Chapter VIII. *to repeal Section thirteen of “An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes,” approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* Jan. 21, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati
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CHAP. VIII.— An Act *to repeal Section thirteen of “An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes,” approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* Jan. 21, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * 1862, ch. 195, § 13. Vol. xii. p. 592. That the thirteenth section ofAuthority of the President to proclaim amnesty and pardon, repealed. an act entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* LA FAYETTE S. FOSTER, *President of the Senate, pro tempore.* Endorsed by the President: “Received Wednesday, January, 9th, 1867. [Note by the Department or State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]