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[CITE: 50USC226]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 226. Protection of liens on condemned vessels

    In all cases wherein any vessel, or other property, is condemned in 
any proceeding by virtue of any laws relating to insurrection or 
rebellion, the court rendering judgment of condemnation shall, 
notwithstanding such condemnation, and before awarding such vessel, or 
other property, or the proceeds thereof, to the United States, or to any 
informer, first provide for the payment, out of the proceeds of such 
vessel, or other property, of any bona fide claims which shall be filed 
by any loyal citizen of the United States, or of any foreign state or 
power at peace and amity with the United States, intervening in such 
proceeding, and which shall be duly established by evidence, as a valid 
claim against such vessel, or other property, under the laws of the 
United States or of any State thereof not declared to be in 
insurrection. No such claim shall be allowed in any case where the 
claimant has knowingly participated in the illegal use of such ship, 
vessel, or other property. This section shall extend to such claims only 
as might have been enforced specifically against such vessel, or other 
property, in any State not declared to be in insurrection, wherein such 
claim arose.

(R.S. Sec. 5322.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5322 derived from act Mar. 3, 1863, ch. 90, 12 Stat. 762.
