Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-09-25
sEouEsrnAr1oN ACT.
pEPARrMENT on JUSTICE,


~ RIcHMosp 18th September, 1861.
Instructions TO Rsceicsrs under the Act entttteo
"An Act for the Sequestratton Of the Estates,
Property and Effects Of alien Eaet"ies and Jor
the indemnify Of citizens Of the Contederete
States, and persons aiding the same in the ernst
eng par against the United States"-APprcced
30h March, 1861.
]. The following persons are subject to the oPera
ton of the law as alien enemies: -
lst All citizens of the United States, except cti-
zcns or residents Of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky
or Missouri or the District of Columbia, or the Ter
ritores Of New Mexico Arizona, or the Indian Ter
ritory south of Kansas.
End All persons who have domicI 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, other neutral
nations who have domicIl, orare carrying on bust
ness or traffic within the States at war with this
Confederacy are alien enemies under the law.
3D. 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 as shall commit actual hostilities
against the Confederate States, or aid or abet the
United States in the existing war against the Con-
federate 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-
ishees the interrogatores of which form is annex
3D. These nterrogatories you will PROFOUND to the
following persons, viz:
1st All attorneys and counsellors practicing law
within your district
Cd The presidents and cashiers of all banks, and
principal administrative officers of all railroad and
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 nsovent estates
trustees, and generally all persons who are known
to do business rs agents for others. .
w. In the first week of each month, you will
exhibit to the Judge statement showing the whole
amount Of money in your hands Receiver, and
desposit the for safe keeping, in such bank or
other depository may be selected for that purpose
by the Judge-reServing only such amount as may
be required for immediate necessary expenditure IN
the discharge Of your duties as Receivers
V. You are very strictly prohibited from making
personal use, in any manner whatever. or investing
in any kind of property or loaning with or without
interest, or exchanging for other funds, without
leave of the Court any money or funds oil any kind
received by you IN your official capacity.
VI. You are prohibited from employing, except
at your personal expense any attorney or coun-
sellor to aid you in the discharge of your duties,
other than the District Attorney of the Confederate
States for your district and you instructed to
invoke mis- 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 perishable
in its nature, by applying for tue sale thereof under
the provisions Of the 18th section Of the law.
VIII. You will keep 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 the amount received by you,
in any year, shall reach the Of five thous-
and dollars, you will pay to the Assistant
Treasurer o6the Confederate States most cow en-
lent to your domicil, all further sums allowed you
compensation, taking duplicate receipts therefor,
one to he retained a 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, or other person holding or controlling
any property, rights or credits Of an alien enemy
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.
j. p. BENJAMIN,
Attorney General
The following intcrrogatories to garnshees have
! been prepared for your use, together with note
annexed for the information os the garnishee:
l. Have you now, or have you had in your pos
session. or under your control, since the twenty.
first day of May last QSGl,) and if yea, at what
| time, any land or lands, tenement or tenements
heredtament Entertainments, chattel chattelS
right rights credit credits within the Confed
crate States of America held, owned, possessed OF
enjoyed for or By an alien enemy; or in or to which
! any alien enemy had, and when, since that time
rOlt
rectly?
3. If you answer any part of the foregoing inter
rogatory in the at native, then set forth spccica
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 or of the profit OF
rent or interest accrung therefrom then state wher
! you made such disposition, and to whom and where
/ such property now is, and by whom held?
8. Were you, since the twenty-firs day of May
! 1861, and if yea, at what time, indebted either
( directly or indirectly, to any alien enemy or aer
enemies? If yea, state the amount of such indebt
edness if one and Of each Indebtedness if more
than one: Give the name or names of the creditor
or creditors, and the place places of residence
and state whether and to what extent such debt oil
debts have been discharged, and also the time ant
manner Of the discharge.
4. Do you know of any land or lands, tenemen
or tenements, heredtament Entertainments, chatte
or chattes right rights credit or credits within
the Confederate States of America or any right o
interest held owned possessed or enjoyed, directly
or indirectly, by or for alien enemie
stree the twenty first day Of May, 1861, or in or t.
which any one more alien enemies had since tina
time any claim, title or interest direct or indirect
If yea set forth specifically and particularly wha
andwhere the property is, and the name and resi-
dence of the holder, debtor trustee or agent
g. State all else that you know which may aid il
carrying into full effect the Sequestration Act Of tn
Both August 1861, and state the same as fully an
particularly as if thereunto specially Intercepted
A. B., Receiver.
Note. The garnishee in the foregoing interroga
tories is specially warned that the Sequestratio
Act makes it the duty of each ard every citizen t
give the information asked in said interrogatories
[Act of Both August, 1861, section ..r..