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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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