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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC00990
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1860s
Title	Confederate act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise
Date	18 February 1865
Author	Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)
Additional authors	Bocock, Thomas S. (1815-1891) Hunter, R. M. T. (1809-1887)
Document Type	Government document
Content Description	Passed by the Confederate Congress, Thomas Bocock as speaker of the House, and R.M.T. Hunter as president pro tempore of the Senate and approved by Davis as president. Authorizes the export of government-owned "cotton, tobacco, and other produce and merchandise." Docketed: "Secret." Passed by the Senate on 23 November 1864 and by the House of Representatives on 18 February 1865.
Subjects	Cotton Tobacco and Smoking Commerce Merchants and Trade Law Government and Civics Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America Civil War Military History Finance Economics Global History and Civics
People	Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Bocock, Thomas S. (1815-1891) Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro (1809-1887)
Place written	Richmond, Virginia
Theme	The American Civil War; Government & Politics; Industry; Merchants & Commerce
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 An act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise bought from the Government. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the laws of the Confederate States prohibiting the exportation of cotton, tobacco, and other produce and merchandise, except through the seaports, and the transportation thereof to ports or places in the Confederate States in the possession of the enemy, and the exportation thereof except under regulations to be made by the President, shall not apply to [cotton], tobacco, and other produce or merchandise owned by the Government [text loss: an]d it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, by and with the advice and consent of the President in selling cotton, tobacco, and other produce or merchandise, the property of the Confederate States, to give to the purchasers thereof permits or licences to export the same free from the [prohibitions], limitations and conditions aforesaid: Provided, That nothing [text loss: in this] act shall be construed to exempt any cotton, or other produce, or any merchandise whatsoever, from the payment of export duties imposed by law. Th: S. Bocock Speaker of the House of Representatives RMT Hunter President, pro tempore of the Senate. Approved 18 Feb. 65 Jefferson Davis [docket] Secret [S] 102 Enrolled. An act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise bought from the Government. Passed the Senate, November 23, 1864 Passed the House of Representatives, Feby 14, 1865 AR Sainan. Clerk

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