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Joint Resolution authorizing Free Negroes to be carried out of the State, to be engaged in the Manufacture of Salt Petre and other Munitions of War. 1861 146 (1861.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0795 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS No. 8.-Resolution concerning a Volunteer Company in the City of Peters- burg. Adopted blareh 15, 1862. Company from Resolved by the general assembly, that permission be and is a rd hereby granted to raise a company of riflemen, not less than one hundred strong, from the city of Ictersburg: provided said company furnish itself with rifles. And the governor is hereby authorized to receive the said company into service for the war, as a part of Vir- ginia's quota: provided said company is tendered to the governor, satisfactorily armed, on or before the twenty-fifth of March eighteen hundred and sixty-two. No. 9.-Joint Resolution authorizing Free Negroes to be carried out of the State, to be engaged in the Manufacture of Salt Potro and other Munitions of War. Adopted January 7, 16S2, U'reamblo Whereas the manufacture of salt petro and other munitions of war is of prime necessity to the Confederate States : And whereas the general assembly are anxious to afford every facility in their power to enterprising and patriotic citizens engaged in such manu- facture: And whereas it has been represented to the general as- sembly, that the free negro population of tIme state may be used advantageously in said manufacture, outside of the limits of Vir- ginia, by voluntary agreements on their part: Therefore, Melegated 1. Resolved by the general assembly, that J. Marshall McCue, or ipowers any other citizen of the comnionwealth engaged in the manufacture of salt petre or other munitions of war, be authorized to carry out of the state of Virginia to any other state of the Confederacy, any num- ber of free negroes for the purpose of manufacturing salt petre or other munitions of war. Term of oxpira- 2. De it further resolved, that at the expiration of the term for lion which said negroes may agree to hire themselves, liberty is reserved to them to return to the commonwealth of Virginia. No. 10.-tesolution in relation to the Pay of Non-commissioned OfiPOrT4. and Privates. Adopted January 1, 186. Inctease of pay Resolved by the general assembly, that the senators from Virginia oa oncomts siooed officers, in the congress of the Confederate States be instructed, and the a members of the house of representatives ho requested to use their influence to procure the passage of aslaw to increase the pay of the non-coumnirioned officers and privates in the confederate army fou, dollars per month during the eiisting war.

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