3d. This constitution and the laws of the Confederate States may, in persuance thereof, and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the Confederate States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound therein, by any thing in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

4th. The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the Confederate States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as qualification to any office of public trust under the Confederate States.

5th. The enumeration in the constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people of the several States.

6th. The powers not delegated to the Confederate States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof.

ARTICLE VII.

§ 1. The ratification of the convention of five

States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this constitution between the States so ratifying the

same.

When five States shall have ratified this constitution in a manner before specified, the Congress under the provisional constitution shall prescribe the time for holding the election for President and VicePresident, and for the meeting of the electoral college, and for counting the votes, and for inaugurating the President. They shall also prescribe the time for holding the first election of members of Congress under this constitution, and the time for assembling the same.

Until the assembling of such Congress, the Congress under the provisional constitution shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them, not extending beyond the time limited by the Constitution of the provisional government.

Adopted unanimously, March 11, 1861.

THE CONFEDERATE CABINET AND

CONGRESS.

President JEFFERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi.
Vice-President-ALEX. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia.
Secretary of State—JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, of La.
Secretary of War-JAMES A. SEDDON, of Va.
Sec. of Treasury-CHAS. G. MEMMINGER, of S. C.
Sec. of Navy-STEPHEN R. MALLORY, of Florida.
Attorney-General-THOMAS H. WATTS, of Ala.
Postmaster-General-JAMES H. REAGAN, of Texas.

FIRST REGULAR CONGRESS-SENATE.

Congress met at Richmond, on the 2d Monday in Jan., 1863. A. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia, President.

R. M. T. HUNTER, of Virginia, President pro tem.