Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-05-28
ARTICLE ".
SECTION L

uA SECTION 1.
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 Con-
gress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner
in which such acts, records, and proceedings
shall be proved, and the effect thereof. ~
4ael1 eGJ 2su SECTION g. rs
/. The citizens of each State shall be entitled
to all the privileges and immuBities of citizens
in the several States, and shall have the right
of transit and sojourn in any State of this Con
federacy, with their slaves and other property,
and the right OF property in said slaves shall not
be thereby impaired. sasnf6Io asif qof esoT st
2. "A person charged in any State with treason,
felony, 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 Execu-
tive authority of the State from which he flee, |,
be delivered up, to be removed to the State hav-
ing jurisdiction Of the escrime. s2i2u e =
g. No slave or other person beld to service or
labor in any State or Territory of the Confeder-
ate States, under The laws thereof, escaping or
lawfully carried into another, shall, in conse-
quence of any law or regulation therein, be dis
charged from such service or labor; bat shall be
delivered up on claim of the party to whom such
slave belongs, or to whom such service or labor
may. be due.5y o1lssb e5sg2a aat 5Ta 1riHoiloe
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1. Other States may be admitted into this
Confederacy by a vote of two thirds the whole
House of Representatives, and two-thirds of the
Senate, the Senate voting by States; bat no new
State shall be formed or erected within the juris
diction 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. e -.t-t9 ssD '@.l"
2.IThe Congress shall have power to- dispose
of and make all needful rules and regulations
concerning the property Of the Confederate
States, including tie lands thereof.
pa g. The Confederate States may acquire new
territory; and Congress shall have power to
1egislate aud provide Governmentsf for theinhab-
itants of all territory belonging to the Confeder-
ate States, lying ~thout the limits of the sever
al 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 negro
slavery as it exists in the Confederate States,
shall be recognized and protected by Congress,
and by the Territorial Government; and the
inhabitants of the several Confederate States and
Territories shall have the right to take to such
Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in
any of the States or Territories of the Ccnfeder-
ate States. se ~ fg s5HN
4. The Confederate States shall guarantee to
every State that now is or hereafter may become
| a member of this Cenfederacy, a republican form
/ of Government, and shall protect each of them
against invasion, and on application of the Leg
lislature Tor of the Executive when the Legisla-
ture is not in SESSION. against domestic violence
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