to be paid to the

event of their loss

or escape.

agreed upon with said owners for their use and service, Value of slaves and in the event of the loss of any slaves while so emowners in the ployed, by the act of the enemy, or by escape to the enemy, or by death inflicted by the enemy, or by disease contracted while in any service required of said slaves, then the owners of the same shall be entitled to receive the full value of such slaves, to be ascertained by agreement or by appraisement, under the law regulating impressments, to be paid under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may establish.

When the Sec'y

of War may im

of slaves.

Rations and

Value of slaves

event of their

loss.

SEC. 3. That when the Secretary of War shall be unapress the services ble to procure the service of slaves in any military department in sufficient numbers for the necessities of the department, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the preceding section, then he is hereby authorized to What number. impress the services of as many male slaves, not to exceed twenty thousand, as may be required, from time to time, to discharge the duties indicated in the first section of this act, according to laws regulating impressment of clothing allowed. slaves in other cases: Provided, That slaves so impressed shall, while employed, receive the same rations and clothing, in kind and quantity, as slaves regularly hired from to be paid in the their owners; and, in the event of their loss, shall be paid for in the same manner and under the same rules established by the said impressment laws: Provided, That if the owner have but one male slave within the age of eighteen and fifty, he shall not be impressed against the to be impressed. Will of said owner: Provided further, That free negroes to be first im-shall be first impressed, and if there should be a deficiency, it shall be supplied by the impressment of slaves accordslaves liable to ing to the foregoing provisions: Provided further, That Credit allowed. in making the impressment, not more than one of every five male slaves between the ages of eighteen and fortyfive shall be taken from any owner, care being taken to allow in each case a credit for all slaves who may have been already impressed under this act, and who are still to be in equal in service, or have died or been lost while in service. And locality. all impressments under this act shall be taken in equal ratio from all owners in the same locality, city, county or district.

When slave not

Free negroes

pressed.

How many impressment.

Impressments.

ratio in same

APPROVED February 17, 1864.

[P. 271.]

ACTS PASSED BY SECOND CONGRESS, SESSION I.

CHAP. XLI.-A Act to authorize the manufacture of spiritous liquors June 14, 1864. for the use of the army and hospitals.

au

thorized for the

alcoholic and

for the army and

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do Contracts enact, That it shall be lawful for the Surgeon General manufacture of or the Commissary General to make all necessary con- spirituous liquors tracts for the manufacture and distillation of whisky, hospitals. brandy, and other alcoholic and spirituous liquors for the supply of the army and hospitals upon such terms as may be conducive to the public interest; and that the said contracts and any heretofore made shall operate Contract to opas a license to the contractor to manufacture the same to contractor. for the purpose aforesaid.

erate as a license

Manufactories

be established.

SEC. 2. That the Surgeon General and the Commissary or distilleries may General shall be authorized to establish manufactories or distilleries for the purpose of obtaining the supplies aforesaid, and to employ laborers in the same, instead Laborers. of resorting to contracts, if they shall deem it more prudent to do so.

Contractor not

to make more alcoholic or spirit

nous liquors than liquors the Government.

agents

he shall deliver to

SEC. 3. That no contractor or party shall, under the license granted by this act, distil or make more alcohol, whisky, brandy, or other alcoholic or spirituous than he shall deliver to the Government or its in fulfillment of his contract or contracts; nor shall it be lawful for any such contractor to sell, or in any way selling or dispos dispose of, otherwise than as said contract or contracts ing of same. may require, any alcohol, whisky, brandy, or other alcoholic or spirituous liquors manufactured by him under

Prohibited from

Act not to op

to contractor for

the license aforesaid; nor shall this act operate as a erate as a license license to any contractor for any violation of the pro-any violation of hibitions herein contained, when such violation shall its prohibitions. be a crime or misdemeanor under the laws of the State in

which the same may occur.

APPROVED June 14, 1864.

[P. 280.]

June 14, 1864.

So much of the

(ante, p. 181, ch.

prepared vege-

CHAP. LVI.—An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to prohibit the importation of luxuries or of articles not necessaries or of common use,” approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do act of Feb. 6, 1864 enact, That so much of the act entitled "An act to 24), as forbids the prohibit the importation of luxuries or of articles not importation of necessaries or of common use," approved sixth February, meats, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as forbids the importation of prepared "vegetables, fruits, meats, poultry and game, sealed or inclosed in cans or otherwise, and brooms and brushes of all kinds," is hereby repealed. APPROVED June 14, 1864.

pealed.

&c., re

The President,

in certain cases,

inhabitants of a

in a state of insurrection.

1795, ch. 36, § 2. Vol. i, p. 424.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the may declare the President, in pursuance of the provisions of the second State, &c., to be section of the act entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose," approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, shall have called forth the militia to suppress combinations against the laws of the United States, and to cause the laws to be duly executed and the insurgents shall have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President, and when said insurgents claim to act under the authority of any State or States, and such claim is not disclaimed. or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which said combination exists, nor such insurrection suppressed by said State or States, then and in such case it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the Commercial in- United States; and thereupon all commercial intercourse upon to cease. by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the

1861, ch. 32. Post, p. 284.

tercourse there

goods

permit inter

cases, and under

citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue; and all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, to be forfeited. coming from said State or section into the other parts of the United States, and all proceeding to such State or section, by land or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States: Provided, however, That the President may, in President may his discretion, license and permit commercial intercourse course in certain with any such part of said State or section, the inhabitants regulations. of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, in such articles, and for such time, and by such persons, as he, in his discretion, may think most conducive to the public interest; and such intercourse, so far as by him licensed, shall be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury may ap- Officers of cuspoint such officers at places where officers of the customs pointed; are not now authorized by law as may be needed to carry into effect such licenses, rules and regulations; and officers of the customs and other officers shall receive for services under this section, and under said rules and regulations, such fees and compensation as are now allowed for similar service under other provisions of law. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after fifteen days after the issuing of the said proclamation, as provided in the last foregoing section of this act, any ship or vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitant of said 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 to the United States.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That in the execution of the provisions of this act, and of the other laws of the United States providing for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, it may and shall be lawful for the President, in addition to the revenue cutters in service, to employ in aid thereof such other suitable vessels as may, in his judgment, be required.

toms may be ap

pay, &c.

their

Vessels belongsurrection, when

ing to those in in

to be forfeited

The navy may cute the revenue

be used to exe

laws.

penalties.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the forfeitures Remission and penalties incurred by virtue of this act may be mitigated or remitted in pursuance of the authority vested

in the Secretary of the Treasury by the act entitled "An 1797, ch. 13. act providing for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, Vol. i, p. 506.

penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," approved March third, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, or in cases where special circumstances may seem to require it, according to regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacied, That proceedings on seizures for forfeitures under this act may be pursued in the courts of the United States in any district into which the property so seized may be taken and proceedings instituted; and such courts shall have and entertain as full jurisdiction over the same as if the seizure was made in that district.

APPROVED, July 13, 1861.

[12 Stats. 319].

August 6, 1861. CHAP. LX.-An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary

used in aiding in

Purposes.

When property Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representasurrection may tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

be confiscated.

In what courts to be condemned.

That if, during the present or 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 shall 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