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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Confederate States Congress.Tuesday, March 10, 1863. Senate.--The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock M, Mr. Hunter, of Va., in the chair. Mr. Wigfall, of Texas, introduced a bill to organize an Ordnance Department, which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to provide for having the laws relating to military affairs digested and published — Placed on the calendar. Mr. Sparrow, from the same committee, reported a bill to regulate the extra pay allowed soldiers detailed for duty as clerks in the city of Richmond.--The bill increases their extra pay from 25 cents to $1 per diem. It passed. Mr. Oldham, of Texas, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post Roads, introduced a bill to repeal the second section of an act relating to the prepayment of postage, approved July 29, 1863.--The bill provides that hereafter persons writing to soldiers in the army shall prepay their letters. The