A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide payment for slaves impressed under State laws, and lost in the public service." By Mr. Baldwin; Read first and second times, and referred to Committee on the Judiciary. January 18 - Reported back, placed...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act supplemental to, and amendatory of, the several acts for the sequestration of the estates, property and effects of alien enemies, and for indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for holding elections for representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States, in States occupied by the forces of the enemy." By Mr. Heiskell, from the Judiciary Committee.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act supplemental to the several acts relating to military courts." By Mr. Gray, from the Judiciary Committee; Read first and second times, laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for the settlement of certain matters of account growing out of purchases of property as alleged by the purchases for the use of the Government, by Payne & Co., in the State of Texas." By Mr. Garland, from...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to prevent trading with the enemy or with persons resident in the United States." By Mr. Foote; Read first and second time, referred to Judiciary Committee, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to organize the Supreme Court." By Mr. Chilton, from Committee on Judiciary; Read first and second times, and made special order after Currency and Tax bills, and from day to day, and ordered to be printed by the...
A Bill: To suspend the privilege of writ of habeas corpus, in certain cases, for a limited time. November 10, 1864 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and read first and second times. December 8, 1864 - Amended, engrossed, read the third...
A Bill: Requiring suit to be brought against persons connected with the Cotton Bureau and Cotton Office in Texas. By Mr. Herbert; January 20, 1865 - Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. March 2, 1865 -...
A Bill: To prohibit dealing in the paper currency of the enemy. By Mr. Heiskell, from Committee on Judiciary; Read first and second times and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 22 December 1863
A Bill: To prevent trading with the enemy. By Mr. Heiskell, from Judiciary Committee; Read first and second times and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 22 December 1863.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act making Confederate Notes a legal tender and to prevent and punish extortion." By Mr. Foster; Read first and second times, referred to Judiciary Committee and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate...
Resolutions: Declaring the supremacy of the civil over the military law. By Mr. J. T. Leach, of North Carolina; Read first and second times, referred to the Judiciary Committee, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Erle Johnston, Jr., director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, writes to Governor Paul B. Johnson, Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin, and E.K. Collins, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Judge David Gertler sits at his desk doing paperwork, with a desk nameplate that reads, "The judiciary." His left shoe, labeled "Candidate for mayor," has been kicked off his...
cartoon by Herc Ficklen; A man labeled "House Judiciary Committee" is pulling magnetic tape (audio) from under a locked door with the presidential seal on it.
