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ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS PASS.
ED BY THE STATE CONVENTION.


ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS PASS
ED BY THE STATE CONVENTION.
{0sne1aEsd from Fourth Pa9<)
ARTICLE Ill
Section |.
y The judicial power of the Confederate States shall De
vested in Supreme Court and in seh INFERIOR Courts
"a tbe Congress NAV from time to time oain and estab
Sh The Judges both Of the Supreme and inferior courts
shall hold their offices during good behavior ana snail al
stated times receive for their services compensate on,
which shall not be diminished during their continuance IN
Office.
/ The Judicial power shall extend to all arising
under Constitution the laws of the States
and treaties made which SHALL be made under their au
huriy; to all Affecting ambassadors other Puoc
ministers and consais to all of admiralty and mari
time jurisdiction; controversies to which the Coniede
ate States shall be pary to controversies between TWO
or more States between State and citizen OF another
State where the S4ate plaintiff between citizens claim
ing lands under giants of different States and between
State or the ciEeus thereof and foreign States citizens
subjects but no shall besued by citizen or subject
In Aft ssses affecting ambassadors other public min
i.ters and coRses and those in which State shall be
party the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction
Ia ali other before mentioned the Supreme Court
shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as 10 law and fact
with such EXCEPTIONS and under such regulations, as the
Congress may make.
s. The trial of all crimes except in o: impeach
ept shall be BY jury and such trial shall he held in the
State where the SAID crimes shall have been committed
but when committed Within State the trial shall
be at such place or places as the Congress may BY law have
directed.
Section s.
/ Treason against the Confederate States shall consist
only in levyng against them, or in adherng to their
enemies giving them aid and comfort No person shall be
convicted of treason unless the testimony of two wit
tue act confession in open court
The Congress shall have power to declare the punish
of but aainder Of treason shall work
ruption of blood forfeiture except during the life of the
person attainted.
ARTICLE ".
Section /.
l. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to
the public acts records and judicial proceedings of every
other State And the Congress may general laws pre-
scribe the manner in which such acts records and pro-
ceedngs shall be proved, and the effect thereof
Section 3
]. The citizens Of each State shall be entitled all the
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States
and shall have The right OF transit and soourn any
of this Confederacy with their slaves aud other property
and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby
impaired.
other crime against the laws of such state who shall flee
mand of the Executive authority of the state from which he
fed be delivered to be removed to the state having u-
risdiction of the crime.
No slave other person held service labor in any
state territory of the Confederate States under the laws
thereof escaping lawfully carried into another SHALL in
consequence of law regulation therein be discharged
fum such service labor but shall be delivered upon
claim of the party to whom such slave belongs to whom
such service or labor may be due.
Section g.
l. Other states may be admitted into this Conederacy
BY of twohirds of the whole House of Representa-
tTe and two-thrd of the Senate the Senate voting by
states but states shall be formed erected within
the jurisdiction of any other state any state be formed
by the junction of two states parts of states,
without the consent of the Legislature Of the
ed well as of the Congress.
3 The Congress shall have power dispose of and make
all needu rules and regulations concerning the property
Of the Confederate States including the lands thereof
8. The Confederate States acquire territory; and
Congress shall have egSate and provide govern
ments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging the
Confederate States lying without the limits of the several
Them at Sncht times and in Such
manner as IT may by law provide to form states TO be ad
mitted into the Confederacy In all such territory the
rate States shall be recognized and protected BY Congress-
and by the territorial governments and the inhabitants of
the several Confederate States and Territories shall have
the right to take such territory any slaves lawfully held
BY them in of the states territories of the COnfed
rate States.
The Confederate States shall guaranty every state
that is hereafter may become member this Con-
federacy republican form of government, and shall pro-
tect each of them against invasion and application of
the Legislature Tor Executive when the Legislature
Is not IN session. against domestic violence.
ARTICLE v.
Section l.
Upon the demand Of any three states legally assembled
IN their several conventions the Congress shall
convention of all the States take into consideration such
amendments to the constitution the said shall
cur In suggesting at the time when the said demand is
made and should any the proposed amendments to the
Constitution be agreed by the said convenon-vung
BY satesand the he ratified BY the legislatures of
the several states BY in twobrds thereof
as the the other mode of ratification be pro
posed BY the general convention-they shall from thence
forward form part of This constitution But no state SHALL
without It's eonsen De deprived Of its equal representation
in the Senate.
Article VI.
!. The Government established by this Constitution is
the of Provisional the Coned
crate States of America and all the laws passed BY the
ter shall continue in force until the shall be repealed
or modlhed and all the officers appointed by the shall
remain office until their successors are appointed and
qualified or the Offices abolished.
All debts contracted engagements entered into be-
shall ha raIid
against the States under this Constitution as
under the Provisional Government
3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confederate
States made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or
which shall be made under the authority the Confederate
States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the
Judges in every State shall be bound thereby anything in
the or laws Of any State the contrary
withstandug
l. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned
and the members of the several State legislatures and ali
executive and judicial officers both of the Confederate
States and of the several States shall be hound NV oath m
affirmation to support this Constitution but no religious
test shall ever be required qualification to any office or
public trust under the Confederate States
s. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights
shall not be construed to deny dspaage others retained
by the people of the several States
g. The powers not delegated the Confederate States nv
the Constitution prohibited by to the States are
reserved to the States respectively the people thereof
ARTICLE VII.
J. The ratification of the conventions of five States shall
be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution be-
tween the States so ratifying the same.
2 When five States shall have ratified this Constitution
10 the manner before specihed the Congress- under the
Provisional Constitution shall prescribe the time for hold
ing the election of President and YcePresdent and for
the meeting Of the Electoral College and for counting the
votes, and naugurating the President They shall also
prescribe the time for holding the first elections for mem
bers Of Congress under this Constitution and the time for
assembling the same nt the assembling of such Con-
gess the Congress under the Provisional Constitution
shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted
them not extending beyond The time limited by the Con-
stitution of the Provisional Government
W. n. EDWARDS
Teste: President of Convention.
WALTER L. STEELE, Secty.
L. c. EDWARDS, Assist Sect'y.
No. r.