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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. (search)
. Gartrell, of Ga., offered a bill making Treasury notes a legal tender in payment of debts, and moved that it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to report at an early day. The bill was so referred. Also, a resolution that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency and necessity of requiring the Commissary Department of the Army to furnish more and better food for the soldiers. Referred to Military Committee. Mr. Miles, of S. C., introduced a bill to provide further for the pubic defence — extending the provisions of the Conscript act to all persons between the ages of 35 and 45 years. Read and referred to Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill to provide for the punishment of slaves taken in arms against the Confederate States, and all white men assuming to be commandants of the same. Referred. Mr. Foote, of Tenn., introduced a bill to provide for retaliatory punishment in certain cases.