The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-15
CHAP. CXCV.

son and Rebellion, to seize and contscate the
Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That, every person who shall
hereafter commit the crime of treason against the
United States, and shall be adjudged guilty there
of, shall suffer death, and all his slaves il any,
shall be declared and made free or, at the discre
ton of the court he shall be imprisoned for not
less than five years and fined not less than ten
thousand dollars, and all his slaves, If any, shall
be declared and made free; said fine shall be levi
| real and personal, excluding slaves, of which the
said person convicted was the owner at the
conveyance to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That if any
person shall hereafter incte set on foot assist or
engage in any rebellion insurrection against the
authority of the United States, the laws, there
Of or shall give aid or comfort thereto, or shall
| engage in, or give aid and comfort to, any such
existing rebellion insurrection and be convict
ed thereof, such person shall be punished by i'm
prisonment for period not exceeding ten years,
| or by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars,
and by the liberation OF all his slaves, if any he
have; or by both of said punishments, at the dis
cretOn of the court.
| Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That every
person guilty of either of the offences described
in this act shall be forever incapable and disqual
| fed to hold any Office under the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act
| shall not be construed in any way to affect or
alter the prosecution, conviction, or punishment
of any person persons guilty of treason against
| the United States before the passage of this act,
unless such person is convicted under this act.
| Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, to in
sure the speedy termination of the present rebel
lion, it shall be the duty of the President OF the
United States to the seizure of all the estate
and property, money, stocks, credits, and effects
of the persons hereinafter named in this section,
and to apply and use the same and the proceeds
thereof for the support of the army of the United
States, that is to say:
First OF any person hereafter acting Off
Ger of the army navy OF the rebels in arms
against the government of the United States.
| Secondly. Of ary person hereafter acting as
Preside. t, Vice President, member of Congress-
judge of any court cabinet officer, foreign minis
ter commissioner or consul of the so-cAlled con
federate states of America.
| Thirdly. OF any person acting as governor of q
state, member of a convention or legislature, or
Judge of any court of any OF the so-called confed
crate states of America.
Fourthly. OF any person who, having held an
Office of honor, trust, or profit in the United
States shall hereafter hold an office in the sO-cal
| led confederate states of america.
| Fifthly. OF any person hereafter holding any
Office or agency under the government of the So
called confederate states of America, or under any
of the several states of the said confederacy, or
the laws thereof, whether such office agency be
national state, or municipal in its name or char
acter: Provided, That the persons, thirdly,
| fourthly. and filthy above described shall have
accepted their appointment or election since the
date of the pretended ordinance OF accession of
the state or shall have taken oath OF allegiance
10, to support the constitution of the so-called
| confederate states.
| in any loyal State or Territory, of the United
States in the District of Columbia shall here
after assist and give aid and comfort to such re
bellion; and all sales transfers. conveyances of
any such property shall be null and void ; and it
shall be sufficient bar to any suit brought by
such person for the possession or the use OF such
property, any of it, to allege and prove that he
| is one of the persons described in this section.
Sec 6. And be it further enacted, That if any
person within any State OFT rritory ofthe United
Statcs other than those named as aforesaid, after
the passage of this act being engaged in armed
rebellion against the government of the United
States, or aiding or abettng such rebellion, shall
n
proclamation duly given and made by the Presi-
dent of the United States, cease to aid, counten-
| ance, and abet such rebellion, and retu to his
allegiance to the United States, all the estate and
property, moneys stocks and credits OF suchper-
son shall be liable TO seizure aforesaid, and it
shall be the duty of the President to seize and
| them aforesaid or the proceeds thereof. And
| all sales, transfers, conveyances, of any such
property after the expiration of the said sixty days
| from the date of such warning and proclamation
shall be null and void; and it shall be sufficient
| bar to any suit brought by such person for the
possession or the use of such property, any of
it, to alege and prove that he is ofthe persons
described in this section.
| Sec. z. And be it further enacted, That to Sc
| cure the condemnation and sale of any of such
property, after the shall have been seized, so
| that it may be made available for the purpose
| aforesaid, proceedings in rem shall be Instituted
in the name of the United States in any district
court thereof, in any territorial court or in the
| United States district court for the District of
Columbia, within which the property above de-
scrbed, or any part thereof may be found, or into
| which the same, if movable, may first be brought,
which proceedings shall conform as nearly as may
| be to proceedings in admiralty or revenue cases,
and if said property, whether real or personal,
shall be found to have belonged to person en-
| gagged in rebellion, or who has given aid COM
mics property and become the property of the
United States, and may be disposed ofas the court
shall decree and the proceeds thereof paid into
the treasury of the United States for the purposes
aforesaid
| Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That the
several courts aforesaid shall have power to make