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[CITE: 50USC205]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 205. Suspension of commercial intercourse with State in 
        insurrection
        
    Whenever the President, in pursuance of the provisions of this 
chapter, has called forth the militia to suppress combinations against 
the laws of the United States, and to cause the laws to be duly 
executed, and the insurgents shall have failed to disperse by the time 
directed by the President, and when the insurgents claim to act under 
the authority of any State or States, and such claim is not disclaimed 
or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of government in 
such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which such 
combination exists, and such insurrection is not suppressed by such 
State or States, or whenever the inhabitants of any State or part 
thereof are at any time found by the President to be in insurrection 
against the United States, the President may, by proclamation, declare 
that the inhabitants of such State, or of any section or part thereof 
where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against 
the United States; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and 
between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest 
of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such 
condition of hostility shall continue; and all goods and chattels, wares 
and merchandise, coming from such State or section into the other parts 
of the United States, or proceeding from other parts of the United 
States to such State or section, by land or water, shall, together with 
the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or 
from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States.

(R.S. Sec. 5301.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5301 derived from acts July 13, 1861, ch. 3, Sec. 5, 12 
Stat. 257; July 31, 1861, ch. 32, 12 Stat. 284.


                            Cross References

    Extension of this section to--
        Parts of States, see section 206 of this title.
        Persons in occupied territory and aliens, see section 207 of 
            this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 206, 223 of this title.
