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nished by the taxation imposed by Congress. At the first and second sessions of Congress in 1862 no means were provided by taxation for maintaining the government. The legislation was confined to authorizing further sales of bonds and issues of treasury notes. An obstacle had arisen against successful taxation. About two-thirds of the entire taxable property of the Confederate States consisted in land and slaves. Under the provisional Constitution, which ceased to be in force on February 22, 1862, the power of Congress to levy taxes was not restricted by any other condition than that all duties, imposts, and excises should be uniform throughout the States of the Confederacy. But in the permanent Constitution, which took effect on the same day (February 22d), it was specially provided that representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons—