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Another scheme for raising money, in connection with the issue of bonds, is found in an act approved on the 21st of May, which forbade the debtors to individuals or corporations in the Free-labor States from making payments of the same “to their respective creditors, or their agents or assignees, pending the existing war.” 1 Such debtors were authorized by the act to pay the amount

Con<*>Ederate Treasury note

1 This Act excepted in its operations the Slavelabor States not in the Confederacy, namely: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and the District of Columbia.

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