The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-10-02

aud observed as such-s'all officers OF
persons in the military or naval ser
vice of the United States are prohibi
ted from employing any of the force.
under their respective commands fol
the purpose of returning fugitives from
service or labor who may have escaped
from any person to whom such service
or labor is claimed to he due, and any
officer who shall he found guilty by q
court martial of violating this article
shall be dismissed from the service"
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
That this act shall take effect from and
after it's passage.
Also to the 9Th and 10th sections oI
an act entitled Gan act to suppress in
surrection, to punish treason and rebel
lion, to seize and cOniscate the proper.
ty of rebels and for other purposes
approved July 18th, 1862, and which
sections are in these words and figures
following:
Sec. 9. And be 1t further enacted,
That all slaves of persons who shall
hereafter be engaged in rebellion
against the government of the United
States, or who shall in any way give
aid or comfort thereto, escaping from
snch persons and taking refuge within
the lines Of the army and all slaves
captured from such persons or deserted
by them and coming under the control
of the government of the United
States, and all slaves of such persons
being within any place occupied by
rebel forces and afterwards occupied
by the forces of the United States,
shall he deemed captures of war, and
shall be forever free of the servitude
and not again held AS slaves.
SEC. 10. Aud be it further enacted,
That no slave escaping into any StYe,
Territory or the District of Columbia,
from any of the States shall he deliv.
cred up or in any way impeded or him
dered of his liberty except for crime or
some Offense against the laws, unless
The person claiming said fugitive shall
first make oath that the person to whom
the labor or service of such fugitive is
alleged to be due is his lawful owner,
and has not been in arms against the
United States In the present rebellion
nor in any way given aid or comfort
thereto; and no person engaged in the
military or naval service of the United
States shall, under any pretense what
ever assume to decide on the validity
of the claim of any person to the SER
vice or labor of any other person, or
surrender up any such person TO the
claimant, on pain of being dismissed
from the service.
And l do hereby enjoin upon and
order all persons engaged in the mill
tary and naval service of the United
States to observe, obey and enforce,
with their respective spheres of SER
vice, the act aud sections abnve recit.
Ell. And the executive will in due
time recommend that all citizens of the
United States, who shall have remained
loyal thereto throughout the rebellion,
shall, upon the restoration of the con
stitulional relations between the Uni
ted States and their respective States
aud people, if these relations shall have
been suspended or disturbed, be com
pensated for all losses by acts of the
United States, including the loss Of
slaves.
In witness whereof, l have
r. hereuntO set my hand and
L. caused ;he seal of the United
States To he affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this,
the twenty second day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty two, and of
the independence of the United States
the eiehtyseventh.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WIN. Ii. SEWARD, Sec'y of State.