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Code · U.S. Code · Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE · CHAPTER 13— INSURRECTION · § 223

§ 223. Forfeiture of vessels owned by citizens of insurrectionary States

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From and after fifteen days after the issuing of the proclamation, as provided in section 205 of this title, any vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitant of such State or part of a State whose inhabitants are so declared in a state of insurrection, found at sea, or in any port of the rest of the United States, shall be forfeited.
(R.S. § 5319.)
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  • act July 12, 1861, ch. 3, § 7
  • 12 Stat. 257
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Forfeiture of vessels owned by citizens of insurrectionary States
Actact July 12, 1861, ch. 3, § 7
Stat.12 Stat. 257
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