88 



CONGRESS, CONFEDERATE. 



an's Board of Missions, 117 ; receipts of the 

 American Congregational Union, 117 ; receipts 

 of the American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions, 117; cost of missions, 117; 

 summary of missions, 117; laborers employed, 

 117; number of churches, 117; educational 

 department, 117 ; work done, 117 ; colleges, 

 117; work of the Society at home, 117; in 

 foreign missions, 117; work among the In- 

 dians, 118; meeting of the Union of Ontario 

 and Quebec, 118 ; statistics, 118 ; annual meet- 

 ing of the Union of England and Wales, 118; 

 conference in London of Baptists and Con- 

 gregationalists, 118 ; meeting of the Union of 

 Scotland, 118 ; statistics of Congregational 

 churches in 1872, 118. 



XIII. Twentieth anniversary meeting of 

 the American Congregational Union, 133 ; 

 Treasurer's report, 133; statistics of the Amer- 

 ican Home Missionary Society, 134; of the 

 American Congregational Association, 134; 

 of the American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions, 134 ; of the American Mis- 

 sionary Association, 134 ; meetings of the Con- 

 gregational Union of England and Wales, 135 ; 

 resolutions against the advance of ritualism in 

 the national Church, 135 ; anniversary of the 

 London Missionary Society, 135; statistical 

 summary in the British Empire, 135 ; statis- 

 tics of the Congregational churches in North 

 America and the United States, 136 ; Congre- 

 gational Union of Ontario and Quebec, 136; 

 Australian colonies, 136. 



XIV. Meeting of the National Council, 144 ; 

 increase of churches, 144 ; Brooklyn council, 

 145 ; proceedings, 145 ; question for decision, 

 145; decision, 146; extracts, 146; sixth Na- 

 tional Council, 147 ; consolidation of benevo- 

 lent societies, 147 ; proceedings, 147 ; dates of 

 general councils, 147 ; Board of Foreign Mis- 

 sions, 148 ; home missions, 148 ; Congrega- 

 tional Union of Ontario and Quebec, 148 ; do. 

 of England and Wales, 148 ; on ritualism, 149 ; 

 statistics in the United States, 149. 



XV. Twenty-second annual meeting, 134; 

 Home Missionary Society, 134; American Mis- 

 sionary Society, 134; foreign missions, 135; 

 statistics, 135 ; operations for ten years, 135 ; 

 Hawaiian Association, 136 ; Union of Ontario, 

 136; of England and Wales, 136; autumnal 

 meeting, 136 ; London Missionary Society, 137. 



CONGRESS, CONFEDERATE. I. Convenes at 

 Montgomery, 154; members, 154; chairman, 



154 ; his speech, 154 ; rules, 155 ; Provisional 

 Government reported, 155 ; its features, 155 ; 

 tariff clause, 155 ; proceedings after its adop- 

 tion, 155 ; first election of Davis and Stephens, 

 155; permanent Constitution, 156; all ques- 

 tions between the States and United States, 

 156 ; provisions for officers resigning in the 

 United States army and navy, 156; national 

 flag, 156; Texas admitted, 157; Federal offi- 

 cers continued in office, 157 ; goods to be ad- 

 mitted duty free, 157 ; departments organized, 

 157 ; export duty on cotton, 157 ; officers of 

 Confederate Government nominated and con- 

 firmed, 157 ; free navigation of the Mississippi 

 declared, 157; loan of fifteen millions, 157; 

 postal system adopted, 158 ; Confederate courts 

 not to have cognizance of civil cases in which 

 citizens of the United States are a party, 168 ; 

 bill to raise a force of 100,000 men passed, 

 158; permanent Constitution adopted, 158; 

 compared with the Federal Constitution, 158- 

 1 60 ; commissioners to Europe appointed, 1 60 ; 

 act to prohibit African slave-trade passed, 160 ; 

 vetoed, 160; vote on the vetoed bill, 161; 

 other acts passed, 161. 



Second session of Congress convenes, 161 ; 

 reasons for its meeting, 161 ; message of Presi- 

 dent Davis, 161 ; act recognizing a state of 

 war passed, 161 ; the act, 161 ; Virginia ad- 

 mitted as a member of the Confederacy, 162; 

 acceptance of volunteers authorized, 162; act 

 to establish a patent-office passed, 162; fifty 

 millions bonds to be issued, 162 ; bill to pro- 

 hibit the payment of Northern debts passed, 

 162 ; the bill, 162 ; tariff bill passed, 162 ; Con- 

 gress adjourned to meet at Richmond, 162. 



Third session of Congress convenes, 163 ; 

 members present, 163 ; report of the Secretary 

 of War, 163 ; act to control the telegraph 

 passed, 163; the act, 163; act to provide for 

 the public defence, 163; two other commis- 

 sioners to be appointed, 164; act to aid Mis- 

 souri passed, 164; the substance of the act, 

 164 ;, Governor Jackson recognized, 164; se- 

 questration act passed, 164; war tax imposed, 

 164; approval of the declaration of the Con- 

 gress of Paris, 164; act of sequestration, 165. 

 Fourth session convenes, 165 ; its acts, 165 ; 

 Kentucky and Missouri admitted, 165 ; appro- 

 priations, 165. 



Assumes charge of all questions between the 

 several States of the Confederacy and the 

 United States, 130 ; President Davis authorized 



