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!. sEQUEsTRATIoN ACT.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
RICHMOND, 18th September, 1851.
instructions to Receiuers under the Act entitled
An Act for. the Sequestration Of the Estates:
Property and Effects Of Alien Eaemies, and for
tAe Indemnity Of citizens of the Confederate
States and persons aiding the same in the erist-
ing aoar against the United States "-Approued
3Oth March, 1851. ~
!. The following persons are subject to the opera
ton OF the law as alien enemies
1st All citizens of the United States, except citi
zens or residents of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky
Missouri. or the District of Columbia or the Ter
ritories of New Mexico Arizona, or the Indian Ter
ritory south of Kansas.
End. All persons who have domicH within the
States with which this Government is at war, no
matter whether they be citizens or not: Thus the
subjects of Great Britain, France or other neutral
nations, who have domlcil or are carrying on bust
ness or traffic within the States at with this
Confederacy, are alien enemies under the Law.
Sd. All such citizens or residents of the States of
/, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri, and of
the territories of New Mexico Arizona and the In
dian Territory south of Kansas and of the District
of Columbia, shall commit actual hostiIities
against the Confederate States, or aid or abet the
United States in the existing war against The Con-
federatc States
II. Immediately after taking your oath of Office
you will take possession of all the property, Of every
nature and kind whatsoever, within your District,
belonging to alien enemies as above defined.
III. You will forthwith apply to the Clerk of the
Court for Writs of Garnishment, under the Sth
section of the law, and will PROFOUND to the Garn
lshees the interrogatores of which form is annex
ed. These nterrogatories you will PROFOUND to the
following persons, viz:
LIST. All attorneys and counsellors practicing law
within your district
I'd. The presidents and cashiers of all banks, and
nal nd,
other corporations within your district
Sd. All agents of foreign corporations, insurance
agents. commission merchants engaged IN foreign
trade agents of foreign mercantile houses, dealers
in bills of exchange executors and administrators
OF estates assgnees and syndics of insolven Estates
trustees, and generally all persons who are known
to do business agents for others.
Nv. In the first week of each month"; you will
exhibit to the Judge a statement showing the whole
amount of money in your hands as Receiver and
desposlt the same for safe keeping in such bank or
other depository as may be selected for that purpose
by the Judge-reservng only such amount as may
De required for immediate necessary expenditure in
the discharge of your duties as Receivers.
" You are very strictly prohibited from making
personal use, in any manner whatever or investing
in any kind of property, loaning with or without
interest, or exchanging for other funds without
leave OF the Court any money or funds of any kind
received by you in your official capacity.
vi. You are prohibited from employing except
at your own personal expense, any attorney or
sellor to aid you in the discharge of your dutles
other than the District Attorney of the Confederate
States for your district: and you are instructed to
invoke ms aid under the 9th section of the law, in
all matters of litigation that may arise under the
law.
VII. You will take special care to avoid the loss
or deterioration of all personal property perishabe
IN its nature by applying for the sale thereof under
the provisions OF the 18th section Of the law
WILL You will keep an account, showing exactly
all sums received by you as allowances of compensa-
ton under the fifteenth section of the law setting
forth the date and amount Of each receipt of such
sums: and as soon as the amount received BY YOU,
IN any one year, shall reach the Of five thous-
and dollars you will pay over to the Assistant
Treasurer of the Confederate States most COW en-
lent to your donicil, all further sums allowed you
as compensation, taking duplicate receipts therefor,
one to be retained as voucher by yourself and the
other to be forwarded by mail to the Secretary of
the Treasury.
IN. Whenever, in the discharge of your duties,
you discover that any attorney, agent former part.
ner, trustee, other person holding or controlling
any property, rights or credits of an alien enemy
has wiifnlly failed to give you information of the
same, you will Immediately report the fact to the
District Attorney for your district to the end that
the guilty party may be subjected to the pains and
penalties prescribed by the Sd section of the law
j. p. BENJAMIN,
Attorney General.
The following interrogatories to garnishces have
been prepared for your use, together with note
annexed for the information oc the garnshee:
l. Have you now, or have you had in your pos
session, or under your control, since the twenty
first day OF May last, QS6l,) and if yea, at what
time any land or lands, tenement or tencmenls,
hereditament or hereditaments, cl,ate or chattels
right or rights credit or credits within the Confcd-
crate States of America, held owned, possessed or
enjoyed Tor or ny an alien enemy; or in or to which
any alien enemy had, and when, since that time
any right, title or interest, either directly or indi
rectly?
2. If you answer any part Of the foregoing inter-
rogatory in the affirmative, then set forth spccca-
lily and particularly description of such property,
right title credit or interest," and if you have dis
posed of it in whole or in part, Of the profit or
rent or interest accrung therefrom then state when
you made such disposition and to whom: and where
such property now is, and by whom heldg
g. Were you, since the twenty first day of May,
1861, and if yea, at what tme indebted either
directly or indirectly, to any alien enemy or alien
enemies? If yea, state the amount of such ndebt-
edness if one, and Of each Indebtedness if more
than one: Give the name or names of the creditor
or creditors, and the place or places of residence,
and state whether, and to what extent such debt
debts have been discharged, and also the time and
manner of the discharge
t. DO you know Of any land or lands, tenemen:
tenements heretitament hereditamcnts, chattel
chattes, right or rights credit credits, within
the Confederate States of America or any right or
interest held, owned possessed or enjoyed directly
or indirectly, by or for one or more alien enemies
the twenty day Of May, 1861, or in or to
which any one or more alien enemies had since that
time any claim title or interest direct or indirect
If yea, set forth specifically and particularly what
and where the property is, and the name and resi-
dence of the holder, debtor trustee or agent
5. State all else that you know which may aid in
carrying into full effect the Sequestration Act Of the
3Oth August, 1861 and state the same as fully and
particularly as if thereunto specially Intercepted
A. B., Receiver
Note. The garn'shee in the foregoing nterroga.
tories is specially warned that the Seouestraton
Act makes it the duty of each ard every citizen to
give the information asked in said nterrogatories.
[Act of 3oth August, 1861, section 81