| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 868 pages
...Sought by proceedings had under 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," is the foundation of the subsequent proceedings. It is essential to give jurisdiction to the court... | |
| Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 568 pages
...of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of Rebels, and for other purposes," or by Proclamations of the President of the United States, dated September twenty-second, eighteen... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...connection. It was there held that the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, " to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," in so far as it undertook to authorize the confiscation of the property of citizens as a punishment... | |
| United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...1861, 12 Stat. at L. 319 ; and the fourth, on 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, Id. 589. Section 1 of the act of August 6, 1861, is as follows : "If during... | |
| William Whiting - Executive power - 1871 - 736 pages
...and finally was passed July 17, 1862 (Chap. 195). was entitled "An Act to suppress insurrection, -to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." It provides, in Section 9, that all slaves of rebels or their abettors, who should escape and come... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...the House of Representatives was adopted, with the following title, " To suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate...the property of Rebels, and for other purposes," and approved by the President, July 17, 1862. 1 1 Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 689. STATE SUICIDE AND... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1872 - 904 pages
...wherever found." The next act on the subject was that of July 17, !S(i2, to suppress insurrection and to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels. By this act it was provided in the Oth section that "all the estate and property "of persons in rebellion,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 778 pages
...property for confiscation, 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." After a libel of information was filed, and notice thereof published, and before sentence of condemnation... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...connection. It was there held that the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, " to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," in so far as it undertook to authorize the confiscation of the property of citizens as a punishment... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of Rebels, and for other purposes," or by Proclamations of the President of the United States, dated September twenty-second, eighteen... | |
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