A RESOLUTION to provide for the removal of the seat of Government.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That this Congress will adjourn on Tuesday next, to meet again on the 20th day of July, at Richmond, Va.; and that a committee of three members of this Congress be appointed to make suitable arrangements for the accommodation of this Congress and of the several Executive Departments.
Resolved, further, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the several Executive Departments, with the archives thereof, to be removed, at such time between this and the 20th day of July next as he may determine, to Richmond: Provided, however, That in case of any public emergency which may, in the judgment of the President, render it impolitic to meet in Richmond, the President shall have power by proclamation to call the Congress together at some other convenient place to be selected by him.
Approved May 21, 1861