching and respecting the issue of patents for new and 
 useful discoveries, inventions and improvements, as are 
 herein provided for, or shall hereafter be by law directed to 
 be done and performed, and shall have the charge and cus- 
 tody of all books, records, papers, models, machines and 
 other thino-s belonffins; to said office. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That there shall be in said 
 office an inferior officer, to be appointed by said commis- 
 sioner, Avith the approval of the Attorney General, to be 
 called the chief clerk of the patent office, who in all cases 
 during the absence of the commissioner, or when the said 
 principal office shall become vacant, shall have the charge 
 and custody of the seal and of the records, books, papers, 
 machines, models, and all other things belonging to the said 
 office, and shall perform the duties of the commissioner 
 during such vacancy. And the said commissioner may also, 
 with like approval, appoint such examiners of patents and 
 other clerks as may be necessary. And said commissioner, 
 and every other person appointed and employed in said 
 office, shall be disqualified or interdicted from acquiring or 
 taking, except by inheritance, during the period for which 
 they shall hold their appointments respectively, any right 
 or interest, directly or indirectly, in any patent for an in- 
 vention or discover}^ which has been or may hereafter be 
 granted. And said commissioner, and all others employed 
 in said office, shall receive a compensation to be ascertained 
 and fixed by law. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said principal 
 officer, and every other person to be appointed in said office, 
 shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office or ap- 
 pointment, make oath or affirmation truly and faithfully to 
 execute the trust committed to him. And the said commis- 
 sioner and chief clerk shall also, before entering upon their 
 duties, severally give bonds, with sureties, to the Treasurer 
 of the Confederate States, the former in the sum of ten 
 thousand dollars, and the latter in the sum of five thousand 
 dollars, with condition to render a true and faithful account 
 to him or his successor in office, quarterly, of all moneys 
 which shall be by them respectively received for duties on 
 patents, and for copies of records and drawings, and all 
 other moneys received by virtue of said office. 
 
 Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That the said commis- 
 sioner shall cause a seal to be made and provided for the 
 said office, with such device as the President of the Confed- 
 
crats States sliall approve ; and copies of any records, books, 
 papers or draAvings belonging to the said office, under the 
 signature of said commissioner, or when the office shall be 
 vacant, under the signature of the chief clerk, Avith the said 
 seal affixed, sliall be competent evidence in all cases in 
 -which the original records, books, papers or drawings could 
 be evidence. And any person making application therefor, 
 may have certified copies of tlie records, draAvings and other 
 papers deposited in the said office, on paying for the AA'ritten 
 copies the sum of ten cents for every page of one hundred 
 Avords, and for copies of draAvings, the reasonable expenses 
 of making the same. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all patents issuing 
 from the said office shall be issued in the name of the Con- 
 federate States, and under seal of said office, and be signed 
 by the Attorney General, and countersigned by the com- 
 missioner of said office, and shall be recorded, together AA-ith 
 the descriptions, specifications and draAvings, in the said 
 office, in books to be kept for that purpose. Ever}'- patent 
 shall contain a short description or title of the invention or 
 discovery, correctly indicating its nature and design, and in 
 its terms grant to the applicant or applicants, his or their 
 heirs, administrators, executors or assigns, for a term of not 
 exceeding fourteen years, the full and exclusive right and 
 liberty of making, using and vending to others to be used, 
 the said inA^ontion or discovery, referring to the specifications 
 fcr the particulars thereof, a copy of Avhieh sliall bo annexed 
 to the patent, specifying AA"hat the patentee claims as his 
 invention or discovery. 
 
 Sec 6. And he itfurtJier enacted. That any person or per- 
 sons having discovered or invented any new and useful art, 
 machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any iicav 
 and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, 
 or composition of matter, not knoAvn or used by others be- 
 fore his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not at 
 the time of his application for a patent in public use or for 
 sale, Avith his consent or alloAvance, as the inventor or dis- 
 coverer, and shall desire to obtain an exclusive property 
 therein, may make application in A\riting to the commis- 
 sioner of patents, expressing such desire; and the commis- 
 sioner, on due proceedings had, may grant a patent therefor. 
 But before any inventor shall receive a patent for any such 
 ncAv invention or discovery, he shall deliver a Avritten de- 
 scription of his invention or discovery, and of the manner 
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 and process of making', constructing, using and compound- 
 ing the same, in such full, clear, and exact terms, avoiding 
 unnecessary prolixity, as to enable any person skilled in the 
 art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is 
 most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound and 
 use the same ; and in case of any machine, he shall fully 
 explain the principle, and the several modes in which he has 
 contemplated the application of that principle or character 
 by which it may be distinguished from other inventions ; 
 and shall particularly specify and point out the part, im- 
 provement, or combination which he claims as his own in- 
 vention or discovery. He shall, furthermore, accompany 
 the whole with a draAving or drawings, and written refer- 
 ences, Avhere the nature of the case admits of drawings ; or 
 with specimens of ingredients, and of the composition of 
 matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, 
 where the invention or discovery is of a composition of 
 matter; Avhich descriptions and drawings, signed by the in- 
 ventor, and attested by two witnesses, shall be filed in the 
 Patent Office ; and he shall moreover furnish a model of his 
 invention, in all cases which admit of a representation by 
 model, of a convenient size to exhibit advantageously its 
 several parts. The applicant shall make oath or affirmation 
 that he does verily believe that he is the original and first 
 inventor or discoverer of the art, machine, composition, or 
 improvement, for which he solicits a patent ; and that he 
 does not know or believe that the same was ever before 
 known or used ; and also of what country he is a citizen ; 
 which oath or affirmation may be made before any person 
 authorized by law to administer oaths. 
 
 Sec, 7. And be it further enacted, That on the filing of 
 any such application, description and specification, and the 
 payment of the duty hereinafter provided, the commissioner 
 shall make, or cause to be made, an examination of the al- 
 leged new invention or discovery, and if, on any such ex- 
 amination, it shall not appear to the commissioner that the 
 same had been invented or discovered by any other person 
 in this country, prior to the alleged invention or discovery 
 thereof by the applicant, or that it had been patented or de- 
 scribed in any printed publication, in this or in any foreign 
 country, or had been in ^public use or on sale, with the ap- 
 plicant's consent or allowance, prior to the application, if the 
 commissioner shall deem it to be sufficiently useful and im- 
 portant, it shall be his duty to issue a patent therefor. But 
 whenever, on such examination, it shall appear to the com- 
 
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 missionci* that the applicant was not the original antl first 
 inventor or discoverer thereof, or that any part of that 
 which is claimed as new had before been invented or discov- 
 ered, or patenteil or described in any printed pnl)lioation in 
 this or any foreign country as aforesaid, or that the descrip- 
 tion is defective and insufficient, he shall notify the appli- 
 cant thereof, giving him briefly such information and refer- 
 ences as may be useful in judging of the propriety of re- 
 newing his application, or of altering his specification tO' 
 embrace only that part of the invention or discovery which 
 is new. But if the applicant in such case shall persist in 
 his claim for a patent, Avith or without any alterations of 
 his specifications, he shall be required to make oath or 
 affirmation anew, in manner as aforesaid ; and if the speci- 
 fication and claim shall not have been so modified as in the 
 opinion of the commissioner shall entitle the applicant to a 
 patent, he may, on appeal, and upon request in writing, have 
 the decision of the Attorney General, who shall be furnished 
 with a certificate in writing, with the opinion and decision 
 of the commissioner, stating the particular grounds of his 
 objection, and the part or parts of the invention wliicli he 
 considers as not entitled to be patented, and the Attorney 
 General shall give reasonable notice to the applicant, as well 
 as to the commissioner, of the time and place of hearing 
 such appeal, that the}'' may have an opportunity of furnish- 
 ing him with such facts and evidence as they may deeui ne- 
 cessary to a just decision; and it shall be the duty of the 
 commissioner to furnish to the Attorney General such in- 
 formation as he may possess, relative to the matter under 
 consideration. And on an examination and consideration 
 of the matter by the Attorney General, it shall be in his 
 power to reverse the decision of the commissioner, cither in 
 whole or in part; and his opinion being certified to the com- 
 missioner, he shall be governed thereby in the further pro- 
 ceedings to be had on such application : Provkkd, however, 
 Tliat before an appeal shall be had in any such case the ap- 
 plicant shall pay to the credit of the treasury, as provided 
 in the twenty-third section of this act, the sum of twenty- 
 five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 8. Aiid be it further enacted, That whenever an ap- 
 plication shall 1)0 made for a patent, which in the opinion of 
 the commissioner would interfere with any other ])atent for 
 which an a|)|dicntion maybe pending, or with any unexpired 
 patent which shall have been granted, it shall l)e the <luty 
 of the commissioner to give notice thereof to such applicants 
 
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 or patentees, as the case may be ; and if either shall be dis- 
 satisfied Avith the decision of the commissioner on the qnes- 
 tion of j)riority of right or invention, on a hearing thereof, 
 he may appeal from such decision, on the like terms and con- 
 ditions as are provided in the preceding section of this act, ■ 
 and the like proceedings shall be had to determine which or 
 "whether either of the applicants is entitled to receive a 
 patent as prayed for. But nothing in this act contained 
 shall be construed to deprive an original and true inventor 
 of the right to a patent for his invention by reason of his 
 having previously taken out letters patent therefor in a 
 foreign country, and the same having been published at any 
 time within six months next preceding the filing of his spe- 
 cifications and drawings. And whenever the applicant shall 
 request it, the patent shall take date from the time of filing . 
 of the specifications and drawings ; not, however, exceeding 
 six months prior to the actual issuing of the patent; and on 
 like request, and the payment of the duty herein required, 
 by any applicant, his specification and drawings shall be 
 filed in the secret archives of the ofiice, until he shall fur- . 
 nish the model and the patent be issued, not exceeding the 
 term of two years — the applicant being entitled to notice of 
 interfering application. 
 
 Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That where any person 
 liath made or shall have made any new invention, discovery . 
 or improvement, on account of which a patent might by vir- 
 tue of this act be granted, and such person shall die before 
 any patent shall be granted therefor, the right of applying 
 for and obtaining such patent shall devolve on the executor 
 or administrator of such person, in trust for the heirs-at-law 
 of the deceased, in case he shall have died intestate, but if 
 otherwise, then in trust for his devisees, in as full and ample 
 manner, and under the same conditions, limitations and re- 
 strictions as the same was held or might have been claimed 
 or enjoyed by such person in his or her lifetime ; and when 
 application for a patent shall be made by such legal repre- 
 sentatives, the oath or affirmation provided in the sixth sec- 
 tion of this act shall be so varied as to be applicable to 
 them. 
 
 Sec. 10. And he it further enacted, That every patent shall 
 be assignable in law, either as to the whole interest or any 
 undivided part thereof, by any instrument in writing ; which 
 assignment, and also every grant and conveyance of the ex- 
 clusive right, under any patent, to make and use and to 
 
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 grant to others to make and use the thing patented, within 
 and throughout any specified part or portion of the Confed- 
 erate States, shall be recorded in the patent office ■vvithiu 
 three months from the execution thereof. 
 
 Sec. 11. And he it further enacted, That any person who 
 shall have invented any new art, machine, or improvement 
 thereof, and shall desire further time to mature the same, 
 may, on paying to the credit of the treasury, in manner as 
 provided in the twenty-third section of this act, the sum of 
 ten dollars, file in the patent office a caveat setting forth 
 the design and purpose thereof, and its principal and dis- 
 tinguisliing characteristics, and praying protection of his 
 right till he shall liavc matured his invention. And such 
 caveat shall be filed in the confidential archives of the office, 
 and preserved in secrecy. And if application shall be made 
 by any other person, within one year from the time of filing 
 of such caveat, for a patent of any invention with which it 
 may in any respect interfere, it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissioner to deposit tlic description, specifications, 
 drawings and model in the confidential archives of the office, 
 and to give notice (by mail) to the person filing the caveat 
 of such application, who shall, within three montJis after re- 
 ceiving the notice, if he would avail himself of the benefit 
 of his caveat, file his description, specifications, drawings 
 and model ; and if, in the opinion of the Commissioner, the 
 specifications of claim interfere with each other, like pro- 
 ceedings may be had in all respects as arc in this act pro- 
 vided in the case of interfering applications : Provided, how- 
 ever, That no opinion or decision of the commissioner or ex- 
 aminers, under the provisions of this act, shall preclude any 
 persons interested in favor of or against the validity of any 
 patent which has been or may hereafter be granted from the 
 right to contest the same in any judicial court, in any ac- 
 tion in which its validity may come in question. 
 
 Sk.c. 12. And be it further enacted, That whenever any 
 patent which has heretofore been granted or which shtill 
 hereafter be granted shall be inoperative and invalid, by 
 reason of a defective or insufficient description or specifica- 
 tion, or by reason of the patentee claiming in his specifica- 
 tions as his own invention more than he had or shall have a 
 riglit to claim as new, if the error has or shall have arisen 
 by inadvertcnc}', accident or mistake, and without any fraud- 
 ulent or deceptive intention, it shall be lawful for the com- 
 
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 missioner, upon the surrender to him of such patent, and] 
 the payment of the further duties of twenty dollars, to cause a ^ 
 new patent to be issued to its head inventor, for the same 
 invention, for the residue of the period then unexpired for 
 ■which the original patent was granted, in accordance with 
 the patentee's corrected description and specification. And 
 in case of his death, or any assignment by him made of the 
 original patent, a similar right shall vest in his executors, 
 administrators or assigns. And thepatent so reissued, to- 
 gether with the corrected description and specifications, shall' 
 have the same effect and operation in law, on the trial of all 
 actions hereafter commenced for causes subsequently accru- 
 ing, as though the same had been originally filed in such 
 corrected form before the issuing of the original patent. 
 And in all cases Avhere any new improvement of the origi- 
 nal invention or discovery may have been invented or dis- 
 covered by the original patentee subsequent to the date of 
 his patent, for which a patent is desired by him, an inde- 
 pendent patent for such improvement or discovery may be 
 applied for ; and no annexing to such original patent of the 
 description and specification on such additional improvement 
 or improvements shall be allowed. 
 
 Sec. 13. And he it further enacted, That the defendant in 
 any such action shall be permitted to plead the general issue, 
 and to give this act and any special matter in evidence of 
 which notice in writing may have been given to the plaintiff 
 or his attorney thirty days before trial, tending to prove that 
 the description and specification filed by the plaintiff does 
 not contain the whole truth relative to his invention or dis- 
 covery, or that it contains more than is necessary to produce 
 the described effect ; which concealment or addition shall 
 fully appear to have been made for the purpose of deceiving 
 the public, or that the patentee was not the first and original 
 inventor or discoverer of the thing patented, or of a sub- 
 stantial and material part thereof claimed as new, or that 
 it has been described in some public work anterior to the 
 supposed discovery thereof by the patentee, or had been in 
 public use or on sale with the consent and allowance of the 
 patentee before his application for a patent, or that he had 
 surreptitiously or unjustly obtained the patent for that 
 which was in fact invented or discovered by another, who 
 was using reasonable diligence in adapting and perfecting 
 the same ; or that the patentee, if an alien at the time the 
 patent was granted, had failed and neglected, for the space 
 of eighteen months from the date of the patent, to put and 
 
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 continue on sale to the public, on reiisonablo terms, tlic in- 
 vention or discovery for wliich the patent Avas issued ; and 
 whenever the defendant relies in his defence on the fact of 
 a previous invention, knowledge or use of the thing patent- 
 ed, he shall state in his notice of special matters the names 
 and places of residence of those -whom he intends to prove 
 to have possessed a prior knoAvledge of the thing, and Avliere 
 the same had been used; in either of which cases judgment 
 shall be rendered for the defendant with costs : Frovidcd, 
 Jwicevcr, That whenever it sliall satisfactorily appear that 
 the patentee, at the time of making his application for the 
 patent, believed himself to be the first inventor or discoverer 
 •of the thing patented, the same shall not be held to l)e void 
 on account of the invention or discovery, or any part there- 
 of having been before known or used in an}^ foreign coun- 
 try — it not appearing that the same or any substantial part 
 thereof had before been patented or described in any printed 
 publication : And provided, also. That whenever the plaintiff 
 sliall fail to sustain his action on the ground that in his spe- 
 cification or chiim is embraced more than that of which he 
 was the first inventor, if it shall appear that the defendant 
 had used or violated any part of the invention justly and 
 truly specified and claimed as new, it shall be in the power 
 of the court to adjudge and award, as to costs, as may ap- 
 pear to be just and etjuitable. 
 
 Sec. 14. And he it further enacted, That -whenever there 
 shall be two interfering patents, or whenever a patent or 
 application shall have been refused on an adverse decision 
 of the Attorney General, on the ground that that patent ap- 
 plied for would interfere with an unexpired patent previously 
 granted, any person interested in such patent either by as- 
 signment or otherwise in the one case, and any such appli- 
 cant in the other case may have remedy in equity ; and the 
 court having cognizance thereof, on notice to adverse par- 
 ties, and other due proceedings had, may adjudge and declare 
 cither the patents void in the whole or in j>art, or inopera- 
 tive and invalid in any particular part or portion of the 
 Confederate States, according to the interest which the par- 
 ties to such suit may possess in the patent or the invention 
 patented ; and may also ailjudge that such applicant is enti- 
 tled, according to the principles and provisions of this act, 
 to have and receive a patent for his invention, as specified 
 in his claim, or for any part thereof, as the fact of priority 
 or right or invention shall, in any such case, be made to ajv 
 
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 pear. And such adjiitlication, if it be in favor af the rigkt 
 of such applicant, shall authorize the commissioner to issue 
 such patent, on his filing a copy of the adjudication and 
 otherwise complying with the requisitions of this act; Pro- 
 vided, however, That no such judgment or adjudication shall 
 aifect the rights of any person except the parties to the ac- 
 tion and those deriving title from and under them subse- 
 quent to the rendition of such judgment. 
 
 Sec. 15. And be if further enacted. That all actions, suits, 
 controversies and cases arising under any law of the Confed- 
 erate States, granting or confirming to inventors the ex- 
 clusive right to their inventions or discoveries, shall be ori- 
 ginally cognizable, as well in equity as at law, by the dis- 
 trict courts of the Confe-derate States, which courts shall 
 have power in any such case to grant injunctions according: 
 to the course and principles of courts of equity, to prevent 
 the violation of the rights of any inventor as secured to him 
 by any law of the Confederate States, on such terms and 
 conditions as said courts may deem reasonable: Provided, 
 hoivever, That from all judgments and decrees from any such 
 court rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal, as 
 the case may require, shall lie to the Supreme Court of the 
 Confederate States, in the same manner and under the same 
 circumstances as is now provided by law in other judgments- 
 and decrees of district courts, and in all other cases in which 
 the court shall deem it reasonable to allow the same. 
 
 Sec. 16. And be it further enacted. That it shall be the 
 duty of the commissioner to cause to be classified and ar- 
 ranged, in such rooms or galleries as may be provided for 
 that purpose, in suitable cases, when necessary for their 
 preservation, and in such manner as shall be conducive to a 
 beneficial and favorable display thereof, the models and spe- 
 cimens of compositions and fabrics, and other manufactures- 
 and works of art, patented or unpatented, which have been 
 or shall hereafter be deposited in said office. And said 
 rooms or galleries shall be kept open during suitable hours, 
 for public inspection. 
 
 Sec. 1 7. And be it further enacted, That whenever a pa- 
 tent shall be returned for correction and reissue, under this 
 act, and the patentee shall desire several patents to be is- 
 sued for distinct and separate parts of the thing patented. 
 
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 he shall first pay, in manner and in addition to the sum pro- 
 vided by this act, the sum of twenty dollars for each addi- 
 tional patent so to be issued; nor shall any new patent be 
 issued for an improvement made in any machine, manufoc- 
 ture or process, to the original inventor, assignee or pos- 
 sessor of a patent therefor, nor any disclaimer be admitted 
 to record, until a duplicate model or drawing of the same 
 shall have been deposited in the patent office, if the commis- 
 sioner shall require the same; nor shall any patent be grant- 
 ed for an invention, improvement or discovery, the model or 
 drawing of Avhich shall have been lost, until another model 
 or drawing, if required by the commissioner, shall in like 
 manner be deposited in the patent office. And in all such 
 cases the question of compensation for such models and 
 drawings shall be subject to the judgment and decision of 
 the commissioner, under the same limitations and restric- 
 tions as are herein prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 18. And he it further enacted. That any patent, here- 
 after to be issued, may be made and issued to the assignee 
 or assignees of the inventor or discoverer, the assignment 
 thereof being first entered of record, and the application 
 therefor being duly made, and the specification duly sworn 
 to by the inventor. And in all cases hereafter the applicant 
 for a patent shall be held to furnish duplicate drawings, 
 whenever the case admits of drawings, one of which to be 
 deposited in the office, and the other to be annexed to the 
 patent and considered a part of the specification. 
 
 Sec. 19. And he it further enacted, That whenever any 
 patentee shall have, through inadvertence, accident or mis- 
 take, made his specification of claim too broad, claiming 
 more than that of which he was the original or first inven- 
 tor, some material and substantial part of the thing patent- 
 ed being truly and justly his own, any such patentee, his 
 administrators, executors and assigns, whether of a whole or 
 of a sectional interest therein, may make disclaimer of such 
 parts of the thing patented as the disclaimant shall not 
 claim to hold by virtue of the patent or assignment, stating 
 therein the extent of his interest in such patent, which dis- 
 claimer shall be in writing, attested by one or more witnes- 
 ses, and recorded in the patent office, on payment by the 
 person claiming, in manner as other ])atent duties are re- 
 quired by law to be paid, of the sum of ten dollars. And 
 
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 such disclaimer shall thereafter be taken and considered as 
 part of the original specification, to the extent of the inter- 
 est which shall be possessed in the patent or right secured.] 
 thereby by the disclaimant, and by those claiming by or un- 
 der him, subsequent to the record thereof. But no such 
 disclaimer shall affect any action pending at the time of its 
 being filed, except so far as may relate to the question of 
 unreasonable neglect or delay in filing the same. 
 
 Sec. 20. And be it further enacted. That whenever appli- 
 cation shall be made to fhe commissioner for a patent for a 
 newly discovered improvement to be made to an existing 
 patent, or whenever a patent shall be returned for correction 
 and re-issue, the specification of claim annexed to every 
 such patent shall be subject to revision and restriction, in 
 the same manner as are original applications for patents ; 
 the commissioner shall not add any such improvement to the 
 patent in the, one case, nor grant the re-issue in the other 
 case, until the applicant shall have entered a disclaimer or 
 altered his specification of claim in accordance with the deci- 
 sion of the commissioner ; and in all such cases the appli- 
 cant, if dissatisfied with such decision, shall have the same 
 remedy and be entitled to the benefit of the same privileges 
 and proceedings as are provided by law in the case of origi- 
 nal applications for patents. 
 
 Sec. 21. And he it further enacted, That whenever, by mis- 
 take, accident or inadvertence, and without any wilful de- 
 fault or intent to defraud or mislead the public, any patentee 
 shall have in his specification, claimed to be the original and 
 first inventor or discoverer of any material or substantial 
 part of the thing patented, of which he was not the original 
 and first inventor, and shall have no legal or just right to 
 claim the same, in every such case the patent shall be deem- 
 ed good and valid for so much of the invention or discovery 
 as shall be truly and bona fide his own : Provided, It shall 
 be a material and substantial part of the thing patented, and 
 be definitely distinguishable from the other parts so claimed, 
 without right as aforesaid. And every such patentee, his 
 executors, administrators and assi^rns, whether of a whole or 
 of a sectional interest therein, shall be entitled to maintain 
 a suit at law or in equity on such patent for any such in- 
 fringement of such part of the invention or discovery as 
 shall be bona fide his own as aforesaid, notwithstanding the 
 specification may embrace more than he shall have an}" legal 
 right to claim. But in every such case in which a judgment 
 
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 or verdict shall be rendered for the plaintiff, he shall not be 
 entitled to recover costs against tlio defendant, unless he 
 shall have entered at the patent office, prior to the com- 
 >mencemcnt of the suit, a disclaimer of all that part of the 
 thing patented -which was so claimed -without right : Provi- 
 ded, however^ That no person bringing any such suit shall be 
 entitled to the benefits of the provisions contained in this 
 section, -who shall have unreasonably neglected or delayed to 
 enter at the patent office a disclaimer as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 22. And he it further enacted. That in all cases in 
 ■which an oath is required by this act, if the person of -whom 
 it is required shall be conscientiously scrupulous of taking 
 an oath, affirmation may be substituted therefor. 
 
 Sec. 23. And he it further enacted, That all moneys paid 
 into the treasury of the Confederate States for patents, and 
 for fees for copies furnished by the commissioner, shall be 
 carried to the credit of the patent fund created by this act ; 
 and the mone}' constituting said fund shall be and the same 
 are hereby appropriated for the payment of the salaries of 
 the officers and clerks provided by this act, and all other ex- 
 penses of the patent office, including all the expenditures 
 provided for by this act ; and also for such other purposes 
 as are or may be hereafter specially provided for by law. 
 And the commissioner is hereby authorized to dra-w upon 
 such fund, from time to time, for such sums as shall be ne- 
 cessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, gov- 
 erned, however, by the several limitations herein contained. 
 And it shall be his duty to lay before Congress, in the month 
 of January, annually, a list of all patents which shall have 
 boon granted during the preceding year, designating under 
 proper heads the subjects of such patents, and furnishing 
 an alphabetical list of the patentees, with their places of resi- 
 dence; and shall also furnish a list of all patents Avhich shall 
 have become public property during the same period, togeth- 
 er with such other information of the state of the patent 
 office as may be useful to Congress or to the public. 
 
 Sec. 24. And he it firther enacted. That the commissioner 
 is authorized to employ temporary clerks to do any necessa- 
 ry transcribing, whenever the current business of the office 
 requires it : Provided, however. That instead of salary a com- 
 pensation shall be allowed, at a rate not greater than is 
 charged for copies now furnished by the office. 
 
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 Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner 
 is hereby authorized to publish a chxssical and alphabetical 
 list of all patents granted by the patent office previous to 
 said publication, and retain one hundred copies for the pat- 
 ent office and five hundred copies to be deposited in the 
 library of Congress, for such distribution as may hereafter 
 be directed ; and that one thousand dollars, if necessary, be 
 appropriated out of the patent fund, to defray the expenses 
 of the same. 
 
 Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five 
 hundred dollars be appropriated from the patent fund, to 
 be expended under the direction of the commissioner, for 
 the purchase of necessary books for the library of the patent 
 office. 
 
 Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That all applications 
 by aliens to obtain patents for inventions which have already 
 been patented in foreign countries, shall be made within six 
 months from the date of such foreign letters patent. Nor 
 shall letters patent be granted to any alien Avhose govern- 
 ment is at war with the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec 28. And be it further enacted, That every person or 
 corporation who has, or shall have purchased or constructed 
 any newly invented machine, manufacture or composition of 
 matter, prior to the application by the inventor or discover- 
 er for a patent, shall be held to possess the right to use and 
 vend to others to be used, the specific machine, manufacture 
 or composition of matter so made or purchased, without lia- 
 bility therefor to the inventor, or any other person interest- 
 ed in such invention ; and no patent shall be held to be 
 invalid by reason of such purchase, sale or use, prior to the 
 application for a patent as aforesaid, except on proof of aban- 
 donment of such invention to the public, or that purchase, 
 sale or prior use has been for more than two years prior to 
 such aj)plication for a patent. 
 
 Sec 29. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of 
 the 14th section of this act, shall extend to all cases where 
 patents are refused for any reason whatever, either by the 
 commissioner of patents or by the Attorney General, upon 
 appeals from the decision of said commissioner, as well as 
 where the same shall have been refused on account of, or by 
 reason of, interference with a previously existing patent ; 
 and in all cases where there is no opposing party a copy of 
 the bill shall be served upon the commissioner of patents, 
 
when the Avholc of the expenses of the proceeding shall be 
 paid by the applicant, whether the final decision shall be in 
 his favor or otherwise. 
 
 Sec. 30. Ajid he it further enacted, That the Treasurer of 
 the Confederate States be and ho hereby is authorized to pay 
 back, out of the patent fund, any sum or sums of money to 
 any person who shall have paid the same into the treasury, 
 or to any receiver or depositary to the credit of the treasu- 
 rer, as for fees accruing at the patent office through mistake, 
 and which arc not provided to be paid by existing laws, cer- 
 tificate thereof being made to the said treasurer by the com- 
 missioner of patents. 
 
 Sec. 31. And he H further enacted, That the oath required 
 for applicants for patents may be taken, when the applicant 
 is not for the time being residing in the Confederate States, 
 before any minister plenipotentiary, charge d'affaires, con- 
 sul, or commercial agent holding commission under the gov- 
 ernment of the Confederate States, or before any notary 
 public of the foreign country in which such applicant may 
 be: Provided, Such foreign State shall have recognized the 
 independence of the Confederate States, and shall be at the 
 time in amity with them. 
 
 Sec. 32. And he it further enacted. That all patentees 
 wishing to make payments for patents to be issued, may pay 
 all such moneys to the Treasurer of the Confederate States, 
 or to the treasurer of either of the mints within the Con- 
 federate States, or to such other depositary as shall be de- 
 signed by the Secretary of the Treasury or commissioner of 
 patents, in other parts of the Confederate States, to receive 
 such payments and give receipts or certificates of deposit 
 therefor. 
 
 Sec. 33. And he it further enacted. That from all judg- 
 ments and decrees of any district court rendered in any ac- 
 tion, suit, controversy or case at law or in equity, arising 
 under any law of the Confederate States granting or con- 
 firming to inventors or discoverers a writ of error or appeal, 
 as tlie case may require, shall lie. at tlie instance of either 
 party, to the Supreme Court of the Confederate States, in 
 the same manner and under the same circumstances as is 
 now provided by law in other judgments and decrees of 
 such district courts, witliout regard to the sum or value in 
 controversy in the action. 
 
 Sec. 34. And he it further enacted, That the commissioner 
 of patents may estalilish rules for taking aflSdavits and de- 
 positions required in cases pending in the patent office, and 
 
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 such affidavits and depositions may be taken before any jus- 
 tice of tlie peace or other officer authorized by law to take 
 depositions to be used in the courts of tire Confederate 
 States, or in the State courts of any State where such officer 
 shall reside ; and in any contested case pending in the pa- 
 tent office it shall be lawful for any clerk of any court of 
 the Confederate States for any district or territory, and he 
 is hereby required, upon the application of any party to 
 such contested case, or the agent or attorney of such party, 
 to issue subpoenas for any witnesses residing or being within 
 the said district or territory, commanding such witnesses to 
 appear and testify before any justice of the peace, or other 
 officer as aforesaid residing within the said district or terri- 
 tory, at any time and place in the subpoena to be stated ; 
 and if any witness, after being duly served with such sub- 
 poena, shall refuse or neglect to appear, or after appearing 
 shall refuse to testify, (not being privileged from giving tes- 
 timony,) such refusal or neglect being proved to the satis- 
 faction of any judge of the court whose clerk shall have 
 issued such subpoena, said judge may thereupon proceed to 
 enforce obedience to the process, or to punish the disobedi- 
 ence in like manner as any court of the Confederate States 
 may do in case of disobedience to process of suhpana ad tes- 
 tificandmn issued by such court ; and witnesses in such cases 
 shall be allowed the same compensation as is allowed to wit- 
 nesses attending the courts of the Confederate States : Fro- 
 vided, That no witness shall be required to attend at any 
 place more than forty miles from the place where the sub- 
 poena shall be served upon him to give a deposition under 
 this law : Provided, also, That no witness shall be deemed 
 guilty of contempt for refusing to disclose any secret in- 
 vention made or owned by him: And provided further'. That 
 no witness shall be deemed guilty of contempt for disobeying 
 any subpoena directed to him by virtue of this act, unless 
 his fees for going to, returning from, and one day's attend- 
 ance at the place of examination shall be paid or tendered to 
 him at the time of the service of the subpoena. 
 
 Sec. 35. And he it further enacted. That no appeal shall 
 be allowed to the Attorney General from the clecisions of 
 the examiners, except interference cases, until after the ap- 
 plication shall have been twice rejected; and the second 
 examination of the application by the primary examiner 
 shall not be had until the applicant, in view of the refer- 
 ences given on the first rejection, shall have renewed the 
 oath of invention as provided for in this act. 
 
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 Sec. 3G. And be it furtJier enacted, That the salary of the 
 Commissioner of Patents, from and after the passage of this 
 act, shall be three thousand dollars per annum : that of the 
 chief clerk eighteen hundred dollars per annum ; that of 
 each examiner of patents two thousand dollars per annum, 
 and that of each regularly employed record or other clerk, 
 one thousand dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec 37. Ani he it further enacted, That the Commissioner 
 of Patents is authorized to restore to the respective appli- 
 cants, or Avhen not removed by them to otherwise dispose of, 
 such of the models belonging to rejected applicants as he 
 shall not think necessary to be preserved. The same au- 
 thority is also given in relation to all models accompanying 
 applications of designs and inventions. lie is further au- 
 thorized to dispense Avith models of designs, when the de- 
 sign can be sufficiently represented by a drawing. 
 
 Sec. 3S. And he it further enacted, That tlie commissioner 
 may require all papers filed in the patent office, if not cor- 
 rectly, legibly and plainly written, to be printed at the cost 
 of the parties filing such papers ; and for gross misconduct 
 he may refuse to recognize any person as a patent agent, 
 either generally or in any particular case ; but the reasons 
 of the commissioner for such refusal shall be duly recordsd, 
 and subject to the approval of the President of the Confede- 
 rate States. 
 
 Sec 39. And be it further enacted. That no money paid as 
 a fee on any application for a patent after the passage of 
 this act shall be withdrawn or refunded, nor shall the 
 fee paid on filing a caveat be considered as part of the 
 sum required to be paid on filing a subsequent applica- 
 tion for a patent for the same invention. That the three 
 months' notice given to any caveator, in pursuance of the 
 requirements of the 11th section of this act, shall be com- 
 puted from the day on which such notice is deposited in the 
 post-office at the seat of Government of this Confcdcracj^ 
 with the regular time for transmission of the same added 
 thereto, wliich time shall be endorsed on the notice. 
 
 Sec 40. And he it further enacted. That the following 
 shall be the rates of fees in all cases, respectively : 
 
 On filing a caveat, ten dollars. 
 
 On filing each original application for a patent, except for 
 a design, twenty dollars. 
 
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 On issuing each original patent, twenty dollars. 
 
 On every appeal to the Attorney General, twenty-five 
 dollars. "^ 
 
 On every application for the re-issue of a patent, thirty 
 dollars. *^ 
 
 On filing each disclaimer, ten dollars. 
 
 For recording patents, as provided for in section 49 ten 
 cents for every hundred words, ' 
 
 For certified copies of patents and other papers, ten cents 
 per hundred words. 
 
 For recording every assignment, agreement, power of 
 attorney, and other papers, of three hundred words or under 
 one dollar. ' 
 
 For recording every assignment and other paper, over 
 three hundred words and under one thousand words, two 
 dollr-" ' 
 
 lars. 
 
 For recording every assignment and other writing, if over 
 one thousand words, three dollars. 
 
 For copies of drawings, the reasonable cost of making 
 the same. ° 
 
 Sec. 41. And be it further enacted, That any person or 
 persons who, by his, her or their own industry, genius 
 ett orts and expense, may have invented or produced any new 
 and original design for a manufacture, whether of metal or 
 other material or materials, an original design for a bust, 
 statue or bass-relief, or composition in basso or alto relievo, 
 or any new or original impression or ornament, or to be 
 placed on any article of manufacture, the same being formed 
 m marble or other material, or any new and useful pattern 
 or print, or picture, to be either worked into or worked on' 
 or printed, or painted, or cast, or otherwise fixed upon any 
 article of manufacture, or any new and original shape or 
 configuration of any article of manufacture not known or 
 used by others before his, her or their invention or produc- 
 tion thereof, and prior to the time of his, her or their appli- 
 cation for a patent therefor, and who shall desire to obtain 
 an exclusive property or right therein, to make, use, sell 
 and vend the same, or copies of the same, to others, by 
 tiiem to be made, used and sold, may make application in 
 writing to the Commissioner of Patents expressing such 
 aesire; and the commissioner, on due proceedings had, may 
 grant a patent therefor, as in the case now of application 
 
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 for a patent, for the term of three and one-half years, or 
 for the term of seven years, or for the term of fourteen 
 years, as the said applicant may elect in his application : 
 Provided, That the fee to be paid in such application shall 
 be for the term of three years and six months, ten dollars ; 
 for seven years, fifteen dollars; and for fourteen years, 
 twenty dollars. . 
 
 Sec. 42. And be it further enacted, lliat all applications 
 for patents shall be completed and prepared for examination 
 within two years after the filing of the petition, and in de- 
 fault thereof they shall be regarded as abandoned by the 
 parties thereto, unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the 
 commissioner of patents that such delay was unavoidable j 
 and all applications now pending shall be treated as it filed 
 after the passage of this act. 
 
 Sec. 43. And be it further enacted. That in ah cases where 
 an article is made or vended by any person under the protec- 
 tion of letters patent, it shall be the duty of such person to 
 trive sufficient notice to the public that said article is so pat- 
 ented, either by fixing thereon the word patented, together 
 with tlie day and year the patent was granted, or when, from 
 the character of the article patented, that may be impracti- 
 cable, by enveloping one or more of the said articles and 
 affixing a label to the package, or otherwise attaching there- 
 to a label, on which the notice, with the date, is printed; on 
 failure of which, in any suit for the infringement of letters 
 patent by the party failing so to mark the article the right 
 to which 'is infringed upon, no damage shall be recovered by 
 the plaintiff, except on proof that the defendant was duly 
 notified of the infringement, and continued, after such no- 
 tice, to make or vend the article patented. 
 
 Sec. 44. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner 
 of patents be and he is hereby authorized to print, or in his 
 discretion to cause to be printed, ten copies of the descrip- 
 tion and claims of all patents which may hereafter be grant- 
 ed, and ten copies of the drawings of the same, when draw- 
 ings shall accompany the patent: Provided, The cost of 
 prmting the text of said description and claims shall not 
 exceed," exclusive of stationery, the sum of two cents per 
 hundred words for each of said copies, and the cost of the 
 drawing shall not exceed fifty cents per copy; one copy of 
 the a1)ove number shall be printed on parchment, to be affix- 
 ed to the letters patent. The work shall be under the direc- 
 tion and subject to the approval of the commissioner of pat- 
 ents, and the expense of the said copies shall be paid for out 
 of the patent fund. 
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 Sec. 45. And be it furiJier enacted, That printed copies of 
 the letters patent of the Confederate States, with the seal of 
 the patent office affixed thereto, and certified and signed bj 
 the commissioner of patents, shall be legal evidence of the 
 contents of said letters patent in all cases. 
 
 Sec. 4G. And he it further enacted. That no discrimination 
 shall be made between the inhabitants of the Confederate 
 States and those of other countries which shall not discrim- 
 inate ao^ainst the inhabitants of the Confederate States in 
 ren-ard to patent office fees ; and should any country discrim- 
 inate against the Confederate States, the same fees shall be 
 charo-ed against the inhabitants of said country as are 
 charged by it against the inhabitants of the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Sec. 47. And he it further enacted, That at the expiration 
 of three years from the date of any patent hereafter to be 
 issued, there shall be paid to the commissioner, by the pat- 
 entee or assignee of such patent, a fee of ten dollars, and 
 the same amount at the expiration of seven years ; and 
 if such fees are not paid, such patent shall be deemed aban- 
 doned and shall be null and void. 
 
 Sec. 48. And he it further enacted, That all money receiv- 
 ed by the commissioner under this act shall be by him paid 
 into the treasury, and shall constitute a fund for the payment 
 of the salaries of officers and clerks herein provided for, and 
 all other expenses of the patent office, and to be called a pat- 
 ent fund. 
 
 Sec. 49. And he it further enacted, That all patents here- 
 tofore granted and issued by the United States to any person 
 or persons now a citizen or citizens of either of the states of 
 this Confederacy, or of the states of Tennessee, Arkansas 
 and North Carolina, or now held by assignment by any such 
 citizen or citizens, shall continue in force for the term foT 
 which they were issued yet unexpired, and if assigned in 
 part only to any citizen of this Confederacy, or of the states 
 aforesaid, shall continue in force for such part : Provided, 
 Said assignment was hona fide made prior to the fourth day 
 of February, 1861: Provided further, Nothing contained in 
 this act shall be construed to recognize any renewal or ex- 
 tension of a patent by the United States heretofore made : 
 Provided further. That patents or the deed of assignment 
 therefor provided for in this section, shall be recorded in the 
 patent office of the Confederate States, and there also shall 
 be deposited in said office such models or descriptive draw- 
 ings as may be necessary to identify and explain the subject 
 matter of said patents ; and all persons claiming the benefit 
 
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 of this section sliall pay to the commissioner of patents the 
 sum of twenty dollars for the use of the patent fund, unless 
 such patents are so filed for record, -with such drawings or 
 models as aforesaid, Avithin nine months from the date of 
 publication of this act, they shall l)c coiisidcreil as al)audoned, 
 and shall be null and void. And it shall be the duty of the 
 commissioner to endorse on each patent so filed for record the 
 date of such filing, and also a certificate under the seal of 
 his office that said patent has been recorded, Avhich certificate 
 shall be evidence of the fact in any court of justice, wheth- 
 er of the state or of the Confederacy, and of the rights of 
 the owner thereof to use said patent; and such patents shall,, 
 after they are recorded, be returned to the owner thoreof. 
 
 Sec. 50. A7id be it fiu-ther enacted. That in case the origi- 
 nal inventor or discoverer of the art, machine or improve- 
 ment for which a patent is solicited is a slave, the master of 
 such slave may take an oath that the said slave was the orig- 
 inal inventor; and on complying with the requisites of the 
 law, shall receive a patent for said discovery or invention, 
 and have all the rights to which a patentee is entitled by 
 law. 
 
 Sec. 51. That all patents issued by the government of 
 the United States, in favor of citizens or subjects of foreign 
 countries, prior to the eighth day of February last, shall 
 have the same force and effect in these Confederate States as 
 if issued vinder the authority of these states : Provided, That 
 this section shall not take effect in favor of any alien enemy, 
 holder or assignee of such patent as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 52. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take 
 effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 166.] AN ACT 
 
 To establish the Judicial Courts of the Confederate States of 
 America in the State of Virginia. 
 
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 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri 
 ca do enact, That the State of Virginia shall constitute twa 
 judicial districts, the territorial boundaries of which shal 
 be the same as those existing by force of the laws of th 
 United States, when the said State of Virginia seceded froml 
 the United States, and shall be known and designated as the 
 Eastern and Western Judicial Districts of the Confederate 
 States of America in Virginia. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That a judge and marshal 
 and attorney shall be appointed by the President of the Con- 
 federate States for each of said districts; and that the juris- 
 diction exercised by the said district courts and the judges 
 thereof shall be the same in all respects as that exercised by 
 the other district courts of the Confederate States and the 
 judges of such courts, respectively : and that the said courts 
 shall in all respects be subject to the provisions of the act 
 entitled '' An act to establish the judicial courts of the Con- 
 federate States of America." 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 167.] AN ACT 
 
 To prescribe the mode of publishing the Laws and Treaties 
 of the Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That it shall be the duty of the Attorney Gen- 
 eral to select from the laws and resolutions passed at each 
 session, such as may be of a public nature and which in his 
 judgment require immediate publication, and cause the same 
 to be inserted weekly, for one month, in one public gazette 
 published at the seat of government in each state, and also 
 in two gazettes published at the capital of the Confederate 
 States. 
 
 Sec. 2. All treaties entered into by the Confederate States 
 shall be published in the same manner: but the President 
 may, in his discretion, order the publication of particular 
 treaties in other gazettes published at other places. 
 
 Sec. 3. The compensation for publication of the laws in 
 
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 the ffazettes shall not exceed one dollar and a half per page, 
 estimated according to Little & Brown's edition of the laws 
 of the United States. 
 
 Approved May 21, 18G1. 
 
 No. 168.] AN ACT 
 
 To prescribe the Salary of the Trivato Secretary of the Tre- 
 sidcnt of the Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States do enact, 
 That from and after the passage of this act, the salary of 
 the private secretary of the rresi<lent of the Confede- 
 rate States shall be at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars 
 
 per annum. , . . . ^^i • 
 
 Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws mitigating against this 
 
 act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 169.] AN ORDINANCE 
 
 Of the Convention of the Congress of the Confederate 
 
 States. 
 Be it ordained by the Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the second paragraph of the first section of 
 the third Article of the Constitution of the Confederate 
 States of America, be so amended in the first lino of said 
 paragraph, as to read, " Each state shall, until otherwise 
 enacted by law, constitute a district;" and in the sixth line, 
 after the word "judge," add "or judges." 
 
 Approved, May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 170.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an act entitled " An Act recognizing the exist- 
 ence of war between the United States and the Confede- 
 rate States, and concerning Letters of Marque, Prizes 
 and Prize Goods, approved May 6th, one thousand eight 
 hundred and sixty-one. 
 Section 1 . Tlie Congress of the Confederate States do enact, 
 
 That the tenth section of the above entitleci^act be so 
 
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 amended that, in addition to the bounty therein men 
 tioned, the government of the Confederate States will pay 
 to the cruiser or cruisers of any private armed vessel com- 
 missioned under said act, twenty per centum on the value 
 of each and every vessel of war belonging to the enemy, 
 that may be sunk or destroyed by such private armed vessel 
 or vessels, the value of the armament to be included in the 
 estimate. The valuation to be made by a board of naval 
 officers appointed, and their award to be approved by the 
 President, and the amount found to be due to be payable in 
 eight per cent, bonds of the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 2. That if any person who may have invented or 
 may hereafter invent any new kind of armed vessel, or float- 
 ing battery, or defence, shall deposit a plan of the same, 
 accompanied by suitable explanations or specifications, in 
 the navy department, together with an affidavit setting forth 
 that he is the inventor thereof, such deposit and affidavit 
 (unless the facts set forth therein shall be disproved) shall 
 entitle such inventor or his assigns to the sole and exclusive 
 enjoyment of the rights and privileges conferred by this act, 
 reserving, however, to the government, in all cases, the right 
 of using such invention. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 
 No. 171.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the pay of additional officers, non-commis- 
 sioned officers, musicians and privates of the Marine 
 Corps, to constitute a Regiment, and for the additional 
 clothing and subsistence of the non-commissioned officers, 
 musicians and privates, for the year ending February the 
 eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. 
 That the sum of ninety-five thousand tAvo hundred and for- 
 ty dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any 
 money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
 pay of additional officers, musicians and privates of the ma- 
 rine corps, and subsistence for the same for and during the 
 year ending February the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-two, said sum to be appropriated as follows : One colo- 
 nel, (for nine months.) two thousand dollars ; lieutenant 
 colonel, (for nine months,) eighteen hundred dollars ; quar- 
 
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 termaster, (additional.) five luindred dollavB ; payniaster 
 (additional,) five hundred dollars; adjutant, (additional) 
 five hundred dollars ; four captains, five thousand two hun- 
 dred dollars ; four first lieutenants, three thousand six hun- 
 dred dollars; fourteen second lieutenants, ten thousand and 
 eighty dollars; additional non-commissioned officers and 
 musicians, four thousand eight hundred dollars; tjvo hun- 
 dred and forty additional privates at eleven dollars pei 
 month, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty dol- 
 lars ; additional clothing for non-commissioned officers, mu- 
 sich^s and privates, fifteen thousand dollars ; additional ra- 
 tions for non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates 
 sixty six thousand rations at sixteen thousand five hundreit 
 dollars ; additional expenses of recruiting, transportation ot 
 officers and men. five thousand dollars ; pay of armories and 
 purchase of small arms, ordnance stores, accoutrements, 
 flags, &c., four thousand dollars ; contingencies, including 
 freight, cartage, &c., two thousand dollars. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 172.] AN ACT 
 
 To increase the Clerical Force of the Treasury Department, 
 in the Bureau of Second Auditor. 
 
 The Co7igress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the clerical force in 'the office of Second Auditor of the 
 Treasury Department shall consist as follows : One chie. 
 clerk, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum ; 
 five clerks at salaries each of twelve hundred dollars per 
 annum ; and five clerks with salaries each of one thousand 
 dollars per annum : Provided, That the Secretary of the 
 Treasury shall have the same power to distribute said clerks 
 among the other bureaus of the Treasury Department, if in 
 his judgment the public interest requires, as is given to him 
 by the act " To create the clerical force of the several exe- 
 cutive departments of the Confederate States of America, 
 approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 173.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In regard to the Clerical Department of Congress. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America^ 
 That the Secretary of the Congress be authorized to employ 
 such additional clerical force as maj^ be necessary to dispatch 
 the business of his office daring the remainder of the ses- 
 sion, at six dollars per day each. 
 
 Appro YED May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 174.] A RESOLUTION. 
 
 To provide for the Removal of the Seat of Government. 
 
 Resolved by the Cojigress of the Confederate States of America^ 
 That this Congr(.ss will adjourn on Tuesday next, to meet 
 again on the twentieth day of July, at Richmond, Virginia; 
 and that a committee of three members of this Congress be 
 appointed to make suitable arrangements for the accommo- 
 dation of Congress, and of the several executive depart- 
 ments. Resolved, further, That the President be and is here- 
 by authorized to cause the several executive departments, 
 with the archives thereof, to be removed at such time be- 
 tween this and the twentieth day of July next, as he may 
 determine, to Richmond : Provided, however, That in case of 
 any public emergency which may, in the judgment of the 
 President, render it impolitic to meet in Richmond, the 
 President shall have power by proclamation to call the Con- 
 gress together at some other convenient place to be selected 
 by him. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 175.] AN ACT 
 
 To authorize certain Debtors to pay the amounts due by 
 them into the Treasury of the Confederate States. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Co? federate S tales of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That all persons in any manner indebted to 
 individuals or corporations in the United States of America, 
 (except the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and 
 Missouri, and the District of Columbia,) be and are hereby 
 
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 prohibited from paying the same to their respective credit- 
 ors, or their agents or assignees, pending the existing war 
 waged by that government against the Confederate States, 
 or any one of the shxvcholding States before named. 
 
 Sf.c. 2. Any person indebted as aforesaid sliall be and is 
 hereby authorized to pay the amount of his indebtedness 
 into the treasury of the Confederate States, in specie or 
 treasury notes, and sliall receive from the treasurer a certi- 
 ficate, countersigned by the register, showing the amount 
 paid and on what account, and the rate of interest which the 
 same was bearing. 
 
 Sf.c. 3. Such certificate shall bear like interest with the 
 original contract, and shall be redeemable, at the close of the 
 war and the restoration of peace, in specie or its equivalent, 
 on presentation of the original certificate. 
 
 Sf.c. 4. All laws and parts of laws militating against this 
 act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 116.] AN ACT 
 
 To transfer the Testimony taken by Commission, in certain 
 suits therein named, brought in the Circuit and District 
 Courts of the United States of America to the State 
 Courts of the Confederate States, and to authorize the 
 same to be read in said State Courts. 
 
 Section 1. The Congjrss of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That in all cases where suits have been insti- 
 tuted in the circuit or district courts of the United States of 
 America, whether at laAV or in equit}'-, by a citizen or citi- 
 zens of one of the Confederate States of America, against 
 a citizen or citizens of another of the said Confederate 
 States, and said suits or any of them shall be re-commenced 
 in the State courts of any of the Confederate States, the 
 evidence taken, in such suits whilst pending in the circuit 
 or district courts of the United States, by commission, shall 
 be read upon the trial of such suits so re-commenced in the 
 State courts aforesaid, under such rules and regulations as 
 obtain respectively in the State courts of the Confederate 
 States; except that no objection shall be good and available 
 to the execution and return of the commissions for taking 
 
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 testimony which would not be good and available in the cir- 
 
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 cuit or district courts of the United States from which they 
 issued, and that all consents between parties or their attor- 
 neys entered into touching the return and execution of the 
 commissions for taking testimony and as to the admissibility 
 of evidence, entered into in the said suits whilst pending in 
 the said courts of the United States, shall be valid, and ob- 
 tain in the said suits so re-commenced in the State courts of 
 the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 2. That upon the application of either party, his 
 agent or attorney, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the 
 district courts of the Confederate States to transmit under 
 his hand and seal, duly certified, all the testimony taken by 
 commission in any case so brought as aforesaid in any of the 
 circuit or district courts of the United States, to the clerk 
 of the State court where the same may be re-commenced, as 
 well as all consents as aforesaid touching the execution and 
 return of commissions and the admissibility of testimony. 
 That he shall receive for such service the sum of one dol- 
 lar, to be paid by the party applying for the same, which 
 sum shall be taxed in the bill of cost in the State courts, 
 and abide the result of the suit as other costs in like cases. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That the State of Arkansas 
 shall constitute two judicial districts, the limits and bounda- 
 ries of which, and the officers thereof, shall be the same as 
 existed by force of the laws of the United States when the 
 State of Arkansas seceded from the United States, and such 
 districts shall be known and designated as the eastern and 
 western judicial districts of the Confederate States of 
 America in Arkansas. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the judges, marshals 
 and attorneys for said districts shall be appointed by the 
 President, and that the jurisdiction exercised by said district 
 courts and the judges thereof shall be the same in all re- 
 spects as that exercised by the other district courts of the 
 Confederate States and judges thereof, and that the said 
 courts shall in all respects be subject to the provisions of 
 the act entitled "an act to establish the judicial courts of 
 the Confederate States of America." 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 177.] AN ACT 
 
 To prohibit the Exportation of Cotton from the Confederate 
 States, except through the seaports of said States ; and 
 to punish persons offending therein. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That from and after the first day of June next, and 
 during the existence of the blockade of any of the ports of 
 the Confederate States of America by the government of 
 the United States, it shall not be lawful for any person to 
 export any raw cotton or cotton yarn from the Confederate 
 States of America, except through the seaports of the said 
 Confederate States ; and it shall be the duty of all the mar- 
 shals and revenue officers of the said Confederate States to 
 prevent all violations of this act. 
 
 Sec. 2. If any person shall violate, or attempt to violate 
 or evade the provisions of the foregoing section, he shall 
 forfeit all the cotton or cotton yarn thus attempted to be ille- 
 gally exported, for the use of the Confederate States ; and, 
 in addition thereto, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not ex- 
 ceeding five thousand dollars, or else imprisoned in some 
 public jail or penitentiary for a period not exceeding six 
 months, at the discretion of the court, after conviction upon 
 trial by a court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person informing as to a violation, or at- 
 tempt to violate the provisions of this act, shall be entitled 
 to one-half the proceeds of the articles forfeited by reason 
 of his information. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any justice of the peace, on information under 
 oath from any person, of a violation or attempt to violate 
 this act, may issue his warrant and cause the cotton or cot- 
 ton yarn specified in the affidavit to be seized and retained 
 until an investigation can be had before the courts of the 
 Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 5. Every steamboat or railroad car which shall be 
 used with the consent of the owner or person having the 
 same in charge, for the purpose of violating this act, shall 
 be forfeited in like manner to the use of the Confederate 
 States. But nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 
 prohil)it exportation of cotton to ^Icxico through its co-ter- 
 minous frontier. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 178.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the Pay of the OiEcers who have resigned 
 from the United States Navy, and whom it is proposed to 
 add to the Confederate States Navy, 
 
 Be it enacted hy the Congress of the Confederate States of 
 America, That the sum of three hundred and fifty-two thou- 
 sand six hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appro- 
 priated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 
 appropriated, to be expended in the pay of the officers who 
 have resigned from the United States Navy, and whom it is 
 proposed to add to that of the Confederate States, said sum 
 to be appropriated as follows : For the pay of twelve cap- 
 tains, on and off duty, % 40,000 ; twenty-nine commanders, 
 on and off duty, $71,000; eighty lieutenants, $139,400; 
 twent^'-five surgeons, including passed assistant surgeons, 
 $56,200; twelve assistant surgeons, $ 14,400; sixteen pay- 
 masters, $ 31,600. To pay Captains Lawrence Rousseau, 
 Josiah Tatnall, Victor M. Randolph, and Duncan M. Ingra- 
 ham, and Commander Raphael Semmes certain travelling 
 expenses, as per resolution of March 15th, 1861, ($593,) 
 . five hundred and ninety-three dollars. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 179.] AN ACT 
 
 To make Temporary Disposition of certain Railroad Iron. 
 
 Whereas, In furtherance of a contract between Thomas 
 C. Bates, an alien enemy residing in the State of New York, 
 and the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company, a 
 large quantity of railroad iron is on deposit at New Orleans 
 and on the Mississippi and Red rivers, intended by said con- 
 trict for said road, and said alien being now incapable of 
 carrying on his contract. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States do e?iact, That said 
 Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company be and is 
 hereby authorized to take possession of said iron, upon pay- 
 ment of duty and lawful charges, if any, and lay the same 
 on their road, upon giving bond to the Secretary of the 
 Treasury to respond for the payment of said iron, as Con- 
 
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 gress may hereafter direct, the ultimate rights of all persons 
 being hereby reserved until such legislation. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861, 
 
 No. 180.] AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the cession, on the part of the State of Ar- 
 kansas, of the Arsenal at Little Rock, and of Fort Smith 
 at the city of Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, to 
 the Confederate States of America, and the acceptance of 
 the same by the said Confederate States. 
 
 Whereas, By ordinance of the Convention of the State of 
 Arkansas, passed the 1 1th day of May, 1861, herewith sub- 
 mitted, authority was conferred upon the delegation of the 
 State of Arkansas to cede to the Confederate States the 
 arsenal at Little Rock, and Fort Smith at the city of Fort 
 Smith, in the State of Arkansas, and the grounds, buildings 
 and appurtenances attached to each, in accordance "with the 
 terms of said ordnance, Therefore 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 That the cession as hereinbefore recited is hereby accepted, 
 and it is now made the duty of the Secretary of War to 
 accept a deed of cession of the said arsenal and other pro- 
 perty to be executed by the said delegation, and to take 
 charge of and hold the same in the name of the government 
 of the Confederate States of America. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 181.] AN ACT 
 
 Relative to Prisoners of War. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That all prisoners of war taken, whether on 
 land or at sea, during the pending hostilities with the United 
 States, shall be transferred by the captors, from time to time 
 and as often as convenient, to the Department of War; and 
 it shall be the duty of tlie Secretary of War, witli the ap- 
 proval of the President, to issue such instructions to the 
 
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 Quartermaster General and his subordinates as shall provide 
 for the safe custody and sustenance of prisoners of war ; 
 and the rations furnished prisoners of war shall be the same 
 in quantity and quality as those furnished to enlisted men 
 in the army of the Confederacy, 
 
 Sec. 2. That the eighth section of the act entitled '^ An 
 Act recognizing the existence of war between the United 
 States and the Confederate States, and concerning Letters 
 of Marque, Prizes and Prize Goods," shall not be so con- 
 strued as to authorize the holding as prisoners of war the 
 officers or crew of any unarmed vessel, nor any passenger 
 on such vessels, unless such passengers be persons employed 
 in the public service of the enemy. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the tenth section of the above recited act 
 shall not be so construed as to allow a bounty for prisoners 
 captured on vessels of the enemy and brought into port, 
 unless such prisoners were captured on board of an armed 
 ship or vessel of the enemy of equal or superior force to 
 that of the private armed vessel making the capture. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 182.] AN ACT 
 
 For the publication of the Laws. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, That five hundred copies of the acts of this 
 session of Congress be published in pamphlet form, to be 
 distributed as follows : one copy to the executive of each of 
 the Confederate States; one to each judge of the district 
 courts of the Confederate States ; one to the executive of the 
 Confederacy ; one to the head of each department and of 
 each bureau ; one to each member of Congress, and one to 
 each clerk of the district courts, and the remainder to be 
 kept in the office of the Department of Justice, for the fur- 
 ther order of Congress. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 183.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 In reference to printing the Tariff Act, and other documents 
 connected therewith. 
 
 Resolved, That five hundred copies of the tariff act be 
 printed for the use of Congress, and also five hundred copies 
 of a comparative statement of the rates of duty under the 
 United States tariff of 1857, the Confederate iStates tariff 
 just established, and the United States tariff now of force, 
 be printed under the authority of the Secretary of the 
 Treasury. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 184.] AN ACT 
 
 Making Appropriations for the support of the Navy, for the 
 year ending eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States do 
 enact. That the following sums be and the same are 
 hereby appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, 
 for the year ending the eighteenth of February, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-two : 
 
 Navy — For purchase of nautical instruments, books and 
 charts for Confederate States Navy, five thousand five hun- 
 dred dollars. For equipment and repair of vessels of Con- 
 federate States Navy, one hundred thousand dollars. For 
 laboratory for safe-keeping ordnance stores, and labor in 
 preparing them, thirty-seven thousand dollars. For ord- 
 nance and ordnance stores, eighty thousand dollars. For 
 " contingent enumerated," for the following purposes, viz : 
 Freight and transportation; printing and stationery; ad- 
 vertising ; models and drawings ; repair of fire engines and 
 hose repairs, and attending to steam engines in yards ; pur- 
 chase and maintenance of horses and oxen and drawing 
 teams; carts, lumber, wheels, and the purchase and repair 
 of workman's tools; postage on public letters ; fuel, oil and 
 candles for navy yards and shore stations ; pay of watch- 
 men, and incidental labor not chargeable to other appropria- 
 tions ; wharfage, dockage and rent ; travelling expenses of 
 officers and others, under orders ; funeral expenses ; store 
 and office rent ; commissions and pay of navy agents and 
 clerks ; flags, awnings and packing boxes ; books for libra- 
 
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 ries of vessels ; premiums and other expenses of recruiting ; 
 appreliending deserters ; per diem pay of persons attending 
 courts martial, courts of inquir}^ and other services author- 
 ized by law; pay of judge advocate; pilotage and tonnage 
 of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress ; and for bills 
 of health and quarantine expenses ; fifty thousand dollars. 
 For medical supplies and surgeons' necessaries for sick of 
 navy, engineer and marine corps, six thousand dollars. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 185.] AN ACT 
 
 Supplemental to an Act to establish the Judicial Courts of 
 the Confederate States of America. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 do enact. That in all suits and actions in any district court 
 of the Confederate States, in which the judge of such court 
 may be interested, or may have been of counsel of either 
 party, or is connected with or related to either party, so as to 
 render it improper for him to sit on the trial of such suit or 
 action, it shall be his duty to cause the fact to be entered on 
 the records of the court ; also an order that an authenticated 
 copy thereof, and a copy of all the proceedings, orders, 
 pleadings and papers in such suit or action, shall be forth- 
 with certified to the most convenient district court free from 
 like objection , which said district court, upon such record 
 being filed with the clerk thereof, shall take cognizance 
 thereof, in the like manner as if such suit or action had been 
 originally commenced in said court, and shall proceed to 
 hear and determine the same accordingly. And the juris- 
 diction of such district court shall extend to all such cases 
 so removed as were recognizable in the district court from 
 which the same were removed. 
 
 Sec. 2. When any appeal or Avrit of error v*^as pending in 
 any of the late circuit courts of the United States, from any 
 of the late district courts of the United States, and the judge 
 of the present district court to which such appeal or writ of 
 error is transferred is the same person Avho rendered the 
 decree of judgment from which such appeal or writ of error 
 was taken, then such appeal or Avrit of error shall be trans- 
 
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 ferrcdtotlie Supreme Court of the Confederate States, upon 
 the party giving bond and surety, as required by hiw in case 
 of an appeal or writ of error sued out to said Supreme Court. 
 And an authentic copy of the record, under the seal of the 
 district court, shall be sent along with such bond to the said 
 Supreme Court, which court shall thereupon proceed to hear 
 and determine the same, as in other cases. 
 
 Sec, 3. When in any case heretofore decided in any of 
 the late district or circuit courts of the United States, cither 
 party had the right to appeal or to prosecute a writ of error, 
 so as to suspend execution, but have been prevented from 
 so doing within the time fixed by law, b.' the closing of the 
 courts on the secession of the several States, in all such 
 cases a further period of six months from the time of hold- 
 ing the first term of the district court of the Confederate 
 States in such district shall be allowed such party, within 
 which to take an appeal or sue out a Avrit of error ; and 
 such appeal or writ of error shall have the same efi"ect as if 
 sued out or taken within the time prescribed by the former 
 laws. 
 
 Sec. 4- The oflScial bonds of all clerks a^id marshals of 
 the courts of the Confederate States shall be deposited in 
 the Department of Justice. In case of any suit thereon, in 
 favor or for the use either of the government or of an indi- 
 vidual or a corporation, such suit may be maintained on a 
 copy of such bond, authenticated by said department under 
 its seal, in the same manner as upon the original. But if 
 the execution of such bond shall be desired by any party 
 thereto, by a plea of 7iwi est factum, supported by affidavit, 
 then it shall be necessary to produce the original before the 
 trial of such suit ; and in such case, the said department 
 shall transmit the original bond, retaining a copy thereof, to 
 the court in which such suit is pending ; but the same shall 
 be returned to the said department, when the suit is ended. 
 
 Sec. 5. Where, in any case, there is no building provided 
 for holding a court of the Confederate States, it shall be the 
 duty of the Department of Justic* to provide suitable ac- 
 commodations for holding it, and to furnish the necessary 
 books for records and dockets for the proper conducting of 
 the business of the court, sul)ject in all instances to the ap- 
 proval of the President. 
 
 Sec. 6. The forty-eighth section of the act to which this 
 is a supplement shall l)e and the same is hereby amended, so 
 as to permit either party to file the transcripting the re- 
 cord and copy of the bonds, as therein required, in the Su- 
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 preme Court of the Confederate States, without dismissing 
 the appeal or writ of error in the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, where the said court refuses to dismiss the 
 same upon motion ; and that the said section be also amend- 
 ed so as to allow the period of tAvelve months from the time 
 of the organization of the Supreme Court of the Confede- 
 rate States for filing such transcript and bond, instead of the 
 time in said section prescribed. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 186.] AN ACT 
 
 Relative to the Library of Congress. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact ^ 
 That the books purchased by the committee appointed to re- 
 vise the laws of the United States be delivered to the Se- 
 cretary of Congress, and be retained by him for the use and 
 benefit of the members of Congress ; and the secretary sell 
 the furniture and other effects belonging to the gov- 
 ernment, which shall be turned over to the committee on re- 
 vision. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 187.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 Regulating the Payment of Unadjusted Accounts. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America^ 
 That any account against the Congress left unadjusted at 
 this session by the committee on accounts, shall be paid out 
 of the contingent fund, if found to be just, by the first Au- 
 ditor of the Treasury and the Secretary of Congress, and 
 on their joint certificates ; and, and the secretary be required 
 to submit a detailed statement thereof to the Congress, at 
 its next session. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 188.1 AN ACT 
 
 For tlie Relief of District Attorneys of tlic Confederate 
 States in the fickl. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of tlie Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact. That whenever a district attorney of the Con- 
 federate States may enter the military service of the Con- 
 federate States, he may, by the consent of the district judge, 
 entered of record, appoint an attorney pro tempore duriag 
 his absence. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 190.] AN ACT 
 
 Assigning the Jndge, District Attorney and Marshal for the 
 District of Texas, to the Eastern District of said State. 
 
 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
 ca do enact. That the district judge, heretofore denominated 
 the District Judge for the District of Texas, be hereafter 
 denominated the District Judge for the Eastern District of 
 Texas ; and that the district attorney heretofore denominated 
 the District Attorney for the District of Texas, be hereafter 
 denominated the District Attorney for the Eastern District 
 of Texas ; and the marshal heretofore denominated the Mar- 
 shal for the District of Texas, be hereafter denominated the 
 Marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 191.] AN ACT 
 
 Making Appropriation to Defray the Expenses of Removing 
 the Scat of Government to Richmond, Virginia. 
 
 Secticx 1 . The Congress of !hc Confederate States of ylmrr- 
 i:a do enact, That the f(dlo\ving appropriation is made, out of 
 any money in tlie treasury not otherwise appropriated, for 
 the object hereafter expressed, for the year ending eighteenth 
 
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 of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two : For rent of 
 executive buildings and President's house, furniture, ex- 
 penses of packing books and records, railroadfreight on fur- 
 niture, books and records of the government, from Montgo- 
 mery to Richmond, drayage and incidental and contingent 
 expenses attending the removal, forty thousand dollars. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
 No. 192.] A RESOLUTION 
 
 To confer certain Powers on the Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica, That the Secretary of the Treasury take measures for 
 selling the unexpired lease of the President's house and of 
 the buildings used for the departments, or for being relieved 
 from any portion of the rent, as soon as the seat of govern- 
 ment shall have been removed ; and that he cause all furni- 
 ture no longer wanted to be sold. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
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 No. 189.] AN ACT 
 
 To secure Copy-riglits to Authors and Composers. 
 
 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer- 
 ica do enact, Any person or persons, being a citizen or citi- 
 zens of the Confederate States, or resident therein, who shall 
 be the author or authors of any book or books, map, chart 
 or musical composition, which may be now made or compo- 
 sed, and not printed and pul)lished, or shall hereafter be 
 made or composed, or who shall invent, design, etch, en- 
 grave, Avork or cause to be engraved, etched or worked from 
 his own design any print or engraving, and the executors, 
 administrators or legal assigns of such person or persons, 
 shall liave the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, 
 publishing and vending such book or books, map, chart or 
 musical composition, print, cut or engraving, in whole or in 
 part, for the term of twenty-eight years from the time of 
 recording the title thereof, in the manner hereinafter di- 
 rected. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall be entitled to the benefit of this 
 act, unless he shall, before publication, deposit a printed 
 copy of the title of such book or books, map, chart, musical 
 composition, print, cut or engraving, in the clerk's office of 
 the district court of the district wherein the author or pro- 
 prietor shall reside. And the clerk of such court is hereby 
 directed and required to record the same thereof forthwith, 
 in a book to be kept for that purpose, in the words following 
 (giving a copy of the title, under the seal of the court, to 
 the said author or proprietor, whenever he shall require the 
 same) : "District of , to-wit : Be it remember- 
 
 ed, that on the day of Anno Domini , A 
 
 B, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title 
 of a book (map, chart or otherwise, as the case may be), the 
 title of which is in the words following, to-wit (here insert 
 the title) : the right whereof he claims as author (or propri- 
 etor, as the case may be), in conformity with an act of Con- 
 gress entitled 'An Act to secure Copy-rights to Authors and 
 Composers.' CD, Clerk of the District.''^ For which record 
 the clerk shall be entitled to receive from the person claim- 
 ing such right as aforesaid, fifty cents ; and the like sum for 
 every copy, under seal, actually given to such person, or his 
 assigns. And the author or jiroprietor of any such book, 
 map, chart, musical composition, print, cut or engraving, 
 shall, within three months from the publication of said book, 
 map, chart, musical composition, print, cut or engraving. 
 
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 deliver or cause to be delivered a copy of the same to the 
 clerk of said district. And it shall be the duty of the clerk 
 of each district court, at least once in every year, to trans- 
 mit a certified list of all such records of copy-right, inclu- 
 ding the titles so recorded, and the dates of record; and also 
 all the several copies of books or other works deposited in 
 his office according to this act, to the Secretary of State, to 
 be preserved in his office. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall be entitled to the benefit of this 
 act, unless he shall give information of the copy -right being 
 secured, by causing to be inserted in the several copies of 
 each and every edition published during the term secured, 
 on the title page, or page immediately following, if it be a 
 book, or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut or 
 engraving, by causing to be impressed on the face thereof; 
 or if a volume of maps, charts, music or engravings, upon 
 the title or frontispiece thereof, the following words, viz : 
 " Entered according to the act of Congress, in year 
 by A B, in the clerk's office of the district court of 
 (as the case may be). 
 
 Sec. 4. The author or proprietor of any book, map, chart, 
 musical composition, print, cut or engraving, for which a 
 copy-right shall be secured under the existing acts of Con- 
 gress, or those which shall hereafter be enacted respecting 
 copy-rights, shall within three months from the publication 
 of said book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut or 
 engraving, deliver or cause to be delivered one copy of the 
 same to the Department of State, for the use of Congress. 
 
 Sec. 5, If, at the expiration of the aforesaid term of years, 
 such author, inventor, designer, engraver, or any of them, 
 when the work had been originally composed and made by 
 more than one person, be still living, and a citizen or citi- 
 zens of the Confederate States, or resident therein, or being 
 dead, shall have left a widow or child or children, either or 
 all then living, the same exclusive right shall be continued 
 to such author, designer, or engraver; or if dead, then to such 
 widow and child or children, for the further term of fourteen 
 years : Provided, That the title of the work so secured shall 
 be a second time recorded, and all such other regulations as 
 are herein required in regard to original copy-rights, be 
 complied Avith in respect to such renewed copy-right, and 
 that within six months before the expiration of the first term. 
 
 Sec. 6. In all cases of renewal of copy-rights under this 
 act, such author or proprietor shall, within two months from 
 the date of said renewal, cause a copy of the record thereof 
 
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 to be published in one or more of the newspapers printed in 
 the Confederate States, for the space of four weeks. 
 
 Sec. 7. All deeds or instruments in writing for the trans- 
 fer or assignments of copy-rights, being proved or acknowl- 
 edged in such manner as deeds for the conveyance of land, 
 are required b_y law to be proved or acknow hedged in the 
 same state or district, shall and may be recorded in the office 
 where the original copy-right is deposited and recorded ; and 
 every such deed or instrument that sliall in any time here- 
 after be made and executed, and which sluill not be proved or 
 acknowledged and recorded as aforesaid, witliin sixty days 
 after its execution, shall be judged fraudulent and void 
 against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable 
 consideration without notice. 
 
 Sec. 8. The clerk of the district court shall be entitled to 
 such fees for performing the services herein authorized and 
 required, as he is entitled to for performing like services 
 under existing laws of the Confederate States. 
 
 Sec. 4. The district courts of the Confederate States shall 
 have original cognizance, as well in equity as at law, of all 
 actions, suits, controversies and cases arising under any law 
 of the Confederate States, granting or confirming to authors 
 or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, 
 inventions and discoveries ; and upon any bill in equity filed 
 by any party aggrieved in any such cases, shall have au- 
 thority to grant injunctions, according to the course and 
 principles of courts of equity to prevent the violation of the 
 rights of any authors or inventors, secured to them by any 
 laws of the Confederate States, on such terms and conditions 
 as the said courts may deem fit and reasonable : Provided, 
 however, That from all judgments and decrees of any district 
 courts, rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal, 
 as the case may require, shall lie to tlie supreme court of 
 the Confederate States, in the same manner and under the 
 same circumstances as is now provided by law in other judg- 
 ments and decrees of such district courts, without regard to 
 the amount of the decree, verdict or judgment appealed 
 from. 
 
 Sec. 10. If any other person or persons, from and after 
 the recording of the title of any book or books, according 
 to this act, shall, within the term or terms herein limited, 
 print, publish or import, or cause to be printed, published or 
 imported, any copy of such book or Imoks, witliout the con- 
 sent of the person legally entitled to the copy-right thereof, 
 first had and obtained in writing, signed in presence of two 
 or more credible witnesses, or sliall, knowing the same to be 
 
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 so printed or imported, publish, sell or expose to sale, or 
 cause to be published, sold or exposed to sale, any copy of 
 such book without such consent in writing, then such offen- 
 der shall forfeit every copy of such book to the person legal- 
 ly at the time entitled to the copy-right thereof; and shall 
 also forfeit and pay fifty cents for every such sheet which 
 may be found in his possession, either printed or printing, 
 published, imported or exposed to sale, contrary to the in- 
 tent of this act : the one moiety thereof to such legal owner 
 of the copy-right as aforesaid, and the other to the use of 
 the Confederate States; to be recovered by action of debt in 
 any court having competent jurisdiction thereof. 
 
 Sec. 11. If any person or persons, after the recording 
 the title of any print, cut or engraving, map, chart or musi- 
 cal composition, according to the provisions of this act, shall, 
 within the term or terms limited by this act, engrave, etch 
 or work, sell or copy, or cause to be engraved, etched, work- 
 ed or sold, or copied, either in the whole, or by varying, 
 adding to, or diminishing the main design, with intent to 
 evade the law ; or shall print or import for sale, or cause to 
 be printed or imported for sale, any such map, chart, musi- 
 cal composition, print,, cut or engraving, or any parts there- 
 of, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors of 
 the copy-right thereof, first obtained in Avriting, signed in 
 the presence of two credible witnesses ; or knowing the same 
 to be so printed or imported without such consent as afore- 
 said, then such offender or offenders shall forfeit the plate or 
 plates on which such map, chart, musical composition, en- 
 graving, cut or print shall be copied, and also all and every 
 sheet thereof so copied or printed as aforesaid, to the pro- 
 prietor or proprietors of the copy-right thereof; and shall 
 further forfeit one dollar for every sheet of such map, chart, 
 musical composition, print, cut or engraving, Avhich may be 
 found in his or their possession, printed or published, or ex- 
 posed to sale, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this 
 act : the one moiety thereof to the proprietor or proprietors, 
 and the other moiety to the use of the Confederate States; to 
 be recovered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. 
 
 Sec. 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed to extend 
 to prohibit the importation or vending, printing or publish- 
 ing of any map, chart, musical composition, print or engrav- 
 ing, written, composed or made by any person not being a 
 citizen of the Confederate States, nor resident within the 
 jurisdiction thereof, except as hereinafter provided for. 
 
 Sec. 13. Any person or persons who shall print or pub- 
 lish any manuscript whatever, without the consent of the 
 
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 author or legal proprietor first obtained as aforesaid (if such 
 author or proprietor be a citizen of the Confederate States, 
 or resident therein), shall be liable to suifer and pay the au- 
 thor and proprietor all damages occasioned by such injury; 
 to be recovered by a special action on the case founded upon 
 this act, in any court having cognizance thereof: And the 
 several courts of the Confederate States empowered to grant 
 injunctions to prevent the violation of the rights of authors 
 and inventors, are hereby empowered to grant injunctions in 
 like manner, according to the principles of equity, to re- 
 strain such publication ot any manuscript as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 14. Any copy-right hereafter granted under the laws 
 of the Confederate States, to the author or proprietor of any 
 dramatic composition, designed or suited for public repre- 
 sentation, shall be deemed and taken to confer upon the said 
 author or proprietor, his heirs or assigns, along with the solo 
 right to print and publish the said composition, the sole right 
 also to act, perform or represent the same, or cause it to be 
 acted, performed or represented, on any stage or public 
 place, during the whole period for Avhich the copy-right is 
 obtained; and any manager, actor or other person acting, 
 performing or representing the said composition, without or 
 against the consent of the said author or proprietor, his 
 heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages, to be sued for 
 and recovered by action on the case or other equivalent 
 remedy, with costs of suit, in any court of the Confederate 
 States. Such damages in all cases to be rated and assessed 
 at such sum not less than one hundred dollars for the first, 
 and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance, as to the 
 court having cognizance thereof shall appear to be just: 
 Provided, nevertheless. That nothing herein enacted shall im- 
 pair any right to act, perform or represent a dramatic com- 
 position as aforesaid, which right may have been acquired, 
 or shall in future be acquired by any manager, actor or 
 other person previous to the securing of the copy-riglit for 
 the said composition, or to restrict in any way the right of 
 such author to process in eciuity in any court of the Con- 
 federate States, for the better and further enforcement of 
 his right. 
 
 Six. 15. If any person or persons shall be sued or prose- 
 cuted for any matter, act or thing done under or by virtue 
 of this act, he or they may plead the general issue, and give 
 the special matter in evidence. 
 
 Six. 16. If any person or persons, from and after the 
 passing of this act, shall print or publish any book, map, 
 chart, musical composition, print, cut or engraving, not hav- 
 
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 ing legally acquired the copy-riglit thereof, and shall insert 
 or impress that the same hath been entered according to act 
 of Congress, or words purporting the same, every person so 
 offending shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars: one 
 moiety thereof to the person who shall sue for the same, and 
 the other to the use of the Confederate States ; to be recov- 
 ered by action of debt in any court of record having cogni- 
 zance thereofi 
 
 Sec. 17. No action or prosecution shall be maintained in 
 any case of forfeiture or penalty under this act, unless the 
 same shall have been commenced within two years after the 
 cause of action shall have arisen. 
 
 Sec. 18. Be it further enacted. That all the rights and 
 privileges allowed by this act to authors, composers and de- 
 signers, citizens of the Confederate States, be and are hereby 
 extended to authors, composers and designers, citizens or 
 subjects of any foreign state or poAver, by whose laws like 
 rights and privileges are granted to the citizens of this Con- 
 federacy, on the following conditions, viz : First, that copy- 
 rights shall be applied for in this Confederacy within four 
 months from the time of the publication of the original in 
 the foreign state to which the applicant owes allegiance. 
 Second, that the actual and bona fide publication of the book 
 or other thing for which copy-right is sought, shall be com- 
 menced within the limits of this Confederacy within six 
 months from the date of the granting of such copy-rights. 
 On failure to comply with either of these conditions, all the 
 rights and 2)rivileges attaching to the copy-right granted, 
 shall cease and be of no effect. 
 
 Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, That all re-prints or publi- 
 cations of books, maps, charts, musical and other composi- 
 tions and designs, for which copy-rights may be granted 
 under the provisions of the foregoing section, made or had 
 in any state or country, denying the privilege of copy-right 
 to the author, composer or designer thereof, shall not be 
 introduced for sale into the Confederate States ; and any 
 person introducing or selling such re-prints, shall be liable 
 to all the penalties hereinbefore prescribed for a violation of 
 copy-rights. 
 
 Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect 
 and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1861. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 ADJUTANT— 
 
 Subaltern of the line may be assigned duty, - - 48 
 
 Forage. - - _ - - - 48 
 
 ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL— 
 
 Appropriation for department, - - - - 44 
 
 AIDS DE CAMP— 
 
 General entitled to two, - - - - 28 
 
 IIow selected, ------ 28 
 
 Forage, -------48 
 
 ALIEN ENEMY— 
 
 Debts due, may be paid into treasury, and certificates 
 
 bearing interest received, _ - - - 88-89 
 
 Payment of debt prohibited, - - - - 88-89 
 
 APPEALS— 
 
 From first auditor to comi)trol]er on P. 0. accounts, 20 
 "When pending in supreme court U. S., and either 
 
 party would transfer to supreme court C. S. A., - 97-98 
 
 Further time for transfer, - - - - 98 
 
 Pending in late circuit court U. S., - - 96 
 
 Further time allowed in certain cases, - - 97 
 
 APPO I NT M ENTS— 
 
 Authority to President to continue until next session 
 
 of congress, ------ 32 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS — 
 
 Additional, for military service, _ - - 42-44 
 
 Legislative, executive and miscellaneous expenses, - 44-45 
 Post-otlicc department, - - - - - 46 
 
 Incidental expenses within certain Indian tribes, - 49 
 Military expenditures at Charleston, - - - 10 
 
 Removal to Richmond, - - - - - 99 
 
 Marine corps, ------ 86-87 
 
 President may direct to other branch in same depart- 
 ment, -------17 
 
 ARKANSAS— 
 
 Cession to Confederate States of arsenal, etc., - - 93 
 
 Admission, ------ 38 
 
 ARMS— 
 
 Purchase and use of, patented, - - - - 30 
 
108 
 
 AKMY— 
 
 Resolution of thanks, ----- 3-4 
 
 Transportation, and allowance for clothing volun- 
 teers, and act organizing army amended, - - 47-48 
 Officers of regular, may be assigned staff duty in 
 
 provisional forces, ----- 30 
 
 Officers of regular, may be assigned rank and com- 
 mand, -------48 
 
 President may continue appointments in, until next 
 
 session of congress, - - - - - 32 
 
 Sappers and bombardiers, - _ _ _ 37-38 
 
 Chaplains, ------ 3 
 
 Light artillery, --.-.. 10-11 
 Zouaves, -------4 
 
 Volunteers during the war, _ - - - 5 
 
 " without call upon States, - - - 6-7 
 
 Appropriations, ----- 10-42-44 
 
 Subaltern of line may be assigned staff duty, - 48 
 
 President authorized to increase, and act organizing, 
 amended, ------ 28-30 
 
 ARSENALS— 
 
 Cession by Arkansas, ----- 93 
 
 ARTILLERY, 10-11 
 
 ASSISTANT PAYMASTER— 
 
 In navy, ----___ 40 
 ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, - - 29 
 
 ATTORNEYS— 
 
 See District Attorneys. 
 AUDITOR, FIRST— 
 
 Duties and powers in relation to P. 0. department, - 20-22 
 Appeal from, to comptroller on P. 0. accounts, - 20 
 
 Clerks to aid in auditing P. 0. accounts, - - 21-22 
 
 Franking privilege, - - - - - 22 
 
 AUDITOR, SECOND— 
 
 Clerical force increased, - - - - 87 
 
 BANK NOTES— 
 
 In relation to loan, - - _ _ _ 11-12 
 
 BEAUREGARD— 
 
 Resolution of thanks, ----- 3 
 
 BONDS— 
 
 Of clerks of courts and marshals, to be filed in de- 
 partment of justice, - - - - - 97 
 Practice in suits on such bonds, - - - 97 
 Confederate States loan, and punishment for forging, 32-34 
 
 BOOKS— 
 
 Provided for courts, by department of justice, - 97 
 
 BOUNTIES— 
 
 Sinking or destroying armed vessels of enemy, - 85-86 
 
 Persons on armed ships U. S. - - - - 26 
 
 Act construed, - - - - - 94 
 
 To able bodied men enlisted in army, - - 30 
 
109 
 
 BRIGADIER GENERAL— 
 
 "Brigadier" omitted, - - - - - 28 
 
 BUREAU— 
 
 Salaries of chiefs in P. 0. department, - - 12 
 
 Appointment of chiefs, ----- 12 
 Number and salaries of clerks, i^c, - - _ 12-13 
 
 Chief of contract, performs duties of P. M. general 
 
 in certain contingencies, - - _ _ 12-13 
 
 But cannot permanently appoint clerks, - - 13 
 
 Of public printing, further organization, - - lG-17 
 
 Salary of superintendent of public printing, - - 16 
 
 CADETS— 
 
 In army, --.-..- 29-30 
 
 CESSION— 
 
 Arkansas, ______ 93 
 
 CHAPLAINS— 
 
 Appointment in the army, - - _ - 3 
 
 Pay of, repealed, and again fixed, _ _ - 31-32 
 
 Appropriation for pay. - - - - - 44 
 
 CLERKS— 
 
 Disbursing, appointment and compensation, - - 31 
 
 Appointment and salaries in P. 0. department, - 12-13 
 
 In first auditor's office, to aid the auditing P. 0. ac- 
 counts ; appointment, number, &c., - - - 21-22 
 In second auditor's office, increased, - - - 87 
 Of congress, ___.-- 88 
 
 CLOTIIIXG— 
 
 Allowance for, in army, - - - - 47 
 
 COLLECTOR— 
 
 Sabine Pass, ------ 40 
 
 COMMISSARY GENERAL— 
 
 Additions to department, - - - - 29 
 
 COMMISSIONERS OF LOAN— 
 
 Acts confirmed, ------ 12 
 
 COMPTROLLER— 
 
 Appeal to, from first auditor on P. 0. accounts, - 20 
 
 CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA— 
 
 Permanent government, - - - - 41 
 
 CONGRESS— 
 
 Election of senators and representatives under per- 
 ' manent constitution, ----- 11-12 
 
 Assembling and org;ani7,ation, - - - - 41. 
 
 Count of votes for president and vice-president. - 41 
 Members from Virginia, North Carolina and Arkan- 
 
 sas, ------ i- 
 
 Computation of mileage of members, - - 11 
 
 Librar}-, -------•'" 
 
 Una<ijusted accounts, - - _ - 98 
 
 Clerical force, ------ i?8 
 
 Removal, ------ c5 
 
no 
 
 CONSTITUTION— 
 
 Amendment of provisional, - - - - ^^j 
 
 COPY-RIGHT,- - - - - 101 r.}:: 
 
 COTTON— 
 
 Exportation prohibited, except through seaports of 
 
 C. S. A. ; penalty, - - - - - 91 
 
 COUPONS, 34 
 
 COURTS— 
 
 Constitution amended, ----- 85 
 District in Texas, - - - - - 49, 99 
 
 District in Virginia, - - - - - 84 
 
 Provisions for buildings, books, &c.j - - - 97 
 
 Time and transfer of appeals, - - - 96-97-98 
 
 DEBTS— 
 
 Prohibited payment to certain alien enemies, and pay- 
 ment into treasury C. S. A., - - - - 88-89 
 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE— 
 
 Duties as to courts, - - - _ _ 97 
 
 DEPOSITIONS— 
 
 Transfer from late U. vS. courts to state courts, and 
 
 authority to read therein, - - - - 89-90 
 
 DIGEST OF LAWS, 63 
 
 DISBURSING CLERKS, 31 
 
 DISTRICT ATTORNEYS— 
 
 In Virginia, ------ 84 
 
 Entering military service, may appoint attorney pro 
 
 tem, -------99 
 
 One assigned to eastern district of Texas, - - 99 
 
 DISTRICT COURTS— 
 
 Provision for buildings, books, &c., - - - 97 
 
 In Virginia, ------ 84 
 
 In Texas, - 49-50 
 
 Constitution amended, - - - - - 85 
 
 DUTIES— - - - - - - 50, et seq. 
 
 Act defining previous act, - - - - 62 
 
 On iron for Memphis, El Paso and Pacific railroad, - 92 
 
 On prize goods, - - - - - 27 
 
 ELECTORS— 
 
 For president and vice-president, - - - 41 
 
 ENGINEER CORPS— 
 
 President may add lieutenant colonel and captains, - 29 
 
 Pay and allowances of lieutenant colonel, - - 29 
 
 EVIDENCE— 
 
 Transfer from late U. S. courts to state courts, and 
 
 authority to use, ----- 89-90 
 
 In suits on clerks' and marshals' bonds, - - 97 
 
 EXECUTIVE BUILDINGS— 
 
 Accounts for work and furniture, - - - 49 
 
 Unexpired lease at Montgomery, - - - 100 
 
Ill 
 
 t'ORAGE, 48 
 
 FORFEITURE— 
 
 Commander of privateer failing to keep journal, - 27 
 Violation of revenue law by owner or commander of 
 
 privateer, __--_. 07 
 
 FORGERY, 34 
 
 FRANKING PRIVILEGE, 15, 22 
 
 GENERAL— 
 
 Highest military title, - - - - 28 
 
 Assigned to duty and command by president, - 28 
 
 Pay and allowances, - - - - - 28 
 
 Entitled to two aids de camp, to be selected as now 
 
 provided by law, - - - - - 28 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES— 
 
 Assembling and organization, - - - 41 
 
 HOSPITALS— 
 
 Appropriation, - - - - - 43 
 
 Marine, ------ 31 
 
 Stewards, ------ 29 
 
 IMPORTS— 
 
 From certain states, exempt from duty, - - 35 
 
 Act in regard to railroad iron - - - 62 
 
 INDIANS— 
 
 Appropriation for expenses, - - - - 49 
 
 INTEREST— 
 
 On debts, paid into treasury, - - - - 89 
 
 JUDGES— 
 
 Constitution amended, - - - - - 85 
 
 In Texas, 49, 99 
 
 In Virginia, ------ 84 
 
 JUDICIAL DISTRICTS— 
 
 In Virginia, ------ 84 
 
 In Texas, 49, 99 
 
 Constitutional amendment, - - - - 85 
 
 LAWS— 
 
 Publication in gazettes, - - - - 84 
 
 Publiealion in gazettes and distribution in pamphlet 
 
 form, ------ 94 
 
 U.S. relating to district courts of Texas, - - 50 
 
 LIBRARY— 
 
 Of congress, ------ 98 
 
 LOAN, 32-34 
 
 MAILS— 
 
 Extension of service, - - - - - 36 
 
 Route from Vermillionville to Orange, - - 37 
 
 Amendatory act vesting powers in P. M. general, - 7-8 
 
 MARINE CORPS— 
 
 Further organization, - - - " - 39 
 
 Pay provided, ------ 86-87 
 
112 
 
 MARINE CORPS— Continued. 
 
 Rations, _ _ _ - 39 
 
 MARINE HOSPITALS, - - . . 31 
 
 MARQUE— 
 
 Letters, - - - - - - 23, et seq. 
 
 Act construed, - - - 85-86, 94 
 
 MARSHALS— 
 
 In Texas, 49, 99 
 
 In Virginia, - - - -"- -84 
 Bonds, 97 
 
 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Surgeons, assistant surgeons and stewards, - - 29 
 
 Medical supplies ; appropriation, - - - 43 
 
 Memphis, El Paso and Pacific railroad, - - 92-93 
 
 MESSENGER— 
 
 Bureau of public printing, - - - 16 
 
 Treasury Department, - - - - 21 
 
 MILEAGE— 
 
 Appropriation for members of congress, - - 45 
 
 Comijutation ; rule, - - - - - 11 
 
 MINTS— 
 
 Suspension; regulations, &c., _ _ _ 15-lG 
 
 Moneys and bullion transferred, _ _ _ 15-16 
 
 NAVY DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Models of new defences, vessels or batteries deposited 
 
 with specifications, - _ _ _ 85-86 
 
 NAVY— 
 
 President authorized to continue appointments, - 32 
 
 Amendatory act organizing, - - _ - 39-40 
 
 Paymasters, - - _ _ _ 40 
 
 Marine corps, ----- 39, 86-87 
 
 Pay of U. S. officers resigned, and appointed in C. S. 
 
 N., - - - - - - - 92 
 
 Appropriation for support, - _ _ - 95, 96 
 
 NEW ORLEANS— 
 
 Limits of port defined, - - - - 17 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA— 
 
 Admission, &c., - - - - - 35 
 
 OATH— 
 
 Telegraph officers. - - _ _ _ 9 
 
 OFFENCES— 
 
 Forging bonds, notes, &c., - - - - 34 
 
 Pajang debt to alien enemy, _ - _ _ 88-89 
 
 ORDINANCE— 
 
 Amending constitution, - - - - 85 
 
 ORDNANCE— 
 
 Number, pay and allowance of sergeants, - - 29 
 
 Appropriation for service, - - - - 43 
 
113 
 
 ORPHANS— 
 
 Provision for privateers, - - - - 28 
 
 PATENT OFFICE— 
 
 Organization, ----.. C3-G8 
 Navy department, - - - - - 80 
 
 PATENTS— 
 
 Resolution of 4th March extended, - - _ 4 
 
 General law, -----_ G3-83 
 Purchase and right of using arms and military sup- 
 plies and patented invention, - - - 30 
 Models of new defences, vessels or batteries, together 
 with specifications, to be deposited in navy depart- 
 ment, ...... 80 
 
 PAYMASTERS— 
 
 Assistant, in navy, - - - _ _ 40 
 
 PORTS OF ENTRY— 
 
 Sabine Pass, ------ 40 
 
 New Orleans, ------ 17-18 
 
 Baj-ou St. John, Lake Port and Port Pontchartrain 
 
 abolished, ------ ig 
 
 POSTAGE— 
 
 Rates, and when and how paid, - - _ 13_15 
 
 Franking privilege extended, - - - 15, 22 
 
 POSTMASTER GENERAL— 
 
 Act of 15th March 1861, vesting powers, amended, - 7-8 
 Duties and powers in relation to first auditor of treas- 
 ury, - - ----- - 20-21 
 
 Authority to extend mail service, - - -36 
 
 Authority to contract for carrying mail from Verniil- 
 
 lionville to Orange, - - - - - 37 
 
 Authority to employ officers of telegraph companies, 40 
 Duties performed b}^ chief of contract bureau in cer- 
 tain contingencies, ----- 12-13 
 
 Clerks, employees, &c., - - - - 12-13 
 
 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Duties and powers of first auditor of treasury, - 20-22 
 
 Appeal from first auditor to comptroller, - - 20 
 
 Postmaster general may prescribe rules for sale of 
 property mortgaged or conveyed, - - - 21 
 
 Secretary of treasury appoints clerks to aid first au- 
 ditor on accounts, - - - - - 21 
 
 Chiefs of bureaus, clerks, employees, &c. ; appoint- 
 ment, number and salaries, - - - - 12-13 
 
 Chief of contract bureau performs duties of postmas- 
 ter general in contingencies, - _ _ 12-13 
 
 Agents, messengers, &c., pass free of charge on mail 
 
 routes, ------ 8 
 
 POSTAL SERVICE, ..---- 7-8 
 
 PRESIDENT— 
 
 Authority in relation to telegraph, - - 8-10, 44-46 
 
 May assign subaltern of line to duty of adjutant, - 48 
 18 
 
114 
 
 PRESIDENT— Continued. 
 
 May confer rank and command in volunteer service 
 
 upon officers of the army, - - - - 48 
 
 May continue appointments in military and naval ser- 
 vice, -------32 
 
 Authority as to companies of light artillery, - lO-ll 
 
 Authority as to chaplains in the army, - - 3 
 
 Communication of resolution of congress to Gen. 
 
 Beauregard and army, _ _ _ _ 4 
 
 May accept services of volunteers during war, - 5 
 
 Authority to appoint officers of such volunteers, - 5 
 
 May accept volunteers without call upon the states, 
 for such time as he may prescribe, and from states 
 not of C. S. A., - - - - - 6-7 
 
 Authority as to appointment of officers in such case, 7 
 
 May order last named volunteers on detached service, 6-7 
 May direct appropriation of money to another branch 
 
 of expenditure in same department, - - 17 
 
 Authority to raise and organize additional regiments, 28-29 
 May add to corps of engineers, - - - 29 
 
 Authority to appoint military storekeepers, - 29 
 
 May appoint cadets, and prescribe regulations for 
 
 their promotion, - _ _ _ _ 29-30 
 
 May assign army officers to staff duty with provisional 
 
 forces, __-__- 30 
 
 Authorized to use land and naval force, - - 23 
 
 Authorized to issue letters of marque and reprisal, and 
 
 to revoke and annul, _ _ _ _ 23-24 
 
 Authorized to establish instructions to privateers, 26 
 
 Authority to buildings and books provided for courts, 97 
 Authority as to removal of seat of government, and 
 
 of meeting of Congress, - - - - 88 
 
 Appointment of naval officers, _ _ . 39-40 
 
 Assignment of duty, ----- 40 
 
 Appointment of assistant paymasters of navy, - 40 
 « " collector at Sabine Pass, - - 40 
 Election and inauguration under permanent constitu- 
 tion, 41-42 
 
 Proclamation in regard to North Carolina, - - 35 
 
 " " " Tennessee, - - - 36 
 
 Assent to issue of bonds and notes, - - - 32-34 
 
 Approves instructions to quartermaster general, for 
 
 custody and sustenance of prisoners of war, - 93-94 
 
 PRINTING— 
 
 Further organization of bureau of superintendent of 
 
 public, _-__-_ 16-17 
 
 Acts of congress and treaties, - - -84,94 
 
 Tariff act and other documents, - - - 95 
 
 PRISONERS— 
 
 Disposition of, and bounty for, when taken on 
 
 vessels, - - . - - - 25-26,93-94 
 
 Disposition of, when taken on land, . - - 93-94 
 
 Rations, -------94 
 
 PRIVATE SECRETARY— 
 
 Salary, «--__. 85 
 
115 
 
 PRIVATEERS— 
 
 General act, - - - - - 23, et scq. 
 
 " « construed and amended, - 85-80, 93-94 
 
 Bounty for destroying or sinking oneniv's vessels of 
 
 war, - - - - ■ - - 85-80 
 
 PRIZES— 
 
 Sale and distribution, . . . _ 18-20 
 
 General act, _____ 22, ctseq. 
 
 PRIZE GOODS— 
 
 Sale and distribution, . _ . _ 18-20 
 
 Deduction of duty, - - - - - 28 
 
 PRIZE MONEY— 
 
 Fund from, for widows and orphans, and disabled per- 
 sons on board, - - - - - 28 
 
 PROVISIONAL FORCES— 
 
 Transportation and allowance for clothing, Sec. - 47 
 
 PROVISIONAL— 
 
 Subaltern of line may be assigned to dutj' of adju- 
 tant, - - - - - --48 
 
 Officers of regular army ma}' be assigned to statf duty, 30 
 Officers of regular army may be assigned to rank and 
 
 command, __ - - - - 48 
 
 Certain appointments made by President continued, 
 
 and to be submitted to Congress next session, - 32 
 
 Chaplains, ______ 3 
 
 A'oluuteers during the war, - - - - 5 
 
 Volunteers during the war without call upon the states, 0-7 
 Approi)riation for expenditures in South Carolina, 10 
 General appropriation, _ _ _ _ 42-43 
 
 Amendatory act as to light artillery, - - 10-11 
 
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS— 
 
 In Montgomery, _ _ _ - - 100 
 
 In Richmond, _ _ - _ _ 8S 
 
 PUBLIC DEFENCE— 
 
 Amended, act providing for light artillerj', - -10-11 
 
 Confederate loan, _ _ _ _ - 11-12 
 
 Zouaves, _ _ - - - - 4 
 
 Volunteers during the war, _ _ - - 5 
 
 Volunteers during the war without call upon the states, 0-7 
 Marine corps, _----- 39 
 Sappers and bombardiers, - - - - 37 
 
 Military cstablislnnent increased, and act organizing, 
 
 amended, __---- 28-o0 
 
 QUARTER M A STER GENERAL— 
 
 Department increased, and rank of those added, - 20 
 
 QUARTERMASTER SERG EANT— 
 
 Number, pay and allowances, - - - 20 
 
 RAILROADS— 
 
 Mail service, classification, . - - - 7-8 
 
 Compensation for carrying mails, _ _ - 8 
 
 Agents and other mail service; employees pass free, 8 
 
 Temporary disposition of iron for one, - - 02-93 
 
116 
 
 RAIL ROADS— Continued. 
 
 Duty on rails, spikes, &c., defined, - - - 62 
 
 RECRUITS— 
 
 Kounty --.--.-30 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES— 
 
 Election under permanent constitution, - - 41 
 
 RESOLUTIONS— 
 
 Beauregard and army under his command, - - 3 
 
 Printing tariff and other documents, - - 95 
 
 Patents and caveats, ----- 4 
 
 Payment of unadjusted accounts, - - - 98 
 
 Conferring certain powers on Secretary of Treasury 
 
 in regard to executive buildings and furniture, - 100 
 
 REVENUE— 
 
 Tariff act, 50-62 
 
 Meaning of previous act of March 15, defined, - 62 
 
 Violation by owners or commanders of privateers, - 27-28 
 Deduction of tariff on prize goods, - - - 28 
 
 SALARIES— 
 
 Of private Secretary of President, - - - 85 
 
 Of superintendent of public printing, - - 16 
 
 Of his messenger, - - - - - 16 
 
 Of chiefs of bureaus in P, 0. department, and their 
 
 clerks, &c., ------ 12-13 
 
 Clerks in first auditor's office, - - - 21 
 
 Messenger in Treasury department, - - - 21 
 
 SALVAGE— 
 
 In case of recapture, - - - - - 25 
 
 5 per cent, for widows and orphans, and privateers 
 
 disabled in fight, - - - - - 28 
 
 SAPPERS AND BOMBARDIERS, - - - 37-38 
 
 SERGEANTS— 
 
 Quartermaster, - _ _ - _ 29 
 
 Ordnance, --___- 29 
 
 SEAT OF GOVERNMENT— 
 
 Removal, ------ 88 
 
 SECRETARY OF TREASURY— 
 
 Authorized to pa}' certain accounts for work on build- 
 ings and for furniture, - - - - 49 
 
 Acts in regard to loan confirmed, - - - 12 
 
 Authorized to make and continue certain deposits on 
 
 account of loan, - - - - - 12 
 
 Authority in regard to mints, - - _ 15-16 
 
 Appointment of clerks in first auditor's office, - 21-22 
 
 Messenger, ------ 21 
 
 Authorized to pay bounties for prisoners taken on 
 
 armed vessels, - - _ - - 26 
 
 Authority in regard to public buildings and furniture 
 
 in Montgomery, ----- 100 
 
 Must submit to congress statement of unadjusted ac- 
 counts against it, - - - _ - 98 
 In relation to printing tariff act and other documents, 95 
 
117 
 
 SECRETARY OF TREASURY— Continued. 
 
 Authority as to marine hospitals, - - - 31 
 
 " " bonds and treasury notes, - - 32-34 
 
 Directed to refund to certain railroad companies. - C2-G3 
 
 SECRETARY OF WAR— 
 
 To determine number of hospital stewards, - 29 
 
 Instructions in regard to prisoners of war, - - 93 
 
 SENATE— 
 
 Assembling and organization, - - - 41 
 
 President of, shall open certificates of votes for Pre- 
 sident and Vice-President, - - - 41 
 SENATORS— 
 
 Election under permanent constitution, - - 41 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA— 
 
 Military expenditures, - - - - 10 
 
 STAFF DUTY— 
 
 Officers of army may be assigned, - - - 30 
 
 STEWARDS— 
 
 Hospital , number, pay and allowances, - - 29 
 
 STOCKS— 
 
 Of Confederate States, .... 32-34 
 
 Certificates for amounts of debts due alien enemies, 88-89 
 
 STOREKEEPERS— 
 
 Appointment and rank of military, - - 29 
 
 SUITS— 
 
 AYhen judge is related to either part)', or is interest- 
 ed, or was of counsel, transferred, - - 9G 
 Against clerks and marshals on official bonds, - 97 
 On appeal in late U. S. circuit courts, - - 96 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING— 
 
 Further organization of bureau, _ - - lG-17 
 
 Salary, -".----- 10 
 Messenger, - - - - - ",■'■!! 
 
 Duties and powers, ----- lC-17 
 
 SUPREME COURT— 
 
 Transfer of appeals and writs of error, - - 9G-9S 
 
 SURGEONS— 
 
 Additional appropriation to pay, - - - 44 
 
 Additional surgeons and assistant surgeons, - 29 
 
 TARIFF— 
 
 Imports from certain states exempt, - - 35 
 
 On prize goods, - - - - - 28 
 General act, - - - - - SO.etseq. 
 Act defining previous act as to rail road iron, spikes, 
 
 plates, itc, ------ Gl 
 
 TELEGRAPH LINES— 8-10 
 
 Amendatory act ----- 44 
 Postmaster general, with approval of President, may 
 
 employ officers to perform certain duties, - - 40 
 
118 
 
 TENNESSEE— 
 
 Admission, ------ 36 
 
 TESTIMONY— 
 
 Transfer from district and circuit courts to State 
 
 courts, ------ 89-90 
 
 TEXAS— 
 
 Judicial districts, - - - - - 49 
 
 Judge, district attorney and marshal assigned to east- 
 ern district, ------ 99 
 
 Laws of U. S. relative to district courts continued in 
 
 force, -------50 
 
 TKANSPORTATION, 47 
 
 TREASURER— 
 
 Authorized to draw checks or warrants on banks, on 
 
 account of deposits of loan, - - - 12 
 
 TREASURY— 
 
 Certain debts may be paid into, and certificates bear- 
 ing interest made, ----- 88-89 
 
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Clerical force in bureau of second auditor, increased, 87 
 
 TREASURY NOTES, 32-34 
 
 TREATIES— 
 
 Mode of publication, - - - - - 84 
 
 UNITED STATES— 
 
 Existence of war recognized, and letters of marque 
 
 and reprisal authorized, - _ _ _ 22-28 
 
 Laws relative to district courts of Texas, continued in 
 
 force, -------50 
 
 Payment of debts to certain citizens of, prohibited, - 88-89 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENT— 
 
 Election under permanent constitution, - - 41 
 
 VIRGINIA— 
 
 Admission, ------ 5 
 
 VOLUNTEERS— 
 
 Transportation and allowance for clothing, - - 47 
 
 During the war, ----- 5_6 
 
 " " officers, _ _ - - 6 
 
 Without call upon the States, and their officers, - 6-7 
 
 Subaltern of line assigned to duty of adjutant, - 48 
 Officers of regular army may be assigned to staff 
 
 duty, ------- 30 
 
 Officers of regular army may be assigned rank and 
 
 command, ------ 48 
 
 Certain appointments made by President continued, 
 
 and to be submitted to Congress, - - - 32 
 
 Chaplains, _-_-_- 3 
 
 Appropriations for expenditures in South Carolina, - 10 
 
 General appropriation, ----- 42-43 
 
 Amendatory act as to light artiller}-, - - - 10-11 
 
119 
 
 WAR — 
 
 Existence of, with U. S. recognized, - - -22 
 
 Payment of debts to enemy prohibited during con- 
 tinuance, _-_.__ 88-89 
 
 Prisoners, _ - - - . 25-2G, 93-94 
 
 WAR DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Additional appropriation, - - _ _ 42-44 
 
 WIDOWS AND ORPHANS— 
 
 Of privateers, provided for, - - - - 28 
 
 WRITS OF ERROR— 
 
 Transfer from Supreme Court U. S. to that of C. S. 
 A., ------ - 98 
 
 Further time allowed, ----- 97-98 
 
 Pending in U. S. circuit courts, transferred to su- 
 preme court when judge the same, - - - 90 
 ZOUAVES— 
 
 Regiment, .__-__ 4_5