376 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.` 225. 1864. and tenements, riods not exceeding twelve months, the abandoned lands, houses, and tenem’~Y be l°°$‘¤d· ments within the districts therein named, and shall also provide, in such leases or otherwise, for the employment and general welfare of all persons within the lines of national military occupation within said insurrectionary states formerly held as slaves, who are or shall become free. When property Property, real or personal, shall be regarded as abandoned when the lawls *0 bd dddmdd ful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, and engaged, ?‘ba°d°n°d' either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. Moneys from Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all moneys arising from the 1°”°S ddd FNS leasing of abandoned lands,- houses, and tenements, or from sales of cap. to be paid mto . . the ,mS,,,._,._ tured and abandoned property collected and sold m pursuance of said act, or of this act, or from fees collected under the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President, dated respectively the twenty-eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the thirty-first day of March, and the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, or under any amendments or modifications thereof, which have been or shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President, for conducting the comurercial intercourse which has been or shall be licensed and permitted by the President, with and in states declared in insurrection, shall, after satisfying therefrom all proper and necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid into the treasury of the United xates input; gllbaccogptsdofl; mppeys received orfexperéped infoolpnection erewr s a eau ite e ro er accoun rnrr officers o the treas- AM ¤f1863r. ury. That the first section yof thep"gct to provid; for the collection of ch. 120, § 1, ex- . . . . wud9d_ abandoned property and for the prevention of fraud rn rnsurrectronary Vol. xii. p 820. districts in the United States," approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby extended so as to include the descriptions of property mentioned in an act entitled _"An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved July 1861, oh. 3, thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and an act entitled "An act to V°l·*—<d-P- 255- suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and coniiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 1862, eh. 195. seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, respectively; and that the V°r Kd- P- 589- sales provided for in said act first mentioned may be made at such places as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. And section Act ofl863,ch. six of said first-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to include every 1% 9 d»_?m°¤d°d· description of property mentioned in the acts of July thirteen, ei¤hteen ol. Xll» p. 821. - . ° . hundred and sixty-one, and July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty- two, aforesaid; and that all property, real or 'personal, described in the 1>r·opeyty,w1mr acts to which this is in addition, shall be regarded as abandoned when the
- 0 l°° deemed lawful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, and engaged,
abuud°n°d' eitger in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. Protribitrons of Ec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the prohibitions and provis-
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- » ions of the act approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
vofggi p_ 256_` and of the lactp amendapory pir Supplementary theretp, shall lppply to hall commercia in ercourse an e ween ersons resi in¤ or ernrr wrt in districts within the preserh or future linespof national military ocgupation in the states or parts of states declared in insurrection, whether with each other or with persons residing or being within districts declared in insur- What persons rection and not within those lines; and that all persons within the United
P"?' States, not native or naturalized citizens thereof, shall be subject to the
same prohibitions, in all commercial intercourse with inhabitants of states or parts of states declared in insurrection, as citizens of loyal states when rm of are subject to under the said act or acts. loyal Stag: to be Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever any part of 8. loyal subyect to state shall be under the control of insurgents, or shall be in dangerous Pm d’d*°¤¤· proximity to places under their control, all commercial intercourse therein and therewith shall be subject to the same prohibitions and conditions as
