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 [House Bill No. 242.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dec. I, 1864.— Reported 
 
 from the Committee on the Judiciary, and read first and second times. 
 
 80, 1864. — Amended, engrossed, read a third time and pa L 
 
 A. R. LAMAR, ri.rh. 
 
 WW. Dec. 21, 1864. — Read first and second times, and re- 
 ferred i<» the Committee on the Judiciary. .Ian. 6, 1866. — Reported 
 advert j postponed until to-morrow, and ordered to !>«» 
 
 printed. 
 
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 To provide for Sequestrating the Property of Persons liable to Mifilarw 
 Service, who have departed, or shall depart from th< Confederatt Stalest 
 without permission. 
 
 i Si ( l ion i. Th( I lerate States «»i Ame- 
 
 -' riea do enact, Thai if any person shall voluntarily depart from 
 
 thout the permission of the Pree 
 ■:■ of tin . Beer < ommanding the Trai ' rippi 
 
 • r » partment, or of an officer by one <»f them authorised i<> 
 
 On, :it the time of such d( 
 
 7 tore, shall 1»«- liable to m according ><• the l.v 4 
 
 .11. from the time <-f I 
 
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 1<i In- property shall !"• on, in lii- • 
 
 11 the prop< r 
 
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 13 to be treated as an alien enemy by reason of such departure, if, 
 
 14 daring the present »war. ami before a decree of sequestration 
 If) shall be pronounced against his property, he shall return and 
 1G enter upon the performance of military service according to 
 1? law. Put this act shall not apply to persons who, at the time 
 
 18 of their departure, shall bona fide reside within the lines of the 
 
 19 enemy, or in a part of the Confederacy in the military occupa- 
 
 20 tion of the enemy. 
 
 1 Sec. 2. If any person to whom the preceding section applies, 
 
 2 shall voluntarily, and without such permission, go within the 
 
 3 military lines of the enemy, and remain there more than sixty 
 
 4 days, he shall be presumed to have departed from the Confede- 
 
 5 rate States within the meaning of this act. 
 
 1 Sec. 3. If any person has heretofore voluntarily, and without 
 
 2 such permission, departed from the Confederate States, or gone 
 
 3 within the military lines of the enemy, for the purpose of avoid- 
 ing military service, being at the time liable to military service 
 according to law, or being now liable to military service accord- 
 
 ing to law, such person shall be also treated as an alien enemy, 
 7 and his property shall be liable to sequestration, according to all 
 
 6 the preceding provisions, unless such person shall return and 
 9 enter upon military service according to law, within six months 
 
 10 after the passage of this act. 
 
 1 Sec. 4. All giants, conveyances, sales, gifts and transfers of 
 
 2 property hereafter made by any person who shall be liable to 
 
3 
 •'; military : the time of making the name, mm! whose 
 
 \ property ^Iml! become liable tow • I tion under this act, ;nnl 
 • all liens and incumbrance flfcer created <m lii^ property, 
 
 6 when ible to militai all be void w Against the 
 
 "i claim til - ion.