l be promulgated as an additional
article of war for the government of the Army of the United
States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such:

"'SECTION 1. All officers or persons in the military or naval
service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of
the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of
returning fugitives from service or labor who may have escaped
from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be
due; and any officer who shall be found guilty of a court-martial
of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service.

"'SEC. 2. _And be it further enacted_, That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage.'

"Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled 'An Act
to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to
Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes,'
approved July 16, 1862; and which sections are in the words and
figures following:

"'SEC. 9. _And be it further enacted_, That all slaves of persons
who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the
Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid
or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge
within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such
persons, or deserted by them and coming under the control of the
Government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons
found _on_ [or] being within any place occupied by Rebel forces
and afterward occupied by forces of the United States, shall be
deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their
servitude, and not again held as slaves.

"'SEC. 10. _And be it further enacted_, That no slave escaping
into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any
other State, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or
hindered of his liberty, except for crime, or some offense
against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall
first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of
such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has
not borne arms against the United States in the present
Rebellion, nor in any way given aid and comfort thereto; and no
person engaged in the military or naval service of the United