Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-29

upon the principles herenbetore provided in cases of capture.
 SEC 7 That before breaking bulk of any ves- se which shall he captured as aforesaid, or other disposal or conversion thereof, or of any articles
 which may be found on board the same, such cap tured vessel goods or effects shall be brought into some port of the Confederate states. or of nation or state in amty with the Confederate States, and 1 shall be proceeded against before competent trl- buna; and after cond emnation and forfeiture there of shall belong to the owners, officers ana crews ol the vessel capturing the same, and be distributed 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 cognlzance thereof, as Ill civil causes of admiralty and maratlme jurisdiction; and the said courts or the courts, being courts ot the Confederate States, into which such shall be removed, and in which they shall be finally de- cided shall and may decree restitution in whole or in part, when the capture shall have been made without just cause. And il made without probable cause, may order and decree damages and costs to | the party injured for which the owners and con- manders of the vessels making such captures, and also the vessels, shall be liable.
 l SEC. 8. That ali persons found on board any captured vessels or on board any re-captured yes sel, shall be reported to the collector of the port in the Confederate States in which they shall first rive, and shall be delivered into the custody of the ulSbFlct, or SOuIc COufl or officer of the Confederate States, or of any state in such port who shall take charge of their safe keeping and support, at the expense of the 1 Confederate 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 comms- stoned, their officers and crews, copies of which shall be delivered by the collector of the customs to the commanders, when they shall give bond as | provided.
 SEC 10. That bounty shall be paid by the Confederate States of 520 for each person board any armed ship or vessel belonging to the United States at the commencement of an engagement, which shall be burnt sunk destroyed by any yes | sel commissioned as aforesaid, which shall be of equal or inferior force the same to be divided as in other cases of prize money; and bounty of S25 shall be paid to the owners, officers and crews of | the private armed vessels commissioned as afOre- said, for each and every prisonerby them captured and brought into port, and delivered to agent authorized to receive them, i'll any port of the Con federate States; and the Secretary of the Treasury
 is hereby authorized to pay to be paid to the owners officers and crews of such private armed vessels commissioned aforesaid, their agent, the bounties herein provided.
 SEC. II. That the commanding officer of every vessel having a commission or letters of marque and reprisal during the present hostiities between the Confederate States and the United States shall keep a regular journal, containing true and exact account of his daily proceedings and transactions with such vessel and the crew thereof; the ports and places he shall put into or cast anchor in the time of his stay there and the cause thereof; the prizes he shall take and the nature and probable value thereof; the times and places when and where taken, and in what manner he shall dispose of the same the ships vessels he shall fall in with the times and places when and where he shall meet with them, and his observations and remarks there al nf yYha ais hal tO i'm Or any of his officers marines, be discovered by examination conference with any marines IS sengers of 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 station and destination, strength, numbers, in 1 tents and designs; and such commanding officer shall, immediately on his arrival in any port of the | Confederate States, from or during the continue ance of any voyage or cruise, produce his commits sion for such vessel, and deliver up such journal so kept as aforesaid, signed with his proper name and hand writing, to the collector other chief officer of the customs at 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 other chief officer of the customs shall, immediately the arrival of such vessel, order the proper officer of the customs to go on board and take accOnnt 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 delivered up, and 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 certificate, any former certificate of like nature which shall have have been obtained by the commander of such vessel shall be delivered up. SEC. l2. That the commanders of vessels hav- ing letters of marque and reprlsal as aforesaid, neglecting to keep journal as aforesaid, or will fully making fraudulent entries therein, or obliter- atng the record of any material transaction con- taned therein, where the interest of the Confede- rate States is concerned refusing to produce and deliver such journal, commission certificate, pur suant the preceding section of this act, then and in such the commissions or letters of marque and reprsal of such vessels shall be liable to be | revoked; and such commanders respectively shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Sl,0O0, | one moiety thereof to the use of the Confederate i States, and the other to the infoTmer.
 | SEC. l3. That the owners commanders of yes sels having letters of marque and reprsa as atore said, who shall violate any of the acts of Congress l for the collection of the revenue of the Contede- rate States, and for the prevention of smuggling shall forfeit the commission or letters ot marque and reprsal, and they and the vessels owned or commanded by them shall be liable to all the pen
 alties and forleitures attaching to merchant yes l sels in like cases.
 SEC. l4. That on all goods, wares and mcrchan- disc captured and made good and lawful prizes ot war, by any private armed ship having commission or letters of marque and reprisal under this act, and brought into the Confederate States, there shall be allowed deduction of s 3 per cent on the amount of duties imposed by law.
 SEC. l5 That five per centum on the net amount | (after deducting all charges and expenditures) ol the prize money arising from captured vessels and | cargoes, and on the net amount of the salvage or vessels and cargoes re-captured by private armed vessels of the Confederat States, shall be secured
 and paid over to the collector other chief Othcer
 of the customs, at the port or place in the Conte
 derate States at which such captured or recaptur-
 ed vessels may arrive to the consul or other pub
 lie agent of the Confederate States residing at the
 port or place not within the Confederate States at
 which such captured or re-captured vessel may ar | rive. And the monejs arising theretrom shall be
 held and are hereby pledged by the government o1
 the Confederate States fund for the support
 and maintenance of the widows and orphans oi
 such persons as may be slain, and for the support
 and maintenance of such persons as may be wound
 ed and disabled on board of the private armed yes
 sels commissioned as aforesaid, in any engagement
 with the enemy, to be assigned and distributed il
 such manner as shall hereafter be provided by law
 Approved May 6, l86l
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