...moved to strike out all of the hill after the enacting clause, and insert the following: That the act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seiie and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other parposes," approved July 17, 1S62, be, and...

...this act shall take effect from and after its passage." Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...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...

...the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia. On the 17th of July, 1862, Congress passed an act, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." This act provided for the seizure and confiscation of the property of persons holding certain offices...

...attainted.116 116 Congress ran counter to this limitation during the Civil War. It passed (July 17, 1862) an act "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...seize and confiscate the property of rebels", and for some other purposes, which was called the Confiscation Act. To insure the speedy termination of the...

...attainted.116 116 Congress ran counter to this limitation during the Civil War. It passed (July 17, 1862) an act "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...seize and confiscate the property of rebels", and for some other purposes, which was called the Confiscation Act. To insure the speedy termination of the...

...attainted.116 116 Congress ran counter to this limitation during the Civil War. It passed (July 17, 1862) an act "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...seize and confiscate the property of rebels", and for some other purposes, which was called the Confiscation Act. To insure the speedy termination of the...

...act shall take effect from and after its passage." Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled " An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate Property of Rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 16, 1862, and which sections are in the...

...government of the United States. The indictment is framed under the second section of the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection,...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes ;" and it charges the commission of acts, which, in the judgment of the court, amount to treason within...

...superintendence and direction of all proceedings to be had under the act of Congress of the 17th of July, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," in so far as may concern the seizure, prosecution, and condemnation of the estate, property, and effects...

...property should ' be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found.' And by act of July 17th, 1862,3 to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, &c., it declared (§6), that ' all the estate and property' of persons in rebellion, and who, after...