human
; (2) the act of March 12, 1863, which authorized Treasury agents to collect and sell
gpt
property,--but a
human
owner might within two years after the close of the war prove his claim, and
gpt
to the Confederacy, and then receive the proceeds of the sales, less expenses; (3) the act of July 2, 1864, authorizing Treasury agents to lease or work abandoned property by employing refugee negroes.
human
Abandoned property was defined by the Treasury Department as property the owner of which was engaged in war or otherwise against the United States, or was voluntarily absent. According to this ruling all the property of Confederate soldiers was