Mail Co. v. Flanders
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; the case being this : The act of March 12th, 1863,* known as the Abandoned or Captured Property Act, directed that property abandoned or captured within the region lately in insurrection, should be turned over to agents of the Federal treasury, and by them sold at auction, and the proceeds paid into the treasury of the United States, &c.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; the case being this : The act of March 12th, 1863,* known as the Abandoned or Captured Property Act, directed that property abandoned or captured within the region lately in insurrection, should be turned over to agents of the Federal treasury, and by them sold at auction, and the proceeds paid into the treasury of the United States, &c. The act goes on to say: “Any person claiming to have been the owner of any such abandoned or captured property may prefer his claim to the proceeds thereof in the Court of Claims; and on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Authority was conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury, by the act of the twelfth of March, 1863, to appoint special agents-to receive and collect abandoned or captured property in any State or Territory designated as in insurrection, by the proclamation of the President issued on the first day of July in the preceding year. Such property, so received or collected, may be appropriated to public use on due appraisement and certificate thereof, or may be forwarded for sale within the loyal States as the public interest may require; and the further provision is that all sales of the property…
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