Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-10-09

property, whether real or personal, shall be
found to have belonged to a person engaged in
rebellion, or who has given aid or comfort,
thereto, the same shall be condemned as enc
mics property and become the property OF the
United States, and may he disposed of as the
court shall decree and the proceeds thereof
paid into the treasury of the United States for
the purposes aforesaid
SEC 8. And belt further enacted, That the sew
eral courts aforesaid shall have power to make
such orders, establish such forms of decree
and sale, and direct such deeds and convey
ances to be executed and delivered by the
marshals thereof where real estate shall be
the subject of the sale, as shall fifty and eff
GENTLY effect the purposes of this act, and vest
in the purchasers of such property, good and
valid titles thereto. And the said courts shall
have power to allow such fees and charges of
their officers as shall be reasonable and proper
in the premises.
SEC. 9. -And be fwtLer enacted, That all
slaves of persons who shall hereafter be en-
gagged in rebellion against the Government OF
the United States, or who shall in any way
give aid or comfort thereto. escaping from
such persons and taking refuge within the
lines of the army 4; 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
found on lori being within any place occupied
by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the
forces of the United States, shall be deemed
captives of war; and shall be forever free of
their scryitude, and not again held IA slaves,
SEC. 10. Ind be 10 further enacted, That no
slave escaping into any State, Territory, or
the District of Columbia, from any other
State, shall be delivered up, or in any way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for
crime, or some offence 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 borne arms
against the United States in the present rebel
lion, nor in any way given aid and comfort
thereto; and no person engaged in the mill
tary or naval service of the United States shall
under any pretence whatever, assume to de-
eide on the validity of the claim of any per-
son to the service or labor of any other per-
son, or surrender up any such person to the
claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the
service.
SIC. H. And be Il further enacted, That the
President of the United States is authorized to
employ as many persons of African descent as
he may deem necessary and proper for the sup
preston of this rebellion, and for this purpose
he may organize and use them in such manner
as he may Judge best for the public welfare.
SEC. IL. Ind be IL further eRdcted, that the
President of the United States is hereby au.
thorizcd to make provision for the tmnsporta-
ton. colonization, and settlement, i'm some
tropical country beyond the limits of the Uni
ted States, of such persons of the African race,
made free by the provisions of this act, as may
be willing to emigate, having first obtained
the consent of the government of said coun
try to their protection and settlement within
the same, with all the rights and privileges Of
freemen.
SEC. 13. And be IL further endded, That the
President is hereby authorized, at any ii me
hereafter, by proclamation, to persons who may
participated in the existing rebellion in any
in any state or part Thereof, pardon and am
nesty, with such exceptions and at such time
and ON such conditions as he may deem expe-
dent for the public welfare.
SEC. IA. ARd be h.fartLer enacted, That the
courts of the United States shall have full
power to Institute proceedings, make orders
and DEGREES, issue process, and do all other
things necessary to carry this act into effect.
Approved, July IL, 1862.