173 Series IV Volume I- Serial 127 - Correspondence, Orders, Reports and Returns of the Confederate Authorities, December 20, 1860 – June 30, 1862
| Page 173 | CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES. |
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, &c., That the Governor be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to said Provisional Government, all the arms and munitions of war acquired from the late United States, or so much thereof as he may think proper, the said Provisional Government undertaking to settle for the same with the United States.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, &c., That the Governor be, and is hereby, authorized to grant permission to the volunteer troops of this State to volunteer for services in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, &c., That this act shall take effect from its passage.
C. H. MORRISON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
HENRY M. HYAMS,
Vice-President and President of the Senate.
Approved March 15, 1861.
THO. O. MOORE.
Governor.
AN ACT making additional appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending the 1st of March, 1862.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enacted, That the following sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: For the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, $110,000.
Approved March 16, 1861.
AN ACT authorizing the President alone to make certain appointments.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That during the recess of this Congress the President shall have power to make appointments of such inferior officers as by the Constitution of this Provisional Government the Congress has authority to vest in him alone, anything in any law heretofore passed to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved March 16, 1861.
AN ORDINANCE to adopt and ratify the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
Be it ordained by the people of Georgia in convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That the Constitution adopted by the Congress at Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, on the eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, for the "permanent federal government" of the Confederate States of America, be, and the same is hereby, adopted and ratified by the State of Georgia," acting in its sovereign and independent character. "
Passed March 16, 1861.
GEO. W. CRAWFORD,
President.
Attest.
A. R. LAMAR,
Secretary.
| Page 173 | CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments