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n or district will be best promoted by specially detailing the subjects of that act in such region or district for home defences. Referred to Military Committee. Also, a resolution that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to take into immediate consideration, and report upon, the propriety of completing the railroad connection between Monroe and Shreveport, La., Agreed to. Mr. Barksdale, of Miss., introduced a bill to repeal an act in relation to the habeas corpus. Mr. Garrett offered a resolution to refer the bill to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to inquire what is the law established in various paris of this Confederacy under the name of "martial law," and how far such law is authorized by the statute authorizing the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in certain cases; and that the committee report what legislation is necessary to define "martial law," and to protect the constitutional rights of the citizens, and at the same time give to the