Chapter LX. *to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes.* August 6, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That if, during the present orWhen property used in aiding insurrection may be confiscated. any future insurr
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Chap. LX.— An Act *to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes.* August 6, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That if, during the present orWhen property used in aiding insurrection may be confiscated. any future insurrection against the Government of 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 the execution thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals by law, any person or persons, his, her, or their agent, attorney, or employe, shall purchase or acquire, sell or give, any property of whatsoever kind or description, with intent to use or employ the same, or suffer the same to be used or employed, in aiding, abetting, or promoting such insurrection or 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 or 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, confiscated, and condemned, Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That such prizes and capture shallIn what courts to be condemned. be condemned in the district or circuit court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in any district in which the same may be seized, or into which they may be taken and proceedings first instituted.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Attorney-General, or anyWho to institute proceedings for condemnation, and for whose use. district attorney of the United States in which said property may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the benefit of the United States; or any person 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. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That whenever hereafter, during theWhen claims to persons held to service and labor to be forfeited. present insurrection against the Government of the United States, any person claimed to be held to labor or service under the law of any State, shall be required or permitted by the person to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due, or by the lawful agent of such person, to take up arms against the United States, or shall be required or permitted by the person to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due, or his lawful agent, to work or to be employed in or upon any fort, navy yard, dock, armory, ship, entrenchment, or in any military or 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 or service is claimed to be due shall forfeit his claim to such labor, any law of the State or of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding.
And whenever thereafter the person claiming such labor or service shall seek to enforce his claim, it shall be a full and sufficient answer to such claim that the person whose service or labor is claimed had been employed in hostile service against the Government of the United States, contrary to the provisions of this act. Approved, August 6, 1861. Chapter LXI: relative to Appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States. 11 Stat. 319 1861-08-06 Chapter LXI Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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*to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes.* August 6, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That if, during the present orWhen property used in aiding insurrection may be confiscated. any future insurr
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