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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Extra session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Montgomery,Ala., May 20, 1861. Congress met this forenoon at 11 o'clock.--Prayer was offered by the Rev. Basil Manly. The journals of yesterday were read and confirmed. On motion, Mr. Thompson, of Arkansas, was duty qualified and took his seat as one of the members from Arkansas. Mr. Shorter, of Ala., gave notice that he would move to reconsider the Patent Office bill, which notice was ordered to be placed on the Journal. Mr. Rhett, of S. C., offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the ordinances of the States constituting the Confederacy ratifying and adopting the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, shall be recorded and hied away in the state Department. No other business being on the public calendar, Congress went into secret session.
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Montgomery, May 21, 1861. Congress met at 11 A. M. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. Mitchell. After the reading and confirmation of the minutes of the previous day-- Mr. Shorter, of Ala.,withdrew his notice of intention to reconsider the Patent Office bill. He said at the time he had not fully examined the bill, but now he was satisfied with it, and consequently withdrew his motion for a reconsideration. No other business was offered, and Congress went into secret session, and continued its session until 3 o'clock, when it adjourned to meet at 5 o'clock P. M. P. S.--It is very evident that Congress will adjourn to-night, and although the matter is understood to be a part of the secret proceedings of that body, the public talk is that Congress will re-assemble in Richmond in July, and by that time all the Departments now located here will be removed to Richmond.--Several of the members have already left, but five or six members from five or six States