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South Carolina to be paid for the troops employed in Charleston Harbor…

A RESOLUTION in regard to military expenditures made by the State of South Carolina.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the expenditures made by the State of South Carolina for the pay and maintenance of the troops employed in the defense of Charleston Harbor, under the command of Brigadier-General Beauregard, were intended to be provided for by an act making appropriations for the support of 3,000 men for twelve months, to be called into service at Charleston, S. C., under the third and fourth sections of an act of the Congress to raise provisional forces for the Confederate States of America, and for other purposes; and that the amount of such expenditures be audited by the proper officer of the Treasury Department, and that the amount which shall be found due be paid to the State of South Carolina from the appropriation made by the act aforesaid.
Approved May 10, 1861.
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