Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

gress under the Permanent Constitution shall
assemble. being the 18th day of February.
1861 This law of Congress was approved
prior to the ratification and adoption of the
Permanent Constitution by the people of
Tennessee, but anticipating that it would he
done, the Congress of the Confederate States
enacted that the State of Tennessee shonld
be entitled to elect eleven members to the
House OF Represent atives. The people of
Tennessee having adopted the Permanent
Constitution of the Confederate States of
America, are therefore entitled to participate
In the election of the Executive and Legisla-
tive Officers conformably to its provisions,
and the laws enacted to put the Government
under II into operation. 1t viii therefore
devoiye upon you to digest and enact such
laws as will secure the representation of your
State in the Congress and Electoral College
of the Government of the Confederate States
of America 3
Inasmnch as the State is entitled to eleven
Representatives in the Congress of the Con-
federate States. and there are but ten Con-
gressionai districts as now laid off. it will be-
come your duty to district the State, which
will doubtless be done by you in a spirit of
fairness and equality, looking to the geo.
graphical position of counties and their pop
ulation; and as the time which intervenes be-
tween the day of your assembling and that
fixed for the election is very short, 1t Is i'm
portant to the State that you discharge this
duty, by defining the districts at the earliest
day possible. In this connexion, it is proper
/ should state to you that there is on file in
returns from the Marshalss6f the three Grand
Divisions of the State OF the census taken in
the year 1860. The information contained in
these reports will be valuable, if not indis-
pensably necessary to you, in the work OF re-
districting the State therefore recommend
that you have such parts of these reports as
may be necessary for this purpose Immedi-
ately printed for the use of the General AS
sembIy.
The universal interest felt In thi. impor-
tant struggle. Involving, as it does, the des-
tiny of a Republic, and the independence OF
a great people. renders the dry details OF or
binary legislation distasteful to the public
mind. The important duties. however, which
are imposed upon the State Government by
the Pending conflict, demands at our hands
the strictest scrutiny into all of its depart
equal to such emergencies as may probably
arise.
The necessities of the civil government,
however, demand very little legislation, ex
cept such as may be necessary to its econom
ical administration and the development of
all of our internal resources.
The reports of the Comptroller and Treas
urer show the following to be the
FISCAL CONDITION OF THE STATE
Balance in the Treasury 1st Oct
1859. $3.50, 3O3 So
Receipts into the Treasury for the
year ending Ist Oct, 1867. 79O,247 80
Total. 970,550 II
Disbursements for the same year S9I, 944 %
Leaving balance in Treasury 1st
Oct, 1860 .s7s,6O6 4S
Receipts into the Treasury for the
year ending LIST Oct, 1861. 936, 1927 So
Total. 81 OILS 434 OIL
Disbursements tor same year 829, 937 30