Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-14
Sec. 4. That before any commission or

Sec. 4. That before any commission or
letters or marque and reprisal shall be is
sued as aforesaid, the owner or owners Of
the ship or vessel for which the same shall
be requested, and the commander thereof
for the time being, shall give bond to the
Confederate States, with at least two respon-
sible sureties, not interested in such vessel,
in the penal sum of five thousand dollars;
or if such vessel be provided with more than
one hundred and fifty men, then the penal
sum of ten thousand dollars with condi-
tior that the owners, officers and crew, who
shall be employed on board such commits
stoned vessel, shall and will observe the
laws of the Confederate States, and the
instructions which shall be given them &C.
cording to law, for the regulation of their
conduct; and will satisfy all damages and in
juries which shall be done or committed
contrary to the tenor thereof, by such yes.
vessel, during her commission, and to de-
liver up the same when revoked by the
President of the Confederate States. ,.
Sec. S. That all captures and prizes Of
vessels and property shall be forfeited and
shall accrue to the owners, officers and
crews of the vessels by whom such captures
and prizes shall be made; and on due con-
demnation had, shall be distributed ac-
cording to any written agreement which
shall be made between them and if there
be no such written agreement, then one
moity to the owners, and the other moity
to the officers and crew, as nearly as may
be, according to the rules prescribed for the
distribution of prize money, by the laws of
the Confederate States. .-....s :.ss. ... H..
SEC 6. That all vessels, goods and cf-
fects, the property of any citizen Of the
Confederate States, or Of persons resident
within and under the protection of the Con-
tederate States, or Of persons permanently
within the territories, and under the pro.
lection of any foreign prince or govern
ment, or state in amity with the Confeder-
ate States, which shall have been captured
BY the United States, and which shall be
re.captured by vessels commissioned as
aforesaid, shall be restored to tho lawful
owners, upon payment by them of a just
and reasonable salvage, to bc determined
by the mutual agreement of the parties
concerned, or by a decree of any court hav-
ing jurisdiction, according to the nature of
each case, agreeably to the provisions estab-
lisbed by law. And such salvage shall be
distributed among the owners, officers and
crews of the vessels commissioned as aforc.
said, and making such captures, according
to any written agreement which shall be
made between them and in case of no such
agreement, then in the same manner and
upon the principles hereinbefore provided
in case of capture. -'.
Sec That before breaking bulk Of
any vessel which shall be captured as aforc-
said, or other disposal or conversion thereof,
or Of any articles which shall be found on
board the same, such captured vessel, goods
or effects, shall be brought into sume port
of the Confederate States, or Of a nation or
state in amity with the Confederate States,
and shall be proceeded against before a
competent tribunal and after condemna-
tion and forfeiture thereof, shall belong to
the owners, officers and crew Of the vessel
capturing the same, and be distributed as
before provided; and in the case Of all cap.
tured 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 cognizance thereof, as in civil eau.
ses of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction
and the said courts, or the courts, being
courts of the Confederate States, into which
such causes shall be removed, and in which
they shall be finally decided, shall and may
decree restitution, in whole or in part,
when the capture shall have been made
without just cause. And if made without
probable cause, may order and decree dam.
ages and costs to the party injured, for
which the owners and commanders of the
vessels making such captures, and also the
vessels, shall be liable.
SEC. s. That all persons found on board
any captured vessels or on board any re.
captured vessels, shall be reported to the
collector of the port in the Confederate
States, in which they shall first arrive, and