The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That if any officer of the army be appointed Secretary of War, and enter upon the duties of that office, he shall not thereby lose his rank in the army, but only the pay and allowance thereof, during the time he is Secretary of War, and receiving the salary of that officer.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That during the present invasion of the Confederate States, the President shall have power to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in such cities, towns and military districts as shall, in his judgment, be in such danger of attack by the enemy as to require the declaration of martial law for their effective defence.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there be added to the number of clerks now authorized by law in the War Department, twenty additional clerks, to be divided among the several Bureaus, in such proportion as the Secretary of War may deem most advantageous, to receive compensation as follows, to wit: Six at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum; six at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, and eight at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the eleventh, section of the act of the Provisional Congress, entitled “An Act in relation to public printing,” adopted the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to authorise the Postmaster-General, when, in his opinion, sufficient notice will not be given of advertisements for carrying the mail, by inserting such advertisements in three newspapers in each State, to advertise such proposals in such additional number of papers as may be necessary to give them full publicity. Provided, that, by so doing, no greater expense be incurred than if said advertisements be inserted in but three newspapers.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the military authorities of the Confederate Army are hereby authorized and directed to destroy cotton, tobacco, military and naval stores, or other property of any kind whatever, which may aid the enemy in the prosecution of the war, when necessary to prevent the same, or any part thereof, from falling into the hands of the enemy.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the owners of property destroyed under the operation of this Act, as well as those persons who shall voluntarily destroy their property to prevent the same from falling into the hands of the enemy, are hereby authorized to perpetuate the testimony of such destruction, in the manner prescribed by an Act of the Provisional Congress, entitled “An Act to perpetuate testimony in cases of slaves abducted or harbored by the enemy, and of other property seized, wasted or destroyed by them,” approved thirtieth August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and such owners and persons shall be entitled to indemnity out of the proceeds of property sequestered and confiscated under the laws of the Confederate States, in such manner as Congress may hereafter provide.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Senate shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, payable monthly. That the Secretary of the Senate be allowed to appoint an assistant Secretary at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and two clerks at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each, payable monthly. That the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars; and the Doorkeeper of the Senate shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; and the Assistant Doorkeeper, shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, all payable monthly; and the Page of the Senate, shall receive an allowance of two dollars per day, during the session of the Senate.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, payable monthly. That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be allowed to appoint three assistants, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each, payable monthly. That the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, and the assistant Doorkeeper shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, payable monthly; and the Pages of the House of Representatives shall receive each, an allowance of two dollars per day, during the session of the House.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the following post routes, upon which the service has been placed by the Postmaster General, be, and the same are hereby established, and his action, in putting the mail service upon the same, is hereby confirmed, to wit: A post route from Hernando, by Pleasant Hill, to Olive Branch in the State of Mississippi; also one from Waxahachie, by Alvarado and Buchanan, to Acton, in the State of Texas; also, from Goliad, by Cummengsville, Beeville and San Domingo, to Oakville, in said State of Texas; also, one from Sherman, by Chalybeate Springs, Dickenson, Delaware and Horse Shoe Bend, to Gainsville, all in the State of Texas; also, one from Dresden, by White Rock, Hillsboro and Covington, to Grand View, in said State of Texas.

SEC. 2. The following new routes are also hereby established, viz: one from Camden by Buffalo, to Miller's Bluff, in Ouachita county, in the State of Arkansas; also, one from Walnut Hill, in Lafayette county, in the State of Arkansas, by Spring Bank, Bright Star and Courtland, Cass county, Texas, to Havannah of the county and State last aforesaid; also, a post route in the State of Arkansas, from Washington, in Hempstead county, by Ozan Postoffice, Wilton Postoffice, on the Little Missouri river, Caddo Gap or Centreville Postoffice, Caddo Postoffice at Farr's Mill, McConnell's Mill, Goodner's, Hickey's, Waldron Postoffice, to Fort Smith, in Sebastian county; also, the following routes in the State of Georgia, to wit: from Valdosta, by R. P. Hutchinson's to Irwinville; also from Covington, by way of Oak Hill and McDonough to Jonesboro also, a post route from Jonesborough, in the State of Tennessee, to Grassy Creek, in the State of North Carolina, crossing the Iron Mountain where the McDowell and Yancey turnpike road terminates.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That whenever the President shall assign a General to duty at the seat of Government, the said General shall be entitled to the following staff, to wit: A military Secretary, with the rank of Colonel; four aids-de-camps, with the rank of Major; and such clerks, not to exceed four in number, as the President shall, from time to time, authorize. The pay and allowance of the Military Secretary and aids-de-camp, shall be the same as those of officers of cavalry of like grade; and the salaries of the clerks shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum for each. Such offices, office furniture, fuel and stationery, shall be provided for the said General as the duties of his office may render necessary, to be paid for out of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the War Department.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the compensation of each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress shall be twenty-seven hundred and sixty dollars for each year, and mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile for each session, to be paid in manner following, to wit: On the first day of the first session of each Congress, or as soon thereafter as he may be in attendance and apply, each Senator, Representative and Delegate shall receive his mileage and all his compensation, from the beginning of his term, to be computed at the rate of two hundred and thirty dollars per month; and during the session, compensation at the same rate. And on the first day of the second or any subsequent session, he shall receive his mileage aforesaid and all compensation which has accrued during the adjournment at the rate aforesaid; and during said session compensation at the same rate: Provided, no member shall receive mileage for more than two sessions of any Congress, unless more than twenty days shall elapse between the adjournment of one session and the beginning of another.

SEC. 2. That the President of the Senate pro tempore, when there shall be no Vice-President, or the Vice-President shall have become the President of the Confederate States, shall receive the compensation allowed by law for the Vice-President; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive double the compensation above provided for Representatives, payable at the times and in the manner above provided for payment of the compensation of Representatives.

SEC. 3. That this law shall apply to the present Congress; and each Senator, Representative and Delegate shall be entitled to receive the difference only between their per diem compensation, already received under the law now in force, and the compensation provided by this act.

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Committee on Pay and Mileage and the Secretary of the Senate, respectively, to deduct from the monthly payment of members, as herein provided for, the amount of his compensation for each day that such member shall be absent, without leave, from the Senate or House respectively, unless such Senator, Representative or Delegate shall assign as the reason for such absence the sickness of himself or of some member of his family.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the compensation which shall be due by law to the members and officers of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States, shall be certified as follows, to-wit: That, which shall be due to the members and officers of the Senate shall be certified by the President thereof, and that which shall be due to the members and officers of the House shall be certified by the Speaker thereof, and the same shall be passed as public accounts and paid out of the public treasury.

SEC. 2. All certificates granted by the President and Speaker, as aforesaid, of the amount of compensation due as aforesaid, shall be deemed, and are hereby declared, to be conclusive upon all the departments and officers of the Government of the Confederate States.

SEC. 3. All moneys which have been or which may be hereafter appropriated for the contingent expenses of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, shall be paid at the Treasury from time to time, in such sums as the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House may approve, on the requisition and draft of the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, respectively, and shall be kept, disbursed and accounted for by them, respectively, according to law, who are hereby deemed and declared to be disbursing officers.

SEC. 4. The said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk shall each, within ten days after the passage of this act, enter into bond, with one or more sureties each, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars each, with condition for the faithful application and disbursement of such funds as may come into their hands, respectively, or may be drawn from the Treasury, under this or any other act; which bonds shall be deposited in the Treasurer's office, and it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk, hereafter chosen, to give bond as aforesaid, within ten days after his election and undertaking the duties thereof, and before he shall draw any draft or make any requisition as aforesaid.

SEC. 5. All payments on account of the compensation due by law to the members and officers of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, shall be by drafts drawn by the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, respectively, on the Treasurer, to be verified by the certificates of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House aforesaid.

SEC. 6. The disbursement of the contingent funds of the two Houses, hereby placed under the control of the said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk, respectively, shall, before payment, be approved by the Committee of Accounts in each of said Houses respectively.

SEC. 7. The said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk shall regularly submit estimates to their respective Committees on Accounts, and no disbursement of the contingent funds of either House shall be audited by said committees, except in accordance with such estimates.

SEC. 8. The said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk shall, as soon as practicable after the close of the present and each succeeding session, make up a tabular statement of all appropriations made during the session, and also a table or statement showing the names and compensation of the clerks and officers of each House, together with a detailed statement of the items of expenditure out of said contingent funds for the next immediately preceding session; in which statement the disbursements shall be arranged under the several heads of printing, stationery, and so on, until each and every head of expenditure has been specified and described, with the cost of every item; and which statement shall exhibit, also, the several sums drawn by the said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk, respectively, from the Treasury, and the balances, if any, remaining in their hands. Said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk shall cause said statements to be printed and a copy thereof sent to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, as soon as practicable.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That hereafter the Confederate Court for the Northern District of Georgia shall be held on the first Wednesday in the months of June and December in each year.

SEC. 2. That all laws conflicting with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That if any State which has agreed to assume the payment of her quota of the tax imposed by the act approved August 19th, 1861, entitled “An Act to authorise the issue of Treasury Notes, and to provide a war tax for their redemption,” shall not have been furnished with a correct collated list of the taxes assessed on the people of such State before the first day of April, 1862, the Secretary of the Treasury shall agree with the Governor of such State upon the probable amount of such assessment, and the State shall be entitled to pay the same, less ten per centum, in like manner, and with like effect, as if such payment had been made before the said first day of April; Provided, however, That when the corrected assessment is made out, such State shall pay to the Confederate Government or receive therefrom, as the case may be, the deficiency or excess of the correct amount due from her on the assessment, allowing to the State the deduction of ten per centum on the deficiency, if any.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That during the existing war the President may, as Commander-in-chief of the forces, appoint, at his discretion, for his personal staff; four aids-de-camp, in addition to the number now allowed by law, with the rank, pay and allowances of a colonel of cavalry.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President shall receive for his services during his term of office, an annual salary of twenty-five thousand dollars, payable quarterly in advance, to commence on the twenty-second day of February eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the time at which he entered upon the duties of his office.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That until a suitable Executive mansion shall be provided for the President, the rent of one suited to the purpose shall be paid by the Government.

The Congress of the Confederate Slates of America do enact, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Government from April first to November thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- two, and for the objects hereafter expressed:

Legislative.—For pay and mileage of Senators, seventy thousand dollars.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the act approved May 10th, 1861, entitled an act to amend an act to provide for the public defence, approved March 6th, 1861, be, and the same is hereby so amended as to apply also to companies received into service for duty as Heavy Artillery.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this act and of the act of May 10th, 1861, shall extend to all companies of Light and Heavy Artillery, which are now in, or may be hereafter received into the service, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith are hereby repealed.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the duty on Railroad iron sufficient to complete the road on the route from Selma in Alabama to Meridian in Mississippi, held in bond, or which may hereafter be imported, and procured for the purpose stated be, and the same is hereby remitted: Provided, such iron shall be imported or purchased and used solely for the purpose stated, within three months from the date of the passage of this act.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Superintendency of Indian Affairs, for all the Indian country annexed to the Confederate States, that lies west of Arkansas and Missouri, north of Texas, and east of Texas and New Mexico, is hereby continued, and shall be called the Arkansas and Red River Superintendency of Indian Affairs, and the Superintendent thereof shall reside at Fort Smith, or Van Buren, in the State of Arkansas, until otherwise ordered by the President; shall give bond to the Confederate States, with sufficient sureties, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned like those of the agents hereinafter prescribed, and shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and be allowed a clerk, at an annual compensation of one thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Arkansas and Red River Superintendency, shall, within his superintendency, exercise a general supervision and control over the official conduct and accounts of all officers and persons employed by the Government in the Indian Department, under such regulations as shall be adopted or established by the President of the Confederate States; and may suspend such officers and persons from their offices or employments, for reasons forthwith to be communicated to the Secretary of War.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following Indian Agents shall be continued or appointed by the President, each of whom shall give bond, with two or more sureties, to the Confederate States, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, if he disburses annually more than fifty thousand dollars; and in ten thousand dollars, if he disburses annually less than fifty thousand dollars and more than twenty thousand dollars; and in the sum of five thousand dollars, if he disburses annually less than twenty thousand dollars; conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office, and that he will faithfully disburse, pay out and apply all moneys placed in his hands as agent, and render true and just accounts, as provided by the regulations of the War Department, of the receipt and expenditure of all moneys and property of every description entrusted to him, or coming to his hands in his official capacity, and pay over all balances and deliver all property that may, at any time, remain in his hands, on the order or requisition of the War Department or Bureau of Indian Affairs; and each of such agents shall receive an annual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars; that is to say:

An Agent for the Osages, Senecas, Senecas and Shawnees and Quapaws, whose agency shall be known as the Osage Agency;

An Agent for the Cherokees, whose agency shall be known as the Cherokee Agency;

An Agent for the Creeks, whose agency shall be known as the Creek Agency;

An agent for the Seminoles, whose agency shall be known as the Seminole Agency;

An agent for the Choctaws and Chickasaws, whose agency shall be known as the Choctaw and Chickasaw Agency;

An agent for the Wichitas, Comanches, Kichais, Huecos, Cado-ha-da-chos, Ta-hua-ca-ros, Ton-ca-wes, An-a dagh-cos, Ai-o-nais, Kickapoos, Shawnees and Delawares, in the country leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws, whose agency, shall be known as the Wichita Reserve Agency.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President shall be, and he is hereby authorized, whenever he may deem it expedient, to discontinue any Indian Agency, or to transfer the same from the place of Nation designated by law, to such other place or Nation, as the public service may require.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every Indian Agent shall reside and keep his agency upon the reserve selected for an agency, within the country of the Nation, or one of the Nations for which he may be agent, and shall not depart from the limits of such country at any time, or for any length of time, without the permission of the Superintendent, or of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, granted for special and urgent reasons only, on penalty of immediate removal from office.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the limits of each agency shall be the country of the Nation, or Nations, for which it is established. And it shall be the duty of each agent, within the limits of his agency, to manage and superintend the intercourse with the Indians, agreeably to law; to obey all legal instructions given to him by the Secretary of War, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and to carry into effect such regulations as may be prescribed by the President.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the President may at any time require additional security, and, in larger amounts, from all persons charged or entrusted, under the laws of the Confederate States, with the transportation, disbursement application of money, goods or effects of any kind, on account of the Indian Department.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That one interpreter shall be allowed to each agency, except that for the Wichitas and other bands, who shall receive an annual compensation of four hundred dollars; and that for the Wichita Agency one may be allowed for each different language spoken, each of whom shall receive a compensation of four hundred dollars per annum; except those for the Comanches, and for the Wichitas, Hue-cos, and Ta-hua-ca-ros, each of whom shall receive a compensation of four hundred dollars per annum, or, in lieu of part of these, one interpreter may be employed for the Comanches, Wichitas, Hue-cos, Ta-hua-ca-ros, Cado-ho-da-chos, and An-a-dagh-cos, at a compensation of one thousand dollars per annum. These interpreters shall be selected by the Superintendent, on the recommendation of the respective agents, or upon his own knowledge of their competency and good character, and may be suspended by the agent, from pay and duty, the circumstances being by him reported to the Superintendent for final action. In the appointment of interpreters, preference shall be given to persons of Indian descent, and of the same nation, for which they are appointed, if such can be found, who are properly qualified for the execution of their duties.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That blacksmiths and wagon-makers shall, in like manner, be employed, wherever required by Treaty stipulations, and shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by treaties, or in the absence of such provision by treaty, an annual compensation of not more than seven hundred and fifty dollars; and if they furnish their shop and tools, an additional compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum: and their assistants shall be allowed an annual compensation of two hundred and forty dollars; and whenever other mechanics, teachers or physicians are required by Treaty stipulations to be provided, they shall be, in like manner employed, and the male teachers shall receive an annual compensation of not more than one thousand dollars, female teachers an annual compensation of not more than six hundred dollars; physicians an annual compensation of not more than one thousand dollars, and mechanics an annual compensation of not more than seven hundred and fifty dollars. Farmers and laborers, required by Treaty stipulations to be furnished, shall be employed by the Agents, subject to the approval of the Superintendent, unless the Superintendent himself sees fit to employ them, which he may do; and their compensation shall not, in any case, be greater for farmers than six hundred dollars per annum, and for laborers, than forty dollars per month.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the salaries and annual compensations provided by this act shall be in full of all emoluments or allowances whatever, except such fees as are hereinafter specially allowed to be received: Provided, however, That reasonable allowances and provisions may be made for office rent and office contingencies; and that when the Superintendent or Agent is required, in the performance of the duties prescribed by this act, to travel from one place to another, he shall be allowed the same expenses of travel, or mileage and transportation, as may be allowed to officers of the army, and such additional allowance for transportation and expenses of traveling in the Indian country as the Secretary may be satisfied is just; but provided, also, that no allowance shall be made to any such officer for travel or expenses, in going to the Seat of Government to settle his accounts, or returning therefrom, unless ordered thither for that purpose, by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or Secretary of War.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That no person shall hold more than one office under this act at one and the same time; nor shall any Agent or Interpreter receive any salary or compensation, while absent the Agency, without leave of the Superintendent or Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and if an Interpreter be absent, without leave of the Superintendent or Commissioner, for more than sixty days, at any one time, it shall be sufficient cause of his removal from office.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That no Superintendent, Agent or Interpreter, shall have any interest or concern in any mercantile establishment in the Indian country or in any trade carried on with the Indians, under the penalty of immediate removal from office, and perpetual disqualification to hold any office under the Indian Bureau; and neither of them shall be concerned or interested in any claim on behalf of the Indians against the Confederate States, of any kind whatever, nor receive any compensation fee or gratuity whatever from the Indians, in any shape, manner or form, for any services in the presentation or recovery of any such claim, or the collection of any moneys from the Government, for individual Indians, or for the Nation; and any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor in office, corruption and extortion, shall be forthwith removed, and, upon conviction thereof by indictment, shall be punished by fine of not less than five hundred, nor more than five thousand dollars, and imprisonment not less than six months nor more than five years, and be condemned to make restitution of the whole amount of the compensation, fee or gratuity, so received, with interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum from the time when he received the same; and shall also be forever disqualified to hold any office, civil or military, under the Confederate States.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That payment of all annuities, and other sums of money, stipulated by treaty or directed by law, to be paid to the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, shall be made to the Treasurer of each Nation, or to such other person or persons, as the legislative power of each may direct; and the moneys so received shall be disposed of by the authorities of the Nation, without any interference on the part of any Department, Bureau or office of the Government of the Confederate States. Payments of all sums of money to be made to the Seminole Nation, and to any other tribes or bands of Indians in the said superintendency, shall be made to the Treasurer, Chief, or per capita, as the treaties may provide, or, in the absence of treaty provisions, as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall, in each case, direct.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That all payments of moneys to any of said nations, tribes or bands, shall be made by such persons as the President shall designate for that purpose; and that he may, at his discretion, entrust military officers with such payments; in which case the duty shall be performed by them, without other compensation than the ordinary allowances for travel and transportation.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That if any Agent of the Confederate States for any nation, tribe or band of Indians, shall convert to his own use, or improperly withhold from any of the Indians under his charge, any article, or any part or quantity of any article of provisions, clothing, merchandize, or other thing whatever, placed in his hands by the Government of the Confederate States, for distribution or delivery to such Indians, or any moneys, to any amount whatever, placed in his hands to be paid to them, or to be expended for their benefit, whether by the United States heretofore, or by the Confederate States heretofore or hereafter, or shall employ in his own private service and affairs any person employed by the Government to labor for or assist the Indians, or shall receive from any contractor any share of profits, per centage, compensation, or gratuity whatever, every such agent, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof in the proper court, shall be fined not less than five hundred, nor more than fifty thousand dollars, sentenced to make full restitution to the Confederate States, and be imprisoned, at hard labor, not less than two, nor more than ten years.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That no exchange of funds shall be made by any superintendent or agent, or, by any other disbursing officer or agent of the Government, of any grade or denomination, whatsoever, employed in, or connected with the Indian service, other than an exchange for gold and silver, or Treasury notes; and every such disbursing officer, when the means for his disbursements are furnished him in gold and silver, shall make his payments in the identical moneys so furnished, or when those means are furnished to him in Treasury warrants or drafts, shall either cause such warrants or drafts to be presented at their place of payment, and properly paid, according to law, and shall make his payments in the identical moneys so received for the drafts furnished; unless, in either case, he can exchange the means in his hands, for the gold and silver, or other kind of funds, in which they are payable, at or for more than par; and any officer, in any way, violating the provisions of this section, shall be forthwith removed from office, and upon conviction thereof, upon indictment in the proper District Court, shall be punished by fine of not less than one thousand, nor more than ten thousand dollars, be imprisoned, not less than six months, nor more than two years, and be thereafter incapable of holding any office of trust or profit, under the Confederate States.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That no superintendent, agent, or other officer mentioned in the sixteenth section of this act, shall either directly or or indirectly sell or dispose of, to any person or persons, firm or corporation whatsoever, any Treasury note, draft, warrant, or other public security in his hands, as such officer, and not his private property, at par, where he can obtain a premium on the same, or for any less than the current premium, at the time and place; nor shall sell or dispose of any specie funds, with or without a premium, for any other funds; nor shall loan any of the funds in his hands to any person whatever, nor sell the same, or any draft, warrant, or other security, to any person whatever, upon time, or to receive the proceeds at a future day, however near; and if any such officer shall, in any way, violate the preceding provisions of this section, or shall receive, directly or indirectly, any premium whatever, upon the sale or disposition, or exchange, of any funds, specie, warrant, draft or security, by way of exchange, or otherwise, and shall not make true return of such premium so received, and account for the same, by charging it in his accounts to the credit of the Confederate States, he shall be forthwith dismissed from office; and shall, in addition, upon conviction upon indictment in the proper district court, be punished and become incapable, in the same manner as is provided in the sixteenth section of this act: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to allow disbursing officers to make payment in any other funds than specie or Treasury notes.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the President shall be, and he is hereby, authorised to cause such rations as he shall judge proper, and as can be spared from the army provisions, without injury to the service, to be issued under such regulations as he shall see fit to establish; or beef and flour, in lieu thereof, to be purchased and issued by the officers commanding military posts, to Indians who may visit such posts, and by agents to those who may visit their agencies, and to councils called by authority of the Confederate States; and special accounts of these issues shall be kept and rendered, and the Secretary of War may authorise the agents for the Creeks, Seminoles, Osages, and Reserve Indians to expend a sum not larger than three hundred dollars per annum, in furnishing provisions to Indians attending councils and payments of annuities: Provided, That no money shall be expended for this purpose which has not been previously appropriated by law.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That all persons whatsoever, charged or entrusted with the disbursement or application of money, goods or effects of any kind, for the benefit of the Indians, shall settle their accounts annually at the War Department, on the first day of October; and copies of same shall be laid annually before Congress, at the commencement of the ensuing session, by the proper accounting officers, together with the list of the names of all persons to whom money, goods or effects had been delivered within the year, for the benefit of Indians, specifying the amount of each, and the object for which each sum or quantity was intended, and showing who are delinquents, if any, in forwarding their accounts, according to the provisions of this act; and also a list of the names of all persons appointed or employed under this act, with the date of appointment or employment of each, and the salary or pay of each.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That no person, other than a member of the particular tribe or nation under treaty stipulations, or a member of another Indian nation or tribe, permitted to trade by the authorities of the nation or tribe, within whose limits he so trades, shall be permitted to trade with the Indians, in the Indian country aforesaid, without a license therefor from the agent for the nation or tribes in whose country the trade is to be carried on; and which license, in the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw countries, must be granted by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature or General Council of such nation: Provided, That no license shall be necessary to authorise the selling from wagons, or otherwise, flour, bacon, fruits, and other provisions, brought from the Confederate States, or wagons, agricultural implements, domestic animals or arms brought from any of the same. Each license shall be issued for a term not exceeding three years; and all licenses granted before the passage of this act may be renewed by the agents, in their discretion, without the advice or consent of the legislature or council, to continue until the expiration of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the person or persons obtaining a license, must give bond in a penal sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, with one or more sureties, approved and certified to be sufficient, by the agent to whom the application is made, conditioned that such person or persons will faithfully observe and obey all laws and regulations for the government of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, adopted or enacted by the Confederate States, or any department thereof, and will, in no respect, violate the same. And the Superintendent of Indian Affairs shall have power to revoke and cancel any license whenever he shall be satisfied that the person licensed has violated any of the said laws or regulations, or that, for any other good reason, it would be improper to permit him to remain in the Indian country.

SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That any person, other than a member of the nation or tribe, under treaty stipulations, or a member of another Indian nation or tribe, permitted to trade by the authorities of the nation or tribe within whose limits he so trades, who shall attempt to reside in any part of the Indian country as a trader, or to introduce goods, or to trade therein, without a license duly obtained, shall forfeit all merchandise offered for sale to the Indians, or found in his possession, and shall, moreover, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the Confederate States, or adjudged on conviction and forfeiture of the goods, one-half thereof to be paid to the informer, and the other half to the nation or tribe in whose country the offence is committed, to which nation or tribe also all the goods forfeited, and all wines and liquors confiscated, shall be given and belong.

SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That no license to trade with Indians shall be granted to any person or persons other than a citizen or citizens of the Confederate States.

SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That any agent may refuse an application for a license to trade, if he is satisfied that the applicant is a person of bad character, or that it would be improper to permit him to remain in the Indian country; or if a license previously granted to him has been revoked, or a forfeiture decreed of any bond previously given by him: Provided, That any person, whose application is thus denied, may appeal to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, whose decision shall be final.

SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That if any licensed trader shall purchase of an Indian any gun, or any instrument of husbandry, or blanket, cooking utensil, or other article, furnished the Indians by the Confederate States, his license shall be immediately revoked, and he shall forfeit and pay, for the use of such Indians, to the Confederate States, the sum of fifty dollars for every article so purchased.

SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That no person, not being a member of the nation or tribe, or otherwise authorised by law or treaty, shall drive or otherwise convey, or cause, or permit to be otherwise conveyed, any horses, mules, or cattle, to range and graze in any part of the Indian country, without the consent of the authorities of the nation or tribe previously obtained, under the penalty of one dollar a head for each animal so pastured, which may be collected by the authorities of the nation, and payment enforced, if necessary, by the seizure of the cattle: Provided, That movers, and other persons driving stock through the country, may halt from place to place, for such reasonable length of time as will be sufficient to recruit their stock, but no longer, doing the same in good faith.

SEC. 27. And be it further enacted, That the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and each agent within his agency, shall have authority, and it shall be the duty of each, to remove from the Indian country all persons found therein contrary to law or treaty; and all other persons, not Indians, and not by birth and blood members of the particular nation, whose presence is, in his opinion, dangerous or mischievous; and shall have power to call upon the officer commanding any military post to aid him in so doing, and enforce his orders in that behalf: Provided, That the person so removed by an agent may appeal to the Superintendent, whose decision thereon shall be final.

SEC. 28. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of law invalidating any purchase of lands from an Indian nation or tribe, shall no longer be in force, in respect to the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, each of which may, under special or general laws passed for that purpose, sell parcels of their lands, or convey parcels of the same by legislative grants, in fee simple, to individual purchasers or grantees; and such sales or grants shall be valid in law and equity, in the absence of fraud, and shall only be impeached in the same manner; as if they had been made by a State.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall be the duty of the heads of the several departments to communicate to the Secretary of the Treasury the estimates of their respective departments thirty days prior to the assembling of Congress; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit said estimates, together with the estimates for his own department, to the President, ten days prior to the opening of the session of Congress.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the several heads of departments, in case of estimates made during the session of Congress, to furnish the Secretary of the Treasury duplicates thereof, who shall report thereon to Congress the ways and means to provide for the same.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorised to issue to the State of Missouri the sum of one million of dollars, authorised by an act entitled an act for the relief of the State of Missouri, approved the 27th January, 1862, upon the authorised agent or agents of said State, first filing with said Secretary the sum of four hundred and ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars, in bonds of said State of Missouri, as provided in said act, and executing a receipt for the remainder of such advance conditioned for the filing of the remainder of said amount in bonds of the State of Missouri, whenever the same can be conveniently done: Provided, Such remainder in bonds shall be filed with said Secretary within six months after the passage of this act.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorised to organise companies, battalions or regiments of troops, to be armed with pikes, or other available arms, to be approved by him, when a sufficient number of arms of the kind now used in the service cannot be procured; such companies, battalions or regiments to be organised in the same manner as like organizations of infantry now are under existing laws.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the President may cause the troops armed and organised as herein provided, to serve as similar organizations of infantry now do, or to attach troops so armed to other regiments in the service, in numbers not exceeding two companies of troops so armed to each regiment. And the colonel of the regiment to which such companies may be attached, shall have power to detail men from such companies to take the place of men in the companies armed with fire-arms, whenever vacancies may occur from death, or discharge, or in cases of absence, from sickness, furlough, or any other cause: the true intent and meaning of this provision being to render every fire-arm in the army available at all times, by having it always in the hands of a well and effective man.

SEC. 3. Immediately after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to furnish a copy of the same to every General in the service.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this act, enlistments in the marine corps shall be for the term of the existing war, or for the period of three years, as the recruit may elect at the time of enlistment.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That every able-bodied man who may enlist and be received into the marine corps, shall be entitled to a bounty of fifty dollars, to be paid at the time of joining the corps, and every non-commissioned officer, musician and private, now in the marine corps, who may have enlisted for three years, shall be entitled to receive the sum of forty dollars, as an equivalent to bounty.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the official acts of J. C. Ramsey, late District Attorney, and of Jesse B. Clements, late Marshal of the District of Tennessee, and of the Deputies of said Marshal, from the time their respective offices were vacated, by the passage of the act of the Provisional Congress, approved on the twelfth day of December, 1861, by which said District of Tennessee was divided into three several districts, without any provision for continuing said officers in office, be, and the same are hereby, made legal and valid to the same extent and in the same manner, as if they had been continued in office up to the passage of this act; and they are hereby exonerated from any penalty, forfeiture or liability to the public or any private person by reason of any official act committed by them, to the same extent and in the same manner, as if they had been legally in office at the time of committing the same. And said officers are hereby authorised to collect and receive the same fees and emoluments as if they had been rightfully in office.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Marshal and his Deputies may continue to act until the successors of said Marshal are qualified.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay a part of the salaries of the several district collectors of the War tax, authorized by the act entitled “An Act to authorize the issue of Treasury notes and to provide a war tax for their redemption,” approved August 19th, 1861, in those States which have assumed the payment of said tax: Provided, That in no case shall the amount so paid to each Collector exceed the sum of one hundred dollars: And Provided, further, The Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said collectors gave bond and rendered services as required by said act, previous to the assumption of said tax by the respective States, equal in value to the sum to be paid.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That for the purpose of procuring a supply of nitre, adequate to the wants of the Government, during the continuance of the war with the United States, the President be, and he is hereby, authorised to appoint a corps of officers, consisting of one superintendent, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a major of artillery, four assistants, with the rank, pay and allowances of captain of artillery, eight subordinates, with the rank, pay and allowances of first lieutenants of artillery.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorised to issue, in addition to the amounts heretofore authorised to be issued by an act entitled “An Act to authorise the issue of Treasury notes and to provide a War Tax for their redemption,” approved August 19th, 1861, and by the further supplemental act to the above cited act, approved December 19th, 1861, from time to time, as the public necessities may require, Treasury notes, certificates of stock and bonds, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and fifteen millions of dollars, of which fifty millions shall be in Treasury notes, to be issued without reserve; ten millions in Treasury notes to be used as a reserve fund, and to be issued to pay any sudden or unexpected call for deposits; and one hundred and sixty-five millions certificates of stock or bonds: the said Treasury notes, certificates of stock and bonds to be issued under the same forms, conditions and restrictions as are provided by the above cited acts, in every respect and particular: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, if he shall deem the same advisable, effect a loan, at home or abroad, in specie funds or bills of exchange or Treasury notes, by a sale of the said bonds or stock upon such terms as may be found practicable: And Provided, further, That all bonds issued under this section shall be made redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after the expiration of ten years from their respective dates, but the faith of the Government shall be pledged to redeem the same at the expiration of thirty years from such dates.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury may issue in exchange for any of the Treasury notes which may be issued under this or any other law, bonds or certificates, payable in not more than ten years, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, to the extent of fifty millions of dollars, which fifty millions shall constitute part of the one hundred and sixty-five millions of stock and bonds above authorised; the said bonds or certificates to be reconvertible, at the pleasure of the holder, into Treasury notes, and the said exchange and re-exchange to be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary is hereby authorized to make and constitute such additional depositories of public moneys as in his judgment the public exigencies may require, which said depositories shall give bond and be subject in all respects to the same laws and regulations, and be entitled to the same compensation as the depositories now authorized by law.

SEC. 2. The offices of the said additional depositories, appointed under this act, shall cease and determine at the expiration of one year after the termination of the existing war with the United States, unless otherwise ordered by Congress.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That whenever colored persons are employed as musicians in any Regiment or Company, they shall be entitled to the same pay now allowed by law to musicians regularly enlisted: Provided, That no such persons shall be so employed except by the consent of the commanding officer of the Brigade to which said Regiments or Companies may belong.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That during the recess of Congress, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives are authorized to draw their drafts or orders on the Treasurer for their rateable monthly pay; and at the commencement of each session of Congress, the Treasurer shall report to each House the amount drawn by their respective members, during the preceding recess: Provided that the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, shall be entitled to draw their pay at the rate fixed by law up to the period of adjournment of each session.

In view of the exigencies of the country, and the absolute necessity of keeping in the service our gallant army, and of placing in the field a large additional force to meet the advancing columns of the enemy now invading our soil: Therefore

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby authorized to call out and place in the military service of the Confederate States, for three years, unless the war shall have been sooner ended, all white men who are residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years at the time the call or calls may be made, who are not legally exempted from military service. All of the persons aforesaid who are now in the armies of the Confederacy, and whose term of service will expire before the end of the war, shall be continued in the service for three years from the date of their original enlistment, unless the war shall have been sooner ended: Provided, however, That all such companies, squadrons, battalions, and regiments, whose term of original enlistment was for twelve months, shall have the right, within forty days, on a day to be fixed by the Commander of the Brigade, to re-organize said companies, battalions, and regiments, by electing all their officers, which they had a right heretofore to elect, who shall be commissioned by the President: Provided further, That furloughs not exceeding sixty days, with transportation home and back, shall be granted to all those retained in the service by the provisions of this Act beyond the period of their original enlistment, and who have not heretofore received furloughs under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and non-commissioned officers in the Provisional Army,” approved eleventh December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said furloughs to be granted at such times and in such numbers as the Secretary of War may deem most compatible with the public interest: and Provided, further, That in lieu of a furlough the commutation value in money of the transportation herein above granted, shall be paid to each private, musician, or non-commissioned officer who may elect to receive it, at such time as the furlough would otherwise be granted: Provided further, That all persons under the age of eighteen years or over the age of thirty-five years, who are now enrolled in the military service of the Confederate States, in the regiments, squadrons, battalions, and companies hereafter to be re-organized, shall be required to remain in their respective companies, squadrons, battalions and regiments for ninety days, unless their places can be sooner supplied by other recruits not now in the service, who are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years; and all laws and parts of laws providing for the re-enlistment of volunteers and the organization thereof into companies, squadron, battalions, or regiments, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That such companies, squadrons, battalions, or regiments organized, or in process of organization by authority from the Secretary of War, as may be within thirty days from the passage of this Act, so far completed as to have the whole number of men requisite for organization actually enrolled, not embracing in said organization any persons now in service, shall be mustered into the service of the Confederate States as part of the land forces of the same, to be received in that arm of the service in which they are authorized to organize, and shall elect their company, battalion, and regimental officers.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That for the enrollment of all persons comprehended within the provisions of this Act, who are not already in service in the armies of the Confederate States, it shall be lawful for the President, with the consent of the Governors of the respective States, to employ State officers, and on failure to obtain such consent, he shall employ Confederate officers, charged with the duty of making such enrollment in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by him.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That persons enrolled under the provisions of the preceding Section, shall be assigned by the Secretary of War, to the different companies now in the service, until each company is filled to its maximum number, and the persons so enrolled shall be assigned to companies from the States from which they respectively come.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all Seamen and ordinary Seamen in the land forces of the Confederate States, enrolled under the provisions of this Act, may, on application of the Secretary of the Navy, be transferred from the land forces to the Naval service.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That in all cases where a State may not have in the army a number of Regiments, Battalions, Squadrons or Companies, sufficient to absorb the number of persons subject to military service under this Act, belonging to such State, then the residue or excess thereof, shall be kept as a reserve, under such regulations as may be established by the Secretary of War, and that at stated periods of not greater than three months, details, determined by lot, shall be made from said reserve, so that each company shall, as nearly as practicable, be kept full: Provided, That the persons held in reserve may remain at home until called into service by the President: Provided, also, That during their stay at home, they shall not receive pay: Provided, further, That the persons comprehended in this Act, shall not be subject to the Rules and Articles of War, until mustered into the actual service of the Confederate States; except that said persons, when enrolled and liable to duty, if they shall wilfully refuse to obey said call, each of them shall be held to be a deserter, and punished as such, under said Articles: Provided, further, That whenever, in the opinion of the President, the exigencies of the public service may require it, he shall be authorized to call into actual service the entire reserve, or so much as may be necessary, not previously assigned to different companies in service under provision of section four of this Act; said reserve shall be organized under such rules as the Secretary of War may adopt: Provided, The company, battalion and regimental officers shall be elected by the troops composing the same: Provided, The troops raised in any one State shall not be combined in regimental, battalion, squadron or company organization with troops raised in any other States.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That all soldiers now serving in the army or mustered in the military service of the Confederate States, or enrolled in said service under the authorizations heretofore issued by the Secretary of War, and who are continued in the service by virtue of this Act, who have not received the bounty of fifty dollars allowed by existing laws, shall be entitled to receive said bounty.

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That each man who may hereafter be mustered into service, and who shall arm himself with a musket, shot-gun, rifle or carbine, accepted as an efficient weapon, shall be paid the value thereof, to be ascertained by the mustering officer under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, if he is willing to sell the same, and if he is not, then he shall be entitled to receive one dollar a month for the use of said received and approved musket, rifle, shot-gun or carbine.

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That persons not liable for duty may be received as substitutes for those who are, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.

WHEREAS, The issue and deposit of Treasury notes at the offices connected with the Treasury involve an increase of labor and responsibility: [Therefore]—

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ such additional Tellers and Book-keepers as are required at the offices of the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers for the additional duties required in the receipt and disbursement of Treasury notes: Provided the compensation to be allowed shall not exceed the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, for each Teller or Clerk: and Provided also, that the number of Clerks to be employed shall not exceed seven: and, Provided, that no person shall be appointed in either of said offices who is under the age of forty years, and capable of active service in the army: and, Provided, further, that a preference shall, in all cases, be given, in making appointments, the qualifications being equal, to those who have been discharged from the military service of the country on account of wounds received, or disease contracted, in the line of duty.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars made for the incidental and contingent expenses of the Army and of the War Department, in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Government from April first to the thirteenth of November eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” approved April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be divided and applied, by the Secretary of War, to the incidental and contingent expenses of the War Department and to those of the Army, in such proportions, as, in his opinion, the exigencies of the public service may require.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That any person or persons who may propose to establish within the limits of the Confederate States a manufactory or manufactories of Saltpetre and of Small Arms adapted to the use of the army, shall be entitled to receive from the Government an advance of fifty per cent. of the amount required for the erection and preparation of the works and machinery necessary to such manufactory or manufactories, to be repaid without interest in the product of such manufactory or manufactories, at a price to be agreed upon before such advance shall be made, all subject to the following conditions, to wit:—First, That the contractor or contractors shall submit to the President a plan of the proposed works, showing their location, nature and extent, together with a sworn estimate of their probable cost, and a detailed account under oath of the amount already expended on the same, which amount shall be at least twenty-five per cent. of the entire estimated cost of such work. Second, That the amount so advanced shall be paid in instalments as the works shall progress towards completion. Third, That the proposed enterprise and works shall be approved by the President. Fourth, That the contractor or contractors shall enter into bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the President, in the penalty of double the amount proposed to be advanced, and conditioned that the principal obligor or obligors shall well and truly, by a certain time, (which may be extended by the President if he thinks proper,) named in the bond, proceed to erect, complete and put into effective operation the manufactory or manufactories proposed; that he or they will expend the sum named for these purposes; that he or they will appropriate the money advanced by the Government to such purpose and to no other use or purpose, and, as far as practicable, keep the property insured; and that he or they will repay the same from the merchantable articles manufactured, to be delivered at such times and in such quantities as may be agreed upon, the same, in all cases, to be inspected by a government officer before it is received, until he or they shall fully repay to the Confederate States, in the article and at the price stipulated for the sum advanced; that the contractor or contractors shall subscribe a written oath, endorsed upon the back of said bond; which may be administered by any one authorized to administer an oath, that said advance is asked for the purposes specified in this Act, and no other, and that he or they will so apply said funds, which may thus be advanced; and a willful and corrupt violation of this oath shall be deemed perjury, and punishable by imprisonment for not less than three nor more than ten years.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply to cases of enlargement or manufactories of Saltpetre and of Small Arms, now established of being established within the Confederate States, but the advances made in such cases, shall only be fifty per cent. upon the amount proposed to be invested in the enlargement of such manufactory or manufactories: and no now existing investment in such manufactory or manufactories shall be computed or taken into account in determining such fifty per cent.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That in addition to the Treasury Notes, authorized to be issued under previous acts, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to prepare and put in circulation, by such means as he may deem proper to adopt, five millions of dollars of Treasury Notes of the Confederate States, of the denomination of one dollar and two dollars. Said notes shall be issued in such proportions of each, to the aggregate sum herein authorized as the said Secretary may determine, payable to bearer, six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace, between the Confederate States and the United States. Said notes shall be receivable in payment of all public dues, including postage, except the export duty on cotton.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary is hereby authorized to have said notes printed as he may deem most practicable and advisable in effecting a speedy issue and circulation of said notes.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue Treasury notes payable in six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace, between the Confederate States and the United States, of a denomination not less than one hundred dollars, bearing interest at the rate of two cents per day for each hundred dollars; the said notes when issued to be a substitute for so much of the one hundred and sixty-five millions of bonds authorized by the act of Congress, passed at the present session; and said notes shall be receivable in payment of all public dues except the export duty on cotton.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said Secretary shall make report to Congress of the amount of each denomination of notes, herein required to be issued, which he may put in circulation.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the twenty-first and twenty- third sections of “An act to authorize the issue of Treasury Notes, and to provide a War Tax for their redemption” be, and the same are hereby declared to apply to the Treasury Notes herein authorized, as fully, in all respects, as if the same constituted a part, of this act.

WHEREAS, The Confederate States the engaged in actual war, and the President has recommended, for military reasons, the construction, of the railroad from New Iberia, in the State of Louisiana, and Houston, in the State of Texas, and the Commanding General at New Orleans has declared it to be at the present moment a great military necessity: [Therefore—]

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is he is hereby authorized and empowered to aid or contract with the New Orleans and Texas Railroad Company, and the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, upon such terms and conditions as he may think proper, to insure the prompt completion and connection of said roads, in the manner he may think best calculated to promote the public interest.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That to enable the President to accomplish the object herein contemplated, the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars in the bonds of the Confederate States, is hereby appropriated to be issued and applied by the order of the President at such times and in such sums as he may deem proper, and that the President be directed to take a mortgage on said road and its appurtenances for the ultimate repayment of the money so expended in aid of its erection.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That so much of the existing enactments of the Confederate States, as relates to the conveyance or transportation of letters or packages of letters or of mailable matter of any kind by express or other companies of any kind, their agents or employees, be and the same are hereby repealed, and the laws of the United States adopted by an act of the Provisional Congress entitled “An Act to continue in force certain laws of the United States of America,” on the ninth day of February, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-one, relating to the conveyance or transportation of letters, packets, or packages of letters or other mailable matter by express or other companies, their agents or employees, be and the same are hereby declared to be in full force: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to declare that any portion of said laws of the United States, adopted as aforesaid, not inconsistent with the acts of the said Provisional Government was by said last named acts in any wise abrogated or repealed: Provided, further, That frauds upon the revenue of the Post Office Department and offences against and violations of the laws hereby repealed may be proceeded against and punished under the laws existing at the time of the commission of such fraud, offence or violation, and this act shall not be construed to have a retroactive operation so as to repeal or abrogate any law as to such frauds, offences or violations heretofore committed, but shall have a prospective operation only: Provided, also, That this act shall take effect from and after the first of June, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all laws now in force prescribing the fees of Marshals of the Confederate States be, and the same are hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof the said Marshals shall be allowed to have and charge the fees following, to wit:

For service of any warrant, attachment, summons, capias or other writ (except execution, venire or summons, or subpœna for a witness,) two dollars for each person on whom such service may be made:

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the year ending November thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two:

Treasury Department.—For additional clerks to be employed in the offices of the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurers and Depositaries of the Confederate States, five thousand six hundred dollars.

Miscellaneous.—For the interest on the public debt, nine millions of dollars. For paper, plates and printing an additional amount of bonds and large Treasury notes, one hundred thousand dollars. For eight additional clerks required for issue of bonds and coupons, four thousand dollars. For paper, plates and printing of Treasury notes of the denominations of one and two dollars, seventy-five thousand dollars. For twelve additional clerks to sign small Treasury notes, six thousand dollars.

War Department.—For the purchase of pig and rolled iron, one million of dollars. For casting cannon, shot and shells, five hundred thousand dollars. For manufacturing small arms of all kinds, two millions of dollars. For purchase and manufacture of nitre and all expenses incidental to exploring and working caves, &c., one million of dollars.

Navy Department.—To make advances on contracts for the manufacture and production of iron, one million of dollars. For the purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury of exchange for the use of the Navy Department, in purchasing iron clad vessels, one million four hundred thousand dollars.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and is hereby authorized by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ten officers in the Provisional Army, of a grade not exceeding that of Captains, and with the pay of corresponding grades of Infantry, who shall perform the duties of Signal Officers of the Army. And the President is hereby authorized to appoint ten Sergeants of Infantry, in the Provisional Army, and to assign them to duty as Signal Sergeants. The Signal Corps above authorized may be organized as a separate corps, or may be attached to the Department of the Adjutant and Inspector General, or to the Engineer Corps, as the Secretary of War shall direct.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to encourage the manufacture of Saltpetre and of Small Arms,” shall also apply to all establishments or mines for the production of coal and for the production and manufacture of iron, and that in addition to the advance of fifty per cent. therein mentioned, the President be and he is, hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the purchase of coal and iron, in such quantities as may probably be required for a series of years, not exceeding six, and to make advances thereon not exceeding one-third of the amount of such contract.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the number of Ordnance Sergeants authorized by section six of “An Act to increase the Military Establishment of the Confederate States,” &c., approved May 16th, 1861, be so increased as to provide one for each regiment of the troops now or hereafter received in the service.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the first day of July next, there shall be charged the following rates of postage, to wit: For every single letter sealed, and for every letter in manuscript or paper of any kind, upon which information shall be asked for, or communicated in writing, or by marks or signs, convened in the mails for any distance within the Confederate States of America, ten cents; and every letter or parcel not exceeding half an ounce in weight, shall be deemed a single letter, and every additional half ounce, or additional weight of less than half an ounce, shall be charged with an additional single postage.

The Congress of the Confederate Slates of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint Drill Masters for Camps of Instruction or reserve forces in any arm of the military service, with such pay as the Secretary of War may prescribe.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall be the duty of the Second Auditor, after examining the accounts for the War Department, to certify the balances and transmit the account with the vouchers and certificates to the Comptroller for his decision thereon, and when finally adjusted, said accounts, vouchers and certificates shall be filed with the Register, as required by the act “to establish the Treasury Department,” approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the compensation due to the officers of the Senate shall be certified by the Secretary of the Senate, at such times as is provided by law, and the Sergeant at Arms shall draw upon the Treasury for the amounts thus certified, and the drafts shall be paid from the Treasury of the Confederate States when issued according to law.

SEC. 2. That the compensation due to the officers of the House of Representatives shall be certified to by the Clerk of said House, at such times as is provided by law; and the said Clerk shall draw upon the Treasury for the amounts thus certified, and the drafts shall be paid from the Treasury of the Confederate States, when issued according to law.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That every District Attorney, Clerk of a District Court and Marshal of the Confederate States shall, until otherwise directed by law, upon the first day of January and July in each year, commencing with the first day of July next or within thirty days from and after the days specified, make to the Attorney General, in such form as he shall prescribe, a return in writing embracing all the fees and emoluments of their respective offices of every name and character, distinguishing the fees and emoluments received or payable under the Sequestration Acts from those received or payable for any other service; and in the case of a Marshal further distinguishing the fees and emoluments received or payable for services by himself personally rendered from those received or payable for services rendered by a deputy; and also embracing all necessary office expenses of such officers, the necessary clerk hire included, to be verified by the oath of the officer making the same. And no District Attorney shall be allowed to retain of the fees and emoluments of his said office, for his own personal compensation, over and above his necessary office expenses, the necessary clerk hire included, to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding five thousand dollars per year, and at and after that rate for such time as he shall hold the office; and no Clerk of a District Court shall be allowed to retain of the fees and emoluments of his office for his own personal compensation, over and above the necessary expenses of his office, the necessary clerk hire included, to be audited and allowed by the proper officers of the Treasury a sum exceeding four thousand dollars per year, or at and after that rate for such time as he shall hold his office. And no Marshal shall be allowed to retain of the fees and emoluments of his office, for his own personal compensation over and above a proper allowance to his deputies, which shall in no case exceed three-fourths of the fees and emoluments received as payable for the services rendered by the deputy to whom this allowance is made, and over and above the necessary office expenses of such Marshal, necessary clerk hire included, also to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officer of the Treasury, a sum exceeding five thousand dollars per year, or at and after that rate for such time as he shall hold office; and every such officer shall with each such return made by him pay into the Treasury of the Confederate States, or deposit to the credit of the Treasurer thereof, any surplus of the fees and emoluments of his office, which his half-yearly return so made shall show to exist over and above the compensation and allowances herein authorized to be retained and paid by him.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President may, in his discretion, appoint and assign to the Naval Hospitals in the Confederate States, Chaplains, for service during the continuance of the existing war, who shall receive the same pay and emoluments as Chaplains in the Army.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That where any State has assumed, or shall assume, the payment of the tax imposed by the act entitled an act to authorize the issue of Treasury Notes, and to provide a War Tax for their redemption, approved the nineteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and any portion of such State shall be occupied by the enemy, so as to occasion the destruction of crops, or prevent the raising thereof, or to prevent the State from collecting taxes therein, the President may, under an agreement with the State authorities of such States, suspend the payment into the Treasury of such portions of the tax assumed by such State as may have been, or may be, assessed upon the property of the inhabitants of such districts so occupied by the enemy, until further provision be made by Congress.

SEC. 2. The suspension of all proceedings in relation to the collection of the War Tax in the States of Missouri and Kentucky, authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, is confirmed, and he is hereby directed to take no action thereon until further legislation by Congress.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all laws now in force prescribing the fees of Clerks of the Courts of said Confederate States be and the same are hereby repealed, and that in lieu thereof the said clerks shall be allowed to have and charge as follows, to wit:

For issuing and entering every process, commission, summons, subpœna in chancery, capias, notice or garnishee summons, under the Sequestration Act, warrant, attachment, or other writ, except a subpœna for a witness, one dollar: Provided, That for all summons of garnishment arising under the Sequestration Acts, the clerk shall be allowed only twenty-five cents.

For issuing a subpœna for a witness, or witnesses if more than one be named in the same subpœna, twenty-five cents.

For filing and entering every declaration, plea, or demurrer, whether written or not, or other written paper in any suit, for each, ten cents.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all officers and non-commissioned officers of the Virginia Militia, who have been called into the service of the Confederate States, by the order of any commanding officer of the Confederate States Army, authorized to make such call, or by the proclamation of the Governor of Virginia, in obedience to requisitions duly made upon him by the President, shall be allowed, under the direction of the Quartermaster General, compensation for the period of their actual service, according to the rate of pay and allowances, to which officers and non-commissioned officers of corresponding grades, in the Confederate States Army, are by law entitled.

SEC. 2. Before any officer of militia shall be entitled to receive pay under the provisions of the preceding section, he shall present to the proper officer to whom he may apply for payment, a certificate signed by the commandant of the brigade, regiment or battalion of militia to which he may have been attached, and approved by the Commanding General of the army, corps or department, with which such brigade, regiment or battalion was serving, which certificate shall state the precise period during which such officer was actually in service and performed duty according to his rank, not including in such period whatever time such officer was absent from duty with his command, unless absent on furlough, or detached or detailed service, by order of the Commanding officer. Non-commissioned officers shall be required to present like certificates, signed by the commanding officer of the regiment or battalion to which they belong, before being entitled to receive their pay.

SEC. 3. All staff officers of the Virginia militia duly appointed and qualified, according to the laws of Virginia, shall be entitled to receive the same pay and allowances as are provided by law for officers of corresponding grades in the Confederate States Army, upon a like certificate that they have actually been in service and performed the duties prescribed for their respective grades by the laws of Virginia, and the laws and army regulations of the Confederate States.

SEC. 4. No payments under this act shall be allowed for any period subsequent to the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, nor shall any junior Major of a regiment to which two Majors may be attached, nor any Paymaster or Surgeon's mate be deemed to be entitled to pay or allowances under the provisions of this act.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint eight additional clerks in the Bureau of the Quartermaster General, at the following rates of compensation, to wit: two at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum; two at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum; and four at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum: Provided, that no person now by law subject to military duty shall be appointed.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That section third of an act entitled “An Act to increase the corps of Artillery and for other purposes,” approved August 21st, 1861, be so amended as to authorize the President to increase the salaries of master armorers or any of them to a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That hereafter the pay of Chaplains in the army shall be eighty dollars per month, with rations as now provided by law.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall be unlawful for any person, either by himself or his agent, or in any manner whatever, to transport to any port or place in the Confederate States, which may be at the time in the possession of the enemy, or to sell therein, any cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice, molasses, syrup or naval stores.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Confederate States, except through the sea-ports of the said States, and to punish persons offending therein,” be and the same are hereby extended to any person or persons violating the foregoing section of this Act, and, in addition to such punishment, the party or parties offending shall forfeit and pay the Confederate States the value of the article sold or transported.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this act, the city of Augusta, Georgia, be, and the same is hereby made a port of delivery for goods imported into Charleston, South Carolina, upon the same terms and conditions, and in like manner, in every respect, as it has been heretofore and is now a port of delivery for goods imported into Savannah, Georgia: and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the true intent and meaning of this act.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That in case of removal from office, death or resignation both of the President and Vice President of the Confederate States, or of the inability of both to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the President of the Senate, pro tempore, and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being, shall act as President of the Confederate States, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected and inaugurated.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to exchange the bonds or stock of the Confederate States for any articles in kind, which may be required for the use of the Government, the said articles to be valued according to such regulations as the said Secretary shall make.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Commissary and Quartermaster Generals to direct their various officers to receive, at the place of purchase, all such articles purchased as are applicable to their several Departments, and to apply the same in the same manner as if purchased directly by themselves; and the officer to whom each article is delivered shall be charged with the value as declared by the purchase, and shall be bound to account for the same.

SEC. 3. The said Secretary is also authorized to accept for the use of the Government in exchange for the said bonds or stock, cotton, tobacco, and other agricultural products in kind, which have been subscribed to the Produce Loan, or which may be subscribed in kind at such rates as may be adjusted between the parties and the agents of the Government: Provided, That in no event shall he receive of cotton or tobacco, a greater value than thirty-five millions of dollars; and the said Secretary is further authorized to deposit the same at such places as he shall deem proper, and to procure advances thereon by hypothecation, or to ship the same abroad, or to sell the same at home or abroad, as he may deem best; and, to assist these operations, the said Secretary may issue Produce Certificates, which shall entitle the party to whom issued, or his endorsee, to receive the produce therein set forth, and to ship the same to any neutral port, in conformity with the laws of the Confederate States.

SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury may, from time to time, appoint and dismiss such agents as he may deem requisite to carry into effect the provisions of this act. Their compensation shall be a brokerage upon the business completed by them at such rates as the Secretary of the Treasury shall adjust by general regulation.

SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury may, from time to time, issue regulations for carrying out all the details involved in the provisions of this act, which shall be obligatory upon all parties concerned therein.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That any commissioned officer of the Regular or Provisional Army who shall be found drunk, either while on or off duty, shall, on conviction thereof before a court of inquiry, be cashiered or suspended from the service of the Confederate States, or be publicly reprimanded, according to the aggravation of the offence, and in addition to a sentence cashiering any such officer, he may also be declared incapable of holding any military office under the Confederate States during the war.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of all officers to report to the commanding officer of the post, regiment or corps to which they belong, all cases coming under their observation of intoxication of commissioned officers, whether of superior or inferior grades to themselves; and it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of the division or brigade to which said post, regiment or corps belongs, to whom such report may be made, to report the same to the officer commanding the brigade or division, who shall organize said court and order the trial of said offender at the earliest time consistent with the public service.

SEC. 3. The finding of any such court shall be promptly transmitted to the Secretary of War, by the commanding officer, together with his approval or disapproval thereof, and shall be reported to Congress at the next session thereafter, by the said Secretary.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to commission such officers as he may deem proper with authority to form bands of Partisan Rangers, in companies, battalions or regiments, either as infantry or cavalry, the companies, battalions or regiments to be composed each of such numbers as the President may approve.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That such Partisan Rangers, after being regularly received into service, shall be entitled to the same pay, rations and quarters during their term of service, and be subject to the same regulations as other soldiers.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That for any arms and munitions of war captured from the enemy by any body of Partisan Rangers and delivered to any Quartermaster at such place or places as may be designated by a Commanding General, the Rangers shall be paid their full value in such manner as the Secretary of War may prescribe.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That hereafter it shall be duty of the Captain or Commanding Officer of his company to enlist four Cooks for the use of his company, whose duty it shall be to cook for such company—taking charge of the supplies, utensils and other things furnished therefor, and safely keep the same, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the War Department or the Colonel of the Regiment to which such company may be attached:

[SEC. 2.] Be it further enacted, That the Cooks so directed to be enlisted, may be white or black, free or slave persons; Provided, however, That no slave shall be so enlisted, without the written consent of his owner. And such Cooks shall be enlisted as such only, and put on the muster-roll and paid at the time and place the company may or shall be paid off, twenty dollars per month to the Chief or Head Cook, and fifteen dollars per month for each of the Assistant Cooks, together with the same allowance for clothing, or the same commutation therefor that may be allowed to the rank and file of the company.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to appoint with the advice and consent of the Senate, an additional number of officers in the Engineer Corps of the Provisional Army, of a rank not higher than Captain: Provided, That the whole Corps shall not exceed one hundred.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That for the purpose of enlarging the number of officers of Artillery, and enabling them to discharge more effectually the duties of Ordnance officers, the President is hereby authorized to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, officers of Artillery, of the rank of Captain and First Lieutenant, in the Provisional Army, not exceeding eighty in number.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the first day of July next, the Deputy Post Masters of the Confederate States be allowed the following commissions and none other for their compensation, respectively, viz: On any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, fifty per cent., except such Deputy Post Masters as regularly receive the mail at their offices between the hours of nine o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning, who shall be entitled to sixty per cent., on the amount received as postage under one hundred dollars. On all sums over one hundred dollars received as postage, and not exceeding four hundred dollars, forty per cent. On all sums so received, over four hundred dollars, and not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, thirty per cent., and on all sums over twenty-four hundred dollars, ten per cent. Deputy Post Masters at distributing offices shall receive eight per cent. commission on the amount of postage on letters and packages received at such distributing offices, respectively, for distribution; which said several commissions shall be allowed quarterly and in due proportion for any period less than a quarter, but these commissions shall in no case exceed the maximum compensation now allowed by law.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That for the purpose of carrying into effect an act authorizing the exchange of Bonds for articles in kind, and the shipment, sale, or hypothecation of such articles, the sum of two millions of dollars is hereby appropriated.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall be lawful for vessels to unload their cargoes on any part of the coast of the Confederate States, and that the laws requiring entry of vessels or discharge of their cargoes at designated ports, and prescribing penalties for failure to do so, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of War may cause to be organized a battalion of sharp shooters for each brigade, consisting of not less than three nor more than six companies, to be composed of men selected from the brigade or otherwise, and armed with long range muskets or rifles, said companies to be organized, and the commissioned officers therefor appointed by the President, by and with the advice, and consent of the Senate. Such battalion shall constitute parts of the brigades to which they belong, and shall have such field and staff officers as are authorized by law for similar battalions, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of arming the said battalion, the long range muskets and rifles in the hands of the troops, may be taken for that purpose: Provided, the Government has not at its command a sufficient number of approved long range rifles or muskets, wherewith to arm said corps.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized, to accept the services of any companies, squadrons, battalions or regiments which have been organized and are now in service under the authority of any of the States of the Confederacy, and which may be tendered by the Governors of said States, with an organization conforming to the Act of March Sixth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, “to provide for the public defence.”

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons who shall be held to be unfit for military services under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War; all in the service or employ of the Confederate States; all judicial and executive officers of Confederate or State Governments; the members of both Houses of the Congress and of the Legislatures of the several States and their respective officers; all clerks of the officers of the State and Confederate Governments allowed by law; all engaged in carrying the mails; all ferrymen on post routes; all pilots and persons engaged in the marine service and in actual service on river and railroad routes of transportation; telegraphic operators, and ministers of religion in the regular discharge of ministerial duties; all engaged in working iron mines, furnaces and foundries; all journeymen printers actually employed in printing newspapers; all presidents and professors of colleges and academies, and all teachers having as many as twenty scholars; superintendents of the public hospitals, lunatic asylums and the regular nurses and attendants therein, and the teachers employed in the institution for the deaf and dumb, and blind; in each apothecary store now established and doing business, one apothecary in good standing who is a practical druggist; superintendents and operatives in wool and cotton factories, who may be exempted by the Secretary of War;—shall be and are hereby exempted from military service in the armies of the Confederate States.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all vacancies shall be filled by the President from the company, battalion, squadron or regiment in which such vacancies shall occur, by promotion, according to seniority, except in case of disability or other incompetency, and that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the lowest grade of commissioned officers of a company, such vacancies shall be filled by election: Provided, however, That the President may, when in his opinion it is proper, fill any vacancy by the promotion of any officer from any company, battalion, squadron or regiment in which the same may occur, who shall have been distinguished in service by the exhibition of extraordinary valor and skill; and that when any vacancy shall occur in the lowest grade of commissioned officers of any company, the same may be filled by selection by the President of any noncommissioned officer or private from the company in which said vacancy may occur, who shall have been distinguished in the service by the exhibition of extraordinary valor and skill; and that appointments made by the President shall be by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

WHEREAS, Mrs. Caroline Miller, wife of James H. Miller, a soldier now in the Confederate Army, is in very indigent circumstances; and whereas, her brother, one John A. Bridgeland, a resident of the State of Indiana, in the month of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, purchased a house and lot in the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, in the State of Virginia, known in the Plan of said town as Lot No. 81, declaring at the time of receiving a deed for the same in his own name, that he was buying the said property for the use and benefit of the said Caroline Miller and her children; and whereas, proceedings are now pending in the District Court of the Confederate States, in and for the Western District of Virginia, to subject the said house and lot to sequestration, by virtue of the act of the Provisional Congress of the said Confederate States, entitled “An Act for the sequestration of the estates, property and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same in the existing war with the United States,” approved August the 30th, 1861—Therefore,

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That whenever a judgement or decree of sequestration shall be rendered in the District Court for the Western District of Virginia, subjecting the above described house and lot, of the said John A. Bridgeland to sequestration, it shall be the duty of the receiver of the District in which said property is situated, instead of selling the same, to convey it to such person as shall be designated by the said Court, to be held in trust for the sole and separate use and benefit of the said Caroline Miller, during her life, and, after her death, for the children and their heirs, so as not to be liable to the debts or contracts of her husband, James H. Miller, which said conveyance shall have the effect of passing to the said trustee, for the use aforesaid, the title of the said John A. Bridgeland.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Caroline Miller is hereby discharged from all liability, under the Sequestration Act, for the rents and profits of the house and lot, now due, or hereafter accruing, and that she shall be permitted to remain in the use and occupation of the same until the conveyance shall be made for her benefit, according to the provisions of this act, any order, judgment or decree of the said District Court to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to pay to the legal representatives of Samuel M. Wilkes, late Adjutant of the Fourth South Carolina Regiment of Volunteers, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and fifty dollars arrearages due him from the sixth day of June to the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and also the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars for his horse which was killed in the battle of Manassas.