CHAP. XXXI.-An Act amendatory of an act to provide for the organization of the navy. May 20, 1861." The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Corps of marines. from and after the passage of this act, the corps of marines shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, one major, one quartermaster with the rank of major, one paymaster with the rank of major, one adjutant, with the rank of major, one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, ten captains, ten first lieutenants, twenty second lieutenants, forty sergeants, forty corporals, and eight hundred and forty privates, ten drummers, and ten fifers and two musicians. cers and enlisted men. SEC. 2. The pay and emoluments of the officers and enlisted men shall Pay and emolube the same as that of the officers and enlisted men of like grade in the ments of the offiinfantry 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. Rations of enlist by law to seamen. All acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act ed marines. are hereby repealed. APPROVED May 20, 1861. CHAP. XXXII.-An Act to amend an act to provide for the organization of the nary, May 20, 1861. approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty one. same rank and po The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enoct, That Appointment of the President be and he is hereby authorized to nominate, and by officers of the navy and with the advice and consent of Congress to appoint, all officers of the U. S. to the of the navy of the United States, who have resigned or may here- sition in the navy after resign their commissions on account of the secession of any or all of the C. S. of the Confederate States, and. who may 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: Provided, however, That no offi- Proviso. cer shall be so appointed who may at any time have committed any act of hostility against the Confederate States or any one thereof. navy SEC. 2. That the President be authorized to assign officers of the to any duty connected with the defence of the country, and suitable to their rank, which he may deem proper. Assignment of officers of the navy to duty. Assistant pay masters of the na vy; their salaries. Paymasters to be 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 hundred dollars when not thus employed; and all paymasters of the navy shall be taken from the grade of taken from the assistant paymasters. APPROVED May 20, 1861. CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to establish a separate Port of Entry at Sabine Pass, in the The Congress of the Confederate States of America 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. grade of assistant paymasters. May 21, 1861. Collection District of Sabine Pass State of Texas. established in the Sabine Pass the port of entry for said district. SEC. 2. A collector for the said district of Sabine Pass shall be Appointment of appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of Congress, collector for said district. Where to who shall reside at Sabine Pass, and hold his office for the terms and the reside; term of of time prescribed by law for the like office in other districts, and who shall fice, and salary. be entitled to a salary not exceeding seventeen hundred and fifty dollars Excess of fees per annum, including in that sum the fees allowed by law; and the over his salary to amount he shall collect in any one year for fees, exceeding the said sum be paid into the of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury of the Confederate States of America. Treasury. Laws contraven SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws now in force, contravening the ing this act repeal- provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect from and after its passage. ed. APPROVED May 21, 1861. May 21, 1861. Election of members of the House Permanent Constitution. CHAP. XXXIV.—An Act to put in operation the Government under the Permanent Con! stitution of the Confederate States of America. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That of Representatives an election shall be held in the several states of this Confederacy, on the in the Congress of first Wednesday in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for the C. S. under the members of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States under the permanent Constitution, which election shall be conducted in 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, according to the laws heretofore existing in such states for the election of members of the House Election of Pres- 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 where no such laws may exist, according to the laws heretofore in force in such states for the election or appointment of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States. ident and Vice President. When electors to SEC. 2. The Electors for President and Vice President shall meet in meat and cast their their respective states on the first Wednesday in December, eighteen votes; to make out lists, certify and hundred and sixty-one, and proceed to vote for President and Vice forward the same. President, and make out lists, certify the same, and forward the same to the President of the Senate; all as directed by the said Constitution in that behalf. When members sentatives to as Election of a SEC. 3. The members of the House of Representatives so elected, and of the Senate and the Senators who may be elected by the several States according to the House of Repre- provision of said Constitution, shall assemble at the seat of government semble at the seat of the Confederate States, on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen of government. hundred and sixty-two; and the said members of the House of RepreSpeaker of the sentatives shall proceed to organize by the election of a Speaker, and the House, and Presi- Senators by the election of a President of the Senate for the time being; dent of the Senate, and the President of the Senate shall, on the nineteenth day of Febru Opening of certi- ary, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, open all the certificates; and the ficates and count- votes for President and Vice President shall then be counted, as directed ing of votes by said Constitution. pro tempore. Inauguration of President. SEC. 4. The President of the Confederate States shall be inaugurated on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Number of repre- SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That in case the State of Virginia sentatives to which shall adopt and ratify the Constitution for the permanent government of the States of Vir- the Confederate States of America before the elections in this act prolina, Tennessee and vided for, she shall be entitled to elect sixteen members to the House of ginia, Nort Caro . 35. CH. tled. Representatives; and the State of North Carolina, in like case, ten Arkansas shall be members; the State of Tennessee, in like case, eleven; and the State respectively entiof Arkansas, in like case, four members; the same being upon the Basis of represenbasis of one member for every ninety thousand representative popu- tation. lation, 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 Constitution for permanent government. Rules as to number of Presidential SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the same rules and principles Electors in said shall be observed as to the number of Presidential Electors in the States States. aforesaid as in the other seven original States. APPROVED May 21, 1861. CHAP. XXXV.-An Act making appropriations in addition to those already made for May 21, 1861. the military service of the Confederate States of Americ, for the fiscal year ending the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Appropriations. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That For pay of offithere be appropriated for the pay of the officers and privates of one cers and privates hundred regiments of infantry, and for quartermaster's supplies of all of one bu dred kinds for the same, and transportation, including horses, wagons, har- regiments of infantry, and for quarness, ambulances, and other necessary expenses, for the fiscal year ending termaster's supthe eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, plies, &c. twenty-seven millions nine hundred and thirty-two thousand, four hundred and ninety-three dollars and twelve cents. SEC. 2. That there be appropriated for the pay, quartermaster's sup- For the pay, &c., plies of all kinds, transportation and other necessary expenses for one of one regiu ent of regiment of legionary formation, composed of one company of artillery, legionary formafour companies of cavalry, and six companies of voltigeurs, five hundred and fifty thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars. tion. SEC. 3. That there be appropriated for the purchase of subsistence For the purchase stores and commissary property for one hundred thousand troops, for the of subsistence fiscal year ending the eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hun- and commissary dred and sixty-two, five millions four hundred and sixty-four thousand, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents. property. ings at the arse SEC. 4. That there be appropriated for the ordnance service, for the For the ordnance fiscal year ending the eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hun- service, preservadred and sixty-two-for the preservation of public buildings, quarters, tion of public buildbarracks, etc., at the arsenals, armories, and depots; for the repairs and nils, armories and preservation of ordnance stores; for the pay of clerks, draughtsmen, depots, and of ordcolorers, superintendents, overseers, etc.; for the purchase of horses, nance stores, &c. 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 picces 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 accoutrements, for one hundred thousand sets infantry accoutrements, knapsacks, haversacks and cauteens; for two and one-half mil lion pounds 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. For medical and SEC. 5. That there be appropriated for medical and hospital supplies, hospital 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. 6. That there be appropriated for the contingent service of the gent service of the War Department, for the year ending the eighteenth of February, one War Department. thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the sum of three hundred thou For the contin sand dollars. For contingent SEC. 7. That there be appropriated for contingent expenses of the expenses of the Ad- Adjutant and Inspectors General's Department, including office furniture, jutant and Inspetor General's De- Stationery, printed blanks for the use of the army, record books, postage, telegraphic despatches, etc., for the year ending the eighteenth Febru ary, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the sum of eight thou partment. For the pay of sand dollars. SEC. 8. That there be appropriated for the pay of surgeons, assistant surgeons, assistant surgeons, and chaplains, for the year ending the eighteenth day of Febsurgeons and chaplains. ruary, 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. May 21, 1861. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act to amend, an act relative to telegraphie lines of the Confederate States, approved May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. by the President Compensation to The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That agents of telegraph the sixth section of the "act relative to telegraph-lines of the Concompanies charged federate States," be and the same is hereby so amended as to authorize with special du- the President to allow such compensation as may be reasonable and proper, in addition 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 companies concerned. ties. APPROVED May 21, 1861. May 21, 1861. CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act making appropriations for the Legislative and Executive expenses of government for the year ending eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Appropriatio RS The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That for the year ending the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any February 18, 1862. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the year ending the eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: Legislative. State. Legislative-For compensation and mileage of members of Congress, twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation of officers of Congress, six thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of Congress, including printing, five thousand dollars. For Department of Department of State-For compensation of two additional clerks, two thousand dollars. For the publication and printing of acts and resolutions of Congress, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. necessities and exigencies under laws already passed, or which may be passed, or from causes which now exist or may hereafter arise, and unforeseen emergencies, forty thousand dollars-to replace same amount in State Department. Treasury Department. Treasury Department-For this amount to pay interest on loan of February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 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 twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, thirty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, twenty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous-For compensation of two watchmen to guard the exe- Miscellaneous. cutive buildings, at four hundred dollars each, and for lighting the same, sixteen hundred dollars. For rent of executive building corner of Bibb and Commerce street, three thousand dollars. For rent of executive building on Bibb street, between Coosa and Commerce street, two thousand dollars. For rent of building of Noble & Brother and others, three thousand dollars. For furniture 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. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act to provide for certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the Post-office Department for the year ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. For May 21, 1861. the post-office de Watchmen. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Appropriations following sums shall be and are hereby appropriated, out of any money for the service of in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the post-partment for the office department, for the year ending February eighteenth, eighteen year ending Febhundred and sixty-two: For increased compensation of the chiefs of ruary 18, 1861. the contract, appointment and finance bureaus, one thousand one hun- Chiefs of Bureau. dred and six dollars and one cent. For compensation of disbursing Disbursing clerk. clerk, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-seven cents. compensation of watchmen, three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents. For compensation of four principal clerks, at fourteen hundred dollars each, four thousand and thirty-six dollars and 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 To supply defideficiency in the appropriation for the compensation of the postmaster ciencies. general, clerks and messengers in his office, made by the act approved ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and entitled "an act further to provide for the organization of the Post-office Depart Principal clerks. Other clerks. ment," ten thousand dollars. For the compensation of agents, and for Telegraph lines cost of materials, and constructing, repairing, and operating telegraph and agents." lines, and for other expenses which may be incurred under said act, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster General is Proviso. 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 eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and sixtyBut the compensation 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 President. one. APPROVED May 21, 1861. |