The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-10
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An Act to confscate Property used for Insurrec-

An Act to confscate Property used for Insurrec-
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re
representatives. of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled, That if, during the present
or any future insurrection against the United
States, after the President of the United States
shall have declared, by proclamation, that the
laws of the United States are opposed, and eXecu-
ton thereof obStructed, by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course
of iuditial proceedings, or by the power vested
in the marshalls by law, any person or persons,
his, her, or their agent, attorney, or employe,
perty of whatsoever kind or description, with in
tent to use or employ the same, or suffer the
same to be used or employed, in aiding, abetting,
promoting such insurrection resistance to
the laws, or any person or persons, engaged
therein; or If any person or persons, being the
owner or owners of any such property, shall
knowingly use or employ, or consent to the use
employment of the same as aforesaid all such
property is hereby declared to be lawful subject
of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall
be the duty of the President of the United States
to cause the same to be seized, contiscated, and
condemned.
See 2 And be it further enacted, That such
prizes and capture shall be condemned in the dis
trict circuit court of the United States having
jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty i'll any
district in which the same may be seized, or into
which they may be taken and proceedings first in
stituted
Attorney cncral, any district attorney of the
United States in which said property may at the
time be, may institute the proceedings of con-
QcunatiOn, ana III Sucn case Jney snail De wholly
for the benefit of the United States any per-
son may file an information with such attorney
in which case the proceedings shall be for the use
of such informer and the United States in equal
parts.
Sec. +. And be it further enacted, That when
ever hereafter during the present insurrector
against the Government of the United States, any
person claimed to be held to labor or service un-
der the law of any State, shall be required per
mitted by the person to whom such labor or
vice is claimed to be due, or by the lawful agenl
ofsuch person, to take up arms against the Unit
ed States, or shall be required or permitted b,
the person to whom such labor or service is claim
ed to be due, his lawful agent, to work or t.
be employed in or upon any fort, navy yard, dock
armory, ship, entertainment, or in any military
naval service whatsoever, against the Government
and lawful authority of the United States, then.
and in every such case the person to whom such
labor service is claimed to be due shall forfeit
his claim to such labor, any law of the State OF
the United States to the contrary notwthstand-
ing. And whenever thereafter the person claim
ing such labor service shall seek to enforce his
claim, it shall be full and sufficient answer t.
such claim that the person whose service or laboi
is claimed had been employed in hostile servic,
against the Government of the United States,
contrary to the provisions of this act.
Approved August e, 1861.