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Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) [Confederate act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00990 Author/Creator: Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 18 February 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 26 x 28.5 cm. Order a Copy

Passed by the Confederate Congress, Thomas Bocock as speaker of the House, and R.M.T. Hunter as president pro tempore of the Senate and approved by Davis as president. Authorizes the export of government-owned "cotton, tobacco, and other produce and merchandise." Docketed: "Secret." Passed by the Senate on 23 November 1864 and by the House of Representatives on 18 February 1865.

AAn act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise bought from the Government. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the laws of the Confederate States prohibiting the exportation of cotton, tobacco, and other produce and merchandise, except through the seaports, and the transportation thereof to ports or places in the Confederate States in the possession of the enemy, and the exportation thereof except under regulations to be made by the President, shall not apply to [cotton], tobacco, and other produce or merchandise owned by the Government [text loss: an]d it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, by and with the advice and consent of the President in selling cotton, tobacco, and other produce or merchandise, the property of the Confederate States, to give to the purchasers thereof permits or licences to export the same free from the [prohibitions], limitations and conditions aforesaid: Provided, That nothing [text loss: in this] act shall be construed to exempt any cotton, or other produce, or any merchandise whatsoever, from the payment of export duties imposed by law.
Th: S. Bocock
Speaker of the House of Representatives
RMT Hunter
President, pro tempore of the Senate.
Approved 18 Feb. 65
Jefferson Davis

[docket]
Secret [S] 102
Enrolled.
An act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise bought from the Government.

Passed the Senate, November 23, 1864

Passed the House of Representatives, Feby 14, 1865
AR Sainan.
Clerk

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Bocock, Thomas S., 1815-1891
Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro, 1809-1887

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