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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 --FORTY-FOURTH DAY--WEDNESDAY, April 9, 1862.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Pettigrew.
The Chair announced the following appointments on committees, viz:
Mr. Baldwin of Virginia, on the Committee on Ways and Means, vice Mr. Garnett, excused.
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And Mr. Garnett of Virginia, on the Committee on Military Affairs, vice Mr. Pryor, resigned.
Mr. Jones moved to suspend the rules for the purpose of calling the committees for reports, etc.
The motion prevailed.
And Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of J. W. Davis, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr. H. W. Bruce, the memorial was taken up and referred to the Committee on Claims.
Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred
A bill to authorize the appointment of drillmasters,
reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the bill lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Heiskell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred
A bill to define and punish forgery and counterfeiting in certain cases,
reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the bill lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Heiskell, from the same committee, reported and recommended the passage of
A bill to punish forgery and counterfeiting;
which was read first and second times, placed on the Calendar, and ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. Heiskell,
A bill to authorize the apprehension of suspicious persons in time of war, and to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,
was recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Curry, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the resolutions of citizens of Greene County, Ga., in relation to the planting of cotton, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from their further consideration, and that the resolutions lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Curry, from the same committee, to whom was referred a memorial on the subject of coins, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Miles, the memorial was taken up and referred to the commissioners appointed under a resolution of the Provisional Congress to prepare a system of coins, weights, and measures.
Mr. Curry, from the same committee, to whom was referred a resolution of inquiry as to the propriety of repealing all laws, declaring particular ports to be ports of entry, etc., recommended the passage of
A bill to increase the facilities for importing goods, wares, and merchandise into the ports of the Confederate States;
which was read first and second times.
The rules were suspended;
The bill was taken up, and having been read as follows:
The Congress of the Confederate States do enact, That during the blockade of the ports of the Confederate States, the cargo of any vessel may be discharged at any place or port at which the vessel may arrive, whether the same be a port of entry or delivery
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established by law or not: Provided, That the master or other person in command shall before breaking bulk make entry of such vessel and her cargo and comply with all other requirements of the law at the nearest port of entry where it is practicable so to do,
Mr. Perkins moved to amend by striking out all of the bill after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to wit:
That it shall be lawful for vessels to unload their cargoes on any part of the coast of the Confederate States, and that the laws requiring entry of vessels or discharge of their cargoes at designated ports, and prescribing penalties for failure to do so, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended.
The amendment was agreed to, and the bill as amended was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Curry, from the same committee, reported and recommended the passage of
A bill making Augusta, Ga., a port of delivery for goods imported into Charleston, S. C.;
which was read first and second [times].
The rules were suspended;
The bill was taken up, engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Royston, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the communication of James Thomas Elliott on the mail service on the route from Camden to Eunice, on the Mississippi River, reported the same back, that no legislation was necessary, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the resolution lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Royston, from the same committee, to whom was referred the memorial of James G. Cook, postmaster at Fayetteville, N. C., reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Royston, from the same committee, to whom was referred joint resolutions of the legislature of the State of Louisiana in reference to postal affairs, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from their further consideration, and that the resolutions lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Chilton, from the same committee, to whom was referred sundry petitions on the subject of Sunday mails, made a report; which is as follows, to wit:
SUNDAY MAIL.
Report of the Committee on Post-offices and Post-Roads.
The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom sundry memorials were referred against the transportation and opening of the mails on Sundays, report:
That the subject-matter of the memorials was several times before the Congress of the United States, and several elaborate reports were made thereon. These reports, which were adverse to the prayer of the petitioners, your committee have examined with care, especially that made by the Hon. Richard M. Johnson, on the 4th of March, 1830, which was regarded as an able exposition of the matter, and received very generally with favor, but which, when closely analyzed, will be found sophistical and unsatisfactory in its reasoning and conclusion, while much is contained in it to admire and applaud.
We heartily assent to the great fundamental truth, that no free government should ever interfere in mutters of religion to control the religious faith and consciences of men. Our excellent Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," and every effort tending, however remotely, to obtain legislative interference in the establishment of religious creeds should the indignantly rejected as a stab upon religion itself, the liberty of conscience, and the freedom of thought.
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It does not follow, however, from what we have said, that Congress should, by its legislation, ignore the existence and overruling Providence of the Supreme Being, or enact laws in contravention of His known will. No sane mind would for a moment conceive that the framers of our Constitution, in the very outset of our Government, in view of the trials and difficulties which awaited us, in view of the fact that in all probability we should soon be required
"To bathe our infant liberties
In the baptism of our blood."
intended to give any sanction to the establishment of religion by law, or to interpose in behalf of any religious creed, when "invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God," they ordained and established our fundamental law. No one would suppose that the opening of our sessions by solemn invocations offered up by pious ministers to Almighty God for wisdom to direct and strength to support us in the faithful discharge of our duties, was an unconstitutional interference in matters of religion: Neither has it been deemed unconstitutional to appoint chaplains in the Army, that they may minister to the intellectual, moral, and religious culture of our troops; that they may come round the bed of the sick or wounded soldier, and by "pointing the way" wreath the haggard countenance of death with the smiles of joy as the hope of a happy immortality becomes the sunlight of the soul.
The memorialists do not propose that Congress should, by law, declare that any day, or any portion of time, has been set apart by the Almighty for religious exercises. Congress has no such power. Its sphere of legitimate legislation is quite limited, being bounded by the express grant of powers contained in the Constitution. They merely ask that Congress shall not by affirmative legislation do violence to religion and the moral sense of the community, by requiring the mail to be carried, opened, or distributed and delivered on the Christian Sabbath. And is it unconstitutional for Congress to decline the violation of the Sabbath day? Such was the conclusion at which the committee arrived in the celebrated report of Mr. Johnson. Then it follows that it is unconstitutional for Congress to decline holding sessions on the Sabbath day. By parity of reasoning it should require all its agents in every department of the Government to continue their usual routine of duties and labors on the Sabbath. If it be necessary to have the mail carried and opened on the Sabbath, as a matter of public convenience, it is equally necessary that the judicial courts should be kept open on the Sabbath, the Constitution providing for a speedy trial. Why are they not kept open? Out of respect for the Christian Sabbath. Why are the doors of this hall closed on the Sabbath? It is because of our reverence for religion, and from a decent respect for the Christian constituency who send us here, whose moral sense would be shocked by a desecration of the day, in devoting it to the usual purposes of legislation.
In the old Government, such petitions as those before us, were regarded as covert attempts to obtain the recognition, by law, of one religious dogma as a pretext for another and another still, until some sects should become established, and, panoplied with the power of the State, should triumph over its opposers and introduce all the horrors of "the holy inquisition." We were exhorted to remember "that Cataline, a professed patriot, was a traitor to Rome; Arnold, a professed Whig, a traitor to America; and Judas, a professed disciple, was a traitor to his Divine Master." While the committee feel well assured that no such object animals the petitioners who seek this reform, the rhetorical flourish which we have quoted may serve to suggest, that while the Confederate States Government in its fundamental law professes to "invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God," it should not be guilty of treason by trampling His statutes under foot, and setting His authority at defiance.
Your committee will not go into an examination as to the foundation of the obligation to observe the Sabbath as a day of rest, of worship, and for moral and religious improvement. Whether it be deducible from the nature of our Constitution as essential to our physical, as well as moral and spiritual development, or from the decalogue, as a positive institution, or from the practice and example of the Apostles and Christians from their day to the present, it is certain that the Christian people composing the States of this Confederacy, esteem its day set apart by Divine appointment for rest from secular employment, and to be dedicated to worship and moral culture. It is equally certain that they concur in the opinion that its desecration is a sin, and the sole question is, shall the Government continue unnecessarily to desecrate it. Shall it, in the absence of some overruling necessity, deny to a large number of its employees the privileges of the sanctuary, and the means it affords for moral and religious improvement? Your committee believe that this should not be done. The stoppage of the mail one day in seven would not materially interfere with the revenues of the Post-Office Department, while it would considerably lessen the cost of transportation. It will be remembered that under the Constitution the
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Department must be self-sustaining by the 1st day of March, 1863, and this will contribute to produce that result. Besides, by curtailing the service on the main routes and thus lessening the expense, greater facilities can be afforded for sending the mails into the interior and poorer sections, where the revenue might not equal the expense.
The only real ground of objection which was urged to the proposed change, when this question was mooted in 1829 and 1830, was, that if the mails were stopped on Sunday, there might be sudden rises in the price of our great staples, and speculators would enrich themselves by sending couriers or expresses in advance of the mail, and taking advantage of the rise. This, however, is remedied by the modern invention of the telegraph, and the erection of numerous railroads and introduction of express companies; so that none of the evils then anticipated would be experienced now. The star-bid system on which contracts are now let out, has, in a great measure, dispensed with coaches as a means of carrying the mails; and your committee believe that very little inconvenience would result from ceasing to transmit them on Sunday.
It may, however, be said, we are in the midst of a great revolution, and that while it lasts it is important the mail service should not be curtailed. Your committee believe that the public interest will not suffer by it. The accounts of interesting events, battles, etc., are either sent by telegraph, or private persons, or express. They rarely go at the earliest moment by the mails, which delay at distributing offices for distribution. Besides, if one-seventh of the employees engaged in the mail service were transferred to the Army, it would constitute no inconsiderable addition; and if the rolling stock required for the mail on Sunday should be allowed to remain unemployed one-seventh of the time, some compensation might result, should the war be protracted, in its fitness to aid the Government in necessary transportation for a much longer period than it otherwise would. The fact, therefore, that we are engaged in a war furnishes an additional reason why we should postpone the mail service on the Sabbath. Superadded to all this, the fact that our Government in the commencement of its career, in the midst of the most bloody struggle for the maintenance of our rights, had paused to pay a tribute to virtue and religion, would present a spectacle of the morally sublime that would stand forth as a beacon light to the Christian nations of the earth; would show that as a nation "we honor not God with our lips, when our hearts are far from Him;" would furnish proof of the sincerity of our profession of reliance upon the favor and guidance of Him who "holds the destinies of all nations in His hands," and who "honors them that honor Him."
Whatever, therefore, may be the action of the House as to its concurrence in the views of the committee, they feel that in thus plainly and frankly laying them before the representatives of the people they have discharged their duty to themselves, their country, and their God. Their adoption or rejection is with the Congress. The opposite of these views have hitherto obtained ascendency in the old Government, and, whether as a sequence or not, is a question which we may not decide; the finger of the Almighty has inscribed upon its walls "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." May the Confederate States profit by the example, and while eschewing all bigotry, whether political or religious, and all attempts to violate the rights of conscience, early learn that the only sure basis of national prosperity and happiness are the great principles of justice, morality, and religion, as taught in the revealed will of God, and that the Great Lawgiver will not suffer these principles to be violated with impunity. The fears expressed in reports upon this subject heretofore submitted to the old Congress, that should the Government repeal a law requiring a large number of its citizens to violate the Christian Sabbath, it would be the beginning of a series of acts which would end in the union of church and state, and entail upon the people all the persecution and horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, are utterly groundless and unworthy of patriots and Christian statesmen. The several States not only decline to pass laws requiring the violation of the Sabbath, but many, if not all of them, have penal enactments against its violation, and these have been enforced for many years. Why have not religious persecution, the "holy inquisition," and the "auto da fé" found a place in some of them? The common law, which is said to be "the perfection of reason," has always deferred to the Christian Sabbath, and sternly declares all contracts made on Sunday absolutely void. Why has not persecution followed its behest? No! Such enormities and cruelties result "to nations that forget God." They spring up when frenzied fanaticism has supplanted vital piety, and when "bigotry has murdered religion to frighten fools with her ghost." It is to forestall and prevent such results that your committee would urge upon Congress, thus early in the eventful history of our Republic, to blot out the laws of the old Government requiring the Sabbath to be violated. The example thus furnished of respect to piety and religion would permeate society and stimulate individuals to more orderly and virtuous lives. It is impossible to estimate the beneficent effects
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of such a moral reform upon the masses of our population. One of the wisest and best of men* was wont to say:
[Note *: * Sir Mathew Hale]
"A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content,
And a health for the toils of the morrow:
While a Sabbath profaned, what e'er may be gained,
Is a certain forerunner of sorrow."
However this may be, its needless profanation by the Government in the transmission and delivery and opening of the mails interferes with the worship of God, withdraws many from religious contemplation, deprives others of moral and religious culture, and furnishes an example of impiety which tends to demoralize our people. The right minded will readily distinguish between the usual mail service which may be stopped one day in seven without maternal detriment to any one, and those works of necessity and charity which may and ought to be done under the Divine license. "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."
In conclusion the committee recommend the following bill for the adoption of the Congress:
A bill to repeal so much of the existing law as requires the mails to be carried, delivered, or opened on Sunday;
which was read first and second times and, together with the report, ordered to be printed and placed on the Calendar.
Mr. Chilton, from the same committee, to whom was referred
A bill relating to advertisements by the Post-Office Department, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and [that] the bill lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Chilton, from the same committee, to whom was referred
A bill relating to the prepayment of postage,
reported the same back and recommended that it do not pass.
The bill was placed on the Calendar.
Mr. Clark, from the same committee, to whom was referred a memorial of sundry citizens of North Carolina and Virginia in relation to a stage line from Wytheville to independence, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Clark, from the same committee, to whom was referred the memorial of James L. G. Baker, concerning a post route, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Chilton, from the same committee, to whom was referred sundry petitions for the establishment of post routes, reported
A bill to establish certain post routes therein named;
which was read first and second times, placed on the Calendar, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Clark, from the same committee, to whom was referred a memorial of citizens of Sumter County, Ala., for a daily mail from Gainesville to Warsaw, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which, was agreed to.
Mr. Clopton, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of sundry citizens of Frederick and Morgan counties, Va., asking compensation for the destruction of and damage done to their property by troops of the Confederate States, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Clopton, from the same committee, to whom was referred the
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petition of Robert C. McLuer for a slave lost in the public service, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the petition lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from the same committee, reported back the memorial of J. C. Homan, of Rockingham, Va., asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from the same committee, reported back the memorial of John E. McWilliams for work at Gosport Navy-Yard, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the tame; which was agreed to.
Also, from the same committee, reported back the memorial of A. R. Smith, president of the Branch Bank of Virginia, at Portsmouth, Va., asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Boteler, by consent, offered the following resolution, to wit:
Resolved, That the petition of citizens of Frederick and Morgan counties, Va., be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill for the payment of this and similar claims, when properly authenticated.
Mr. Royston called the question on agreeing to the resolution; which was seconded, and the resolution was not agreed to.
Mr. Smith of Virginia moved to reconsider the vote just taken.
A message was received from the Senate, by the hands of Mr. Nash, the Secretary; which is as follows, to wit:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed, without amendment, a bill of this House of the following title, viz:
Mr. Clopton, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a memorial of Ben. Desha, asking reimbursement of expenses in transporting troops, reported back a joint resolution for the relief of Capt. Ben. Desha; which was read the first and second times.
The rules were suspended;
The resolution was taken up, engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Clopton, from the same committee, to whom was referred the memorial of A. H. Canedo for conveyance of the remains of Judge Hemphill, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the memorial lie upon the table; which was agreed to.
Leave was granted Mr. Dargan to withdraw the petition of sundry citizens of Sumter County, Ala., in relation to a post route.
Mr. Clopton, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred
A joint resolution for the payment of Starke & Cardoze for stationery, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie upon the table;
which was agreed to
Mr. Chambers, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported as correctly enrolled the following bills; which the Speaker signed, to wit:
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Mr. Clopton, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Duff Green in relation to the extension of the North Carolina Railroad, reported the same back and asked to be discharged from the further consideration of the same; which was agreed to.
Mr. Clopton, from the same committee, reported
A bill authorizing the payment of the sums due to the State of North Carolina for advances made in aid of the Confederate States, and for other purposes;
which was read the first and second times and placed upon the Calendar.
Mr. Clapp, from the same committee, to whom were referred sundry memorials in relation to the loss of horses, reported the same back. asked to be discharged from their further consideration, and that they lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the petition of Nehemiah Padgett in relation to a pension, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie on the table; which was agreed to.
From the same committee, to whom was referred the letter and account of goods taken from Gilbert Lamar, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from same committee, to whom was referred the memorial of Nicholas Hunter for carrying the mail, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie upon the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from same committee, to whom was referred the petition of W. R. Herron, asking pay for services, etc., reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from same committee, to whom was referred the memorial of C. R. Benton for reimbursement of expenses incurred, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Wilcox, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred
A bill to promote the efficiency of the Army,
reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Burnett, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred sundry memorials in relation to pensions, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from their further consideration, and that they lie upon the table; which was agreed to.
Also, from the same committee, to whom was referred sundry memorials asking pay for taking the census, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from their further consideration, and that the same lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Leave was granted Mr. Davis to refer a memorial in relation to taking the census to the Committee on Claims.
Mr. Burnett, from the committee to whom was referred
A bill to provide for the payment of pensions, etc.,
reported the same back, with the recommendation that it do not pass.
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And on motion of Mr. Burnett, the same was placed upon the Calendar.
Mr. Chambliss, by consent, withdrew the petitions of McWilliams and A. R. Smith from the files.
Mr. Machen presented the petition of B. H. Willis, asking pay as quartermaster; which was referred to the Committee on Claims, without being read.
Mr. Burnett, from the Committee on Claims, reported
A bill to amend an act to regulate the compensation of members of Congress,
with the recommendation that it pass.
The bill was read the first and second times.
Mr. Trippe moved to lay the bill on the table.
The motion was lost.
Mr. Chilton moved that the consideration of the bill be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Ralls called the question; which being ordered, the motion was lost.
The rules were suspended, and the bill was taken up, and having been read as follows:
Mr. Gartrell moved to amend the same by striking out all after the enacting clause, except the proviso, and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to wit:
That during the recess of Congress the members of the Senate and House of Representatives are authorized to draw their drafts or orders on the Treasurer for their ratable monthly pay, and at the commencement of each session of Congress the Treasurer shall report to each House the amount drawn by their respective members during the preceding recess.
Mr. McLean called the previous question; which was ordered, and the amendment was agreed to.
The bill as amended was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Baldwin from and after to-morrow, on account of his regiment being under marching orders.
A message was received from the President, by his Private Secretary, Mr. Harrison, informing the House that the President has to-day approved and signed joint resolutions of thanks to Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson and the officers and men tinder his command for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Kernstown.
Mr. Clark offered a resolution that 1,500 copies of the report and bill from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads on the subject of Sunday mails be printed for the use of this House; which was read and referred to Committee on Printing.
On motion, the House then took up a bill from the Senate to authorize the exchange of bonds for articles in kind, and the shipment, sale, or hypothecation of such articles; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Also, a Senate bill declaring the officer who shall act as President in
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case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice-President; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Also, a Senate bill to authorize the employment of clerks at the offices of the Treasurer and assistant treasurers; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Also, a Senate bill to recognize the organization of certain military companies; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Also, a Senate bill to amend an act to provide for the organization of the Navy, approved March 16, 1861; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Also, a joint resolution from the Senate authorizing the Joint Committee on Public Buildings to lease a suitable building for the use of the State Department and offices for the President; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings.
Also, a joint resolution from the Senate directing how prize money shall be paid in certain cases; which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
On motion of Mr. Gartrell, the House took up from the Calendar for consideration a bill regulating the fees of marshals, and for other purposes.
Mr. Jones moved that it be printed and its consideration postponed.
The motion was lost.
And the clause in the first section being under consideration, which relates to the fees of marshals in cases of admiralty, the committee moved to amend the same by striking out the words "not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "to be ascertained and allowed by the court."
The amendment was agreed to.
The committee moved further to amend by striking out the words
and in case the debt or claim shall be settled by the parties without a sale of the property, one-half of one per centum on the amount so settled: Provided, That in case the value of the property shall be less than the claim, then and in such cases such commission shall be allowed only on the appraised value thereof.
The amendment was agreed to.
And the clause in the same section being under consideration which relates to the mileage of marshals,
Mr. Chilton moved to amend by inserting after the word "writ" the words
Provided, That no charge for mileage in any case shall be made, except for the distance actually traveled.
Mr. Holcombe moved that the House adjourn.
Mr. Garnett asked that the vote be taken by yeas and nays;
Which being ordered,
Yeas: Atkins, Baldwin, Boteler, Breekinridge, Horatio W. Bruce, Burnett, Chambers, Chambliss, Conrad, Curry, Davis, De Jarnette, Farrow, Foote, Goode, Graham, Hartridge, Heiskell, Holcombe, Holt, Jones, Kenner, Lewis, Miles, Perkins, Pugh, Russell, Sexton, Smith of North Carolina, Strickland, Trippe, Villere, Welsh, Wright of Tennessee, and Mr. Speaker.
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Nays: Ashe, Aver, Batson, Chilton, Clark, Clopton, Dawkins, Foster, Gardenhire, Garnett, Gartrell, Gray, Hilton, Lander, Lyons, Ralls, and Royston.
So the House adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow.
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