Sentence examples for confiscation bill from inspiring English sources
While the debate over the Second Confiscation Bill reached its climax, Congress also considered a new bill concerning the raising of black troops.
The amendment would authorize the president to open service to blacks for manual labor jobs or (much as the new confiscation bill would stipulate) any other task they could handle — which presumably might include combat duties.
In rising to explain his new confiscation bill, Trumbull left little doubt that he intended to help make emancipation not simply an effect but an aim of the Union cause.
Congress stayed in session one extra day to get the resolution approved — and that same day, along with the Militia Act, Lincoln signed the confiscation bill, even as he released his draft veto message.
As Conservative R. B. Bennett said, [The bill is] an act of confiscation, an act such as never before has been carried out in the British Empire, an act such as has few equals in the pages of history.
A new counter-terrorism bill, which would allow for the confiscation of passports of Britons who travelled to fight in Iraq and Syria, will also be introduced in November, May confirmed.
I don't regard this as "confiscation," any more than I regard my other monthly bills that way.
In a statement, the Danish Police said: "The National Police can inform that the so-called jewellery law at the current time has not given rise to the confiscation of cash or valuables," However, critics have said the bill was intended to be used as a signal, rather than a real legislation.
Misuse of your card may result in its confiscation.
When they finally turned to the confiscation question, congressional Republicans argued over numerous details, most important whether the bill ought to compel or permit the president to put its terms into effect.
Two days after Lincoln signed the bill his secretary of war issued the instructions for implementing the first Confiscation Act, immediately freeing hundreds of slaves, and ultimately tens of thousands.
