To the Senate and House of Representatives.
I herewith transmit for your consideration communications from the Heads of the several Departments, submitting certain estimates.
I recommend appropriations of the sums for the purposes specified.
To the Senate of the Confederate States of America.
I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of War in response to a resolution of your honorable body inquiring by what authority military officers along the several railroad lines are seizing produce and provisions, the property of private individuals, and prohibiting the transportation of produce and provisions from one State to another.
Executive Office, Richmond, Va., Oct. 13, 1862.
To the Senate and House of Representatives.
I herewith transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting certain estimates.
I recommend an appropriation for the purposes of the amount designated.
VETO MESSAGES.
Richmond, October 6, 1862.
To the Senate of the Confederate States of America.
I return, without my approval, the bill which originated in your body, entitled "An Act to amend an act for the establishment and organization of a general staff for the Army of the Confederate States of America," approved February 26th, 1861.
By this act it is provided that "hereafter, the Quartermaster General shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier general."
As Congress has passed another act (since the one now under
