The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-12-21

en'itIeu 70 amnesty, under provi.
sions of the act, for deeds done
during the rebellion. The third
section reads as follows:
That the following classes of per.
sons, and the rights, titles and
causes of action, and matters here.
mater, set forth, shall be excepted
from all provisions of this act, and
none other {: First. Whoever.
having been educated at the Mill.
tary Academy at West Point, or
the Naval School at Annapolis,
shall have engaged in the rebel.
lion and insurrection against the
United States, or given aid and
comfort to the enemies thereof.
Second. Whoever, having been a
member of either House of Con
gress Of the United States, shall
have engaged in rebellion against
the same, or given aid and comfort
to the enemies thereof, and who
ever was a member of the social.
ed" Confederate Congress-" Third.
Whoever shall have held the Office
OF head of one of the Executive
Departments Of the Government of
the United States, or Minister
Plenipotentiary, or Minister Resi-.
dent, or Judge of any Court under
the United States, and shall have
engaged in rebellion or insurrec.
tion against the same, or given aid
and comfort to the enemies there
OF, and whoever shall have held
either of tie like offices under the
80. called "Confederate States. /"
Fourth. Whoever shall have voted
for or signed any ordinance of Sc.
cession of any State, or held the
Office OF Governor of such State,
while tie same was in rebellion.
Fifth. Whoever, while in the ser.
vice OF the so-called "Confederate
States" treated with cruelty, or
otherwise than according to the
nsages OF war, any prisoner OF war
held by the authority of the so.
called" Confederate States" Sixth.
Whoever, having charge and Gus,
tody OF the public moneys of the
United States, intrusted to them
between said dates, have not duly
accounted for and paid over the
same, and whoever shall have en-
bezzled or secreted public stores.
public goods, chattels, moneys, pro,
visions or military and naval prop.
erty of the United States. Seventh.
All deserters from the Army and
Navy of the United States, and all
bounty jumpers" Eighth. All
property and rights of property
acquired by any levy, Judgment,
or extent made and executed upon
any lands or tenements, goods or
chattels, or other valuable thing
whatever, and any sale or forfeit.
ure by confiscation or taxation.
whereby any rights or titles have
become vested either in the United
States or in third persons. Ninth.
Every piece and parcel Of land
however it may be described or
bounded, which now is or has been
used as a cemetery in which the
bodies Of the soldiers of the United
States are Inferred, which is in the
occupation of the United States for
the purpose of cemetery, whicl,
parcels of land are hereby declar.
ed the property of the United
States, in fee by capture in war.
and forever dedicated to the usee
and purposes Of cemetries for the
soldiers of the United States, here
tofore Inferred or hereafter 20 be
inferred therein, and to be under
the cole jurisdiction of the United
States for such purposes inaliena
pie forever. Provided, That moth
ing herein contained shall affect o,
impair the validity of any act o.
Congress removing the political
disabilities Of any person herein
excepted from the benefit of the
provisions of this act.
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