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 Rh the Senate, who shall adopt rules for the government of the two Houses of Congress. The resolution was adopted.

It was then moved that the House go into the election of a Clerk.

Mr. Pryor nominated M. W. Clusky, of Tennessee.

Mr. Pryor stated that Mr. Clusky had been for some time Postmaster of the old House of Representatives, the duties of which position he had discharged with great intelligence and to general satisfaction. He had, since the commencement of the war, taken up arms in defence of our cause, and had by this step lost all his property. He would undertake to say that, if elected, Mr. Clusky would perform all the duties with efficiency and to the satisfaction of the members.

Mr. Curry nominated Mr. Dixon, of Georgia, who had been acting Secretary of the Provisional Congress.

Mr. Lyons nominated James McDonald, of Richmond, editor of the Richmond Whig.

Mr. Vest, of Missouri, nominated Thomas C. Johnson, of that State, who had made his way through the lines of the Federal army which had the State, and was now an exile from his family, his property, his all.

The nominations being closed the Speaker appointed Messrs. Pryor, Curry, Lyons and Vest to act as tellers.

Forty-four votes being necessary to a choice, and three ballots having been taken, the action of the House finally resulted in' the election of Mr. Emmet Dixon, of Georgia, as Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress.

A resolution was passed that the members of the House of Representatives meet those of the Senate at one o'clock tomorrow, in their hall, to count the ballots for President and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America.

Mr. Russell moved that a doorkeeper be elected, and that he be empowered to act as sergeant-at-arms.

Messrs. R. H. Wynn, of Alabama, and L. B. Gilbert were nominated as doorkeeper. On the first [ballot] Mr. Wynn having received eighty-one votes, was declared duly elected.