The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30
CONFIsCATION.

Inc OH pluHuefer, InaQ. OCeVenS, mas IN F.
troduced into the Rump Congress of the
dis-united States a white-man robbing negro
benefting confscation bill twill be found
below. Radical journals say that if the
South refuses to eat dirt that the bill will be
passed as sure as. fate .-. .-- .... r..
Be 1t enacted, That all the public lands
belonging to the ten States that formed the
government Of the so-called +" Confederate
States of America shall be forfeited by
said States and become Forthwith vested in
the United States.
SEC. 2. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
the President shall forthwith proceed to
cause the seizure of such property belong
ing to the belligerent enemy as deemed for
feited by the act of the seventeenth July,
addo Domino eighteen hundred and sixty
two, ana hold and appropriate the same as
enemy's property, and to proceed to con-
demnation, with that already seized @
SEC. 3. A71d be 1t further enacted, That in
lieu of the proceeding to condemn the prop
erty thus seized, as enemy's property, as is
provided by the act of July seventeen, ammo
Domino eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
two commissioners or more, as by him may
be deemed necessary, shall be appointed by
the President for each of the said Con
federate States, to consist of three persons
each, one of whom shall be an officer of the
late or present army, and two shall be civil
ians, neither of whom shall be citizens of
the State for which he shall be appointed;
ard that the said commissions shall proceed
to adjudicate and condemn the property
aforesaid, under such forms and proceed
ings as shall be prescribed by the Attorney
General of the United States whereupon
the title to said property shall become vested
in the United States.
SEC. f. Ind be It further enacted, That
out of the lands thus seized and cOnfscated,
the slaves who have been liberated by the
operations of the war and the amendment
to the Constitution, or otherwise, who re-
resided in said Confederate States on the
4th day of March, A D. eighteen hundred
and sixty-One, or since, shall have distrib-
uted to them as follows, namely: To each
male person who Is the head of a family,
forty acres; to each adult male, whether
the head of family or not forty acres to
each widow who is the head Of a family,
forty acres; to be held by them fee simple,
but to be inalienable for the next ten years
after they become seized thereof For the
purpose Of distributing and allotting said
land the Secretary of War shall appoint as
many commissions in each State as he shall
deem necessary, to consist Of three mem
bers each, two of whom at least shall not be
citizens Of the State for which he is ap-
pointed. Each of said commissioners shall
receive salary of three thousand dollars
annually, and all his necessary expenses
Each commission shall be allowed one clerk,
whose salary shall be two thousand dollars
per annum. The title to the homestead
aforesaid shall be vested in trustees for the
use Of the liberated persons aforesaid trus-
tees shall be appointed by the Secretary of
War, and shall receive such salary as he
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dollars per annum- At the end of ten years
the absolute title to said homesteads shall
be conveyed to said owners or to the heirs
of such as are then dead
SEC. s. Ind be 1t further enacted That
out Of the balance of the property thus
seized and confscated there shall be raised,
in the manner hereinafter provided, sum
equal to fifty dollars for each homestead, to
be applied by the trustees hereinafter men
| toned, toward the erection of buildings on
the said homesteads for the use Of said slaves;
and the further sum Of five hundred millions
Of dollars, which shall be appropriated as
/ follows, to wit two hundred millions shall
/ be invested IN United States six per centum
: securities, and the interest thereof shall be
/ semi-annually added TO the pensions allowed
/ by law to pensioners who have become so
/ by reason Of the late war three hundred
millions, or so much thereof as may be
/ needed, shall be appropriated 70 pay damages
/ done to loyal citizens by the civil or mill
/ tary operations of the government lately
/ called the a Confederate States of America. "
/ SEC 6. Ald be 1t further enacted That IN
order that just discrimination may be made,
I the properly Of no one shall be seized whose
( whole estate, on the 4th day Of March, A. D.
/ eighteen hundred and sixty-fve, was not
/ worth more than Eve thousand dollars, to be
valued by the said commission, unless he
shall have voluntarily become an officer OF
employe IN the military or civil service ol
the Confederate States of America, or in
the civil or military service Of any one o.
said States, and IN enforcing all conGscation,
the sum or value Of FIVE thousand dollars II
real or personal property shall be left ol
assigned to the delinquent
SEC. S. Ind be IL further enacted, That j
the owners Of said seized and forfeited es
tates shall, within ninety days, after the
first of said publications, pay into the Treas
ury Of the United States the sum assessed
on their estates respectively, al OF their Is
tates and lands ot actually appropriated Z
the liberated slaves, shaI be released anc
restored 70 their owners.