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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Confederate States Congress. The Senate was called to order yesterday by Mr. Hunter, of Va., President pro tem., and the proceedings opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Duncan, of the Methodist Church. Mr. Baker, of Fla., reported a bill to amend the tax bill of 1863 so as to authorize tax collectors and quartermasters to sell such portion of the tax in kind which, because of difficulties of transportation, cannot be secured to the use of the Confederate Government, and to exempt women living on farms and not slaveholders who have husbands in the military service, or who have died in the military service, from the tax in kind. Referred to the Finance Committee. Hon. Waldo P. Johnson, of Mo., appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. R. L. Y. Peyton, appeared and took his seat. Mr. Orr, of S. C., offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling upon the President to communicate to the Senate the charges and specifications preferred by Gen. Bea