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COtfFEDEKATE STATES. 



PROCLAMATION. 



Whereas the Congress of the Confederate States of 

 America did, by an act approved on the 8th day of 

 August, 1861, entitled " An Act respecting Alien Ene- 

 mies," make provision that proclamation should be is- 

 sued by the President in relation to alien enemies, and 

 in conformity with the provisions of said act : 



Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the 

 Confederate States of America, do issue this my proc- 

 lamation : and I do hereby warn and require every 

 male citizen of the United States, of the age of four- 

 teen years and upwards, now within the Confederate 

 States, and adhering to the Government of the United 

 States, and acknowledging the authority of the same, 

 and not being a citizen of the Confederate States, to 

 depart from the Confederate States within forty days 

 from the date of this proclamation. And I do warn 

 all persons above described, who shall remain within 

 the Confederate States after the expiration of said 

 period of forty days, that they will be treated as alien 

 enemies. 



Provided, however, That this proclamation shall not 

 be considered as applicable, during the existing war, 

 to citizens of the United States residing within the 

 Confederate States with intent to become citizens 

 thereof, and who shall make a declaration of such in- 

 tention in due form, acknowledging the authority of 

 this Government ; nor shall this proclamation be con- 

 sidered as extending to the States of Delaware, Mary- 

 land, Kentucky, Missouri, the District of Columbia, the 

 Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the In- 

 dian Territory south of Kansas, who shall not be 

 chargeable with actual hostility or other crime against 

 the public safety, and who shall acknowledge the 

 authority of the Government of the Confederate States. 



And I do further proclaim and make known that I 

 have established the rules and regulations hereto 

 annexed, in accordance with the provisions of said 

 law. 



Given under my hand and the seal of the Confed- 

 erate States of America, at the City of Rich- 

 mond, on the 14th day of August, A. D. 1861. 



JEFFERSON DAVIS. 

 By the President, 



R. M.'T. HUNTER, Secretary of State. 



The following regulations are hereby established re- 

 specting alien enemies, under the provisions of an act 

 approved the 8th of August, 1861, entitled "An Act 

 respecting Alien Enemies" : * 



1. Immediately after the expiration of the term of 

 forty days from the date of the foregoing proclamation, 

 it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys, 

 marshals, and other officers of the Confederate States, 

 to make complaint against any aliens or alien enemies 

 coming within the purview of the act aforesaid, to the 

 end that the several courts of the Confederate States, 

 and of each State having jurisdiction, may order the 

 removal of such aliens or alien enemies beyond the 

 territory of the Confederate States, or their restraint 

 and confinement, according to the terms of said law. 



2. The marshals of the Confederate States are hereby 

 directed to apprehend all aliens against whom com- 

 plaints may be made under said law, and to hold them 

 jn strict custody until the final order of the court, 

 taking special care that such aliens obtain no in- 

 formation that could possibly be made useful to the 

 enemy. 



3. Whenever the removal of any alien beyond the 

 limits of the Confederate States is ordered by any com- 

 petent authority, under the provisions of the said law, 

 the marshal shall proceed to execute the order in per- 

 son, or by deputy, or other discreet person, in such 

 manner as to prevent the alien so removed from ob- 

 taining any information that could be used to the prej- 

 udice of the Confederate States. 



4. Any alien who shall return to these States during 

 the war, after having been removed therefrom under 

 the provisions of said law, shall be regarded and treat- 

 ed as an alien enemy, and, if made prisoner, shall be 

 at once delivered over to the nearest military author- 



ity, to be dealt with as a spy or a prisoner of war, as 

 the case may require. 



This act was designed to compel all persons 

 to sustain the Government, otherwise they 

 would be declared alien enemies, and compelled 

 to leave the country. The number who re- 

 turned to the United States in consequence of 

 this act was small. It served to secure a 

 tacit acquiescence in the authority of the 

 Confederate Government, by all who were op- 

 posed to it, and thereby enabled it to present 

 an aspect of greater strength and efficiency. 



Another act was passed by Congress, declar- 

 ing aU citizens of the United States,' except 

 those of Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Mis- 

 souri, and the District of Columbia who do not 

 aid the Federal Government, to be alien ene- 

 mies of the Confederate States, and confiscat- 

 ing all their lands, stocks, bonds, debts, and 

 property of whatever description, within the 

 limits of the Confederacy. The following were 

 the instructions of the Government relative to 

 the mode of proceeding under the act : 



DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICB, ) 

 RICHMOND, September 12, 1861. J 



Instructions to Receivers under the act entitled " An 

 Act for the sequestration of the estates, property, 

 and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity bt 

 citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aid- 

 ing the same in the existing war against the United 

 States," approved August 8, 1861. 

 The following persons are subject to the operation of 

 the law as alien enemies : 



All citizens of the United States, except citizens or 

 residents of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Mis- 

 souri, or the District of Columbia, or the Territories of 

 New Mexico, Arizona, or the Indian Territory south of 

 Kansas. 



All persons who have a domicil within the States 

 with which this Government is at war, no matter 

 whether they be citizens or not : thus the subjects of 

 Great Britain, France, or other neutral nations, who 

 have a domicil, or are carrying on business or traffic 

 within the States at war with this Confederacy, are 

 alien enemies under the law. 



All such citizens or residents of the States of Dela- 

 ware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri, and of the 

 Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and the Indian 

 Territory south of Kansas, and of the District of Co- 

 lumbia, as shall commit actual hostilities against the 

 Confederate States, or aid or assist the United 

 States in the existing war against the Confederate 

 States. 



Immediately after taking your oath of office, you 

 will take possession of all the property of every nature 

 and kind whatsoever within your district belonging to 

 alien enemies as above defined. 



You will forthwith apply to the clerk of the court 

 for writs of garnishment under the 8th section of the 

 law, and will propound to the garnishees the inter- 

 rogatories of which a form is annexed. These inter- 

 rogatories you will propound to the following persons, 

 viz. : 



1st. All attorneys and counsellors practising law 

 within your district. 



2d. The presidents and cashiers of all banks, and 

 principal administrative officers of all railroad and 

 other corporations within your district. 



All agents of foreign corporations, insurance agents, 

 commission merchants engaged in foreign trade, agents 

 of foreign mercantile houses, dealers in bills of ex- 

 change, executors and administrators of estates, as- 

 signees and syndics of insolvent estates, trustees, and 

 generally all persons who are known to do business as 

 agents for others. 



