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The Confederate Congress.

Montgomery, Ala., May 17.

--Congress passed a number of bills to-day, among which are the following: ‘Organizing a Patent Office; regulating the sale of Prizes; regulating the Telegraph; authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of fifty millions, payable in twenty years, the interest not to exceed 8 per cent.; or, in lieu of the bonds, to issue twenty millions of Treasury Notes, in small sums, without interest. ’

Montgomery, Ala., May 18.

--Arkansas was admitted into the Confederacy to-day by Congress. Delegates — R. W. Johnson, A. Rust, A. H. Garland, W. W. Watkins, H. T. Thompson.

The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 20, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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The Confederate Congress.

Montgomery, Ala., May 18. --Arkansas was admitted into the Confederacy to-day by Congress. Delegates — R. W. Johnson, A. Rust, A. H. Garland, W. W. Watkins, H. T. Thompson.

Montgomery, Ala., May 18.

--Arkansas was admitted into the Confederacy to-day by Congress. Delegates — R. W. Johnson, A. Rust, A. H. Garland, W. W. Watkins, H. T. Thompson.