[Senate Bill, No. 128.J
SENATE, December 2, 1-864.-—Read first ana second times and
ordered to be placed upon the calendar and printed.
[By Mr. Sparrow from Committee on Military affairs.j
ACT
To authorize the President to furnish supplies to Confederate citizt^
held as prisoners by the Government of the United States.
1 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America
2 do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to
3 direct that any loyal citizen of the Confederate States, who may
4 be held as a prisoner by the United States, shall be furnished,
5 whilst so imprisoned, such necessary supplies as may be furnished
6 to prisoners of war in their hands.
1 Sec. 2. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and
2 the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas-
3 ury not otherwise appropriated, for procuring said supplies and
4 paying the expense of their transportation and distribution.