...taken an oath to support the Constitution of the so-called Confederate States of America; nor should any punishment or proceedings under said act be so...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. § 514. The objection raised by President Lincoln was accepted by Congress as valid, but at that time...

...approved, explanatory of some of its provisions, and declaring that " no proceedings under said Act shall be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." The Act and the joint resolution are doubtless to be construed as one Act, precisely as if the latter...

...his ornee taken an oath to support the constitution of the socalled "Confederate States of America;" nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. Approved, July 17, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. I, Abraham...

...act of July 17, 18G2, it was provided that the act of 1861, authorizing confiscation, should ''not be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real...estate of the, offender beyond his natural life." And after the death of Mr. Slidell, which occurred in 1871, his heirs instituted proceedings for the...

...his views.3 Its most important provision was that no punishment or proceedings under the act should " be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." This was an effort to reconcile the act with the prohibition in the constitution against forfeiture...

...support the constitution of the so-called 'Confederate States of America.' " Then follows this clause : "Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." A "forfeiture" of the estate of the "offender." What have these terms to do with the appropriation...

...support the constitution of the so-called 'Confederate States of America.' " Then follows this clause: "Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." A "forfeiture" of the estate of the "offender." What have these terms to do with the appropriation...

...office, taken an oath to support the constitution of the so-called ' Confederate States of America'; nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." their appointment or election since the date of the pretended ordinance of ^esession of the state,...

...Stats. 627, it was provided that proceedings under the 1ict should not be so construed as to work the forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. During the war certain lands in Cincinnati. Ohio, belonging to one J., who had entered the Confederate...

...Stats. 627, it was provided that proceedings under the act should not be so construed as to work the forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. During the war certain lands in Cincinnati, Ohio, belonging to one J., who had entered the Confederate...