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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
he Journal of yesterday being read, was approved. The following resolution, offered by Mr. Semmes, of La., was adopted: Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing an agency for the Treasury Department west of the Mississippi, for the purpose of issuing Treasury Notes to supply the wants of the Government, and report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Barnwell, of S. C., announced to the Senate that the absence of his colleague (Mr. Orr) was occasioned by severe indisposition. Mr. Sparrow, of La., from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bills, which were read a second time and placed upon the calendar: An act to amend an act entitled "An act to organize bands of partisan rangers;" approved 21st April, 1862. Sec. 1st. The Congress of the Confederate States do enact, That hereafter no authority shall be granted to raise or organize bands of partisan rangers within the limits of any mili