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J. KNOWLES and 8. BOSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
CONSTITUTION
Ok’ TME
CONFEDERATE STATES
or
AMERICA!
•
We, the people of'the Confederate States, each
State acting in its sovereign and independent ehat
meter, in order to form a permanent federal gov
ernment, establish justice, insure domestic tran
quility, arid sgcure the blessings of liberty to our
•elves and our posterity—invoking the favor and
guidance 01 Almighty God—do ordain and e*tat>
iuh this constitution for tbe 4 Conf*derate States *1
America.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION 1.
All legislative potters herein delegated shaii be
Vested in a Congress of the Confederate States,
which shall consist of a Senate and Mouse of Rep
reaentatives.
SECTION 2. •
1. The House of Representatives fe rom
posed of members chosen every second year hy
the people of the several States ; and the elector
io each Stateshall be citizens of the Confederate
States, and have the qualifications requisite for
electors of the mot numerous branch of the State
Legislature ; but no person of foreign birth not a
citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed
to vote for any officer, civil or political, State or
Federal.
2. No pet son shall he a R-pre*er.tative, aho
shall not have attained the age of twentv-five
years, and be a citizen of the Confederate States,
and who shall not, when elected, l>e an inhabitant
of that Bute in which he shall be choaen.
S. Representatives and Direct Taxes shall be
apportioned among the several States, which may
be included within this Confederacy, according to
their respective numbers, winch an ail be determ
ined, by adding to the whole number of free per
sona, including those bound to service for a term
of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, thiee
filths of all slaves. The actual enumeration shall
be made within three years after the first meeting
of the Congress of the Confederate States, and
within every subsequent term of ten years, in such
Jiauner as they shall, by law, direct. The number
of Representatives shall not exceed one for every
fifty thousand, but each State shall have at
one Representative ; and until such enumeration
shall be made the State of South Carolina shall be
entitled to choose six—the State of Georgia ten—
the State of Alabama nine—the State of Florida 1
two—the State of Mississippi seven—the State of
Louisiana six, and the State of Texas six.
4. When vacancies happen in tue represnutiori
from any State, the Executive authority thereof
■hall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
5. The House of Representatives shall choose
their, speaker and other officers; and shall have
the sole power of impeachment; except that any
judicial or other federal officer resilient and acting
solely within the limits of any State, may tie im
peached by a vote ot two thirds of both branches
of the Legislature thereof.
SECTION S.
1. The Senate of the Confederate States shall
be composed of two Senators from each State,
chosen for six years by the legislature thereof, ut
the regular session next iuimedialelv preceding the
commencement of the term of service ; and each
Senator shall have one vote.
2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in
consequence of the first election, they shall he di
vided as equally as may be into three classes. The
neats of the Senators of the firet class shall l>e vaca
ted at the expiration of the second year; of the sec
ond,class a t the expiration of the fourth year, and
of the third class at the expiration of the sixth
year; so that one-third may be chosen every sec
ond year; and if vacancies happen by resignation,
or otherwise during the recess of the legislature ol
any State, the executive thereof may make tempo
rary appointments until the next meeting of the
Legialatnre which shall then fill such vacancies.
3. No person shall be a senator who shall not j
have attained the age of thirty years, and be a;
citizen of the Confederate States; and whoshall not,
when elected, be an inhatdtant of the fetate for i
which be shail be chosen.
4. The Vice President of the Confederate States j
shall be President of the Senate, bat shall have no
vote, unless they be equally divided.
C. The Senate shall choose their other officers ; i
and also a President pro tempore in the absence ofi
the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the
office ol President of the Confederate States.
6. The Senate shall have the sole power to trv
all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose,
they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the
President of the Conlcrteraie States is tried, the
Chief J ustiee shall preside, and no person shall he
convicted without the concurrence ot two thirds ol;
the members present.
7. Judgment in cases of itn peach men t shall not
extend further than io removal from office, and
disqualification to uold and enjoy any office of hon
or, trust or profit under the Confederate States ;
hut the party convicted shall, uerenheles-, he li
able and subject to indictment, trial, judgement
and punishment accordiog to law.
SECTION 4.
1. The times, places and manner oi holding elec
tions lor Senators and Representatives, shall be
prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof,
subject to the provisions of this Constitution ; but
the Congress may, at any time, by law, make or
alter such regulations, except as to the times and
places of choosing Senators.
2. The Congees* shall assemble at least once in
every year ; and such meeting shall be on the first
Monday in December, uuless they shall, by law,
appoint a different day.
SECTION 5.
1. E*i h House shall be the judge of the elections, j
returue u>d of iu own luomlien, and
a majority ot each shall constitute a quorum to do
buaineae ; but a smaller oumler but adjourn from
to day, and may be authorized to compel the
attendance of absent members, in such manner
and under such penalties as each House tnay pro
vide.
2. Each Hou.se may determine tbc rules of its
proceedings, punish its members tor disorderly be
havior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of
the whole number, expel a member.
Each House shall keep a journal of its pro
ceedings, and front time to time publish the same,
excepting such parts as may in their judgement
require secrecy, and the rets and nays of the mem
bers of either House, on any question, shall, at the
•ieaire of oue-iifiti of those present, be entered on
the journal.
4. Neither House, during the session otjCongress,
shall, without the consent ot the other, adjourn for
more than three days, nor to any other place than
that m which the two Houses shall be silting.
SECTION o.
1- The Senators and Representatives sliall re
ceive a compensation for their services to !>e acer
taioed by law, and paid out of the treasury of the
Confederate State*. They shall, in all <-**•-*, ex
cept treason,and breach of the peace, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at the session
of their respective Houses, and in going to and re
turning from the same ; and for any speech or de
bate in either House, they shall not be questioned
in any other place.
2. No Senator or Representative shall, during
the time for which be was elected, be appointed to
say civil office under the autitorily of the Oonfed-
States, which shall have been created, or the
emolument* whereof shall hate been increased
during such time ; and no person holding any of*
f:ce wader me Confederate States shall lea mein
i,er of either House during hie continuance in of
• ‘ t ? n K r, ‘* 8 m 7, by law. grant to the nrin
• .pal twicer w aweh of the Executive 1 departments
• **** upon the lioor of either House, with the
privilege of discussing any measures appertaining
to hi* department. * °
SECTION 7.
1. All bill* for raising revenue iy| originate
in the House of Representative* ; het Hu- Senate
loav propose or coueur with aiaendno tiis * on
other bills.
2. Every bill which shall have passed both
Houses, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented
to the President of lbe Con federate States ; if he
approve, he shall sign it; bat if not he shell return
objectiotut to the House in wbteh it •lia.il
have originated, who siiail cuter the objections at
Urge on their journal, and proceed to reconsider
it. It, after such reconsideration, two thirds of
that House shall agtee u> pass the bill, it shall be
sent, together with the objections, to the other
limue, by which u shall likewise be reconsidered,
and if approved by two thirds of th*t House it
• ball become a law. lint in ail such eases the
votes of both Houses shall be determined by y***
and nays, and the names of the persotw voting for
and against the bill shall be entered on tbe journal
of etch House respectively. If any bill Khali not
no returned by the President within ten days
(Sundays excepted> alive it shall hav been pre-
rente J tb him, the ioe shall he a ktr, In like
mariner us if bo hud signed it, unless the Congress,
by their adjournment, prevent its return ; in which
case it shall not be a law. The President may
approve any appropriation or disapprove any
other appropriation in the same bill. In such
case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the
appropriations disapproved , and Bhall return a
copy ot such appropriations, with Ids objections,
to the House >u which the bill may have origina
ted and the same proceedings shail then be had
ts in case of other hills disapproved l>v the Presi
dent. and
3. Every order, resolution or vote, to winch the
concurrence of both House* may be ne f e *°* r *
(except on a question ol adjournment.! ‘•* Jt>
presented to the President of the Confederate
States ; and before the same shall take effect, shall
be approved bv b*" or being disapproved by
him, may be repaid by two third* of both Houses
according to the ndcs and limitations prescribed
in case of a hid.
SFTION 8.
The Congress shall have power—
1. To lay and collect taxe*, duties, imposts, and
excises lor revenue necessary to pay the debt*,
provide for the common defence and carry on the
government of the Confederate States; but no
bounty shall lie granter! from the treasury ; nor
shall any duties or taxes on importations from
foreign nations be laid to promote or foster cny
branch of industry ; and all duties, imposts, and
excises shall be uniform throughout the Confede
rate States:
3 To borrow money on the credit, of the Con
federate States;
3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations,
and among ihe several States, and with the Indian
tri>ies; but neither this, nor any other clause
container! in the constitution, shall ever be con
strued to delegate the power to Congress to np- |
propriate money for any internal improvement j
intended to facilitate commerce ; except for the
par pose of furnishing lights, I tear o ns, and buoys,
and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and j
the improvement of harbors and the removing of |
obstruction; in river navigation, in all which ea
se*, such duties shall be laid on the navigation
facilitated thereby, as may be necessary to pay
the costs and expenses thereot :
t. To establish uniform laws of naturalization,
and uniform law* on the subject of bankruptcies
throughout the Confederate States, hut no law of
t’ongresa shall discharge any debt contracted be
fore the passage of the same.
3. To com* money, regulate the value thereof,
and of foreign coin, and lix the standard of weights
and measures;
ti. To provide for the punishment of counter
feiting the securities and current eoin ot the Con
federate States:
7. To establish post offices nnd post routes;
but the expenses of the Postoffice Department, af
ter the first day of Match in the year of old Lord
eighteen bundled and sixty-three, shall he paid
out of its own revenues :
8. To promote the progress of science and use
ful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors
and inventors, the exclusive right to their respec
tive writings and discoveries.
9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Su
preme Court.
lu. To define and punish piracies and felonies
committed on the high seas, and offences against
the law of nations -
11. To declare w ar, grant letters of marque and
reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on
land and water:
12. To raise and -upporr armies; but no appro
priation of money to that u;e shall be for & longer
term than two years :
12. Te provide and maintain a navy;
14. To make rules for the government and reg
ulation of the land and naval forces :
15. To provide for ealliug forth the militia to
exeeute the laws of the Confederate States, sup
press insurrections, and repel invasions:
IS. To provide for organizing, arming and dis
ciplining the militia, and for governing such part
of them as may be employed in the service of the
Confederate States, reserving to the States res
pectively, the appointment of the officers, ami the
authority of training the tniiitia according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress.
17. To exercise the exclusive legislation, in all
cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceed
ing ten miles square; as may, by cession of one or
more States and the acceptance of Congress, be.
come the seat of Government ol the Confed
erate States; and to exercise like authority over
all places purchased hy consent of tic legislature
of the State in which the same shall be, lor the
erection of forts, magazines, arsenal*, dockyards,
arid other needful buildings : and
IS. To make all laws which shall l*e necessary
and proper for carrying into execution ihe fore
going powers and other power* vested by this
Constitution in the government of the Confederate
State*, or in any department or officer thereof.
SECTION 9.
1. The importation of negroes rtf the African
race, from any foreign country other than the
slave-holding State* or Territories of the I'nited
States or Territories of the I'nited States of Am
erica, is hereby forbidden ; and Congress is re
quired to pass such laws as shall effectually pre
vent the same.
2. Congress shall i-o have power to prohibit
the introduction of slaves from any State not a
member of, or Territory not belon ing tn, this
Confederacy.
3. The privilege of ilie writ of Habeas Corpus
shall not be * impended unless, when in eases of
rebellion or invasion, the public safety inav re
quire it.
4. No BIH of attainder, or ex post facto law, or
law denying or impairing the right of property in
negro slaves shall be panned.
5. No capitation or other direct tax shall be
laid, unless in proportion to the census or enum
eration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
<i. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles ex
ported from any Mate, except by a vote of two
thirds of both Houses.
7. No preference shall be given, by any regula
tion ol commerce or revenue, to the ports of one
State over tho-e of another.
H. No money sliall he drawn from the tieasary,
but in cousequence of appropriations made by law ;
and a regular statement and account of the re
ceipts and expenditures of all public money shall
be published from time to tune.
9. Congress shall appropriate no money from
tlie treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of
both Houses, taken by yeas and nays, unless it be
asked lor and estimated by someone of the heads
of Department, and submitted to Congress by the
President; or for the purpose of paying its own
expenses and contingencies; or for the payment
of claims against the Confederate States, the jus
tice of which shall liaTe been judicially declared
by a tribunal for the investigation of claims
agaiwt the government, which it is hereby made
the duty of Congress to establish.
11. All bills appropriating money shall specify
in federal currency the exact amount of each ap
propriation and the purposes for which it is made;
and Congress shall grant an extra compensation
to any public contractor, othoer, agent or servant,
after such contract shall have been made or such
service rendered.
11. No title of nobility shall be granted by the
Confederate States; and no person holding an v
ofSoe of profit or trust under them shall, without
the consent of the Congress, accept of any pres
ent, emolument*, ottice, or title of anv|kind, what
ever, from any king, prince, or foreign State.
12. Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof: or abridging the free dom of
speech, or of the press ; or the right of the peo
ple peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
government for a redress of grievances.
13. A well regulated militia being necessary to
the security of a tree Stale, the right, of the peo
ple to keep and b*ar aims shall not tie infringed.
14. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quai
tered in any bouse without the eon* nt of the
owner; nor in time of war, hut in a manner to tie
pi escribed by law.
13. The light of the people to lie secure in their |
persons, bowses, papers, mid effects, against un
reasonable searches and -ei/.ure*, shall not be
violated ; and no warrants shall issue but upon
probable .-auac, supported bv oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing ue place to be search
ed, and the persons or things to be seized. j
Id. No person shall be held to answer for a :
capital or otherwise infamous erime, unless on ■
a presentment or indictment of * grand jury, ex
cept in eases arising in ihe land or naval forces,
or in lhc k nnlitia, when in actual service in time
of war or publie danger: nor shall any person be
subject for tne same offence to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb ; nor be compelled, in anv
criminal case, to be a witness against himself; •
nor be deprived ot life, liberty, or property, with ?
out due pi ocean <>i jaw ; nor shall private property!
l>e taken tor public use, without just coinnensa- ]
tiou.
17. In ail criminal prosecutions, the accused
shah enjoy the right to a .-pcedv and publie trial,
by an impartial jury of the Slate and district
wherein the crime snail have been committee j
which dteuic* shall have been previously a*c< r
taioed by law , and to be informed of the nail *re
and cause of the acvusatiori ; to be confront ed
with the witnesses again-G him : to have comp ul
•ory process for obtaining witnesses in his favo •;
and to have the uesiwanco- of cMMri for his -e----(awt.
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I*. In unit# at common law, *her thf J*
controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right
of trial b? jury nhall be preserved ; and no ac
tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-e<aminei in
any court of the Confederacy, thah according to
Ihe rules of the common law.
19 Excessive bail shah not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cmcl and unusual
punishments inflicted. f
1 20. Every law or resolution having the force of
law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall
be expressed in the title.
sect ion 10.
1. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance,
or confederation ; grout letters r-f marque and
reprisal; coin mouey ; make anything but gol !
and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, pass
any hill ui attainder, ex pout jact o law, or law im
pairing the obligation ot contracts ; or grant any
title of nobility.
2. No State shall, without the of Con
gre*;*, lay imports or duties on imports or exports,
rVeept what may be absolutely necessary for exe
cuting its inspection laws ; and ilie nett produce
of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on
imports or exports shall be lor the use of the
treasury of the Confederate States ; and all such
law* shall be subject tw the revision and control
of Congress.
3. No State shall, without the consent of Con
gress, l,iy any duty of tonnage, except on sea go
ing ve*cl, for the improvement of its rivers and
harbors navigated by said vessels; but such du
ties shall not conflict with any treatise of the Con
federate States with foreign nations; and any
surplus of revenue, fhus deprived, shall, after
making such improvement, be paid into the com
mon treasury ; nor shall any State keep troops or
ships of war in lime of peace, enter into any agree
ment or compact with another Slate, or with a
foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually
invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not
admit o! delay. Rut when any river divides or
flows through two or more States, they may enter
into compacts with each other to improve the
navigation thereof.
AIITiCLE 11.
SECTION 1.
1. The Executive power shall be vested in a
President of the Confederate State* of America.
He and the Vice President shall hold their offices
for the term of six years: but the President shail
not tie re-eligible. The President aud Vice Pres
ident shall be elected as follows:
2. F.aeh State shall appoint, in such manner as
the legislature thereof may direct, a number of
electors equal to the whole number of Senators
and Representative* to which the State mav be
entitled in the Congress ; but no Senator or Rep
resentative, or person holding an office of trust or
profit under the Confederate States, shall be ap
pointed an elector.
3. The electors shall meet in their respective
i State* and vote by ballot lor President and Vice
President, one ot whom at least, shall not be an
| inhabitant of the same State with themselves ;
they shall name in their ballots the person voted
for as President, and •> *•>•>■* Oaiiui.i ilie per
son voted for as Vice President, and they shall
make distinct lists of all persons voted for as Pres
i lent, and of all persons voted for as Vice Pres
ident, and of the number of votes for each, which
list they shall sign and certify, and transmit, seal
ed, to the goverument of the Confederate States,
directed to the President of the Senate; the Pres
ident of the Senate shall, in the presence of the
. Senate and House of Representatives, open all the
I certificates and the votes shall then be counted ;
| the person having the greatest number of votes
1 lor President shall be the President, if such nuin
-1 ber be a majority of the whole number of electors
appointed ; and if no person have such a majority,
then, from the persons having the highest num
bers not exceeding three, ou the list of those
voted for as President, the House of Representa
tives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the
President. But in choosing the President, the
votes shail be taken by States, the representation
from each Slate having one vote ; a quorum for
this purpose shall consist of a member or members
from two-third*of the States, ur.d a majority of
all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And
if the House of Representatives shall not choose
a President, whenever the right of choice shall
devolve upon them, before the fourth day of
March next following, then the Vice President
shall act as President, as in case of the death, or
other constitutional disability of the President.
4. The person having the greatest number of
vote* as Vice President shall be the Vice Presi
dent, if such number be a majority of the whole
number of electors appointed ; and if no person
have a majority, then, from the two highest num
bers on the list the •'senate shnll choose the Vice
President ; a quorum for the purpose shall con
sist of two-tbiids of the whole number ofSen.-w*
tors, and a majority of the whole number shall be
necessary to a choice.
1 A- Rut no person constitutionally ineligible to
■ the office of President, shall be eligible to that of
I Vice President of the Confederate State*.
•*. The Congress may determine the time of
choosing the electors, and the day on which they
shall give their votes ; which day shall be the
same throughout the Confederate States.
7. No person except a natural born citizen of
the Confederate States, or a citizen thereof, at the
lime of the adoption of this Constitution, or a
citizen thereof born in the I nited States prior to
the goth of December, ISfio, shall be eligible to
the office of President; neither shall any person
Ik? eligible to that office who shall not have at
tained the age of thirty-five years, and been four
teen years a resident within the limits of the Con
federate States, as they may exist at the time of
l.is election.
8. In case of the removal of the President from
office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to
discharge the powers and duties of the said office,
the same shall devolve on the Vice President ;
and the Congress may, by law, provide for the
case of removal, death, resignation, or inability,
both of the President and Vice President, declar
ing what officer shall then act as President; and
such officer shall act accordingly, until the disa
bility be removed or a President shall be elected.
9. The President shall at stated times receive
for his services, a compensation which shall neith
er be increased nor diminished during the period
for which he shall have been elected ; and he
shall not receive within that period any other
emolument from the Confederate States, or any
of them.
10. Before he enters on the execution of his
Office, he shall take the following oath or affirma
tion :
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faith
fully execute the office of President of the Con
federate States, and will, to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
thereof.
BKCTIOX 2.
1. The President shall he Commander in Chief
0 f the Army and Navy of the Confederate States,
and of the Militia of the several States, when
<Jxlled into actual service of the Confederate
States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of
tlie Principal officer in each of the Executive De
ll u-tfoents, upon any subject relating to the duties
of their respective offices; and he shall have
power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences
agninft the Confederate States, except in cases of
iocpcachment.
2. He sliall have power, by and with the advice
a;td consent of the Senate, to make treaties ; pro
vided two thirds of the Seuators present coneur ;
iutd he shall nominate, and by and with the ad
vice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint am
hresadors, other public ministers and consuls,
judges of the Supreme Court, and all other offireis
of the Confederate States, whose appointments
are not herein otherwise provided for, and which
sb ill be established by law ; but the Congress
may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior
officers as they may think proper in the President
alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of do
pertinent*.
it. The principal officer iu each of the Execu
tive Departments, and all persons connected with
the diplomatic service, may be removed from office
at the pleasure of the Pnsident. All other civil
officers of the Executive Department may be re
moved at any time by the President, or oilier np
poini!ng power, when their services are uanccee
sary, or lor dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency,
misconduct or neglect of duly : and when so re
moved, the removal shall l> reported to the Sen
ate, together with reasons there:for.
■i. The President shall have power to fill all
rteancies that may happen during the recess of
t'ise Senate, by granting commissions which shall
expire at the end of their next, session ; but no
p<n son rejected by the Senate shall be re-appoint
ed to the same office during their ensuing recess.
SECTION 3.
1. The President shall, from time to time, give
to the Congress information of the state of the
Confederacy, and recommend to their considera
tion such meaMires as he shall judge necessary and
expedient ; he may, on extraordinary occasions,
convene both Houses, oi either of them and in
case of disagreement between them, with respect
to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them
to such time as he shall think proper ; lie shall
receive ambassadors and other p-.bdc minisUus;
he shall take care that the laws be faithfully exe
cuted; and shall commission all the officers of the
Confederate Flat's. i
mwrfiM 4 j
1. The President, Vice President, and all civil
officers of the Confederate Slates Shall be remove.!
trom office on impeachment for, and conviction ot
treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misde
meanors.
ARTICLE 111.
SECTION ].
1. The Judicial power of the Confederate States
shall be vested in one Superior Court, and in such
Inferior courts as the Congress may from time to
time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of
the Supreme and Inferior courts, shall hold their
offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated
tunes, receive for their services a compensation,
which shall not be diminished during their contia
uauce in office.
SECTION 2.
The judicial power shall extend to all eases
arising under this Constitution, the laws of the
Confederate States, and treaties made or'which
shall be made, under their authority ; to all ca*es
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the Con
federate State* shall be u party ; to controversies
between two or more States; between a State
and citizens of another Slate where the State
is plaintiff; between citizens claiming lands
under grants of different Stares, and between it
State or the citizens thereof and foreign Stares,
citizens or subjects ; but no State shall be sued
by a citizen or subject of any foreign State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other pub
lic ministers and consuls, and those in which a
State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall
have original jurisdiction. In all other cases be
fore mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact,
with such exceptions and under such regulations
as the Congress shall make.
3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of im
peachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall
be held in the State where the said crimes shall
have been committed ; but when not committed
within any State, the trial shall be at such place
or places ns the Congress may by law have direct
ed.
SECTION 3.
1. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist onlv in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason
unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the
same overt act, or on confession in open court.
2. The (’digress shall have power to declare
the punishment of treason ; but no attainder of
treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeit
ure except during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION 1.
I. Full faith and credit shall be given in each
State to the public acts, records, ami judicial pro
ceedings of every other State. And the Congress
may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in
which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be
proved and the effect thereof.
SECTION 2.
1. The citizens of each Stateshall be entitled to
all privileges and immunities of citizens in the sev
eral States, and shall have the right of transit and
sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with
their slaves and other property ; and the right
of property in said slaves shall not be thereby im
paired.
*2. A person charged in any State with treason,
felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State, who shall ilee from justice, nnd be found in
another State, shall, on demand of the executive
authority of the State from which he fled, be de
livered up, to be removed to the State having
jurisdiction of the crime.
, J- No slave or other person held to service or
labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States, under the laws thereof, escaping or law
fully carried into another, shall in consequence
of any law or regulation therein, be discharged
from such service or labor ; but shall be de
livered up oil claim of the party to whom such
slave belong*, or to w hom such service or labor
may be due.
section S.
Other States may be admitted into this Confed
eracy by a vote of two-thirds of the whole House
of Representatives, and two-t.hirda of the Senate,
the Senate voting hy States ; but no new State
shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction
of any other State ; nor auy State be formed by
the junction ol two or more States, or parts of
State*, without the consent of the legislatures of
the States concerned as well as the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of
and make ull needful rules and regulations con
cerning the property of the Confederate States,
including the lands thereof.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new
territory : and Congress shall have power to leg
islate and provide governments for the inhabit
ants of ull territory belonging to the Confederate
States, lying without the limits of the several
States; and may permit them, at such limes, and
in such manner as it mav by law provide, to form
State* to be admitted into the Confederacy. In
all such territory, the institution of negro slavery
as it now exists in the Confederate States, .-shall
be recognized and protected by Congress, and bv
the territorial government; and the inhabitants
ol the several Confederate States and Territories,
shall have the right to take to such territory any
slaves, lawfully held by them in any of the States
or territories of the Confederate States.
4. Ihe Confederate States shall guaranty to
every State that uow is or hereafter may become
a member of this Confederacy, a republican lortn
of government, and shall protect each of them
against invasion ; and on application of the legis
lature (or of the Executive when the legislature is
not in session) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE y.
SECTION 1.
1. I'pon the demand of any of three States,
legally assembled in their several conventions, the
Congress shall summon a convention of all the
States, to take into consideration such amend
ments to the Constitution as the said Slates shall
concur in suggesting at the time when the said
demand shall be made ; and should any of the
proposed amendments to the Constitution be
agreed on by the said convention—voting by
States —and the same be ratified by the legisla
tures of two-thirds of the several States, or bv
convention in two-thirds thereof—as the one or
the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the general convention—they shall thencefor
ward form a part of this Constitution. But no
State shall, without its consent, be deprived of its
equal representation in the Senate.
ARTICLE VI.
1. The government established by this Consti
tution is the suceesior of the Provisional Govern
ment of the Confederate States of America, und
all Lhe laws passed by the latter shall continue in
force until the same shall be repealed or modified ;
and all the officers appointed by the same shall
remain in office until their successors are appoint
ed and qualified, or the offices abolished.
2. All debts contracted and engagements enter
ed into before the adoption of this Constitution
sliall be as valid against the Confederate States
under this Constitution as under the Provisional
Government.
3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Con
federate States, made in pursuance thereof, and
all treaties made, or which shall be made under
authority of the Confederate States, shall be the
supreme law of the land ; and the Judges in every
State shall be bound thereby, anything in the
constitution or the laws of any State to the con
trary notwithstanding.
4. The Senators and Representatives before
mentioned and the members of the several State
Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers,
both of the Confederate States and of the several
States shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to
support this Constitution ; but no religious test
shall ever fie required as a qualification to any
office or public trust of the (’onfederate States.
f. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of cer
tain rights, shall not be construed to deny or dis
parage other* retained by the people of the several
States.
*i. The powers not delegated to the Confederate
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by It to
the States, are reserved to the States, respectively,
or to the people thereof.
ARTICLE VII.
1. The ratification of the conventions of five
States shall be sufficient for the establishment of
this Constitution between the States so ratifying
the same.
2. When five States shall have ratified this Con
stitution, itt the maimer before specified, the Con
gress under the Provisional Constitution, shall
prescribe the time for holding the election of
President and Vicrf President; and for the meet
ing of the Electoral College ; and for counting
the votes, and inaugurating the President. They
shall, also, prescribe the time sow holding the first
election of members of Congress under this Con
stitution, and the time for assembling the same.—
Until the assembling of such Congress, the Con
gress under the Provisional Constitution shall
continue to exercise the legislative powers granted
them; not extending beyond the time limited by
the Constitution of the Provisional Government.
Adopted, unanimoualy, March 11, 1801.
TAltill’
Os THE
CONFEDERATB STATES.
AN ACT, To be entitled an Act to provide Reve
iiue from Commodities Imported from Foreign
Countries.
Section 1. The Couyrexs of ihe 4J<mJtJrnth
Stufe* of America do mart, That from and after
the first day ot May next, a duty shall l>e imposed
on all goods, products, ware* and merchandise
imported from abroad into the Confederate States
of America, as follows :
On all articles enumerated in Schedulde a, an
ad valorem duly of twenty five |*>r eeotum. <j n
all articles enumerated in Schedule B, an advalo
rein duty of twenty per centum. * On all articles
enumerated in Schedule C, an ad valorem duty
of fifteen per centum. On all articles enumerated
in Schedule I), an nd valorem duty of ten per cen
tum. On all articles enuiuerated iu Schedule E,
an advalorern duty of five per centum. And that
all articles enumerated iu Schedule F, a spetie
duty us therein named. And that all articles
enumerated in schedule G, shall hr- exempt from
duty, to w it:
Seiicnri.K A. (Twenty-five per cent, ad valorem.)
Alabaster and spar ornaments ; anchovies, sar
dines, and all other lisn preserved in oil.
Brandy and other spirits distilled from grain
or other materials . billiards nnd bagatelle tubles,
and other tables or boards on which games are
played.
Composition tops for tubles, or other articles of
furniture; confectionery, eonfits, sweetmeets, or
fruits preserved in sugar, molasses, brandy or
other liquors; cordials, abaythe, arrack, curacoa,
kirschenwesser. liquors, maraschino, ratafia, and
all other spirituous beverages of a similar charac
ter.
Glass, cut, manufactures of, and all vessels or
wares of.
Manufactures of cedar-wood, grandilla, ebony,
mahogany, rosewood and satin-wood.
Scagliola tops for tables, or other articles of
furniture ; segars, snuff, paper segars, and al! oth
er manufactures of tobacco.
Wines—Burgundy, clarets, madeita, port, sher
ry, and all other w ines or imitations of wines.
Schfuci.e B. (Twenty per centum ad valorem.)
Almonds, raisins, currants, dates, figs and all
other dried or preserved fruits not otherwise pro
vided (or ; argentine, ala bat a or german silver,
manufactured or unmanufactured ; all articles em
broidered with gold, silver, or other metal.
Balsams, costnedcs, essences, extracts, pastes,
perfumes and tinctures, used for the toilet or for
medicinal purposes ; bay-rum ; beads of amber,
composition or wax, and all other beads; brace
lets, braids, chains, curls, or ringlets, composed of
hair or of which hair is a component part.
Camphor, refined ; canes and sticks, for walk
ing, finished, or unfinished ; capers, pickles, and
sauces of all kinds, not otherwise provided for;
card cases, pocket-books, shell boxes, souvenirs,
and all similar articles, of whatever material com
posed ; compositions of glass, set or unset; coral,
cut or manufactured.
Epaulettes, galloons, laces, knots, tassels, tress,
es, and wings of gold or silver, or imitations
thereof.
Feathers and flowers, artificial or ornnmental,
ami parts thereof, of whatever material composed.
Grapes, plums, and prunes, and other such
fruit, when put up in bottles, cases, or cans, not
otherwise provided for.
Hair, human, cleansed or prepared for use.
Manufactures of gold, platina or silver; manu
factures ot silk, or of which silk shall be a compo
nent part, not otherwise provided for ; manufac
tures of paper inache ; molasses.
Pepper, pimento, cloves, nutmegs, cinnamon,
and all other spices; perfumes and perfumery, of
all sorts; plated and gilt ware of all kinds; play
ing cards; prepared vegetables, fruits, meats,
poultry and game, sealed or enclosed in cans or
otherwise.
Silver plated metals, in sheets or other form ;
soap, castile, perfumed, Windsor, and other toilet
soaps ; sugar of all kinds ; syrup of sugar.
(Soiikiu i.k C. (Fifteen per cent, nd valorem.)
Alum; amber; arrow root; articles of clothing
or apparel, including hats, caps, gloves, shoes anti
bools ot ali kinds, worn by men, women or chil
dren, of whatever material composed
Baizes, blankets, bookings, flannels and floor
cloths, of whatever material composed, not other
wise provided for; baskets, and ail other articles
composed ol gra-s, oz t?r, palin leaf, straw, whale
bone or willow, not otherwise provided for; beer,
ale, and porter, in casks or bottles; beeswax •
benzoates; berries and vegetables of all sorts
used lor food not otherwise provided for ; blue or
Roman vitriol, or sulphate of copper; Bologna
sausages; braces, suspenders, webbing, or other
fabrics, composed wholly or in part ot India rub
ber, not otherwise provided for : breccia ; broDzo
liquor and bronze powder; broom and brushes;
Burgundy pitch ; buttons and button moulds of
all kinds.
Gables and cordage, tarred or untarred, or of
grass ; carditnttm ; calamine; calomel and all other
mercurial preparations ; castor beans; castor oil;
candles, tapers, spermaceti!, steariue, tallow or
wax; caps, hats, muffs and tippets, and all other
manufactures of fur, or of w hich fur shall he
a component part ; caps, gloves, leggins, mits,
socks, stockings, wove shirts and drawers, all
similar articles worn by men, women and children,
and not otherwise provided for; carpets, carpet
ing, hearth-rugs, bed sides, and other portions of
carpetmg, being either Aubusson, Brussels, in
grain, Saxony, Turney, Venetian, Wilton, or any
other similar fabric ; eariages and parts ©('carri
ages; castorutu; chains, of all sorts; cider aim
other beverages not containing alcohol, and not
otherwise piovfiled for; chocolate; chromate of
lead ; chromate, bi-chromate, hydriodate, and
prussiate of potash ; cinnamon; clocks and parts
of clocks, coach and harness furniture of all
kinds; cobalt; combs of all kinds; copper bot
toms ; copper rods, bolts, nails, and spikes; cop
per in sheets or plates, called brazier's copper,
and other sheets of copper not otherwise provided
for; copperas, or green vitriol, or sulphate of
iron; corks; cotton cords, gimps, and galloons;
cotton laces, cotton insertings, cotton trimming
laee9, cotton laces and braids; court plaster; cray
ons of all kinds, eubebs; cutlery of all kinds.
Delaines; dolls and toys of all kinds; dried
pulp.
Earthen, china, and stone ware, and all other
wares composed of earthy and mineral substances
i\ot otherwise provided for; Ether.
Fans and fire-screens of every description, of
whatever material composed; feldspar ; fig-blue ;
fire-crackers, sky-rockets, Roman candles, and all !
similar articles used in pyrotechnics ; fish, whether j
fresh, smoked, salted, dried or pickled, not other
wise provided for; fish glue, or isinglass; fish
skins; flats, braids, plaits, sparterre and wil
low squares, used for making hats or bonnets;
floss silks, feather beds, feathers for beds, and
downs of all kinds ; frames and sticks for umbrel
las, parasols, and sunshades finished or unfinished;
fraikford black ; fulrnimtes, or fulminating pow
ders ; furniture, cabinet -and household; furs,
dressed on the skin.
Gamboge; ginger, dried, green, ripe, ground,
preserved, or pickled; glass, colored, stained, or
painted; glass crystals for watches; glasses or
pebbles for spectacles; glass tumblers, plain,
moulded and pressed, bottles, flasks, and all other
vessels of glass not cut or punted ; glue p grass
cloth ; green turtle ; gum benzoin, or benjamin ;
except muskets and rifles, tire arms and all parts
thereof not intended for military purposes ; gunnv
cloth and India baggings and India mattings of
all sorts.
Hair, curled, moss, seaweads, and all other veg
etable substance? l , mod for bods or mattresses;
hair pond's; hat bodies of cloth or wool; hats
and bonnets, for men, women, and children, com
posed of straw, satin straw, chip, grass, palm leaf,
willow or any other vegetable substance, or of
hair, whalebone, or other materials, not otherwise
provided for; hatter’s plush, of whatever material
composed ; honey ; hops.
Ink and ink powder; ipecacuanha; iridium ;
iris, or oris root ; iron castings; iron lirjuor;
ivory black.
.lalap ; japanned ware of all kinds, not other
wise provided for; jet, and manufactures o! jet,
and imitations theicof; jewelry or imitation
thereof; juniper lenie®.
Lsces of cotton, of thread, or other materials,
not otherwise provided lor; Lampblack, Lust
ing®, cut in strips, or patterns of the size cr shape
for shoes, boots, bootees, slippers, gaiters or
buttons, of whatever material composed; lead
pencils; leaden pipes; leather, tanned, bend or
sole; Leather, upper, of all k.iids ; leather, ja
panned : leeches, linens, of all kinds : liquorice,
imp *e, juice, or root ; litborge.
Il.iceuroui, vermicelli, gelatine, jellies, and all
other Similar preparations; machinery of every
description; malt; manganese; manna; manu
factures of the bark of cork tree; manufactures
of wool of all kinds ; manufactures of hair of all
kinds; manufactures of cotton of all kinds ; manu
factures of hemp (l.nt orofaH kinds, not otherwise
provided for ; manufactures of bone, shell, hotn,
pearl, ivory, or vegetable ivory ; manufacture*,
articles, vessels, and wares, not otherwise provided
for, of brass, copper, iron, lead, pewter, tin, or of
which either of these metals shall he a component
part; manufactures, articles, vessels, and wares,
of Q? of which gltfM shall I* a
material, not otherwise provided for ; manufac
tures and article* of leather, or of which leather
shall be a component, part, not otherwise-provided
for; mandfaeturea and articles of marble, marble
paving tiles, and all other marble more advanced
in manufacture than in slabs or blocks iu the
rough, not otherwise provided for; manuractures
of paper, or of which paper is a component materi
al, not otherwise provided for ; of wood, or ol
which wood is a component part, not otherwise
provided for ; matting, china or other floor mat
ting, and mats made of flags, jute, or grass; me
dicinal preparations, drugs, roots, and leaves in a
crude state, not otherwise provided for; inetal,
dutch aud bronze, in leaf: metalie pens; min
eral waters; musical instruments of all kinds, and
strings for musical instruments, of whip-gut cai
and all other strings of the same material.
Needles of all kinds, for sewing, darning and
knitting; nitrate of Ipad.
Ochres and ochrey earths; oil cloths of every
escription, of whatever material composed; oils
ol every description, animal, vegetable and min
eral, not otherwise provided lor; olives; opium ;
orange and lemon peel; osier or willow rrenared
lor basket maker’s use. 1 P
Taintings on glass; paints, dry or ground in
oil, not otherwise provided for; paper, antiquarian,
demy, drawing, elephant, foolscap, imperial, letter,
and all other paper, not otherwise provided for ;
paper boxes, and all other fancy boxes; paper
envelopes; paper hangings, paper for walls, and
paper for screens or fire boards ; parchment;
parasols and sun shades and umbrellas; patent
mordant, paving and roofing tiles, and bricks,
and roofing slates; periodicals and other works
in course of printing and republication in the
Confederate States; pitch ; plaster of Paris, when
ground; plumbago; potassium; putty.
t/uieksilver; quilts.
Bed chalk pencils; rhubarb; Roman cement.
Saddlery of all kinds, not otherwise provided
for ; safiton and saffron cake ; sago ; salts, epsonu,
ghtuber, rochelle, and all other salts and prepara
tions of salts not otherwise provided for; sarsa
patilla; sealing wax; seppia ; sewing silk, in the
gum and purified; shaddocks; shot of lead, not
; otherwise provided for; skins of all kinds, tanned,
| dressed or japanned ; slate pencils; stnaltz ; soap
i of every description not otherwise provided for ;
spirits of turpentine; spunk; squills; starch;
stereotype plates; still bottoms; sulphate of bary
tes, crude or refined ; sulphate of quinine ; sul
phuric acid, or oil of vitriol.
Tapioca ; tar ; textile fabrics of every descrip
, tion except silk, not otherwise provided for;
! thread laemgs and insertings; types, old or new,
and type metals.
Umbrellas.
A anilla beans; vellum ; velvet in the piece,
composed wholly ofcottou, or of cotton and silk,
but of which cotton is the component material of
chief value ; verJigris; Vermillion; vinegar.
Wafers; water colors; whalebone; white and
red lead ; w’hite vitriol, or sulphate of zinc ; whit
ing, or Baris white; window glass, broad, crown,
or cylinder; woolen and worsted yarns, and
woolen listings ; wheel-barrows and hand barrows;
wagons and vehicles of every description, or
parts thereof.
Rchkoclk D. (Ten per centum ad valorem.)
Acids of every description not otherwise provi
ded for ; alcornoque; aloes; ambergris; amber;
ammonia, and sal ammonia; anatto, rocon, or
. Orleans ; angora thibet, and other goats’ hair or
j mohair, unmanufactured, not otherwise provided
for; annisseed; antimony, crude or regulus of;
argol, or crude tartar; arsenic; articles used in
dyeing and tanning not otherwise provided for;
a-flies, pot pearl and soda ; asphaltum ; assaftetida.
Bananas, cocoa nuts, pine apples, plaintains,
oranges and all other \\ est India fruits in their nat
ural state ; vanilla bark of of all kinds, not other
provided tor; bark, Peruvian ; bark, gtiilla ; bis
! inuth ; bitter apples; bleaching powder of chlo
ride ot lime ; bones, burnt; boards, planks, staves,
shingles, laths, scantling, and all other sawed
■ timber of all sorts ; bone-black, or animal carbon,
and bone dust; bolting cloths; books print
ed, magazines, pamphlets, periodicals, and illus
j trated newspaper*, bound or unbound, not other
i wise provided tor; books, blank, bound or unbound;
borate of lime; borax, etude or lineal; buchu
leaves; box wood, unmanufactured ; Brazil paste ;
Brazil-wood, brazilelto, and all dye-woods in
sticks; bristles; building stones; butter; burr
stones, wrought or unwrought.
Cabinets of coins, medals, gems, and all collec
tions ot antiquities ; camphor, crude ; cantharides;
cassia and cassia buds ; chalk ; cbeeee ; chronome
ters, box or ship, aud parts thereof; clay, burnt or
unburnt bricks, roofing tiles, gas retorts, and
; rooting slates; cloves ; coal, coke, and culm of coal;
cochineal, cocoa- uuts, cocoa and cocoa shells;
couulus indicus ; codila, or tow of hemp or flax ;
cream of tartar ; cudbear; euleb.
Diamonds, cameos, mosaics, gams, pearls, ru
bies and other precious stones, and imitations
thereof, when set in gold or silver ; diamond gla
ziers, set or not set; dragon’s blood.
Emery, in lump or pulverised ; extract of indi
go; extracts and decoctions of log-wood and other
dye-woods, not otherwise, provided ; for extract of
madder.
Felt, adhesive, for sheating vessels; flax, un
manufactured ; flax seed and linseed ; flints, and
flint ground; French chalk; furs, hatters’, dressed
or undressed, not on the skin; furs, undressed,
when on the skin.
Glass, when old ami fit only to be re-manufac
tured; gold and silver leaf; gold beaters’skin ;
grindstones; Gums—Arabic, Barbary, copal, East
indies, Senegal, substitute, tragacauth, and all
i other gums and resins, io a crude state, not other
wise provided for; gutta percha, unmanufactured.
Hair, of all kinds, uwdeansed and unmanufac
tured; hemp, unmanufactured; hemp seed and
tape seed : horns, horn tips, bone tips, aud teeth,
unman ufactured.
India rubber in bottles, slabs, or sheets, unman
ufactured; india rubber, milk off; iron, in bars,
bolts, rods, slabs, railroad rails, spikes, fishing
plates, and chairs, used in constructing railroads;
, ivory, unmanufactured; ivory nuts, or vegetable
ivory.
Junk, old; jute, sisal grass, coir, and other
vegetable substance, unmanufactured, not other
wise provided for.
Kelp; kermes.
Lac spirits, lac sulpher, and lac dye; leaf and
unmanufactured tobacco ; lemons aud limes, and
lemon and lime juice, and juices of all other fruits
without sugar; lime.
Madder, ground or prepared: madder root; mar
ble, in the rough slab or block, unmanufactured;
maps and charts; metals, unmanufactured, uot
otherwise provided for ; mineral kermes; mineral
and bituminous substances in a crude state, uot
otherwise provided for; music, printed with lines,
bound or unbound.
Natron; nickel; nutmegs; nuts, not otherwise
provided for; nut gails; nux vomica.
Oakum ; oranges, lemons, and limes ; orpinient.
Paintings anu statuary not otherwise provided
for; platina, unmanufactured; palm leaf, unman
ufactured; pearl, mother of; pine apples, plantains,
plaster of paris ; platina, unmanufactured ; polish
ing stones; potatoes; prussian blue ; pumice aud
pumice stone.
Rattans and reeds, manufactured; raw hides
and skins of all kinds, undressed; red chalk; rot
ton stone.
Safflower; sal soda, and all carbonates and sul
phates of soda bv whatever names designated, not
otherwise provided for; seedlac; shellac; silk,
raw, not more advanced in manufacture than sin
gles, tram and thrown, or organzine ; specimens of
natural history, mineralogy, or botany, not other
wise provided for ; sponges ; steel in bars; sumac.
Tallow, marrow and all other grease or soap
stocks and soap stuffs not otherwise provided for;
terne tin, in plates or sheets; terra japonica, cate
chu, or cutci: ; tortoise and other shells, unmanu
factured ; trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, and roots,
not otherwise provided for ; turmeric.
Watches and parts of Watches; weld; woad ;
woods, viz, cedar, box, ebony, lignum-vitae, gran
adilla, mahogany, rosewood, satin wood, and nil
other woods manufactured ; wool, uninanu&icttir
ed, of every description.
Yams. *
ScuEnri.K E. (Five per centum ad valorem.)
Draws, in bars or pigs, old and fit only to be re
m.tnufaetured ; bells, old bell metal.
Copper in pigs or bars, copper ore; copper
wheu old and lit only to be re-iuanufactured.
Diamond®, cainoes, mosaics, pearls, gems, ru
bies. and other precious stones, and imitation
thereof, when not set.
Guano.
Iron, in blooms, loops, and pigs, and iron ore.
Manures and fertilizers of ail sorts.
Paving stonci'; paper for {trioiing newspapers,
handbills, and other printiug of simitar character.
Shoaling copper—but no copper to be consid
ered as snob except in sheets 48 inches long and
1 1 inches wide, and weighing front 11 to 34 oz.;
sweating metal, wholly or in part of iron ; sheath
ing paper.
.Stave bolts and shingle bolts.
Tin ore and tin in pigs or bars.
Zinc, spelter, or tenteuegue unmanufactured.
Rcukdi le F. (Specific Duties.)
Ice—t* o dollars per ton.
Tea—four cents per pound.
Salt, ground, blown, or rock—three cents per
bushel, of fifty six pounds per bushel.
tfeitWLi 0. (UiJ&pt (ram Duty )
Books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical
instruments, philosophical apparatus, and all otl
articles whatever, imported for the use oft( !( . (, *
federate States; books pamphlets, periodicals, and
tracts, published by religious associations-, allr.h;:
osophical apparatus, instruments, books,
charts, statues, statuary, busts, and easts, of'mV
ble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris, paiuiio
and drawings, etchings, specimens of sculpture
cabinet of corns, medals, gems, and all collections
of antiquities ; provided the same be especial!? in,,
ported in good faith for the use of any society in
corporated or established for philosophical V,,]
literary purposes, or for the encouragement of t!, e
fine arts, or for the use or by the order of an? ( . o |.
ledge, academy, senool or siminary of learning in
the Confederate States ; bullion, gold and silver
Coins, gold,*silver and copper; coffee ; copper
when imported Tor the mint of the Confederate
States.
Garden seeds, and all other seeds for agricultu
ral and horticultural purposes; goods, wares, and
mercatidise, the growth, produce, or manufacture
of the Confederate States, exported to a foreign
country, and brought back to the Confederate
States in the same condition as when exported,
upon which no drawback has been allowed: Pro
vided, That all regulations to ascertain the identi
ty thereof, prescribed by existing laws, or which
may be prescribed bv the Secretary of the Treas
ury, shall be complied with.
Household effects old and in use, of persons or
families Irotn foreign countries, if used abroad by
them, and not intended for any other purpose or
pUr|K>SPS, or for sale.
Models or inventions, or other inprovernents in
the arts, provided that no article or articles shall
be deemed a model which cn be fitted for use.
Personal and housed obi effects, not inereandLse
of citizens of the Confederate States dy rug abroad.
Specimens, of natural history, mineralogy, or
botany ; provided the same be imported it? good
ta.th for the use of any society incorpoiated or
established for philosophical, agricultural or horti
cultural purposes, or for the use or by the order
of any college, academy, school, or seminary of
learning in the Confederate States.
Wearing apparel, and other personal effects, not
mercatidise ; professional books, in
struments, and toolz of trades, occupation or’em
ployment, of persons arriving in the Confederate
States; provided that this exemption shall not be
construed to include machinery, or other articles
imported for use in any manufacturing establish
ment, or for 9ale.
Bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, wheal, flour, and
bran of wheat, flour, and bran of all other grains,
Indian corn and meal, barley, rye, oats, aud oat
meal, and living animals of all kinds, not other
wise provided for; also all agricultural productions,
including those of the orchard and garden, in their
natural state, not otherwise provided for.
Gunpowder, and all the materials of which it is
made.
Lead, in pigs or bars, in shot or balls, for can
non, muskets, rifles or pistols.
Rags, of whatever material composed.
Arms, of every description, for military purposes,
and parts thereof, munitions of war, military ac
coutrements, and percuahion caps.
Cotton.
Ships, steamers, barges, dredging vessels, ma
chinery, screw pile jetties, and articles to be used
in the construction of harbors, and for dredging
and improving the same.
On all articles not imported direct from the
countries where produced, or from their colonies,
an additional duty of five per cent, shall be levied'.
Sec. 2. Aud be it further enacted, That from
and after the first day of May next, there shall be
levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares and
merchandise, imported from foreign countries, and
not specially provided for, or enumerated in any
of the schedules of this act, a duty of ten per Cent
ura ad valorem.
Sec. fl. That there shall be levied, collected, and
paid, oii each and every non enumerated article
which bears a similtude, either in material, quality,
texture, or the uses to which it may be applied,
to any enumerated article chargeable with duty,
the same rate of duty which is levied and charged
ou the enumerated article which it most resembles
in any of the particulars before mentioned ; and if
any non-enumerated article equally resembles two
or more enumerated articles on which different
rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied,
collected and paid, on such non enumerated article,
the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article
which it resembles paying the highest duty. And
on all articles manufactured from two or more
materials, the duty shall be asse-tsed at the highest
rates at which any of its component parts ntav be
chargeable.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all goods,
waies, and merchandise, which may be in the pub
lic stores as unclaimed, or in warehouse under
warehouse bonds, on the first day of May next,
shall be subject, on entry thereof for consumption,
to such duty as if the same had been imported, re
spectively after that day.
Sec. !i. And be it further enacted, That on the
entry of any goods, wares or merchandise impor
ted on and after the first dav of May aforesaid,
the decision of the collector of the customs at the
port of importation and entry, as to their liability
to duty or exemption therefrom, shall be fiual and
conclusively against the owner, importer, consignee,
or agent of any such goods, wares and merchan
dise, unless the owner, importer, consignee or
agent shall, within ten days after such entry, give
notice to the collector, in writing, of his dissatis
faction with such decisions, setting forth therein
distinctly and specifically his ground of objection
thereto, and shall, within thirty days after date of
such decision, appeal thereform to the Secretary
of the Treasury, whose decision on such appeal
shall be final and conclusive ; and the said goods,
wares and merchandise shall be liable to duty or
exemption therefrom accordingly, any act ot Con
gress to the contrary notwithstanding, unless suit
shall be brought within thirty days after such de
cision, for any duties that may have been paid, or
may thereafter be paid, on said goods, or within
thirty days after the duties shall have been paid in
cases where such goods shall be in bond.
Sec. 0. Be it further enacted, That it shall be
lawful lor the owner, consignee, or agent of im
ports which have been actually purchased or pro
cured otherwise than by purchase, on entry of the
same, to make such addition in the entrv to the
cost or value given in the invoice, as, in his opin
ion, may raise the same to the true market value
of such imports in the principal markets of the
country whence the importations shall have been
made, and to add thereto all costs and charges
which, under existing laws would form part of the
true value at the port where the same may be en
tered upon which the duty should be assessed.—
And it shall be the duty of the collector within
whose district the same may be imported or en
tered, to cause the dutiable value of such imports
to be appraised, estimated and ascertained, in ac
cordance with the provisions of existing laws; and
if the appruised value thereof shall exceed by ten
per centum, or more, the value so declared on en
try, then in addition to the duties imposed by law
on the same, there shall be levied collected and
paid a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem, on
such appraised value: Provided nevertheless,
That uuder no circumstances shall the duty be as
sessed upon an amount less than the invoice or
entered value, any law of Congress to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Rates ofPostage in the Confederatc;Stai.c*
of America.
The Montgomery Advertiser published the fol
lowing simplified statement of the rate of postage
under the act of Congress of the Confederate States
of America adopted on the 21st. February, 1861.
It must be borne in mind that the act is to go into
effect, “ from and after such period a9 the Post
Master General may, by proclamation announce.”
RATES OF POSTAGE.
Bet wen places within the Confederate States of
America.
OS LETTERS.
Single letter not exceeding a half ounce in
weight—
For any distance under 600 miles, 5 cents;
For any distance over 500 miles, 10 cents;
An additional single rate for each additional
half ounce or less.
Drop letters 2 cents each ;
In the foregoing cases, the postage to be pre
paid by stamps or stamped envelopes.
Advertised letters 2 cents each.
OV PACKAGES.
Containing other than printed or written matter
—money packages are included in this class-:
To be rated by weight as letters are rated and
to be charged double the rates of postage on let
ters, to wit:
For any distance under 600 miles, 10 cents for
each halt-ounce or less ;
For any distance over 500 miles, 20 cents for
each half-ounce or less ;
In all oases to be prepaid by stamps or stamped
envelopes.
OX NEWSPAPERS.
Sent to regular and bona Jide subscribers from
the office of publication, and not exceeding 3
ounces in weight;
Within the State where Published.
Weekly paper, cents per quarter;
<Semi-Weekly paper, 18 cents per quarter \
ZV*-Weekly paper, 19£ cents per (purler k