Excerpt from Opinion as to the Construction of the Non-Intercourse Acts and Captured Property Acts Relatively to the Prize Acts Sir: The following observations on the construction and legal effect of the act of July 13, 1861, ch. 3, entitled An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes, and especially sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of that act, and on the act of May 20, 1862, ch. 81, supplementary to the foregoing, are respectfully submitted, not as argument on this or that side of any question, but in the sense prescribed to me by your instructions, to wit, as impartial opinion, to aid, so far as such opinion may contribute to this end, in the practical solution of the doubts arising in the administrative construction of those acts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.