Year: 1861




law stating accounts and making settlements of all mat.
trs separately in the way if he admnistra-
Tor o several estates of deceased by separate
pontnents And The settlements and DEGREES shall be for
each case or estate separately that the transaction IN
respect to each alien enemy property be kept record
ed and preserved separately M settlement above
v'ded SHALL however be made until judgment decree Of
sequesraton shall have passed but the court may at


e pending litigation, require an account OF matters IN


litigation and in the possession Of the Receiver and
make SUCH orders touching the rs shall protect the
interest of the parties concerned.


counts of any Receiver shall be 6edrespecting any
matter which has passed sequestratiOn the court shall
appoint day for settlement and notice thereof shall be
published cOnsecuvey for four weeks in some news
paper near the Place OF holding the court and the clerk
OF the court shall send copy of such newspaper to
the District Attorney The Confederate States for the
court where the matter is TO be heard and it shall be the
duty OF said District Attorney attend the settlement and
represent the Government and see that full true and
just settlement is made The several settlements preced
ing the final shall be interocutorv only and be
impeached the final settlements which latter shall be
conclusive unless reversed mpeached within two years,
for fraud.


SIC l9 Be ii further enacted That the court hav ng u-
rsdcon of the matter shall whenever sufficient is
shown therefor direct the sale e personal property
other than slaves sequestered under this such
as tn 1t shall seem BEST and such sale shall pass the title
OF the person as whose property the has been seques
tered.


SEC. lS. Be it .further tnac,ed, That all settle
ments of Receivers for sequestered property shall be
recorded and copy thereof shall be forwarded bY
the clerk OF the court TO the Treasurer of the Coned
crate States within ten days after the decree inter-
lOcutory na has been passed and all balances found
against the Receiver shall by him be paid the
court subject to the order of the Treasurer of the Cond
crate States and upon the failure the Receiver for Eve
days TO day the execution shall issue therefor
and he shall be liable to attachment by te court and m
suit upon his bond And embezzling any money
under this shall be liable Indictment and on convc
'ion shall be confined at hard labor for less than
months than FIVE years. in the discretion of the
court and fined in double the embezzled.


SEr a Be further enacted, That the President nf the
Confederate States SHALL by and with the advice and cn-
sent Of Congress- Of the Senate if the appointment be
made under the permanent Government appoint three
Commissioners learned in the law who shall at
the of Government year. upon notice
given, who shall sit long the business before them
shall require, whose duty it shall be- under such rules as
they adopt, to hear and adudge such claims may
be brought before them BY aiding this COnedera-
in the present against the United States who shall
aege that he has been put to loss under the the
United States in retaliation of which this act passed.
under other act of the United States any State
thereof authorizing the seizure condemnation cnnSca-


on OF The property o any citizen or resident of the Com
federate States other person aiding said Confederate
States in the present against The United States and
the finding Of such Commissioners in favor of any such
claim shall be prma ace evidence Of the correctness othe
demand and whenever Congress shall pass the claim the
shall be paid from any money in the Treasury derv-
ed from sequeslraton under this act: P1pi That said
Board OF Commissioners shall not continue beyond the
gnnzaton Of the Court of Claims provided for BY the
stitutOn TO which Court of Claims the duties herein pro-
Vded To be discharged BY Commissioners shall belong
upon the organization Of raid The salaries Of said
Commissioners shall be at the rate of thousand five
hundred dollars per amman, and shall be paid from the
Treasury Of the Confederacy And it shall be the duty of
the Attorney General his represent the in
terests nf this Government in all arising under this
act before said Board Of Commissioners.


SEC l5 Be Hfrher enacted That all the expenses in
CURED in proceedings under this shall be paid from the
seQuestered fund and the Judges settling accounts with
Receivers shall make them proper allowances of COM
penSatinn, taking two and half per receipts and
The same amount on expend rs reasonable pnsnsa


On in all The fees Of the officers Of court shall be
such allowed by law for similar services In other
10 be paid however only from the sequesered fund.-
ProUid That all realized by Receiver in one
year for his services exceeding five thousand dollars shall
be paid into the Confederate Treasury, for the Of the
COnederacy.


SEC ID Be further sHacd, That the Attorney Gene
raj shall prescribe such uniform rules of proceeding under
this law and herein otherwise provided for shall meet


Sac IL Be f,ttr enacted That appeals NAV lie from
any final decision of the under this the same
and within the same time as is now or hereafter
may be by law prescribed for appeals in other civil


SEC lS BE HJarhher enacted, That the word person
in this law includes all private corporations; and in all
cases. wi corporations become parties and this re-
qures oath TO be made it shall be made by officer
of such corporation.


SEC IT, BE further enacted That the courts are vested
with riSdction and required by this settle all part
ncrshps heretofore existing between citizen and one who
is an alien enemy TO separate the interest of the alien
my, and To SequeSate It, And SHALL also, all joint
rights when an alien enemy is concerned, and sequeSrae
the interest of such alien enemy


SEC 90. BE furter enacted That in all cases of adj
ministration Of matter thing under this act The
court having jurisdiction may make such orders touching
the of the property effects under the direc
tlon or control OF the Receiver inconsistent with
foregoing provisions to il shall proper And the
Receiver at time ask and have the instructions
MS conduct the dSpOSi
tion or management of Gny property effects under his
control


SIC 81 Be it further enacted That the Treasury notes
of this Conderacy shall be receivable payment of oil
purchases OF property or effects sold under this


&c %. BE fTrthsc sndetsd That nothing this act
sa be construed destroy impair the lien other right
OF any creditor, czen resident of either of the Con-
fedeaie States of other person. citizen resident
Of any country State Territory with which this Confed
eracy in friendship and which person not in hostility
to this Conederacy And any lien debt claimed against
any alien enemy within the meaning Of this act shall be
propOunded and flied in the court which the proceedings
Of sequestraOn had within twelve months from the
institu of such proceedings for sequesraton and the
court shall all proper parties to be made and notices
TO be given and shall hear and determine the resi- ective
rights of all parties concerned Provided, however that
sales payments of money shall be delayed for by
reason Of such rights proceedings; but any money
allied BY the Receiver whether paid into the treas
ury still in the Receivers hands, shall stand in lieu of
that which produced said money and be held the
demand of the creditors aforesaid. in the
that which produced such money And all claims not
prOpOunded and filed aforesaid within twelve months
aforesaid shall exist against the estate proper
ty or effects sequesrated, or the proceeds thereof


APPROVED August 80.