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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
, like other commissioned officers. Mr. Staples also offered the following, which was agreed to: Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs inquire into the expediency of so amending the law as to authorize the Secretary of War to employ a Messenger in the office of the Surgeon General. Mr. Avery offered the following, which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs: An Act to further amend an Act to provide for the Reorganization of the Navy, approved March 16, 1861. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and is hereby authorized to nominate, and by and with the consent of Congress to appoint all officers of the navies of any of the States of this Confederacy, who have been officers of the United States Navy, and who may be fit for active service, to the same rank and position in the Navy of the Confederate States which they would have held in the Navy of the U. States, by the ordinary course of promot