Year: 1862

aforesaid, after the passage of this


act, being engaged in armed rebel,


lion against the Government OF


the United States, or aiding OF


abetting such rebellion, shall not,


within sixty days after public


warning and proclamation duly


given and made BY tire President
1 Of the United States, cease to aid,


countendnce, and aBet saelr9sbel.


lion, and return to his allegiance


to the United States, all the estate


and property, moneys, stocks, and


credits of such person shall be


liable to seizure as aforesaid, and


it shall be the duty of the President


to seize and use them as aforesaid,


or the proceeds thereof. Aud all
the sales, transfers, or conveyances
of any such property after the ex-


piration OF the said sixty days from
the date of such warming and
proclamation shall be null and


void aud it shall lie a sufficient
bar to any suit brought by such


person for the possession or the
use of such property, or any of it,
to allege and prove that he is one
of the persons described in this
section.


Sec. 7. And be it further enact
ed, That to secure the condemna-
ton and sale Of any such property
after the same shall have been
seized, so that 1t may be made
available for the purposes afore-
said, proceedings IN rem shall be
instituted in the name of the United
States, in any District Court there
Eof, 70 ANY Territoriwt 6pnrtssor
in tho lied States District Court
for District of Columbia, with
y which the property above de-
scribed, 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 ant
if said property, whether real oil


personal, shall be found to have


belonged to a person engaged in
rebellion, or who has given aid OIL
comfort thereto, the same shall be
condemned as enemies property,
and become the property of the
United States, and may be disposed
of as the. Court shall decree, and
the proceeds thereof paid into the
Treasury of the United States for
the purposes aforesaid.


SIC. 8 And be it further enact
ed, That the several courts afore
said shall have power to make
such orders, establish such forms
of decree and sale, and direct sue h
deeds and conveyances to be exc
cuted and delivered by the mar
shals thereof, where real estate
shall be tile subject of sale, as shall
fifty and efficiently effect the pur-
poses of this act, and vest in the
purchasers of such property good
and valid titles thereto and the
said Court shall have power to
allow such fees and charges of their
officers as shall be reasonable and
proper in the premises.


Sec. 9. And be it further enact
ed, That all slaves of persons who
shall hereafter be engaged in re-
bellion against the Government of
the Ulited States, or who shall in
any way give aid or comfort there
to, escaping from such persons, and
taking refnge within the lines of
the army ; and all slaves captured
from such persons, or deserted by
them and coming under the control
of the Government of the United
States; and all slaves of such per
sons found or being within any
place occupied by rebel forces, and
afterward occupied by the forces
of the United States, shall be
deemed captives of war, and shall
be forever free of their servitude,
and not again held as slaves.


Sec. 10. And be it further enact
ed, That no slave escaping into
any State, Territory, or the Dis
trict of Columbia, from any other
State, shall be delivered up, or in
any way impeded, or hindered of
his liberty, except for crime or
some otfense against the laws, un-
less the person claiming said tugi-
tive shall first make oath that the
person to whom the labor or SER
vice of such fugitive is alleged to
be due is his lawful owner, and has
not borne arms against the United
States in the present rebellion, nor
in any way given aid and comfort
thereto; and no person engaged in
the military or naval service of
the United States shall, under any
pretense whatever, assume to de-
eide on the validity of the claim
Of any person to the service or la
bor of any other person, or surren-
der up any such person to the
claimant, on pain of being dismis-
sed from the service. ,.


SEC II And he IL flrther an