The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-03-27

OF adjournment, he may adjourn .hem
to such tins as he shall think proper he
shall receive ambassador. and other pub
lie ministers he shall take care that the
}aws be faithfully executed and shall
commission all the officers Of the Confed
crate States.
SECTION 4. The President, Vice Presi'
dent, and all civil officers of the Confed.
crate States, shall be removed from office
on Impeachment for. and conviction Of
treason, bribery, or other high crimes and
misdemeanors.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION /. The judicial power Of the
Confederate States shall be vested in one
Superior Court, and in such Inferior
Courts AS the Congress may from time to
time orda'n and establish. The Judges,
both OF the Supreme and Inferior courts.
shall hold their Offices during good beha.
vior, and shall at stated times, receive fcr
their services compensation, which shall
not I've diminished during their contuu.
ance in office.
SECTION 81. The judicial power
shall extend to all cases arising under
this Constitution, the laws of the Confed.
. crate States, and treaties made or which
shaI! be made under their authority to
AL cases affecting ambassadors, other
pnhhc ministers or consuls ; to all cases
OF admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ::
to controversies to which the Confederate
S,"teS shall he party TO controversies
( between two or more States between q
I STAT" an! citizens of another State where
the State is plaintiff between citizens
claiming lands under grants of different
states, and between State or the cit
zcus thereof and foreign States, citizens
or subjects but no State shall be sued
10y citizen or suffice, Of any foreign
State.
2. IN all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers, or consuls, and
those in which a State shall be party,
the Supreme Court shall have original
Jurisdiction. In all other cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, bo.h as to law aud
and fact, with such exceptions. and under
such regulations, rs The Congress shall
make.
3 The trial Of all crimes, except in
cases Of impeachment, shall be By jurv.
and such trial shall be he'd in the State
where the said crimes shall have been
committed but when hot committed
within any State, the trial shall be at
such place or places as the Congress may
BY law have directed.
SECTION 81. Treason against the
Confederate States :hali consist only in
Ievying war against them. or in adhering
10 their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort. No person shall be convicted
Ct treason unless on the testimony of two
witnesses to the same overt act, or on
confession in open court
2. The Congress shall have power to
declare the punishment of treason, but
no attainder 0; treason shall work corrup
ton of blood, or forfeiture, except during
The life OF the person attainlcd.
ARTICLE w.
SECTION IL. 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
may, by general laws, prescribe the man
mer in which such acts, records. and pro-
ceedings shall be proved, and the effect
thereof
SECTION 2.-1. The citizens of each
State shall he entitled TO all the privileges
and immunities Of citizens in the several
States, and shall have the right OF transit
and sojourn in any State Of this Confede.
racy, with their slaves and other proper
ty; and the right Of property IN said
slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
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 Executive
authority Of the State from which he fed,
be delivered up to be removed to the
State having Jurisdiction Of the crime.
B. No slave or other person held to
service or labor in any State or territory
OF the Confederate States, under the laws
thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into
another, shall, in consequence Of any law
w ''E H'"'Oh thtlCln, bc from
such service or labor; but shall be deliv-
cred up on claim of the party to whom
such slave belongs, or to whom such ser
vice or labor may be due.
SEcroN 81. Other States may be
/ admitted into this Confederaey by vote
| Of two thirds OF the whole House of Req
rcsentatives, and two. thirds Of the Senate,
tie 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 10
dispose Of and make all needful rules and
regulations concerning the property Of the
Confederate States, including the lands
thereof.