Arthur, B. F. Official extract of minutes... re: notifying foreign nations of independence
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02279 Author/Creator: Arthur, B. F. Place Written: [Charleston, South Carolina] Type: Document signed Date: 1861/01/14 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 35 x 21.5 cm. Order a Copy
Written as clerk of the South Carolina Seccession Convention. Resolves telling the Governor to forward copies of the secession Ordinance to other states in the union and foreign nations.
Jan 4, 1861
Extract from Minutes
In Convention Jany 4 1861
The following Resolutions reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations were agreed to.
Resolved that it shall be the duty of the Governor to forward copies of the Ordinance to dissolve this union between the State of South Carolina and other states united with her under the compact entitled the Constitution of the United States of America and after two addresses setting forth the causes of the withdrawal of South Carolina from the Confederacy of the United States, to all the Ministers of Foreign Powers resident at Washington.
Resolved that it shall be the duty of the Governor to adopt such further measures as may be requisite for making known in foreign countries, the separation of the State of South Carolina from the Confederacy of the United States of America.
Resolved that the Governor shall be authorized to apply such Laws as may be necessary to defray the expenses for the above purpose, including the Secret Service money which may be required.
Resolved that it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide and place at the disposal of the governor, the funds required by the foregoing resolution and that these resolution be accordingly communicated by the President of the Convention to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A true copy
B F Arthur
Clerk of the Convt
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