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Congressional Summary.

In the Senate, Friday, a bill from the house regulating Congressional elections in certain Indian nations was passed. Also, a House bid to displace from the Quartermaster's and Commissary's Departments all clerks liable to military service, and to authorise the detail of such disabled soldiers as may be necessary for service in the offices of Quartermasters or Commissaries.

A Senate sill to confer upon the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance the pay, and Brigadier-General in the P. A., was discussed and rejected.

The House bill, passed early in the session, repealing certain clauses of the Exemption act, was taken up, and amended by the substitution of the 13th and 14th sections of the Senate Exemption bill, (rejected yesterday,) less the paragraph exampling The bill as amended was passed. The Senate then resolved into secret session.

In the House, the greater portion of the morning session was spent in considering reports from the Committee on Printing. A number of bills received from that committee were acted upon and passed.

The committee on Flag and Seal reported the following bill, which, after some discussion, was agreed to:

The Congress of the Confederate States of America de chact that the goal of the Confederate States shall consist of an equestrian portrait of Washington, (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the Capitol square at Richmond,) surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the South, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat, and rice,) having around its margin the words, "Seal of the Confederate States of America, 22d Feb. 1863, together with the motto:


"See Duke Vincemus."

[With God for our leader, we will conquer]

The House then went into secret session, and took up the Tax bill for consideration.

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