Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-21

tonnage, enter into any agreement or com.
pact with another State, or with foreign
power, or engage in war, unless actually in
vaded, or in such imminent danger as will
not admit of delay.
ARTICLEII.
SECTION l.
l. The Executive power shall be vested
in President of the Confederate States of
America. He, together with the Vice
President, shall hold his Office one year, or
until the Provisional Government shall be
superseded by Permanent Government,
Whatsoever shall first occur.
2. The President and Vice.President
shall be elected by ballot by the States
represented in this Congress, each State
casting one vote, and a majority of the
whole being requisite to elect.
8. No person except natural born citi-
zen, or a citizen of one of the States of this
Coufederacy at the time of the adoption of
this Constitution, shall be eligible to the
Office of President; neither shall any per-
son be eligible to that Office who shall not
have attained the age of thirty-fve years
and been fourteen years resident of one of
the States of this Confederacy.
4. In case of the removal of the Presi
dent from Office, or his death, resignation.
or inability to discharge the powers and du-
ties of the said Office (Which inability shall
be determined by vote of two thirds Of
the Congress), the same shall devolve on
the Vice President; and the Congress may
by law provide for the case of removal,
death, resignation, or inability, both of the
President and Vice. President, declaring
what officer shall act as President; and
such officer shall act accordingly, until the
disability be removed or a President shall
be elected.
5. The President shall at stated times
receive for his services, during the period
of the Provisional Government, a compen,
sation at the rate of twenty-five thousand
dollars per annum ; and he shall not receive
during that period any other emolument
from this Confederacy, or any Of the States
thereof.
6. Before he enter on the execution of
his Office, he shall take the following oath
or affirmation:
~ do solemly swear Cor affirm that |
will faithfully execute the Office of President
of the Confederate States of America, and
will, to the best of my ability, preserve, pro.
tect and defend the Constitution thereof"
SECTION 2.
|. The President shall be Commander
in. Chief of the Army and Navy of the Con-
federacy, and of the Militia of the several
States, when called into the actual service
of the Coufederacy; be may require the
opinion, in writing, of the principal officer
in each of the Executive Departments, up.
on any subject relating to the duties of their
respective Offices; and he shall have power
to graut reprieves and pardons for offences
against the Confederacy, except in cases of
2. He shall have power, by and with the
advice and consent ofthe Congress, to make
treaties !; provided two thirds of the Con-
gress concur: and he shall nominate, and
by and with the advice and consent of the
Congress shall appoint ambassadors, other
public ministers and consuls, judges Of the
court, and all other officers of the Coufed
eracy whose appointments are not herein
otherwise provided for, and which shall be
established by law. But the Congress may,
by law, vest the appointment of such infe-
rior officers as they think proper, in the
President alone, in the Courts Of law, or
in the heads of departments
8. he President shall have power to fill
up all vacancies that may happen during the
recess of the Congress, by granting commits
sions which shall expire at the end of their
next session.
SECTION 3.
l. He shall, from time to time, give to
the Congress information of the state of
the Confederacy, and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he shall
Judge necessary and expedient he may, on
extraordinary occasions, convene the Con-
yress at such time as he shall think proper
he shall receive ambassadors and other pub
lie ministers he shall take care that the
laws be faithfully executed /; and shall COM
mission all the officers of the Confederacy.
2. The President, Vice President, and all
civil officers of the Confederacy shall be re-
moved from Office on conviction by the
Congress Of treason, bribery, or other high
crimes and misdemeanors a vote of two.
thirds shall be necessary for such conviction.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION l.
l. The judicial power of the Confederacy
shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and
10 such inferior courts as are herein direct
ed, or as the Congress may from time to
time ordain and establish.
g. Each State shall constitute District
in which there shall be court called Dis
trict Court, which, until otherwise provi.
ed by the Congress, shall have the juris-
iiction vested by the laws of the United
States, as far as applicable, in both the Dis
trct and Circuit Courts of The United
States, for that State; the Judge whereof
shall be appointed by the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Congress,
and shall, until otherwise provided by the
Congress, exercise the power and authority
vested by the laws of the United States in
The Judges Of the District and Circuit
Courts of the United States, for that State,
and shall annoint the times and Dlaces at