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Proposed by Mr. Baldwin to the Impressment bill reported from the 
 Judiciary Committee. 
 
 1 Sec. 7. The Secretary of War shall, without delay, cause to 
 
 2 be detailed for each military district or department one or more 
 
 3 officers, who shall have the power and be charged with the duty 
 
 4 to ascertain and settle all claims growing out of past seizures or 
 
 5 impressments of private property for the use of the army or 
 
 6 other military purpose upon the principles and according to the 
 
 7 rules herein provided. 
 
 1 Sec 8. This act shall not be construed to authorize the im- 
 
 2 pressment of property owned in whole or in part by any State. 
 
 AMENDMENT TO THE IMPRESSMENT BILL. 
 
 1 If any personal property needful for the subsistence or cloth- 
 
 2 ing of the army shall be, before the first day of July next, pur- 
 
 3 chased by any person, unless the same be in good faith purchased 
 
 4 and held for the necessary use of such purchaser or his or her 
 
 5 family, the price to be paid for the same by the government upon 
 
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 6 an impressment thereof in the hands of such purchaser shall be, 
 
 7 at the option of the impressing officer, either the price paid by 
 
 8 such purchaser, including the necessary cost of transportation 
 
 9 from the place of purchase to the place of impressment, or a 
 
 10 price to be ascertained by apprtusment according to the other 
 
 11 provisions of this act. 
 
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