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shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except 

 during the life of the person attuinted. 



ARTICLE IV. SEC. 1. Full faith and credit shall be 

 given in each State to the public acts; records, and 

 judicial proceedings of every other State. And the 

 Congress niav, by general laws, prescribe the manner 

 in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be 

 proved, and the ettect thereof. 



SEC. 2. The citizens of each State shall be entitled 

 to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the 

 several States, and shall have the right of transit 

 and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with 

 their slaves and other property ; and the right of 

 property in said slaves shall 'not be thereby im- 

 paired. 



2. A person charged in any State with treason, felo- 

 ny, or other crime against the laws of such State, who 

 shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, 

 shall, on demand of the executive authority of the 

 State from which he fled, be delivered up to be re- 

 moved to the State having jurisdiction of the crime. 



3. Xo slave or other person held to service or labor 

 in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, 

 under the laws thereof, escaping or unlawfully carried 

 into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regu- 

 lation therein, be discharged from such service or 

 labor ; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party 

 to whom such slave belongs, or to whom such service 

 or labor may be due. 



SEC. 3. Other States may be admitted into this Con- 

 federacy by a vote of two-thirds of the whole House 

 of Representatives, and two-thirds of the Senate, the 

 Senate voting by States; but no new State shall be 

 formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other 

 State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two 

 or more States, or parts of States, without the consent 

 of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as 

 of the Congress. 



2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and 

 make all needful rules and regulations concerning the 

 property of the Confederate States, including the lands 

 thereof. 



3. The Confederate States may acquire new terri- 

 tory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and 

 provide governments for the inhabitants of all terri- 

 tory belonging to the Confederate States, lying with- 

 out the limits of the several States, and may permit 

 them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by 

 law provide, to form States to be admitted into the 

 Confederacy. In all such territory, the institution of 

 nosrro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate 

 States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress 

 and by the territorial government ; and the inhabi- 

 tants of the several Confederate States and Territories 

 shall have the right to take to such territory any slayes 

 lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territo- 

 ries of the Confederate States. 



4. The Confederate States shall guarantee to every 

 State that now is or hereafter may become a member 

 of this Confederacy, a Republican form of Government, 

 and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and 

 on application of the Legislature, (or of the Executive 

 when the Legislature is not in session,) against domes- 

 tic violence. 



ARTICLE Y. SEC. 1. Upon the demand of any three 

 States, legally assembled "in their several Conventions, 



the Congress shall summon a Convention of all the 

 States, to take into consideration such amendments to 

 the Constitution as the .suid States shall concur in sug- 

 gesting at the time when the said demand is made; 

 und should any of the proposed amendments to the 

 Constitution be agreed on by the said Convention 

 voting by States and the same be ratified by the Leg- 

 islatures of two-thirds of the several States, or by con- 

 ventions in two-thirds thereof as the one or the other 

 mode of ratification may be proposed by_the general 

 Convention they shall thenceforward form a part of 

 this Constitution. But no State shall, without its con- 

 sent, be deprived of its equal representation in the 

 Senate. 



ARTICLE VI. SEC. 1. The Government established 

 by this Constitution is the successor of the Provisional 

 Government of the Confederate States of America, and 

 all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force 

 until the same shall be repealed or modified ; and all 

 the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office 

 until their successors are appointed and qualified, or 

 the offices abolished. 



2. All debts contracted and engagements entered 

 into before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be 

 as valid against the Confederate States under this Con- 

 stitution as under the Provisional Government. 



3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confederate 

 States made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties 

 made, or which shall be made, under the authority of 

 the Confederate States, shall be the supreme law of 

 the land ; and the judges in every State shall be bound 

 thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Jaws of any 

 State to the contrary notwithstanding. 



4. The Senators and Representatives before men- 

 tioned, and the members of the several State Legisla- 

 tures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the 

 Confederate States and of the several States, shall be 

 bound, by oath or affirmation, to support this Consti- 

 tution ; b'ut no religious test shall ever be required as 

 a qualification to any office of public trust under the 

 Confederate States. 



5. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain 

 rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage 

 others retained by the people of the several States. 



6. The powers not delegated to the Confederate 

 States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the 

 States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to 

 the people thereof. 



ARTICLE VII. SEC. 1. The ratification of the Con- 

 ventions of five States shall be sufficient for the estab- 

 lishment of this Constitution between the States so 

 ratifying the same. 



If hen five States shall have ratified this Constitu- 

 tion in the manner before specified, the Congress, 

 under the Provisional Constitution, shall prescribe the 

 time for holding the election of President and Vice- 

 President, and for the meeting of the electoral college, 

 and for counting the votes and inaugurating the Presi- 

 dent. They shall also prescribe the time for holding 

 the first election of members of Congress under this 

 Constitution, and the time for assembling the same. 

 Until the assembling of such Congress, the Congress 

 under the provisional Constitution shall continue to 

 exercise the legislative powers granted them ; not ex- 

 tending beyond the time limited by the Constitution 

 of the Provisional Government. 





RAILWAY, SrBTEREAXEAX. A quick and Finsbury-circus, a distance of four and a half 



safe means of communication beneath the over- miles ; and of this length more than three 



crowded streets of London has always been miles, extending from Paddington to the Yic- 



the great ideal of engineers, and is now in toria-street Station, are in many parts quite 



course of accomplishment by Mr. John Fowler, complete, and in others nearly so, with perfect 



The present powers of the Company only allow working junctions with the Great "Western and 



them to carry their line from Paddington to Northern Railways. It commences at the Pad- 



