PAGE. An Act to authorize certain debtors to pay the amounts due by them into the Treasury of the Confederate States. May 21, 1861, ch. 53................ 151 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. May 21, 1861, ch. 54.............. 151 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. May 21, 1861, ch. 55...... 152 An Act to provide for the pay of the officers who have resigned from the United States navy, and whom it is proposed to add to the Confederate States navy May 21, 1861, ch. 56...................................... 153 An Act to make temporary disposition of certain railroad iron. May 21, 1861, ch. 57.. 153 An Act to provide for the cession, on the part of the State of Arkansas, of the arsenal at Little Rock, and of Fort Smith, at the city of Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, and the acceptance of the same by the said Confederate States. May 21, 1861, ch. 58,.. An Act relative to prisoners of war. May 21, 1861, ch. 59,......... An Act for the publication of the laws. May 21, 1861, ch. 60,......... 154 154 155 An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy, for the year ending eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. May 21, 1861, ch. 61,...... 155 An Act supplemental to an act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America. May 21, 1861, ch. 62,.................... An Act relative to the library of Congress. May 21, 1861, ch. 63,....... 155 157 An Act for the relief of district attorneys of the Confederate States in the field. May 21, 1861, ch. 64, 157 An Act to secure copy rights to authors and composers. May 21, 1861, ch. 65,..... 157 An Act assigning the judge, district attorney and marshal for the district of Texas, to the eastern district of said State. May 21, 1861, ch. 66,........................ 161 An Act making appropriation to defray the expenses of removing the seat of government to Richmond. May 21, 1861, ch. 67,.............. 161 RESOLUTIONS. No. 1. No. 2. A resolution of thanks to Brigadier General G. T. Beauregard and the army under his com- 163 163 No. 3. A resolution in regard to military expenditures made by the State of South Carolina. May 4, 1861........... 163 No. 4. A resolution in relation to marine hospitals. May 16, 1861,. 163 No. 5. A resolution in relation to imports from the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas. May 17, 1861, 164 No. 6. A resolution in relation to certain accounts. May 21, 1861,..................................................... 164 No. 7. A resolution rescinding a resolution providing for a digest of laws, approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. May 21. 1861,..... A resolution in regard to the clerical department of Congress. May 21, 1861,..... No. 9. A resolution to provide for the removal of the seat of government. May 21, 1801,....... No. 10. A resolution in reference to printing the tariff act, and other documents connected therewith. May 21, 1861,........ 164 165 165 No. 11. A resolution regulating the payment of unadjusted accounts. May 21, 1861,.. 165 STATUTE III.-1861. An Act to authorize the appointment of agents to sign treasury notes. July 24, 1861, ch. ?,.. 167 An Act further to amend an act entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America." July 31, 1861, ch. 3,.......... 167 ....... 168 An Act relative to money deposited in the registries and receivers of the courts. August . 1861, ch. 4, 168 An Act to authorize the distribution of the proceeds of the A. B. Thompson, condemned as a prize. August 1, 1861, ch. 5,.............. An Act to amend "An act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America." August 1, 1861, ch. 6,........ An Act to make provision for the care of supplies for the sick and wounded. August 2. 1861, ch. 7,.. 170 An Act to provide for an additional field officer to volunteer battalions, and for the appointment of assistant adjutants general for the provisional forces. August 2, 1861, ch. 8,............ An Act to extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Confederate States, except through the sea-ports of said States, and to punish persons offending therein," approved May twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Aug. 2, 1861, ch. 9, 170 An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to make further provisions for the public defence," approved eleventh May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; and to amend an act entitled "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." August 3, 1861, ch. 10,............................. 171 PAGE. 171 An Act to amend an act in relation to the issue of treasury notes. August 3, 1961, ch. 11......... An Act to authorize advances to be made in certain cases. August 5, 1861, ch. 15,............ 172 172 173 173 An Act to provide for the construction of a newly invented implement of war. August 6, 1861, ch. 17, 274 An Act to authorize the President of the Confederate States to grant commissions to raise volunteer regiments and battalions, composed of persons who are, or have been, residents of the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. August 8, 1861, ch. 18,. An Act respecting alien enemies. August 8, 1861, ch. 19,... 174 174 An Act further to provide for the public defence. August 8, 1861, ch. 20,. 174 August 14, 176 An Act to amend the law in relation to the export of tobacco, and other commodities. 1861, ch. 22.... An Act to authorize the issue of treasury notes, and to provide a war tax for their redemption. August 19, 1881, ch. 23.......... An Act to aid the State of Missouri in repelling invasion by the United States, and to authorize the admission of such State as a member of the Confederate States of America, and for other purposes. August 20, 1861, ch. 24... An Act to empower the Prezident of the Confederate States to appoint additional commissioners to foreign nations. August 20, 1861, ch. 25,.... 177 184 185 An Act to authorize payment to be made for certain horses purchased for the army, by Colonel A. W. McDonald. August 21, 1861, ch. 26,....... 185 An Act making appropriation for the services of physicians to be employed in conjunction with the medical staff of the army. August 21, 1861, ch. 27,......... 186 An Act to provide for local defence and special service. August 21, 1861, cb 28,........................ An Act to authorize the employment of cooks and nurses, other than enlisted men, or volunteers, for the military service. August 21, 1861, ch. 29,. 186 186 An Act providing for the disposition of unclaimed goods deposited in warehouse, as prescribed by existing laws. August 21, 1861, ch. 30,....... 187 An Act making appropriations for the public defence. August 21, 1861, ch. 31......... 187 An Act supplemental to "An act to put in operation the government under the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America." August 21, 1861, ch. 33.... 2 ་་ 187 187 An Act to increase the corps of artillery, and for other purposes. August 21, 1861, ch. 34............... 188 An Act making appropriations to carry into effect section two of an act approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled An act to define with more certainty the meaning of au act entitled 'An act to fix the duties on articles therein named," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. August 22, 1861, ch. 35........ An Act to authorize the Postmaster General to contract for the carriage of the mails on the route hereafter mentioned. August 22, 1861, ch. 36......... An Act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization for persons enlisted in the armies of the Confederate States of America. August 29, 1981, ch. 27... An Act making appropriations for the expenses of government in the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments, for the year ending eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo. August 24, 1861, ch. 38......... 188 189 169 190 An Act making appropriations to carry into effect "An act to authorize the issue of treasury notes, An Act to repeal the fourth section of "An act to regulate foreign coins in the Confederate States," approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other purposes. August 24, 1861, eh. 43........... 192 193 193 An Act amendatory of "An act to prescribe the rates of postage in the Confederate States of America," approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. August 29, 1861, ch. 44...... 193 An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department during the year ending the eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. August 29, 1861, ch. 45......... An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the clerical force of the several departments of the Confederate States of America, and for other purposes," approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. August 29, 1861, ch. 46.... 194 ........... 194 An Act to authorize the construction of certain gun-boats. August 29, 1861, ch. 47. 195 195 ............... 195 An Act making appropriation for the purchase of a steamer and certain military supplies. August 29, 1861, ch. 50................................................. 196 ᏢᎪᏩᎬ . An Act to amend the second section of "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."" August 30, 1861, ch. 51......... An Act to authorize the establishment of recruiting stations for volunteers from the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. August 30, 1861, ch. 52............. 196 196 197 An Act to audit the accounts of the respective States against the Confederacy. Aug. 30, 1861, ch. 53 197 An Act to provide for the defence of the Mississippi river. August 30, 1861, ch. 56. 198 ..... 198 An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a Patent Office, and to provide for the granting and issue of patents for new and useful discoveries, inventions, improvements and designs," approved May 21, 1861. August 30, 1861, ch. 57........ .... 199 An Act to provide a mode of authenticating claims for money against the Confederate States, not otherwise provided for. August 30, 1861, ch. 58....... 199 An Act to elect, for distribution, the moneys remaining in the several post-offices of the Confederate States at the time the postal service was taken in charge by said government. Aug. 30, 1861, ch.59 199 An Act to require the receipt of the postmasters of the Confederate States of treasury notes, in sums of five dollars and upwards, in payment of postage stamps or stamped envelopes. August 30, 1861, c 60............ 200 An Act for the sequestration of the estates, property and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizers of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same in the existing war with the United States. August 30 1861, ch. 61......... 201 207 An Act to perpe'uate testimony in cases of slaves abducted or harbored by the enemy, and of other pro erty seized, wasted or destroyed by them. August 30 1861, ch. 62.... An Act to provide for the transmission of mone, bonds or treasury notes. August 30, 1861, ch. 63... 208 An Act to amend an 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," approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and an act entitled "Au act regulating the sale of prizes and the distribution thereof," approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. August 30, 1 61, ch. 64............. An Act vesting certain powers in the commissioners of the district courts of the Confederate States. August 31, 1861, ch. 65........ 208 203 An Act to authorize the appointment from civil life of persons to the staff of generals. 1861, ch. 66..... August 31, 209 An Art providing for the appointment of ajutants of regiments and legions, of the grade of subaltera, in addition to the subalterns attached to companies August 31, 1861, ch. 67.. An Act providing for the reception and forwarding of articles sent to the army by private contribution. August 31. 1861, ch. 68...... 209 209 An Act to allow rations to chaplains in the army. August 31, 1861, ch. 69............... 210 210 An Act making an adduional appropriation for the payment of clerks and a messenger for the P stOffice D pa.tment, and to autorize the Postmaster Gencral to appoint an atditional messenger for the Post Office Department. August 31 1861 ch. 71......... 210 An Act to establish the rites of postage on newspapers and periodicals, sent to dealers therein tarengh the mail, or by express over post routes. August 31, 1861, ch. 72........ A resolution to dispose of donations made by certain churches on the late fast day. July 30, ...... 213 213 214 A resolution in relation to the equi¡ ments of volunteer cavalry companies. Aug. 21, 1861,... 213 Resolution concerning Brigadier General Ben McCullough. August 22, 1861. A resolution in relation to drillmasters appointed by tates. August 31, 1861 No. 8. Res lutions to provide troops in the field with bread and fresh provisions. August 31, 1861.. 214 Resolution is regard to certain moneys of the Congress. August 31, 1861. No. 10. Resolutious in respect to the accounts of the Congress. August 31, 1861 An Act to authorize the President to continue the appointments made by him, in the military and naval service, during the recesses of Congress, or the last or present session, and to submit them to Congress at its next session. September 3, 1861, ch. 1............. 217 PAGE. An Act supplemental to An Act to establish the rates of postage on newspapers and periodicals sent to dealers therein through the mails, or by express over post roads. September 3, 1861, ch. 2,........... 217 STATUTE V.-1861-2. An Act to admit the State of Missouri into the Confederacy as a member of the Confederate States of America. November 28, 1861, ch. 1......... 221 An Act to enable the State of Missouri to elect members of the House of Representatives. November 29, 1861, ch. 2,............ 221 An Act for the employment of laundresses in military hospitals. December 7, 1861, ch. 3,........................................... 222 An Act to authorize the appointment of one or more officers to aid the President to sign commissions in the army. December 7, 1861, ch. 4. An Act for the admission of the State of Kentucky into the Confederate States of America, as a member thereof. December 10, 1861, ch. 5............ An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to appoint an assistant. December 10, 1861, ch. 6..... An Act to authorize the appointment of chief buglers and principal musicians to regiments in the provisional army. December 10. 1861, ch. 7..... An Act to authorize the enlistment of additional seamen. December 10, 1861, ch. 8............ 222 222 222 222 223 223 An Act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and non-commissioned officers in the provisional army. December 11, 1861, ch. 9,. An Act to divide the State of Tennessee into three judicial districts. December 12, 1861, ch. 10........ 224 An Act to provide for the payment of the carriers of the electoral votes of the respective States of the Confederacy. December 18, 1861, ch. 11....... .... 224 An Act providing for the transfer of certain appropriations. December 18, 1861, ch. 12.... 224 225 225 An Act further supp ementary to Auct to authorize the issue of treasury notes, and to provide a war tax for their redemption. December 19, 1861, ch. 14,........ An Act for the recruiting service of the provisional army of the Confederate States. Dec. 19, 1861, ch. 15 226 An Act to determine the number of members the State of Kentucky shall be entitled to have in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the Confederate States, and in relation to the election and returns thereof.. December 21, 1861, ch 16.......... 226 An Act in relation to taxes on property which has been, or which is liable to be sequestrated as the property of alien enemies December 23. 1861, ch. 17,.............. 227 An Act to amend "An act to require the receipt by the postmasters of the Confederate States of treasury notes, in sums of five dollars and upwards, in payment of postage stamps and stamped envelopes,' at proved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Dec. 23, 1861, ch. 18,... 228 An Act to authorize the President to enfer temporary rank and command on the officers of the navy, doing duty with troops. December 24, 1861, ch. 19, 228 An Act to amend an act entitled An act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization for persons enlisted in the armies of the Confederate States of America." December 24, 1861, ch. 20,.. An Act to provide for the appointment of chaplains in the navy. December 24, 1861, ch. 21, An Act to provide for certain officers of the revenue service. December 24, 1861, ch. 22,. An Act to authorize the transfer of a certain appropriation. December 21, 1861, ch. 23,. An Act to authorize the appointment of additional officers of the navy. December 24, 1861, ch. 21.... 229 An Act making appropriations for the expenses of government in the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments, for the year ending eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, December 24, 1861, ch. 25............. 228 229 229 229 230 An Act supplementary to an act to authorise the issue of treasury notes, and to provide a war tax for their redemption. December 24, 1861, ch. 26...... An Act making appropriations to comply in part with treaty stipulations made with certain Indian tribes. December 24, 1861, ch. 27,... 231 232 237 An Act relating to the custody of the returns and cer ificates of the votes of the electors for President and Vice President. December 31, 1864, ch. 28. An At to provide for a corps of engineers for the provisional army. December 31, 1861, ch. 29,...... 237 An Act to amend "An act to authorize the President to confer temporary rank and command for service with volunteer troops, on officers of the Confederate army," approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. December 31. 1861. ch. 30,....... An Act to provide for the payment of certain Indian troops. December 31, 1861, ch. 31,......... An Act to make additional appropriatious to defray the expense of the public printing. December 31, 1861, ch. 32,... 238 238 239 An Act to establish a mail route from Hicks' Ford to Lawrenceville, in Virginia Jan. 2, 1862, ch. 33, 239 An Act making appropriations for certain floating defences. January 9, 1862, ch. 34,... 239 An Act making certain provisions in regard to certain Indian trust funds. January 10, 1862, ch. 35,.. 239 An Act appropriating two hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and seven dollars for the naval service. January 11, 1862, ch. 36 240 An Act appropriating fourteen millions eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the military service. January 11, 1862, ch. 37,.... 240 An Act authorizing the appointment of two additional clerks and a draftsman in the Navy Department. January 14, 1862, ch. 38,............. 240 PAGE. An Act supplementary to an act making appropriations for certain floating defences, approved January ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. January 14, 1862, ch. 39,....... An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to audit and settle the claims of certain officers therein named. January 15, 1862, ch. 40,............ An Act to make the appointment of Asssistant Secretary of State, of the Treasury, and of War, Executive appointments. January 16, 1862, ch. 41,... ...... An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to give a bounty to all persons enlisted as seamen, who enlist for three years or the war. January 16, 1862, ch. 42,.......... 241 241 241 241 An Act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of additional officers of the navy," approved Dec. twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Jan. 16, 1862, ch. 43, 242 An Act to organize the Territory of Arizona. January 18, 1862, ch. 44,... 242 An Act to provide for raising and organizing, in the State of Misosuri, additional troops for the provisional army of the Confederate States. January 22, 1862, ch. 45,. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to raise an additional military force to serve during the war," approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other purposes. January 22, 1862, ch. 46,...... 247 248 249 An Act to authorize the appointment of officers of artillery in the provisional army and in the volunteer corps. January 22, 1862, ch 47,............ An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to collect, for distribution, the money remaining in the several post-offices of the Confederate States, at the time the postal service was taken in charge by said government," approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Jan. 23, 1862, ch. 48, 249 An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a patent office, and to provide for the granting and issue of patents for new and useful discoveries, inventions, improvements and designs," approved on the twenty-first of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. Jan. 23, 1862, ch. 49, 250 An Act to authorize the President to call upon the several States for troops to serve for three years or during the war. January 23, 1862, ch 50............. 252 An Act to increase the clerical force of the Post-Office Department. January 23, 1862, ch. 51........... 252 act to appropriate eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars to pay for ordnance, ordnance stores An And equipments. January 27, 1862, ch. 52......... 252 253 An Act to establish an assay office at New Orleans. January 27, 1842, ch. 53........... 254 An Act for the relief of the State of Missouri. January 27, 1862, ch. 56......................................... 254 An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the public defence," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, January 29, 1862, ch. 58... 255 255 .... 256 256 An Act to aid the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes. January 29, 1862, ch. 59....*. An Act to transfer funds from the Quartermaster's to the Ordnance Department. Jan. 30, 1862, ch. 60 256 An Act to explain an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a Patent Office, and to provide for the granting and issue of patents for new and useful discoveries, inventions, improvements and designs," approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. February 3, 1862, ch. 61............. An Act supplemental to an act entitled "An act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and non-commissioned officers in the provisional army. February 3, 1862, ch. 62...... 256 An Act to authorize certain financial arrangements at the Treasury. February 3, 1862, ch. 63........... 257 An Act making appropriations for the payment of certain interest due, severally to the banks at Memphis, on advances made by them to Major General Leonidas Polk, for the benefit of the public service. February 3, 1862, ch. 64......... An Act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to raise an additional force to serve during the war, and for other purposes," approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. February 3, 1862, ch. 65........ 257 A 258 An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to amend an act to provide for the organization of the navy, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and an act entitled "An act to authorize the President to confer temporary rank and command on officers of the navy doing duty with troops,' approved December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. February 5, 1862, ch. 66..... 258 An Act to provide for connecting the Richmond and Danville and the North Carolina railroads, for military purposes. February 10, 1861, ch. 67...................................... 258 An Act to organize the clerical force of the Treasury Department. February 13, 1862, ch. 68............................. 259 An Act to transfer the county of Attala, in the State of Mississippi, from the northern to the southern judicial district of the State of Mississippi. February 13, 1862, ch. 69.... 260 An Act to pay interest due the Choctaw Nation upon stocks of the State of Virginia. Feb. 13, 1862, ch 70 260 An Act to establish certain post routes therein named. February 15, 1862, ch. 72.................... 260: 266 268 An Act supplemental to "An act to put in operation the government under the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America," approved May 21, 1861, February 15, 1862, ch. 74... 268 |