Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-08-24
Confederate Congress.

The following act was passed by the Confederate
Congress at Montgomery, Ala. Its provisions are
. of general interest:
To put in operation the Government under the Per-
manent Constitution of the Confederate States of
America.
SECTION l. The Congress orthe Confederate States
of America do enact, That election shall be held
in the several States of this Confederacy the first
Wednesday in November eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, for members of the House of Representa-
tives in the Congress of the Confederate States
der the permanent constitution, which election shall
be conducted in all respects according to said Con-
stituon and the laws of the several States in force
for that purpose; and in States which may not have
provided by law for such election according to the
laws heretofore existing in such States for the cleo
ton of members of the House of Representatives in
the Congress of the United States And on the
same day the several States shall elect or appoint
Electors for President and Vice President of the
Confederate States of America according to said
Constitution, and in the manner prescribed by the
laws of the several States made for that purpose;
and in States where no such laws may exist accor-
ding to the laws heretofore in force in such States
for the election appointment of Electors for Presi
dent and President of the United States.
Sec 9. The Electors for President and Vice Presi-
dent shall meet in their respective States the first
Wednesday in December, eighteen hundred and
siXty-one and proceed to vote for President, and
and forward the to the President of the Senate
all as directed by the said Constitution in that behalf
Sec. 8. The members of the House of Represen-
tatives so elected and the Senators who may be
elected by the several States according to the pro-
visions of said Constitution, shall assemble at the
seat of government of the Confederate States the
eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two; and the said members of the House of
Representatives shall proceed to organize by the
election of Speaker and the Senators by the cleo
ton of President of the Senate for the time being
and the President of the Senate SHALL on the nine
tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty
two, open all the certificates 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 Consti
tuition for the permanent government of the Con-
federate States of America before 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
members; the same being upon the basis Of one
member for every ninety thousand representative
population and additional member for fraction
onehalf Of the ratio aforesaid, in each of said
States under the census of the United States taken
in eighteen hundred and sixty, and being the same
basis of representation fixed for the seyen 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 num-
Der of Presidential Electors in the States aforesaid
as in the other seven original States.
APPROVED May 81, 1851.