list shall be published, requiring all persons to appear and incapable of holding or exercising any office of show cause why certain persons held to labor should not be honor, trust, or profit under the Government of discharged; and on failure of such persons to appear, their slaves shall be declared free, and on appearance the claim- the United States; which was agreed to-yeas ant shall file an affidavit that he has not been engaged in 84, nays 66, as follows: rebellion, or aided and abetted it, or if engaged under compulsion must show it, and if proved that he was not engaged in rebellion his slaves shall be returned to him; but on failure of such procf, or on the failure or refusal to take the foregoing affidavit to prove the compulsion when alleged as an excuse, the court shall declare the person so claimed as free, and grant him a certificate of the same under seal, and shall be conclusive evidence of his freedom. And all peren so declared free, if seized, shall be forthwith discharged on habeas corpus; and the court, acting on said writ, shall commit for trial for kidnapping the person so holding the freed man, and on conviction imprisoned for not less they, Porter, Potter, Alexander H. Rice, John H. Rice, Ridone or more than five years, and any one swearing falsely shall be guilty of perjury.

SEC. 3. That if any person held to labor by one engaged in rebellion, if omitted from the commissioner's list may, on summary application to the district court, be placed on the list, and to be treated in every way the same as if his name had been placed on the list by the commissioner.

lists.

Commissioners shall have ample time to complete their SEC. 4. That no such person or his descendants shall ever again be reduced to involuntary servitude, and every such person shall be entitled to discharge from such service on habeas corpus.

YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beanian, Bingham, Francis P. Blair, Blake, Buffinton, Burnham, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Federick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Covode, Davis, Dawes, Duell, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Ely, Fessenden, Fisher, Franchot, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Gurley, Hale, Hanchett, Hickman, Hooper, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Killinger, Lansing, Loomis, Lovejoy, Low, McKnight, McPherson, Mitchell, Moorhead, Anson P. Merrill, Justin S. Morrill, Nixon, Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Pomedle, Edward H. Rollins, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shanks, Shellabarger, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Stratton, Train, Trimble, Trowbridge, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Verree, Wall, Wallace, Washburne, Albert S. White, Wilson, Windom, Worcester-84.

NAYS-Messrs. William J. Allen, Baily, Biddle, Jacob B. Blair, George H. Browne, William G. Brown, Calvert, Clements, Cobb, Corning, Cox, Cravens, Crittenden, Delano, Delaplaine, Dunlap, English, Fouke, Granger, Grider, Haight, Harding, Harrison, Holman, Horton, Johnson, William Kel logg, Kerrigan, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Leary, Lehman, Mallory, May, Maynard, Menzies, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Pendleton, John S. Phelps, Price, Robinson, James S. Rollins, Segar, Sheffield, Shiel, Smith, John B. Steele, William G. landigham, Vibbard, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Ward, Webster, Chilton A. White, Wickliffe, Woodruff, Wright-66.

Which was rejected-yeas 16, nays 126. The Steele, Stiles, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, ValYEAS Were

The original bill reported from the committee was then negatived-yeas 74, nays 78; as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Francis P. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, Buffinton, Campbell, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Cutler, Davis, Duell, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Fenton, Fessenden, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Gurley, Hanchett, Hickman, Hooper, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Lansing, Loomis, Lovejoy, McKnight, McPherson, Moorhead, Anson P. Morrill, Justin S. Morrill, Olin, Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Pomeroy, Potter, John H. Rice, Riddle, Edward II. Rollins, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shanks, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Trowbridge, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Verree, Wall, Wallace, E. P. Walton, Washburne, Wheeler, Albert S. White, Wilson, Windom, Wor

cester-74.

NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Ancona, Baily, Biddle, Jacob B. Blair, George i Browne, William G. Brown, Calvert, Clements, Cobb, Corning, Coz, Cravens, Crisfield, Crittenden, Dawes, Delano, Diven, Dunlap, Dunn, English, Fisher, Granger, Grider, Haight, Hall, Harding, Harrison, Holman, Horton, Johnson, William Kellogg, Kerrigan, Killinger, Knapp, Law, Lizear, Leary, Lehman, Mallory, Maynard, Menzies, Mitchell, Nixon, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Odell, Pendleton, Perry, John S. Phelps, Porter, Price, Alexander H. Rice, Richardson, Robinson, James S. Rollins, Segar, Sheffield, Shiel, Smith, John B. Steele, William G. Steele, etratton, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Train, Trimble, Vallandigham, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Ward, Webster, Whaley, Wickliffe, Wood, Woodruff-78.

June 18-The House passed a bill reported in pursuance of these instructions-yeas 82, nays 34. It was not considered in the Senate; but emancipation clauses were inserted in the confiscation bill, and agreed to by both Houses.

During the pendency of another bill (107) to forfeit the property and slaves of persons who shall engage in, or aid and abet, armed rebellion against the United States,

1862, April 22-Mr. BINGHAM offered a substitute

That if any person or persons, within any State or Territory of the United States, shall, after the taking effect of this act, engage in armed rebellion against the Government of the United States, or shall aid or abet such rebellion, all the property, moneys, stocks, credits, and effects of such person or persons are hereby declared lawful subjects of prize and capture, wherever found, for the indemnity of the United States against the expenses of suppressing such rebellion; and it is hereby made the duty of the President of the United States to cause all such property, wherever found, to be seized, to the end that the same may be confiscated and condemned as hereinafter provided for the use of the United States.

SEC. 2. That all property so captured or seized shall be condemned in the district courts of the United States, and that the proceedings of condemnation shall be in rem, and shall be instituted and prosecuted in the name of the United States in any district court of the United States within any district in which the same may be seized or situate, or into which the same may be taken and proceedings first instituted, and which proceedings sha'l conform as nearly as may be to proceedings in prize cases, or to cases of forfeiture arising under the revenue laws; and in all cases the property so seized and condemned, whether real or per

May 27-Mr. PORTER moved to reconsider this vote. A motion to table the motion to re-sonal, shall be sold pursuant to such rules as the Secretary consider was lost-yeas 69, nays 73.

June 4-The motion to reconsider was agreed to-yeas 84, nays 65; and

of the Treasury may prescribe, and the proceeds deposited in the Treasury of the United States for the sole use of the

United States.

SEC. 3. That the Attorney General or any district attorney of the United States of any district in which the said property or effects may at the time be, or into which the same may be taken, shall institute the proceedings of condemna tion as hereinbefore provided.

Which was agreed to-yeas 62, nays 48; as follows:

Mr. PORTER moved that the bill be recommitted to the Committee with instructions to prepare a substitute, providing that the slaves of the persons included in the classification in the confiscation law, are declared forever discharged from service or labor, and providing YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, for an enrolment of them by commissioners, Beaman, Bingham, Samuel 8. Blair, Blake, Buffinton, Burnand the action of United States judges, as indi-ham, Chamberlain, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Covode, Cutler, Davis, Duell, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, cated in other amendments, for colonization of Fenton, Franchot, Frank, Gooch, Granger, Gurley, Hooper, them in Mexico, Central or South America, or Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Lansing, Loomis, Love the Gulf Islands, with homesteads, and declar-joy, McKnight, McPherson, Mitchell, Moorhead, Nixon, Noell, Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Porter, Potter, John ing every person embraced in the classification H. Rice, Riddle, Edward H. Rollins, Sargent, Shanks, Shel

YEAS-Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Arnold, Ashley, John D. Baldwin, Baxter, Beaman, Blow, Boutwell, Boyd, Brandegee, Broomall, Ambrose W. Clark, Freeman Clarke, Cobb, Cole, Creswell, Henry Winter Davis, Thomas T. Davis, Dawes, Deming, Donnelly, Driggs, Eliot, Farusworth, Fenton, Frank, Garfield, Gooch, Grinnell, Higby, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, John H. Hubbard, Hulburd, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Orlando Kellogg, Loan, Longyear, Marvin, McBride, McClurg, McIndoe, Samuel F. Miller, Moorhead, Morrill, Daniel Morris, Amos Myers, Leonard Myers, Norton, Charles Belonging to any person or persons beyond the jurisdic- O'Neill, Orth, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Pomeroy, Alexander

H. Rice, John H. Rice, Edward H. Rollins, Schenck, Scofield,
Shannon, Sloan, Smithers, Spalding, Stevens, Thayer, Tracy,
Upson, Van Valkenburgh, Ellihu B. Washburne, William B.
Washburn, Williams, Wilson, Windom, Woodbridge-83.
NAYS-Messrs. James C. Allen, Ancona, Baily, Augustus
C. Baldwin, Jacob B. Blair, Bliss, Brooks, James S. Brown,
William G. Brown, Chanter, Clay, Coffroth, Cox, Cravens,
Dawson, Denison, Eden, Edgerton, Eldridge, Finck, Ganson,
Grider, Harding, Harrington, Benjamin G. Harris, Herrick,
Holman, Hutchins, William Johnson, Kalbfleisch, Kernan,
King, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Le Blond, Long, Mallory, Marcy,
Me Dowell, Mc Kinney, Middleton, Wm. H. Miller, James R.
Morris, Morrison, Nelson, Noble, Odell, John O'Neill, Pen-
dleton, Prum, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, William H.
Randall, Robinson, Rogers, James S. Rollins, Ross, Scott,
John B. Steele, William G. Steele, Stiles, Strouse, Stuart,
Sweat, Thomas, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Webster, Whaley,
Wheeler, Chilton A. White, Joseph W. White, Winfield,
Fernando Wood, Yeaman-76.

IN SENATE.

February 17-Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back this joint resolution, without amendment, and with a recommendation that it do not pass.

June 27-Pending the consideration of the bill to establish a bureau of Freedmen's Affairs.

Mr. TRUMBULL offered this as a new section: And be it further enacted, 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 is hereby, repealed.

The words proposed to be repealed are, "nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life."

June 28-This was agreed to-yeas 23, nays 15, as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Conness, Foot, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson

-23.

NATB-Messrs. Carlile, Clark, Collamer, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Henderson, Hendricks, Hicks, McDougall, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, Ten Eyck, Willey-15.

Same day, Mr. HENDRICKS moved to strike, out this section; which was disagreed toyeas 13, nays 16, as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Buckalew, Carlile, Clark, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Hendricks, McDougall, Powell, Riddle, Ten Eyck, Van Winkle, Willey-13.

NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Conness, Foot, Harlan, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Wilkinson, Wilson

-16.

"Rebel" Sequestration.

1861, August 6-The "Confederate" Congress passed a bill "for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same in the existing war against the United States," of which the Richmond Examiner of the following Monday gave an abstract.

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held for the full indemnity of any true and loyal citizen, a resident of these Confederate States, or other person aiding said Confederate States in the prosecution of the present war between said Confederate States and the United States of America, and for which he may suffer any loss or injury under the act of the United States, or of any State thereof, authorizing the seizure or confiscation of the property of citizens or residents of the Confederate States, or other persons aiding said Confederate States, and the same shall be seized and disposed of as provided for in this act: Provided, however, When the estate, property, or rights to be effected by this act were or are within some State of this Confederacy, which has become such since said twenty-first day of May, then the act shall operate upon and as to such estate, property, or rights, and all persons claiming the same from and after the day such State became a member of this Confederacy, and not before: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not extend to the stocks or other public securities of this Confederate Government, or of any of the States of this Confederacy, held or owned by an alien enemy, or to any debt, obligation, or sum due from the Confederate Govern ment, or any of the States to such alien enemy. And provided, also, That the provisions of this act shall not embrace the property of citizens or residents of either of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, or the District

of Columbia, or the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, or the Indian Territory south of Kansas, except such of said citizens or residents as shall commit actual hostilities against the Confederate States, or aid or abet the United States in the existing war against the Confederate States.

Sections 2 to 13 provide for the appointment of receiv. ers in each county, and impose a penalty of $2,000 on all who may endeavor to conceal the ownership of property belonging to alien enemies. Section 14 provides for the appointment of three commissioners to take charge of the sequestration fund, and to hear and decide on all claims against it.

For its enforcement, the then Attorney General, J. P. Benjamin, issued this circular:

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, RICHMOND, September 12, 1861. Instructions to receivers under the act entitled "An act for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemics, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States and persons aiding the same in the existing war against the United States," approved August 8th, 1861.

law as alien enemies:
The following persons are subject to the operation of the

dents of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri, or
All citizens of the United States, except citizens or resi-
the District of Columbia, or the Territories of New Mexico,
Arizona, or the Indian territory south of Kansas.

All persons who have a domicil within the States with which this Government is at war, no matter whether they be citizens or not: thus the subjects of Great Britain, France, or other neutral nations, who have a domicil, or are carrying on business or traffic within the States at war with this Confederacy, are alien enemies under the law.

All such citizens or residents of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri, and of the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and the Indian territory south of Kansas, and of the District of Columbia, as shall commit actual hostilities against the Confederate States, or aid or assist the United States in the existing war against the Confederate States.

Immediately after taking your oath of office, you will take possession of all the property of every nature and kind whatsoever within your district belonging to alien enemies as above defined.

You will forthwith apply to the clerk of the court for writs of garnishment under the 8th section of the law, and

will propound to the garnishees the interrogatories of which a form is annexed. These interrogatories you will pro "pound to the following persons, viz:

The following is the principal legislative clause :

1st. All attorneys and counsellors practicing law within your district.

2d. The presidents and cashiers of all banks, and principal administrative officers of all railroad and other corpora

tions within your district.

All agents of foreign corporations, insurance agents, commission merchants engaged in foreign trade, agents of foreign mercantile houses, dealers in bills of exchange, executors and administrators of estates, assignees and syndics of insolvent estates, trustees, and generally all persons who are known to do business as agents for others.

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States, That all and every the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods and chattels, rights and credits within these Confederate States, and every right and interest therein held, owned, possessed, or enjoyed by or for any alien enemy since the twenty-first day of May, 1861, except such debts In the first week of each month you will exhibit to the due to an alien enemy as may have been paid into the judge a statement showing the whole amount of money in Treasury of any one of the Confederate States prior to the your hands as receiver, and deposit the same for safe keeppassage of this law, be and the same are hereby seques-ing in such bank or other depository as may be selected for trated by the Confederate States of America, and shall be that purpose by the judge-reserving only such amount as

may be required for immediate necessary expenditure in the discharge of your duties as receivers.

Whenever, in the discharge of your duties, you discover that any attorney, agent, former partner, trustee, or other person holding or controlling any property, rights, or credits of an alien enemy, has wilfully failed to give you information of the same, you will immediately report the fact to the district attorney for your district, to the end that the guilty party may be subjected to the pains and penalties prescribed by the third section of the law.

J. P. BENJAMIN, Attorney General. The following interrogatories to garnishees have been prepared for your use, together with a note annexed for the information of the garnishee:

1. Have you now, or have you had in your possession or under your control, since the twenty-first day of May last, (1861,) and if yea, at what time, any land or lands, tenement or tenements, hereditament or hereditaments, chattel or chattels, right or rights, credit or credits, within the Confederate States of America, held, owned, possessed, or enjoyed for or by an alien enemy, or in or to which any alien enemy had, and when, since that time, any right, title, or interest, either directly or indirectly?

2. If you answer any part of the foregoing interrogatory in the affirmative, then set forth, specifically and particularly, a description of such property, right, title, credit, or interest, and if you have disposed of it in whole or in part, or of the profit, or rent, or interest accruing therefrom, then state when you made such disposition, and to whom, and where such property now is, and by whom held?

interest therein held, owned, possessed, or enjoyed by or for any such alien enemy.

"My office is on the northern side of Main street, in the city of Richmond, between Tenth and Eleventh streets." SEQUESTRATION NOTICE.

Merchants and all other persons residing in Nansemond,

Norfolk city, city of Portsmouth, Princess Anne, and Isle
of Wight who owe debts to alien enemies, or have property
of any kind in their possession, or under their control, be-
longing to any such alien enemies, and who have failed and
neglected to make report thereof, are hereby notified that
unless a report of the said debts and information of said
property is rendered by them to the undersigned, receiver
of this district, on or before Saturday, the 30th instant, they
will be reported as delinquents and subject to the fine of
five thousand dollars imposed by law.
JOHN T. FRANCIS,

Receiver.

This is a copy of the writ served upon the wife of Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, while he was in Washington, in attendance upon Congress, quoted in his speech of May 23, 1862:

To Hon. WEST H. HUMPHREYS, Judge of the District Covert of the Confederate States of America for the District of Ten

nessee:

The Confederate States of America, through Landon C.

3. Were you, since the twenty-first day of May, 1861, Haynes, the receiver for the eastern district of Tennessee, and if yea, at what time, indebted, either directly or indirespectfully represents unto your honor that within the ju rectly, to any alien enemy or alien enemies? If yea, state risdiction of this court there are [various items of property the amount of such indebtedness, if one, and of each indebt- specifically enumerated.] The said States, by said receiver, edness if more than one; give the name or names of the show that said property, real, and personal, and mixed, becreditor or creditors, and the place or places of residence, longs to one Horace Maynard, who has his domicil and who and state whether and to what extent such debt or debts resides in Kentucky, or some one of the States or districts have been discharged, and also the time and manner of the of the United States, and who is in actual hostility to the Government of the Confederate States of America, and who discharge. adheres to the enemy of said States by speeches, words, and acts, giving them aid and comfort in Kentucky and other places in the United States, and is an alien enemy to said the counties of Knox and Campbell, in the State and within Confederate States. All of which are situate and being in further represent that the said property, debts, claims, chosen the district of said receiver. And the said Confederate States in action, are, as said States have been informed by said receiver, under the control and supervision of Mrs. Maynard, wife of said Horace Maynard, and the said W. P. Washburn, who resides in Knox county, in this State, which property is liable to be seized, under the act of the Confederate Confects of alien enemies. The said Mrs. Maynard and Washgress for the sequestration of the estates, property, and efburn are required to set forth, on oath, and specifically to describe said property, and debts, and choses in action, as they have full knowledge of the same, and answer the interrogatories herewith filed, on oath, and marked exhibit A, as a part of this petition.

4. Do you know of any land or lands, tenement or tenements, hereditament or hereditaments, chattel or chattels, right or rights, credit or credits, within the Confederate States of America, or any right or interest held, owned, possessed, or enjoyed, directly or indirectly, by or for one or more alien enemies since the twenty-first day of May, 1861, or in or to which any one cr more alien enemies had since that time any claim, title, or interest, direct or indirect? If yea, set forth specially and particularly what and where the property is, and the name and residence of the holder, debtor, trustee, or agent.

5. State all else that you know which may aid in carrying into full effect the sequestration act of the 30th of August, 1861, and state the game as fully and particularly as if thereunto specially interrogated. A. B., Receiver.

NOTE-The garnishee in the foregoing interrogatories is specially warned that the sequestration act makes it the duty of each and every citizen to give the information asked in said interrogatories.-[Act 30th August, 1861, sec. 2.1 And if any attorney, agent, former partner, trustee, or other person holding or controlling any property or interest therein of or for any alien enemy shall fail speedily to inform the receiver of the same, and to render him an acaccount of such property or interest, he shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisoned not longer than six months, and be liable to pay besides to the Confederate States double the value of the property or interest of the alien enemies so held or subject to his control-Sec. 3.]

This act was rigidly enforced. Subjoined are two notices, preserved from the newspapers of the day:

Thomas T. Giles, who has been appointed receiver for the eastern district of Virginia, has issued a notice addressed "to all whom it may concern," in the following words:

"I hereby notify every attorney, agent, former partner, trustee, or other person holding or controlling any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, goods or chattels, rights or credits, or any interest therein, within the eastern district of Virginia, of or for any alien enemy of the Confederate States of America, speedily to inform me, appointed receiver for the said district, of the same; and to render to me an account thereof, and, so far as is practicable, to place the same in my hands. Any such person wilfully failing to do so will be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and liable to be indicted, convicted, fined, and imprisoned, as provided by "I also notify each and every citizen of the Confederate States speedily to give information to me (as he is required by law to do) of any and every lands, tenements, and hereditamente, goods and chattels, rights and credits, within the said eastern district of Virginia, and of every right and

law.

The Confederate States of America, through said receiver,
therefore pray that the acid persons having supervision and
control over said property, as aforesaid, who reside in the
county of Knox, be made parties to this petition, and that
a copy thereof, together with notice, be issued by the clerk
of this court to the marshal or his deputy, to be served on
said persons. Said Confederate States further pray that your
honor direct said property to be seized and sequestrated, and
placed in the hands of said receiver, and by him sold or dis-
posed of upon such terms and conditions as your honor may
direct. And on final hearing, the Confederate States pray
for all such other, further, and different relief in the prem-
ises as may be consistent with the act of the Confederate
Congress.
LANDON C. HAYNES,
Receiver for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
A true copy of the original.

WILLIAM G. MCADOO, Clerk, dc.
Proceedings were also taken against Judge
Catron and Andrew Johnson.

SUNDRY ITEMS.

The Southern Commercial Convention which met at Macon, Oct. 16, 1861, passed a series of resolutions in relation to the sequestration act, and recommending that the payment of debts sequestered be not required during the war; that claims for indemnity and indebtedness due the North be allowed as a set-off; that the courts be empowered in certain cases to modify the retroactive effect of the bill; and that the property of northern residents laboring under