...directed to inform the House whether certain laws, to wit : one a bill " to repeal section 13 of 'An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purpose s,' approved July 17, 1862," and another a bill "to regulate the elective franchise in the...

...REPRESENTATIVES, JAN. 19, 1864, UPON THE JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND A JOINT RESOLUTION, EXPLANATORY .OF "AN ACT TO SUPPRESS INSURRECTION, TO PUNISH TREASON AND...AND CONFISCATE THE PROPERTY OF REBELS, AND FOR OTHER PUBPOSES," APPROVED JULY 17, 1862. THE subject before the House, uninteresting as a matter of, debate,...

...January, 1864, a joint resolution was before the House " explanatory of an act to suppress insurrection, punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." After a speech from Mr. SS Cox, of Ohio, in opposition thereto, Mr. .Davis addressed the House in the...

...parties, who avows his own criminality. Tho object of the act is explained by its preamble, to-wit: "An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." See Statutes at Large, No. 12, pages 489, 490, and 491. Section 5 of said act declares " that to insure...

...constitutional limit of ten days having expired without their return : To repeal section 13 of "an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862; became a law January 22, 1867. To regulate the franchise in the Territories...

...the constitutional limit of ten days having expired without their return: To repeal section 13 of "an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862; became a law January 22, 1867. To regulate the franchise in the Territories...

...reference to the seizure and confiscation of property under tie act of July 17, 1862, entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purpose»." MAY 21, 1868.— Ordered to He on the table and be printed. To tfie Senate of the United...

...treason and rehellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rehels, and fpr other purposes," shall he so construed as not to apply to any act or acts done prior to the passage thereof, nor to include any memher of a state legislature, or judge of any state court who has not, in accepting or...

...LINCOLN sent a special message to Congress, informing it that as he had considered the bill for an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and the joint resolution explanatory of the act, as being substantially one, he had approved and signed...

...pursuance of the sixth section of the act of Congress entitled " An act to suppress Insurrection and to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, ami which act, and the joint resolution explanatory thereof, are herewith published...