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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC06897.02
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1860s
Title	An account of South Carolina's financial support of the Confederate government
Date	4 November 1862
Author	Hundt, William R. (fl. 1862)
Document Type	Government document; Business and financial document
Content Description	As Secretary of State, William Hundt gives his account of South Carolina's passage of an act that allocated $200 million in state bonds to the Confederate government. Labeled "Copy"
Subjects	Confederate States of America Civil War Military History Finance Confederate General or Leader Government and Civics
People	Hundt, William R. (fl. 1862)
Place written	Columbia, South Carolina
Theme	The American Civil War; Banking & Economics; Government & Politics
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide The State of South Carolina At a General Assembly begun and holden at Columbia on the fourth mon- day in November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, and there continued by divers adjournments to the eighteenth day of December in the same year. an act to Provide for a guaranty by the State of [struck: South] the Bonds of the Confederate States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives now met and sitting in General Assembly and by the authority of the same, that the Governor of the State for the time being be and he is hereby authorized and directed to endorse the guarantee of the State upon the Bonds of the Confederate States of America, upon the application of the Government of the said Confederate States, to an amount equal to the proportionate share of the State of South Carolina, of the sum of Two Hundred Millions of Dollars in the ratio of the representation of said State in the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress, thereby pledging the faith and the funds of the State for the payment of the principal of the said Bonds, and the interest to accrue therein; provided that such of the Bonds, as shall be sold within the Confederate States, shall be disposed of to the highest bidder, and provided further, that in the sale, whether in this Country or abroad of these Bonds, this State and the citizens there of [2] shall have the right to purchase the bonds under its guarantee, in preference to all purchasers at equal bids. In the Senate House the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, and in the eighty seventh year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the State of South Carolina. W.D. Porter President of the Senate A.S. Aldrich Speaker of the House of Representatives Secretary of State's Office } Columbia, So. Ca. Decr 27th 1862} I hereby certify the forgoing to be a time copy of an Act, entitled "An Act to Provide for a guaranty by the State of the capital bonds of the Confederate States," ratify the 18th day of December A.S. 1862, and now on file in this office. Given under my hand And the seal of the State Wm. R. Huntt. Depty Secty of State. [docket] Mess. Presit. Communicating an act of the Legislature of So. Car- olina, offering a guaranty by that State of the bonds of the Confed. States. March 3, 1863. Referred Com. a Finance. Notes: Page two can not be copied due to a clasp.

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