Full Text (Unedited): First Confiscation Act of August 6,1861
(mil-directory) (2nd confiscation) (emancipation directory) An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes. It has been enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if, during the present or any future insurrection against the Government of the United States, after the President of the …
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