 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1880 - 1218 pages
...Alexandria, Va., were seized and libeled for condemnation under the "Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," alleging that their owners, certain persons named McVeigh, were rebels, &C. On the 10th of March, 18C4,... | |
 | John George Metcalf - Mendon (Mass.) - 1880 - 746 pages
...heartily endorse the recent legislation of Congress, whereby a bill " To suppress insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of Rebels and for other purposes," has become the law of the land; and believing it can be used as the most efficient means to overthrow... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...to one act of Congress, approved July 17, 1862, and entitled " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." The act is full, and can not be quoted at length. The closing paragraph provides, " That the President... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 654 pages
...14, 1804, 1st Sess. 38th Cong. Globe, 218; in a debate on a joint resolution explanatory of an " Act to suppress insurrection, punish treason and rebellion,...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." See ante, pp. 59, 170. Speaking on the same matter, Jan. 28, 1864 (Globe, 403), Mr. Garfield said that... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1881 - 556 pages
...Congress commonly known as the Confiscation Act. It is entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." Its first section prescribed the punishment for treason thereafter committed. It punished it with death,... | |
 | William Edward Miller - Courts - 1881 - 728 pages
...etc., see, 17 Wall., 64. In proceedings under the act entitled, "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels," etc., it was held that they are not proceedings in admiralty, although the act declares they shall... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1302 pages
...virtue of an Act of Congress, approved July 17, 1862, entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to ` 1^ )g֬ & A *Y Bm $5 ]s O & D 4 T J ,tX u@ X H E, ْVlP 9io# ~( p= 4Jy I : in virtue of the Joint Resolution of Congress, explanatory thereof, likewise approved July 17, 1882,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress. 1802, July 17 — A bill was approved to " suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," which contains these provisions : That every person who shell hereafter commit the crime of treason... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 832 pages
...: " That the last clause of a 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,' approved July 17, 1862, be, and the same hereby is, so amended as to read. ' Nor shall any punishment... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 408 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 Statutes at Luge, Vol. XII. p. 689. OUR GERMAN FELLOW-CITIZENS,... | |
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