Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-08-14
AN ACT

To put n Operation Me Governusr, .
 der the Permanent Consultation ofm, t,.'
 Confederate States of America. "e
 SEC. l. The Congress of the Conf.d.-, States of America do enact, that an elss.;'e shall be held in the several States ns e.on .i Confederacy, on the first Wednesday in M Mis vember, eighteen hundred and sixty ona mo no- members of the House of Representativa,,a. TOT the Congress of the Confederate States undan ." the permanent Constitution. which eIo"t9tf a"uef shall be conducted in all respects accos1ion ,s;on to said Constitution and the laws of tba oaaus ai"s al States in force for that purpose ana ;- States which may not have provided bu r1 III for such election, according to the la,yo haa ,"" tofore existing in such States for inc elaat;' of members, of the House of Representat;;n,o.al
 in the Congress of the United States aas on the same day the several States shall ola"t u or appoint Electors for President and os vios President of the Confederate States of Ameri' ca, according to said Constitution, and in the manner prescribed by the laws of the savara1 .n9 States made for that purpose; and in Sts,a. where no such laws may exist, according .o the laws heretofore in force in such States for the election or appointment of Electors fo,. President and Vice President of the rJn;tsa States.
 SEC. 2. The Electors for President ,,, Vice President shall meet in their resnect;na States on the first Wednesday in Decemhar eighteen hundred and sixty-one. and proceed to vote for President and Vice President. and make out lists, certify the same, and forwsrd the same to the President of the Senate: all .s directed by the sail Constitution in that hs' half.
 SEC. 5. The members of the House of Ken. resentatives so elected, and the Senators wbo may be elected by the several States accord. ing to the provisions of said Constitution shall assemble at the seat of government of ths Confederate States, on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. and the said members of the House of Renre. sentatives shall proceed to organize by the election of a Speaker, and the Senators by inc election of a president of the Senate for the time being; and the President of the Senate shall, on the nineteenth day of February eigh. f teen hundred and sixty-two, open all the cer. tincates; and the votes for President and Vice President shall then be counted, as directed by said Constitution.
 SEC. 4. The President of the Confederate, States shall be inaugurated on the twenty. second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
 SEC. 5. Be it further enacted that in case the State of Virginia shall adopt and ratify the Constitution for the permanent govern ment of the Confederate States of America be- fore the elections in this act provided for, she shall be entitled to elect sixteen members to, the House of Representatives: and the State of North Carolina. in like case, ten members; the State of Tennessee, in like case, eleven; and the State of Arkansas, in like case, four mem. bers; the same being upon the basis one mem. Der for every ninety thousand representative population, and one additional member for fraction over ne-half of the ratio aforesaid. in each of said States, under the census of the United States, taken ill eighteen hnndred and sixty, and being the same basis of representa- ton flxed for the seven original States in said Constitution for permanent government
 SEC. 6 Be it further enacted. that the same rules and principles shall be observed as to the number of Presidential Electors in the States aforesaid as in the other seven original States.
 Approved May 21, 1851.