The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-07-19

rejected by the Senate shell be re-appoint-
ed to the same ofiice during the ensuing
recess. m VI t7fsiniD aais O. yI1mi- -i
SECTION III. -
I. The President shall, from time to
time, give TO the Congress information of
the State of the Confederacy, and recon-
mend to their consideration such meas
ures as he shall judge necessary and ex-
pedieht, he may, On extraordinary occa-
sions, convene both Houses, or either of
them; and in case of disagreement be-
tween them, with respect to the time OF
adjournment, he may adjourn them to
such time as he shall think proper; he
shall receive Ambassadors and other pub
lilo Ministers; he shall take care that the
laws be faithfully, executed; and shall
commission all the officers Of the Confed-
crate States.
l. The President; UVice-Presidept, and
ill civil officers of the Confederate States,
shah ne re.ne-,d f-on, afiiaa on impeach-
ment for, and dontiction OF. treason. h-i-
berry, or other high crimes and msde-
meanors. .iI titua1sI -aI eiFl.tla
T ARTICLE III. 20 rr
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l. The judicial power of the Confede-
rate States shall be vested in one Supreme
Court, and in such Inferior Courts as the
Congress may, from time to time, ordain
and establish, The Judges, both of the
Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold
their offices during good behavior and
shall, at stated times, receive for their SER
vices compensation, which shall not be
diminished during the continuance in Of
flee.
| II j. -.ua. .La..i a..l
!. The judicial power shall extend to all
cases arising under this Constitution, the
laws of the Confederate States, and trea-
ties made, or which shall be made, under
their authority; to all cases affecting AM
suls; to all cases OF admiralty and maritime
Jurisdiction; to controversies to which the
Confederate States shall be q party: to
controversies between two or more States;
between State and citizens of another
State where the State is plaintiff; between
citizens claiming lands under grants OF
different States, and between, State and
the citizens thereof and foreign States,
citizens or subjects; but no State shall be
sued by citizen or subject off any foreign
State '..-1 .f-. reorl ga. leo rr.b
2. In all cases affecting Ambassadors,
other public Ministers, and Consuls, and
those in which State shall be party,
the Supreme Court shall have original ju-
risdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and
fact, with such exceptions, and under
such regulations, as the Congress shall
make. - i.r s.-s -ia..l lg I-H
3. The trial of all crimes, except in ca
ses of impeachment, shall be by jury, and
such trial shall be held in the State where
the said crimes shall have been commit
ted; but when not committed within any
State, the trial shall be at such place or
places as the Congress may by law have
directed. F .
-i sEcTI$N III.
!. Treason against the Confederate Sta
ties shall consist only in levying war a.
ganst them, or in adhering to their ene-
mies-giving them aid and comfort. No
person shall be convicted of treason un-
less on the testimony of two witnesses to
the same overt act, or on confession in
open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to de.
clare the punishment of treason; but no
| attainder of treason shall work corrup-
ton of blood, or forfeiture, except during
the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE w. mi .. 3D.
l. Full faith and credit shall be given
in each State to the public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings of evory other
State. And the Congress may, by general
laws, prescribe the manner in which such
acts, records, and proceedings shall be
proved, and the effect thereof.
SECTION II.
l. The citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all the privileges and immuni
| ties of citizens in the several States, ano
shall have the right of transit and sojourr
in any State of this Confederacy, with
| their slaves and other property, and the
right of property in said slaves shall moi
be thereby impaired. ., sL1.l.. IL,
8. A person charged in any State will
treason, felony, rother crime against the
| laws of such State, who shall flee from
| Justice, and be found in another State
shall on demand of the Executive autho
rity Of the State from which he fled, be
delivered up, to be removed to the State
having jurisdiction Of the crime. ,a
| 8. No slave or other person held to ser
vice or labor in any State or Territory oi
| the Confederate States, under the laws
| thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into
another, shall, in consequence of any law
or regulation therein, be discharged 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. .....t -
SECTION III s
l. Other States may be admitted into
this Coniederacy by 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 jurisdic-
ton OF any other State; nor any State be
formed by the junction of two or more
States, or parts of States, without the con
sent of the Legislatures of the States, con
cerned, as well as of the Congress. e.
2. The Congress shall have power to dis
pose of and make all needful rules and
| regulations concerning the property O
the Confederate States including the land.
! thereof l-
3. The Confederate States may acquire
new territory; and Congress shall have
power to legislate and provide Govern
ments for theinhabitants of all the terri
tory belonging to the Confederate States
lying without the limits of the seyera
States; and may permit them, at sucl
times, ard in such manner MS it may b,
law provide, to form States to be admit
ted into the Confederacy, In all such ter
ritory, the institution OF negro slavery a
| it now exists in the Confederate States
shall be recognized and protected by Con
gress, and by the Territorial Government
and the inhabitants Of the several Cor
federate States and Territories, shall hav
the right to take to such territory an
slaves, lawfully held by them In any {
the States or Territories Of the confed,
rate States. s Oh aa5 o9asoHasl tse1
| 4. The Confederate States shall guars,