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6. The powers not delegated to the Confederate States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively or to the people thereof1?.
Artiele VII.
-U. art, VO.
When five States shall have ratified this Constitution in the manner
before specified, the Congress, under the provisional Constitution, shall
prescribe the time for holding the election of President and Vice Presi-
dent, and for the meeting of the electoral college, and for counting the
votes and inaugurating the President. They shall also prescribe the
time for holding the first election of members of Congress under this
Constitution and the time for assembling the same. Until the assemb-
ling of such Congress, the Congress under the provisional Constitution
shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them; not ex-
tending beyond the time limited by the Constitution ‘of the Provisional
(Government.
Adopted, unanimously, March 11, 1861.
19 Bis auf das Schlusswort = U. Amendment 10.