Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-24
THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
Commissioners to EurOpe---Ad mIs.
sion of Missouri-.-COnfisca of
the Property of Aliens.

RICHMOND. August 2I.-Tbe President ap-
proved to-day an act empowering the Presi-
dent to determine to what nations the Com
missiOners now ia Europe shall be accredited,
and to prescribe their duties. The two addi-
tionaI Commissioners will receive the same
pay as those now in Europe. q
The President also approved an act for the
aid of the State of Missouri, in repelling the
Invasion. and to authorize Ter admission into
the Confederacy. The preamble sets forth
that tha people of Missouri have been pre-
vented by the non-Constitutional interference
of the Federal Government, from expressing
their will in regard to union with the Con-
federates, and that Missouri is now engaged
in repelling the lawless invasion of their ter
ritory by armed forces. The Confederate
Government consider it their right and duty
to aid the Government and people of Mis-
souri, in resisting this invasion, and receiving
the means and opportunity of expressing
their will upon all questions affecting their
rights and liberties.
The President is authorized to cooperate,
through the military power of this Govern
ment, with the authorities of Missouri, in de-
Tending that State against the iawless inva-
sion of its soil by the United States, and in
maintaining the liberty and inde pendence of
Missouri, with power to accept the services of
troops sufficient to suit the purpose.
souri, into the Confederacy on an equal foot
ing with the other Confederate States, when
the Provisional Constitution shall be adopted
by the legally constituted authorities OF Mis-
souri,, and an authentic copy communicated
to the President.
The President will then. in accordance
with the provisions of the act, issue his PRO-
ciamation announcing the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Coniederacy.
The act recognizes the Government in
Missouri of which Claiborne F. Jackson is
Chief Magistrate.
Gen. Ochiltree of Texas, introduced a re-
solution, which was unanimously adopted,
complimenting the splendid victory obtained
by General Mccullough and his brave army,
at the battle of Oak Hill, near Springfield,
Missouri.
The Committee on the Judiciary has re-
ported retaliatory bill for the coniscation
of the property of alien enemies.
1t provides for the appointment of receiv-
ers to take charge of such properties, and To-
cal grand juries are charged with the discov-
cry and rep orting Of the property of aliens
in their respective jurisdictions. 1t provides
for the imposition of penalties In the case of
all those who conceal knowledge of such
alien property.
Ii provides for the creation of Boards of
Commissioners whose province shall be to
adjudicate claims for the losses OF citizens of
the Confederacy, who may suffer under the
process of Lincola's act confiscating their
property in the North, and they are to be re-
munerated therefor by payments of the
amount of their losses out of the fund accru-
ing from the confscation of the property of
the alien enemies of the Confederacy
1t provides that the Confederate Courts
shall have jurisdiction for the settlement of
partnerships heretofore existing between citi-
zens of the Confederacy and those now its
alien enemies. The Courts shall decide the
separation of interests in such firms, and the
confscation of the shares belonging to the
aliens. =
The Finance Committee of Congress esti-
mate that the amount yielded under the tax
bill will be SIT 900, 900.