Chap.XII.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - CONFEDERATE.

assigned ordnance officer to this point. I inclose schedule of the quartermaster contracts assumed by the Confederate States.

I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

KENSEY JOHNS, Assistant Quartermaster.

[Inclosure.]

The State of Tennessee, acting through the governor and military and financial board, conveyes, sells, and assigns to the Confederate States of America its stores and supplies in the commissary, quartermaster's, and ordnance departments, which are specified in the schedules hereto annexed, marked (Exhibits to contract between the State of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America."

This transfer and sale embraces the stores and supplies above enumerated, which were in possession or which have been acquired since the 1st of September, 1861, and all supplies which may be received before the inventories are completed, and all issues made by the different State departments since the 1st September, 1861, or may be issued before the Government of the Confederate States shall have acquired its staff in the State of Tennessee, and shall be paid for as hereafter stipulated.

It is expected that the stores and supplies in the quartermaster's department, so far as the same may be necessary, shall be issued to and for the benefit of the troops of the Provisional Army of Tennessee mustered or to be mustered into the service of the Confederate States. For all which stores and supplies, and for all ordnance and ordnance stores in possession of the said department or acquired since that day, and for all to be delivered before the act shall be complete, the Confederate States will pay to the State of Tennessee the actual cost when such cost can be ascertained, or its market value where it cannot be ascertained. The State of Tennessee also assigns to the said Government all its contracts for arms, munitions, ordnance, and ordnance stores, for the quartermaster's and commissary supplies, the same specified in an abstract thereof, marked "Contracts with Tennessee," and delivers the originals of written contracts to said Government, which agrees to assume the position of the State of Tennessee under said contracts, to perform and discharge all its obligations under and growing out of said contracts, and fully to indemnify the said State against loss or damage growin out of the same, and the State gives to the Confederate Government the right to use its name in compelling performance of said contracts, and agrees to do all things to secure a proper compliance by contractors. The value of said supplies to be paid promptly, and the amounts to be taken into the account in a final settlement of expenses incurred by the State as contemplated in the league between the State and the Confederate States.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, September 17, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Commander Western Department C. S. A.:

DEAR SIR: I inclose a proclamation which expresses the general view of this Government.* With such modification as the state of the

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* See proclamation, September 22, 1861, p. 420.

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