Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-10-11


proceedings shall then be had az 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 Tex
cept on aquesiion Of sdiournment) shah be pre-
scented to the President of the Confederate States ;
aud before the same shall take effect shall be APP
proved by him; or being disapproved by him, may
be repassed by two-thirds of both Houses according
to the rules and limitations prescribed in case of
bill.
SECTION 8.
TheCongress shall have power
l. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and
excises for necessary to pay the debts pro-
vide for the common defence and carry on the gov
crnmcnt of the Confederate States; but no bouuies
shall be gplnted from the Treasury nor shall any
duties for taxes and importations from foreign ma
tons be laid TO promote fosters any branch of in
dusiry; aud all duties mposts and excuses shall be
uniform throughout the Confederate States.
2. To borrow money Dasthe csedit OF the Confed
crate States.
;. To regulate commerce with foreign nations,
and among the several States, and with the Indian
tribes but neither this nor any other clause con-
tanned in the Constitution shall ever he construed to
delegate the power to Congress iooppropriate mon
ey for any internal improvement intended to fici-
tate commerce; except for the purpose Of furnish
ing lights beacons, buoys, aud other aids to naviga-
ton upon the coasts, and the improvement of har-
hors and the removing of distinctions in river na-
viRation, in all which cases, such duties shall be
laid on the navigation facilitated thereby, may
be necessary to pay the cost and expenses thereof
4. To establish uniform laws of naturalization,
and uniform laws ON the subject Of bankruptcies,
throughout 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 measures.
6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeit
ing the securities and current coin of the Confede-
rate States.
Z. To establish post offices and post routes but
the expenses of the Postofce Department after the
first day of March in the year of Lord eighteen
hundred andsixty thres shall be paid out of its own
revenues.
8. To promote the progress of science and useful
arts, by securing for limited times toauthors and in
ventors the exclusive right TO their respective wri
tings and discoveries.
o. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme
Court.
10. To define and punish piracies and felonies
committed on the high seas, and offences against
the law of nations.
! IL. To declare war, grant letters of marque and
reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on
| land and water.
| II. To raise and support armies but no appro-
priation of money to that use shall be for longer
term than two years.
l3. To provide and maintain navy.
| a. To make rules for the government and regu-
lation of the land and naval forces.
To- To provide for calling forth the militia to ex.
ecute the laws OF the Confederate States suppress
Instructions and repel invasions.
l6. To provide for organizing arming, and disci-
plning the militia, and for governing such part Of
them as may be employed in the service of the Con-
federatc Sates reserving to the States, respective
ly, the appointment of the officers, and the author
ity of training the militia according to the disci-
pline prescribed by Congress
II. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases
whatsoever, over such district mot exceeding ten
miles square,) as may be, by cession of more
States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the
seat of Government of the Confederate States; and
to exercise like authority all places purchased
by the consent af the legislature of the State in
which the shall be, for the erection of forts
magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needfu
buildings and
49, To make all laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into execution the forego
ing powers, and all other powers vested 10y thi'
Constitution in the government of the Confederate
States, or in any department or officer thereof
4 SECTION g..
l. The importation of negroes of the African
race, from any foreign country, other than thu
slaveholding States and Territories of the United
States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Con
gress is required to pass such laws shall efectu
ally prevent the same.
2. Congress shall also have power toSprohibit the
introduction of slaves from any State not mem
Der Of or Territory belonging to this Confederacy
3. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpu
shall not be suspended, unless when in of re
bellion or invasion, the public safety may requir
it.
No hill Of attain dor mr. crnosf f,cto Ia,t, ~
law denying or impliring the right of property il
negro slaves shall be passed.
g. No capiation or other direct tax shall be laiC
unless in proportion to the census or enumeration
> herenbefore directed to be taken.
g. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles expQr
ted from any State, except by vote of two third
of both Houses.
ton of commerce or revenue to the ports of on
State over those of another.
8. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury
but in consequence of appropriations made by law
and regular statement of accounts and receipt
and expenditure of all public money shall be pub
lished from time TO time.
8. Congress shall appropriate no money from tn
treasury except by vote of two thirds of bot
Houses taken by yeas and nays, unless it be aske
and estimated for by some one of the heads of tn
: Departments and submitted to Congress by tn
: President; or for the purpose of paying its ow
EXPENSES and contingencies; or for the payment
claims against the Confederate States, the justice
which shall have been judiciay declared by a tri
) bunal for the investigation of claims against III
7 Government, which it is hereby made the duty
. Congress TO establish.
10. All bills approprating money shall specif
in federal currency the exact amount of each az
preparation and the purposes for which it is made
u and Congress shall grant no extra compensation
: any public contractor officer agent or servant a
+ ter such contract shall have been made OF sue
D service rendered.
u IL. No title of nobility shall be granted by tn
: Confederate States and no person holding any Of
fee of profit trust under them, SHALL without tn
consent of the Congress, accept of any presen
emoluments, office or title Of any kind whaleve
g from any king, prince, or foreign State.
o -. Congress shall make no law respecting a
: establishment of religion or prohibiting the free e,
ercse thereof; abridging the freedom OF speech
or of the press; or the right of the people peacei
e bly, to assemble and petition the Government for
" redrass Of