Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-01

WHICH Tue VIE euaii nave OFElNdte0t anu cHfuS
proceedings shall then be bad as in case of othei
bills disapproved BY the President.
3. Every order resolution or vote to which the
concurrence of both Houses may be necessary Tex
cept on question of adjournment) shall be pre-
sented to Che President of the Confederate States
and before the same shall take effect shall be mp
proved by him. or being disapproved by him, may
be re-passed by two-thrs Of both Houses according
to the rules and limitations prescribed in case of
bill.
SECTION 8.
The Congress shall have power
/. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and
excuses for necessary to pay the debts pro
vide for the common defence and carry on the gov
erument OF the Confederate States; but no bountes
shall be granted from the Treasury nor shall any
duties for taxes and importations from foreign
tons he laid TO promote foster any branch Of in
dustry and all duties imposts and excuses shall be
uniform throughout the Confederate States.
! 2. To borrow money on the credit of the Confed.
crate States.
3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations
and among the several States, and with the Indian
tribes but neither this, nor any other clause con-
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-
UOn upon Tue COdSlS, Tue Vi
bors and the removing of distractions in river
yigaton, in all which cases, such duties shall be
laid on the navigation facilitated thereby, may
be necessary to pay the cost and expenses thereof
4. 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.
5. To coin money regulate the value thereof and
of fOreipn cOin and fix the standard of wpiOhts
and measures.
6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeit
ing the securities and current coin of the Confede-
rate States.
7. To establish post Offices and post routes but
the expenses of the Postofice Department after the
first day Of March in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred andsixty three shall be paid out of its
revenues
8. To promote the progress of science and useful
arts, by securing for limited times toauthors and in
ventors the exclusive right to their respective wr-
tings and discoveries.
9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme
Court.
10. To define and punish piracies and felonies
committed on the high seas, and offences against
the law of nations.
IL. 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 appro-
pration of money to that use shall be for longer
term than two years.
10. To provide and maintain navy.
IA. To make rules for the government and regu-
laton of the land and naval forces.
10. To provide for calling forth the militia to ex-
ecute the laws of the Confederate States suppress
instructions and repel invasons
l6. To provide for organizing, arming, and dsci-
plining the militia and for governing such part of
them as may be employed in the service of the Con-
ederate States reserving to the States respective
ly the appointment of the officers and the author
ty of training the militia according to the disci-
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 or more
States and the acceptance Of Congress become the
seat of Government of the Confederate States; and
to exercise like authority all places purchased
by the consent af the legislature of the State in
which the same shall be, for the erection of forts,
magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful
buildings; aud
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.
SECTION 8.
1. 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 shall eectu-
ally prevent the same.
2. Congress shall as6have power to prohibit the
introduction of slaves from any State not a men,
her Of Territory belonging to this Confederacy.
g. The privilege of the writ of hsbeas corpus
shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of
bellion or invasion, the public safety may require
it.
NJ Of otto ind c,.I Iorr n,
law denying or impIirng the right of property in
negro slaves shall be passed.
5. No capiiation other direct tax shall be laid
unless in proportion TO the census or enumeration
hereinbefore directed to be taken
6. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles expor-
ted from any State, except by vote Of two third;
of both Houses.
7. No preference shall be given by any regula.
ton of commerce or revenue to the ports of one
State over those of another
8. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury
but in consequence OF appropriations made by law
and regular statement of accounts and receipts
} and expenditure of all public money shall be pub
lished from time TO time.
/, 8. Congress shall appropriate no money from tn,
treasury except by vote of two thirds of boil
Houses taken by yeas and nays, unless it be askeC
and estimated for by some one of the heads of tn,
: Departments, and submitted to Congress by thu
p President; or for the purpose of paying its owl
expenses and contingencies; or for the payment o
claims against the Confederate States the justice
which shall have been judicially declared by tri
bunal for the investigation of claims against III
r Government, which it is hereby made the duty o
] Congress to establish.
10. All bills appropriating money shall specif
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 b
any public contractor officer agent servant al
: ter such contract shall have been made, or sue
service rendered.
f IL. No title of nobility shall be granted by tn
= Confederate States; and no person holding any OF
fee of profit or trust under them shall without tn
! consent of the Congress, accept of any present
emoluments Office or title Of any kind whatever
3 from any king, prince, or foreign State.
0 II. Congress shall make no law respecting a
establishment of religion, prohibiting the free
e ercise thereof abridgng the freedom OF speech
or of the press; the right of the people peacea
c bly, to assemble and petition the Government for
u redress Of grievances.
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