Confiscation
the act of condemning as forfeited, and adjudging to the public treasury, the goods of a criminal CONFLUENTES in part punishment of a crime. The subject of confiscating the property of those in rebellion was warmly discussed both in and out of the United States Congress at the beginning of the Civil War. A bill "to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes," etc., approved Aug. 6, 1861, providing for the immediate confiscation of all property belonging to office-holders under the Confederate government, and confiscation within 60 days after the President's Amnesty ty Proclamation of all property belonging to disloyal citizens or privates in the Confederate army, was passed by the House July 11, 1862, and the Senate the next day; and after a slight modification, suggested by the president in his veto of the same, on constitutional grounds, it was again passed by both houses on the 16th, and approved, becoming a law the next day. On July 22, the president issued an order that property needed for the support of the armies of the United States should be seized.
After the United States entered the World War a number of German and Austrian ships in American harbors were seized. A custodian was also appointed for alien enemy property for the period of the war. A presidential proclamation, March 20, 1918, confiscated 68 Dutch ships in United States ports under the law of augury.
CONFLUENTES. See COBLENZ.