Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-04

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A BILL
To confiseate the property of Rebels
the present II ebeIIIon, aud FOR other
purposes, 4t'
BE il enacted By The Senate and House Of
RePresentatives.ofth The United States of Amer
Tea in Congress assembled, That all the pro-
perty, moneys, stocks, ereditst aud effects
of personior persons hereafter named
and specified in this section, are hereby
declared forfeited to the government of the
United States, and are hereby declared
lawful subjects of prize and capture where
ever found, for the indemnity of the United
States against the expenses of suppressing
the present rebelliou-tbat is to say:
First, OF persons hereafter acting as of
hcers of the army or navy of the rebels now
or hereafter in arms against the govern
ment of the United States.
Second. Of persons hereafter acting as
President, Vice President, members of
Congress, or judge of the so-called Con-
federate States. f
Third. OF governors of States, members
of State conventions and legislatures, aud
judges of courts of States now in rebellion.
Fourth. OF persons who having held an
Office of power, trust or profit in the Uni
ted States, shall hereafter holdan office in
the so.called Confederate States.
{ Fifth. OF persons hereafter holding any
Office or employment underthe government
of the SO called Confederate States, or un-
der any of the several States of said con-
federacy ,sor the laws thereof, whether such
employment be national, State, or munici-
pal in its name or power. Fgt
Sixth. Of persons who, owning proper
ty in any loyal State of the United Stutes
and residing in a State in rebellion against
the governments ,sshall hereafter assist and
give aid and comfort TO such rebellion; and
the said propertyand moneys, stocks, cred.
its, and effects of the persons aforesaid, are
hereby declared lawful subjects of prize
and capture wherever found and the Pre-
sident of the United StAtes shall cause the
same to be seized, TO the end that the same
may be con6scated and condemned, as
hereinafter provided, to the use of the
United States; and all sales, transfers, or
conveynnces by any such person aforesaid
of any such property shall be null and
void and it shall be u sufficient bar to any
suit brought by such person totrecover the
possession or for the use of such property,
or any of it, to allege aud prove that he is
aonefOf the persons described in this sec
tion. t5F -7-9 t'ssf5sifl
SEQ. 2. -4nd Be ii further enacted, That if
any other person or persons, within any
State or Territory ofsthe United States, not
being named or specified as aforesaid, after
the passage of this act, being engaged in
armed rebellion against the government of
the United States, or aiding or abetting such
rebellion, shall not, within sixty days after
public warning and proclamation duly given
and made by the President of the United
States, lay down his or their arms, and
offer TO take the oath of allegiance to the
United States prescribed in the act of ,Au-
gust sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-oue,.
before some loyal magistrate of the United
States duly qualified to administer the same,
allthe moneys, property, stocks, and cred
its of such person or persons are hereby
declared thereafterwards forfeited to the
government of the United States, and the
same are hereby declared lawful subjects
of prize and captured wherever zfouad !;
aud the President of the United States
shall cause the same to be seized to the
end that tue same may be confiscated and
condemned as hereinafter provided to the
use of4the United States; and all sales,
transfers, or convey yances, by any such per-
son of any such property, or of any claim
to the service or labor of another after the
expiration of the said sixty days from and
after such warning and proclamation shall
be duly given as aforesaid, shall be null and
void and it shall be. asufficient bar to any
suit brought by such person TO recover
possession or for the use of such property
or any of it, or to enforce such service or
lator, to allege and prove that he is one of
the persons described in this section.
SEC. 3. Ind be It further enacted, That to
secure possession of any of such property,
situate and being in loyal States or dis
tricts in which the ordinary course of jn-
dicial proceedings is not obstrncted by the
rebellion proceedings in rem shall be in-
stituted in the name Of the United States,
within which the estate or property above
described, or any part thereof, may be found,
which proceedings shall conform asnearly
as may be to proceedings in prize cases, or
to cases of forfeiture arising under the
revenue laws; and in all cases the said
property so seized and condemned, wheth>
er real, oripersonal, shall be sold, pursuant
to such rules as the Secretary of the Treass
ury may prescribe, and the proceeds de-
posted IN the Treasury of the United
States for their use and bsneft.
SEo, 4! Ahd Be itsJtRtheTss e,Ideted,T That
the property seized as aforesaid, situate
and being in States or DISTRICTS in which
the ordinary course of Judicial proceedings
is obstructed by the rebellion, shall be
used. occupied, rented, or held until the
ordinary course of fjudicial proceedings
shall berestored in the, State or district in
which the said property is situate when
proceedings in rem. shall be Instituted and
prosecuted to Judgment and sale in the
mode aforesaids and sthe proceeds applied
as aforssaida sPf61idt6s That perishable
articles: seized under this5bill shall be used
erlsold. pursuautto such rules as may be
prescribed as aforesaid, and the proceeds
applied as above provided.
the several district courts Of the United
lStates. shall have poYerIto iszueall process,
whether ruesne or fnaI, including process
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