Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-11-02
RALEIGH N. c. sATUR DAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1851.


each estate separately that the transaction in
respect to each alien enemy property be kept record.
ed and preserved separately No settlement above pro-
Vded shall however, be made until Judgment or decree OF
sequesraton shall have passed. but the court at any
Time pending litigation, require an account OF matters IN
litigation and in the possession of the Receiver and may
make such orders touching the shall protect the
interest of the parties concerned
counts of any Receiver shall be fedrespecng any
matter which has passed sequestraton the court shall
appoint day for settlement and notice thereof shall be
published cOnsecutvey for four weeks in news
paper the puce of holding the court and the clerk
OF the court shall send copy Of such newspaper to
the District Attorney of the Confederate States for the
court where the be heard and it shall be the
duty of said District Attorney attend the settlement and
represent the Government and that full true and
Just settlement is made The several settlements preced
ing the final shall be nteocutory only and may be
impeached at the final settlements which latter shall be
conclusive unless reversed or inpeached within two years.
for fraud.
SEC l2 Be further enacted That the having ju
rsdcton of the SHALL whenever sufficient is
shown therefor direct the sale # personal properly
other than slaves sequesered under this such terms
to it shall best and such sale shall pass the title
Of the person as whose property the same has been seques
tered.
SEC. IS. Be IL further enaote1, That all settle
ments Of Receivers for sequesered property shall be
recorded and copy thereof shall be forwarded BY
the clerk of the court to the Treasurer of the Confed
crate States within ten days after the decree inter-
locuory fna has been passed; and all balances found
against the Receiver shall BY him be paid into the
court subject to the order of the Treasurer of the Coued
crate States and upon the failure of the Receiver for five
and he shall be liable attachment by the and
suit upon his bond And any embezziug any money
under this shall be liable to Indictment and couvic-
'ion shall be confined at hard labor for not less than six
months than five years. in the discretion of the
court, and fined in double the amount embezzled.
SEC IA. Be 10 further enacted That the President of the
Confederate States SHALL by and with the advice and
sent of Congress- of the Senate if the appointment be
made under the permanent Government npont three dis
Commissioners learned in the law who shall hold at
the seat of two terms each year. upon notice
given, who shall sit long the business before them
shall uhn 1nt ha upAar
they adopt to hear and adudge such claims may
be brought before them by any aiding this Confedera
in the present against the United States who shall
aege that he has been put to loss under the act of the
United States in retaliation Of which this is passed.
under any other act of the United States any State
thereof authorizing the seizure condemnation consca
ton of the property of any citizen resident of the Con-
ederate States other person aiding said Confederate
States in the present against the United States and
the finding of such Commissioners in favor of any such
claim shall be prma cie evidence of the Ofhe
demand and whenever Congress shall pass the claim, the
shall be paid from any money in the Treasury deriv
ed from sequestatiQn under this act PrO1d. That said
Board of Commissioners shall not continue beyond the
ganzation of the Court of Claims provided for BY the
stitution which Court of Claims the duties herein pro-
vded to be discharged by Commissioners shall belong
upon the organization uf raid court The salaries of said
Commissioners shall be at the rate of two thousand five
hundred dollars per annum and shall be paid from the
Treasury of the COnederacy And it shall be the duty of
the Attorney General his assistant represent the in
teests of this Government in all arising under this
act before said Board of Commissioners.
SEC l5 Be tatler enacted, That all the expenses in
CURED in proceedings under this shall be paid from the
sequestered fund.- aud the Judges in settling with
Receivers, shall make TO them proper allowances Of
pensaton taking two and half per cent receipts and
the amount expenditures reasonable cpmpensa
tun in all The fees of the officers Of shall be
such as are allowed by law for similar services In other
cases To be paid however only from the sequestered fund.-
PTOUidei That all sums realized by any Receiver in
year for his services exceeding five thousand dollars shall
be paid into the Confederate Treasury for the Of the
Confederacy.
SEc Is. Be it further enacted That the Attorney Gene
thprU sp llpd shall me
the necessities of the case.
Sac II. Be ftItr enacted That appeals may lie from
any final decision of the court under this law u the
manner and within the time is now or hereafter
may be by law prescribed fnr appeals in other civil
in this law includes all private corporations; and in all
cases. wi corporations become parties and this law
quires oath to be made it shall be made by officer
OF such corporation
SEC le BE further enacted That the courts are vested
with jurisdiction and required by this tn settle all part
nershps heretofore existing between citizen and who
is aen enemy TO separate the interest OF the alien
N.Y. and to sequesirate it, And SHALL also, all joint
rights when alien enemy concerned and sequesrae
the interest OF such alien enemy
SEC 90 Be it further enacted That in all cases of ad.
minstraOu of matter thing, under this act, the
court having jurisdiction may make such orders touching
the preservation Of the property effects under the drc
tion control of the Receiver inconsistent with the
foregoing provisions as to it shall proper. And the
Receiver may at me ask and have the instructions OF
the court or judge respecting his conduct in the DISPOSE
tion or management o any property effects under his
control.
SEC 81 Be it further enacted That the Treasury notes
of this Confedeacy shall be receivable payment of all
purchases Of property effects sold under this act
SEc 22 Be further enacted. That nothing in this act
shall be construed destroy impair the lien other right
Of any creditor citizen resident of either Of the Con-
federate States other person. citizen resident
Of any country State or Territory with which this Confed
eacy is in friendship and which person is not in hostility
to this COnederacy And any lien or debt claimed against
any alien enemy within the meaning of this act shall be
prupounded and filed in the court in which the proceedings
of sequestraon had within twelve months from the
institution of such proceedings for sequestion and the
n O be mad