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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journal of the Confederate Congress --NINETEENTH DAY--WEDNESDAY, December 11, 1861.
OPEN SESSION.
Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Hoge.
Congress then resolved itself into secret session.
SECRET SESSION.
Congress being in secret session,
Mr. Orr, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled
An act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and noncommissioned officers in the Provisional Army.
Mr. Wright, by general consent, offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on Accounts to inquire into the expediency of reporting
A bill for the payment of carriers of the returns from the respective States to the capital;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Hill offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the propriety of appointing chaplains to the hospitals for the sick and wounded;
which was read and agreed to.
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Mr. Garland offered
A resolution providing that Congress take a recess from the 21st instant of December until 13th day of January;
which was laid on the table.
Mr. Curry offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire whether the penal bonds of commissaries and assistant commissaries are sufficient.
Mr. Scott offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of increasing the Engineer Corps of the Army;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Caruthers, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back and recommended the passage of
A bill to divide the State of Tennessee into three judicial districts; which was engrossed, read third time, and passed.
Mr. Crawford, from the Committee on Commerce, reported back and recommended the passage of
A bill to make penal the transportation and sale of cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice, molasses, sirup, and naval stores;
which was engrossed, read third time; and
On motion of Mr. Barnwell, was ordered to be printed and placed on the Calendar.
Mr. Kenner offered the following resolution, to wit:
Resolved, That when Congress adjourns on Wednesday next, the eighteenth instant, it adjourn to meet on Monday, the thirteenth day of January next.
Mr. Garland moved as a substitute for the same the following, to wit:
Resolved, That Congress take a recess from Saturday, twenty-first December, to Thursday, the second day of January next.
Mr. Kenner moved to amend the substitute by striking out therefrom "Saturday, twenty-first," and inserting in lieu thereof "Wednesday, eighteenth," and by striking out "Thursday, second day," and inserting in lieu thereof "Monday, thirteenth day."
The amendment was agreed to, when Mr. Curry called the question; which was upon agreeing to the substitute of Mr. Garland as amended by Mr. Kenner.
And the call being sustained,
Mr. Ochiltree, at the instance of the State of Texas, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:
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Yea: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, 6.
Nay: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas, 5.
Divided: Alabama, 1.
So the substitute as amended was not agreed to.
The question then recurred upon agreeing to the original resolution of Mr. Kenner;
When,
Mr. Thomason moved to lay the same on the table and, at the instance of the State of Georgia [Arkansas?], demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:
Yea: Missouri and Virginia, 2.
Nay: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas 8.
Divided: Arkansas and Mississippi, 2.
So the motion was lost.
Mr. Curry called the question; which was upon the adoption of the resolution of Mr. Kenner;
When,
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Mr. Rhett, at the instance of the State of South Carolina, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:
Yea: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, 8.
Nay: Mississippi, Missouri, and Virginia, 3.
Divided: Arkansas, 1.
So the resolution was adopted, and is as follows, to wit:
Resolved, That when Congress adjourns on Wednesday next, the eighteenth December, it adjourn to meet again on Monday, the thirteenth day of January next.
The Chair presented certain estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury; which were referred to the Committee on Finance, without being read.
The hour of 1 o'clock p. m. having arrived,
Congress proceeded to the consideration of the special order of the day, which was
A bill to increase the pay of the Provisional Army.
Executive Department,
Richmond, December 11, 1861.
Mr. President: The President has this day approved and signed
An act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and noncommissioned officers in the Provisional Army.
ROBERT JOSSELYN,
Private Secretary.
Mr. McRae, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled
An act to divide the State of Tennessee into three judicial districts.
Mr. Curry offered as a substitute for the bill the following, to wit:
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Pending the consideration of which,
Congress, on motion of Mr. Waul,
Adjourned until 12 m. to-morrow.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Congress being in executive session,
Mr. Garland, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the nominations of John C. Nicoll to be Confederate district attorney for the State of Georgia, and William M. Randolph to be Confederate district attorney for the eastern district of Arkansas, reported the same back and recommended that Congress advise and consent to the same.
The report was agreed to, and Congress advised and consented to the said nominations.
Congress then resumed legislative session.
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