| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 736 pages
...passed a title to Mrs. Roberts. The act of congress of July 17th, 1862, "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," made null and void all sales, transfers and conveyances of any estate and property of persons engaged... | |
| Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...Congress, and thereupon that body undertook, in the shape of " An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes," passed July 17, 18(!2, to provide for emancipation, in the shape of confiscation. Although the provisions... | |
| United States. War Department - 1865 - 908 pages
...cents (83 50) per month, and one ration each. The 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 17, 1862,* provides that whoever shall commit treason -'shall suffer death" and all his... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1100 pages
...point his sarcasm. One of the allegations here made, is that the " act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, is the same in substance and effect, aa this proclamation, so far as the slaves... | |
| Kansas - Law - 1861 - 266 pages
...process property. • x of law, under the act of Congress 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 17, 1862, or any amendment thereto, all persons owning or claiming to own such property,... | |
| 1863 - 856 pages
...Government of the United States enacted a law, entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to prevent treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," and has announced by a proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln, the President thereof, that in pursuance... | |
| African Americans - 1862 - 412 pages
...sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, and to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: SEC. 9. And be it... | |
| Isaiah T. Williams - Maritime law - 1862 - 42 pages
...citizens acting the part of traitors ? The title of that act, " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels," &c., defines at once and forever the relations between the government and its revolted citizens as... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 888 pages
...spirit of barbarous ferocity, has recently enacted a law entitled, " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate...the property of rebels, and for other purposes;" and has announced by a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln, the President thereof, that, in pursuance... | |
| Treason - 1863 - 76 pages
...That the provisions of the third clause of the fifth section of "An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," shall bo so construed as not to apply to any act or acts done prior to the passage thereof; nor to... | |
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