New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-19

it wise to instruct the Delegates to propose the
Constitution of the late United States as basis
and outline Of Provisional Government for the
seeding States. This instrument is familiar to US
all, and while have seeded from certain North
ern political communities which are traitors to It's
provisions and false to its principles, we still ad-
mire the one and are true to the other. 1t is a
guide which can safely be trusted and an adler
ence to it far possible will lead to that which
We now desire-thG prompt erection OF Southern
Federal Union
And towards this end of pressing importance,
your committee believe it proper that said Dele
gates should cast The vote OF Mississippi for Pres
ilent and Eice,Presldent under SAD PROVISIONAL
Government. without doubt the Delegates who
will be selected by this Convention, will be men Of
tried fidelity and worthy to fill this high trust.
II is proposed that the Provisional Government
shall continue short time and only until Constr
tuition and permanent plan of Government can be
adopted By the intended Convention. AS soon as
such plan is 1natured, it should forthwith be re-
ported back TO us by our Delegates for ourratiica-
tion Or rejection
Your committee is not advised whether it is pro-
per in them to recommend in regard to the nature
character of said Constitution and plan. Yet
they will say that in their opinion, the Constitution
Of the United States again should be mainly relied
on as precedent. Our experience will, however,
suggest some changes to be made as well
dangers to be avoided. Should the Convention be-
lieve it necessary instructive Delegates that OBJ
ject be attained either by instructions to this
committee to report the same by way Of resolution
ordinance, or by way of direct instruction from
the Convention itself.
In conformity with these views we report the
following resolutions to the Convention, and re-
commend their adoption:
CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS,
At Convention Of the people of the State Of
Mississippi begun and holden at Jackson, in said
State, in the year of our Lord, 1861.
Resolutions to PYoUtde for tie Formation ofG
Southern Con- nJfederacy-W the people of Missis-
sipp, in Convention assembled, do declare and re-
solve, and it is hereby declared and resolved:
1rf T1,o+yl flnEJ
at the hour Of -, proceed to the election, by
ballot, of seven Delegates whose duty it shall be
when elected, to represent the State of Mississippi
in Convention of those States which have seced-
ed, or which may hereafter secede from the Gov
-ernTnent formerly known as the United States Of
America,
"a. That this Convention receives and adopts
the suggestions that the Convention hereby CON
templated shall meet and hold its sessions in the
city ot Montgomery and the State of Alabama, and
that the time for said meeting shall be the lst Mon
day and the 4th day of February, A. D. 1861.
3D. That this Convention accept the suggestion
that each of the States seeding from the Govern
ment of the late United States, and concurring in
the formation Of q Southern Confederacy by said
Convention, shall be entitled to one vote in the said
Convention upon all questions which may be acted
upon therein, and that each State send as many
Delegates to said Convention as are equal in num-
ber 10 the number of Senators and Representatives
to which it entitled in the Congress Of the late
United States
4th. THAT this Convention instruct said Delegates
to use all proper to secure the formation of
Provisional Government of Union for such States
as have seeded or may hereafter secedG from the
Government of tue late United States, so as that
the same may be organized and 90 into operation
before the 4th Of March next, and towards that end
they are hereby further instructed to submit to said
Convention, on the part of the people of the State
Of Mississippi the Constitution Of the late United
States of America, basis and outline of such
Provisional Government for the said seeding
States; Provided, That said Provisional Govern
nT11f fhe nfniIo
arising under it shall cease and determine in one
year from the first Monday and the fourth day of
February, A. D, 1861, or when Permanent Gov
ernment shall have been organized as NAV be
agreed upon.
5th. That this Convention do furtherinstruct said
Delegates that they all proper means to the end
that the Convention Of said seeding States pro-
ceed forthwith to consider and propose Constitu-
ton and plan for permanent Government, estab-
fishing Southern Confederacy among those States
which have seeded or may hereafter secede froa
the late Federal Union, which Constitution and
plan, when adopted, shall be referred back this
Convention for its ratification or rejection.
9th. That in the event the Convention of seced-
ing States shall not for any cause assemble at the
time and place indicated E1 these resolutions, then
the Delegates appointed by this Convention shall
be and they are hereby accredited to any Conven-
ton of seeding States which may meet at any
other time and place and having for its object the
formation of a Southern Confederacy.
AN ORDINANCE concering Jurisdiction and Property
Of the tnied States Q: America in te sovereign State Of
Tic people of the State of Mississippi, in Con-
Vention assembled, declare and ordain, and it is
hereby declared and ordained as follows, to-wit:
SECTION l. The title to the waste and unapprO-
priatGd lands Notifications, lighthouses, hospitals
custom-house3 and all other property owned or
held by the said United States within the limits Of
the State of Mississippi, on the 9th day Of Janu-
| airy, 1851, and all Jurisdiction over the same, are
hereby resumed and vested in the State of Missis-
sipPi.
| SGo. 2. The Legislature shall have power to pass
all laws necessary for the preservation and dispo-
| sition of said lands, fortiications, lighthouses
hospitals, custonlh0uses aud other property, and
the records pertaining to the same, and may pro.
vide for the adjustment of the claim of the said
| United States thereto.
Sec 3. The Legislature shall have power to pro
vide by law for the custody and preservation OF
the records and judicial proceedings of the Circuit
| and District Court of the United States in this
State, and to prescribe the manner in which suit:
and proceedings, civil and criminal, now pending
| in said courts, shall be tried and determined, as
well as to prescribe the manner in which the iudg
| ments of said courts, remaining uneXecuted and
| the judgments, mandates and DEGREES of the Su
| preme Court of the United States, in cases now
pending therein, in which a citizen of this State
| may be party, shall be carried into effect.
SEC 4. The Judicial power of this State shall
extend in cases Of admiralty and maratime juris
| dcton, and the Legislature shall provide in what
| courts such jurisdiction shall be exercised.
| SEC. 5. Nothing contained herein shall prevent
the persons holding the office Of Marshal of the
SLaleS. duu their assistants IN THIS state
| from completing the census returns of the sale
| United States.
AN ORDINANCE to provide for Postal arrangements i'll Mis-
| sissipp
Whereas, It is proper and necessary to avoid as
far as practicable, any disturbance Of existing ar
rangements and contracts for carrying, delivering
| and distributing the mails; therefore,
| The people of Mississippi, in Convention assem-
bled do ordain and declare, and it is hereby or
dained and declared, that all laws, contracts and
| regulations made by the authority of the United
| States for conveying, delivering and distribu
| ting the mails, and for the protection Thereof
against depredations which were subsisting and in
| force at the date Of an ordinance adopted by the
people Of Mississippi, in Convention assembled, or
the 9th day of January, one thousand eight hun
| dred and siXty-One, entitled, {" An Ordinance to
dissolve the Union between the State of Mississippi
and the States united with her under the compact
entitled The Constitution of the United States OF
| AmeriGa,'h be and the same are hereby continued
in full force and effect so far they not incom
patbe with the terms and intent Of said Ordinance
or with the provisions hereinafter made and that
persons charged with duties imposed by said con.
tracts and regulations shall continue to discharge
the same, and all violations of the penal laws afore
said shall be prosecuted in the name and by the
authority of the State of Mississippi in the courts
Of said State having jurisdiction Of crimes and mis-
demeanors in the same manner as other prosecu.
t0n5 are conducted and determined by the
laws Of this State.
SIC. 2. Be it further ordained That this Ord
nance shall take effect from and after its passage
and shall continue in force until repealed by this
Convention, or suspended by such laws or treaties
as may be adopted or assented to for that purpose