Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/actsofcongressruOOunit ACTS OF CONGEESS RULES AND REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, IN PURSUANCE THERETO, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, CONCERNING COMMERCIAL INTERCOUESE WITH AND. IN STATES AND fARTS OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, JAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY, THE CARE OF FREEDMEN, PUECHASE OF PRODUCTS OF INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. REPRINT WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 186 8. ^ TABLE OF CONTENTS, Page Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799 1 Act concerniDg commercial intercourse, July 13, 1861 1 Act supplementary to commercial intercourse act, May 20, 1862, 4 Act to suppress insurrections, to prevent treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, &c., July ]7, 1862 5 Act concerning abandoned and captured property, March 12, 1863 7 Act in addition to acts concerning commercial intercourse, captured and abandoned property, &c., July 2, 1864 9 Proclamation of the President, August 16, 1861 13 Proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862 14 Proclamation of the President, March 31, 1863 14 Proclamation of the President, December 8, 1863 15 Proclamation of the President, June 1 3, 1865 17 Proclamation of the President, June 24, 1865 19 Eegulations concerning commercial intercourse, August 28, 1862 20 Order of Secretary of War 23 Order of Secretary of the Navy 23 Regulations concerning commercial intercourse, March 31, 1863 24 Order of Secretary of War 29 Order of Secretary of the Navy 30 President's approval and license 32 Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, July 3, 1863 33 Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, September 11, 1863 36 Trade regulations, September 11, 1863 39 Regulations concerning abandoned and captured property, September II, 1863 54 President's approval and license, July 30, 1 864 62 General regulations, July 29, 1864 62 Eegulations concerning commercial intercourse 63 Amended regulation LV 79 Regulations concerning abandoned, captured, and confiscable personal property 80 Eegulations concerning abandoned lands, houses, and tenements 86 Regulations concerning freedmen 89 Order of Secretary of War 92 Order of Secretary of the Navy 92 Order of Quartermaster General 93 Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, August 24, J 864 94 Executive order, April 29, 1865 95 Eegulations concerning commercial intercourse. May 9, 1865 95 Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, June 27, 1865 98 Eegulations for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, September 24, 1864 . 101 Executive order 104 Order of Secretary of War 105 Order of Secretary of the Navy 1 05 Amended regulations for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, May 9, 1865 J07 ACTS OF CONGRESS. AN ACT to regTilate tlio collection of duties on imports and tonnage, referred to in 5tli section of tlie act approved May 20, 1802, and 4th section of the act approved March J 2, 1803, appended hereto. Sec. 91. And he it further enacted, That all fines, penalties, and forfeitures recovered by virtue of this act (and not otherwise appropriated] shall, after de- ducting all proper costs and charges, be disposed of as follows : one moiety shall be for the use of the United States, and be paid into the treasury thereof by the collector receiving the same ; the other moiety shall be divided between and paid in equal proportions to the collector and naval officer of the district and surveyor of the port wherein the same shall have been incurred, or to such of the said officers as thei-e may be in the said district ; and in districts where only one of the aforesaid officers shall have been established, the said moiety shall be given to such officer : Provided, nevertheless, That in all cases where such penalties, fines, and for- feitures shall be recovered in pursuance of information given to such collector by any person other than the naval officer or surveyor of the district, the one- half of such moiety shall be given to such informer, and the remainder thereof shall be disposed of between the collector, naval officer, and surveyor or sur- veyors, in manner aforesaid : Provided, also. That where any fines, forfeitures, and penalties incurred by virtue of this act, are recovered in consequence of any information given by any officer of a revenue cutter, they shall, after deducting all proper costs and charges, be disposed of as follows : one-fourth part shall be for the use of the United States, and paid into the treasury thereof in manner as before directed ; one- fourth part for the officers of the customs, to be distributed as hereinbefore set forth ; and the remainder thereof to the officers of such cutter, to be divided among them agreealdy to their pay : And 2>rovided, Uhcwise, That whenever a seizure, condemnation, and sale of goods, wares, or merchandise shall take place within the United States, and the value thereof shall be less than two hundred and fifty dollars, that part of the forfeiture which accrues to the United States, or so mucli thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to the payment of the cost of prosecution. And he it further i)rovided. That if any officer or other person entitled to a part or share of any of the fines, penalties, or forfeitures incurred in virtue of this act, shall be necessary as a witness on the trial for such fine, penalty, or forfeiture, such officer or other person may be a witness upon the said trial ; but in such case he shall not receive, nor be entitled to any part or share of the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture, and the part or share to which he otherwise would have been entitled shall revert to the United States. Approved March 2, 1799. AN ACT further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes. Be it enacted hy the Senate and, Hmise of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Avhenever it shall, in the judgment of the President, by reason of unlawful combinations of persons in opposition to the laws of the United States, become impracticable to execute the revenue laws 55 , ACTS OF CONGRESS. an<\ collect the duties on imports by ordinary means, in tlic ordinary way, at any port of entry in any collection district, he is authorized to cause such duties to be collected at any port of delivery in said district until such obstruction shall cease ; and in such case the surveyors at said ports of delivery shall be clothed with all the powers and be subject to all the obligations of collectors at ports of entry ; and the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, shall appoint such number of weighers, gangers, measurers, inspect- ors, appraisers, and clerks, as may be necessary, in his judgment, for the faith- ful execntion of the revenue laws at said ports of delivery, and shall fix and establish the limits within which such ports of delivery are constituted ports of entry, as aforesaid ; and all the provisions of law regulating the issue of marine papers, the coasting trade, the warehousing of imports, and collection of duties, shall apply to the ports of entry so constituted in the same manner as they do to ports of entry established by the laws now in force. Sec. 2. And be it fiirllier enacted. That if, from the cause mentioned in the foregoing section, in the judgment of the President, the revenue from duties on imports cannot be effectually collected at any port of entry in any collection dis- trict, in the ordinary way and by the ordinary means, or by the course provided in the foregoing section, then and in that case he may direct that the custom- house for the district be established in any secure place Avithin said district, either on land or on board any vessel in said district, or at sea near the coast ; and in such case the collector shall reside at such place, or on shipboard, as the case may be, and there detain all vessels and cargoes arriving within or approach- ing said district, until the duties imposed by law on said vessels and their car- goes are paid in cash : Provided, That if the owner or consignee of the cargo on board any vessel detained as aforesaid, or the master of said vessel, shall de- sire to enter a port of entry in any other district of the United States where no such obstructions to the execution of the laws exist, the master of such vessel may be permitted so to change the destination of the vessel and cargo in his manifest, whereupon the collector shall deliver him a written permit to proceed to the port so designated : And inovidcd further. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, with the approbation of the President, make proper regulations fi»r the enforcement on shipboard of such provisions of the laws regulating the assessment and collection of duties as in his judgment may be necessary and practicable. Skc. 3. And he it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful to take any vessel or cargo detained as aforesaid from the custody of the proper oflicers of the customs, unless by process of some court of the United States ; and in case of any attempt otherwise to take such vessel or cargo by any force, or combina- tion, or assemblage of persons too great to be overcome by the officers of the customs, it shall and may be lawful for the President, or such person or per- sons as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the army or navy, or militia of the United States, or such force of citizen volunteers as may be deemed necessary, for the purpose of preventing the removal of such vessel or cargo and protecting the officers of the customs in retaining the cus- tody thereof. Sec. 4. And le it further enacted, That if, in the judgment of the President, from the cause mentioned in the first section of this act, the duties upon imports in any collection district cannot be effectually collected by the ordinary means and in the ordinary way, or in the mode and manner provided in the foregoing section of this act, then, and in that case, the President is hereby empowered to close the port or ports of entry in said district, and in such case give notice thereof by proclamation ; and thereupon all right of importation, warehousing, and other privileges incident to ports of entry, shall cease and be discontinued at such port so closed until opened by the order of the President, on the cessation of such obstructions ; and if, while said ports are so closed, any ship or vessel ACTS OF CONGRESS. 6 from beyond tlie United States, or having on board any articles subject to duties, shall enter or attempt to enter any such port, the same, together ^yith its tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to the United States. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President, in pursu- ance of the provisions of the second section of the act entitled "Act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrec- tions, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose," approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, shall have called forth the militia to suppress combinations against the laws of the United States, and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and the insurgents shall have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President, and when said insur- gents claim to act under the authority of any State or States, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of govern- ment in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which said com- bination exists, nor such insurrection suppressed by said State or States, then, and in such case, it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insuiTectioii against the United States; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citi- zens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue; and all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise coming from said State or section into the other parts of the United States, and all proceeding to such State or section by land or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or con- veying persons to or from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States : Provided, however, That the President may, in his discretion, license and permit commercial intercourse with any such part of said State or section, the inhabitants of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, in such articles, and for such time, and by such persons, as he, in his discretion, may think most conducive to the public interest ; and such intercourse, so far as by him licensed, shall be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury may ap- point such officers, at places where officers of the customs are not now author- ized by law, as may be needed to carry into effect such licenses, rules, and reg- ulations ; and officers of the customs and other officers shall receive for services under this section, and under said rules and regulations, such fees and compen- sation as are now allowed for similar service under other provisions of law. Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That from and after fifteen days after the issuing of the said proclamation, as provided in the last foregoing section of this act, any ship or vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabi- tant of said State or part of a State whose inhabitants are so declared in a state of insurrection, found at sea, or in any port of the rest of the United States, shall be forfeited to the United States. Sec. 7. And he it further eyiacted. That in the execution of the provisions of this act and of the other laws of the United States providing for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, it may and shall be lawful for the President, in addition to the revenue cutters in service, to employ in aid thereof such other suitable vessels as may, in his judgment, be required. Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That the forfeitures and penalties incurred by virtue of this act may be mitigated or remitted, in pursuance of the author- ity vested in the Secretary of the Treasury by the act entitled " An act pro- viding for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities ac- cruing in certain cases therein mentioned," approved March third, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, or in cases where special circumstances may seem to require it, according to regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 4 ACTS OF CONGRESS. Sec. 9. And he itfurtlicr enacted. That proceedings on seizures for forfeitures iinder this act may be pursued in the courts of the United States in any district into which the property so seized may be taken and proceedings instituted ; and such courts shall have and entertain as full jurisdiction over the same as if the seizure was made in that district. Approved July 13, 1861. AN ACT supplenicntaiy to an act approved on the thirteenth July, eic^htecn hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to the powers conferred upon him by the act of the thirteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and he is hereby authorized to refuse a clearance to any vessel or other vehicle laden with goods, wares, or merchan- dise, destined for a foreign or^domestic port, whenever he shall have satisfactory reason to believe that such goods, wares, or merchandise, or any part thereof, whatever may be their ostensible destination, are intended for ports or places in possession or under control of insurgents against the United States ; and if any vessel or other vehicle for which a clearance or permit shall have been refused by the Secretary of the Treasury, or by his order, as aforesaid, shall depart or attempt to depart for a foreign or domestic port without being duly cleared or permitted, such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to the United States, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever a permit or clearance is o-ranted for either a foreign or domestic port, it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs granting the same, if he shall deem it necessary, under the cir- cumstances of the case, to require a bond to be executed by the master or the owner of the vessel in a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and with sure- ties to the satisfaction of such collector, that the said cargo shall be delivered at the destination for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall be used in affording aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the authority of the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, further empowered to prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel or upon any raih'oad, turnpike, or other road or means of trans- portation within the United States, of auy goods, wares, or merchandise of whatever character, and whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same, in all cases where there shall be satisfactory reasons to believe that such goods, wares, or merchandise are intended for any place in the possession or under the control of insurgents against the United States, or that there is imminent dan- ger that such goods, wares or merchandise will fall into the possession or under the control of such insurgents ; and he is further authorized, in all cases where he shall deem it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be given that goods, wares, or merchandise shall not be transported to any place under insurrectionary control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid or comfort to such insurgents ; and he may establish all such general or special regulations as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the purposes of this act ; and if any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be transported in violation of this act, or of any regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury established in pursuance thereof, or if any attempt shall be made so to transport them, all goods, wares, or merchandise so transported or attempted to be transported shall be forfeited V to the United States. Sec'. 4. And be it further enacted, That the proceedings for the penalties ACTS OF CONGRESS. 5 and forfeitures accruing under tliis act may be pui'sued, and the same may be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury in the modes prescribed by the eighth and ninth sections of the act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to which this act is supplementary. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of all penalties and for- feitures incurred under this act, or the act to which this is supplementary, shall be distributed in the manner provided by the ninety-first section of the act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled " An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." Approved May 20, 1862. AN ACT to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes. Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hotcse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who shall here- after commit the crime of treason against the United States, and shall be adjudged guilty thereof, shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made free ; or, at the discretion of the court, he shall be imprisoned for not less than five years and fined not less than ten thousand dollars, and all his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made free ; said fine shall be levied and collected on any or all of the property, real and personal, excluding slaves, of which the said person so convicted was the owner at the time of committing the said crime, any sale or conveyance to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall hereafter incite, set on foot, assist, or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against the author- ity of the United States, or the laws thereof, or shall give aid or comfort thereto, or shall engage in, or give aid and comfort to any sucli existing rebellion or in- sin'rection, and be convicted thereof, such person shall be punished b}' imprison- ment for a period not exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceeding ten thou- sand dollars, and by the liberation of all his slaves, if any he have, or by both of said punishments, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person guilty of either of the offences described in this act shall be forever incapable and disqualified to hold any ofiice under the United States. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be construed in any way to affect or alter the prosecution, conviction, or punishment of any person or persons guilty of treason against the United States before the passage of this act, iinless such person is convicted under this act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That, to insin-e the speedy termination of the present rebellion, it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to cause the seizure of all the estate and property, money, stocks, credits, and effects of the persons hereinafter named in this section, and to apply and use the same, and the proceeds thereof, for the support of the army of the United States ; that is to say : First. Of any person hereafter acting as an officer of the army or navy of the rebels in arms against the government of the United States. Secondly. Of any person hei'eafter acting as president, vice-president, member of congress, judge of any court, cabinet officer, foreign minister, commissioner, or consul of the so-called Confederate States of America. Thirdly. Of any person acting as governor of a State, member of a convention or legislature, or judge of any court of any of the so-called Confederate States of America. Fourthly. Of any person who, having held an office of honor, trust, or profit 6 * ACTS OF CONGRESS. in the United States, shall hereafter hold an office in the so-called Confederate States of America. Fifthly. Of any person hereafter holding an office or agency nnder the gov- ernment of the so-called Confederate States of America, or nnder any of the several States of the said confederacy, or the laws thereof, whether such office or agency be national, State, or municipal in its name or character : Proindcd, That the persons thirdly, fourtlily and fifthly above described shall have ac- cepted their appointment or election since the date of the pretended ordinance of secession of the State, or shall have taken an oath of allegiance to, or to support the constitution of, the so-called Confederate States. Sixthly. Of any person who, owning property in any loyal State or Territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, shall hei'eafter assist and give aid and comfort to such rebellion; and all sales, transfers, or conveyances of any such property shall be null and void; and it shall be a sufficient bar to any suit brought by such person for the possession or the use of such property, or any of it, to allege and prove that he is one of the persons described in this section. Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That if any person within any State or Territory of the United States, other than those named as aforesaid, after the passage of this act, being engaged in armed rebellion against the government of the United States, or aiding or abetting such rebellion, shall not, within sixty days after public Avarning and proclamation duly given and made by the Presi- dent of the United States, cease to aid, countenance and abet such rebellion, and return to his allegiance to the United States, all the estate and property, moneys, stocks aiid credits of such person shall be liable to seizure as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the President to seize and use them as aforesaid, or the proceeds thereof. And all sales, transfers, or conveyances of any such property after the expiration of the said sixty days from the date of such warning and proclamation shall be null and void ; and it shall be a sufficient bar to any suit brought by sucii person for the possession or the use of such property, or any of it, to allege and prove that he is one of the pei'sons described in this section. Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That to secure the condemnation and sale of any of such property, after the same shall have been seized, so that it may be made available for the purpose aforesaid, proceedings in rem shall be insti- tuted in the name of the United States in any district court thereof, or in any territorial court, or in the United States district court for the District of Colum- bia, AV'ithin which the property above described, or any part thereof, may be found, or into which the same, if movable, may first be brought, which proceed- ings shall conform as nearly as may be to proceedings in admiralty or revenue cases ; and if said property, whether real or personal, shall be found to have belonged to a person engaged in rebellion, or who has given aid or comfort thereto, the same shall be condemned as enemies' property and become the prop- erty of the United States, and may be disposed of as the court shall decree, and the proceeds thereof paid into the treasury of the United States for the pur- poses aforesaid. Skc. S. And he it further enacted. That the several courts aforesaid shall have power to make such orders, establish such forms of decree and sale, and direct such deeds and conveyances to be executed and delivered by the marshals thereof where real estate shall be the subject of sale, as shall fitly and efficiently eflfect the purposes of this act, and vest in the purchasers of such property. good and valid titles thereto. And the said courts shall have poAver to allow such fees and charges of their officers as shall be reasonable and proper in the prem- ises. Sec. 9. And he it further enacted. That all slaves of persons who shall here- after 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 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 7 and taking refuge within tlie lines of the army; and all slaves captured from sucli persons or deserted by tliem and coming under the control of tlie govern- ment of the United States ; and all slaves of such persons found on [or J being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the 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 furtlier enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered lip, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime, or some offence 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 or comfort thereto ; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall, under any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service. Sec. 11. And he it further enacted, That the President of the United States is authorized to employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem necessary and proper for the suppression of this rebellion, and for this purpose he may organize and use them in such manner as he may judge best for the public welfare. Sec. 12. And he it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to make provision for the transportation, colonization, and settlement, in some ti'opical country beyond the limits of the United States, of such persons of the African race, made free by the provisions of this act, as may be willing to emigrate, having first oljtained the consent of the government of said country to their protection and settlement within the same, with all the rights and privileges of freemen. Sec. 13. And he it further enacted. That the President is hereby authorized, at any time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have par- ticipatt'd in the existing rebellion in any State or part tliereof, pardon and am- nesty, with such exceptions and at such time and ou such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public welfare. Sec. 14 And he it further enacted. That the courts of the United States shall have full power to institute proceedings, make orders and decrees, issue process, and do all other things necessary to carry this act into effect. Approved July 17, 1862. AN ACT to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the preventiou of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States. Tie it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representathes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, from and after the passage of this act, as he shall from time to time see fit, to appoint a special agent or agents to r eceive and collect all aban- doned or captured property in any State or Territory, or any portion of any State or Territory of the United States, designated as in insurrection against the lawful government of the United States by the proclamation of the President of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two : Provided, That such property shall not include any kind or description which has been used, or Avhich was intended to be nsed, for waging or carrying on war against the United States, such as arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water craft, and the furni- ture, forage, military supplies, or munitions of war. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any part of the goods or property / 8 * ACTS OF CONGRESS. received or collected by such agent or agents may be appropriated to public use on due appraisement and certificate thereof, or forwarded to any place of sale within the loyal States as the public interests may require ; and all sales of such property shall be at auction to the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the treasury of the United States. Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury may require the special agents appointed imder this act to give a bond, with such securities and in such amount as he shall deem necessary, and to require the in- crease of said amounts and the strengthening of said security as circumstances may demand ; and he shall also cause a book or books of accounts to be kept, showing from whom such property was received, the cost of transportation, and the proceeds of the sale thereof. And any person claiming to have been the owner of any such abandoned or captured property may, at any time within two years after the suppression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the proceeds thereof in the Court of Claims ; and on proof to the satisfaction of said court of his ownership of said property, of his right to the proceeds thereof, and that he has never given any aid or comfort to the present rebellion, to receive the resi- due of such proceeds, after the deduction of any purchase money which may have been paid, together with the expense of transportation and sale of said property, and any other lawful expenses attending the disposition thereof. Src. 4. And he it further enacted. That all property coming into any of the United States not declared in insurrection as aforesaid, from within any of the States declared in insurrection, through or by any other person than any agent duly appointed under the provisions of this act, or under a lawful clear- ance by the proper officer of the Treasury Department, shall be confiscated to the use of the government of the United States. And the proceedings for the condemnation and sale of any such property shall be instituted and conducted Tinder the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the mode prescribed by the eighty-ninth and ninetieth sections of the act of Marcli second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And any agent or agents, person or persons, by or through whom such property shall come within the lines of the United States unlawfully, as aforesaid, shall be judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for any time not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. And the fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing under this act may be mitigated or remitted in the mode prescribed by the act of March three, sev- enteen hundr.'d and ninety-seven, or in such manner, in special cases, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Sec 5. And he it further enacted, That the fifth section of the "Act to fur- ther provide for the collection of the revenue upon the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontier, and for other purposes," approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall be so construed as to allow the temporary officers which had been or may be appointed at ports which have been or may be opened or established in States declared to be in insurrection by the procla- mation of the President on the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the same compensation which by law is allowed to permanent officers of the same position, or the ordinary compensation of special agents, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine. Sec. 6. And he it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of every officer or private of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the United States, upon the inland waters of the United States, who may take or receive any such abandoned property, or cotton, sugar, rice, or tobacco, from persons in such insurrectionary districts, or have it under his control, to turn the same over to an agent appointed as aforesaid, who shall give a receipt therefor ; and in case he shall refuse or ACTS OF CONGRESS. 9 neglect so to do, be shall be tried by a court-martial and shall be dismissed from the service, or, if an officer, reduced to the ranks, or suffer such other punishment as said court shall order, with the approval of the President of the United States. Skc. 7. And Itc it further enacted, That none of the provisions of this act shall apply to any lawful maritime prize by the naval forces of the United States. Approved March 12, 1863. AN ACT in addition to tlie several acts couceruinj^ commercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, and to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in States declared in insurrection. J5e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhlcd, That sales of captured and abandoned piop- erty under the act approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, may be made at such places, in States declared in insurrection, as may be desig- nated by the Secretary of the Treasury, as well as at other places now authorized by said act. Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That, in addition to the captured and abandoned property to be received, collected, and disposed of, as provided in said act, the said agents shall take charge of and lease, for periods not exceeding twelve months, the abandoned lands, houses, and tenements Avithin the districts therein named, and shall also provide, in such leases or otherwise, for the employ- ment and general welfare of all persons within the lines of national military occupation within said insurrectionary States formerly held as slaves, who are or shall become fi"ee. Property, real or personal, shall be regarded as abandoned when the lawful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, and en- gaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. Sbc. 3. And he it further enacted, That all moneys arising from the leasing of abandoned lands, houses, and tenements, or from sales of captured and abandoned property collected and sold in pursuance of said act or of this act, or from fees collected under the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President, dated respectively the twenty- eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the thirty-first day of March, and the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, or under any amendments or modifications thereof, which have been or shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President, for conducting the commercial intercourse which has been or shall be licensed and permitted by the President, with and in States declared in insurrection, shall, after satisfying therefrom all proper and necessary expenses to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasviry, be paid into the treasury of the United States ; and all accounts of moneys received or expended in connection therewith shall be audited by the proper accounting officers of the treasury. That the first section of the " Act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of fraud in insurrectionary districts in the United States," ap- proved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby extended so as to include the descriptions of property mentioned in an act entitled " An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July seven- teen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, respectively ; and that the sales provided for in said act first mentioned may be made at such place as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. And section six of said first-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to include every description of property mentioned iu 10 ACTS OF CONGRESS. the acts of July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, aforesaid ; and that all property, real or per- sonal, described in the acts to which this is in addition, shall be regarded as abandoned when the lawful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, and engaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the prohibitions and provisions of the act approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, shall apply to all commercial intercourse by and between persons residing or being within districts within the present or future lines of national military occupation in the States or parts of States de- clared in insurrection, whether with each other or with persons residing or being within districts declared in insurrection and not within those lines ; and that all persons within the United States, not native or naturalized citizens thereof, shall be subject to the same prohibitions, in all commercial intercourse with inhabitants of States or parts of States declared in insurrection, as citizens of loyal States are subject to under the said act or acts. Sec. 5. And he it further enacted. That whenever any part of a loyal State shall be under the control of insurgents, or shall be in dangerous proximity to places under their control, all commercial intercourse therein and therewith shall be subject to the same prohibitions and conditions as are created by the said acts, as to such intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, for such time and to such extent as shall from time to time become necessary to protect the public interests, and be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President. Sec. G. And lie it further enacted. That so much of the fifth section of the act approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fourth section of the act approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as directs the manner of distributing fines, penalties, and forfeitures, is hereby re- pealed, and that, in lieu of the distribution thereby directed to be made to in- formers, collectors, and other officers of the customs, the court decreeing con- demnation may award such compensation to customs officers, informers, or other persons, for any service connected therewith, as will tend to promote vigilance in protecting the public interests, and as shall be just and equitable, in no case, however, to exceed the aggregate amount heretofore directed by the said fifth section. Sec. 7. And he it fmtker enacted, That no property seized or taken upon any of the inland waters of the United States by the naval forces thereof shall be regarded as a maritime prize ; but all property so seized or taken shall be promptly delivered to the proper officers of the courts, or as provided in this act and in the said act approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to authorize agents to pur- chase for the United States any products of States declared in insurrection, at such places therein as shall be designated by him, at such prices as shall be agreed on with the seller, not exceeding the market value thereof at the place of delivery, nor exceeding three-fourths of the market value thereof in the city of New York at the latest quotations known to the agent purchasing : Provided, That no part of the purchase-money for any products so purchased shall be paid or agreed to be paid out of any other fund than that arising from property sold as captured or abandoned, or purchased and sold under the provisions of this act. All property so purchased shall be forwarded for sale at such place or places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the moneys arising therefrom, after payment of the purchase money and the other expenses con- nected therewith, shall be paid into the treasury of the United States ; and the accounts of all moneys so received and paid shall be rendered to, aud audited by, the proper accouilting officers of the treasury. ACTS OF CONGRESS. 11 Sec. 9. And' he Itfurtlier enacted, That so much of section five of the act of thu'teenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, aforesaid, as authorizes the President, in his discretion, to license or permit commercial relations in any State or section the inhabitants of which are declared in a state of insurrection, is hereby repealed, except so far as may be necessary to authorize supplying the necessities of loyal persons residing in insurrectionary States within the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States, as indicated by published order of the commanding general of the department or district so oc- cupied ; and, also, except so far as may be necessary to authorize persons re- siding within such lines to bring or send to market in the loyal States any pro- ducts which they shall have produced with their own labor or the labor of freed- men or others employed and paid by them, pursuant to rules relating thereto which may be established under proper authority. And no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be taken into a State declared in insurrection, or transported therein, except to and from such places, and to such monthly amounts, as shall have been previously agreed upon in writing by the commanding general of the department in which such places are situated, and an officer designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose. Sec. 10. And he itfurtlier enacted. That all officers and privates of the reg- ular and volunteer forces of the United States, and all officers, sailors, and ma- rines in the naval service, are hereby prohibited from buying or selling, trading, or in any way dealing in the kind or description of property mentioned in this act and the act to which this is in addition, whereby to receive or expect any profit, benefit, or advantage to himself, or any other person directly or indirectly connected with him. And it shall be the duty of such officer, private, sailor, or marine, when such property shall come into his possession or custody, or within his control, to give notice thereof to some agent appointed by virtue of this act, and to turn the same over to such agent without delay. Any officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, or any sutler, soldier, marine, or other person, who shall violate any provision of this act, or who shall take or cause to be taken into a State declared to be in insurrection, or to any other point, to be thence taken into such State, or who shall transport or sell, or otherwise dispose of therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, except in pursuance of license and authority of the President, as provided in said fifth section of the act of July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, aforesaid, and any officer or other person aforesaid who shall make any false statement or representation upon which license and authority shall be granted for such transportation, sale, or other disposition, and any officer or other person aforesaid who shall, under any license or authority obtained, wilfully and knowingly transport, sell, or otherwise dispose of any other goods, wares, or merchandise than such as are in good faith so licensed and authorized, or shall wilfully and knowingly transport, sell, or dispose of the same, or any portion thereof, in violation of the terms of such license or authority, or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Secre- tary of the Treasury concerning the same, or shall be guilty of any act of em- bezzlement, of wilful misappropriation of public or private money or property, of keeping false accounts, or of wilfully making any false returns, or of any other act amounting to a felony, shall be liable to indictment as for a misdemeanor, and fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and to punishment in the peniten- tiary not exceeding three years, before any court, civil or military, competent to try the same. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and prevent frauds and abuses in the trade and other transactions contemplated by this act or by the acts to which this is supplementary. And the agents making such investigations shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to make examinations on oath. 12 • ACTS OF CONGRESS. Sec. 11. A?id be it further enacted, That tlie Secretary of tbeTreasuiy, witli tlie approval of the President, shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary to secure the proper and economical execution of the provisions of this act, and shall defray all expenses of such execution from the proceeds of fees imposed by said rules and regulations, of sales of captured and abandoned prop- erty, and of sale? hereinbefore authorized. Approved July 2, 1864. PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PEESIDENT. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the President of the United States, in view of an insurrection against the laws, Constitution, and government of the United States, Avhich had broken out within the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act entitled "An act to pi'ovide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose," approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, did call forth the militia to suppress said insurrection, and to cause the laws of the Union to be duly executed, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President ; and whereas such insurrection has since broken out, and yet exists, within the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas ; and whereas the insurgents in all the said States claim to act imder the authority thereof, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which such combinations exist, nor has such in- surrection been suppressed by said States : Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, do hereby declare that the inhabitants of the said States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, (except the inhabitants of that part of the State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany mountains, and of such other parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as may main- tain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be, from time to time, occupied ami controlled by forces of the United States engaged iu the dispersion of said insurgents,) are in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabit- ants thereof, Avith the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed ; that all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, without the special license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or pro- ceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from said States, with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the United States ; and that, from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this proclama- tion, all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabit- ant of any of said States, with said exceptions, found at sea, or in any port of the United States, will be forfeited to the United States ; and I hereby enjoin upon all district attorneys, marshals, and officers of the revenue, and of the mili- tary and naval forces of the United States, to be vigilant in the execution of said act, and in the enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or de- clared by it, leaving any party who may think himself aggrieved thereby to his application to the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any penalty 14 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. or forfeiture, -wliich the said Secretary is authorized by law to grant, if, in his judgment, the special circumstances of any case shall require such remission. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my haud, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-oue, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-sixth. [l. S.J ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : William H. Seward, Secretary of State- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, in and by the second section of an act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1S62, entitled " An act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes," it was made the duty of the Pi-esident to declare on or before the first day of July then next following, by his proclamation, in what State and parts of States insurrection exists : Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Car- olina. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia, except the following counties : Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshal, Wetzel, Marion, Jlonongalia, Pres- ton, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmore, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, AVayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are now in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is ob- structed so that the provisions of the "Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, cannot be peaceably executed, and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act last afore- said, lying within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together with a penalty of fifty per centum of said taxes, shall be a lien upon the tracts or lots of the same, severally charged, till paid. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in tlie city of Washington, this first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty -two, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-sixth. [l. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : F. W. Seward, Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved July 13, 1861, I did, by proclamation dated August 16, 1S61, declare that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT 15 Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida (except tlie inhabitants of that part of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany mountains, and of such other parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as might maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or might be from time to time occupied and controlled by forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents) were in a state of insurrection against the United Stales, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States was .unlawful, and would remain unlawful until such insur- rection should cease or be suppressed, and that all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise coming from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, without the license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same to or from said States, with the exceptions afore- said, would be forfeited to the United States. And whereas experience has shown that the exceptions made in and by said proclamation embarrass the due enforcement of said act of July 13, 1861, and the proper regulation of the commercial intercourse authorized by said act with the loyal citizens of said States : Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby revoke the said exceptions, and declare that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and except, also, the ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, and 13eaufort in North Carolina,) are in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial inter- course, not licensed and conducted as provided in said act, between the said States and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citi- zens of other States and other parts of the United States, is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed, and notice thereof has been duly given by proclamation ; and all cotton, tobacco, and other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise coming from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, or proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, without the license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, will, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be forfeited to the United States. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this thirty-first day of March, A. D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. [l. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : William H. Seward, Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that the President "shall have power to grant repiieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment;" and Whereas a rebellion now exists whereby the loyal State governments of 16 , PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. several States have for a long time been subverted, anil many persons have committed and are now guilty of treason against the United States;" and Whereas, with reference to said rebellion and treason, laws have been enacted by Congress, declaring forfeitures and contiscatiou of property and liberation of slaves, all upon terms and conditions therein stated, and also declaring that the President was thereby authorized at any time thereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have participated in the existing rebellion, in any State or part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions and at such times and on such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public welfare; and Whereas the congressional declaration for limited and conditional pardon accords with well-established judicial exposition of the pardoning power; and Whereas, with reference to said rebellion, the President of the United States has issued several proclamations, with provisions in regard to the liberation of slaves ; and Whereas it is now desired by some persons heretofore engaged in said rebel- lion to resume their allegiance to the United States, and to reiuaugurate loyal State governments within and for their respective States: Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with rest' iratiou of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and in property cases where rights of third parties shall have intervened, and upon the condition that every such person shall take and subscribe an oath, and thenceforward keep and maintain said oath inviolate; and which oath shall be registered for permanent preserva- tion, and shall be of the tenor and effect following, to wit: " I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves, so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court: so help me God." The persons excepted from the benefit of the foregoing provisions are all who are, or shall have been, civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called con- federate government ; all who have left judicial stations under the United States to aid the rebellion; all who are, or shall have been, military or naval officers of said so-called confederate government above the rank of colonel in the army, or of lieutenant in the navy ; all who left seats in the United States Congress to aid the rebellion ; all who resigned commissions in the army or navy of the United States, and afterwards aided the rebellion ; and all wlio have engaged in any way in treating colored persons, or white persons in charge of such, otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war, and which persons may have been found in the United States service as soldiers, seamen, or in any other capacity. And 1 do further proclaim, declare, and make knuwn, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such State at the presidential election of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each having taken the oath aforesaid, and not iiaving since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall re establish a State PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 17 government which shall be republican, and in nowise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government of the State, and the State shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional provision which declares that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republi- can form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the legislatui'e, or the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence." And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that any provision which may be adopted by such State government in relation to the freed people of such State, which sh ill recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for tlieir education, and which may yet be consistent, as a temporary arrangement, with their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the national Executive. And it is suggested as not improper that, in constructing a loyal State government in any State, the name of the State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the constitution, and the general code of laws, as before the rebellion, be maintained, subject only to the modifications made necessary by the conditions hei-einbefore stated, and such others, if any, not contravening said conditions, and which may be deemed expedient by those framing the new State government. To avoid misunderstanding, it may be proper to say that this proclamation, so far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to States where loyal State governments have all the while been maintained. And for the same reason, it may be proper to further say that whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. And still further, that this proclamatiun is intended to pi'esent the people of the States wherein the national authority has been suspended, and loyal State governments have been subverted, a mode in and by which the national authority and loyal State governments maybe re-established within said States, or in any of them; and, while the mode presented is the best the Executive can suggest, with his present impressions, it must not be understood that no other possible mode would be acceptable. Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the eighth day of Decem- ber, A D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-eighth. [l. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : William H. Seward, Secretary of State. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. By the President of the United States of America. , A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by my proclamation of the twenty-ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and com- mercial intercourse, with certain exceptions therein specified and set forth, were removed " in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisi- ana as lies east of the Mississippi river, as shall be embraced within the lines of national military occupation ; * * * " And whereas, by my proclamation of the twenty-second of May, one thou- T R 2 18 . PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. saiul eight Imndred and ?ixty-five, for reasons therein given, it was declared that certain ports of the United States whicli had been previously closed against foreign commerce, should, with certain specified exceptions, be reopened to such commerce, on and after the first day of July next, subject to the laws of the United States and in pursuance of such regulations as might be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; And whereas 1 am satisfactorily informed that dangerous combinations against the laws of the United States no longer exist within the State of Tennessee; that the insurrection heretofore existing within said State has been suppressed ; that within the boundaries thereof the authority of the United States is undis- puted ; and that such officers of the United States as have been duly commis- sioned are in the undisturbed exercise of their official functions : Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby declare that all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon ttie removal of products of States heretofore declared in insurrection, reserving and excepting ovly those I'elating to contraband of war, as hereinafter recited, and also those which relate to the reservation of the rights of the United States to property purchased in the ter- ritory of an enemy, heretofore imposed in the territory of the United States east of the Mississippi river, are annulled, and I do hereby direct that they be forth- with removed ; and that on and after the first day of July next all restrictions up n foreign commerce with said ports, with the exception and reservation afore- said, be likewise removed ; and that the commerce of such States shall be con- ducted under the supervision of the regularly appointed officers of the customs provided by law ; and such officers of the customs shall receive any captured and abandoned property that may be turned over to them, under the law, by the military or naval forces of the United States, and dispose of such property as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The following articles contraband of war are excepted from the effect of this proclamation : arms, am- munition, all articles from which ammunition is made, and gray uniforms and cloth. And I hereby also proclaim and declare that the insurrection, so far as it re- lates to and within the State of Tennessee, and the inhabitants of the said State of Tennessee as reorganized and constituted under their recently adopted constitution and reorganization, and accepted by them, is suppressed, and there- fore, also, that all the disabilities and disqualifications attaching to said State and the inhabitants thereof consequent upon any proclamations, issued by vir- tue of the fifth section of the act entitled " An act further to provide for the col- lection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, are removed. But nothing herein contained shall be considered or construed as in any wise changing orimpaiiing any of the penalties and forfeitures for treason heretofore incurred under the laws of the United States, or any of the provisions, restric- tions, or disabilities set forth in my proclamation, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, or as impairing exist- ing regulations for the suspension of the habeas corpus, and the exercise of mil- itary law in cases where it shall be necessary for the general public safety and welfare during the existing insurrection ; nor shall this proclamation affect, or in any way impair, any laws heretofore passed by Congress, and duly approved by the President, or any proclamatimis or orders, issued by him, during the aforesaid insurrection, abolishing slavery, or in any way affecting the relations of slavery, whether of persons or of property ; but, on the contrary, all such laws and proclamations heretofore made or issued are expressly saved, and de- clared to be in full force and virtue. In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of tlic United States to be affixed. PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 19 Done at the city of Washington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. [seal.] ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President : William H. Seward, Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A proclamation. Whereas it has been the desire of the general government of the United States to restore unrestricted commercial intercom'se between and in the several States as soon as the same could be safely done, in view of resistance to the au- thority of the United States by combinations of armed insurgents ; And whereas that desire has been shown in my proclamations of the twenty- ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the thirteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the twenty-third of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five ; And whereas it now seems expedient and proper to remove restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise trade and commercial intercourse between and within the States and Territories west of the Mississippi river : Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby declare that all restrictions upon intei-nal, domestic, and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon the purchase and removal of pro- ducts of States and parts of States and Territories heretofore declared in insur- rection, lying west of the Mississippi river, (excepting only those relating to property heretofore purchased by the agents, or captured by or surrendered to the forces of the United States, and to the transportation thereto or therein, on private account, of arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is made, gray uniforms and gray cloth,) are annulled ; and I do hereby direct that they be forthwith removed ; and also that the commerce of such States and parts of States shall be conducted under the supervision of the regularly aji- pointed officers of the customs, [who] shall receive any captured and abandoned property that may be turned over to them, under the law, by the military or naval forces of the United States, and dispose of the same in accordance with instructions on the subject, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independ- ence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. [seal.] ' ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President : W. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State. REGULATIONS CONCERNING INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMEIICIAL INTERCOURSE. Treasury Department, August 28, 1862. In pui suance of law, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon the Sec- retary of the Treasury by the act of Congress approved July 13, 1S61, enti- tled " An act further to provide for the coUection of duties on impoits, and for other purposes," and an act supplementary thereto, ap])roved May 20, 1862, and for the purpose of preventing the conveyance of arms, munitions of war, and other supplies to persons in insurrection against the United States, the fol- lowing regulations concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States and sections are prescribed. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. I. No goods, wares, or merchandise, whatever may be the ostensible destina- tion thereof, shall be transported to any place now under the control of insur- gents ; nor to any place on the south side of the Potomac liver; nor to any place on the north side of the Potomac, and south of the AYashington and An- napolis railroad ; nor to any place on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake ; nor to any place on the south side of the Ohio river below Wheeling, except Louis- ville ; nor to any place on the west side of the Mist^issippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, except St. Louis, without a permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Department. And the special agents of this department may temporarily extend these restrictions to such other places in their respect- ive districts, and make such local rules to be observed therein as may from time to time become necessary, promptly reporting their action to the Secretary of the Treasury for his sanction or disapproval. II. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section heretofore de- clared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military pur- poses and under military orders, or under the special license of the Secretary of the Treasury. And no payment of gold or silver shall be made for cotton or other merchandise within any such State or section. And all cotton or other merchandise purchased or paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or sil- ver, shall be forfeited to the United States. III. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any shipment to any port, place, or section affected by the existing blockade, except for military purposes, and n})on the certificate and request of the Department of War or the Department of the Navy. IV. All applications for permits to transport or trade under these regulations shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be transported, the consignee and destination thereof, with the route of transportation and the num- ber and description of the packages with the marks thereon. V. Every apj)li"ant for such permits shall present with his application the original invoices of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported, and INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE 21 shall make and file with the ofBcer granting the permit an affidavit that the ■quantities, descriptions, and values are correctly stated in said invoices, true copies of which shall be annexed to and filed with the affidavit, and that the packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices ; that the merchan- dise so permitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed of by him or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the t rms of the permit, and that neither the permit so granted, nor the merchandise to be transported, shall be so used or disposed of by him or by his authority, connivance or assent, as in any way to give aid, comfort, information, or encoura,i!;ement to persons in insurrection against the United States. And furthermore, that the applicant is loyal to the government of the United States and will in all things so deport himself. VI. No permit shall be granted to ship goods, wares, or merchandise to States or parts of States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, or to places i;nder insurrectionary control, or occupied by the military forces of the United States, except to persons residing or doing business therein whose loyalty and good faith shall be certified by an officer of the government or other person duly authorized to make such certificate, or by a duly appointed Board of Trade therein, by whose approval and permission only the same shall be unladed or disposed of. And no permit shall be granted to sliip rnerchandise//-o;?i any such State or part of State in violation of any order restricting shipments there- from, made for military purposes by the commandant of the department from which such shipment is to be made. Yii. Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clearances or per- mits, may require bond, with reasonable surety, in such cases as they shall think necessary, to protect the public interests, conditioned that there shall be no vio- lation of the terms or spirit of the clearance or permit, or of the averments of the affidavit upon which the same is granted. VIII. No permit shall be granted to ship intoxicating drinks, or other thing prohibited by the military authorities, into territory occupied by the military forces of the United States, except upon the written request of the commandant of the departtnent in which such territory is embraced, or of some person duly authorized by him to make such request. IX. In order to defray the expenses under these regulations, a fee of twenty cents will be charged for each permit granted ; and shipments permitted to and from States heretofore declared to be in insurrection shall, in addition thereto, b" charged with the following fees, viz : five cents on each one hundred dollars over three hundred dollars on all shipments to such States or sections ; fifty cents on each one thousand pounds of cotton, and twenty-five cents on each one thousand pounds of sugar permitted from such State. X. No vessel, boat, or vehicle used for transportation upon or south of the Po- tomac river, or north of the Potomac and south of the Washington and Annapolis railroad, or to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or southwardly on or from the Ohio river below Wheeling, or westwardly or southwardly on or from the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, shall receive on board any goods, wares, or merchandise destined to any place commercial intercourse with which now is or hereafter may be restricted as aforesaid, unless the same be accompanied with a permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Depart- ment, except as hereinafter provided in regulation number XIV. XI. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation from eastern cities, or elsewhere in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise into any place, section, or State restricted as aforesaid, without the permit of the duly authorized officer of the customs, application for which permit may be made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the convenience of the shipper. XII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation shall put off any 22 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. goods, wares, or merchandise at any place other than that named in the pennit as the place of destination. XIII. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or sec- tion c mmercial intercourse Avith which now is or may hereafter be restricted as aforesaid, shall dejiart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other ofScer as may be antliorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo and a clearance obtained to proceed on its voyage ; and when freights are re- ceived oil board at a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter provided in regulation XIV, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an officer ; and such vessel or boat shall be reported, and the manifest of its cargo exhibited, to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there is such an officer; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Immediately on arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging any part of its cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest bi fore any part thereof shall be discharged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post whenever such officer may require it. XIV. To facilitate trade and guard against improper transportation, *' aids to the revenue" will be appointed from time to time on cars, vessels and boats, when desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will liave free carriage on the respective cars, vessels and boats on which tliey are placed, and will allow proper way freights to be taken on board without permit, keeping a stalenif-nt thereof, and reporting the same to the collector or surveyor of the first port to be passed on the trip where there it such an officer, from whom a permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods returned under his direction, No permit will be granted for transportation into any insurrectionary State or district ex- cept on cars, vessels and boats carrying such aids. XV. All vessels, boats and other vehicles used for transportation violating any of the above regulations, and all goods, wares and merchandise shipped or transported in violation thereof, will be forfeited to the United States. If any false statement be made or deception practiced in obtaining a permit, such per- mit, and all others connected therewith or affected thereby, will be absolutely void, and all merchandise shipped thereunder shall be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of forfeiture as aforesaid, immediate seizure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly for condemnation. The attention of all officers of the government, common carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, agents, drivers, and other pesons connected with the transportation of merchan- dise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 13, 1861, and May 20, 1862, above referred to. XVI. All army supplies transported under military orders are excepted from the above regulations. But this exception does not extend to sutlers' goods or others designed for sale at military posts or camps. XVII. When any officer of the customs shall find in his district any goods, wares, or merchandise which in his opinion are in danger of being transported to insurgents, he may, if he thinks it expedient, require the owner or holder thereof to give reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any place under insuriectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents. If the required security be not given, such officer shall promptly state the facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such goods are situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of a INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 23 United States marshal, then to the commandant of the nearest military post, whose duty it shall be to take possession thereof, and hold them for safe keep- ing, reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting instructions. XVIII. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the procla- mation of the President, licenses will be granted by United States consuls, on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign ports to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessels so licensed will convey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from said ports, which license shall be shown to the collector of the port to M^hich the vessel i'^ bound, and, if required, to any officer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the collector, according: to law, showino; no violation of the conditions of the license. Any violation of the conditions Avill involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering the United States for any purpose during the war. XIX. United States vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so opened, will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual manner, for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore established. War Department, WasJiington City, August 28, 1862. The attention of all officers and others connected with the army of the United States is called to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States or sections, dated August 28, 1862. I. Commandants of departments, districts, and posts will render all such mil- itary aid as may become necessary in carrying out the provisions of said regu- lations and enforcing observance thereof to the extent directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, so far as can possibly be done, without danger to the opera- tions or safety of their respective commands. II. There will be no interference with trade or shipments of cotton or other merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within any territory oc- cupied and controlled by the foi-ces of the United States, unless absolutely ne ccssary to the successful execution of military plans or movements therein. But in cases of violations of the conditions of any clearance or permit granted under said regulations, and in cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will be arrested and the fjicts promptly reported to the commandant of the depart- ment for orders, III. No officer of the army or other person connected therewith will seize cotton or other pi'operty of individuals unless expo>ed to destruction by the enemy, or needed for military purposes, or for confiscation under the act of Con- gress, and in all such cases of seizure the same shall be promptly reported to the commandant of the department wherein they are made for his orders therein. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Navv Department, August 28, 1862. The attention of naval officers is called to the i-egulations of the Secretary of the Treasury concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States or sections, dated August 28, 1862. I. Commanders of naval vessels will render such aid as mjiy be necessary in 24 IliTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE carrying out the provisions of paid regulations, an cl enforcing observance thereof to the extent directed by the Secretary of the Treasury so far as can possibly be done without danger to the operations or safety of tlieir respective commands. II. There will be no interference with trade in or shipments of cotton or other merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within any of the waters controlled by the naval forces of the United States, unless absolutely necessary to the successful execution of military or naval plans or movements. But in cases of the violation of the conditions of any clearance or permit granted under said regulations, and in cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will be arrested and the facts promptly reported. Ill No officer of the navy will seize cotton or other property of individuals ti^lliin the territory opened for traffic, and subject to the regulations of the Sec- retary of the Treasui-y, unless the same is exposed to destruction by the enemy or needed for naval purposes, or for confiscation under the act of Congress ; and in all such cases the fact with all attendant circumstances shall be promptly reported to the department. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary. Treasury Departme:vt, Washington, March 31, 18G3. 1 he President of the United States, in pursuance of the act of Congress ap- proved July 13, 1861, entitled "An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," having declared that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, liOui-siana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, except the forty- eight counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and except the ports of New Orleans, Key Wett, Port Royal, and Beaufort, in North Carolina, are in insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse be- tween the same and the inhabitants thereof, except as aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States is unlawful, except as licensed and permitted by the President, and conducted under the regulations of the Sec- retary of the Treasury, as provided by said act : Now, therefore, for the purpose of securing the due execution of the said act, and the supplementary act approved May 20, 1862, and for the purpose of safely and properly conducting such commercial intercourse as may be licensed and permitted by the President pursuant to the provisions of said acts, and also for the [lurpose of preventing the conveyance of arms and other munitions of war and supplies to persons in insurrection against the United States, the following regulations are hereby prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasui-y in pursuance of the authority conferred upon him by the said acts. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. REGULATIONS. Skc I. No goods, wares, or merchandise, whatever may be the ostensible destination thereof, shall be transported to any place now under the control of insurgents ; nor to any place on the south side of the Potomac river ; nor to any place on the north side 6f the Potomac, and south of the Washington and An- napolis railroad ; nor to any place on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake ; nor to any place on the south side of the Ohio river below Wheeling, except Louis- ville ; nor to any place on the west side of the Mississippi river below the mouth INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 25 of the Des Moinos, except St. Louis, witliout a permit of a cluly authorized officer of the Treasury Department. Skc. II. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section hereto- fore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military purposes and under military orders, or under the special license of the President. And no payment of gold or silver shall be made for cotton or other merchandise within any such State or section. And all cotton or other merchandise purchased in any such State or section, to be paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold xr silver, or foreign bills of exchange, shall be forfeited to the United States. Sec. III. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any ship- ment to any port or place affected by the existing blockade, except for military purposes, and upon the certificate and request of the Department of War or th# Department of the Navy. Skc. IV. All applications for permits to transport goods or property under these regulations shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be transported, the place from and to which such transportation is to be made, the names of the owner and shipper and consignee thereof, and the number and description of the packages, with the marks thereon. Sec. V. Every applicant for a permit to transport goods, wares, or mei'chan- dise for purposes of trade into or within any place or section named in the first section of these regulations, shall present with his application the original invoices of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported, and shall make and file with the oflicer granting the permit an affidavit that the names of the owners, the quantities, descriptions, and values of the merchandise are correctly stated in said invoices, true copies of which shall be annexed to and fik-d with the affi- davit ; and that the marks on the packages are correctly stated in the applica- tion, ami that the packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices; that the merchandise so permitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be dis- posed of by him or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, and that neither the permit so granted nor the merchandise to be transported shall be so used or disposed of b}' him or by his autiiority, connivance, or assent, as in any way to give aid, comfort, information, or encour- agement to persons in insurrection against the United States. And furthermore, that the apj)licant is loyal to the government of the United States, and will in all things so deport himself. Sec. VI. Whenever commercial intercourse with any part or section of a State heretofore declared in insiarrection is permitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the license of the President, in pursuance of the said act ap- proved July 13, 1861, notice thereof and of the conditions under which the same may be conducted shall be published in such papers as the Secretary may think expedient, in order to the general informatiim of parties interested. Sec. VII. After commercial intei'conrse with any part or section of an insur- rectionary State has been permitted as aforesaid, permits to transport to or from any place therein, or to purchase or sell in any place therein for use in any other place, shall be granted only by such persons a-s shall be specially authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury after the date hereof. And no permit shall be granted by any such person to transport to or from, or to purchase or sell in any place or section whatever not within the military lines of the United States army. Sec. VIII. Every permit to purchase cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in insurrection, after commercial intercourse therewith shall have been permitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the license of the President as aforesaid, and every permit to transport the same thereto, therein, or therefrom, shall clearly define the char- acter and quantity of the merchandise so permitted to be sold, purchased, or transported, and the place or section within which the same may be purchased or sold, and to and from which the same may be transported. 26 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. Skc. IX. A fee of twenty cents will be cliarged for each permit granted for purposes of trade, under these regulations ; and, in addition thereto the following fees shall be collected, viz : for a permit to purchase or sell cotton or tobacco within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in insurrection, com- mercial intercourse with which has been permitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the license of the President as aforesaid, and to transport the same therefrom to any place in the loyal States, four cents per pound of cotton, and two dollars per hogshead of tobacco ; and for a permit to transport any other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, designed for sale, except supplies for officers and soldiers, shipped by sutlers to or from any such place or section in an insurrectionary State, five per centum upon the sworn invoice value thereof, at the place of shipment. Sec. X. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to grant permits under these regulations shall keep in his office a record of all his trans- actions under such authority, and especially he shall keep a record of every permit granted by him, showing the names of the owner, shipper, and consignee, the places from and to which each transportation is permitted, the character and invoice value of the merchandise permitted to be transported, and the fees received therefor, an abstract statement of which, together with the names and compensation of all aids to the revenue reporting to him, shall be given to the proper supervising special agent of the Treasury Department on the first of every month. Skc. XI. No permit shall be granted to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other goods, wares or merchandise, designed for trade within any place or section aforesaid, nor to transport the same therein, thereto, or there- from, except to persons who shall, before receiving such permit, make affidavit that they are in all respects loyal and true to the government of the United States, and that they have never voluntarily given aid to the rebels in arms, nor in any other manner encouraged the rebellion ; and that they will at all times, by their conduct and conversation, and by every other means they can properly use, do all that should be expected of them as loyal citizens to suppress the rebellion and restore obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. Sec. XII. Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clearances, may require bond, with reasonable surety, in such cases as they shall think necessary, to protect the public interests, conditioned that there shall be no violation of the terms or spirit of the clearance, or of the averments of the affidavit upon which the same is granted. Sec. XIII. No permit shall be granted to ship intoxicating drinks, or other thing prohibited by the military authorities, into territory occupied by the mili- tary forces of the United States, except upon the written request of the com- mander of the department in which such territory is embraced, or of some person duly authorized by him to make such request. Sec. XIV. No vessel, boat, or vehicle used for transportation upon or south of the Potomac river, or north of the Potomac, and south of the Washington and Annapolis railroad, or to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or south- wardly on or from the Ohio river below Wheeling, or Avestwardly or southwardly on or from the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, or on or from the Mississippi river in any direction below the mouth of the Ohio, shall receive on board any goods, wares, or merchandise destined to any place, commercial intercourse with which now is, or hereafter may be, restricted as aforesaid, unless the same be accompanied with a permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Department, except as hereinafter provided in regulation number XVII I. Sec. XV. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation from any place -in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise, into any INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 27 place, section, or States, restricted as aforesaid, without the permit of a duly- authorized officer of the Treasury Department, application for which permit may be made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the convenience of the shipper. Sec. XVI. No vessel, boat or other vehicle used for transportation shall put off any goods, wares, or merchandise, at any place other than that named in the permit as the place of destination. Sec. XVII. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or section, commercial intercourse with which now is or may hereafter be re- stricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo and a clearance obtained to proceed on its voyage ; and when freights are received on board at a place where there is no collector or surveyor as hereinafter provided in section XVIII, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an officer, and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cargo exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there is such an officer ; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Im- mediately on arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging any part of its cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for lariding the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be dis- charged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post whenever such officer may require it. Sec. XVIII. To facilitate trade and guard against improper transportation, " aids to the revenue " will be appointed from time to time on cars, vessels, and boats, wlien desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will have free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed, and will allow proper way freights to be taken on board without permit, keep- ing a statement thereof, and reporting the same to the first officer to be passed on the trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper under bis direction. No permit will be granted for transportation into or within any insurrectionary State or district, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids. Sec. XIX, Supervising special agents of the Treasury Department will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to supervise within designated limits the execution of these regulations, and to make such local rules and re- strictions, not inconsistent with them, as may be proper for that purpose, and to change the same from time to time, and temporarily suspend or qualify the authority to grant permits, as the public interests may require, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and all permits and clearances authorized under these regulations will be granted only in compliance with such local rules and restrictions as may be approved as aforesaid. Sec. XX. Boards of trade will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, at such places as he may think necessary, to aid in the due enforcement of these regulations, and in properly conducting such commercial intercourse between the inhabitants of States declared in insurrection and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States, as may be permitted under the license of the President. Sec. XXI. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation violating any of the above regulations, or any of the local rules and restrictions 28 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. made by a supervisiiij:^ special agent, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and all cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise shipped or transported or purchased or sold in violation thereof, will be forfeited to tlie United States. If any false statement be made or deception practiced in obtaininj::; a permit, such permit and all others connected therewith or affected thereby will be absolutely void, and all mercliandise shipped under them shall be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of foifciture, as aforesaid, immediate seizure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly for condemnation. The attention of all officers of the government, common carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, mas- ters, agents, drivers, and other persons connected with the transportation of mercliandise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 13, 1861, and May 20, 1862, above referred to, and March 12, 1863, and these regulations for executing the same. Src. XXII. Transportation of supplies belonging to or contracted for by the United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof and moving un- der military or naval orders, is excepted from the effect of these regulations ; but this exception does not extend to sutlers' goods or others designed for sale at military posts or camps. Sec XX III. When any collector, surveyor, special agent, or board of trade, charged with the execution of these regulitions and the laws authi)rizing them, shall liud within his or their proper limits any goods, wares, or merchandise, which, in his or tlieir opinion, are in danger of being transported to insurgents, he or they may require the owner or holder tliereof to give reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any place under insurrectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents. If the required security be not given, such officer or officers shall promptly state the facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such goods are situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of a United States marshal, then to the commander of the nearest military post, whose duty it shall be to take possession thereof, and hold them for safe keeping, reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting instructions. Sf.c. XXIV. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the proclamation of the President, licenses Avill be granted by United States consuls, on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign ports to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so licensed will coq- vey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from said ports, wliich license shall be shown to the collector of the port to which the vessel is bound, and, if required, to any officer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving any port so opened, the vessel mast have a clearance from the col- lector, according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering the United States for any purpose during the war. Sec. XXV. United States vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so opened will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual manner, for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore established. Skc. XXVI. These regulations shall supersede those of August 28, 1862, and all others conflicting herewith, affecting commercial intercoiu-se with insur- rectionary States, and no permits will be hereafter granted by any officer of the Treasury Department, except in pursuance hereof, and of the local rules and resti'ictions aforesaid, and by virtue of authority hereafter given by the Secre- tary of the Treasury. INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 29 [General Orders No. 88. ] War Department, Was/rington, March 31, 1863. For the purpose of more effectually preventing all commercial inercourse with insurrectionary States, except such as shall be authorized in pursuance of law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and eiiicient action in conducting such intercourse as shall be so authorized, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary States," approved March 12, 1863, it is hereby ordered : I. That no officer of the airny of the United States nor other person connected therewith shall authorize or have any interest in the transportation of any goods, wares, or merchandise (except supplies helonging to or contracted for by the United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof, and moving un- der military or naval orders, and except, also, sutlers' supplies and other things necessary for the use and comfort of the troops of the United States and moving under permits of the authorized officers of the Ti'easury Department) into any State declared by the President to be in insurrection ; nor authorize nor have any interest in the purchase or sale therein of any goods or chattels, wares or merchandise, cotton, tobacco, or other product of the soil thereof; nor the trans- portation of the same, except as aforesaid, therefrom or therein ; nor shall any such officer or person authorize, prohibit, or in any manner interfere with any such purchase or sale or transportation, which shall be conducted under the reg- ulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless under some imperative mili- tary necessity, in the place or section where the same shall be conducted, or unless requested by an agent or some other authorized officer of the Treasury Department, in which case all commanders of military departments, districts, and posts will render such aid in carrying out the provisions of the said act, and in enforcing due observance of the said regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, as can be given without manifest injury to the public service. II. It is further ordered that every officer or private, or person employed in or with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, who may receive or have under his control any property which shall have been abandoned by the owner or owners, or captured in any district declared to be in insurrection against the United States, including all property seized under military orders, excepting only such as shall be required for military use of the United States forces, shall promptly turn over all such property to the agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive the same, who shall give duplicate receipts therefor. And every such officer or private, or person employed in or with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, shall also promptly turn over to such agent, in like manner, all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, documents, and vouchers showing title to such property, or the right to the possession, con- trol, or direction thereof; and he shall make such order, indorsement, or writing as he has power to make, to enable such agent to take possession of such prop- erty or the proceeds thereof. Arms, munitions of war, forage, horses, mules, wagons, beef cattle, and supplies Avhich are necessary in military operations, shall be turned over to the proper officers of the ordnance, or of the quartermastei-, or of the commissary departments, respectively, for the use of the army. All other property abandoned or captured or seized, as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The officer receiving or turning over such property shall give the usual and necessary invoices, receipts, or vouchers therefor, and shall make regular returns thereof, as prescribed by the army regulations. The receipts of the agents of 30 INTERNAL AXD COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. the Treasury Department shall be vouchers for all property delivered to them, and whenever called upon by the agent of the Treasury Department authorized to receive such abandoned or captured or seized property, as aforesaid, or the proceeds thereof, all persons employed in the military service will give him full information in regard tliereto; and if requested by him so to do, they shall give him duplicates or copies of the reports and returns thereof, and of the receipts, invoices, and vouchers therefor. And every officer of the army of the United States, hereafter receiving abandoned or captured or seized property, or the proceeds thereof, or under whose order it may be applied to the use of the military forces, as aforesaid, shall, upon request of a duly authorized agent of the Treasury Department, render a written report, with invoices thereof, to said agent, in which he will specify the arms, supplies, or other munitions of war, retained for the use of the military forces, as aforesaid, and also, separately, the property turned over to said agent, or which may have been sold or otherwise disposed of. And in case a sale of any such property shall be made under his authority, or under the authority of any one subject to his order, he will so state, and will describe the property so sold, and will state when and where and by and to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, and what disposition was made of the proceeds. And all officers of the array of the United States will at all times render to the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury all such aid as may be necessary to enable them to take possession of and transport all such property, so far as can be done without manifest injury to the public service. Ill All commanders of military departments, districts, and posts will, upon receipt of this order, revoke all existing orders within their respective commands conflicting or inconsistent herewith, or which permit or prohibit or in any man- ner interfere with any traile or transportation conducted under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and their attention is particularly directed to said regulations, prescribed March -31, 1863, and they will respectively make such orders as will insure strict observance of this order throughout their re- spective commands. All expenses of transporting property herein referred to w'ill be reported by the officers of the quartermasters' department, who furnish such transportation, to the agents of the Treasury Department, and also, through the ordinary channels, to the Quartermaster General at Washington, in order that the said expenses may be reimbursed from the proceeds of sales of such transported property. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Navy Department, Washington, March 31, 1863. Tor the purpose of more effectually preventing all commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States, except such as shall be authorized in pursuance of law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and efficient action in conducting such intercourse as shall be so authorized, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary States," approved March 12, 1863, it is hereby ordered — I. That no officer of the navy of the United States, nor other person connected therewith, sh;ill authorize, or have any interest in, the transportation of any goods, wares, or merchandise (except supplies belonging to, or contracted for by, the United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof, and mov- INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 31 iiig under military or naval orders, and except also sutlers' supplies and other things necessary for the use and comfort of the naval forces of the United States, and moving under permits of the authorized officers of the Treasury Department) into any State declared by the President to be in insurrection ; nor authorize nor have any interest in the purchase or sale therein of any goods or chattels, wares or merchandise, cotton, tobacco, or other products of the soil thereof; nor the transportation of the same, except as aforesaid, therefri)m or therein ; nor shall any such officer or person authorize, prohibit, or in any manner interferii with any such purchase or sale or transportation which shall be conducted under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless under some imperative mil- itary necessity in the place or section where the same shall be conducted, or un- less requested by an agent or some other authorized officer of the Treasury Department, iu which case all officers of the navy of the United States and other persons connected therewith will render such aid in carrying out the pro- visions of the said act and of the law, and in enforcing due observance of the said regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, as can be given without man- ifest injury to the public service. II. It is further ordered that every officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the United States who shall receive or have under his control any property which shall have been abandoned by the owner or owners, or captured iu any district declared to be in insurrection against the United States, including all property seized in any such district, under naval orders, excepting only such as shall be required for the use of the naval forces of the United States, and as is excluded by the act of March 12, 1S63, shall promptly turn over all such prop- erty to the agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive the same, who shall give receipts therefor, if desired. And every such officer, sailor, or marine shall also turn over to such agent in like manner all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, documents, and vouch- ers showing title to such property, or the right to the possession, control, or di- rection thereof; and he sliall make such order, indorsement, or writing as he has power to make to enable such agent to take possession of such property, or the proceeds thereof. Arms, muuiiions of war, forage, horses, mules, wagons, beef cattle, and supplies which are necessary in naval operations, shall be turned over to the proper officers for the use of the navy. All other property aban- doned, captured, or seized, as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the said agent of the Treasury Department. The officer receiving or turning over such property shall give the usual and necessary invoices, receipts or vouchers iherefor, and shall make regular returns thereof as prescribed by the navy regulations. The receipts of the agents of the Treasury Department shall be vouchers for all property delivered to them. And whenever called upon by the said agent of the Treasury Department authorized to receive such abandoned, or captured, or seized property, as afore- said, or the proceeds thereof, all persons employed in the naval service of the United States will give him full information in regard thereto, and if requested by him so to do, they shall give him duplicates or copies of the reports and returns tliereof, and of the receipts, invoices and vouchers therefor. And every officer of the navy of the United States hereafter receiving abandoned, or captured, or seized property in any insurrectionary State as aforesaid, or the proceeds thereof, or under whose order it may be applied to the use of the naval forces as aforesaid, shall, upon request of an agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury as aforesaid, render a written report, with invoices thereof, to said agent, in which he will specify tlie arms, supplies, or other munitions of war retained for use of the naval forces, as aforesaid, and also, separately, the property turned over to said agent, or which may have been sold or otherwise disposed of. And in case a sale of any such property shall be made under his authority, or under the authority of any one subject to his order, 32 ^^JTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. he -will so state, and will describe the property so sold, and will state when and where, and by and to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, aad what disposi ion was made of the proceeds. And all officers of the navy of the United States will, at all times, render to the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury all such aid as may be necessary to enable them to take possession of any abandoned, or captured, or seized property aforesaid, and in transporting the same, so far as can be done without manifest injury to the public service. All expenses of transporting property herein referred to will be reported hy the officers who furnish the transportation to the agent of the Treasury Depart- ment, and also, through the proper channels, to the Navy Department at Wash- ington, in order that the expenses may be reimbursed from the proceeds of sales of such transported property. III. All naval officers in command of squadrons, vessels, or stations will, upon receipt ot this order, revoke all existing orders throughout their respective com- mands conflicting or inconsistent herewith, or which permit, or prohibit, or in any manner interfere with, any trade or transportation conducted under the reg- ulations of the Secretary of the Treasury not understood as applying to any lawful maritime prize by the naval forces of the United States;, and their atten- tion is particularly directed to said regulations, prescribed March 31, 18G3, and they will respectively make such orders as will insure strict observance of this order throughout their respective commands. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. LICENSE OF TRADE BY THE PRESIDENT. Washington, Exkcutive Mansion, MarcJt 31, 18G3. Whereas, by the act of Congress approved July 13, 1861, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," all com- mercial intercourse between the inhabitants of such States as should by procla- mation be declared in insurrection against the United States and the citizens of the rest of the United States was prohibited so long as such condition of hos- tility should continue, except as the same shall be licensed and permitted by the President to be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regu- lations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and whereas it appears that a partial restoration of such intercourse between the inhabitants of sundry places and sections heretofore declared in insurrection in pursuance of said act and the citizens of the rest of the United States will favorably affect the public interests : Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, exer- cising the authority and discretion confided to me by the said act of Congress, do hereby license and permit such commercial intercourse between the citizens of loyal States and the inhabitants of such insurrectionary States in the cases and under the restrictions described and expressed in the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, bearing even date with these presents, or in such other regulations as he may hereafter, with my approval, prescribe. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 33 CIRCULAR OF JULY 3, 1863. [This letter, addressed to Supervising Special Ag:ent Melleii and sent to the other supervi- sing special agents in July last, is republished, with some modificati»ns adapting it to the Revised Regufations, for the convenient information of all parties concerned.] Treasury Dkpartment, July 3, 1S63. Sir : I have received yonr letter of the 5th of June, from Memphis, and also those of previous dates from Cincinnati, relative to the collection of abandoned and captured property within the States heretofore declared to be iu insurrection. la reply, I think it important to direct your attention, in the first place, to the general distinctions under which all property subject to the disposition of national officers, within the district under your supervision, may be arranged. There may be said to be four classes of such property, viz : abandoned, cap- tured, commercial, and confiscable. First. Abandoned property is of two descriptions . first, that which has been deserted by the owners; and, second, that which has been voluntarily abandoned by them to the civil or military authorities of the United States. Such prop- erty is to be collected or leceived by the special agents of this department, and sold under the authority of the act of March 12, 1.SG3, and the proceeds, after deducting the expenses of transportation and sale, and other expenses attending the collection and disposition thereof, are to be deposited in the treasury, sub- ject to award by the Court of Claims. Before this court claimants to such property, or the proceeds thereof, have the right, under the act, to prefer their claims at any time after the sale and before the expiration of two years from the close of the war. No guarantee can be given to owners of abandoned property iu respect to the time when, or the persons to whom, proceeds will be paid. Second. Captured property is understood to be that which has been seized or taken from hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United States, and is t(j be turned over, with certain exceptions named,, to the special agents of this department, in accordance with the provisions of the act of March 12, 1863. All property taken possession of by military or naval forces, and turned over to special agents, must be regarded as irrima facie captured prop- erty. Such property you will receive and direct to be sold, and will cause the proceeds to be deposited in the treasury, subject to the future award of the Court of Claims. Captured property which is held as lawful prize by the navy is not to be turned over to the department agents, nor to be in any way controlled by them. Third. Commercial property is that which has been or may be sold and pur- chased under the license of the President, through permits granted by the officers of the Treasury Department. Fourth. Confiscable property is that which belongs to certain classes of per- sons, as recited in the confiscation act of July 17, 1862, and is liable to seizure and condemnation by judicial proceedings in the manner proscribed by that act. Great care must be exercised in properly classifying all property, that the provisions of the law applicable to each class may be complied with; and it must be remembered that with the property included in the fourth class, unless found deserted and abandoned, the agents of the Treasury Department have no authority to interfere. The execution of the confiscation act is confided, by its express terms, to the President, by whom the Attorney General has been charged with the direction of all seizures and proceedings under it. It must be remembered, also, that all property coming from insurrectionary districts into loyal States, or in reversed direction, or being transported within or to insurrectionary districts, in contravention of law or departmental regula- tions, is forfeited or forfeitable, and that it is the duty of the agents of the T R 3 34 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. department, as well as of otliei" proper officer?, to enforce the forfeitures tbua incurred ; but property thus forfeited or forfeitable must not be confounded with confiscated or confiscable property, which is to be proceeded against and dis- posed of under the act of July 17, 1862, or with prize property captured by the navy, and subject to disposition under the direction of prize commissioners and courts. In respect to property embraced in the first class, namely, abandoned prop- erty, it is to be obsei'ved that no agent is authorized to make any other assur- ances than that property voluntarily abandoned shall be faithfully disposed of under the law, so as to secure, as far as practicable in the existing condition of the country, the rights of owners. No authority is given, or intended to be given, to agents to make any promises of special immunities or advantages not specified in the law. In respect to both descriptions of abandoned property, whether found deserted or voluntarily abandoned, the law authorizes the payment of such expenses as must necessarily be incurred in its collection, or receipt and disposition. You will, therefore, pay all such expenses, including fees, taxes, freights, storage, charges, labor and other necessary expenses out of the general fund arising therefrom, being careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet expenditures, and to charge each particular lot or parcel Avith the specific or proportionate amount of expense pertaining to it, and, unless unavoidably prevented, to take vouchers therefor, to be filed with the account of sales in this department. Where property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence of its location being unknown to the special agents, or from other causes, and parties propose for compensation to collect and deliver it into the hands of the agents of this department, at points to be designated by them, you may contract for the col- lection and delivery thereof, on the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty- five per cent, of the proceeds of the property; which percentage must be full compensation for all expenses of whatever character incurred in collecting, pre- paring and delivering such property at tlie points indicated. Prior to any contract being entered into, each party proposing must submit, in writing, a statement, as near as may be, giving the kind and amount of property proposed to be collected, the location whence to be obtained, and all the facts and circum- stances connected Avith it, particularly as to its ownership ; and any contract made in pursuance of this authority will be restricted either to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named localities, which is preferred, or, when cir- cumstances cleaily justify, to the general collection and delivery of all abandoned property in limited districts, not greater in any case than one parish or county, and not more than one district to be assigned to one contractor. Before payment to any contractor for services in fulfilment of any contracts made in pursuance of this authority, a bond ecjual to the amount stipulated to be paid i ustbe given by him, indemnifying the United States against all claims to the property delivered on account of damages by trespass or otherwise, oc- casioned by the act or connivance of the contractor, and against all claims that may arise on account of expenses incurred in the collection, preparation, and transportation of said property to the points designated in such contract. Should cases arise justifying, in your opinion, the allowance of a larger per- centage than that herein authorized, you will refer such cases t(» this department, accompanied by a statement of the facts and circumstances connected therewith, together with such views and opinions of your own as you may think proper to submit for my consideration. If property of a perishable nature is found abandoned, and its immediate sale is required by the interests of all concerned, it may be disposed of as provided for by regulations. You will aim to mitigate, as far as possible, and will in no case do anything avoidable to augment the calamities of war. In relation to captured property you will observe the same directions, as far INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 35 as tliey may be applicable, as to its receipt and subseqvient disposition, as are prescribed in relation to abandoned property. In relation both to captured and abandoned property, you will remember that no release must be granted to persons claiming ownership of property which has come to the possession of the agents of the department as abandoned, captured, or forfeited ; nor must any permits be granted to individuals to remove such property; nor must personal favors, in any case, be extended to one individual or party rather than to another ; nor must any liabilities be assumed or con- tracts made on the part of the United States not clearly Avarranted by law and the departmental regulations made in pursuance of law. In case furniture, or other movable propertj^ of like character, is abandoned or captured, you will cause it to be retained and left on the premises where found whenever it can be done with safety ; otherwise, if practicable, and not attended with too great cost, you will have it safely stored and properly marked and numbered, and will report the facts to this department and await further directions. Your principal embarrassments will doubtless arise from questions relating to property of the third class, or commercial property. The general purposes which, under the acts charging me with the regulation of the restricted commercial intercourse permitted by the President, I have kept steadily in view, have already been sufficiently explained in general regulations and in letters. They may be briefly stated thus : 1st. To allow within districts in insurrec- tionary States when tlie authority of the government is so completely re-estab- lished, in your judgment, sanctioned by that of the commanding general, as to warrant it, and between such districts and loyal States the freest commercial intercourse compatible with prevention of supplies to persons within rebel lines. 2d. To allow beyond such districts, but within the lines of our military occupa- tion, such intercourse, sanctioned by the commanding general, as may be re- quired to supply the inhabitants with necessaries, but to allow no other until tlie complete re-establishment of the n&tional authority shall warrant it; and, 3d. To allow no intercourse at all beyond the national and within the rebel lines of military occupation ; across these lines there can be no intercourse except that of a character exclusively military. The limits of the districts within which the most general trade may be allowed must necessarily be prescribed by you, after full conference with the command- ing generals of departments, whenever such conference is practicable, and these should be so clearly and distinctly marked by known geographical boundaries, or by the enumeration of counties, as to leave no uncertainty as to their course or comprehension. The limits of the regions within which necessaries may be supplied cannot be so clearly defined, but mast be ascertained as well as possible from the commanding generals, and the power to permit any supplies within them must be exercised with great caution. There does not seem to me to be so much danger in intercourse which does not involve the furnishing of supplies. If, for example, any person desires to bring cotton, tobacco, sugar, turpentine, or other property, already purchased, or to be purchased for money only, from any place within the lines of our military occupation, I can see no objection to his being permitted to do so, subject to the fees and obligations specified in the general regulations, on his giving a bond in a sufficient sum, and with sufficient sureties, conditioned that no military, naval, or civil officers or persons, prohibited by law, or by orders of the President, or of the Secretaries of War or Navy, or of military or naval commanders having proper authority, from being interested in such property, Avhether purchased or to be purchased, shall be so interested therein. Intercourse such as this might, it seems to me, be safely permitted, almost, if not quite, coextensively with our lines of military occupation. 36 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. Should this view meet the approval of the generals commanding departments within your agency, the question of intercourse M'ithiu the doubtful region be- tween what may be called the commercial and the military line would be re- duced to a question of the quantity of supplies allowed to be furnished for money. It is impossible at once to arrive at the best possible ways of accomplishing the great objects which Congress had in view in the several acts relating to com- mercial intercourse ; but if these objects themselves be kept steadily in view, namely, (1st,) non-intercourse between loyal States or districts and States or districts controlled by insurgents ; and (2d) modilied intercourse between loyal States or districts and States or districts partially regained to the Union, the best modes of accomplishing them will gradually disclose themselves. You will diligently observe the course of events, and hear attentively all suggestions made by respectable and loyal citizens, and report to me whatever may seem to you proper for consideration in establishing or modifying the regulations of the department. Nothing occurs to me as needing to be now added, except that hereafter the supervising special agents may establish, in conjunction with, or obedience to, the generals commanding departments, lines within which trade, more or less limited, may be carried on without awaiting my sanction, taking care, however, to give as general notice as practicable, through the press and otherwise, of the establishment or modification of such lines. All action under this authority must be immediately and specifically reported to the department. "With great respect, S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. Wm. p. Mellen, Esq., Suj)ervising Special Agent, Sfc. CIRCULAR, SEPTEMBER 11, 1863. Treasury Department, September 11, 1863. To the Sjjecial Agents of the Treasury Departmcfit : Gentlemen : The President of the United States, having, by proclamation of July 1, 1862, declared and proclaimed that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, INIississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia, except the following counties, Han- cock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are in insurrection and rebellion : And having also by proclamation on the 31st of March, 1863, revoked cer- tain exceptions made by his former proclamation dated August 16, 1861, and declared that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and except, also, the ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, and Beaufort, in North Carolina,) are in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse, not licensed and conducted as provided in said act, between the said States and the inhabitants thereof with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States, is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed, and notice thereof has been duly given by proc- INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 37 lamation ; and all cotton, tobacco, and other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares, and merchandise coming from any of said States, with the ex- ceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, or proceeding to anj of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, without the license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, will, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be forfeited to the United States ; And the act of Congress " further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and for other purposes," approved July 13, 1861, having authorized said proclamation, and the license and regulations referred to ; And the act of Congi-ess supplementary to said act of July 13, 1S61, ap- proved May 20, 1862, having conferred additional powers on said Secretary, and prescribed further conditions of trade ; And the act of Congress approved March 12, 1863, entitled "An act to pro- vide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States," having declared " That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, from and after the passage of said act, as he shall from time to time see fit, to appoint a special agent or agents to receive and collect all abandoned or captured property in any State or Territory, or any portion of any State or Territory, of the United States designated as in insurrection against the lawful government of the United States by the proclamation of the President of July 1, 1862 : Provided, That such property shall not include any kind or description which has been used, or which was intended to be used, for waging or carrying on war against the United States, such as arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water craft, and the furniture, forage, military supplies, or munitions of war;" And further, " That any part of the goods or property received or collected by such agent or agents may be appropriated to public use on due appraisement and certificate thereof, or forwarded to any place of sale within the loyal States, as the public interests may require, and that all sales of such property shall be at public auction to the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the treasury of the United States ;" And further, " that he shall cause a book or books of account to be kept, showing from whom such property was received, the cost of transportation, and the proceeds of the sale thereof;" And further, " that any person claiming to have been the owner of any such abandoned or captured property may, at any time within two years after the suppression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the proceeds thereof in the Court of Claims ; and on proof, to the satisfaction of said court, of his ownership of said property, of his right to the proceeds thereof, and that he has never given any aid or comfort to the present rebellion, to receive the residue of such pro- ceeds after deducting the expenses of transportation and sale of said property, and any other lawful expenses attending the disposition thereof;" And further, " that it shall be the duty of any officer or private of the regu- lar or volunteer forces of the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the United States, upon the inland waters of the United States, who may take or receive any such abandoned property, or cotton, sugar, rice, or tobacco, from persons in such insurrectionary districts, or have it under his control, to turn the same over to an agent appointed as aforesaid, who shall give a receipt therefor ; and in case he shall refuse to do so he shall be tried by a court-martial, and punished as said court shall order, with the approval of the President of the United States;" And the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy having respectively made and published orders for the enforcing of said acts ; The following regulations are prescribed for the government of the several supervising, assistant, and local special agents and agency aids, appointed to carry said acts and the regulations made under them into effect, and for the pur- 38 PATERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. pose of conducting the commercial intercourse licensed and permitted by tbe President, and preventing the conveyance of munitions of war and supplies to insurgents, or to localities declared to be in insurrection against the United States, or in such quantities that there will be imminent danger of their falling into the possession or luider the control of insurgents ; and are published, together with the proclamations and license of the President, the several acts of Congress, and the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, for the information of parties interested. AH officers charged with the execution of these regulations, while using neces- sary vigilance to pi-event supplies to rebels, either directly or by undue accumu- lation at points Avhere there will be imminent danger of their falling into their hands, and in collecting abandoned or captured property, will be careful to occa- sion as little inconvenience as possible to any legitimate trade or intercourse, or to loyal people. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. TRADE REGULATIONS. EXECUTIVE ORDER. ExEcuT[VE Mansion, Washington, September 11, 1863. The following' revised regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury having been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TRADE REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREAS- URY FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LIMITED COMMERCIAL INTER- COURSE LICENSED BY THE PRESIDENT BETWEEN THE CITIZENS OF LOYAL STATES AND THE INHABITANTS OF STATES AND PARTS OF STATES HERETOFORE DECLARED TO BE IN INSURRECTION, AS RE- VISED AND PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 11,1863. DISTRICTS CREATED CALLED SPECIAL AGENCIES. I. The States and parts of States declared to be in insurrection, between which and the citizens of loyal States commercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by the President, to be conducted and carried on in pursuance of regulations and rules prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, are hereby divided into district?, called special agencies, to which supervising special agents, appointed by the Secretary, are assigned. SPECIAL AGENCIES NAMED AND DESCRIBED. II. The special agencies are distinguished numerically, and described as follows : The first special agency comprises the district of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains, known as the valley of the Mississippi, and extend- ing southward so as to include so much of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana as is or may be occupied by national forces operating from the north. The second special agency comprises the State of Virginia and so much of the State of West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany mountains ; also the territory north and east thereof, from which ti'ade is carried on with the States or parts of States declared to be in insurrection. The third special agency comprises the State of North Carolina. The fourth special agency comprises the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The fifth special agency comprises the State of Texas and so much of the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi as is, or may be,, within the lines of the national forces operating from the south. Additional special agencies, if established, will be numerically designated in , the order of their establishment ; and if the boundaries of agencies already es- tablished shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO MAKE LOCAL RULES. III. Supervising special ag^ents will supervise within their respective a? -n- cies the execution of these regulations ; make and from time to time change such 40 TRADE REGULATIONS. local rules, not inconsistent with them, as may be proper for that purpose, and temporarily suspend or qualify the authority to grant permits, if the public in- terest shall require it, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and they will confer with generals commanding departments, and naval offi- cers commanding within their agencies, and obtain, as far as practicable, their sanction to such action as may affect their military or naval movements, and carefully avoid all interference with military or naval operations prosecuted by them. OFFICERS BY WHOM REGULATIONS AND LOCAL RULES WILL BE CARRIED INTO EFFECT, IV. These regulations, and the local rules prescribed by the several supervis- ing special agents for their respective agencies, will be carried into effect by assistant special agents, local special agents, and agency aids. Local special agents will take the place and perform the duties of the boards of trade hereto- fore authorized. Assistant special agents will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury; local special agents and agency aids will be appointed by the supervising special agents, or assistant special agents, as under regulation XXX, subject to the approval of the Secretary. RESTRICTION UPON TRANSPORTATION. V. No goods or merchandise will be allowed to be transported to, from, or within any State or part of a State under restriction, or declared in insurrection, except under permits, certificates, and clearances, as hereinafter provided. OFFICERS AUTHORIZED TO GRANT PERMITS. VI. The officers of the Treasury Department authorized to grant permits to districts in States or parts of States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, but where commercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by the President under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, are the surveyors of cus- toms at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, St. Louis, Memphis, and Baltimore ; the collectors of customs at Philadelphia, Georgetown, Beaufort in North Carolina, and Port Royal in South Carolina; and the collector of internal revenue at New Orleans. Other officers will be designated to grant permits should the public interest I'equire it ; and no permit will be granted except by such officers as shall be authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, or such as are approved by him, INTERCOURSE BEYOND THE LINE OF MILITARY OCCUPATION PROHIBITED. VII. Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of military oc- cupation by the United States forces is strictly prohibited ; and no permit will be granted for the transportation of any property to any place under the control of insurgents against the United kStates. NO CLEARANCE OR PERMIT FOR BLOCKADED PORTS, EXCEPT AS A MILITARY NECESSITY. VIII. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any shipment to any port or place affected by the existing blockade, except upon the request of the Department of War or the Department of the Navy, either directly or through a specially authorized officer, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury or to some officer specially authorized by him, accompanied by a certificate that the articles are required for military or naval purposes, and in the manner and lorm prescribed by regulation XXXII. TRADE REGULATIONS. 41 TRADE DISTRICTS, HOW CREATED AND DEFINED. IX. The several supervising special agents, within their rf tjpective agencies, will, after conference with the generals commanding departments when possible, and with their sanction, unless unavoidable circumstances prevent the obtaining of it, designate by known geographical boundaries, or by enumeration of coun- ties, that portion of territory included in their agencies, respectively, with which trade may be safely permitted, and report such designation to the Secretary. The part of territory so designated shall be called the trade district, and no transportation of goods, except as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted beyond the lines of such trade district. SUPPLY DISTRICTS, HOW CREATED AND DEFINED. X. If it shall appear that beyond the lines of the trade district, but within the lines of national military occupation, there is some territory within which the supply of necessaries is required by humanity and sound policy, while trade cannot yet be safely re-established, then the supervising special agents, with the sanction of the general commanding department, but in no case without his sanction, and subject to revocation or modification by the Secretary, may in like manner designate the portion of territory in their respective agencies to which goods may be properly permitted for individual and family supply, but for no other pui'pose. The territory so designated shall be called the supply district, and no goods shall be transported thereto for resale except as provided iu regulation XVIil. APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS SHALL STATE. XI. All applications for permits to transport goods or property under these regidations shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be trans- ported, the place to which such transportation is to be made, the names of the owner or purchaser, and, if any, of the shipper and consignee thereof, and the number and description of the packages, with the marks thereon. APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO TRANSPORT GOODS, HOW MADE. XII. Every applicant for a permit to ti'ansport goods, wares, or merchandise into or within any place or section where such transportation may be permitted, shall present with his application the original invoices of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported, and shall tile with the officer granting the permit the certificate of the local special agent authorizing it, if any be necessary, and an affidavit that the names of the owners, the quantities, descriptions, and values of the merchandise, are correctly stated in said invoices, true copies of which shall be annexed to and filed with the affidavit ; and that the marks on the packages are correctly stated in the application, and that the packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices ; that the merchandise so permitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed of by him, or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, and that neither the permit so granted, nor the merchandise to be transported, shall be so used or disposed of by him, or by his authority, connivance, or assent, as in any way to give aid, comfort, information, or encouragement to persons in insurrection against the United States. All affidavits required by these regulations or by local rules shall be taken before a supervising, assistant, or local special agent, or some other authorized officer. 42 - TRADE REGULATIONS. CERTIFICATE OF LOCAL SPE( lAL AGENT, TO WHOM GIVEN, AND NO PERMIT WITH- OUT CERTIFICATE, EXCEPT FOR FRUITS, VEGETABLES, ETC. XIII. No certificate ?hall be given by a local special agent in a State declared in insurrection for purchase of goods for resale, except to parties liaving trade stores under authority from the supervising special agent or assistant special agent designated by him, as hereinafter provided ; and no permit shall be granted to transport merchandise into any such State, unless authorized by such certifi- cate ; except that fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, ice, poultry, eggs, fresh butter, coal, wood, hay and other forage, beef-cattle, sheep, hogs, and household goods of families moving, may be permitted by the officers named in regulation VI to go to any not blockaded military post, fleet, or naval vessel, of the United States forces, without such certificate, but under careful discretion to prevent abuse of the exception. APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONTIVUE OR ESTABLISH TRADE STORES, TO WHOM AND HOW MADE. XIV. After a trade district in any agency shall be designated as aforesaid* persons of well-ascertained loyalty desiring to continue or establish trade stores therein may make application in writing to the proper supervising special agent, or to such assistant special agent as he shall designate for that purpose, set- ting foith the locality of the proposed trade store, and will make and attach to such application an affidavit that he is in all respects true to the government of the United States ; that he will faithfully conform to the proclamations and or- ders of the President of the United States and of the military governors and generals exercising authol-ity under him, and to departmental regulations author- ized by law, and that he will at all times, by his conduct and conversation, and by every other means he can properly use, aid in suppi'essing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. The supervising special agent, or the officer designated by him, will inquire into the character of the applicant and circumstances of the locality, and if deemed expe- dient will authorize him to sell at said trade store an amount of goods per month specified in the authority. A copy of the authority shall be filed with the local special agent nearest the trade store, who shall thereby be authorized to give the trader certificates amounting in the aggregate to the specified monthly sum, and upon which goods, wares, and merchandise not prohibited by regulations or local rules may be permitted by the proper collector or sm-veyor to be transported to such trade store. Great care will be exercised by the supervising special agent and assistant special agent designated by him to so limit the number of stores and quantities of goods to be permitted as to prevent undue accumulation of supplies at such stores ; and every trader, before receiving his authority, shall be required to execute a bond to the United States in a penalty, and with sureties to be ap- proved by the agent granting the authority, conditioned that he will not transport goods to any place other than to said trade store, or engage directly or indirectly in any prohibited trade, and that no part of the goods transported by him shall, with his knowledge or assent, or by his connivance, be so used or disposed of as to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents ; and also conditioned that no military, naval, or civil officer or person prohibited by law or by order of the President, or of military or naval commanders having proper authority, from being interested in the property purchased or sold by him, shall be so interested therein. TEADE REGULATIONS. 43 AUTHORIZED TRADERS NOT TO WHOLESALE, EXCEPT IN MEMPHIS AND NASH- VILLE. TO KEEP TRUE ACCOUNTS AND FFLE AND PRESERVE PAPERS. PEN- ALTY FOR VIOLATING REGULATIONS OR LOCAL RULES. XV. Authorized traders (except in the cities of Memphis and Nashville, and such other cities or towns as may be hereafter designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the concurrence and approval of the general commanding department) shall not sell goods to others to be resold by them, but shall sell only to persons for their own individual, family, or plantation use, upon pre- sentation of the permit for transportation thereof of the proper local special agent, as provided in regulations XVI and XVII. In Memphis, Nashville, and other cities after designation as above, authorized traders may sell goods to other traders for purpose of resale, upon certificate of the proper local special agent. Persons and families residing iu Memphis, Nashville, and other cities after des- ignation thereof as above, may purchase supplies for their own consumption at any trade store therein without any permit or certificate; but goods so sold shall not be transported out of said cities except under permit of the proper ofiicer, to be issued only upon the certificate of the local special agent, as provided in regulation XVI. All authorized traders shall keep true accounts of all their sales, with the name and residence of each purchaser, and the date and amount of every sale, and shall file and preserve all cancelled permits under which goods have been transported, and copies of all permits under which sales have been made ; and their books, invoices, accounts, cancelled permits, and copies of per- mits shall be open to inspection of the supervising special agent, or assistant special agents under his direction. If any such trader shall violate any regula- tion Of local rule, his authority shall be revoked by the supervising special agent, or assistant special agent by him designated, and said revocation reported to the Secretary, and his stock in trade seized and forfeited to the United States. WHEN LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS MAY PERMIT SUPPLIES, AND ON WHAT CON- DITIONS. XVI. The purchase and transportation of individual, family and plantation supplies may be permitted by a local special agent, from any trade store in that part of a trade district for which he is appointed to the home of the applicant therein, upon application to him by the head of the family or such other person as shall be authorized by him or her iu writing : provided, that the applicant shall make afiidavit, and the agent shall be satisfied, that the supplies applied for are necessary for the use and consumption of such person or family during the two months next ensuing the date of the affidavit ; that no part thereof will be sold or otherwise disposed of by him or her, or by his or her assent, except for use of such person or family; and that, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, no application has been made for any permit for the same or like supplies to any other ofiicer or agent, and that no supplies for the period men- tioned have been or are expected to be otherwise obtained ; and no one person shall be recognized as representing more than six families. AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR AND SURVEYOR MAY ALSO PERMIT SUPPLIES, WHEN AND ON WHAT CONDITIONS. Such trausportation may also be permitted by any authorized collector or surveyor out of the district for which the local special agent is appointed, upon his certificate and recommendation, granted upon the same application and affi- davit as above required. 44 TRADE REGULATIONS. CONDITIONS UPON WHICH PARTIES IN SUPPLY DISTRICTS MAY OBTAIN SUPPLIES. XVII. Persons or families residing without the lines of the trade district, but within the lines of a supply district, may procure supplies on the certificate of the nearest local special agent that the supplies specified therein are necessary for the use and consumption of such person or family for a period of time not exceeding the month ensuing. All applications for such certificate must be made personally to the proper local special agent by such person, or a member of such family, or other person authorized by tlie head of the family ; and the applicant shall make and file with him an affidavit that the supplies applied for are necessary for the use and consumption of the person or family for the time specified, not exceeding one month next ensuing ; that no part thereof will be sold or otherwise disposed of by him or her, or by his or her assent, except for the use of such person or family, and that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief no application has been made for the same or like supplies to any other officer or agent, and that no supplies for the period mentioned have been or are expected to be otherwise obtained ; and no person shall be recognized as representing more than six families. The certificate so obtained must be presented to the nearest collector or surveyor, who, upon being satisfied that it has been properly granted, will issue a permit to the holder for the transportation of the articles specified therein ; but in cases where tne supplies are purchased at a trade store, and there is no authorized collector or surveyor within five miles thereof, the local special agent nearest to such trade store may grant such permit, retaining the certificate and delivering the permit to the applicant. Ex- cept in cases mentioned in this regulation and regulation XVI, no permit will be granted by any local special agent. WHEN TRADE STORE MAY BE AUTHORIZED IN SUPPLY DISTRICT. XVIII. Upon the request of the general commanding department, the proper supervising special agent may authorize the establishment of one or more trade stores in any city or town of a supply district, under the same regulations as trade stores are established in trade districts, and subject to military orders ; but the authority to establish any such store may be revoked, and the store discon- tinued by the supervising special agent, whenever the public interest may require it. WHEN PRODUCTS MAY BE BROUGHT TO MARKET, AND ON WHAT CONDITIONS SUPPLIES MAY BE TAKEN HOME. XIX. After any trade or supply district shall have been established, loyal and well-disposed persons residing therein may bring their products to market, unless prohibited by regulation, rule, or military order, and may be permitted by the proper collector or surveyor, on payment of prescribed fees, to sell the same for money other than gold or silver, and to take back to their respective homes so much of the proceeds of products so sold in individual, family, or plan- tation supplies, as shall be certified by the local special agent nearest to the residence of such person to be necessary for the use or consumption of the indi- vidual, fiimily, or plantation, for a period not exceeding two months next ensuing, if residing within the limits of a trade district, or one month if within the limits of a supply district ; and any attempt to take back more than the quantity so cer- tified will debar the party all further privilege to bring products to market or to trade. PRODUCTS MAY BE PURCHASED UNDER PRESCRIBED CONDITIONS. XX. All proper and loyal persons may apply in the prescribed form to the proper supervising special agent, or an assistant special agent designated by him. TRADE REGULATIONS. 45 for authority to purchase, for money other than gold or silver, or to bring out, if raised or already purchased by applicant, any of the products of the country within the lines of national military occupation in his agency, except when pro- hibited by order of the general commanding department or other special military order, and to transport the same to market ; and, on making and filing with such agent an affidavit, in the prescribed form, and executing a bond with penalty and sureties to be approved by said agent, and conditioned that he will pay or secure all fees required by regulations, that he will not purchase products at any place other than that named in the authority, or engage directly or indirectly in prohibited trade, and that no military, naval, or civil officer or person prohibited by law or by order of the President, or of military or naval commanders having proper authority, from being interested in the property purchased by him, shall be so interested therein, the supervising special agent, or assistant special agent designated by him, if he deems it expedient, may authorize the proper officer to permit, on payment or security of the prescribed fees, the purchase and trans- portation of products as applied for, except articles prohibited. Upon presen- tation of such authority to any officer named in regulation VI, he may issue a permit for the purchase, transportation, and sale of products specified, in pursu- ance of the terras of the authority ; but before delivering it, he will require the prescribed fees to be paid, or a bond therefor to be executed to the United States, with penalty and sureties approved by him, conditioned that the fees for each shijiment made under the permit shall be paid to him or some other proper officer at the time or within ten days after such shipment shall be made ; and that immediately after the making of any shipment by land or water under the permit, notice of such shipment shall be forthwith given to the officer issuing the permit, which notice shall specify the date and place of shipment, and contain or be accompanied by a description of the property and the marks thereon, and a statement of its destination and the route thereto ; and that upon its arrival at any port where there is an officer of customs, a similar report shall be forthwith made to him. If any person obtaining a permit, and paying the fees therefor, shall purchase or transport no merchandise under the same or a less quantity than is permitted, the fees paid, or the proper proportion thereof, shall be refunded on application and due showing to the proper supervising special agent. Any neglect on the part of the person permitted to purchase and transport, or of any one acting for him, to comply with regulations and local rules, or with the conditions of the bond to the permit officer, shall work immediate forfeiture of all rights under the authority or permit, and any property purchased or trans- ported under the same after such neglect shall be forfeited to the United States. CONDITIO.\S UPON WHICH PERMITS TO PURCHASE PRODUCTS MAY BE ISSUED. XXII. Every permit to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in insurrection, after commercial intercourse therewith shall have been permitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and every permit to transport the same thereto, therein, or therefrom, shall clearly define the character and quantity of the merchandise so permitted to be sold, purchased, or transported, and the place or section within which the same may be purchased or sold, and to and from which the same may be trans- ported ; and each person shall, before receiving such permit, make affidavit that he is in all respects loyal and true to the government of the United States ; that he will faithfully conform to the proclamations and orders of the President of the United States, and of the military governors and generals exercising authority under him, and to departmental regulations authorized by law ; and that he will at all times, by his conduct and conversation, and by every other means he can properly use, aid in suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. 4Q TRADE REGULATIONS. TRANSPORTATION OF, OR PAYMENTS IN COIN OR BULLION STRICTLY PROHIBITED. XXIT. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section heretofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military pur- poses, and under military orders, or under the special license of the President. And no payment of gold or silver or foreign bills of exchange shall be made for cotton or other merchandise within any such State or section. All cotton or other merchandise purchased in any such State or section, to be paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or silver, or foreign bills of exchange, shall be for- feited to the United States. LIMITATION AND REVOCATION OF AUTHORITIES, CERTIFICATES, AND PERMITS. XXIII. Authorities to purchase products, unless renewed, and all certificates of local special agents recommending permits for transportation, shall expire thirty days after date. Permits for transportation shall expire ten days after date ; and all authorities, certificates, and permits, will be liable to revocation by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the proper supervising special agent, as the public interests may require. sutlers' PERMITS, HOW OBTAINED AND UPON WHAT CONDITIONS. XXIV. Permits will be granted to sutlers' to transport to the regiments sut- lered by them such articles as they are authorized to sell, free of the five per cent, fee ; but no permit will be granted to a sutler except on presentation to the proper permit officer of the original certificate of his appointment from the com- manding officer of his regimeiiL, countersigned by the division commander thereof, and an application and affidavit in the form prescribed. Transportation shall not be permitted to any sutler for an amount of goods exceeding $2,500 per month ; nor for over two months' supply at one time ; nor for any goods except such as he is by law and War Department orders allowed to deal in. SUPPLIES MOVING UNDER MILITARY ORDERS OR UNDER CONTRACT. XXV. Supplies and other property belonging to the United States for the use of the army or navy, moving under military or naval orders, are excepted from the operation of these regulations. Supplies for the army or navy, fur- nished under contract, will be permitted free of charge, upon the certificate of the proper military or naval officer that such supplies are required and are to be shipped in fulfilment of an actual existing contract with the government. RESTRICTED DISTRK^rS, NOT DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, TO WHICH GOODS MUST BE PERMITTED. XXVI. In order to prevent, under the pretence of legitimate trade, the con- veyance of supplies which there is reason to believe are ultimately intended for persons in rebellion against the government, or for places under the control of insurgents, and to prevent undue accumulation of goods at points in dangerous proximity to districts under control of insurgents, transportation of any goods, wares, or merchandise, without the permit of a duly authorized officer of this department, is prohibited to any place on the south side of the Potomac river, or to any place on the north side of the Potomac and south of the Washington and Anna})olis railroad, or on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or on the south side of the Ohio river bodow Wheeling, except Louisville ; or on the west side of the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, except St. Louis. CONDITIONS UPON WHICH GOODS TO RESTRICTED DISTRICTS MAY BE PERMITTED* XXVII. Permits for shipment of goods into districts or places with which commercial intercourse is restricted, but which have not been declared to be in TRADE REGULATIONS. 47 insurrection, may be granted by collectors or surv^eyors of customs, or other specially authorized officers of the department located near the point of destina- tion, in confortniiy with regulations and local rules ; and collectors or surveyors at any other port or place, when applied to by parties wishing to make ship- ments into such districts or places, if satisfied of the loyalty of such parties and the good faith of the proposed transaction, may furnish certificates to that effect, which will be received as sufficient evidi'nce on those points by the collector, surveyor, or other proper officer near the point of destination, to whom applica- tion for permits will be made by the shipper, and by whom, on compliance with regulations and local rules, such permits will be granted ; and all questions of detention or seizure of goods en route to points above indicated will be decided by the collector or surveyor at the last port to be passed before entering a restricted district. Any information touching the character of any goods or transaction in the possession of any officer of this department likely to be useful in such decisions should be promptly forwarded to the officer on whom rests the decision or who grants the permits, and also to the Secretary. NO VESSEL OR OTHER VEHICLE SHALL CARRY GOODS L\TO, OR PUT OFF GOODS IN, RESTRICTED DISTRICTS WITHOUT PERMIT. XXVIII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation from any place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise into any place, section, or State not declared in insurrection, but with which commercial inter- course has been or may be restricted, without the permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Department, application for which permit may be made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the conven- ience of the shipper. Nor shall any vessel, boat, or other craft, or vehicle used for transportation, put off any goods, wares, or merchandise, at any place other than that named in the permit or clearance as the place of destiaatioa of such goods, wares, and merchandise. BOATS ON AVESTERN WATERS MUST PRESENT MANIFEST AND CLEARANCE. XXIX. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or sec- tion, commercial intercourse with which now is, or may hereafter be, restricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of cus- toms, there shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo, and a clear- ance obtained to proceed on its voyage; and when freights are received on board at a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter provided in regu- lation XXX, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an officer, if required by him, and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cargo exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there is such an officer, if required by him ; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Immediately on arriving at the port of final destination, aud before discharging any part of the cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be dis- charged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post whenever such officer may require it. AGENCY AIDS WILL BE APPOINTED ON CARS AND BOATS. XXX. To facilitate trade, and to guard against improper transportation, agency aids will be appointed by the proper supervising special agent, or under 48 TRADE REGULATIONS. • his direction by an assistant special agent, from time to time, on cars, vessels, and boats wben desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will have free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed, and will allow proper way freights to be taken on board Avithout per- mit, keeping a statement thereof, and reporting the same to the iirst officer to be passed oti the trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper under his direction. No permit will be granted for transportation into or within any State or district under restriction, or declared in insurrection, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids, or by private conveyance specified in the permit, or on boats, vessels, or cars bonded not to receive anything on board for transportation during the trip, nor to land or discharge anything at any point except that of ultimate destination without proper permis. CONDITIONS 0\ WHICH CLEARANCES AND PERMITS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM PORT NOT BLOCKADED TO PORT OPENED BY PROCLAMATION. XXXI. Boats and vessels may be cleared and merchandise not prohibited may be permitted, from any port which has not been blockaded to any port which has been blockaded but opened by proclamation, upon payment of such fees only as were chargeable therefor before the blockade was declared, but subject to regulations XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL, and upon giving bond not to land or discharge any of such merchandise at any in- termediate point, except under permit authorized by these regulations. But no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be shipped or transported from or out of siich opened port, except under permits granted upon compliance with regulations and local rules, and payment of the fees prescribed in regulation XLII. APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO BLOCKADED PORTS, HOW MADE. XXXII. Applicants for permits to ship to any port or place affected by the existing blockade, but occupied by United States forces, must present, with their application, a certificate from the Department of War, or D>^partment of the Navy, either dire'ctly or through a duly authorized officer, that the articles are required for military or naval purposes, and a request that the transportation of the same may be permitted, together with invoices in duplicate of the articles to be permitted, specifying their character, quantity, value, and destination. On receiving such certificate and request and duplicate invoices the Secretary of the Treasury, or some officer specially authorized by him, will transmit to the pro- per officer one of the invoices, and direct the permitting of the transportation requested, and forward the other invoice to the assistant or local special agent at the ])ort or place to which the goods are to be permitted. The assistant or local special agent will, in all cases, on the arrival of any articles claimed to have been permitted, examine and compare such articles with the duplicate in- voice ; and in case of any excess or evasion of the permit, he will seize the whole shipment, and report the facts forthwith to the supervising special agent, that uroceedings may be taken for their forfeiture under the act of July 13, 1861, May'20, 1862, and March 12, 1863. , LICENSES MAY BE GRANTED BY CONSULS TO BLOCKADED PORTS REOPENED. XXXIII. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the proc- lamation of the President, license will be granted by the United States consuls, on application b}' the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign ports to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so licensed will con- vey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from said ports, which license shall be shown to the collector of the port to which the vessel is bound, and if required to auy officer in charge of the blockade. And TRADE REGULATIONS, 49 oil leaving any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the col- lectoi-, according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering the United States for any purpose during the war. CLEARANCES FROM DOMESTIC PORTS MAY BE GRANTED. XXXIV. Vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so opened will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual manner, for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore established. BONDS MAY BE REQl'IRED IN CKRTAIN CASES. XXXV. Whenever application is made to a collector, or surveyor authorized to grant it, for a perjnit, license, or clearance, for either a foreign or domestic port, if for satisfactory reasons he shall deem it necessary to prevent the cargo of the vessel from being used in affording aid or comfort to any person or par- ties in insurrection against the authority of the United States, he shall require a bond to be executed by the master or owner of the vessel, in a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfaction of such collector or surveyor, conditioned that the said cargo shall be delivered at the destination for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall be used in affording aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the au- thority of the United States, with the knowledge or consent or connivance of the owner or shipper thereof, or with the knowledge, consent, or connivance of the master of the vessel on which the same may be laden, or of other persons having control of the same, until after delivery to the proper consignee, and the sale or other disposition, by him in good faith, of said cargo. CLEARANCES MAY BE REFUSED IN CERTAIN CASES. — VESSELS MAY BE SEIZED. XXXVI. Collectors and surveyors will refuse clearances and permits to all vessels, or other vehicles, whether with or without cargo, destined for a foreign or domestic port, whenever they shall have satisfactory reason to believe that such vessels or their cargoes, or any part thereof, whatever may be their osten- sible destination, are intended for ports or places in possession or under control of insurgents against the United States. And if any vessel or other vehicle for which a clearance or permit shall have been refused as aforesaid shall depart, or attempt to depart, for a foreign or domestic port, without being duly cleared or permitted, such collector, or surveyor, or the supervising special agent, or assistant special agent, shall cause such vessel or vehicle to be seized and de- tained, and proceedings to be instituted for the forfeiture to the United States of such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo. MERCHANDISE, IN WHATEVER LOCALITY, LIABLE TO REACH INSURGENTS OWNER TO GIVE BOND. XXXVII. When any collector, surveyor, supervising, assistant, or local special agent, charged with the execution of these regulations, and the laws au- thorizing them, shall find within his proper limits any goods, wares, or merchan- dise which, in his opinion, founded on satisfactory evidence in writing, are in danger of being transported to insurgents, he may require the owner or holder thereof to give reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any place under insurrectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents. T B 4 50 - TRADE EEGULATIONS. IF NO SECURITY GIVEN, GOODS TO BE TAKEN POSSESSION OF. If the required security be not given, such officer sliall promptly state the facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such goods ai"e situated ; or if there be no United States marshal, then to the commander of a near military post, whose duty it shall be to take possession thereof, and hold them for safe keeping, reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting instructions. PROHIBITED ARTICLES. XXXVIII. No clearance or permit will be granted for the shipment of pro- hibited articles, viz : cannon, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, grenades, pow- der, saltpetre, sulphur, balls, bullets, pikes, swords, boarding-caps, (always ex- cepting the quantity of the said articles which may be necessary for the defence of the ship and of those who compose the crew,) saddles, bridles, cartridge-bag material, percussion and other caps, clothing adapted for uniforms, sail-cloth of all kinds, hemp and cordage, intoxicating drinks, other than beer and light na- tive wines, or other articles prohibited by the proper authorities, except upon certificate and request under regulation XXXII, or by the special direction of the supervising special agent sanctioned by the general commanding department or district into or from which the shipment is to be made. VESSELS 10 REPORT TO GUNBOATS OR REVENUE CUTTERS. XXXIX. Every vessel, on approaching a gunboat or revenue cutter, or ves- sel appearing to be such, before proceeding further, shall bear up and speak said boat or cutter, and submit to such examination as may be required. VIOLATIONS OF THESE REGULATIONS, HOW PUNISHED. XL. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation, violating regulations or local rules, and all cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise shipped or transported or purchased or sold in violation thereof, will be forfeited to the United States. If any false statement be made or deception practiced in obtain- ing an authority, certificate, or permit under these regulations, such authority, certificate, or permit, and all others connected therewith or afiected thereby, will be absolutely void, and all merchandise purchased or shipped under them shall be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of forfeiture, as aforesaid, imme- diate seizure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly for condemna- tion. The attention of all officers of the government, common-carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, conductors, agents, drivers, and other persons con- nected Avith the transportation of merchandise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 13, 1S61, May 20, 1SG2, and March 12, 1SG3, and to the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy hereto appended. PACKAGES TO OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS, HOW SENT. XLI. In cases where military or naval commanders shall have ordered all packages sent by friends to the officers and soldiers of their command to be de- livered only to designated regimental or vessel officers for delivery to the proper parties, such packages may be transported, without collector's or surveyor's permits, by the Adams Express Company, or other carriers having authority for that purpose from the Secretary of the Treasury, on such carriers giving bond conditioned to render a true account of all such packages by them trans- ported, and to carry no goods without ])roper permits, other than such packages. XLII. The following fees are prescribed : Fee for administering oath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. Fee for each authority from agent 3 dollars. Fee for certificate of local special agent 10 cents. TRADE REGULATIONS. 51 Fee for each permit for purposes of trade 20 cents. Fee for each permit to purchase cotton in any insurrectionary dis- trict, and to transport the same to any loyal State, per pound . 4 cents. Fee for permit so to purchase and transport tobacco, per hhd ... 2 dollars. Fee for permit so to purchase or sell and transport to or from such district other products, goods, wares or merchandise, five* per centum on the sworn invoice value thereof at the place of ship- ment. Fee for each permit for individual, family, or plantation supplies, on every purchase over $20 and not over $50 5 cents. Ditto on every purchase over $50 and not over $100 10 cents. Ditto on every purchase over $100 ... 15 cents. For permits for individual, family, or plantation supplies, not over twenty dollars in amount, no charge is allowed, except for reve- nue stamps on affidavits and certificates in districts under re- striction ; and no charge, except five cents for permit and five cents for each revenue stamp on affidavit and certificate, is al- lowed in States declared in insurrection. When purchases are less than five dollars the permit officer may dispense with affida- vits and certificates when no ground to suspect fraud or imposition appears. INTERNAL HEVENUE STAMPS TO BE ATTACHED. XLIII. Internal revenue stamps are required by law to be attached to affi- davits, certificates and bonds, but not to any other instruments or writings provided for by these regulations. Stamps will be furnished by the proper special agents at the rates fixed by the internal revenue act, namely : For affidavits 5 cents. For certificates of local special agents or collectors and surveyors ... 5 cents. For bonds .... " 25 cents. OFFICERS TO KEEP RECORD OF PERMITS AND FEES RECEIVED, AND MAKE REPORTS. XLIV. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to grant permits under these regulations shall keep in his office a recoi'd of every permit granted by him, showing the names of the owner, shipper and consignee, the place from and to which each transportation is permitted, the character and in- voice value of the merchandise permitted, and shall transmit to the Secretary, and also to the proper supervising special agent, as near as possible on the first day of every month, a transcript of such record ; and will also at the same time transmit to the supervising special agent an abstract statement showing the per- mits granted daily to parts of States not declared in insurrection but in which trade is restricted, and also showing the permits granted daily to States declared in insurrection, with the invoice value of the merchandise permitted, the fees received and the disposition made of the same, together with the names of all agency aids reporting to him, and the compensation paid to each. SUPERVISING, ASSISTANT AND LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS TO PAY OVER MONEY AS RECEIVED. XLV. All money received by each assistant or local special agent shall be paid over as promptly as possible to ihe supervising special agent, or to an assistant treasurer or designated depository as directed by him, and so that all receipts during each month shall be paid over before the making of his required * Changed to three by letter of March 21, 1864. See page — . 52 . TRADE REGULATIONS monthly report ; and all money received by each supervising special agent or collector, surveyor, or other officer authorized to grant permits under these reg- ulations, shall be promptly paid over to the assistant treasurer or designated de- pository most convenient to him, and so that all receipts for each month shall be so paid over before the making of his monthly report. OFFICERS authorizp:d to receive ]\io\ey to report o.\ first of each M0.\TH. XLVI. Every officer authorized to receive money under these regulations shall transmit to the Secretary on the first of each month a report, stating in detail all moneys so received by him during the preceding month, and from what sources received, together with all expenses of his office incidental to the execution of these regulations; and if any money has been paid out or otherwise disposed of by him during the month, an account thei'eof, and by what author- ity, to whom, or for what purpose it was so paid or disposed of, with the vouch- ers therefor, A duplicate of this report and account shall at the same time be transmitted to the supervising special agent for the agency in which it shall be made, and a triplicate to the Commissioner of Customs. assistant special AGENTS SHALL KEEP RECORD, ETC. XLVII. Assistant special agents shall keep a record of all their official transactions, showing specifically and in detail every authority given to traders, (regulation XIV,) every authority for the purchase of products, (XX,) every inspection of trade store and the results thereof, (XV,) all appointments of agency- aids on cars, vessels and boats, and the compensation of each, (XXX,) all seizures in cases of excess or evasion of permits to blockaded ports, (XXXII,) all seizures or detentions of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to de- part, when clearance has been refused, (XXXVI,) all cases of security required when goods found in danger of being transported to insurgents, and if security not given, the action taken by them, (XXXVII,) all fees received for affidavits, authorities to traders, and for the purchase of products, and from whom, and for what received, (XIV, XX, XLII.) And they shall, ou the first day of every month, transmit to the proper supervising special agent a transcript of such record, and all bonds or securities received bv them under these regulations, (XIV, XX, XXXVII.) LOCAL special AGENTS SHALL KEEP A RECORD, ETC. XLVIII. Local special agents shall keep a record of every authority to trade or to purchase products presented by the holder thereof, and of all certificates given to traders, or for permits to purchase and transport products, (Reg. XIV;) of all permits for purchase and transportation of supplies from trade store, and certificates to buy supplies elsewhere than in trade district, (XVI;) of all permits granted Avliere there is no collector or surveyor within five miles of trade store, (XVII ;) of all certificates to persons bringing products to market and taking back sup- plies, (XIX ;) of all excess or evasion of permits in shipments to blockaded ports, and' their action thereon, (XXXII;) of all cases of bonds required of owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and their action where bond not given, (XXXVII ;) of all permits under regulations XVI and XVII, showing all that is required by those regulations and of all fees required for certificates, aflidavits, and permits, (XII, XVI, XVII, XIX, XLII.) And they will also, as nearly as possible on the first day of every month, transmit to the [)roper supervising special agent a transcript of such record, and will de- liver to such agent all bonds or securities received by them under these regula- tions, (XXXVII.) TRADE EEGULATIONS. 53 SUI'ERVISh\G SPECIAL AGENTS SHALL KEEP KECOPiD, ETC. XLIX. Supervising special agents shall keep a record of all their official transactions, showing fully the name and location of each local special agent and agency aid appointed by them, and the compensation of each, (Reg. IV;) of conferences with generals commanding departments and designations of trade and supply districts, (IX, X;) of all authorities given for trade stores, stating the date, name of trader, locality, and amount of goods authorized, (XIV;) of the inspection of trade stores and the results, (XV ;) of all trade stores author- ized in any city or town of a supply district, the date, name of trader, and amount of goods authorized, and of the discontinuance of any such store, (XVIII;) of all authorities given for the purchase of products, to whom given, and the locality where purchases are to be made, (XX ;) of all revocations of authorities, certifi- cates, and permits, (XXIII ;) of all information touching any goods or transac- tions given to other officers of the department, (XXVII ;) of all appointments of agency aids upon cars, vessels, and boats, (XXX ;) of all seizures and deten- tions of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, after clearance has been refused, (XXXVI;) of all secimties required and received of owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and of their action if security was not given, (XXXVII.) And on the first day of every month, as nearly as possible, they shall transmit to this department a transcript of such record for the previous month, together with a copy of the transcripts of records and a statement of all bonds and securities received by them from assist- ant and local special agents. EEGULATlOiNS SHALL SUPERSEDE ALL OTHERS. L. These regulations shall supersede those of March 31, 1863, and all others conflicting herewith, affecting commercial intercourse with States declared in insurrection ; and all permits hereafter granted by any officer of the Treasury Department will be granted in pursuance of them and of the local rules author- ized by them, or by virtue of authority hereafter given by the Secretary of the Treasury ; but all permits granted and acts done in pursuance of former regula- tions shall be valid and effectual until the 15th day of October, 1S63, unless the regulations shall have been sooner received and made known at the place of such permits or acts. REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR THE GOVERN- MENT OF THE SEVERAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS APPOINTED IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF 1-2TH MARCH, 1863, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUDS IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES." TERRITOEY DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS CALLED SPECIAL AGENCIES. I. The teiritoiy of the United States designated as in insurrection against the lawful government of the United States by the proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862, to which special agents have been assigned to receive and collect abandoned and captured property, is divided into districts called special agencies, numerically designated and described as follows, viz : The first special agency comprises the district of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains, known as the valley of the Mississippi, and extending southward so as to include so much of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Ar- kansas, and Louisiana, as is or may be occupied by national forces operating from the north. The second special agency comprises the State of Virginia, and so much of "West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany mountains. The third special agency comprises the State of North Carolina. The fourth special agency comprises the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The fifth special agency comprises the States of Texas and Louisiana, and so much of the States of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi as is or may be within the lines of the national forces operating from the south. If additional special agencies shall be established they will be numerically designated in the order of their establishment. And if the boundaries of agen- cies already established shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. DESIGNATION OF AGENTS. II. Supervising special agents and assistant special agents will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and local special agents and agency aids will be appointed by supervising special agents, or under their direction by assistant special agents, subject to the approval of the Secretary, to carry into effect the said act and these regulations. AGENTS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO COLLECT AND RECEIVE ALL ABAN- DONED PROPERTY. III. Supervising and assistant special agents are authorized and directed to receive and collect all abandoned and captured property found Avithin their re- spective agencies and within the lines of military occupation by the United States forces, except such as has been used or was intended to be used for waging or carrying on war against the United States, viz : arms, ordnance, ships, steam- boats, or other water craft and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and munitions of war. ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. IV. Abandoned property is of two descriptions : First, that which has been or may be deserted by the owners; and second, that which has been or may be REGULATIONS. 55 voluutarilj abandoned by the owners to the civil or military authorities of the United States. Captured property is that which has been or may be seized or taken from hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United States. SPECIAL AGENTS WILL COLLECT AND RECEIVE PROPERTY, AND MAKE AND KEEP A TRUE RECORD AND ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES. V. Supervising and assistant special agents will exercise due diligence in re- ceiving and collecting, within the agency to which they have been respectively assigned, all abandoned and captured property, and u^Don taking possession of any such property will immediately make and keep a full and correct record of all the facts or information in regard to each case or lot known or accessible to them, including, as nearly as possible, the following : the character and quantity of the property received or collected ; where captured, or found or received as abandoned; under what circumstances ; by whom owned or alleged to be owned; noting, where practicable, the name and address of one or more truthful residents of the neighborhood acquainted with the pi'operty and the owner or claimant thereof, and any statements they may make in connection therewith ; by whom such property was captured or abandoned ; by whom received or collected ; from whom received ; all names, marks, signs, or devices, (whether distinct, indistinct, or partially erased,) upon such property ; together with all other information which may in any way serve to identify or make known the history of any par- ticular lot, or to trace the same, or the proceeds thereof, from the earliest period possible to its final disposition. They will also charge against each lot and keep a true and detailed account in triplicate of each item of expense incurred in its collection, transportation, care, and sale ; or where two or more lots are treated together, a fair and just proportion against each, as well as all fees due in any way to the government thereon. One copy of this record will be promptly transmitted to the supervising special agent, to whom or to whose order the property so received and collected will be delivered, another to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the third will be re- tained by the assistant special agent? for their files. AGENTS Wn,L RECEIVE VOLUNTARILY ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND GIVE RE- CEIPTS AND TAKE STIPULATIONS. VI. Supervising and assistant special agents will receive within their respec- tive agencies any property from persons who offer voluntarily to abandon the same, and shall give a receipt therefor to the person so abandoning it, or to his or her agent, in the following form : Received of , of the county of , in the State of estimated at $ , claimed by , as the owner thereof, and numbered as follows : ; which, as special agent of the Treasury Department, at the request of I have receivedas abandoned property, to be forwarded to , and disposed of in accordance with the act of Congress approved March 1-2, 18G3. And siiall make three copies of said receipt, of which he shall send one to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to the supervising special agent, and keep one for his files ; and in all cases of so receiving voluntarily abandoned property, 56 REGULATIONS. the agent sliall require from the owner or person so abandoning it a statement and stipulation in triplicate, in the following form : , special agent of the Treasury Department, has this day received from me as abandoned property marked and numbered as follows : which the said , has received at my request, to be transported to the special agent of the government in the city of , appointed to receive and dispose of such property, subject to the deductions prescribed by the act approved March 12, 1>'6"2, and the fees designated by the XIV regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, September 11, 1863. And I hereby acquit and discharge the said , and all other officers of the government, from all personal liability on account of the said property, except such as may result from an unfaithful discharge of their duties in transporting or dis- posing of it. And in case of any loss or damage to the said property in its transportation or otherwise, neither the government of the United States nor any of its agents shall be held responsible therefor. A record of all property so received and of the expenses incurred in con- nexion therewith shall be made, and copies transmitted, and the property shall be disposed of in the nmnner prescribed in regulation Y. AGENTS TO COLLECT A\D RECEIVE FROM OFFICERS AND PRIVATES, SAILORS OR MARINES, ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND GIVE RECEIPT. VII. Supervising and assistant special agents will receive and collect aban- doned property from any officer or private of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the United States, upon the inland waters of the United States, who may take or receive any such abandoned property, from persons in such insurrectionary dis- tricts, or have it under their control and such supervising or assistant special agent will, in all such cases, give a receipt therefor in the following form : Keceived of estimated at $ . taken or received and held by him as abandoned property in such insurrectionary district, and claimed to be the property of and turned over to me by said. which property I have received as agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in pursuance of certain acts of Congress, approved July 13, 1861, May, 20, 1862, and March 12, 1863. The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on him by said acts. Three copies of said receipt shall be made, one of which shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to the supervising special agent, and one shall be retained by the agent giving the receipt ; and a record of the property so collected and received shall be made, and copies transmitted, and the property disposed of, as directed in regulation V. CAPTURED PROPERTY 1\ HANDS OF OFFICERS OR OTHERS TO BE TURNED OVER AND RECEIPT GIVEN. VIII. Supervising and assistant special agents will collect and receive of any officer or private, or person employed in or with the regular or volunteer forces REGULATIONS. 57 of the United State?, any property held by him which shall have been captured in any district declared to be in insurrection against the United States, except such as shall be required for military use of the United States forces ; and all property so held by them shall be received by the agent as captured property, leaving all questions concerning the class to which it belongs for after consider- ation ; and they shall also receive with such property the necessary invoices thereof, and all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, documents, and vouchers showing title to such property or the right to the possession, control, or direction thereof, and such order, indorsement, or writing as the party has power to make, to enable such agent to take possession of such property or the proceeds thereof. And he will give to the officer, private, or person from whom any property is so received, a receipt in the form following : Eeceived of estimated at $ - captured by the forces of the United States, and claimed to be the property of. which property I have received as special agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in pursuance of certain acts of Congress, approved July 13, 1861, May 20, 1862, and March 12, 1863. The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations of the Sec- retary of the Treasury, prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on him by said acts. And a record of the property so collected and received shall be made and copies transmitted, and the property disposed of as directed in regulation V. PROPKRTY REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC USE TO BE APPRAISED AND DELIVERED OVER. IX. When any part of the goods or property received or collected by any supervising or assistant special agent is demanded for public use, and a requisi- tion therefor is presented, signed by the general commanding department, or by some other officer authorized by such commander of department, the special agent having such property in charge shall select three competent and disinter- ested persons, to be approved by such officer, who shall make oath for the faith- ful dischai-ge of their duties, and who shall appraise said goods or property, and make a certificate thereof in the following form : The undersigned having been appointed by , supervising or assistant special agent, to appraise certain property alleged to have been collected or received as abandoned or captured by , supervising special agent or assistant special agent of the Treasury Department, having each of us made oath for the faithful discharge of our duty as such appraisers, do certify that we have carefully examined and appraised the following described property, to wit: and that said property is worth ■Appraisers. f Which certificate shall be certified by the special agent and by the officer re- ceiving said property ; and the goods or property so appraised shall be delivered over to the officer appointed to receive it ; and the special agent shall in all such cases require from the officer or agent receiving said goods or property a receipt in the foUowino; form : Received of. alleged to have been collected or received by him as abandoned or captured, and which has been this day appraised by appraisers appointed with my approval, to be worth dollars, which property has 58 REGULATIONS. been delivered to nic by said agent to be appropriated to tbe public use, as provided in the second section of the act of Congress, approved March 1'2, 18G3, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States. And ho shall keep a record of all expenses incurred on account of said prop- erty ; and if he be an assistant special agent, he shall promptly transmit a full report of such appraisal proceedings and copies of all papers in the case, as pre- scribed and directed in regulation V. DISPOSITION OF PERISHABLE PROPERTY AMD SUCH AS CAMNOT BE TRANSPORTED. Ji. In all cases where pi-operty of a perishable nature, whether captured or abandoned, shall be collected or received by the proper agents of this depart- ment, and its immediate sale is recjuired by the interest of all concerned, such agent shall, where practicable, forward it without delay to the nearest place des- ignated by the Secretary or by regulation as a place of sale within a loyal State, consigned to the proper officer of this department, who shall forthwith cause it to be sold at auction to the highest bidder ; all such shipments to be accompa- nied by a stateinent as required by regulation V. If, from the character of the property, it should be impracticable so to trans- port it, the agent shall cause the same to be appraised by three disinterested persons, and to be sold at public auction, and promptly transmit a full report, as prescribed by regulation V, together with the certificate of appraisal, taken in triplicate, and the account of sales, and hold the proceeds subject so the direc- tion of the supervising special agent for that agency. HOUSE FURNITURE AND FAMILY EFFECTS. XI. In case of furniture, family pictures, equipage, clothing, or household effects, abandoned or captured, and collected or received by special agents, they will cause the prescribed record thereof to be made and transmitted, and will store such property on the premises where found, whenever it can be done with safety ; otherwise they will cause it to be securely stored and properly marked and numbered, and report the facts to the supervising special agent, and await further directions. If left on the premises they will take a receipt therefor from the agent, or person in possession, and transmit the same with the record. When such property cannot be safely left on the premises or stored with safety and due regard to economy, the special agent in charge shall cause the same to be appraised, disposed of, and reported, as provided in regulation X, as to un trans- portable property. In case such property is in use at hospitals, or for any mili- tary pui-pose, they Avill cause such property to be appraised and treated as prop- erty required for public use, as directed in regulation IX. SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS MAY CONTRACT FOR COLLECTING AND DELIVERY OF PROPERTY BY OTHER PARTIES. XII. When property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence of its location being unknown to the special agents, or from other causes, and parties propose, for compensation, to collect and deliver it into the hands of such agents at points designated by them, supervising special agents may contract, on behalf of the United States, for the collection and delivery to them of such property in their respective agencies, on the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty-five per cent, of the proceeds of the property, which percentage must be full compensation for all expenses, of whatever character, incurred in collecting, preparing, and delivering such property at the points designated. Prior to any such contract being made, the party proposing must submit in writing a statement of the kind and amount of property proposed to bo collected, the locality whence to be obtained, and all the facts and circumstances connected with it, particularly as to its ownership. REGULATIONS. 59 And any contract made in pursuance of this regulation must be in writing, and restricted to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named localities ; or, when circumstances clearly justify it, to the general collection and delivery of all abandoned property in limited districts not greater in any case than one parish or county, and not more than one district to be assigned to one contractor. BOND TO BE GIVEN BV^ CONTRACTOR INDEMNIFYING THE GOVERNMENT, Before payment to any contractor under any contract made in pursuance of this regulation, he shall execute a bond, with penalty equal to the amount stipu- lated to be paid to him, and with sureties satisfactory to the supervising special agent, indemnifying the United States against all claims to the property deliv- ered on account of damages by trespass, or otherwise occasioned by the act or connivance of the contractor, and against all claims that may arise on account of expenses incurred in the collection, preparation, and transportation of said property to the points designated in said contract. WHEN LARGER PERCENTAGE SEEMS TO BE PROPER, AGENT TO REFER THE CASE TO THE SECRETARY. Should a case arise in the opinion of the supervising special agent justifying the payment of a larger percentage than one-quarter of the proceeds of the property, he will make a statement of the facts and circumstances and the reasons in his opinion justifying such additional allowance, and refer the same to the Secretary for instructions. LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS TO BE APPOINTED. And for the purpose of getting possession of and transporting to market as much of tlie captured and abandoned property as possible within the lines of the military forces of the United States, supervising special agents, or assistant special agents under their direction, Avill appoint and employ in their respective agencies, at such per diem compensation as may be judged proper, subject to approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, such local special agents and agency aids as may be necessary therefor, instructing them fully as to the execution of the duties respectively assigned to them. AGENTS NOT TO RELEASE PROPERTY, OR PERMIT ITS REMOVAL, OR GRANT PER- SONAL FAVORS, OR INCUR LIABILITIES NOT AUTHORIZED BY REGULATIONS. XIII. No property collected or received as captured or abandoned under the act of March 12, 1863, shall be released by any agent, except by special au- thority from the Secretary of the Treasury, to any persons claiming ownership of such property; nor shall any permit be given by such agents to individuals to remove such property ; nor shall any liability be incurred or assumed, or contract be made, on the part of the United States by such agents, except as authorized by these regulations. No personal favor shall in any case be extended to one individual or party rather than another. NECESSARY EXPENSES TO BE PAID. XIV. Supervising special agents will pay, or cause to be paid, out of the general fund arising from the sale of all property collected and received in their respective agencies, all expenses necessarily incurred in collecting, receiving, securing, and disposing of the same, including fees, taxes, freights, storage, charges, labor, and other necessary expenses, being careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet expenditures; and will charge each particular lot or parcel with the specific or proportionate amount of all such expenses as can be made specific or proportionate charges to each lot or parcel; and will also charge and retain 60 . EEGULATIONS out of the proceeds of each lot or parcel one and one-half per centum thereof for the payment of such expenses connected with the collection, transportation, and sale, or other disposition thereof, as cannot be made specific or proportionate charges against each lot or parcel, or are not otherwise provided for, such as rents, compensation to clerks, or other employes, auctioneers, printing, and advertising, a carefully stated account of which will be kept by such agents, showing in detail all expenses paid out of this fund arising from such charge ; and, unless unavoidably prevented, they will take vouchers for all expenditures made under this regulation, and transmit the same with their accounts. Of the balance, if any, of said one and one-half per cent, remaining after defraying said expenses the several supervising special agents may retain, as compensation for extra care and responsibility, a snm not exceeding one-half of one per cent., and with the remainder, if any, may reward extra services in collection and care of property rendered by agents and others. PROPERTY TO BE TRANSPORTED TO LOYAL STATES AND SOLD AT AUCTION. XV. All property collected and received, other than such as is described in regulations X and XI, and such as may be appropriated to public use, shall be transported to such places in the loyal States as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, as places of sale, consigned to the supervising special agent of the agency in which it is collected or received, or to such other person as shall be specially authorized by the Secretary to receive the same, and shall there be sold by such supervising special agent, or other person, at public auc- tion, to the highest bidder, for tJnited States notes, pursuant to notice previ- ously published of the time and place of sale. SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO MAKE REPORT. XVI. Each supervising special agent or other person, as aforesaid, shall make a full record of each lot or parcel of property coming to his possession, in the manner prescribed by regulation V, and report the same, and all sales or other disposition thereof, made by him, rendering a monthly account current of all his transactions to the Secretary, accompanying the same with receipts or other vouchers for all moneys paid out by him. All balances remaining in his hands shall be deposited in the Treasury from time to time, as directed by the Sec- retary. War Department, Septemher 11, 1863. The attention of all officers and soldiers of the army of the United States, whether volunteer or regular, is specially directed to the Revised Regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated September 11, 1863, and superseding the regulations of March 31, 1863; and they will in all respects observe General Order of this department numbered eighty-eight, and dated jMarch 31, 1863, in regard to said Revised Regulations, as if the same had been originally framed and promulgated with reference to them. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Navy Department, Septevihcr 11, 1863. The attention of all officers, sailors and marines of the navy of the United States is especially directed to the Revised Regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated September 11, 1863, and super- seding the regulations of March 31, 1863; and they will in all respects observe REGULATIONS. 61 • the order of this department dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said Revised Kegulations, as if the same had been originally promulgated with reference to them. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. Treasury Department, MarcJi 21, 1S64. Sir : The forty-second trade regulation, series of September 11, 1863, is hereby so far modified, that on and after the 1st day of April next the invoice valuation permit fee on shipments to and from insurrectionary districts will be three per cent, instead of five, as therein prescribed. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. H. A. RiSLEY, Esq., Supervising Special Agent, Washington, D. U. RULES Aj^D regulations COXCERNING COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE ^YITH AND IN STATES AND PARTS OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, THE COLLECTION, RE- CEIPT AND DISPOSITION OF CAPTURED, ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY, AND THE EMPLOYMENT AND GENERAL WELFARE OF FREED- MEN. PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. ^VITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, IN Pt^RSUANCE OF THE SEVERAL ACTS OF CONGRESS IN RELATION TO THOSE SUBJECTS, AND APPENDED HERETO. Executive Mansion, Washington, July 30, 1864. The following regulations of tlie Secretary of the Treasury, having been seen and considered by me, are hereby apj)roved, and commercial intercourse, in the cases and under the restrictions described and expressed in the regulations, is licensed and authorized ; and all officers and privates of the regular and volun- teer forces of the United States, and officers, sailors and marines in the naval service, will observe the said regiJations and the provisions of the several acts of Congress appended thereto to which they relate, and will render all assistance not incompatible with military or naval operations, to officers and agents of the Treasury Department executing the same. ABRAHAM LIXCOLN. GENERAL REGULATIONS. These regulations, and the several acts of Congress authorizing them, shall be executed and carried into effect, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, by the following officers : A general agent, Supervising special agents, Assistant special agents, Local special agents, Agency aids. Officers of the customs designated by the Secretary, and Superintendents of freedmen. All officers appointed under these regulations are authorized to administer oaths required in the performance of their official duties. The general agent and the supervising and assistant special agents will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; local special agents and agency aids will be appointed by the supervising special agents or assistant special agents, as under regulation XXVII, subject to the approval of the Secretary. It shall be the duty of the general agent, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause these rules and regulations to be properly and uniformly enforced in all States and parts of States declared in insurrection, and all offi- cers and agents appointed to perform duties under them will comply with the instructions of the general agent in regard thereto until otherwise directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. To facilitate the execntion of the annexed regulations, insnrrectionary States and parts of States are hereby divided into districts called special agencies, dis- tinguished numerically, and described as follows: The first special agency comprises that part of the valley of the Mississippi lying west of the Alleghany mountains and east of the mouth of the Tennessee RULES AND REGULATIONS. 63 river, and extending southwardly to include so much of the States of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the north. The second special agency comprises so much of the Mississippi valley as lies west of the mouth of the Tennessee river, including West Tennessee, the State of Arkansas, and so much of the States of Mississippi and Louisiana as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the north. The third special agency comprises so much of the States of Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, Alabama and tlic west part of Florida as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the south. The fourth special agency comprises the State of Texas. The fifth special agency comprises the south and east part of Florida, in- cluding Key West, the State of South Carolina, and so much of the State of Georgia as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the south. The sixth special agency comprises the State of North Carolina, excepting so much thereof as lies north of Albemarle sound and east of Chowan river. The seventh special agency comprises that section of country lying east of the Alleghany mountains, and extending southwardly to include so much of the State of North Carolina as lies north of Albemarle sound and east of Chowan river. Additional special agencies, if established, will be numerically designated in the order of their establishment; and if the boundaries of agencies already es- tablished shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. Supervising special agents Avill supervise within their respective agencies the execution of the regulations, under the direction of the general agent, and will make, and from time to time change, such local rules not inconsistent with them as may be proper for that purpose, and temporarily suspend or qualify the authority to grant permits for supplies, as the public interest shall require, sub- ject to the approval of the general agent or of the Secretaiy of the Treasury; and they will confer with generals commanding departments, or, when such conference is impracticable, with generals commanding divisions or districts, and with naval ofEcers commanding within the agency under their supervision, and obtain, as far as practicable, their sanction to such action as may affect military or naval movements. The assistant and local special agents, agency aids and officers of the customs above referred to will communicate directly with the supervising special agent of the agency to which they may be assigned upon all questions affecting the discharge of their duties under the regulations. The several supervising special agents will reply to these communications, except where they regard thq inter- vention of the department necessary, when they will transmit them, and all papers relating to them, with such recommendations as they may think proper, to the Secretary of the Treasury, and will keep the department advised of their action in all matters pertaining to the execution of their duties. W. P. FESSENDEN, Sccrclary of the Treasury. Washington, July 29, 1864. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. Rules and regulations under the several acts of Congress jiT^ohihiting or restrict- ing commercial intercourse loitli and, in States and jjarts nf States declared to he in insurrection, and in portions of loyal States in dangerous proximity thereto. PERMITS. 1. No goods, wares, or merchandise will be allowed to be transported to, from, or within any State or part of a State under restriction, or declared in in- 64 ^ RULES AND REGULATIONS. sunection, except iiuder permits, certificates, and clearances, as hereinafter pro- vided. PERMIT OFFICERS. II. The officers of the Treasury Department to be authorized under instruc- tions from the Secretary to permit supplies to be transported to loyal persons residing in insurrectionary States or parts of States, or in restricted districts of loyal States with Avhich commercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by the President, under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, are the sur- veyors of customs at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, St. liOuis, Nashville, Memphis, and Baltimore ; the collectors of customs at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Georgetown, Alexandria, Beaufort in North Carolina, Port Royal in South Car- olina, Brownsville, and New Orleans. Other officers will bo designated to grant permits should the public interests require it ; and the officers above named will respectively grant permits to such ports, places or districts only as shall be des- ignated in the letter of instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. INTERCOURSE BEYOND MILITARY LINES PROHIBITED, III. Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of actual military occupation by the United States forces is absolutely prohibited ; and no permit will be granted for the transportation of any property to any place under the control of insurgents against the United States. LINES OF MILITARY OCCUPATION. IV. Each supervising special agent will ascertain from the published order of the general commanding the department or district embracing his agency, the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States, and will confer with the department commander, and agree with him in writing, as to the place or places, within those lines in his agency, to which supplies may be taken for the loyal residents therein, and the aggregate amount which may be taken monthly to each of such places. Having so ascertained and agreed, he Avill promptly communicate the facts to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to the officers authorized to grant permits to the district so occupied. SUPPLY STORES. V. Supply stores at places agreed upon by the commanding general of the department and the proper supervising special agent may be established by such loyal persons as the supervising special agent or assistant special agents shall designate for that purpose. But the monthly amount agreed upon, as aforesaid, shall in no case be exceeded, and the maximum amount that any in- dividual or firm may be permitted to take there for sale shall not exceed $3,000 per month, except in cities with a population over twenty thousand, and except in cases where the commanding general of the district, for military reasons, re- quests it to be larger, in which cases all persons trading there shall be equally affected thereby, and no person shall be interested in more than one store. APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY STORES. VI. Any person desiring to establish a supply store at any place above pro- vided may make application in writing to the proper supervising or assistant special agent, who shall file the application, and record the name of each appli- cant with the date of application, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose; and all favoritism in granting the authorities so applied for shall be prevented, as far as possible, by local rules of the proper supervising special agents. No application made prior to military occupation will be considered. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 65 APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A SUPPLY STORE. ,18. -. To , special agent, agency : Sir : , the undersigned, make application for authority to establish a supply store at .'. , in county of , and State of , under the regula- tions prescribed July 29, 1864, by the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning commercial in- tercourse with and in States declared in insurrection. Respectfully, yours. AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICANT FOR SUPPLY STORE. Each applicant shall make and file with his application an affidavit in the following form : I , of , in the county of , and State of , being duly sworn, on oath or affirmation say, that I am a citizen of the United States, {native-horn or naturalized, as the case may be,) and that I am in all respects true and loyal to the government thereof; that I always have faithfully con- formed, and will at all times faithfully conform, to the proclamations and orders of the President of the United States, and the military governors and generals exercising authority under him, and to departmental regulations authorized by law : and that I have aided, and will at all times aid, by my conversation and conduct, and by every other means I can properly use, in suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. Subscribed and sworn before me this day of , 13 \0 AUTHORITY GRANTED WITHOUT AFFIDAVIT. VII. No authority to sell supplies, at any place in a State or part of State declared in insurrection, shall be given to any person Avho shall not accompany his application with the above affidavit taken before a competent officer. AUTHORITY FOR SUPPLY STORE, VIII. When authority shall be given to any person to establish a supply store at any place as above provided, it shall be in the following form : , of the county of , and State of , having applied to me for authority to establish a Supply Store at , in the county of , and State of , and having made and attached to application the prescribed affidavit, and executed a bond to the United States in a penalty and with sureties approved by me, I hereby authorize the said to establish a SUPPLY Store at , in the county of , and State of , and, under proper ]iermits, to transport to and sell at said store goods, wares, and merchandise, not prohibited, to an amount not exceeding dollars (S ) per month. This authority is given subject to revocation at any time by the supervising special agent of this agency. Dated at , this day of ,18... BOND OF APPLICANT FOR SUPPLY STORE. IX. Before the delivery of the authority above provided for, the applicant shall execute and deliver to the agent a bond to the United States, in a penalty of twice the monthly amount authorized, with sureties to be approved by such agent, which bond shall be in the following form : KNOAV ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, , of , as principal, and , of , and , of , as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America, in the sum of dollars ($ ) to be paid to the United States of America, for which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and T R 5 66 • KULES AND EEGULATlONy. dated tliis day of , in the year ouo thousand eight hundred and ^Yhercas tlie said has applied fur and received authority to es- tabish a Sltply Store at , in the county of , and State of , under the license of the President, and the regula- tions prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, July 29, 1864 — The coNDiTiox of the aijove obligation is such, That if the said shall not transport goods to any place other than such SlPPl.Y Store, «!or engage, directly or inr the emplmjment and general loelfarc of all persons within thelincs of national military occupation loithin insurrectionary States, formerly held as slaves, who are or shall hccome free. AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS. I. The regulations relative to the employment and general welfare of freed- men will be carried into effect by the same agents and under the same super- vision as are provided under the regulations concerning commercial intercourse. FREEDMEN'S HOME COLONIES. II. There shall be established in each special agency one or more places to be known as " Freedmen's Home Colonies," where all freed persons within the agency may be received and provided for in pursuance of these regulations. SUPERINTENDENT OF FREEDMEN HIS DUTIES. III. A superintendent of freedmen will be appointed for each one of these colonies, under the general direction of the proper supervising special agent. Superintendents will make such arrangements as shall be necessary at each colony to provide temporary shelter and cai-e for persons received there, and also such buildings as are proper for the permanent use of those retained there; and will obtain such working animals and other agricultural implements of labor and other supplies as may be necessary and proper for the economical conduct of these establishments. They will also keep books of record in which shall be entered the name, age, condition, former owner, residence and occupation of each person received in these colonies; also the marriages, births and deaths occur- ring therein ; also all departures, and by whom those departing are employed, for what purpose, at what place, and on what terms. CLASSIFICATION OF FREEDMEN AND THEIR WA«iES. IV. All persons of proper age and condition to labor, when received shall be classified by the superintendent as follows : sound persons over 18 and under 40 years of age shall be classed as No. 1 hands; over 14 and under 18, and over 40 and under 55, No. 2 ; over 12 and under 14, and over bb. No. 3. Per- sons suffering from any physical defect or infirmity, but able to work, shall be classed as he considers proper. The minimum rates of wages of No. 1 males shall be $25 per month; No. 2, $20; No. 3, $15. Noa 1, 2, and 3, females, $18, $14, $10. These rates shall not restrict mechanics and others from con- tracting for higher wages if they can do so. EMPLOYMENT TO BE PROVIDED FOR FREEDMEN OF PROPKR AGE. V. Superintendents will see that all persons so received, registered and clas- sified, who are able to labor, are promptly provided with employment by lessees or others desiring their labor, upon the terms specified, and they will permit none over the age of twelve capable of labor to remain in idleness ; and they will, as far as possible, obtain from planters and others the names and other particulars above specified of all freed persons in their employ or within their knowledge in the district within which these colonies ai-e located, a record of 90 FEEEDMEN. which shall be kept by them as above provided, and they will do what they consistently can to see that all such persons are provided with employment at rates equal to those above specified, and that the helpless among them are prop- erly cared for. APPLICATIONS FOK LABORERS TO BE RECEIVED A\D RECORDED. VI. Superintendents will receive and record all applications for the labor of freedmen, that those received may be promptly furnished with employment. Planters and others employing parents will be required to take their children with them, unless the parent prefers to have them remain, in which case super- intendents will see that provision is made to apply sufficient of the wages of the parent to support the children at the colony. WRITTEN AGREEMENTS TO BE MADE BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYES, AND CONDITIONS. VII. Superintendents shall see that written agreements are made between the employer and the employe, by which, in addition to the wages above fixed, the employer shall agree to furnish, without charge, sufficient quarters for the labor- ers, a separate tenement for each family, with proper regard for sanitary condi- tions, one acre of ground for garden purposes to each family, fuel, medical attendance, and schools for children ; also, that laborers shall be paid for full time unless they are sick or voluntarily neglect to work ; that one-half their monthly wages shall be paid to the laborer during each month, and the other half at the end of the term of employment ; that, in case the laborer violates his contract by voluntary absence or continued neglect to work, the half wages due to him shall be forfeited, one-half to the employer, and one-half to the govern- ment to aid ill supporting the helpless ; that any wages due to the laborers, under the agreement, shall be a first lien upon all crops produced, and that no shipment of products shall be made until the superintendent shall certify that all dues to laborers are paid or satisfactorily arranged; that no labor in excess of ten hours per day shall be required, but if more shall be performed at the request of the employer, extra payment shall be made therefor ; that the employ- ers shall keep on hand and sell to their employes, at actual cost on the planta- tion, a sufficient supply of wholesome food and proper clothing for themselves and their families. INTEREST IN PROFITS OF LABOR MAY BE GIVEM INSTEAD OF WAGES. VIII. In case any person employing freedmen to labor on plantations shall wish to give an interest in the profits of their labor instead of the wages above fixed, and the laborers desire to accept the same, an agreement in writing may be made accordingly, subject to the approval of the proper superintendent. Where civil courts are established within reach of parties complaining under these agreements, they may seek redress there; but if no such courts are within reach, then the complaining party may state his case to a superintendent, who, after hearing both parties, shall decide between them. Either party may appeal to the proper supervising special agent, whose decision shall be final. CARE OF AGED AND INFIRM FREEDMEN. IX. Aged or infirm freed persons, and orphan children under twelve years of age, and others unfit for regular labor who cannot be otherwise provided for, will be retained and provided for by superintendents, and each superintendent will see that all such persons under liis care perforin all such labor as is proper, considering their condition ; and he will employ as many hands, at regular rates, FEEEDMEN. 91 as may be requisite to produce ou the plantation all tilings that can be raised, necessary to the support of the establishment, and no more ; and he will require all freed persons temporarily there to labor without wages, until they can be employed elsewhere. He will provide such medical attendance and schools as are necessary and proper. HOME COLONIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ASSOCIATIONS UPON CERTAIN CONDITIONS- X. Any association or combination of associations desiring to improve the condition of freedmen will have assigned to their care and general charge such freedmen's home colonies as they may desire, and as they can give satisfactory assurance of their ability to provide for. Superintendents for any such colonies will bb appointed upon the nomination and in pursuance of the Avishes of such associations, and every proper facility for the execution of their purposes will be given by the supervising and assistant special agents. Associations desiring to operate under this clause are notified that the Secretary reserves the right to revoke or modify this regulation whenever, in his judgment, the public interests will be promoted by such action. RESERVATIONS OF LAND FOR FREEDMEN'S LABOR COLONIES. XI. For the purpose of promoting habits of industry and self-reliance among freedmen, and to encourage them to locate in colonies, and to enable them to work advantageously, there will be reserved in the respective special agencies such contiguous abandoned and confiscable lands and plantations as may be proper for that purpose, for the exclusive use and cultivation of freedmen, which reservations will be called freedmen's labor colonies. Over each of these colonies there will be appointed a superintendent for leasing small tracts therein to such freedmen as are able to work them ; and such lessees shall be subject to the same conditions and entitled to the same rights and privileges as other lessees. LABOR COLONIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ASSOCIATIONS ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS. XII. Any association or combination of associations desiring to aid lessees in such colonies who have not sufficient means to cultivate without aid, will have set apart to their beneficiaries such part or the whole of any one of these colonies as they shall give satisfactory assurance of their ability to provide for; and in case they agree to provide the necessary working animals, agricultural implements, seeds, and other aid which may be necessary for the cultivation of the whole of any such colony, such superintendent will be appointed as may be desired by the association. Associations desiring to operate under this clause are notified that the Secretary reserves the right to revoke or modify this regu- lation whenever, in his judgment, the public interests will be promoted by such action. SCHOOLS WILL BE ESTABLISHED. XIII. Schools will be established within these home and labor colonies suf- ficient for the education of all children there under the age of twelve years, teachers for which will be provided by the superintendent or by the association, as the case may be. PENALTIES FOR ILL USAGE OF FREEDMEN. XIV. Ill usage of freedmen by lessees or others employed by them will be regarded as sufficient ground for the forfeiture of the contract between lessee and laborer, or, if the case be an aggravated one, of the lease of a plantation. Superintendents will promptly and fully investigate complaints of this character, and if they prove to be well founded they will annul the contract for labor as 92 • FREEDMEN. above. If, ia their opinion, this action is inadequate, they will report the case to the proper supervising special agent, who may, if he thinks proper, cancel the lease, subject to appeal to the general agent. EXPKNSES TO I5B APPROVED BY SKCRETARY. COPIES OF ALL PAPERS TO BE TRANSMITTED. XV. All expenses must be authorized and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Each superintendent, on the first of every month, will furnish the Secretary of the Treasury and the proper supervising special agent with copies of all records, agreements, and other papers under his charge, and also a monthly statement of accounts, of all receipts and expenditures, with vouchers for all money paid out. Supervising special agents will render a monthly account current of all receipts and expenditures within their lespective agencies imder these regulations, accompanied with vouchers for all money paid by them. War Department, July 29, 1864. The attention of all officers and soldiers of the army of the United States* whether volunteer or regular, is specially directed to the regulations of the Sec- retary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated July 29, 1864, and su- perseding the regulations of September 11, 1863 ; and they will in all respects observe General Order of this department numbered eighty-eight, and dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said regulations of July 29, 1864, as if the same had been originally framed and promulgated with reference to them ; and atten- tion is called to the several acts of Congress appended hereto, and especially to sections nine and ten of the act approved July 2, 1864. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Navy Department, July 29, 1864. The attention of all officers, sailors and marines of the navy of the United States is especially directed to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the Pi-esident, dated July 29, 1864, and superseding the regulations of September 11, 1863, and they will, in all respects, observe the order of this department dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said regulations of July 29, 1864, as if the same had been originally pi'omulgated in reference to them ; and attention is called to the several acts of Congress appended hereto, and es- pecially to sections nine and ten of the said act approved July 2, 1864. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. ORDER OF QUARTERMASTER GENERAL. [General Orders No. 32.] Quartermaster General's Office, WasJiingt07i City, August 4, 1864. I. All officers of tlie quartermasters' department, upon receiving from the duly authorized agents of the Treasury Department written application for the use of transportation by land or water for collecting and forwarding to market abandoned, captured, and confiscable property, under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 29th July, 1864, will submit such applica- tions to their immediate commander, with such explanation as to the available means of transportation on hand, and the quantity called for by the applica- tion, as will enable the commanding officer to decide whether it can be furnished without interference with or injury to the military service or operations of the troops under his command. If approved by the commander, the transportation will be furnished. II. Of all actual expenditures incurred by the quartermasters' department in executing this order, accurate account will be kept, which will be transmitted to the Quartermaster General, with full explanations, in order that the appropria- tion of the quartermasters' department may be reimbursed by the Treasury Department out of the proceeds of sales of property collected under this order. No charge will be made for the use of steamers and sail vessels for the trans- portation or collection of such property unless there is detention during the time of collecting, loading, or discharging the property. For all time thus consumed the proper charges, as of time of chartered ves- sels, of crews, and for coal and stores consumed, will be made. M. C. MEIGS, Bvt. Maj. Gen. and Q. M. Gen. CIRCULAR, AUGUST 24, 1864. Treasury Department, August 24, 1864. The officers named in the second regulation concerning commercial intercourse, &c., as " to be authorized under instructions from the Secretary to permit sup- plies to loyal persons," &c., as therein provided, are hereby authorized to grant permits for the purpose indicated, as follows : The surveyors of customs at Pittsburg, "Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quiucy. and St. Louis, to such points in the first and second agencies as may be specified in the certifi- cate of tlie proper local special agent, to be presented in each case. The surveyor of customs at Nashville, to such points in the first agency as may bo specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be pre- sented in each case. The surveyor of customs at Memphis, and the acting surveyors at Helena, Vickoburg, and Natchez, to such points in second agency as may be specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be presented in each case. The surveyor of customs at Baltimore, and the collectors of customs at Bos- ton, New York, Philadelphia, Georgetown, Alexandria, Beaufort, and Port Royal, to such points in the fifth, sixth, and seventh agencies as may be speci- fied in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be presented in each case. The collector of customs at New Orleans, to such points in the second, third, and fourth agencies as may be specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be presented in each case. Permits will only be granted by the otHccrs and for the districts designated above, and in strict conformity with the regulations of 29th July, 1864. W. P. FESSENDEN, Secretary of the Treasury. RULES AND REGULATIONS Concerning commercial intercourse loith and in insurrectionary States. EXECUTIVE ORDER. Executive Chamber, Washington, April 29, 1865. Being desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing' in insurrectionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to en- courage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is Jiereby ordered : I. That all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial in- tercourse be discontinued in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies cast of the Mississippi river, as shall be embraced within the lines of national military occupation, excepting- only such restrictions as are imposed by acts of Congress and regulations in pursuance thereof, pre- scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President ; and excepting also from the effect of this order the following articles contraband of war, to wit : arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is manu- factured, gray uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instruments for operating telegraphic lines. II. That all existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting in-, ternal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above named be, and the same are hereby revoked ; and that no mili- tary or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged therein, under proper authority, pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. ANDREW JOHNSON. Treasury Department, May 9, 1865. With a view of can-ying out the purposes of the Executive, as expressed in his executive order, bearing date April 29, 1865, " to relieve all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing in iasurrcctiouary States from unnecessary com- mercial restrictions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits," the following regulations are pi'escribed, and will hereafter govern commercial inter- course in and between the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana east of the Mis- sissippi river, heretofore declared in insurrection, and the loyal States : I. All commercial transactions under these regulations shall be conducted under the supervision of officers of the customs, and others acting as officers of the customs, PROHIBITED ARTICLES. II. The following articles are prohibited, and none such will be allowed to be transported to or within any State heretofore declared in insurrection, except on government account, viz : Arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammu- 96 • RULES AND KEGULATIOXS. nition is manufactured, gray uniforms and clotb, locomotives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instru- ments for operating telegraph lines. AMOUNT OF PRODUCTS ALLOWKl), AND PLACES TO WHICH SUCH MAY BE TRANSPORTED. III. It having been determined and agreed upon by the proper officers of the War and Treasury Departments, in accordance with the requirement of section 9 of the act of July 2, 1864, that the amount of goods required to supply the necessities of loyal pert^ons residing in insurrectionary States, within the mili- tary lines of the United States forces, shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of the applications therefor, and that the places to which such goods may be taken shall be, all places within such lines that may be named in the several applications for transportation thereto, it is therefore directed that clearance shall be granted, upon application, by any loyal person or party, for all goods and merchandise not prohibited, in such amounts, and to such places which, under the revenue and collection laws of the United States, have been created ports of entry and delivery in the coastwise trade, as the applicant may desire. CLEARANCE. IV. Before any vessel shall be cleared for any port within the insurrectionary States, or from one port to another therein, or from any such ports to a poit in the loyal States, the master of every such vessel shall present to the proper officer of customs, or other officer acting as such, a manifest of her cargo, which manifest shall set forth the character of the merchandise composing said cargo, and, if showing no prohibited articles, shall be certified by such officer of the customs. ARRIVAL AND DISCHARGE OF CARGO IN AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. V. On the arrival of any such vessel at the port of destination, it shall be the duty of the master thereof forthwith to present to the proper officer of the cus- toms the certified manifest of her cargo ; whereupon the officer shall cause the vessel to be discharged under his general supervision, and if the cargo is found to correspond with the manifest, a certificate to that effect shall be given to said master. If there shall be found on board any prohibited articles, such articles shall be seized and held subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the officer shall forthwith report to the department all the facts of the case; and any such vessel arriving from any foreign port, or from any domestic port, without a proper clearance, or with contraband articles on board, shall, with the cargo, be seized and held as subject to confiscation under the laws of the United States. LADING WITHIN AND DEPARTURE FROM AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. VI. Vessels in ports within an insurrectionary State not declared by procla- mation open to the commerce of the world shall be laden under the supervision of the proper officers of this department, whose duty it shall be to require, before any articles are allowed to be shipped, satisfactory evidence that upon all mer- chandise so shipped the taxes and fees required by law and these regulations have been paid or secured to be paid, which fact, with the amount so paid, shall be certified upon the manifest before clearance shall be granted ; and if, upon any articles so shipped, the fees and internal revenue taxes, or either, shall only have been secured to be paid, such fact sha,ll be noted upon the manifest, and the proper officer at the port of destination of such vessel shall hold the goods until all such taxes and fees shall be paid according to law and these regulations. EULES AND REGULATIONS. 97 SUPPLY STORES. VII. Persons desiring to keep a supply store at any place within an insur- rectionary State shall make application therefor to the nearest officer of the Treasury Department, which application shall set forth that the applicant is loyal to the government of the United States ; and upon filing evidence of such loyalty a license for such supply store shall forthwith be granted ; and the per- son to whom the license is given shall be authorized to purchase goods at any other supply store within the insurrectionary States, or at such other poicit in the United States as he may select. The party receiving such license shall pay therefor the license fee prescribed by the internal revenue law. EXCEPTED ARTICLES. VIII. All articles of local production and consumption, such as fresh vege- table.", fruits, butter, ice, eggs, fresh meat, wood, coal, &c., &c., may, without fee or restriction, be freely transported and sold at such points within an insur- rectionary State as the owner thereof may desire. SHIPMENT OF PRODUCTS OF AN LNSURRECTIONAR V STATE. IX. All cotton not produced by persons with their own labor, or with the labor of freedmen or others employed and paid by them, must, before shipment to any port or place in a loyal State, be sold to and resold by an officer of the government specially appointed for the purpose, under regulations pi-escribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President; and, before allow- ing any cotton or other product to be shipped, or granting clearance for any vessel, the proper customs officer, or other person acting as such, must require from the purchasing agent or the internal revenue officer a certificate that cotton proposed to be shipped has been resold by him, or that twenty-five per cent, of the value thereof has been paid to such purchasing agent in money, and that the cotton is thereby free from further fee or tax. If the cotton proposed to be shipped is claimed and proved to be the product of a person's own labor, or of freedmen or otheis employed and paid by them, the officer will require that the shipping fee of three cents per pound shall be paid or secured to be paid thereon. If any product other than cotton is offered for shipment, the certificate of the internal revenue officer, that all internal taxes due thereon have been collected and paid, must be produced prior to such products being shipped or cleared; and if there is no internal revenue officer, then such taxes shall be collected by the customs officer, or he shall cause the same to be secured to be paid as provided in these regulations. INLAND TRANSPdRTATIOjr. X. The provisions of these regulations, necessarily modified, shall be consid- ered applicable to all shipments inland to or within insurrectionary States by any means of transportation whatsoever. CHARGES. XI. Goods not prohibited may be transported to insurrectionary States free. The charges upon all products shipped or transportedyyowi an insurrectionary State, other than upon cotton, shall be the charges prescribed by the internal revenue laws. Upon cotton, other than that purchased and resold by the gov- ernment, three cents per pound, which must be credited by the officer collecting, as follows, viz : two cents per pound as the internal tax and one cent per pound as the shipping fee. All cotton purchased and resold by the government shall be allowed to be transported free from all fees and taxes whatsoever. T R 7 98 • RULES AND REGULATIONS. RECORDS TO BE KEPT. XII. Full and complete accounts and records must be kept, by all officers acting under those regulations, of their transactions under them, in such man- ner and form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs. LOYALTY A REQUISITE. XIII. No goods shall be sold in an insurrectionary State by or to, nor any transaction held with, any person or persons not loyal to the government of the United States. Proof of loyalty must be the taking and subscribing the following oath, or evidence to be filed that it, or one similar in purport and meaning, has been taken, viz : I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Ahnipbty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and all laws made in piu'suance thereto. FORMER REGULATIONS REVOKED. These regulations shall take effect and be in force on and after the 10th day of ^lay, 1865, and shall supersede all other regulations and circulars heretofore prescribed by the Treasury Department concerning commercial intercourse be- tween loyal and insurrectionary States, all of which are hereby rescinded and annulled. HUGH Mcculloch, Secretary of the Treasury. Executive Chamber, WasJiington City, May 9, 1865. The foregoing rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in conformity with acts of Congress relating thereto, having been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. ANDREW JOHNSON. CIRCULAR LETTER. Treasury Department, June 27, 1865. The various rules and regulations heretofore prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in regard to the above-named subjects, having been rendered nu- gatory in whole or in part by the changed condition of affairs in the southern Slates and Executive orders and proclamations, and the War Department having assumed charge of freedmen, abandoned lands, &c., under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1865, the following instructions as to the duties of officers of the Treasury Department in the premises are prescribed, and will be regarded as in full force and effect immediately on the receipt thereof by any officer whose action is in anywise affected thereby : 1. All restrictions on commercial intercourse in and with States and parts of States heretofore declared in insurrection, and on the purchase, transportation, and sale of the products thereof, are removed ; except as to the transportation thereto or therein of arms, ammunition, articles irom which ammunition is made, gray uniforms, and gray cloth ; and except, also, those relating to property here- RULES AND REGULATIONS. 99 tofore purchased by the agents or captured by or surrendered to the military forces of the United States. Nor will any fees or taxes be charged or collected except those imposed by the customs and internal revenue laws. And the su- pervision necessary to prevent the shipment of the prohibited articles will be exercised only by the regular and ordinary officers of the customs, acting under the revenue laws of the United States. 2. Subordinate officers discharging duties in regard to commercial intercourse, under the regulations referred to, will consider their official connection with this department as terminating wilh the 30th instant, without further notice. 3. Agents for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on govern- ment account will close their official business, east of the Mississippi, with the transactions of the 13th instant ; and west of it, with the transactions of the 24th instant ; returning to sellers all property or money received or collected since those dates, respectively, and using such despatch in the premises that their con- nection with the department may, if possible, terminate with the 30th instant. 4. Officers of this department charged with the duty of receiving and col- lecting, or having in their possession or under their control, captured, abandoned, or confiscable personal property, will dispose of the same, in accordance with regulations on the subject heretofore prescribed, at the earliest time consistent with the public interests, and will refrain from receiving such from military or naval authorities after the 30th instant. This will not be construed, however, as interfering with the operations of the agents noxo engaged in receiving or col- lecting the property recently captured by or surrendered to the forces of the United States, whether or not covered by or included in the records, &c., deliv- ered to the United States military or treasury authorities, by rebel military officers or cotton agents. Those so acting will continue lo discharge the duties thus imposed until such property is all received or satisfactorily accounted for, and until the amount so secured is shipped or otherwise disposed of under the regulations on the subject, heretofore prescribed. And they will use all the means at their command, with the utmost vigor, to the end that all the property so collected, captured, or turned over shall be secui'ed to the United States with the least possible cost and delay. After the 30th instant, the duty of receiving captured and abandoned prop- erty not embraced in the above exception will be discharged by the usual and regular officers of the customs, at the several places where tlipy may be located, in accordance with regulations relating to the subject ; and officers heretofore performing that duty will give them all the aid and information in their power to enable them to carry out the same. 5. Officers of this department charged with the care or supervision of, or having in their possession or under their control, any abandoned or confiscable lands, houses, and tenem -nts, will turn them over to a duly authorized officer of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, so far as they may be required or demanded by the same, together with all moneys, books, records, and papers arising from or relating to the property so turned over, taking proper receipts or vouchers therefor. This rule will also govern the action of all agents of this department connected in any way with the care of freedmen, &c., so far as it may be applicable. And all persons asking for any information in regard to the property so tui'ued over, or for the release of the same, or for the release of any proceeds or moneys arising therefrom, will be referred to the Commissioner of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, at Washington, to whom communications on the sub- ject should be addressed. 6. Officers of this department having in their possession or under their con- trol any moneys whatever arising from fees collected under the commercial in- tercourse regulations, (except those collected for the benefit of freedmen, which will be disposed of under section 5,) or from the sales of captured, abandoned ^ 100 • RULES AND REGULATIONS. or coufiscable persoual property, will forthwith deposit the same with the near- est assistant treasurer, designated depositary, or deposit bank, (keeping the amounts from the different sources separate,) to the credit of H. A. Risley, esq., supervising special agent, &c., taking therefor receipts in quadruplicate — which receipts must show whence the sums were received — one of which will be re- tained by the officer so depositing, one forthwith sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to the (Jommissioner of Customs, and one to Mr. Risley, at Wash- ington. 7. All officers above referred to, except proper officers of the customs, acting exclusively under the revenue laws, will, after they have closed their official business, as above directed, and sold at auction, to the highest bidder, the fur- niture and property remaining on hand, and accounted for the proceeds of the same, forthwith systematically arrange the books, records, papers, &c., of their late office, that they may easily be referred to and examined, pack them in se- cure and water-proof boxes, and forward the same, so marked as to indicate their contents, together with their respective resignations, addressed to the Sec- retary of the Treasury, Washington city. HUGH Mcculloch, Secretary of the Treasury. GENERAL REGULATIONS For tlte 2>urchasc nj" products of the insurrc-tionary States on, governjnenl account I. Aj^euts shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the ap- proval of the President, to purchase for the United States, under sj.iccial instruc- tions from the Secretary of the Treasury, products of States declared to be in insurrection, at places hereinafter designated, or that may, from time to time, be •• designated as markets or places of purchase. ^ II. The following places are hereby designated as such markets or places of purchase, to wit: New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Norfolk, Beaufort, N. C, Port Royal, and Peusacola. III. Before entering upon the discharge of their duty, each of the agents so appointed shall execute a bond, with sureties in the prescribed form, in a penal sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty, and that he shall not engage, directly or indirectly, in the purchase of products on private account, nor be, in any way, interested in the products purchased by him,. or the proceeds or profits arising therefrom. IV. The price to be paid for any of the products so to be purchased shall be agreed upon between the seller and the purchasing agent, but shall in no case exceed the market value thereof at the time and place of purchase, nor exceed three-fourths the market value thereof in the city of New York, according to the latest quotations known to the agent purchasing at the .date of the delivery of the products, less a sum equal to the internal revenue tax and the permit fee prescribed in the regulations concerning commercial intercourse dated July 29, 1S64, and also subject to such other deductions to cover transportation, insurance, and other expenses, and to such arrangements for payment as may be prescribed in special instructions to the several purchasing agents. V. The proceeds of all sales made by the several agents, together with such funds as may be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be deposited in the most convenient depository, to the credit of the " purchasing fund," to be disbursed as hereinafter directed. VI. Proper instructions shall be given whereby daily quotations and prices ■ current in New York shall be forwarded to the several agents, and to the col- -, lector or surveyor (as the case may be) of customs at the several markets or places of purclaase, by mail, every day, or as often as there shall be mail com- munication with such agents and collectors or surveyors. VII. The purchasing agent shall, to the extent of the funds at his command, and in pursuance of his instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury as to price and terms of payment, purchase all products offered to him of the character or description which by such instructions he is authorized to purchase ; but no liability of any character shall be authorized or assumed by any agent for or on account of government previous to the actual delivery of the products, other than a stipulation, in the form hereinafter prescribed, to purchase products owned or controlled by applicants, at a price to be agreed upon at the place and date of delivery. ■'- ' VIII. Wlienever any person shall make application to the purchasing agent, in writing, setting forth that he owns or controls products, stating the kind, quantity, and location thereof, or the date at which they will be delivered at some specified location accessible to transportation, the purchasing agent, if authorized by special instructions to purchase such products, shall give a certifi- cate that such application has been made, and request safe conduct for such party, with the necessary transportation, to the locations specified, and for him- 102 . GENERAL REGULATIONS. self and products in transitu from the points named to such purchasing agent. (Sec form No. 1, appended to these regulations.) IX. Parties having sold and delivered products shall, upon their request, be furnished by the purchasing agent with a certificate of the facts, which certificate shall state the character and quantity of the articles purchased, the price paid therefoi*, the aggregate amount of payment, the place whence and the route by which it was transported. (See form No. 2, appended to these regulations.) X. All bills or invoices of purchase shall be made in triplicate, after the pro- ducts purchased shall have been actually delivered to the purchasing agent, their weight, quantity, and rating ascertained and determined by sworn weighers, measurers, or experts ; and such bills or invoices shall be certified thereon as to their correctness by such sworn weigher, measurer, or expert, and the whole, as to prices and other stipulations expressed therein, certified by the purchasing agent, together with the date of the latest New York quotations known to the agent at time of the purchase. The products, with such triplicate bills or invoices, shall then be delivered to the collector or surveyor of customs at the place of delivery, who, on satisfying himself of their correctness, and that the products correspond with the statement set forth in the bills or invoices, shall indorse thereon, over his own signature, a certificate of the facts, which certificate shall authorize payment of the bills to be made by such depositary or other disbursitig agent, at such time and in such manner as shall have been agreed upon in writing between the purchasing agent and seller, taking care to authorize payment at a date sufliciently remote to be certain the proceeds therefrom may be realized, and such bills, duly receipted, shall be paid by the depositary or disbursing agent named in the certificate as therein stipulated. One of the triplicates so paid shall be immediately trans- mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury by the disbursing officer, one retained by him, and the othertransmitted to the First Auditor, with his monthly accounts, for settlement. XI. Purchasing agents shall keep a full and accurate record of all their trans- actions, including the names of all persons from whom they make purchases, the date of the purchase, a description of the products purchased, the quantity thereof, specifying the number and character (whether bundles, boxes, hogsheads, or bales) of packages, and their weight if in pounds, or gallons if in liquids, &c., and their quantity, a£ ascertained and certified to by sworn experts, weighers, &c. A transcript of this record will be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on the first day of each month. XII. Sales of products so purchased may be made weekly at public auction, to the highest bidder, after due notice, at Memphis and New Orleans, and other places hereafter designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding in quantity one-fifth of the amount received during the previous week, unless in the opinion of the purchasing and disbursing agent and the collector or surveyor, as the case may be, the condition of the purchasing fund shall require larger sales than one-fifth; then sales of such further quantities as they may determine to be necessary are hereby authorized, but in no case in such amounts as undul}'- to affect the market. Such additional sales and the reason therefor must be promptly reported to the Secretary of the Treasury, XIII. The sales herein authorized shall be made by or uuder the direction or supervision of the purchasing agent, or an agent specially authorized by the Secretary, and all products so sold shall be delivered by the collector or surveyor (as the case may be) to the parties purchasing them upon the presentation to him of the bill of sale, certified by the agent, designating the lot, character, and quantity of the products sold and the price and the amount to be paid therefor, together with a certificate from the depositary that the proceeds of such sale have been duly deposited with him, and the products so sold shall be allowed GENERAL REGULATIONS. 103 transportation to any desired port or place in a loyal State, free from tlie payment of any taxes or fees other than such as have been paid under regulation IV. XIV. Any person bringing products for sale to the purchasing agent, desiring to repurchase and transport the same to a loyal State, may give notice thereof at the time of making sale to the purchasing agent; and the agent may, after they have been rated, weighed, &c., as provided above, sell and dispose of such products to the party applying at prices not less than the market rates at the place of purchase, nor less than the last quotations from New York known to the purchasing agent at the date of the transaction, from which shall be deducted a sum equal to the reduction of purchase price which may have been made by the agent to cover transportation and other expenses. The products so sold shall not be resold, either at public or private sale, until after transportation to a loyal State or to a foreign port, and shall be liable to forfeiture for breach of this regulation. All products purchased by purchasing agents, the sale of which is not provided for in these regulations, shall be dis- posed of in such manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. XV. All products of insurrectionary States which the purchasing agent is authorized by his instructions to purchase, moving with or without a permit, shall, on arrival at a place where there is a purchasing agent, be sold and deliv- ered to him, except captured and abandoned property, and such as may have been produced within the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States by the labor of the person transporting, or of freedmen or others employed and paid by him, pursuant to rules relating thereto established under proper authority; or such as were purchased under proper authority prior to July 2, 1864, and were being transported in conformity with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. W. P. FESSENDEN, Secretary of the Treasury. WASHr.\GTO.\, D. C, Sejftember 24, 1864. Executive Mansion, September 24, 1864. The foregoing rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, having been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Form No. L I, A B , agcut for the purchase of products of insurrectiouary States on behalf of the government of the United States at , do hereby certify that I have agreed to purchase from C D , of , ; which products, it is represented, are, or will be, at , iu the county of , in the State of , on the day of , 186.., and which he stipulates shall be delivered to me, unless prevented from so doing by the authority of the United States. I therefore request safe conduct for the said C D- , and his means of trans- portation, and said products, from to , where the products so transported are to be sold and delivered to me, under the stipulation referred to above, and pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. A B . Form No. 2. I, A B , agent for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on behalf of the government of the United States at , do hereby certify that I have purchased of C D: , of , of at $ per , and that there has been paid him, for the same, $ , and that the said was transported from by way of A B . 104 • GENERAL REGULATIONS!. EXECUTIVE ORDER RELATIVE TO THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS OF INSURRECTIONARY STATES. Executive Mansion, Scjjtcmber 24, 1864. I. Congress h;).ving autliorized the purchase for the United States of the; pro- duct of States declared in insurrection, and the Secretary of the Treasury having designated New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Peiisacola, Port Royal, Beaufort, N. C., and Norfolk, as places of purchase, and with my approval appointed agents, and made regulations under which said products may be purchased : Therefore, II. All persons, except such as may be in the civil, military, or naval service of the government, having in their possession any products of States declared in insurrection which said agents are authorized to purchase, and all persons owning or controlling such products therein, are authorized to convey such pro- ducts to either of tlie places which have been hereby, or may hereafter be, desig- nated as places of purchase, and such products so destined shall not be liable to detention, seizure, or forfeiture while in transitu or in store awaiting transporta- tion. III. Any person having the certificate of a purchasing agent, as prescribed by Treasury Regulation VIII, is authoi-ized to pass, with the necessary means of transportation, to the points named in said certificate, and to return therefrom with the products required for the fulfilment of the stipulations set forth in said certificate. IV. Any person having sold and delivered to a purchasing agent any pro- ducts of au insurrectionary State, in accordance with the regulations in relation thereto, and having in his possession a certificate setting forth the fact of such purchase and sale, the character and quantity of products, and the aggregate amount paid therefor, as prescribed by regulation IX, shall be permitted by the military authority commanding at the place of sale to purchase from any authorized dealer at such place, or any other place in a loyal State, merchandise and other articles not contraband of war, nor prohibited by the order of the War Department, nor coin, bullion, or foreign exchange, to an amount not ex- ceeding in value one-third of the aggregate value of the products sold by him, as certified by the agent purchasing ; and the merchandise and other articles so purchased may be transported by the same route and to the same place from and by which the products sold and delivered reached the purchasing agent, as set forth in the certificate ; and such merchandise and other articles shall have safe conduct, and shall not be subject to detention, seizure, or forfeiture while being transported to the places and by the route set forth in the said certificate. V. Generals commanding military districts and commandants of military posts and detachments, and officers commanding fl^ts, flotillas, and gunboats, will give safe conduct to persons and products, merchandise, and other articles duly autliorized as aforesaid, and not contraband of war, or prohibited by order of the AVar Department, or the orders of such generals commanding, or other duly authorized military or naval officer, made in pursuance thereof; and all persons hindering or preventing such safe conduct of persons or property will be deemed guilty of a military offence, and punished accordingly. VI. Any person transporting or attempting to transport any merchandise or other articles, except in pursuance of regulations of the Secretary of the Trea- sury dated July 29, 1864, or in pursuance of this order, or transporting or attempting to transport any merchandise or other articles contraband of war, or forbidden by any order of the War Department, will be deemed guihy of a military offence, and punished accordingly ; and all products of insurrectionary States found in transitu to any other person or place than a purchasing agent and a designated place of purchase shall be seized and forfeited to the United States, except such as may be moving to a loyal State under duly autliorized GENERAL REGULATIONS. 105 permits of a proper officer of the Treasury Department, as prescribed by regu- lation XXXVIII, concerning "commercial intercourse," dated July 29, 1864, or such as may have been found abandoned, or have been captured, and are moving in pursuance of the act of March 12, 1863. VII. No military or naval officer of the United States, or pei-soa in the mili- tary or naval service, nor any civil officer, except such as are appointed for that purpose, shall engage in trade or traffic in the products of insurrectionary States, or furnish transportation therefor, under pain of being deemed guilty of unlawful trading with the enemy, and punished accordingly. VIII. The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regulations as will insure the proper observance and execution of this order ; and the Secre- tary of the Navy will give instructions to officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats in conformity therewith. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. [General Orders No. 285.] War Department, Washington City, October 6, 1864. First. The attention of officers and soldiers of the army of the United States, whether volunteer or regular, is directed to the Executive order dated September 24, 1864, and they will in all respects observe the same, and the commanders of all military departments, districts, posts, and detachments will, upon the receipt of this order, revoke all other orders within their respective commands conflicting or inconsistent therewith, and will make such orders as will insure strict observance of this order throughout their respective commands. Second. All commanders of military departments, districts, posts, and de- tachments will render such aid to the officers and agents of the Treasury De- partment in carrying out the provisions of said order, and the Treasury regu- lations therein referred to, as can be given without prejudice to the military service. Third. Officers of the Quartermasters' Department, upon written application of the duly authorized agents of the Treasury Department, or of persons authorized by them, may furnish transportation, by land or water, for collecting and forwarding to market articles of produce within the insurrectionary States specified within the aforesaid order, upon such reasonable terms as may be pre- scribed by the Quartermaster General, where the same can be done without prejudice to the military service, and not otherwise. The application for trans- portation must bo first approved by the commander of the department, dis- trict, post, or detachment wherein the articles are received. By order of the Secretary of War : E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. [General Order No. 42.] Navy Department, Washington, December 1, 1864. The attention of the commanding officers of squadrons, flotillas, and vessels of the ravy employed on blockade duty, or in the Mississippi river or other inland waters in the vicinity of the insurrectionary States, is required to the T R 8 106 ' GENERAL REGULATIONS. Executive order liereto annexed, dated September 24, 1864, and they will adopt such measures as may be necessary to insure the strict observance of the order by those under their command. The forms of certificates referred to in paragraphs III and IV of the Execu- tive order are also annexed hereto. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. Treasury Department, February 6, 1865. The port of Fernandina, in the State of Florida, is hereby designated as a place for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on government ac- count, in accordance with the provisions of the 8th section of the act of Con- gress approved Julv 2, 1864. W. P. FESSENDEN, Sccretari/ of the Treasury. Executive Mansion, February 6, 1866. Approved : ABRAHAM LINCOLN. AMENDED HEGULATIONS For the purchase of products of the insurrectionary States on government account. Treasury Department, May 9, 1865. I. Agents shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to purchase for the United States, under special instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, products of States declared to be in insiirrection, at such places as may from time to time be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as markets or places of purchase. Agents heretofore appointed for the places designated under previous regula- tions, will continue their agencies as if appointed under these regulations. II. Before entering upon the discharge of his duty, each of the agents so ap pointed shall execute a bond, with sureties iu the prescribed form, in a penal sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty, and that he shall not engage, directly or indirectly, in the purchase of jDroducts on private account, nor be in any way interested in the products purchased by him, or the proceeds or profits arising therefrom. III. The operations of purchasing agents shall be confined to the single article of cotton ; and they shall give public notice at the place to which they may be assigned that they will purchase, in accordance with these regulations, all cotton not captured or abandoned which may be brought to them. IV. To meet the requirements of the 8th section of the act of July 2, 1864, the agents shall receive all cotton so brought, and forthwith return to the seller three-fourths thereof, which portion shall be an average grade of the whole, according to the certificate of a sworn expert or sampler. V. All cotton pvirchased and resold by purchasing agents shall be exempt from all fees and all internal taxes. And the agent selling shall mark the saine " FREE," and furnish to the purchaser a bill of sale clearly and accurately de- scribing the character and quantity sold, and containing a certificate that it is exempt from taxes and fees as above, VI. Purchasing agents shall keep a full and accurate record of all their transactions, including the names of all persons from whom they make purchases, the date of the purchase, a description of the cotton purchased by them, and the quantity and quality thereof, also of the one-quarter retained by them. A transcript of this record will be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on the first day of each month. VII. Sales of the cotton retained by the purchasing agents under regulation IV, as the diff'erence between three-fourths the m irket price and the full price thereof in the city of New York, may be made by such agents at such places and times and in such manner as may be directed in special instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. Where such sales are not so authorized, the agents shall, without delay, ship it to New York, on the best terms possible, consigned, until otherwise directed, to S. Draper, cotton agent and disbursing officer at that place. Bills of lading in triplicate for such shipment must be taken, one of which shall be sent to the agent at New York, one to the Secre- tary of the Treasury, and one retained by the purchasing agent. VIII. Prior to the close of each month, and in sufficient time for the necessary action, the purchasing agent shall prepare and forward to the commissioner of customs a full estimate of the probable expenses of his office for the month next ensuing, the amount of which, together with any sum found due from inadequacy of former estimate, or loss so much as may remain unexpended from any amount 108 * AMENDED REGULATIONS. previously sent, will be trausmitted to said purchasiug aj^eiit. Purchasing agents will require receipts in triplicate for all moneys paid by them, one of which re- ceipts shall be forwarded to the disbursing officer, one to the First Auditor of the Treasury, with his accounts, and one retained by the agent. IX. All agents are prohibited from purchasing any product of an insurrec- tionary State which shall have been captured by the military or naval forces of the United States, or which shall have been abandoned by the lawful owner thereof. X. These regulations, which are intended to revoke and annul all others on the subject heretofore made, will take effect and be in force on and after May 10, 18G5. HUGH McCULLOGH, Secretary of the Treasury. ExEcuTiVK Chamber, Washington City, May 9, 1865. Approved : ANDREW JOHNSON. NoTK. — All the above regulations were abrogated by the proclamatioas of the President of June 13 and 24, 1665. (Sec pages 17, 18, and 19.)