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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 --TWELFTH DAY--SATURDAY, August 30, 1862.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Seeley.
Mr. Boteler presented the memorial of Mr. B. P. Noland in reference to horses lost in the public service; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, without being read.
Mr. Russell offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the President be requested to communicate to this House the cartel recently agreed upon for a general exchange, of prisoners with the enemy, and to inform this House whether the enemy is known to have violated the same in any way and particularly by administering oaths of allegiance to prisoners in their custody and retaining them in the United States;
which was read and agreed to.
Mr. Russell also offered
A resolution that the Committee on the Judiciary inquire and report whether the conduct of the Federal Government absolves this Government from the obligation to observe the established usages of international warfare in our relations with the enemy except so far as in particular cases this Government may deem it just to observe them voluntarily.
Mr. Miles, by unanimous consent, [offered] the following resolution:
Resolved, That the resolution now before the House and all resolutions and bills on the subject of retaliation which have been heretofore referred to the Committee on
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Military Affairs be withdrawn from that committee and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with authority to report to this House as soon as practicable;
which was agreed to.
Mr. Russell introduced
A bill to protect persona who resist the enemy;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Lyons presented petitions from John Poe and John N. Davis, of Henrico County, Va., asking compensation for property destroyed by our troops; which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, without being read.
Mr. Lyons also presented the petition of the Midlothian Coal Mining Company in relation to the conscript act; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, without being read.
Also, a resolution that on Tuesday next, at the hour of 2 o'clock, the members of this House will draw for their seats in the new hall which has been prepared for the members of this House, and when this House adjourn on that day, it will adjourn to meet on Wednesday, the third day of September, in the said new hall; which was read and agreed to.
The House then took up for consideration a bill from the Senate to be entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An get to provide further for the public defense,' approved sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two;" which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion of Mr. Holt, the House then resolved itself into secret session; and having spent some time therein, again resolved itself into open session;
When,
On motion,
The House adjourned until 12 o'clock on Monday.
SECRET SESSION.
The House being in secret session, a message was received from the Senate, by the hands of Mr. Nash, the Secretary of that body; which is as follows, to wit:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles, to wit:
On motion of Mr. Kenner, Senate bill No. 63, to authorize a change in the form of Treasury notes, was taken up, read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
And on motion of Mr. Kenner, Senate bill No. 64, to increase the provisions for detecting counterfeit notes, was taken up, read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Mr. Holt moved that a resolution of inquiry, addressed to the President in relation to a contract foe building gunboats abroad, be rescinded.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Jones moved that the House take up for consideration a bill to authorize the issue of Confederate States bonds.
The motion was agreed to; and on motion of Mr. Sexton the rules were suspended;
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When,
Mr. E. M. Bruce moved to amend the same by striking out the following words, to wit:
bonds under the provisions and conditions of the act entitled "An act to authorize the issue of Treasury notes, and to provide a war tax for their redemption" approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and by the further supplemental act, to the above-cited act approved December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
and to insert in lieu thereof the words "noninterest-bearing Treasury notes, as now provided by law."
Mr. Sexton demanded the previous question; which was sustained, and the amendment of Mr. Bruce was lost.
And the bill was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
And the title to the same, on motion of Mr. Curry, was amended by adding thereto the words "to meet a contract made by the Secretary of the Navy for six ironclad vessels of war, and steam engines and boilers."
And on motion of Mr. Chilton,
The House resolved itself into open session.
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