| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| March 1, 1861 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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