The Des Arc weekly citizen., 1861-10-23
Election Day for President, Vice-P Pre-.
 sidenr and Members of Congress.

In looking over our exchanges, says the Sa- vannah Republican, we find quite discrepan- cy with regard to the day on which the Con- federate election are to be field. We have. ourselves, been mistaken in the matter, not being able heretofore to lay our hands on the act of Congress regulating such elections. Through the courtesy of our Representative Hon. Thos. Forman, we have it now before us, and for the information of our readers CO., py the first four sections, which are all that are important to be known, the remaining sec- tions having reference to States not then in the Confederacy. We suggest that it would be we'll for our exchanges generally, to trans- fer the act to their columns, even though they may have previously done so.
 AN AcT to put in operation the Government
 under the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America:
 SECTION 1. The Congress of the Confeder- ate States of America do enact, That an elec- tion shall be held in the several States of this Confederacy, on the first Wednesday in Mo- vember, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for members of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States under the permanent Constitution, which election shall be conducted in all respects according to said Constitution and the laws of the several States in force for that purpose; and in States which may not have provided by law for such elections, according to the laws heretofore ex- isting in such States for the election of mem- bers of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. And on the same day the severa! States shall elect or ap- point electors for President and Vice-Presi- dent of the Confederate States of America, according to said Constitution, and in the manner prescribed by the laws of the several States made for that purpose; and in States where no such law may exist, according to the laws heretofore in force in such States for the election or appointment of electors for President and Vice-P President of the United States.
 SEC. 2. The electors for President and Vice. President shall meet in their respective States on the first Wednesday ill December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and proceed to vote for President and President, and make out lists, certify the same, and forward the same to the president of the Senate; all as directed by the said Constitution in that be- half.
 SEC. 3. The members of the House of Repre- sentatives elected, and the Senators who may be elected by the several States according to the provisions of said Constitutions, shall assemble at the seat of government of the Confederate States, on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and the said members of the House of Repre- sentatives shall proceed to organize by the election of Speaker, and the Senators by the election of President of the Senate for the time being; and the President of the Senate shall, on the nineteenth day of February. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, open all the certificates; and the votes for President and ce-President shall then be counted as di- rected by said Consultation.
 SEC. 4. The President of the Confederate States shall be inaugurated on the tWenty- second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty two.