ship of alien ene- process and proceedings may be against such partnership by the firm mies are unknown. name thereof, stated in such affidavit, or against such alien enemy, whose name is wholly or partly unknown, by such name or proper description as may be known and set forth in such affidavit: Provided, Proper name That the court may, at any time, on motion, cause the full and proper may be inserted in name to be inserted in the record, and used in the proceedings when the record when ascertained. Receivers may the same become known to the court. SEC. 24. Receivers shall have authority to administer oaths touching adminster oaths. any matter incident to proceedings under this act. Act of Aug. 30, SEC. 25. The sixteenth section of the act to which this is an amend 1861, 16, repeal ment, is hereby repealed. ed. Bonds and trea SEC. 26. All debts due to any alien enemy may be paid in the bonds sury notes receiva- and treasury notes of the Confederate States, and the same shall be received in payment for all property sold under this act. ble. Fees of clerks and marsha's. Appointment of cation fund. take examination SEC. 27. The fees of all clerks and marshals shall be the same for services under this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, as are allowed for similar services in the courts of the Confederate States, and shall be a charge upon the general fund derived from confiscations, and shall be paid on the order of the court. SEC. 28. The commissioners authorized by the fourteenth section of clerk of the board the act to which this is an amendment, shall appoint a clerk with a salary of commissioners. His salary. of fifteen hundred dollars, to be paid out of the treasury of the ConSalaries of clerk federate States; but such salary, as well as the salary of said commisand commissioners sioners, shall be charged to the confiscation fund and be deducted charged to coufis- therefrom; and said commissioners shall moreover have power to appoint Appointment of commissioners to take the examination of witnesses touching the claims commissioners to which may be propounded before them, or may summon witnesses before of witnesses. them to be examined orally; said commissioners, and the commissioners appointed by them to examine witnesses as aforesaid, shall have power Oaths to wit-to administer oaths to the witnesses and to issue subpoenas, and witnesses and sub- nesses failing to appear shall be subject to like penalties and process as may be prescribed in the courts of the Confederate States against against defaulting defaulting witnesses: Provided, however, That the costs of all proceedings to take testimony shall be paid by the claimant, except in cases where the Attorney General shall apply for leave to take testimony, and Fees of witnesses the fees of witnesses and commissioners shall be the same as are allowed and commission- in the courts of the Confederate States in like cases. poenas. Penalties and process witnesses. ers. Settlements of SEC. 29. So much of the act to which this is an amendment as regivers to em- requires the receivers to settle separately the estate of each alien enemy, brace all matters is repealed, and hereafter each settlement shall embrace all the matters ready for settle- ready for settlement; but the items of the account shall be so specific ment. Items of account as to show the sources from which each is derived. to be specific. SEC. 30. Where any judgment has been entered up in any of the Judgments entered under the courts of the Confederate States under the act to which this is an act of Aug. 30, amendment, inconsistent with the provisions and spirit of this act, the 1861, inconsistent same, on motion, shall be set aside or amended in accordance with the with this act shall be set aside or terms and provisions of this act. amended. SEC. 31. The provisions of the act to which this act is an amendment, Provisions of so far as the same may conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. APPROVED February 15, 1862. said act conflicting with this act re pealed. February 15, 1862. CHAP. LXXII.—An Act to establish certain post routes therein named. Certain post The Congrees of the Confederate States of America do enact, That routes established. the following post routes be, and they are hereby, established, to wit: In North Caro lina. In Georgia. First. From Tarborough, by way of Bethel and Flat Swamp, to Williamston, in the State of North Carolina. Second. From Bengal, in Bullock county, by way of William Deloaches' Mills, in said county, and Benjamin Brewton's Mills, in Tatnall county, to Reidsville, in said last-named county, in the State of Georgia. Third. From Burnsville, In Tennessee. North Carolina, via Jack's Creek, Poplar Hollow, Longmore's, in Washington county, Tennessee, John Blair's, to Jonesborough, in the State of Tennessee. Fourth. From Laurel Valley, in North Carolina, via Stansbury Gap, to Duck Town, in the State of Tennessee. Fifth. From Shepherdsville to Swansboro', in the county of Onslow, In North CaroNorth Carolina. Sixth. From Sandersville to Had not's, in said last-lina. named county and State. Seventh. From Gatesville to Mintonsville, in Gates county, North Carolina. Eighth. From Dixie, otherwise called Bu Bayou, on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas railroad, to Winsboro', in the State of Louisiana. Ninth. From Holly's Wharf, on In North CaroChowan river, to Ballard's Bridge, in Chowan county, in the State of lina. North Carolina. Tenth. From Mount Pleasant to Perryville, on the In Tennessee. Tennessee river, via Newburg, Palestine and Linden, in the State of Tennessee. Eleventh. From Louisville, in the county of Winston, via Ashfordsville, in said county, Multona Springs, Phoenix Mills, Birketsville, and Rocky Point, in the county of Attala, to West Station, in the county of Holmes, in the State of Mississippi. Twelfth. From Crain's In North CaroCreek to Carbonton, via Cowles' Store, Pocket, Gilliam's Store and lina. In Louisiana. In Mississippi. Underwood's Tall House, in the State of North Carolina. Thirteenth. In Mississippi. From Vaiden to Sidon, in the county of Carroll, in the State of Mississippi. Fourteenth. From Raymond, in the county of Hinds, to Port Gibson, in the county of Claiborne, in said State of Mississippi. Fifteenth. From DeKalb, in the county of Kemper, to Philadelphia, in the county of Neshoba, in said State. Sixteenth. From Concordia, in the county of Bolivar, to Williams Port, on the Sun Flower river, in said State. Seventeenth. From Canton in the county of Madison, to Shugualak, in the county of Noxuba, via Philadelphia, in the county of Neshoba, in said State. Eighteenth. From Oxford, in the county of Lafayette, to Fulton, in the county of Itawamba, in said State. Nineteenth. From Batesville, in Panola county, to Bynam's Creek, in said State. Twentieth. From Fulton, in Itawamba county, to Gunstown, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, in said State. Twenty-first. From Smithville to Richmond, in said State of Mississippi. Twenty-second. From Moscow, on the Memphis and Charleston railroad, to Antona, on the Memphis and Ohio railroad, in the State of Tennessee, via Macon, Oakland and Hickory Wythe, in said State. Twenty-third. From Memphis, via Ralston, to Portersville, in said State last named. Twenty-fourth. From Waldo, on the Florida railroad, by Fort Crane, to My Canopy, in the State of Florida. Twenty-fifth. From Warsaw to Gainsville, in the State of Alabama. Twenty-sixth. From Hicksford, in the county of Greensville, to Lawranceville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia. Twenty-seventh. From Hartsville, in Sumner county, via Driver's Store, on the east fork of Goose Creek and Cartersville, to Lafayette, in the county of Macon, in the State of Tennessee. Twenty- In South Caroeighth. From Rock Hill, York District, via Taylor's Creek, Wallace, Lewisville, Rich Hill Cross Roads, Cedar Shoals, Landsford, to Coats' Tavern, in the State of South Carolina. Twenty-ninth. From Shelby Depot, on the Memphis and Ohio railroad, in the county of Shelby, in the State of Tennessee, to the town of Portersville, in Tipton county, in said State Thirtieth. From Statesburg, via Providence, Harmony College, Bradford Springs, to Mill Grove, in South Carolina. Thirty-first. From Wedowee, Alabama, to Corn Grove, via Abicochee, in said State. In Florida. In Alabama. In Virginia. In Tennessee. lina. Alabama. In Georgia and Thirty-second. From Abernathy, Alabama, to Bowdon, in the State of In North Caro- Georgia. Thirty-third. From Syllacogga, Álabama, to J. J. Richards', in Coosa county, in said State. Thirty-fourth. From Copperville, Cherokee county, North Carolina, to Aquone, Macon county, North Carolina. APPROVED February 15, 1862. lina. February 15, 1862. Advancement to souri. Condition. CHAP. LXXIII.—An Act for the relief of the State of Missouri. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the State of Mis- the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to issue to the State of Missouri, upon the application of the fund commissioners for said State, one million dollars in treasury notes, upon the condition that the said State of Missouri deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury of the Con. federate States an equal sum in the bonds of the State of Missouri, authorized to be issued under an act of the Legislature of said State, entitled "An act to provide for the defence of the State of Missouri, and for other purposes," which bonds shall be held by the Secretary of the Treasury until the accounts of the State of Missouri for advances made for military purposes are adjusted, as Congress may direct. To be accounted for on adjustment SEC. 2. That upon the final adjustment of the accounts of the State of of accounts of said Missouri against the Confederate States, the sum hereby advanced shall be State against the deducted from the amount found due to said State. February 15, 1862. CHAP. LXXIV.—An Act supplemental to "An act to put in operation the Government under the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America," approved May 21st, 1861. Provision to put The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That in operation the Government under on the assembling of the Senators elected under the provisions of the the Permanent Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, according to the direc Constitution. tions contained in the above recited act, it shall be the duty of the Vice Duty of the President of the Provisional Government to call the Senate to order, Vice President of. the Provisional appoint a secretary of the Senate for the time being, administer the oath Government to of office to the Senators, and preside over the body until the President of call the Senate to the Senate for the time being shall be elected, as provided by the act aforesaid; and in the absence of the Vice President, the oldest Senator Duty of the then present shall perform the duties aforesaid. And on the assembling President of the of the members of the House of Representatives, elected as aforesaid, Congress, under said Government, under the direction of the act aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Presi to call the House dent of the Congress of the Provisional Government to call the House to order, &c. to order, &c. Feb. 15, 1862. Appropriatio n s for the expenses of order, appoint a clerk of the House for the time being, administer the oath of office to the members, and preside over the body until a Speaker shall be elected, and in the absence of the President of Congress, the oldest member of the House then present shall perform the duties aforesaid. APPROVED Fbruary 15, 1862. CHAP. LXXV.-An Act to make appropriations for the expenses of government in the legislative, executive and judicial departments, from the eighteenth of February to the first of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for other purposes. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That government from the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the 1862, and for other purposes. objects hereafter expressed, from the eighteenth of February to the first of Feb. 18, to April 1, April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Legislative. For compensation and mileage of Senators, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation and mileage of members of the House of tatives, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pay and mileage of Senators. Represen-of m mbers of Executive. For compensation of the President of the Confederate States, four thousand dollars. For compensation of the Vice-President of the Confederate States, one thousand dollars. For compensation of the Private Secretary and Messenger of the President, three hundred and fifty dollars. the House. President. Vice-President. Private secretary and messenger of the President. Office of the Sec For compensation of the Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State, Clerks and Messenger, one thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars retary of State. and forty-four cents. For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, Assistant Secretary, Office of the SecComptroller, Auditors, Treasurer and Register, and Clerks and Messenger retary of the Treain the Treasury Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, two thousand dollars. For compensation of the Secretary of War, Chief of Bureau, and sury. Office of the Sec retary of War. For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and Clerks and Mes- Office of the Secsengers in his office, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Navy Department, five hundred dollars. retatary of the Navy. master General. For compensation of the Postmaster General, Chiefs of Bureaus, and Office of the PostClerks and Messengers in the Post Office Department, four thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars, thirty-eight cents. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department, two thousand dollars. For compensation of the Attorney General, Assistant Attorney General, Clerks and Messenger in the Department of Justice, one thousand three torney General. hundred and fifty-six dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of Justice, five hundred dollars. For salary of Superintendent of Public Printing and Clerk and Messen- Superintendent ger in his office, six hundred dollars. For printing for the several Executive Departments of the government, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. Judiciary.-For salaries of judges, attorneys and marshals, and for incidental and contingent expenses of courts, twenty thousand dollars. of Public Printing. Printing. Judges, Attorneys, Marshals, &c. Officers, &c., of the army, supplies War Department. For the pay of the officers and privates of the army, volunteers and militia, in the service of the Confederate States; for quar- and transportatermasters' supplies of all kinds, transportation and other necessary tion. expenses, twenty-six million two hundred and ninety-one thousand five hundred and two dollars. For purchase of subsistence stores and commissary property, four million Subsistence stores, five hundred thousand dollars. For the ordnance service in all its branches, two million six hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the engineer service, sixty-five thousand dollars. For surgical and medical supplies of the army, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, sixteen thousand dollars. &c. Ordnance service. Engineer service Surgical and medical supplies. Contigencies of the army. Adjutant and In For the contingent expenses of the Adjutant and Inspector General's spector General's office, including office furniture, stationery, printed blanks for the use of the army, postage, telegraphic dispatches, and so forth, three thousand office. Navy Department. Coal. Navy yard at Norfolk. Commissioners tion act. three hundred dollars. Navy Department.-For contingent enumerated, ten thousand dollars. For pay of officers and others employed at the navy yard, at Norfolk, For repairs of buildings adjoining the gateway of the navy yard, at Norfolk, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.-For compensation of three commissioners, appointed under sequestra under the fourteenth section of the act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, providing for the sequestration of the estates of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, two Contingent ex- thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. peases of commisgioners. Assessors of war For contingent expenses of said commissioners, five hundred dollars. For wages of assessors, and for printing, under the act of Congress of tax and printing. August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, providing for a war tax, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Chief collectors of war tax. For salaries of chief collectors of war tax, under the same, eleven thou sand and thirty-three dollars. Transmission of For transmission of the funds of the Confederate States, one hundred thousand dollars. funds. Diplomatic books. Sugar and molasses. Redemption of treasury notes. Bounty to war For the purchase of diplomatic books for the use of the Department of State, fifteen hundred dollars. For the purchase of a year's supply of sugar and molasses for the army, one million one hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. For redemption of treasury notes issued under the act of May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and burned or otherwise rendered unfit for circulation by the holders, thirty thousand dollars. For pay of warrant and petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsrant and petty of- men and boys, and the engineer's department of the navy, as bounty, ficers, seamen, &c. authorized by act of Congress, approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one hundred thousand dollars. Bounty to non- For bounty of fifty dollars to each non commissioned officer, musician commissioned offi- and private, who may enlist for three years or during war, on the basis that one hundred thousand men will enlist, the sum of five millions of dollars. cers, musicians and privates. Transportation of men. For the transportation of the above men from the place of enlistment to the army, in the field, one million of dollars. APPROVED February 15, 1862. Feb. 15, 1862. Organization of CHAP. LXXVI.-An Act to authorize and provide for the organization of the Maryland Line. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Maryland line. all native or adopted citizens of the State of Maryland, who have hereto fore volunteered, are now in, or may hereafter volunteer in the service of the Confederate States, may, at their option be organized and enrolled into companies, squadrons, battalions and regiments, and with the first Maryland regiment, and several companies now in service, into one or more brigades, to be known as the Maryland line; said organization to be in accordnance with existing laws. APPROVED February 15, 1862. |