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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 --FOURTEENTH DAY--TUESDAY, December 22, 1863.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Burrows.
The House resumed the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday; which was the motion of Mr. Lyons to adjourn until Monday, the 28th instant.
Mr. H. W. Bruce moved to lay the motion to adjourn on the table; which motion was agreed to.
Mr. Dargan, by unanimous [consent], presented the memorial of William J. Hardee, of Georgia, and S. H. Goetzel, of Alabama, publishers of Hardee's Rifle and Infantry Tactics, praying the passage of an act granting them a special copyright in said work; which, without being read, was referred to the Committee on Patents.
Mr. Dargan also, by unanimous consent, introduced
A bill to be entitled "An act to grant a special copyright to William J. Hardee and S. H. Goetzel for Hardee's Rifle and Infantry Tactics;" which was read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Patents.
On motion of Mr. McDowell, leave of absence was granted his colleague, Mr. Arrington.
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Mr. Garland, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back
A resolution relative to the act of Congress of January 11, 1812, providing punishment for procuring or enticing soldiers to desert, moved that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that the same do lie upon the table.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Garland, from the same committee, reported
A bill to be entitled "An act to prevent the procuring, aiding, and assisting of persons to desert from the Army of the Confederate States, and for other purposes;"
which was read first and second times, postponed, and placed upon the Calendar.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, their Secretary; which is as follows, viz:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill of the following title, viz:
In which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.
Mr. Heiskell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which had been referred
A bill to be entitled "An act to prohibit dealing in the paper currency of the enemy,"
reported the same back, moved that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it do lie upon the table.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Heiskell, from the same committee, reported
A bill to be entitled "An act to prohibit dealing in the paper currency of the enemy;"
which was read first and second times.
The question being on postponing the bill and placing it upon the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative.
The bill having been read as follows, viz:
The Congress of the Confederate States do enact, That no broker, banker, or dealer in exchange, or person concerned in trade as a merchant or vendor of merchandise of any description, shall buy, sell, take, or have in possession any paper currency of the United States. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall forfeit the amount so bought, sold, taken, or held in possession, or a sum equal thereto, be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than three months nor more than three years,
Mr. Read moved to amend by inserting after the word "description" the words "not within the enemy's lines."
The amendment was not agreed to.
Mr. Davidson offered the following amendment:
After the word "description" insert the words "or any other person."
Pending the consideration of which, the hour devoted to reports from committees having expired,
On motion of Mr. Foote, by unanimous consent, the bill and amendments were ordered to be printed.
Mr. Heiskell, from the Judiciary Committee, by unanimous consent, reported
A bill to be entitled "An act to prevent trading with the enemy;" which was read first and second times and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Russell moved that the rules be suspended for the purpose of enabling the Committee on Military Affairs to make a report.
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The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Hilton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which had been referred a series of bills, resolutions, etc., on the subject of substitutes, reported the same back, moved that the committee be discharged from their further consideration, and that they do lie upon the table.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Hilton, from the same committee, reported
A bill to be entitled "An act to amend the law in relation to substitutes;"
which was read first and second times.
The question being on postponing the bill and placing it upon the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative.
The bill having been read as follows, viz:
Whereas, through frauds perpetrated on the Government under the clause of the act approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which granted the privilege that persons not liable to military duty might be received for those who were, our armies have been deprived of the services of men necessary for the public defense: Therefore,
Mr. Russell offered the following amendment (in the nature of a substitute for the first section):
That no person shall remain exempt from military service by reason of his having furnished a substitute, but if any such person shall make it appear by proper evidence that he has a lawful and sufficient substitute now in the service, or that his substitute, having been sufficient, has died or been disabled in the service, such person shall not be liable to military service by virtue of this act until the expiration of a year from the time when his substitute was mustered in as such.
Mr. Clark offered the following amendment:
In the first section, strike out the words "have deserted, or."
Mr. Moore submitted the following as a substitute for the entire bill:
Whereas it is the duty of this Congress to increase the Army of the Confederate States, and thus render it sufficiently large to resist successfully the efforts of our enemies to lay waste our country, destroy our people and all the inestimable privileges which we hold dear as freemen; and
Whereas many of those who have heretofore put substitutes in the Army have accumulated large fortunes by trade and speculation, and should now aid in the defense of our country: Therefore,
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That having put substitutes in the Army shall no longer constitute any cause of exemption in favor of any one from being enrolled in the military service of the Confederate States.
Mr. Conrad offered the following amendment to the amendment:
Whereas in the present circumstances of the country it requires the aid of all who are able to bear arms,
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The Congress of the Confederate States do therefore enact, That no person shall hereafter be exempted from military service by reason of his having furnished a substitute.
The Speaker announced the following appointments to committees, viz:
On motion of Mr. Bridgers, leave of absence was granted his colleague, Mr. Davidson, who had been called home on business of great importance to his State.
An on motion of Mr. Clark,
The House adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow.
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