commissions of the same grade for at least the period of enlistment of the troops, and the Governor of the State be authorized to make arrangements accordingly for such transfer with the President of the Confederate States, and to endeavor to preserve, if practicable, the rank of all the officers.

RESOLUTIONS to provide for tendering a volunteer force to the Confederate States.

Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the sudden call which was gallantly answered by the First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, now in the service, and the valuable services which that regiment has rendered, give it a just claim to an honorable discharge as soon as the pressing exigency of state of affairs in the judgment of the Governor permit; but that if it should be the desire of the said regiment to prolong its service, then it shall have the privilege of being the first corps transferred to the service of the Confederate States, upon making the necessary change in their therm of enlistment; and that if the whole regiment shall not desire to extend the term, but a number of companies and men sufficient, with the aid of prompt recruiting to form an efficient regiment, shall choose to do so, they shalll have the same privilege and shall retain the regimental name and colors.

Resolved, That if the services of the First Regiment shall not be needed in the field for the whole of their term of six months, the Governor may at his discretion permit the whole or any part of the regiment to return to their homes, subject to his call whenever it may be requisite during the said term, their pay and allowance being suspended while so at home, and that in the event of a treaty of peace being made between the Confederate States and the United States before the expiration of the said term of Governor shall be authorized to disband the said regiment.

Resolved, That whenever a volunteer force shall be called for by the Government of the Confederate States, the Governor be authorized to call for of the twelve months' volunteers already organized as may be needed; and that if the said regiments shall consent to go into the service of the Confederate States they shall be transferred accordingly; and if the whole of any regiment shall not so consent, but companies and men enough shall do so to form, by aid of recruiting, and efficient regiment, such regiment shall be transferred in the same manner, provided that preference shall be given to the said regiments in the order in which they now rank.

Resolved, That in case a sufficient number be not raised from these organizations, then any other companies, battalions, or regiments are hereby authorized to volunteer and tender their services till the requisite number is supplied and received.

A true copy*.

B. F. ARTHUR,

Clerk of Convention.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, Numbers 11.
Charleston, S. C., April 10, 1861.

I. Colonel Louis T. Wigfall, Colonel James Chesnut, Jr., Govenor John L. Manning, and Captain Arthur M. Manigault, having offered their serv-

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* The document containig the foregoing resolutions (as here printed) is without date, but, according to the journal of the South Carolina convention, the committee on engrossed ordinances reported April 9, 1861, that the resolutions had been "duly engrossed and ratified by the signature of the president and the attestaton of the clerk of the committee".

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