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6
Constitution for the Provisional Government
SECTION 7.
1. The importation of African negroes from any foreign country
other than the slave-holding States of the United States, is hereby
forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually
prevent the same.
2. The Congress shall also have power to prohibit the introduction
of slaves from any State not a member of this Confederacy.
3. The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended
unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public
safety may require it.
-1. No Bill of Attainder, or expost facto law, shall be passed.
5. No preference shall be given, by any regulation of commerce
or revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another: nor shall
vessels bound to or from one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay
duties, to another.
6. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence
of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and
account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall
be published from time to time.
7. Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury, unless
it be asked for by the President or some one of the heads of the
Departments, except for the purpose of paying its own expenses and
contingencies.
8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the Confederacy; and
no person holding any office of profit or trust under it, shall, without
the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument,
office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign
State.
9. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of
such grievances as the delegated powers of this Government may
warrant it to consider and redress.
10. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a
free State, the right of the people t6 keep and bear arms shall not
be infringed.
11. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house
without the consent of the owner: nor in time of war, but in a manner
to be prescribed by law.
2. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 5, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6727/m1/50/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .