Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, called on state government to “assume the payment of the tax known as the war tax, [which was] levied by the government of the Confederate States upon the people of North Carolina, by an act of the Confederate Congress, ratified on the — day of —, 1861.”

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Item citation: “An Ordinance To Provide For The Assumption and Payment Of The Confederate Tax.” Ordinances of the State Convention. Raleigh : W.W. Holden, printer to the state, 1863. VC342.2 1861or, from the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill.