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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why the Confederate States did not have a Supreme Court. (search)
s. The act is an elaborate provision of fifty-four sections, prescribing the jurisdiction and mode of procedure of the courts. The Constitution provided that the President should, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint the judges of the Supreme Court, but the law did not fix the number of the judges, and the court could not be organized until such number was fixed by Congress. At the third session of the Provisional Congress, held at Richmond, by chapter III, passed July 31, 1861, entitled an act further to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America,provides the Congress of the Confederate States do enact that so much of the act approved March 16, 1861, entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America, as directs the holding of a session of the Supreme Court of the Confederate States in January next, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and no session of the Supreme Cour