Non-partisan (constitutionalist) President Davis signs the Mississippi River Free Navigation Act to foster amicable relations with the slave States still in the Union.
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Authority:
Provisional Confederate Constitution, Article I, Section 6 [Clause 3]
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csapro.asp
References:
William C. Davis, A Government of Our Own: The Making of The Confederacy, (New York: The Free Press, 1994), 201.
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