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An Act to protect and indemnify Citizens of Virginia. 1862 12 (1862.9)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0807 and id is 1 raw text is: REDRESS OF LOYAL CITIZENS.-REDRESS OF CITIZENS. surety in bond or otherwise, under any requirement or practice of such usurped government, for any one who has held or may hereafter Incapable of hold apy such office or authority, shall be incapable, by deed or other- onvoying real state wise, of selling, conveying, devising or encumbering any real estate situate in this state. Every deed or other instrument intended to operate on such estate, and every acknowledgment, proof or certifi- cate of the execution thereof, and the record thereof, wheresoever made, shall be null and void. Estates of per. 2. The estates of all persons mentioned in the preceding section, lions, how sub. Jected to redress which they are thereby incapacitated from conveying, shall be and of loyal citizens are hereby declared to be subjected and devoted to the redressand indemnification of all persons, loyal to this commonwealth, who have been or may be injured by the exercise of any office or autho- rity, civil or military, legislative, executive or judicial, howsoever con- Provieo as to ferred under the said usurped government: provided, however, that liens, &o all jast liens on such estates, existing on the said seventeenth day of April eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall not be impaired. Commencement 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. CirAP. 6.-An ACT to protect and indemnify Citizens of Virginia. Passed October 3, 1862. Preamble Whereas an act or acts have recently been passed by the congress of the United States, authorizing the confiscation of the property and the emancipation of the slaves of loyal 'And true citizens of the state of Virginia and of the Confederate States; and it being the duty of the legislature of Virginia to protect her citizens, and as far as practicable, indemnify them from the evil consequences of the iniquitous legislation of the United States: Juilge or other 1. Be it therefore enacted by the general assembly, that any United States judge or commissioner, acting inder the authority of the United States government, or any of its laws, who shall, by any judgment, decision or decree, subject to confiscation or sale the property of any Clerk, &c. citizen of this commonwealth, or any clerk who shall issue process for the sale of ally such property, or any marshal, sheriff or commis- sioner who shall sell the same, they the said judge, commissioner, cleric, marshal and sheriff, or either of them, and their securities, or Purchasers of any or either of them, and the purchaser or purchasers of any such loliable to property, and their personal representatives, shall be jointly and loyal citizen severally liable to any citizen of Virginia, or to his personal repre- sentative, whose property has been so confiscated or sold, for double the value of such property, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per contum per annum, from the time of the seizure or sale of such

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