Doc. 122.-confiscation in Tennessee.
Proclamation by Gov. Johnson.
Whereas, Many persons owning and possessing real and personal estate, situate in that portion of the State of Tennessee within the jurisdiction of the Government of the United States, come within the provisions of sections fifth and sixth of an act of Congress approved July seventeenth, 1862, and have failed and refused to avail themselves of the provisions of the fifth section within the sixty days, which expired under the Proclamation of the President of the United States, on the twenty-third day of September, 1862; and,
Whereas, Many such persons are now within the so-called confederate States, having left such property in charge of agents, who collect the rents, issues, and profits thereof, and forward the same to the parties, or retain and invest it for their benefit; therefore, in pursuance of said act of Congress, I, Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby warn all persons holding, renting, occupying, or using any such real or personal estates, or the rents, issues, and profits thereof, belonging to any such parties, as well as all agents, not to pay the same over to said parties or their agents, but to retain the same until some person suitable has been appointed in the name and behalf of the United States, to receive the same, and hold it subject to the order of the said Government of the United States.
