 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...the appearance of the foregoing proclamation, the Confederate Congress immediately passed an Act " recognizing the existence of war between the United...authorizing the President to use the whole land and naval forces of the Confederate States, and to issue commissions to privateers. The preamble of the Act thus... | |
 | Confederate States of America - Law - 1862 - 478 pages
...'adjusted under the provisions of the act entitled " An ;wt. to amend an act entitled ' An act to recognize the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate- States,'" approved April 21, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. APPROVED February 11, 1864. [No. 3.] — Joint reiolution... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 796 pages
...following instructions : 1. The tenor of your commission, under the act of Congress entitled " An act recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States) and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods," a copy of which is hereto annexed, will be... | |
 | Ann Sophia Winterbothom Stephens - United States - 1863 - 518 pages
...some other convenient place to be selected by the President. On the 6th of May an act was passed " recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning tetters of marque, prizes, and prize goods." This act gave the President of the Confederate... | |
 | Confederate States of America - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 490 pages
...of vessels and property captured by private arme*d ships, in pursuance of the act passed by Congress recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning letters of marque, prizes and prize goods, which may be condemned in any court of the Confederate... | |
 | 1864 - 794 pages
...following instructions : 1. The tenor of your commission, under the act of Congress entitled " An act recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning; letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods," a copy or which is hereto annexed, will be... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...Davis to grant "letters of marque," had been followed, May 6th, by the act of the Confederate Congress recognizing the existence of war between the United...States and the Confederate States, and authorizing privateers. The act gave effect to the proclamation of Davis, and regulated the action of privateers... | |
 | Ann Sophia Stephens - United States - 1866 - 514 pages
...some other convenient place to be selected by the President. On the 6th of May an act was passed " recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods." This act gave the President of the Confederate... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...Montgomery on the 29th of April. That ' "KM 12 body, on the 6th of May, passed an Act with fifteen sections, "recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States ; and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods.'" The preamble declared that the " Confederate... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 796 pages
...following instructions : 1. The tenor of your commission, under the act of Congress entitled " An act recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods," a copy of which is hereto annexed, will be... | |
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Constitution; this, because the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States... 
