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[CITE: 50USC212]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 212. Confiscation of property employed to aid insurrection

    Whenever during any insurrection against the Government of the 
United States, after the President shall have declared by proclamation 
that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution 
thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the 
ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the 
marshals by law, any person, or his agent, attorney, or employee, 
purchases or acquires, sells or gives, any property of whatsoever kind 
or description, with intent to use or employ the same, or suffers the 
same to be used or employed in aiding, abetting, or promoting such 
insurrection or resistance to the laws, or any person engaged therein; 
or being the owner of any such property, knowingly uses or employs, or 
consents to such use or employment of the same, all such property shall 
be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall be 
the duty of the President to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, 
and condemned.

(R.S. Sec. 5308.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5308 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, Sec. 1, 12 
Stat. 319.
