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100 fiscal year ending February 18, 1862. The functions which said officers will be required to perform are generally those of agents of Indian Affairs.

 May 20, 1861. Hon. Howell Cobb, President of the Congress.

I herewith transmit to the Congress certain estimates of the Secretary of the Navy for the year ending February 18, 1862.

 May 20, 1861. Hon. Howell Cobb, President of the Congress.

I herewith transmit to the Congress certain resolutions of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Memphis.

 VETO MESSAGES.

May 17, 1861. To the Congress of the Confederate States. I have this day received your resolution providing for the adjournment of Congress "to meet again at Richmond on the twentieth day of July next," etc., and have the honor to return it to you with a statement of my objections. By the third clause of the sixth article of the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, it was enacted that "until otherwise provided by the Congress the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, shall be the seat of government."

There is no provision in the resolution before me to remove the seat of government, and it hence follows that the office of the Executive and those of the Executive Departments of the Government must remain at the city of Montgomery. 