NP, CM 3/1/1861

From the Charleston Mercury
 
March 1, 1861
  
Charleston & Savannah Railroad
Charleston, February 28, 1861
   The Congress of the Confederate States of America having, on the 18th day of February, instant, enacted the law hereunto annexed, it becomes necessary that this Company should change the system hitherto pursued by them in receiving and forwarding goods consigned to their care, as they are not prepared to transact the business at the Custom House, and advance the duties, or give bonds for the same, as will be required.
   Therefore, Merchants, Consignees of goods, heretofore consigning them to the care of the Charleston & Savannah Railroad Agent, are hereby notified that from and after the 10th day of March next, their goods must be consigned to the care of some Commission Merchant in the city, whose outlay (commissions and duties always excepted) will be advanced by this Company, and charged to the goods as formerly.
   Bills of Lading, Invoice and accompanying instructions should be mailed to the Commission Merchant employed to forward the goods; and it would be well for merchants to instruct their shippers so to do.
T. F. Drayton, President 
 
An Act
   Be it enacted by the Confederate States of America, That the following articles shall be exempt from duty, and admitted free into the said States, to wit, Bacon, Pork, Hams, Lard, Beef, Fish of all kinds, Wheat and Flour of all other grains, Indian Corn and Meal, barley and Barley Flour, Rice and Rice Flour, Oats and Oat Meal, Gunpowder and all the materials of which it is made, Lead in all forms, Arms of every description and Munitions of War and Military Accoutrements, Percussion Caps, and living Animals of all kinds; also, all Agricultural Products in their natural state.
   Sec. 2. That all Goods, Wares and Merchandise imported from any one of the late United States of America, not being now a member of this Confederacy, into this Confederacy, before the fourth day of March next (which may have been bona fide purchased heretofore), or within ten days after the passage of this Act, shall be exempt and free from duty.
   Sec. 3. That the State of Texas be and is hereby exempted from the operation of the Tariff Laws heretofore passed or adopted by this Congress.
Howell Cobb
President of the Congress
   Passed by Congress on the eighteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
J. J.  Hopper
Secretary of Congress

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