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Jmtnial ft ffrss eager. 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. ---(awt. 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