July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Confederate imprint “A BILL Requiring suit to be brought against persons connected with the Cotton Bureau and Cotton Office in Texas” 3pp. octavo, March 2, 1865, and reads in part: “...WHEREAS, It is represented that certain persons conducting or connected with the business of a cotton bureau and a cotton office, so called in the State of Texas, claiming to act under authority derived from this government, or from the general commanding the Trans-Mississippi Military Department, or from some other officer of the government, have, by themselves or their agents, purchased or obtained large amounts of cotton under color of such authority, and by the use of the money, property, transportation and name of the government made great gains, and have illegally exacted and procurred from sundry persons large amounts of cotton and large sums of money , by threatening impressments, and by selling permits of exportation, and by other improper means: The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall be the duty of the District Attorney of the Confederate States, for the western district of Texas, if it shall appear that a case has arisen to which the judicial power of the Confederate States extends, to institute a suit or suits in the Confederate District Court for that district against such parties as he may deem proper, who have been connected with any such business or transactions...” More. Fine.
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