Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-13

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What 70 do with the Property 6i Rebels---
COnhscRtion and Emancipation.
F. P. Blair, Of Missouri, the Chairman Of
the Military Oommitte of the House, TO
whom was referred all the petitions and res
olutions in relation to the emancipation Of
the slaves Of rebels, hasprepared bill to re-
pert to the House. The COmmitte is COM
posed of Blair; BufRntou, Of Massachusetts,;
Olin, of New York; Wright Of Pennsylvania;
Richardson, ofIn.; Mckee, of N. y Dunn, OF
Indiana; Vim. Allen, Of ohioi Marstoni Of
New Hampshire, and Jackson. The two
latter have not attended the meetings Of the
Committee. It is understood that the
Committee agree as to the principles Of this
bill, but not fully on details. The leading
features of the bill are these:
lst. The apportionment Of the National
tax among the rebel States.
I'd. The charge Of each rebel States Por-
ton pro rata on the lots and lands Of cih-
gems Of said States, according TO the valua-
ton thereof under the last census.
Sd. The Proclamation Of the President on
the 22d of February next to all the citizens
of the rebel States, to pay the taxes charged
on their lands.
4th. The lands of all who fail to pay, af-
ter sixty days, shall be liable to be seized,
and the title thereof vested in the United
| States.
9TH. The President to appoint three Com
missioners for each rebel State to take charge
/ Of lands whose title is thus vested in Gov
ernment, and lease or sell the same as the
President may direct but persons claiming
to be loyal, who shall, in two years, furnish
proof Of loyalty, shall receive each deed
from Government to their lands.
9Th. The Commissioners to receive q salary
of $4,000 each, and to have two clerks each,
at salary of $1,000. They shall enter up
on duty whenever any county or district of
the rebel States is reduced to Federal su-
thority by the commanding General.
7th. Personal property of citizens in rebel
States to be taken after June next, in de-
fault of their payment of the National In
come Tax. Loyal owners to have time for
reclamation.
sth. The proceeds of leases or sales Of
rebel property to be paid into the National
Treasury.
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by our army, or brought into our lines, or
coming in voluntarily, shall be protected,
and the rights of rebel masters divested by a
summary examination Of Commissioners,
, and certificates Of freedom issued.
10th. These emancipated persons shall be
hired to employers leasing Government
lands, or employed by Government in pub
: lie works or indentured to sgriculturists or
mechanics for term Of i've years of all over
twenty-one, and until 25 years of age of
all under twenty-one, reserving reasonable
wages for their services, which wages shall
go to Government, to be held in trust for
said persons, and to be used in deporting
them to new homes-the employers to feed,
clothe and lodge them properly.
llth. If any State shall emancipate its
slaves, they shall be taken charge of by the
United States and treated in the same man
ner as slaves taken from rebels. Any free
negroes wishing to emigrate shall be de-
ported by Government and provided for as
4 slaves emancipated under this bill.
I 18th. The proceeds of the sales of the
lands and other property of rebels, and the
wages of apprenticed and hired persons,
shall create National fund, one-third to
pay the cost of providing new homes for
emancipated persons and transporting them
thereto one-third to pay the Federal tax
imposed on the rebel States, and one-third
to pay loyal owners of emsncipated slaves,
and the losses of loyal persons by reason of
the rebellion.
18th. The President shall acquire in Mexi-
co, South America, Central America, or
islands in the Gulf Of Mexico, lands, or the
right of settlement on lands, to which eman-
cipated slaves shall be transported, single
persons receiving forty acres of land, and
married persons eighty acres.
The bill contains tEenty-three sections,
but the foregoing is the substance Of
the whole. 1t is well aseertained that the
President viii approve no measure Of eman-
oiPztion not embracing colonization