Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-19
Instructions TO Receivers under the Seques-
tration Law.
DEP4 OF JUSTICE.
RICHMOND, 18th SEPTEMBER. 1851

Property and Effects Of ALen Enemies. and for
the indemnify of cstizens Of the Confederate
States, and persons aidiag the same IN The ezsst-
ing soar against the United States. ''-Agprousd
30h August, 1861.
L. The following persons are subject to the
operation of the law as alien enemies:
LIST. All citizens of the United States, ex-
cept citizens or residents of Delaware, Mary
land. Kentucky or Missouri. or the District
of Columbia, or the Territories of New Next
CO, Arizona, or the Indian Territory south of
Kansas.
End. All persons who have a donsica 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 a
domicil, or are carrying on business or traffic
within the States at war with this Confedera-
cy, 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 Next
CO, Arizona and the Indian Territory south of
Kansas, and of the District of Columbia as
shall commit actual hostiiities against the
Confederate States, or aid, or abet the United
States in the existing war against the Confed-
crate States.
III. Immediately after taking your oath of
Office yOu will take possession of all the pro-
perty, OF every nature and kind whatsoever,
within your District, belonging to alien enc
mics as above defined.
Ill. You will forthwith apply to the Clerk
of the Court for Writs of Garnishment, I'M
der the 9Th section of the law, and will pro-
pound to the Garnishees the Undergraduates
of which form is annexed. These interrog-
| atories you will PROFOUND to the following
persons, viz:
LIST. All attorneys and counsellors practi-
cling law within your district,
H. N
banks, and principal administrative officers
| of all railroads and other corporations with
in your district.
Sd. All agents of foreign corporations, in
surance agents, commission merchants en-
gagged in for. ign trade, agents of foreign mer-
camille houses, dealers in bills of exchange
executors and administrators of estates, as
signees and syndics of insolvent estates.
trustees, and generally all persons who are
known to do business as agents for others.
~. In the first week of each mouth, YOU
will exhibit to the Judge, a statement show
ing the whole amount of money in your
| hands as Receiver. and deposit the same for
safe keeping, in such bank or other deposl-
| tory may be selected for that purpose by
the Judge-reserying only such amount as
may be required for immediate necessary ex-
penditure In the discharge of your duties as
Receivers.
V, You are very strictly prohibited from
| making personal use, in any manner what
| ever, or investing in any kind of property, or
| loaning with or without interest, or exchang-
| ing for other funds, without leave of the
Court, any money or funds of any kind re-
ceived by you in your official capacity.
VI. You are prohibited from employing.
| except at your own personal expense, any
attorney or counsellor to aid you in the dis
| charge of your duties, other than the District
| Attorney OF the Confederate States for your
| district: and you are instructed to invoke
| his 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 pro-
| perty perishable in its nature, by applying
| for the sale thereof under the provisions of
| the 18th section of the law.
VIII. You will keep an account, showing
exactly all sums received by you as allow
| ances OF compensation under the fifteenth
| section OF the law, setting forth the date and
/ amount OF each receipt of such sums: aud as
soon a. the amount received by you, in any
one year, shall reach the sum of five thou
sand dollars, you will pay over to the Assis-
liant Treasurer of the Confederate States,
most convenient to your domicIl, all further
sums allowed you as compensation, taking
duplicate receipts therefor, one to be retain
ed as a voucher by yourself, and the other
| to be forwarded by mail TO the Secretary of
| the Treasury.
| TX. Whenever, in the discharge of your du-
ties, you discover that any attorney, agent,
| former partner, trustee, other person
holding or controlling any property, rights,
or credit of an alien euemy, has wilfully
| 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. ]. P. BENJAMIN,
| Attorney General
The following heterogeneous to garnishses
| have been prepared for your use, together
with a note annexed for the information oil
the garnishee:
l. Have you now, or have you had in your
possession, or under your CONTROL since the
twenty-first day of May last, (l561,) and il
yea. at what time, any land or lands, tene-
ment or tenements, hereditament or heredit-
haDents, chattel or chattels, right or rights
credit or credits, within the Confederate
States of America, held, owned. possessed or
enjoyed for or by an alien enemy; or 10 or 70
which any alien enemy had. and when, since
that time, any right, title or interest, either
directly or indirectly?
| 2. If you answer any part of the foregoing
interrogatory in the affirmative then set forth
specifically and particularly description OF
such property, right, title, credit or interest
and if you have disposed of it in whole or in
part, or of the profit or rent or interest accru-
ing therefrom, then state when you made such
disposition, and to whom; and where such
property now is, aud by whom held?
| 3. We're you, since the twenty-f day oil
May, 1861, aud if yea, at what time, indebted
either directly or Indirectly, to any alien en-
envy or alien enemies? If yea, state the
amount of such Indebtedness if one, and OF
| each Indebtedness If more than one Give
the name or names of the creditor or credit
ors, and the place or places of residence, and
state whether and to what extent, such debt
or debts have been discharged, and also the
time and manner of the discharge.
4. Do you know of any land or lands, ten
| ement or tenements hereditament or heredita
ments, chattel or chattels, right or rights,
credit or 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 enc
mics since the twenty first day of May, 1861,
or 10 or to which any one or more alien enc
mics 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 residence
of the holder, debtor, trustee or agent.
5. State all else that you know which may
| aid in carrying into full effect the Sequestra-
ton Act of the S0th August, 1861, and state
the same as fully and particularly as if there
unto especially Intercepted.
A B., Receiver.
NoTE.-The garnishee in the foregoing in
terrogatories is specially warned that the Sc
questration Act makes it the duty of each
and every citizen to give the Information
asked in said interrogatories. Act of 3Oth
August, 1861, section p
And if any attorney, agent, former part
ner, trustee or other person holding or con-
trolling any property or interest therein
of or for any alien enemy shall fail speedily
to inform the Receiver of the same, and to
render him an account of such property or
interest, be shall be guilty of a high misde-
meanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined
in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars
and imprisoned not longer than six months,
| and be liable to pay besides TO the COnfeder-