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.4.To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws on thesubject of bankruptcies, throughout the Confederate States; but no lawof Congress shall discharge any debt contracted before the passage ofthe same.5.To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, andfix the standard of weights and measures.6.To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities andcurrent coin of the Confederate States. CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 1861 " 4717.To establish post-offices and post-roads: but the expenses of the Post-office Department, after the first day of March, in the year of our Lordeighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues.8.To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing forlimited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their re-spective writings and discoveries.9.To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.10.To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the highseas and offences against the law of nations.11.To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rulesconcerning captures on land and water.12.To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to thatuse shall be for a longer term than two years.13.To provide and maintain a navy.14.To make rules for the government and regulation of the land andnaval forces.15.To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of theConfederate States, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.16.To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, andfor governing such part of them as may be employed in the service ofthe Confederate States, reserving to the States respectively the appoint-ment of the officers and the authority of training the militia accordingto the discipline prescribed by Congress.17.To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over suchdistricts (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of one ormore States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of Gov-ernment of the Confederate States; and to exercise like authority overall places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State in 472 " APPENDIX Dwhich the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals,dockyards, and other needful buildings: and,18.To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carryinginto execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by thisConstitution in the Government of the Confederate States, or in any de-partment or officer thereof.Section IX1.The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreigncountry other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the UnitedStates of America, is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to passsuch laws as shall effectually prevent the same.2.Congress shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slavesfrom any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Con-federacy.3.The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, un-less, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may re-quire it.4.No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairingthe right of property in negro slaves, shall be passed.5.No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion tothe census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.6.No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State ex-cept by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses.7.No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce, or rev-enue to the ports of one State over those of another.8.No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence ofappropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 1861 " 473receipts and expenditures of all public money, shall be published fromtime to time.9.Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury except bya vote of two-thirds of both Houses, taken by yeas and nays, unless itbe asked and estimated for by some one of the Heads of Departmentand submitted to Congress by the President; or for the purpose of pay-ing its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment of claimsagainst the Confederate States, the justice of which shall have been ju-dicially declared by a tribunal for the investigation of claims againstthe Government, which it is hereby made the duty of Congress to es-tablish.10.All bills appropriating money, shall specify, in Federal currency, theexact amount of each appropriation, and the purposes for which it ismade, and Congress shall grant no extra compensation to any publiccontractor, officer, agent or servant, after such contract shall have beenmade, or such service rendered.11
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