The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 276
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276 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
days from the date of such warning and proclamation shall be null and void; and it
shall be 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 enacted, That to secure the condemnation and sale of any
of such property, after the same shall have been seized, so that it may be made avail-
able for the purpose aforesaid, proceedings in rem shall be instituted in the name of
the United States in any district court thereof, or in any Territorial court or in the
United States district court for the District of Columbia, within which the property
above described, 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; and if said property, whether real
or personal, shall be found to have belonged to a person engaged in rebellion, or
who has given aid or 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.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the several courts aforesaid shall have power
to make such orders, establish such forms of decree and sale, and direct such deeds
and conveyances to be executed and delivered by the marshals thereof where real
estate shall be the subject of sale, as shall fitly and efficiently effect the purposes of
this act, and vest in the purchasers of such property good and valid titles thereto.
And the said courts 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 enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in
any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge
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 persons found on [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 enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory,
or the District 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 offense against
the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the per-
son to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to bedue 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 mili-
tary or naval service of the United States shall, under any pretense whatever,
assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor
of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of
being dismissed from the service.
SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is author-
ized to employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem necessary and
proper for the suppression of this rebellion, and for this purpose he may organize
and use them in such manner as he may judge best for the public welfare.
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is
hereby authorized to make provision for the transportation, colonization, and settle-
ment, in some tropical country beyond the limits of the United States, of such per-
sons of the African race, made free by the provisions of this act, as may be willing
to emigrate, having first obtained the consent of the government of said country to
their protection and settlement within the same, with all the rights and privileges
of freemen.
SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby authorized, at any
time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have participated in
the existing rebellion in any State or part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such
exceptions and at such time and on such conditions as he may deem expedient for
the public welfare.
SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the courts of the United States shall have
full power to institute proceedings, make orders and decrees, issue process, and do
all other things necessary to carry this act into effect.
Approved July 17, 1862.
(VIII. PUBLIC RESOLUTION--NO. 54.)
JOINT RESOLUTION explanatory of "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and
rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes."
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the provisions of the third clause of the fifth section of
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