Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-06-21

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bills dsapproved by the President
! 3. Every order, resolution or vote, TO which the
concurrence OF both Houses may be necessary lex
Icept on question of asijournment) shall be pFe-
scented to the President Of the Confederate States
and before the same shall take effect shall be APP
proved by him; or being disapproved by him, may
be re-passed nv twothrds of both Houses according
to the rules and limitations prescribed in of a
bill.
y SECTION s.
The Congress shall have power
q l. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and
excuses, cor necessary 10 pay the debts pro-
vide fVr the defence and carry on the gov
eminent Of the Confederate States; but no bountes
shall I've granted FROM the Tivtsury shall any
duties for taxes and importaions tr1m foreign ma
tons be laid to promote foster any branch of in
dusiry; aud all duties imposs, aud excuses shall be
UNIFORM throughout the Confederate States.
3 To borrow money the credit Of the Ccnfed.
eraic States.
B. To regulate commerce with foreign nations
and among the several States and with the Indian
tribes; but neither this, nor ANY other clause
tanned in the Constitution shall ever be construed to
delegate the power to Congress to appropriate mon
ey for any internal improvement intended to facili
tate commerce except for the purpose of furnish
ing lights beacons buoys, and other aids to naViga
ton upon the coasts, aud the improvement of bar
bors, aud the removing of distractions in river
vigation, in all which cases, such duties shall be
laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may
be necessary to pay the cost and expenses thereof
a. 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.
s. To coin money regulate the value thereof and
of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights
and measures.
A. H., ,Ia Cor Tho akua of n
ing the securities and current coin of the Confede
rate States.
l. To establish post Offices and post routes but
the expenses of the Postofce Department after the
first day of March in the year Of our Lord!eghteen
hundred andsixty three shall be paid out of its own
revenues.
8. To promote the progress of science and useful
arts by securing for limited times to authors and in
ventors the exclusive right to their respective wri
tngs and discoveries
8. To constitute administration to the Supreme
Court.
TO- To define and punish piracies and felonies
committed on the high seas, and offences against
the law of nations.
H. To declare war, grant letters of marque and
reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on
land and water.
IL. To raise and support armies; but no sppro-
priation of money to that shall be for longer
term than two years.
| H. To provide and maintain navy.
Ia. To make rules for the government and rcgu-
lation of the land and naval forces.
Is. To provide for calling forth the militia to ex-
ecue the laws OF the Confederate States, suppress
instructions and repel invssions.
l6. To provide for organizing, arrang, aud disci-
plining the militia aud for governing such part of
them as may be employed in the service of the Con-
federate States; reservng TO the States respective
Ily the appointment of the officers and the author
Sc tho kn fba dion
l 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 one more
States, and the acceptance Of Congress- become the
seat of Government of the Confederate States; and
to exercise like authority over all places purchased
by the consent af the legislature of the State in
which the same shall be- for the erection of forts
magazines, arsenas dockyards, and other needful
buildings; and
10. To make all laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into execution the forego
ing powers, and all other powers vested by this
Constitution in the government of the Confederate
States or in any department or officer thereof.
Il SECTION o.
l. The importation of negroes of the African
race, from any foreign country, other than the
slaveholding States and Territories of the United
States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Con-
gress is required to pass such laws as shall eectu-
} ally prevent the same.
2. Congress shall also have power to prohibit 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 corpus
shall not be suspended unless when, in Of re-
bellion or invasion, the public safety may require
: 1t.
r T. No bill of attainder or erpost yfacte law, or
law denying impairing the right Of property in
negro slaves shall be passed
: M can't alton other direct IA shall he laid
t unless in proportion to the census enumeration
herenbefore directed to be taken.
G. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles expor-
ted from any State, except by vote of two thirds
, of both Houses.
7. No preference shall be given by any regula-
} ton of commerce or revenue TO the ports Of one
l State over those of another
{ g. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury,
but in consequence of appropriations made by law
and n regular statement of accounts and receipts
S and expenditure of all public money shall be pub
: lshed from time to time.
3 8. Congress shall appropriate no money from the
treasury except by vote of TIVE thirds of both
Houses taken by yeas and nays, unless it be asked
and estimated for by some of the heads of the
= Departments and submitted to Congress by the
: President; or for the purpose of paying its own
e expenses and contingencies; for the payment Of
claims against the Confederate States the justice OF
which shall have been udcislly declared by tri-
r Government which it is hereby made the duty Of
D Congress TO establish.
10. All bills appropriatng meney shall specify
in federal currency the exact amount of each APP
preparation and the purposes for which it is made
and Congress shall grant no extra compensation to
any public contractor officer agent servant af-
Ter such contract shall have been made, or such
D service rendered.
{ H. No title of nobility shall be granted by the
= Confederate States; and no person holding any of
flee of profit or trust under hem SHALL without the
: consent of the Congress accept Of any present,
emoluments, office or title of any kind whatever
: from any king, prince, or foreign State,
, q Congress shall make no law respecting m
establishment Of religion, prohibiting the free cX-
, ercise thereof; abridgng the freedom OF speech
of the press; the right of the people peacea-
e bly, to assemble and petition the Government for
I redress of grievances.
IL, A well regulated militia being necessary to
7 the security of free State, the right of the peo-
! pie to keep and bear arms shall not be iuiringed