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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



ing such part as may in its judgment require secrecy, 

 and the ayes and noes of the members of either House, 

 on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those 

 present, be entered on the journal. 



4. Neither House, during the session of Congress, 

 shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for 

 more than three days, nor to any other place than that 

 in which the two Houses shall be sitting. 



SEC. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall re- 

 ceive a compensation for their services, to be ascer- 

 tained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the 

 Confederate States. They shall, in all cases except 

 treason and breach of the peace, be privileged from 

 arrest during their attendance at the session of their 

 respective Houses, and in going to and returning 

 from the same: and for any speech or debate in 

 either House, they shall not be questioned in any 

 other place. 



2. No Senator or Representative shall, during the 

 time for which he was elected, be appointed to any 

 civil office under the authority of the Confederate 

 States, which shall have been created, or the emolu- 

 ments whereof shall have been increased during such 

 time ; and no person holding any office under the Con- 

 federate States shall be a member of either House 

 during his continuance in office. But Congress may, 

 by law, grant to the principal officer in each of the 

 Executive Departments a seat upon the floor of either 

 House, with the privilege of discussing any measure 

 appertaining to his department. 



SEC. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate 

 in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may 



Sropose or concur with amendments as on other 

 ills. 



2. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses 

 shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the 

 President of the Confederate States ; if he approve he 

 shall sign it ; but if not, he shall return it with his ob- 

 jections to that House in which it shall have origi- 

 nated, who shall enter the objections at large on their 

 journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such 

 reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree 

 to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the ob- 

 jections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise 

 be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that 

 House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, 

 the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas 

 and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and 

 against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each 

 House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned 

 by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) 

 after it shall have been presented to him, the same 

 shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, 

 unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its 

 return ; in which case it shall not be a law. The Presi- 

 dent may approve any appropriation and disapprove 

 any other appropriation in the same bill. In such case 

 he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropria- 

 tions disapproved ; and shall return a copy of such 

 appropriations, with his objections, to the House in 

 which the bill shall have originated ; and the same 

 proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills 

 disapproved by the President. 



3. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the 

 concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, (except 

 on questions of adjournment,) shall be presented to the 

 President of the Confederate States ; and before the 

 same shall take effect shall be approved by him ; or 

 being disapproved by him, may be re-passed by two- 

 thirds of both Houses, according to the rules and limi- 

 tations prescribed in case of a bill. 



SEC. 8. The Congress shall have power 

 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and ex- 

 cises, for revenue necessary to pay the debts, provide 

 for the common defence, and carry on the Government 

 of the Confederate States ; but no bounties shall be 

 granted from the treasury ; nor shall any duties or taxes 

 on importations from foreign nations be laid to pro- 

 mote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, 

 imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the 

 Confederate States. 



2. To borrow money on the credit of the Confederate 

 States. 



3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and 

 among the several States, and with the Indian tribes : 

 but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the 

 Constitution, shall be construed to delegate the power 

 to Congress to appropriate money for any internal im- 

 provement intended to facilitate commerce ; except for 

 the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, 

 and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the 

 improvement of harbors, and the removing of obstruc- 

 tions in river navigation ; in all which cases, such du- 

 ties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby, 

 as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses 

 thereof. 



4. To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and 

 uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies through- 

 out the Confederate States, but no law of Congress 

 shall discharge any debt contracted before the passage 

 of the same. 



5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of 

 foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and meas- 

 ures. 



6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting 

 the securities and current coin of the Confederate 

 States. 



7. To establish post-offices and post-routes ; but the 

 expenses of the Post-office Department, after the first 

 day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own 

 revenues. 



8. To promote the progress of science and useful 

 arts, by securing for limited times to authors and in- 

 ventors the exclusive right to their respective writings 

 and discoveries. 



9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme 

 Court. 



10. To define and punish piracies and felonies com- 

 mitted on the high seas, and offences against the law 

 of nations. 



11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and re- 

 prisal, and make rules concerning captures on land 

 and water. 



12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropria- 

 tion of money to that use shall be for a longer term 

 than two years. 



13. To provide and maintain a navy. 



14. To make rules for government and regulation of 

 the land and naval forces. 



15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute 

 the laws of the Confederate States; suppress insurrec- 

 tions, and repel invasions. 



16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplin- 

 ing the militia, and for governing such part of them 

 as may be employed in the service of the Confederate 

 States ; reserving to the States, respectively, the ap- 

 pointment of the officers, and the authority of training 

 the militia according to the discipline prescribed by 

 Congress. 



17. To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases 

 whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten 

 miles square) as may, by cession of one or more 

 States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the 

 seat of the Government of the Confederate States; 

 and to exercise a like authority over all places pur- 

 chased by the consent of the Legislature of the State 

 in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, 

 magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful 

 buildings, and 



18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and 

 proper for carrying into execution the foregoing pow- 

 ers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution 

 in the Government of the Confederate States, or in any 

 department or officer thereof. 



fc>EC. 9. The importation of negroes of the African 

 race, from any foreign country, other than the slave- 

 holding States or Territories of the United States of 

 America, is hereby forbidden ; and Congress is re- 

 quired to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent 

 the same. 



2. Congress shall also have power to prohibit the 



