The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-27 00:00:00

" Sec. 6. That all vessels, goods and effects, the
property of any citizen of the Confederate States,
or of persons resident within and under the protec-
tion of the Confederate States, or of persons perma-
nently within the territories, and under the protec-
tion of any foreign Prince, Government, or State in
amity with the Confederate States, which shall have
been captured by the United States, and which shall
be recaptured by vessels commissioned as aforesaid,
shall be restored to the lawful owners, upon pay-
ment by them of a just and reasonable salvage, to
be determined by the mutual agreement of the
parties concerned, or by the decree of any court
having jurisdiction, according to the nature of each
case, agreeably to the provisions established by law.
And such salvage shall be distributed among the
owners, officers, and crews of the vessels commis-
sioned as aforesaid, and making such captures, ac-
cording to any written agreement which shall be
made between them ; and in case of no such agree-
ment, then in the same manner and upon the prin-
ciples hereinbefore provided in case of capture.
" Sec. 7. That before breaking bulk of any vessel
which shall be captured as aforesaid, or other dis-
posal or conversion thereof, or of any articles which
shall be found on board the same, such captured
vessel, goods or effects, shall be brought in some
port of the Confederate States, or of a nation or
State in amity with the Confederate States, and
shall be proceeded against before a competent tri-
bunal ; and after condemnation and forfeiture
thereof shall belong to the owners, officers, and
crew of the vessel capturing the same, and be dis-
tributed as before provided ; and in the case of all
captured vessels, goods, and effects, which shall be
brought within the jurisdiction of the Confederate
States, the district courts of the Confederate States
shall have exclusive, original cognizance thereof,
as in civil causes of admiralty and maritime juris-
diction ; and the said court or the courts, being
courts of the Confederate States, into which such
causes shall be removed, and in which they shall be
finally decided, shall and may decree restitution, in
whole or in part, when the capture shall have been
made without 'just cause; and, if made without
probable cause, may order and decree damages and
costs to the party injured, for which the owners
and eommanders of the vessels making such cap-
tures, and also the vessels, shall be liable.
" Sec. 8. That all persons found on board any cap-
tured vessels, or on board any recaptured vessel, shall
be reported to the collector of the port in the Confede •
rate States in which they shall first arrive, and
shall be delivered into the custody of the marshal
of the district, or some court of military officer
of the Confederate States, or of any State in or
near such port, who shall take charge of their safe
keeping and support at the expense of the Confe-
derate States.

" Sec. 9. That the President of the Confederate
States is hereby authorized to establish and order
suitable instructions for the better governing and
directing the conduct of the vessels so commissioned,
their officers and crews, copies of which shall be
delivered by the collector of the Customs to the
commanders when they shall give bonds as before
provided.
" Sec. 10. That a bounty shall be paid by the
Confederate States of 20 dols. for each person on
board any ship or vessel belonging to the United
States at the commencement of an engagement,
which shall be burnt, sunk, or destroyed by any
vessel commissioned as aforesaid which shall be of
equal or inferior force, the same to be divided as in
other cases of prize money, and a bounty of 25
dols shall be paid to the owners, officers, and crews
of the private armed vessels, commissioned as afore-
said, for each and every prisoner by them captured
and brought into port, and delivered to an agent
authorised to receive them, in any port of the Con-
federate States ; and the Secretary of the Treasury
is hereby authorised to pay or cause to be paid to
the owners and crews of such private armed ves-
sels, commissioned as aforesaid, or their agent, the
bounties herein provided.
" Sec. 11. That the commanding officer of every
vessel having a commission or letters of marque and
reprisal, during the present hostilities between the
Confederate States and the United States, shall
keep a regular journal, containing a true and exact
amount of hia daily proceedings and transactions
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time of his stay there, and the cause thereof; the
prizes he shall take, and the nature and probable
value thereof; the time and places when and where
taken, and in what manner he shall dispose of the
same ; the ships or vessels he shall fall in with ;
the time and places when and where he shall meet
with them, and his observations and remarks there-
on ; also, of whatever else shall occur to him, or
any of his officers or marines, or be discovered by
examination or conference with any marines or pas-
sengers of or in any other ships or vessels, or by any
other means, touching the fleets, vessels, and forces
of the United States, their posts and places of sta-
tion and destination, strength, numbers, intents,
and designs, and such commanding officer shall im-
mediately on his arrival in any port of the Con-
federate States, from or during the continuance of
any voyage or cruise, produce his commission for
such vessel, and deliver up such journal so kept as
aforesaid, signed with his proper name and hand-
writing, to the collector or other chief officer of the
Customs at or nearest to such port ; the truth of
which journal shall be verified by the oath of the
commanding officer for the time being, and such
collector or other chief officer of the Customs shall,
immediately on the arrival of such vessel, order the
proper officer of the Customs to go on board and
take an account of the officers and men, the number
and nature of the guns, and whatever else shall
occur to him on examination material to be known,
and no such vessel shall be permitted to sail out of
port again until such journal shall have been de&
livered up, and a certificate obtained, under the
hand of such collector or other chief officer of the
Customs, that she is manned and armed according to
her commission, and upon delivery of such certifi-
cate, any former certificate of a like nature which
shall have been obtained by the commander of such
vessel shall be delivered up.
" Sec. 12. That the commanders of vessels having

letters of marque and reprisal, as aforesaid, neglect-
ing to keep a journal as aforesaid, or wilfully mak-
ing fraudulent entries therein, or obliterating the
record of any material transactions therein where
the interest of the Confederate States is concerned,
or refusing to produce and deliver such journal,
commission, or certificate pursuant to the preceding
section of this Act, then and in such cases the com-
missions or letters of marque and reprisal of such
vessels shall be liaLle to be revoked, and such com-
manders respectively shall forfeit for every such
offence the sum of 1,000 dole., one moiety thereof to
the use of the Confederate States, and the other to
the informer.
" Sec. 13. That the owners or commanders of ves-
sels having letters of marque and reprisal as afore-
said who shall violate any of the acts of Con-
gress for the collection of , the revenue of
the Confederate States, and for the preven-
tion of smuggling, shall forfeit the commis-
sion or letters of marque and reprisal, and they and
the vessels owned or commanded by them shall be
liable to all the penalties and forfeitures attaching
to merchant vessels in like cases.
" Sec. 14. That on all goods, wares, and mer-
chandise captured and made goods and lawful prize
of war, by any private armed ship having commis-
sion or letters of marque and reprisal under this
act, and brought into the Confederate States, there
shall be allowed a deduction of 331 per cent. on
the amount of duties imposed by laws.
" Sec. 15. That 5 per cent. on the net amount
(after deducting all charges and expenditures) of
the prize money arising from captured vessels and
cargoes, and on the net amount of the salvage of
vessels and cargoes recaptured by the private
armed vessels of the Confederate States, shall be
secured and paid over to the collector or other chief
officer of the Customs, at the port or place in the
Confederate States at which such captured or re-
captured vessels may arrive, or to the Consuels_odr.
other public agent of the Confederate States,
ing at the port or place, not within the Confederater
States, at which such captured or recaptured yestiel