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 59° Messages and Pampers of the Confederacy. Conscription Law (Continued): Discussed, and recommendations regarding, 205, 212, 234, 236, 294, 3 I2 > 37°. 4°4» 49i- Enforcement of — In Georgia referred to, 250. Men employed in, referred to, 3»7- Mode of providing officers for, recommended, 448. Referred to, 300. Joint resolution in regard to exemp- tion of editors and newspaper employees vetoed, 465. List of exempts transmitted, 3S3, 501. 5iS, 53 I >534- Number of men subject to — Referred to, 534. Removed from Commissary and Quartermaster's Department to give places to disabled sol- diers referred to, 391. Proclaimed, 326. Conscription Service: Appropriation for, recommended, 402. Authority to raise troops of con- script age referred to, 401. Disabled persons enrolled referred to, 256. Constitution, Confederate States. The delegates from the States which formed the Confederacy assembled in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 4, 1S61, in a Pro- visional Congress, and adopted a tempo- rary or Provisional Constitution. Lat- er they adopted a permanent Constitution for the Government of the Confederacy, and which was duly ratified by the States thereof. In his inaugural address, pages 35 and 36, President Davis, addressing himself to this subject, said, "We have adopted a Constitution differing only from that of our fathers (the Constitution of the United States) in so far as it is ex- planatory of their well-known intent, freed from sectional conflicts ;" and again, in the same address, he said, " We have changed the constituent parts, but not the system of government. The Constitution framed by our fathers is that of these Confederate States. In their exposition of it, and in the judicial construction it has received, we have a light which re- veals its true meaning." Permanent, 37. Adoption of, by — Arkansas, 117. North Carolina, 117. Tennessee, anticipated, 117. Virginia, 117. Discussed, 184. Preparation of proceedings of convention framing, referred to, 516. Ratification of, referred to, 63. Signers of, 53, 54. Provisional, 3. Amendment to, 10. Discussed, 35. Preparation of proceedings of convention framing, referred to, 516. Ratification of, by Missouri, re- ferred to, 144. Signers of, 13, 14. Constitution, United States. The Constitution is the fundamental or organic law of the United States. It is written, and was framed by the conven- tion which assembled in Philadelphia May 25, 17S7, and adjourned Sept. 17, of that year. It was submitted to the States for their ratification, was ratified by them, each State acting separately, and went into effect March 4, 17S9. Constitutional Rights of States dis- cussed, 32, 63, i2i, 184, 277. Consul, British, exequatur of, re- voked, 325. Referred to, 360. Convention of Railroad Presidents: Referred to, 81. Resolutions adopted at, requesting aid of Government for construc- tion of lines transmitted, 152. Conventions. (See Treaties.) Cooke, James W., resolution of thanks tendered command of, 480. Cooke's Brigade, resolution of thanks tendered, 430.