Approved, Tishomingo, May 25, 1861. C. HARRIS, Governor. [196] See _footnote_ 175. [197] General Files, _Cherokee, 1859-1865_, C515; _Official Records_, first ser., vol. xiii, 492. [198] General Files, _ibid._; _Official Records_, first ser., vol. xiii, 492-493. [199] The text of this is to be found in various places. The most convenient of such places are, _Official Records_, first ser., vol. xiii, 489-490 and Moore's _Rebellion Record_, vol. ii, 145-146. A manuscript copy of the proclamation may be found in General Files, _Cherokee, 1859-1865_, C515; and a synopsis of its contents in Moore's _Rebellion Record_, vol. ii, 1-2. [200] Ross gave the citizens of Boonsboro their direct answer, May 18, 1861 [General Files, _Cherokee, 1859-1865_, C515; _Official Records_, first ser., vol. xiii, 494-495]. [201] The official list of members of the Confederate congresses can be found in _Official Records_, fourth ser., vol. iii, 1185-1191. [202] Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, _Journal_, vol. i, 70. [203] --_Ibid._, 81. [204] Under the second section of the law of February 21, 1861, Indian affairs had been left for general supervision to the War Department [_Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States and Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress_, 48]. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, created by the law of March 15, 1861, was made a bureau of the War Department. [205] Provisional Congress _Journal_, vol. i, 142; Richardson, _Messages and Papers of the Confederacy_. [206] _Provisional and Permanent Constitutions_, 133-134. [207] Provisional Congress _Journal_, vol. i, 154. [208] Hubbard had occupied other and earlier positions of importance; but it must certainly have been upon the basis of the experience gained in filling this one that his nomination for commissioner of Indian affairs was made. Hubbard had been a state senator, a representative in the twenty-sixth and in the thirty-first United States congresses, and presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844 and on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860 [_Biographical Congressional Directory_, _1774-1903_, 608]. [209]