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preparations, in the same bill.

law presented to the President, and before
the same shall take effect, shall be approx
ed by him, or being disapproved by hirn,
shall be repassed by two-thlrds of the
Congress, according to the rules and limi-
tatlons prescribed in case Off bill.
8. Until the inauguration Of the Pres
ident, all bills, orders, resolutions, and
votes adopted by the Congress shall be Of
full force without approval by him.
SECTION 6.
The Congress shall have power to lay
and collect taxes, duties imposts and excl
ses, for the revenue necessary to pay the
debts and carry on the Government of the
Confederacy; and all duties, imposts, and
excises shall be uniform throughout the
States of the Contederacy. And this Con
gress shall also exercise exclusive power,
until the President is inaugurated:
2. To borrow money on the credit OF
the Confederacy.
3. To regulate commerce with foreign
nations, and among the several State, and
with the Indian tribes:
4. To establish a uniform rule of nat
uralization, and uniform laws on the sub
of bankruptcies throughout the Confedera-
cy:
5. To coin money, regulate the value
of foreign com, and fix the standard of
weights and measures.
g. To provide for the punishment of
counterfeiting the securities and current
coin of the Contederacy
Z. To establish postofices and post
roads.
s. To promote the progress of science
and useful arts, by securing. for limited
times, to authors and inventors, the right
to their respective writings and discove-
ries:
9. To constitute tribunals inferior to
the supreme courts.
10. To define and punish piracies and
felonies committed on the hige seas, and
offences sgainst the law of nation:
IL. To declare war, grant letters Of
marqne and reprisal, and make rules con-
cerning captures ON land and water:
u. To raise aud support armies; but
no appropriation OF money to that use
shall be for longer term than two years:
13. To provide and maintain navy:
IL To make rules for the government
and regulation of The land and naval for
ces:
Is. To provide for calling forth the
militia to execute the laws of the Confed-
eracy, sup rress Instructions and repel in
vasi,.ns:
16. To provide for organizing, arrning
and discplining the militia, and tor gov
erning such part of them as may be en-
ployed in the service of the Con1ederacy,
reserving to the States respectively the ap
pointmert of the officers, and the authori-
ity of training the militia according to
the discipline prescribed by Congress:
and
II. To make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into ex-
ecution the foregoing powers and all 9th
er powers expressly delegated by this Con
vention to this Provisional Government.
SECTION Z.
l. The importation of African negroes
from any foreign country other than the
slaveholding States, is hereby forbidden;
and Congress is required to pass such laws
as shall effectually prevent the same.
prohibit the introduction of slaves from
any State not member of this Confede-
racy.
3. The privilege of the writ of
Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended
unless when, III cases ot rebellion or in
vasion, the public safety may require it.
T. No Bill OF Attainder, Or ex post facto
law, shall be passed.
5. No preference shall be given by any
regulation of commerce or revenue, to the
posts of one State over those of another;
nor slsall vessels bound to or from one State
be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties
in another.
6. No money shall b drawn from the
treasury but in consequence OF appropria-
tons made by law; and regular state
ment and account of the receipts and ex-
penditures of all public money shall be
published from time TO time.
Z. Congress shall appropriate no money
from the treasury, unless it be asked for
by the President or some one of the heads
OF Departments, except for the purpose of
paying its own expenses and contingent
cies
8. No title Of nobility shall be granted
BY the Confederacy; no person holding
any Office of profit or trust under it, shall,
without the consent of Congress, accept
OF any present, emolument, Office, or title
OF any kind, whatever, from any king
prince or foreign State.
g. Congress shall make no law respect
ing an establishment o. religion or pro-
ilibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom OF speech, or of the
press or the right of the people peaceably ]
to assemble, and to petition the government
for a redress. of such grievances as the
delegated powers Of this Goyerntn may