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CIVIL WAR - Secession Convention. The State of South Carolina. At a Convention of the people of the State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia, on the seventeenth day of December ... An Ordinance Concerning Powers lately vested in the Congress of the United States. [Charleston: Evans & Cogswell], 31 December 1860. Broadside (347 x 210 mm). Signed in print by President D. F. Jamison and attested to by clerk B. F. Arthur. Unbound, as issued. Condition: folds, burn marks and marginal loss at the head. rare ordinance of the south carolina secession convention. This order, the seventh of the Convention (the first being secession eleven days prior), transfers all powers "heretofore delegated to the Congress of the United States" to "the General Assembly, except that during the existence of this Convention, the powers of the General Assembly shall not extend, without the direction of this Convention, to any of these subjects, viz: Duties and Imposts, the Post-Office, the Declaration of War, Treaties, Confederacy with other States, Citizenship and Treason." ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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