The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Confederate Congress.

The following named bills were yesterday approved by the President:

‘ An act to establish a mail route on the Gulf Railroad, from Grover's Station, in Louisiana, to Monticello, in Florida.

An act authorizing the payment to Charles P. Pollard, President of the Alabama and Florida Railroad, the sum of $2,379.80, being the difference of a duty assessed on a certain amount of railroad iron withdrawn from the warehouse, at Pensacola, Florida, in the month of April last.

A bill making appropriations for the public defiance.

1. Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. That there be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending 18th February, 1862, the sum of fifty-seven millions of dollars, for the pay of officers and privates in the Army, volunteers and militia in the public service of the Confederate States; for quartermaster's supplies of all kinds, transportation, and other necessary expenses; for the purchase of subsistence and commissary property; for the ordnance service, in all its branches; for engineering, and for the surgical and medical service of the Army in all supplies and necessary expenditures.
2. Sec. 2. That the above appropriations shall be distributed amongst the several objects of appropriation above specified, in such proportions as shall be determined by the Secretary of War, with the approval of the President.

A bill authorizing the Secretary of War to direct the employment, when deemed necessary, of nurses and cooks for the hospitals; the persons so employed to be subject to military control, and to be paid as enlisted men and volunteers. The bill appropriates for the payment of such cooks and nurses the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

A bill appropriating fifty thousand dollars for the services of physicians employed in conjunction with the medical staff of the army.

A bill authorizing payment to be made for certain horses purchased for the army by Col A. W. McDonald.

A bill to provide for local defense and special service. It authorizes the President to accept the services of volunteers for the defence of exposed localities, for any term of service within his discretion.

A bill to Increase the Corps of artillery, and for other purposes.

1. Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there be added to the Corps of Artillery, Confederate States Army, one Lieutenant Colonel and two Majors, with the pay and allowances authorized by existing laws for those grades respectively.
2. Sec. 2. That the President be and he is hereby authorized to appoint in addition to the storekeepers, authorized by the fifth section of the Act of May 16th, 1861, for the establishment and organization of the army of the Confederate States, as many military storekeepers of ordnance, with the pay and allowances of a captain of infantry, as the safe keeping of the public property may require, not to exceed in all four storekeepers, who shall, previous to entering on duty, give bond with good and sufficient security, in such sums as the Secretary of War may direct, fully to account for all moneys and public property which they may receive.
3. Sec. 3. That the President be and he is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment the interests of the service may require, and where officers of the army cannot be assigned to these duties to appoint one or more super intended is of armories for the fabrication of small arms, whose salary shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with allowances for quarters and fuel, at the rate fixed for a major in the army. And that the President be also authorized to appoint two or more master armorers, with a salary not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum, with allowances for quarters and fuel at the rate fixed for a captain in the army.
4. Sec. 4. That during the existing war, the President may, as Commander in Chief of the Confederate forces, appoint, at his discretion, for his personal staff, two Aides-de-Camp, with the rank, pay and allowances of a Colonel of Cavalry.
5. Sec. 5. That hereafter there shall be allowed one additional Sergeant to each company in the service of the Confederate States, making in all five sergeants per company, who shall receive the same pay and allowances as are provided by existing laws for that grade.

An Act Supplemental to an Act to put in operation the Government under the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America.

1. Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That where, in any State of this Confederacy, there shall be no regular session of the Legislature to be held prior to the 18th of February, 1862, it is hereby provided, in obedience to the Seventh Article of the Permanent Constitution, that the election of Senators for the first Congress may be made at any special or extra session of the Legislature of such State prior to the said 18th of February, 1862.

A resolution was passed authorising the Secretary of War to furnish all volunteer cavalry companies mustered into service with all necessary equipments.

Also a resolution appropriating fifty thousand dollars, for the establishment and support of military hospitals during the rr year ending February 18, 1862.

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