Manuscript in ink, entitled "Enrolled, An Act to prohibit Officers, Agents, and Members of Congress from Making Government Contracts," introducing a bill to the Confederate Congress, signed by President of the Congress Howell Cobb and Secretary J.J. Hooper, 4 pp, written on recto of first leaf only, docketed to verso of second leaf, 453 x 292 mm, [Richmond, VA], February 15, 1862, folded, split along one fold, minor soiling. RARE MANUSCRIPT CONFEDERATE BILL INTRODUCED IN THE CONGRESS, signed by Howell Cobb, as president, likely in the hand of secretary J.J. Hooper, who also signs. With procurement for the war disorganized and chaotic, this bill was an attempt to stem the tide of fraud, at least within the government, and passed as "A Bill to Prohibit Officers, Agents, and Members of Congress from Making Government Contracts."
Manuscript in ink, entitled "Enrolled, An Act to prohibit Officers, Agents, and Members of Congress from Making Government Contracts," introducing a bill to the Confederate Congress, signed by President of the Congress Howell Cobb and Secretary J.J. Hooper, 4 pp, written on recto of first leaf only, docketed to verso of second leaf, 453 x 292 mm, [Richmond, VA], February 15, 1862, folded, split along one fold, minor soiling. RARE MANUSCRIPT CONFEDERATE BILL INTRODUCED IN THE CONGRESS, signed by Howell Cobb, as president, likely in the hand of secretary J.J. Hooper, who also signs. With procurement for the war disorganized and chaotic, this bill was an attempt to stem the tide of fraud, at least within the government, and passed as "A Bill to Prohibit Officers, Agents, and Members of Congress from Making Government Contracts."
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