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- Title: Confiscation Cases
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1868
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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Property owned by any person who knowingly uses or employs the same, or who consents to the use or employment of the same in aiding, abetting, or promoting insurrection against the government of the United States, under the conditions specified in the first section of the act of the 6th of August, 1861, is declared by that act 'to be lawful subject of prize and capture,' and all property purchased, acquired, sold, or otherwise transferred, with intent that the same may be so used or employed, is also declared to be subject to the same proceedings, and the provision is, that it shall be the duty of the President to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and condemned.1 Proceedings for the condemnation of such property may be instituted by the Attorney-General, or by any district attorney for the district in which the property is situated at the time the proceedings are commenced, and the third section provides, that in such cases 'the proceedings are wholly for the benefit of the United States;' but the same section also provides, that 'any person may file an information with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts.' Pursuant to those provisions libels of information were filed in these cases by the district attorney of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in the Circuit Court of the United States for that district, in which it was alleged that the steamer Eleanor was seized on the 15th of June, 1865, and that the steamer Trent was seized on the 30th of June in the same year.
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