The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-01-24
The leading features of the bill are these, as
condensed by the Washington dispatch to
the New York Times of the 10Th.

The leading features of the bill are these, as
condensed by the Washington dispatch to
the New York Times of the 10th:
Erst-The apportionment of the Nation
al tax among the rebel States.
Second-The charge of each rebel States
portion pro rata on the lots and lands of
citizens of said States, according to the val>
uation thereof under the last census.
Ihmd-The Proclamation of the Presi-
dent on the 22d of February next, to all
citizens of the rebel States, to pay the taxes
charged on their lands.
F0Wrtb--The lands of all those who fail
to pay, after sixty days, shall be liable to
be seized, and the title thereof vest in the
United States.
FSfh-The President to appoint three
Commissioners for each rebel State, to take
charge of lands whose title is thus vested 10
Government, and lease or sell the same
as the President may direct; but per.
sons claiming to be loyal, who shall, in two
years, furnish proof of loyalty, shall receive
each from Government title to their lands.
SiZtb-These Commissioners to receive q
salary of $4,000 each, and to have two
clerks each, at salary of $1,000. They
shall enter upon duty weenever any county
or district of the rebel States is reduced to
Federal authority by the commanding Gen.
eral. 7
Seoenth-Personal property of citizens in
the rebel States to be taken after June
next, in default of their payment of the Ma.
tional Income Tax. Loyal owners to have
time for reclamation.
Eiglth-The proceeds of leases or sales
OF rebel property to be paid into the Ma
tional Treasury. ...... .......
Ninth-The slaves of rebel masters, ia.
ken 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.
1eath-These emancipated persons shall
be hired to employers leasing Government
lands, or employed by Government on pub
lie works, or indentured to agriculturalists
for term of five years of all over twenty
one, and until twenty-five years of age of
all under twenty-one, reserving reasonable
wages for their service, which wages shall
60 to Government, to be held in trust for
said persons, and to be used in deporting
them to new homes-the employers to feed,
clethe and lodge them properly. -'
Eleventh If any State shall emancipate
its slaves, they shall be taken charge OF by
the United States and treated in the same
manner as slaves taken from rebels. Any
free negroes wishing to emigrate shall be
deported by Government and provided for
as slaves emancipated under this bill.
Ioelfh-The proceeds of the sales of the
lanos and other property of reoels. 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 transportating
them thereto; one third to pay the FEEDER
al tax imposed on the rebel States, and
One"third to pay loyal owners of emsncipa
ted slaves, and the losses of loyal persons
by reason of this rebellion. t.t
Ihuteentb-The President shall acquire
in Mexico, South America, Central Amer
lea, or islands in the Gulf of Mexico, lands,
or the right settlement of lands, to which
emancipated slaves shall be transported
single persons receiving forty acres Of land,
and married persons eighty acres.
The bill contains twenty three sections,
but the foregoing is the substance of the
whole. 1t is we'll ascertained that the
President will approve no measures of
emancipation not embracing colonization