plies of a patented proved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty, which declares invention, etc., sus- that no arms nor military supplies whatever, which are of a patented pended during the invention, shall be purchased, nor the right of using or applying any war. 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 war. APPROVED May 16, 1861. May 16, 1861. Disbursi g clerk partments. tion. CHAP. XXI.-An Act to provide a compensation for the Disbursing Officers of the seve ral Executive Departments. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That for each of the de- the Secretaries of the State, Treasury, War and Navy Departments, and of the Department of Justice, and of the Post-office Department, His compensa- shall appoint one of their clerks as a disbursing clerk; and such elerk shall 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 And that all laws and parts of laws now in force relating to this subject, be repealed; and that this act take effect and be of force from and after its passage. APPROVED May 16, 1861. May 16, 1861. Pay of chaplains reduced. CHAP. XXII.-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of Chaplains to the Army," approved May third, eighteen hundred and sixty one. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That so much of the second section of the above recited act, as fixes the pay of chaplains in the army at eighty-five dollars, be repealed, and that the pay of said chaplains be fifty dollars per month. APPROVED May 16, 1861. May 16, 1861. President author pointments made CHAP. XXIII.—An Act to authorize the President to continue the Appointments made by him in the Military and Naval Service during the recess of Congress or the present res sion, and to submit them to Congress at i's next session. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That ized to continue ap- the President be authorized to continue the appointments made by him by him in the mili- in the military and naval service during the recess of Congress or the tary and naval ser- present session, and to submit them to Congress at its next session. CHAP. XXIV.--An Act to authorize a loan and the issue of Treasury Notes; and to prescribe the punishment for forging the sume, and for forging Certificates of Stock, and Bonds. May 16, 1861. in bonds. When Sale of bonds for specie, &c. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Secretary of the the Secretary of the Treasury may, with the assent of the President of Treasury authorthe Confederate States, issue fifty millions of dollars in bonds, payable ized to issue fifty at the expiration of twenty years from their date, and bearing a rate of millions of dollars interest not exceeding eight per cent. per annum until they become paya- payable, and rate ble, the said interest to be paid semi-annually. The said bonds, after of interest. 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 Secretary of the Treasury, with the assent of the President. But it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report, at its next ensuing session, to port his transacthe Congress of the Confederate States, a precise statement of his trans- tions to Congress. actions under this law. Nor shall the said bonds be issued in fractional Denomination of parts of the hundred, or be exchanged by the said Secretary for treasury bonds. notes, or the notes of any bank, corporation or individual, but only in the manner herein prescribed: 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. Secretary to re Proviso. without interest in dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of bonds, to an amount Secretary of the not exceeding twenty millions of dollars, the Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury may iswith the assent of the President, may issue treasury notes to the same sue treasury notes amount, without interest, and in denominations of not less than five dol- lieu of bonds, to lars the said notes to be receivable in payment of all debts or taxes the amount of due to the Confederate States, except the export duty on cotton, or in twenty millions of exchange, for the bonds herein authorized to be issued. The said notes Denomination. shall be payable at the end of two years from the date of their issue, in The notes receivspecie. The holders of the said notes may at any time demand in ex-able in payment of change 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 Exchange of paid semi-annually. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized notes for the bords to issue the said bonds, but not in fractional parts of the hundred. But of the Confederate if after the expiration of two years, when the treasury notes shall be When the prividue, the Secretary of the Treasury shall advertise that he will pay the lege of funding to same, then the privilege of funding shall cease after six months from the cease. date of the advertisement, unless there shall be a failure to pay the same on their presentation. debts or taxes, ex cept, &c. States. Other notes may Proviso. Treasury notes SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the notes authorized by this act, which may be redeemed, other notes may be issued within be issued in lieu of the period of ten years as aforesaid: Provided, however, That the amount notes redeemed. of such notes outstanding, together with the stock in which the said treasury notes may have been funded under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed the sum of twenty 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 exchange treasury notes issued under the provisions of this act, to such extent as that the entire amount of notes then issued, together with the amount of the bonds in which they may have been funded, shall not exceed twenty millions of dollars. given in exchango for bonds that are funded. Faith of the C. S. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the faith of the Confederate pledged for the States is hereby pledged to provide and establish sufficient revenues for payment of the inthe regular payment of the interest, and for the redemption of the said terest and redempstock and treasury notes. And the principal sum borrowed under the and notes. provisions of this act and the interest thereon, as the same shall from tion of the stock To be paid out of time to time become due and payable, shall be paid out of any money in any mosey in the the treasury not otherwise appropriated. treasury. thorizing the issue Penalties, &c., of SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be deemed to the act of 9th contain all the provisions, limitations and penalties of the act entitled March, 1861, au- an act to authorize the issue of treasury notes, and to prescribe the punof treasury notes, ishment for forging the same, and for forging certificates of stocks, considered as a part bonds, or coupons, and approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 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 Secretary of the treasury notes. Treasury to collect of this act. the va ue of pro ation. To make SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of raising ten information as to millions of dollars within the present calendar year, and of providing perty, &c., in the for the ultimate redemption of the debt herein authorized to be conStates, with the tracted, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to collect view to direct tax- information in regard to the value of the property, the revenue system, report to Congress. 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 convenient system of internal taxation, for the purpose of securing 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 Payment by the said debt when due. State into the Treasury in anticipation of the tax. SEC. 7. And be 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. May 17, 1861. Preamble. Admission of the CHAP. XXV.-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 withdrawal from the United States, and to becoming 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 State of North the State of North Carolina shall be admitted a member of the ConfedeCarolina upon the condition, &c. rate 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 Government of the Confederate States, and shall transmit to the President of the Confederatǝ States, before the reassembling of Congress, through the Governor of said State, or some other proper organ, an authentic copy of the act or ordinance of said convention so adopting and ratifying said Provisional Constitution; upon the receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, Proc'amation by 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 laws of this Confederacy shall thereby be Tresident. extended over said State as fully and completely as over the other States now composing the same. APPROVED May 17, 1861. CHAP. XXVI.-An Act to admit the State of Tennessee into the Confederacy, on a certain condition. The State of Tennessee having adopted measures looking to an early Preamble. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Admission of the the State of Tennessee shall be admitted a member of the Confederate State of TennesStates of America, upon an equal footing with the other States, under) see upon the condition, &c. the Constitution for the Provisional 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 properly and legally constituted authorities of said State; and the Governor of said state shall transmit to the President of the Confederate States, before the reassembling of Congress, 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 Provisional 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 completely as over the other States now composing the same. APPROVED May 17, 1861. Proclamation by President. CHAP. XXVII-An Act to establish a mail route from Vermillionrille, in the State of May 17, 1861. Louisia. a, to Orange, in the State of Texas, and for other purpoɛc08. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Mail route esthe following mail route be and the same is hereby established, to-wit: tablished Vermillionville to From Vermillionville, 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 carrying the mail over said route without the necessity of advertising for bids for said contract as required by existing law; and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED May 17, 1861. Orange. from Contract for ear"ying the mail over said route. CHAP. XXVIII-An Act to provide an additional company of sappers and bombardiers for the army. May 17, 1861. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Company of sapthere be added to the military establishment of the Confederate States pers and bombarone company of sappers and bombardiers, to consist of oue captain, diers added to the ment. milit'ry establish- 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 detachments in overseeing and aiding laborers upon fortifications or other works under the engineer department, and in supervising finished fortificatious, as fort-keepers, preventing injury and making repairs. Vehicles, arms, SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the colonel of the engineer corps, pontons, &c., for subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, to prescribe the num the service of said ber, quantity, form, dimensions, etc., of the necessary vehicles, arms, pontons, tools, implements, and other supplies for the service of said company as a body of sappers and bombardiers. company. vates. Allowances Monthly pay of SEC. 3. That the monthly pay of the captain of said company shall officers and pri- 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 to the second class privates, thirteen dollars. And the said commissioned the commissioned officers shall be entitled to the same allowances as all other commissioned officers and forage. officers of the army, and the same right to draw forage for horses as is Rations and al- accorded to officers of like rank in the engineer corps; and the enlisted lowances for the men shall receive the same rations and allowances as are granted to all other enlisted men in the army. APPROVED May 17, 1861. enlisted mea. May 20, 1861. Extension of mail service over the States and territories. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to authorize the extension of the mail service of the Confederate The Congress of the Confederate States of America 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 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 effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED May 20, 1861. May 21, 1861. State of Arkans.s. CHAP. XXX.—An Act to admit the State of Arkansas into the Confederacy Admission of the The people of the State of Arkansas, in sovereign convention, having passed an ordinance dissolving their political connection with the United States, and another ordinance adopting and ratifying the Constitution for the Provisional 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 Government of the same. APPROVED May 20, 1861. |