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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 [Confederate act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00990 Author/Creator: Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Manuscript document signed Date: February 18, 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 26 cm, Width: 28.5 cm Order a Copy

Passed by the Confederate Congress, Thomas Bocock as speaker of the House, and R.M.T. Hunter as president pro tempore of the Senate and approved by Davis as president. Authorizes the export of government-owned "cotton, tobacco, and other produce and merchandise." Docketed: "Secret." Passed by the Senate on 23 November 1864 and by the House of Representatives on 18 February 1865.

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Bocock, Thomas S., 1815-1891
Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro, 1809-1887

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