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States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this constitution between the States so ratifying the

same.

When five States shall have ratified this constitution in a manner before specified, the Congress under the provisional constitution shall prescribe the time for holding the election for President and VicePresident, and for the meeting of the electoral college, and for counting the votes, and for inaugurating the President. They shall also prescribe the time for holding the first election of members of Congress under this constitution, and the time for assembling the same.

Until the assembling of such Congress, the Congress under the provisional constitution shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them, not extending beyond the time limited by the Constitution of the provisional government.

Adopted unanimously, March 11, 1861.

THE CONFEDERATE CABINET AND

CONGRESS.

President JEFFERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi.
Vice-President-ALEX. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia.
Secretary of State-JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, of La.
Secretary of War-JAMES A. SEDDON, of Va.
Sec. of Treasury-CHAS. G. MEMMINGER, of S. C.
Sec. of Navy-STEPHEN R. MALLORY, of Florida.
Attorney-General-THOMAS H. WATTS, of Ala.
Postmaster-General-JAMES H. REAGAN, of Texas.

FIRST REGULAR CONGRESS-SENATE.

Congress met at Richmond, on the 2d Monday in Jan., 1863. A. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia, President.

R. M. T. HUNTER, of Virginia, President pro tem.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THOMAS S. Boсock, of Virginia, Speaker.

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MISSOURI.

1 W. M. Cooke, 2 Thomas A. Harris, 3 A. H. Conrow, 4 Casper W. Bell, 5 George G. Vest, 6 T. W. Freeman, 7 John Hyer.

NORTH CAROLINA.

1 Wm. H. N. Smith, 2 Robert R. Bridgers, 3 Owen R. Keenan, 4 T. D. M. Dowell, 5 Thomas S. Ashe, 6 A. H. Arlington, 7 Robert Lander, 8 William Lander, 9 Burgess S. Gaither, 10 A. T. Davidson.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

1 John McQueen,
2 W. Porcher Miles,
3 L. M. Ayer,

4 Milledge L. Bonham,
5 James Farrow,
6 W. W. Boyce.

TENNESSEE.

1 Joseph T. Heiskell, 2 William G. Swan, 3 W. B. Tobbs,

4 E. L. Gardenshire, 5 Henry S. Foote, 6 Meredith P. Gentry, 7 George W. Jones, 8 Thomas Meneese, 9 J. D. C. Atkins, 10 John V. Wright, 11 David M. Currin.

TEXAS.

1 John A. Wilcox, 2 C. C. Herbert, 3 Peter W. Gray, 4 B. F. Sexton, 5 M. D. Graham, 6 W. B. Vaughn.

VIRGINIA.

1 M. R. H. Garnett, 2 John R. Chambliss, 3 James Lyons, 4 Roger A. Pryor, 5 Thomas S. Bocock, 6 John Goode, jr, 7 J. P. Hencombe, 8 D. C. De Jarnette, 9 William Smith, 10 A. R. Boteler, 11 John R. Baldwin, 12 Waller R. Staples, 13 Walter Preston, 14 Samuel A. Miller, 15 Robert Johnston, 16 Charles W. Russell.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS,

Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens:

Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the Provisional Government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the duties assigned me with an humble distrust of my abilities, but with a sustaining confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and aid me in the administration of public affairs, and an abiding faith in the virtue and patriotism of the people. Looking forward to the speedy establishment of a permanent government to take the place of this, and which by its greater moral and physical power will be better able to combat with the many difficulties which arise from the conflicting interests of separate nations, I enter upon the duties of the office to which I have been chosen, with the hope that the beginning of our career as a confederacy may not be

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