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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, November 8, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
Mr. Sparrow presented the credentials of the Hon. Augustus H. Garland, chosen a Senator by the general assembly of the State of Arkansas, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. Charles B. Mitchel; which were read, and the oath prescribed by the Constitution having been administered to Mr. Garland, he took his seat in the Senate.
Mr. Hill (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 84) to construe and declare more explicitly the meaning of an act to increase the compensation of the heads of the several Executive Departments and the Assistant Secretary of War and the Treasury and of the Assistant Attorney-General and the Comptroller of the Treasury and other officers therein named, approved June 14, 1864;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Graham (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 85) declaring four per cent bonds and certificates therefor receivable in payment of all taxes due and payable for the year 1864; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Finance.
On motion by Mr. Barnwell, from the Committee on Finance,
Ordered, That the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the accompanying documents, be printed for the use of the Senate.
The President pro tempore laid before the Senate a letter from Capt. S. S. Lee, transmitting 30 copies of the Navy Register for 1864, for distribution among the members of the Senate; which was read.
Ordered, That it lie upon the table.
On motion by Mr. Orr,
The Senate adjourned.
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