The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-11
the Army Of the United States, and shall

the Army Of the United States, and shall
be obeyed and observed a. such
Article: All officers or persons in the
military or naval service Of the United
States, are prohibited from employing any
of the forces under their respective COM
mands for the purpose Of returning fu-
gitives from service or labor who may
have escaped from any person to whom
such service or labor is claimed to be
due, and any officer who shall be found
guilty by a court martial, OF violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
Sec. q And Be- IL further enaaoI, That
this act bhall take effect from and after
lie passage - 81
Also to the 9th and 1eth sections of an
set entitled an act to suppress insur-
rection, 70 punish treason and rebellion,
to seize and coniiscate property Of rebels,
and for other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862" and which sections are in the
words and figures following: 4ss
SECTION Q. And Be 10 further enacted,
That allt he 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 COM
fort thereto, escaping from such persons,
and taking refuge within the limits of
the army, and all slaves captured from
such persons, or deserted by them, and
coming under the .controlof the Govern
ment of the United States, and all slaves
of, such persons on or being within any
place occupied by rebel forces, and af-
forwards occupied by the forces of the
United States, shall be deemed icaptures
OF war, and shall be forever free of their
servitude and not again held as slaves
SEC. 10. and be IL further enacted, That no
slave escaping into any. slave territory or
the District OF Columbia, from any OF the
States shall be, delivered up, or in any
way impeded or hindered 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 |
said fugitive is alleged 10 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 |
whatever, assume TO decide ON the valid
ity of the claims. OF any person to the SER
vice or labor of any other person or
surrender up any such persoa to the |
claimant, ON pain Of being dismissed |
from the service. cG
And do hereby enjoin upon and or
der all persons engaged in the military |
and naval service OF the United States,
TO obey and enforce within their respec-
tive spheres Of service, the Article and |
Sections above recited And the Exec \
utive 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 Constitutional rela-
tions between the United States andtheir
respective States and people, if the rela-
ton shalt have been suspended or dis
turbed, be compensated for all losses BY acts
of the United Stats, Including he loss Of !
sldnes$
In witness whereof I have hereunto set |
my hand and cAsued the seal Of the Uni
ted States to be. 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 In
dependence of the United States the |
eightysseventh.
[signed,l ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President.
WIN. II. SEWARD Secretary Of State.