Forging or counter SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall falsely feiting of treasury make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging or counterfeiting any note in imitation of or purporting to be a treasury note, issued as aforesaid, or shall pass, utter or publish, or attempt to pass, utter or publish as true any false, forged or counterfeited note, purporting to be a treasury note as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or shall falsely alter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid and assist in falsely altering any treasury note issued as aforesaid, or shall pass, utter or publish, or attempt to pass, utter or publish as true any falsely altered treasury note, issued as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely altered, every such person shall be deemed and adjuged guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisioned and kept at hard labor for a period not less than three years nor more than ten years, and to be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars. Penalty. Penalty for making be used in forging or notes. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall make or engraving plates to or engrave, or cause or procure to be made or engraved, or shall have counterfelting such in his possession any metallic plate engraved after the similitude of any plate from which any notes issued as aforesaid shall have been printed, with intent to use such plate, or cause or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes issued as aforesaid, or shall have in his custody or possession any blank note or notes engraved and printed after the similitude of any notes issued as aforesaid, with intent to use such blanks, or cause or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes issued as aforesaid, or shall have in his custody or possession any paper adapted to the making of such notes, and similar to the paper upon which any such notes shall have been issued, with intent to use such paper or cause or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes issued as aforesaid, every such person, being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for a term not less than three nor more than ten years, and fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars. Penalty for forging certificate of stock or sued under the act of SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall falsely or counterfeiting any make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, Sond, or coupon is forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making or the 28th Feb., 1861. forging, or counterfeiting any certificate of stock or bond, or coupon, in imitation of or purporting to be a certificate of stock or bond, or coupon, issued in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled an act to raise money for the support of the government, and to provide for the defence of the Confederate States of America, approved the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall pass. utter or publish, or attempt to pass, utter or publish as true any false, forged or counterfeited certificate of stock or bond, or coupon, purporting to be a certificate of stock or bond, or coupon, as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or shall falsely alter or cause, or procure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist in falsely altering any certificate of stock or bond, or coupon, issued as aforesaid, or shall pass, utter or publish, or attempt to pass, utter or publish as true any falsely altered certificate of stock or bond, or coupon, issued as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely altered, every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a felony, and being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept at labor for a period not less than three years nor more than ten years, and be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars. APPROVED March 9, 1861. CHAP. XXXIV-An Act to provide for an Assistant Treasurer of the Confederate States of March 9, 1861. O leans to be the city. Assistant Treasurer to be appointed. His duties. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Branch int at New the branch mint, formerly belonging to the United States, in the city place of deposit of of New Orleans, and the vaults and safes thereof, shall be the place of public money's in that deposite of the public money of the Confederate States of America in that city; and the President shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of Congress shall appoint an assistant treasurer of the Confederate States of America, who shall hold his office until the expiration of this Provisional Government. And the said assistant treasurer shall have the custody and care of all public moneys deposited in said place of deposite, and shall perform all the duties required by law to be performed by assistant treasurers of the Confederate States, who shall give a bond with sureties for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, which bond shall be for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and the sureties shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That it shall not be necessary that cach surety shall bind himself for the whole amount of the bond, but the aggregate amount for which the sureties are severally bound shall be equal to the full sum of one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That each surety shall be bound for at least twenty thousand dollars. Bond and security. Proviso. Assistant Treasurer's salary. SEC. 2. And it is further enacted, That the salary of said assistant treasurer shall be four thousand dollars per annum; and the said assistant treasurer shall also perform the duties of treasurer of the mint, To perform the du without any further compensation than is herein provided. APPROVED March 9, 1861. CHAP. XXXV.-An Act further to provide for the organization of the Post Office Department. ties of treasurer of the mint. March 9, 1861. clerks and draftsman, ries. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Chiefs of bureaus, to the Post Office Department there shall be a chief of the contract in Post Office Depart bureau, a chief of the appointment bureau, and a chief of the finance ment, and their salabureau, each of whom shall be entitled to an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; also a chief clerk, who shall be entitled to an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; also a draftsman, for such time as his services may be required, at an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, or at that rate for a shorter period than one year; also ten clerks at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars each, and ten additional clerks at an annual salary of one thousand dollars each. And the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to employ such other clerical force in his department as the exigencies clerical force. of the public service may absolutely demand, the salaries of such superadded clerks to be so employed by him not to exceed one thousand dollars each; but this power, together with the tenure of such appointees, shall extend no longer than the end of the first session of the next Congress. And he may also employ one messenger, at an annual salary of five hundred dollars; and also two laborers, at an expense of not more than one dollar and fifty cents each per day. Postmaster General authorized to increase Messenger ani laborers. Act creating cleriOffice Department,re as relates pealed. SEC 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of an art entitled "An act to create the clerical force of the several executive departments of Cal force in the Postthe Confederate States of America, and for other purposes,' to the Post Office Department of the Confederate States be and the same is hereby repealed. from one bureau to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General shall Transfer of clerks have the general power to transfer the clerks authorized by this act another. from any one bureau to another, according to the exigencies of the public service. APPROVED March 9, 1861. March 11, 1861. Pay and mileage of members of Con gress. Same of the President of Congress. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act to fix the pay of the Members of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the pay of the members of Congress shall be eight dollars per day during the session, and that each member shall be allowed ten cents per mile for coming to and ten cents per mile for returning from the place where Congress may assemble for each session, to be computed by the usual mail route from his residence to the seat of government. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the pay of the President of Congress shall be sixteen dollars per day, and the same mileage as the members. APPROVED March 11, 1861. March 11, 1861. Appropriation for support of the Provisional troops. And for additional troops to be called into service. CHAP XXXVII-An Act making appropriations for the support 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 America, and for other purposes." The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the following appropriations be made for the support of the provisional troops called into service by the act aforesaid: Pay of the troops, six hundred and fifty-eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Forage for officers' horses and quartermasters' animals and cavalry horses, twenty thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars. Subsistence for troops, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Clothing for the troops, two hundred thousand dollars. Camp and garrison equipage, eighteen thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents. Supplies for the quartermasters' department, seventy-six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Fuel for troops and hospitals, fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars. Medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the additional sum of eight hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-five cents is hereby appropriated for the support of two thousand additional troops to be called into the service of the Confederate States for twelve months, at Charleston, South Carolina, whenever in the discretion of the President their services may be required. APPROVED March 11, 1861. March 11, 1861. Appropriations for regular army. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the Regular Army of the The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the support of the the following appropriations are made for the support of the regular army for twelve months, viz.: For expenses of recruiting and for transportation of recruits, one hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars. Pay of the army, two millions seventy thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars. Forage for officers' horses and for cavalry and light artillery horses, one hundred and seven thousand two hundred dollars. Subsistence for troops, nine hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Clothing for the army, six hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Camp and garrison equipage, sixty thousand dollars. Supplies for the quartermaster's department-consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules and oxen of the quartermaster's department, at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field; of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of enquiry, including the additional compensation of judge advocates, recorders, members and witnesses, while in that service; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermaster's department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses and hospitals, for constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks; expense of interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at the posts on the frontiers, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster's department; compensation of clerks of the officers of the quartermaster's department; for the apprehension of deserters and the expenses incident to their pursuit; for the following expenses required for the regiment of cavalry and for the four batteries of light artillery; namely, the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith's and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing; mediciue for horses and mules; picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named-three hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars. For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it may be necessary to occupy during the year, and for repairing, altering and enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments and for temporary frontier stations, for commutation of forage for officers' horses when it cannot be drawn in kind, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, escorts or supplies, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That mileage shall not be allowed when the officer has been transferred or relieved at his own request. For transportation of the army-including the baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, of horse equipments, and of subsistence-from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent, of ordnance, ordnance stores and small arms, freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages, hire of horses, mules and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts and drays, and of ships and other sea going vessels required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes, for drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the disbursing departments, the expense of public transports on the various rivers, the gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses for the regiment of cavalry and four batteries of light artillery, one hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred dollars. Contingencies of the army, fifteen thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital departments, seventy-five thousand dollars. Contingencies of the adjutant general's department, six hundred dollars. Armament of fortifications and purchase of light artillery, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Purchase, manufacture and alteration of small arms, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, including horse equipments for the regiment of cavalry and for light batteries, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Proviso. Secretary of War may apply any part support of the Pro SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War, under of appropriations to the direction of the President, be and he is hereby authorized to apply any portion of the appropriations made by this act to the support of the provisional forces which may be called into service, whenever in his opinion the same may be necessary. visional forces. APPROVED March 11, 1861. March 11, 1861. Court of Admiralty at Key West, State of Florida. Jurisdiction. Judge of said Where to reside. Terms of court. CHAP. XXXIX.-An Act to establish a Court of Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction at Key The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That a court of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction at Key West, in the Sta e of Florida, shall be and is hereby created, which shall have cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under the revenue laws or laws of navigation and trade of the Confederate States, when the seizures are made or cause of complaint arises on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burden, as well as upon the high seas, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy, where the remedy at common law is ample and complete. The said court shall exercise jurisdiction in all that part of the State of Florida which lies south of a line drawn due east and west from the northern point of Charlotte Harbor, including the islands, keys, reefs, shoals, harbors, bays and inlets south of said line. And SEC. 2. The said court shall also have cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the Confederate States arising upon the high seas and within the territorial limits aforesaid. until otherwise provided by law of Congress, the laws of the United States in regard to crimes and offences, and to the mode of procedure, practice and trial in all criminal or penal cases, shall be in force and form the rule of practice and decision in the said court. SEC. 3. There shall be appointed by the President, by and with the ourt, and his salary. advice and consent of Congress, a judge of said court, for the term prescribed by the Constitution, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly. The judge shall reside at Key West, in the State aforesaid, and shall hold two regular terms of said court in each year, at Key West, the one commencing on the first Monday of May, the other on the first Monday of November in each year; and shall hold extra sessions of the same from time to time, at such places in said district as occasion may require, to dispatch the business of said court. And the said court shall be at all times open for the purpose of hearing and determining all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. Extra session. Marshal and clerk. Their fees. Residence of clerk, and his duties. SEC. 4. The said judge shall also appoint a marshall and a clerk for said court, who shall be in all respects subject to the provisions of the act entitled An Act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America," so far as the same relates to the bords, caths, qualifications, powers, duties, liabilities and official conduct of the clerks or marshals respectively, and to the remedy for any violation of duty, breach of bond or other official delinquency. And they shall also have the same fees for their respective service as in said act are prescribed. SEC. 5. The clerk shall reside and keep the records of the court at the place of holding the same, and it shall also be his duty to attend the sittings of the said court wherever held, and keep a record of its acts and proceedings, as if held at the regular place of holding the |