...the United States. The indictment is framed under section 2 of the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, entitled "An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish...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...

...which was introduced into Congress in May, 1862, and finally was passed July 17, 1862 (Chap. 195). was entitled "An Act to suppress insurrection, -to punish...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...

...act. MESSAGE. Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives : Considering the bill for an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes, and the joint resolution explanatory of said act, as being substantially one, I have approved and signed...

...properly be cited in this connection. It was there held that the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, " to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion,...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...

...Confederate lino> during the late rebellion, did not incapacitate him, under the Act .of July 17th 1802, "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion,...confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes" — and which makes null and void all sales, transftrs, and conreyances, of any estate and property,...

...the opinion. Ex PARTE GRAHAM. Proceedings to confiscate real estate under the act of July 17th, 1802, entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels," &c., are not " proceedings in admiralty," although the act declares that they " shall beinrem, and...

...bill on the same subject from the House of Representatives was adopted, with the following title, " To suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion,...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...

...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,...

...of the United States for the District of Indiana. An act of Congress, approved July 17th, 1862, and entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," among other things, provided, " that if any person within any State or Territory of the United States...

...used for insurrectionary purposes," or the Act of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of Rebels, and for other purposes," or by Proclamations of the President of the United States, dated September twenty-second, eighteen...