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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 --TUESDAY, December 29, 1863.
OPEN SESSION.
The President pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from Lieut. Gen. William J. Hardee and other officers of the Army in relation to a plan for the reorganization of the Army of the Confederate States; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (S. 164) to repeal an act regulating the granting of furloughs and discharges in hospitals, approved May 1, 1863; and no amendment being proposed, it was reported to the Senate.
Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time.
The said bill was read the third time.
Resolved, That it pass, and that the title thereof be as aforesaid.
Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives therein.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (S. 161) to repeal an act entitled "An act to regulate the destruction of property under military necessity, and to provide for the indemnity thereof;" and
After debate,
On motion by Mr. Orr,
The Senate resolved into executive session.
The doors having been opened,
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill last mentioned; and
After further debate,
On motion by Mr. Henry,
The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.
The doors having been opened,
On motion by Mr. Caperton,
The Senate adjourned.
SECRET SESSION.
The President pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the foreign loan; which was read.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Finance.
On motion by Mr. Caperton,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Mr. Orr, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the message of the President of the Confederate States of the 28th instant, transmitting a draft of instructions for an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, proposed to be sent to Mexico, reported the following resolutions for consideration:
Resolved, That the Senate advise that an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary be sent to His Majesty the Emperor of Mexico.
Resolved, That the Senate advise that negotiations be entered upon with His Majesty the Emperor of Mexico on the basis proposed in the draft of instructions accompanying the President's message.
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Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the nominations of Calvin L. Sayre and Becket K. Howell, to be captains; David Bradford, Nathaniel E. Venable, and Henry L. Graves, to be first lieutenants, and John L. Rapier, to be second lieutenant, in the Marine Corps; William W. Hunter, Eben. Farrand, and John R. Tucker, to be captains in Provisional Navy; William T. Glassell, George T. Sinclair, to be commanders in the Provisional Navy, and John Taylor Wood, to be commander in the Navy; Charles Borum and J. V. Johnson, to be first lieutenants in the Provisional Navy; Thomas K. Porter, Samuel W. Averett, Henry B. Claiborne, George A. Borchert, Hilary Cenas, Walter R. Butt, William W. Pollock, Arthur D. Wharton, Thomas L. Dornin, Thomas L. Harrison, James L. Hoole, Edmund G. Read, and Francis L. Hoge, to be first lieutenants in the Navy; William W. Carnes, Joseph M. Gardner, Matthew P. Goodwyn, Francis T. Chew, A. Macomb Mason, Thomas L. Moore, Ivey Foreman, Hardin B. Littlepage, Robert C. Foute, Francis M. Roby, and Henry H. Marmaduke, to be second lieutenants in the Navy; Richard Taylor, to be paymaster; William E. Deacon, T. G. Ridgely, John M. Pearl, and C. Lucian Jones, to be assistant paymasters; O. S. Iglehart, to be passed assistant surgeon; George B. Weston, George N. Halstead, James V. Cook, and James O. Grant, to be assistant surgeons; Edward C. Stiles, John L. Phillips, George H. Arledge, Maxwell T. Clarke, John A. Payne, Henry W. Ray, William E. Hudgins, John F. Ramsay, Lewis R. Hill, Edward J. Means, Henry Roberts, Richard H. Gayle, John Low, Arthur Sinclair, jr., William W. Roberts, Edgar A. Lambert, Otey Bradford, Americus V. Wiatt, and Thomas L. Skinner, to be lieutenants for the war; Pike Brown, Henry G. Land, G. Welborne Claiborne, James M. Hicks, Joel G. King, Daniel E. Ewart, Edward Caire, Jeptha V. Harris, Luther R. Dickinson, John B. Rutherford, and George A. Foote, to be assistant surgeons for the war; Joseph P. Claybrook, William P. Mason, William F. Robinson, David A. Telfair, Daniel Trigg, Isaac C. Holcomb, William R. Dalton, Algernon S. Worth, Robert A. Camm, Dabney M. Scales, John T. Walker, Samuel S. Gregory, Richard H. Bacot, and Edward J. McDermett, to be masters, in the line of promotion, in the Navy; John L. Porter, to be chief constructor in the Navy; James H. Tomb, to be chief engineer in the Provisional Navy, reported, with the recommendation that all of said nominations be confirmed.
The Senate proceeded to consider said report; and in concurrence therewith, it was
Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to their appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.
On motion by Mr. Brown,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
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