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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 --EIGHT DAY--MONDAY, July 29, 1861.
OPEN SESSION.
Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Duncan.
Congress then resolved itself into secret session.
SECRET SESSION.
Congress being in secret session,
Mr. Macfarland of Virginia, from the special committee appointed relative to the wounded at the battle of Manassas, reported the following resolution, to wit:
A resolution to dispose of donations made by certain churches on the late fast day;
which was read the first and second times, engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
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Mr. Shorter of Alabama, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled
An act relative to the prepayment of postage in certain cases.
Mr. Thomason of Arkansas presented a memorial upon the subject of a fee bill for Government marshals; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Thomason of Arkansas offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of establishing a uniform fee bill for marshals and clerks in the district courts, and to report by bill; which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Thomason of Arkansas offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the propriety of longer detaining prisoners now in custody and further prosecuting persons bound by recognizance to answer charges now pending, by indictment or otherwise, for the violation within the Indian country of any of the laws of the United States regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to report by bill;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Thomason of Arkansas offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire whether or not jurisdiction in cases of libel against steamboats and other vessels designed for the navigation of the navigable waters within the Confederate States should be conferred on the district courts thereof, and to report by bill;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Kenner of Louisiana introduced
A bill relative to money deposited in the registries of the courts; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Kenner of Louisiana offered two resolutions, the first requesting the President of the Confederate States to prevent, by military authority, the accumulation of cotton in cities, towns, and other places during the blockade, and the second requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the time for the payment of subscriptions to the produce loan.
On motion of Mr. Barnwell of South Carolina, the first resolution was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the second to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Conrad of Louisiana offered
A resolution requesting the President to transmit to this body as early as practicable a copy of a report recently made to him by Burton, superintendent of the armory in this place, relative to an application made by certain parties in Louisiana and Tennessee to borrow a portion of the machinery in said armory;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Conrad of Louisiana offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill to secure the more speedy and regular transportation of troops and military and naval supplies by railroad;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Perkins of Louisiana introduced
A bill to suspend the collection of duties on imports into the Confederate
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States from all countries except the United States, and for other purposes;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Waul of Texas introduced
A bill to amend an act to establish the judicial courts of [the Confederate States of] America; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Bocock of Virginia offered
A resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of providing by law some uniform method of ascertaining losses sustained by reason of depredations and seizures of the enemy upon the property of true and loyal citizens of any of the Confederate States;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Barnwell of South Carolina, from the Committee on Finance, reported back a resolution offered by Mr. Staples of Virginia relative to the payment of persons employed in taking the census, with the request that it be referred to the Committee on Claims.
The resolution was so referred.
Mr. Barnwell of South Carolina, from the Committee on Finance, reported
A bill to extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Confederate States, except through the seaports, of said States, and to punish persons offending therein," approved May 21, 1861.
The consideration of which, after first and second readings, on motion of Mr. Macfarland of Virginia, was postponed, and the bill ordered to be placed upon the Calendar and printed.
Mr. Smith of Alabama, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported
A bill to be entitled "An act making temporary provision for naturalizing as citizens of the Confederate States such persons now citizens of the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware as may desire so to become;"
which was read the first and second times and the further consideration of which was, on motion, postponed, and the bill ordered to be placed upon the Calendar and printed.
Mr. T. R. R. Cobb of Georgia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution to protect the secret proceedings of Congress from publication in the daily journals, reported that the committee did not consider it necessary to legislate upon the subject, and begged that they may be discharged from the further consideration of the same, and that the resolution lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. T. R. R. Cobb of Georgia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred
A resolution relative to naturalizing as citizens of the Confederate States persons of Northern birth or residence, reported that said committee deemed it inexpedient to legislate upon that subject, and begged that they may be discharged from the further consideration of the same, and that the resolution lie upon the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. T. R. R. Cobb of Georgia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution in reference to amending the
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eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, reported
A bill to amend the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America;
which was read the first and second times.
On motion of Mr. Chesnut of South Carolina, the consideration of the report was postponed until to-morrow, and the bill ordered to be placed upon the Calendar.
Mr. Miles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred resolutions relative to the First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers, reported back the same and recommended their passage.
The resolutions were then read the first and second times, engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Miles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported unfavorably upon the bill of Mr. Wright of Georgia, entitled "An act to amend the eighth section of an act to provide for the public defense," and asked to be discharged from the further consideration of the same.
On motion of Mr. Stephens of Georgia, the further consideration of the bill was postponed until to-morrow, and ordered to be placed upon the Calendar.
Mr. Miles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported unfavorably upon
A bill to establish a bureau of army intelligence.
On motion of Mr. Stephens of Georgia, the further consideration of the same was postponed until to-morrow, and the bill placed upon the Calendar.
Mr. Chilton, from the Committee on Postal Affairs, reported unfavorably upon two resolutions, conferring the franking privilege upon ex-President John Tyler and Mrs. Polk, widow of ex-President James K. Polk.
On motion of Mr. Seddon of Virginia, the resolutions were laid on the table.
Mr. Sparrow of Louisiana introduced an act to amend the two acts mentioned in the body of the bill; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion of Mr. Keitt of South Carolina,
Congress then adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Congress having resolved itself in executive session,
Mr. Chilton, from the Committee on Postal Affairs, to whom was referred the communication of the President transmitting for the advice and consent of Congress a list of appointments for postmasters at the places severally designated, reported that the committee recommended that Congress advise and consent to the nominations therein made.
Mr. Conrad moved that the consideration of the nomination of J. M. Reid, for postmaster at New Orleans, La., be postponed for the present.
The motion prevailed.
Congress then advised and consented to the nominations as reported.
Mr. Venable moved to reconsider the action of Congress on the nomination of George T. Cook for postmaster at Raleigh, N. C.
Congress resumed secret session.
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