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COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE 
 
 WITH AND IN 
 
 STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, 
 
 THE COLLECTION 
 
 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 
 
 EMBRACING 
 
 THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT CIRCULARS AND REGULA- 
 TIONS; THE EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATIONS AND 
 LICENSE; AND THE WAR AND NAVY DE- 
 PARTMENT ORDERS RELATING TO 
 THOSE SUBJECTS. 
 
 
 SEPTEMBEK 11, 1S63. 
 
 WASHINGTON: 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 
 1863. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Treasury Department Circular of July, 1863 3 
 
 Treasury Department Circular 9 
 
 Regulations concerning Commercial Intercourse 13 
 
 Regulations concerning Abandoned Property 31 
 
 Proclamation of tlie President, August 16, 1861 39 
 
 Proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862 40 
 
 Proclamation of tlie President, March 31, 1863 41 
 
 License of the President, March 31, 1863 43 
 
 Act concerning Commercial Intercourse, July 13, 1861 44 
 
 Act supplementary to Intercourse Act, May 20, 1862 47 
 
 Act concerning Abandoned and Captured Property, March 12, 1863 ... 48 
 
 Order of the Secretary of War 51 
 
 Order of the Secretary of the Navy 54 
 
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR OF JULY 
 
 [This letter, addressed to Supervising Special Agent Mellen and sent to the other Super- 
 vising Special Agents in July last, is republished, with some modifications adapting it to 
 the Revised Regulations, for the convenient information of all parties concerned.] 
 
 Treasury Department, July 3, 1863. 
 
 Sir: I have received your letter of the 5tli of June, from Memphis, 
 and also those of previous dates from Cincinnati, relative to the col- 
 lection of abandoned and captured property within the States here- 
 tofore declared to be in insurrection. 
 
 In 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., aban- 
 doned, captured, commercial, and confiscable. 
 
 First; Abandoned property is of two descriptions (1st,) that which 
 has been deserted by the owners; and (2d,) that which has been vol- 
 untarily abandoned by them to the civil or military authorities of the 
 United States. Such property is to be collected or received by the 
 Special Agents of this Department and sold, under the authority of 
 the Act of March 12, 1863; 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, 
 subject 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 guaranty can 
 be given to owners of abandoned property in 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 to be turned over, with certain excep- 
 tions 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 prima facie captured property. 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 Avhich 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 purchased 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 persons, as recited in the Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862, and 
 is liable to seizure and condemnation by judicial proceedings in the 
 manner prescribed 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 com- 
 plied with; and it must be remembered that with the property in- 
 cluded 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 insur- 
 rectionary districts into loyal States, or in reversed direction, or being 
 transported within or to insurrectionary districts, in contravention of 
 law or Departmental Regulations, is forfeited or forfeitable; and that 
 it is the duty of the Agents of the Department, as well as of other 
 proper ofiicers, to enforce the forfeitures thus incurred; but property 
 thus forfeited or forfeitable must rfot be confounded with confiscated 
 or confiscable property, which is to be proceeded against and disposed 
 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, aban- 
 doned property, it is to be observed that no Agent is authorized to 
 make any other assurances 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 speci- 
 fied in the law. 
 
 In respect to both descriptions of abandoned property, whether 
 found deserted or voluntarily abandoned, the law authorizes the pay- 
 ment of such expenses as must necessarily be incurred in its collec- 
 tion, 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 with 
 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 de- 
 signated by them, you may contract for the collection 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, preparing, and delivering such property at the points in- 
 dicated. Prior to any contract being entered into, each party pro- 
 posing must submit, in writing, a statement, as near as may be, giv- 
 ing the kind and amount of property proposed to be collected ; the 
 location whence to be obtained ; and all the facts and circumstances 
 connected with 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 circumstances clearly justify, to the general col- 
 lection 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 equal to the 
 amount stipulated to be paid must be given by him, indemnifying 
 the United States against all claims to the property delivered 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 such 
 contract. 
 
 Should cases arise justifying, in your opinion, the allowance of a 
 larger percentage than that herein authorized, you will refer such 
 cases to 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 im- 
 mediate sale is required by the interests of all concerned, it may be 
 disposed of as provided for by regulations. You will aim to miti- 
 gate, 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 direc- 
 tions, as far as they may be applicable, as to its receipt and subse- 
 quent 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 owner- 
 ship 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 warranted 
 by law and the Departmental Regulations made in pursuance of law. 
 
 In case furniture, or other movable property 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; other- 
 
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 wise, if practicable, and not attended with too great cost, you will 
 have it safely stored and properly marked and numbered, and will re- 
 port 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 suffi- 
 ciently explained in general regulations and in letters. 
 
 They may be briefly stated thus : (1) To allow within districts in 
 insurrectionary States when the authority of the government is so 
 completely re-established, in 3^our*judgraent, 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 occupation, 
 such intercourse, sanctioned by the commanding General, as may be 
 required to supply the inhabitants with necessaries, but to allow no 
 other until the complete re-establishraent of the national authority 
 shall warrant it; and (3) 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 ex- 
 clusively military. 
 
 The limits of the districts within which the most general trade may 
 be allowed must necessarily be prescribed by you, after fidl confer- 
 ence with the commanding Generals of Departments, whenever such 
 conference is practicable, and these should be so clearly and distinct- 
 ly marked by known geographical boundaries, or by the enumeration 
 of counties, as to leave no uncertciinty as to their course or compre- 
 hension. The limits of the regions within which necessaries may be 
 supplied cannot be so clearly defined, but must be ascertained as well 
 as possible from the commanding Generals, and the power to permit 
 any supplies within them must be exercised with great cautioiv 
 
 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, whether 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, co- 
 extensively with our lines of military occupation. 
 
 Should this view meet the approval of the Generals commanding 
 Departments within your Agency, the question of intercourse within 
 
the doubtful region between what may be called the commercial and 
 the military line would be reduced 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 ac- 
 complishing the great objects which Congress had in view in the 
 several acts relating to commercial 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,) modified 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 conjunc- 
 tion 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 gen- 
 eral 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 De- 
 partment. 
 
 With great respect, 
 
 S. P. CHASE, 
 Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Wm. p. Mellen, Esq., 
 
 Supervising Special Agent, (tc. 
 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT CIRCCLAR 
 
 CONCEENING 
 
 Trade with and in States Declared in Insurrection. 
 
 AND CONCERNING 
 
 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 
 
 To tlce Special Agents of the Treasury Department : 
 
 Treasury Department, September 11, 1863. 
 
 Gentlemen : The President of the United States, having, by Pro- 
 clamation of July 1, 1862, declared and proclaimed that the States 
 of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, 
 Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of 
 Virginia, except the following counties, Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, 
 Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia. Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, 
 Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, 
 Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Ran- 
 dolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, 
 Boon,e, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are in in- 
 surrection and rebellion: 
 
 And having also by Proclamation on the 31st of March, 1863, re- 
 voked certain 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, Louisi- 
 ana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia (except the 
 forty-eight counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and 
 excepts 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 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 ; 
 
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 And the act of Con,£!:ress "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 Regula- 
 tions referred to; 
 
 And the act of Congress supplementary to said act of July 13, 1861, 
 approved 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 provide 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 an}" 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 re- 
 quire, 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 satis- 
 faction 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 proceeds 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 
 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 to do so he shall be 
 
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 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 purpose of conducting the commercial 
 intercourse licensed and permitted by the 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 under the control of insurgents; and are pub- 
 lished, 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. 
 
 All officers charged with the execution of these Regulations, Avhile 
 using necessary vigilance to prevent supplies to rebels, either directly 
 or by undue accumulation at points where there will be imminent 
 danger of their falling into their hands, and in collecting abandoned 
 or captured property, will be careful to occasion as little inconve- 
 nience as possible to any legitimate trade or intercourse, or to loyal 
 people. 
 
 S. P. CHASE, 
 Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Treasury Department, September 11, 1863. 
 
Executive Mansion, 
 
 Washington, September 11, 1863. 
 
 The following Hevised Eegulations of the Secretary of 
 
 the Treasury havmg been seen and considered by me, are 
 
 hereby approved. 
 
 ABEAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
TRADE REGULATIONS 
 
 PKESCEIBED BY THE SECRETAEY OF THE TREASURY FOR THE GOVERNMENT 
 OF THE LIMITED COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE, LICENSED BY THE PRESIDENT, 
 BETWEEN THE CITIZENS OF LOYAL STATES AND THE INHABITANTS OF 
 STATES AND PARTS OF STATES HERETOFORE DECLARED TO BE IN INSUR- 
 RECTION, AS REVISED AND REPUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 11, 1863. 
 
 I. The States and parts of States declared to be in insiirrection, 
 
 between which and the citizens of loyal States corn- 
 Districts created mercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by the 
 Agencies'^^'^ President, to be conducted and carried on in pursuance 
 of Regulations and Rules prescribed by the Secretary 
 of the Treasury, are hereby divided into districts, called Special 
 Agencies, to which Supervising Special Agents, appointed by the 
 Secretary, are assigned. 
 
 II. The Special Agencies are distinguished numerically, and de- 
 
 scribed as follows: 
 
 Special Agencies The First Special Agency comprises the district of 
 Sed!'"'^*^^' *^^ 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, Missis- 
 sippi, 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 trade 
 is carried on with the States or parts of States declared to be in in- 
 surrection. 
 
 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 Mis- 
 sissippi 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 established shall be changed, due notice thereof 
 will be given. 
 
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 III. Supervising Special Agents will supervise within their re- 
 spective Agencies the execution of these Regulations; 
 Supervising Spe- make and from time to time change such Local Rules 
 make^^Loca^ ^^^ inconsistent with them, as may be proper for that 
 Rules. purpose, and temporarily suspend or qualify the author- 
 
 ity to grant Permits, if the public interest shall require 
 it, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and they 
 will confer with Generals commanding Departments and Naval Officers 
 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. 
 
 lY. These Regulations, and the Local Rules prescribed by the several 
 
 Supervising Special Agents, for their respective Agen- 
 
 Officeis by whom cies, will be Carried into effect by Assistant Special 
 
 Regulations, Agents, Local Special Agents, and Agency Aids. Lo- 
 
 Tvill be^arried ^^^ Special Agents will take the place and perform the 
 
 into effect. duties of the Boards of Trade heretofore 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. 
 
 V. No goods, wares, or merchandise will be allowed to be trans- 
 
 ^ . . . ported to, from, or within any State or part of a State 
 
 Restriction up- i ,•,• jii-- i.- i. 
 
 on transpor- under restriction, or declared m insurrection, except 
 
 tatioQ. under Permits, Certificates, and Clearances, as herein- 
 
 after provided. 
 
 VI. The officers of the Treasury Department authorized to grant 
 
 Permits to Districts in States or parts of States here- 
 
 Officers author- tofore declared to be in insurrection, but where com- 
 
 pe^rmits ^^^^ mercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by the 
 
 President under Regulations' of the Secretary of the 
 Treasury, are the Surveyors of Customs at Pittsburg,Wheeling, Cincin- 
 nati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, 
 Quincy, St. Louis, Nashville, 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 interests require 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. 
 
 YII. Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of 
 military occupation by the United States forces is strictly 
 IntercourFe be- prohibited ; and no permit will be granted for the trans - 
 of mi it u-v oc^ portation of any property to any place under the con- 
 cupition pro- trol of insurgents against the United States. 
 hibited. 
 
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 VIII. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any 
 
 shipment to any port or place affected by the existing 
 
 No clearance or blockade, except upon the request of the Department 
 
 permitfor block- ^^ y^ ^^, ^^^^ Department of the Navy, either directly 
 
 cept as a mill- or through a specially authorized onicer, addressed to the 
 
 tary necessity. 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 form prescribed by Regulation XXXII. 
 
 IX. The several Seipervising Special Agents within their respective 
 
 Agencies will, after conference with the Generals com- 
 
 Trade districts, manding Departments, when possible, and with their 
 
 and de*fined*^ sanction, unless unavoidable circumstances prevent the 
 
 obtaining of it, designate by known geographical boun- 
 daries, or by enumeration of counties, that portion of the 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. 
 
 X. If it shall appear that beyond the lines of the Trade District, 
 
 but within the lines of national military occupation. 
 Supply districts there is some territory within which the supply of 
 and defined, 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 com- 
 manding 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 respectiveAgencies to which 
 goods may be properly permitted for individual and family supply, 
 but for no other purpose. The territory so designated shall be called 
 the Supply District; and no goods shall be transported thereto for 
 resale except as provided in Regulation XVIII. 
 
 XL All applications for permits to transport goods or property 
 under these Regulations shall state the character and 
 Applications for value of the merchandise to be transported, the place 
 state^ ^ ^ ^ *^ 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 pack- 
 ages, with the marks thereon. 
 
 XII. Every applicant for a permit to transport goods, wares, or 
 
 . merchandise into or within any place or section where 
 
 permits^ to such transportation may be permitted, shall present 
 
 transport with his application the original invoices of the goods, 
 
 goods, bow -wares, and merchandise to be transported, and shall file 
 
 with the officer granting the permit the certificate of 
 
 the Local Special Agent authorizing it, if any be necessary, and an 
 
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 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 con-ectly stated in the appli- 
 cation, 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 re- 
 quired by these Regulations or by Local Rules shall be taken before 
 a Supervising, Assistant or Local Special Agent, or some other 
 authorized officer. 
 
 XIIL No certificate shall be given by a Local Special Agent in 
 Certificate of Local ^ State declared in insurrection, for purchase of goods 
 SpeciaiAgent, to for resale, except to parties having trade stores under 
 whomgiven.and authority from the Supervising Special Agent, or As- 
 out cCTtifirate' sistant Special Agent designated by him, as here- 
 except for fruits, inafter provided; and no permit shall be granted to 
 vegetables, &c. transport merchandise into any such State, unless 
 authorized by such certificate; 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 dis- 
 cretion to prevent abuse of the exception. 
 
 XIV. After a Trade District in any Agency shall be designated, 
 as aforesaid, persons of Avell-ascertained loyalty, de- 
 "^'thSytocontiuu; firing to continue or establish trade stores therein, 
 or establish trade may make application in writing to the proper Su- 
 stores, to whom pervising Special Agent, or to such Assistant Special 
 aud how made. Agent as he shall designate for that purpose, set- 
 ting forth 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 con- 
 form 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 Avill 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. 
 The Supervising Special Agent, or the officer designated by him, will 
 inquire into the character of the applicant and\circumstances of the 
 localit}^ and if deemed expedient will authorize him to sell at said 
 trade store an amount of goods per month specified in the Authority, 
 
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 A copy of the Authority shall be filed with the Local Specifil 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 maybe permitted by the proper Collector 
 or Surveyor 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 quanti- 
 ties of goods to be permitted as to prevent undue accumulation of sup- 
 plies 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 approved by the Agent granting the Au- 
 thority, 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. 
 
 XY. Authorized Traders, (except in the cities of Memphis and 
 A th ■ d t Nashville and such other cities or towns as may be 
 dei-s not to hereafter designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
 wholesale, ex- with the concurrence and approval of the General com- 
 ^'h'"* ^'d ^^^T' i^'^^ding Department,) shall not sell goods to others to 
 villa. To keep ^^ resold by them; but shall sell only to persons for 
 true accounts their own individual, family, or plantation use, upon 
 and file and presentation of the permit for transportation thereof 
 pers. Pena^^y ^f the proper Local Special Agent, as provided in Regu- 
 for violating lations XVI and XVII. In Memphis, Nashville, and 
 Reguktions or other cities after designation as above, authorized 
 u es. traders may sell goods to other traders for purpose of 
 resale, upon the certificate of the proper Local Special Agent. Persons 
 and families residing in Memphis, Nashville, and other cities after desig- 
 nation thereof as above, may purchase supplies for their own consump- 
 tion 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 officer, to be issued only upon the certificate of 
 the Local Special Agent, as provided in Regulation XVI. All author- 
 ized Traders shall keep true accounts of all their sales, with the name 
 and residence of each purchaser, and the date and amouutof 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 permits, shall be open to inspection of the Supervising Special Agent, 
 or Assistant Special Agents under his direction. If any such Trader 
 
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 shall violate any Regulation or Local Rule, liis Authority shall be re- 
 voked 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. 
 
 XYI. The purchase and transportation of individual, family, and 
 plantation supplies may be permitted by a Local Special 
 Special A o-ents Agent, from any trade store in that part of a Trade Dis- 
 may iiermit trict for which he is appointed to the home of the 
 supplies, anl applicant therein, upon application to him by the head 
 ditiriiT* ^"^' ^^ ^^^® family or such other person as shall be authorized 
 by him or her in writing : provided, that the applicant 
 shall make affidavit, 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 affida- 
 vit; that no part thereof will be sold or otherwise disposed of by him or 
 her, or by his or her assent, exceptfor 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 
 officer or Agent, and that no supplies for the period mentioned have 
 been or are expected to be otherwise obtained; and no one person 
 shall be recognized as representing more than six families. 
 
 Such transportation may also be permitted by any authorized Col- 
 
 Autborized Col- lector or Surveyor out of the District for which the Local 
 
 lectoi andi-iir- Special Agent is appointed, upon his certificate and 
 
 veycrmayaiso i-ecommendation, granted upon the same application 
 
 permitsupplies ^ ri2 ^ ■ l i • i 
 
 when and on ^^^'^ alhdavit as above required. 
 
 what condi- 
 tions. 
 
 XA'IL Persons or fiirailies residing without the lines of the Trade 
 District, but within the lines of a Supply District, may 
 Conditions upon procure supplies on the certificate of the nearest Local 
 which parties Special Agent that the supplies specified therein are 
 111 fSuppiy Dis- i^gcessary for the use and consumption of such person 
 tain supp.ies. 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 the head 
 of the family; and the applicant shall make and file with him an affi- 
 davit that tiie supplies applied for are necessary for the use and con- 
 sumption of the person or family for the time specified, not exceed- 
 ing 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 
 
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 to the nearest Collector or Surve_yor, Avho, 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 
 the 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 cer- 
 tificate and delivering the permit to the applicant. Except in cases 
 mentioned in this Regulation and Regulation XVI, no permit will be 
 granted by any Local Special Agent. 
 
 XYIIL Upon the request of the General commanding Depart- 
 When trade store ™ent, the proper Supervising Special Agent may 
 may be author- authorize the establishment of one or more trade 
 ized in Supply 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 discontinued 
 by the Supervising Special Agent whenever the public interest may 
 require it. 
 
 XIX. After any Trade or Supply District shall have been estab- 
 
 lished, loyal and well-disposed persons residing therein 
 When products j^^.^y laying their products to market, unless prohibited 
 brought to hy Regulation, Rule, or military order, and may be per- 
 market, and mitted by the proper Collector or Surveyor, on payment 
 on what con- of prescribed fees, to sell ^ the same for money other 
 plies mav^Te than gold or silver, and to take back to their respective 
 taken home, homes SO much of the proceeds of products so sold in 
 individual, family, or plantation supplies, as shall be 
 certified by the Local Special Agent nearest to the residence of such per- 
 son to be necessary for the use or consumption of the individual, fam- 
 ily, 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 certified will debar the party all further privilege 
 to bring products to market or to trade. 
 
 XX. All proper and loyal persons may apply in the prescribed 
 
 form to the proper Supervising Special Agent, or an 
 Products mny be Assistant Special Agent designai ed by him, for authority 
 der^escnbed ^^ purchase, for money other than gold or silver, any of 
 conditions. the products of the country within the lines of Na- 
 tional military occupation in his Agency, except when 
 prohibited 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 re- 
 quired by Regulations, that he will not purchase products at any 
 place other than that named in the Authority, or engage directly or 
 
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 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 de- 
 signated by him, if he de^ms it expedient, may authorize the proper 
 officer to permit, on payment or security of the prescribed fees, the 
 l^urchase and transportation of products as applied for, except arti- 
 cles prohibited. Upon presentation of such Authority to any officer 
 named in Regulation VI, he may issue a permit for the purchase, trans- 
 portation and sale of products specified, in pursuance of the terms 
 of the Authority ; but before delivering it, he will require the pre- 
 scribed fees to be paid, or a bond therefor to be executed to the 
 United States with penalty, and sureties approved by him, condi- 
 tioned that the fees for each shipment 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 per- 
 mit, 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 appli- 
 cation 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 transported under the same 
 after such neglect shall be ibrfeited to the United States. 
 
 XXI. Every permit to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other 
 
 merchandise within any place or section in a State here- 
 
 Conr itions upon ^^f-Qj-g declared in insurrection, after commercial inter- 
 
 which permits • i i n i i • i o 
 
 to purchase course therewith shall have been permitted by the Sec- 
 products may retary of the Treasury, and every permit to transport 
 be issued. ^j^^ 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 transported ; 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 
 
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 every other means he can properly use, aid in suppressing the rebel- 
 lion and restoring obedience to the Constitution and laws of the 
 United States. 
 
 XXII. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section 
 
 . heretofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely 
 
 ^orpaymen'tsin' prohibited, except for military purposes, and under 
 
 coiQ or bullion military orders, or under the special license of the 
 
 strictly prohib- President. And no payment of gold or silver or foreiga 
 
 ^ ^ ■ 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 forfeited to the United States. 
 
 XXIIL Authorities to purchase products, unless renewed, and all 
 Certificates of Local Special Agents recommending permits for trans- 
 ^. ., ,. , portation, shall expire thirty days after date. Permits 
 
 Limitation and !• > a a- i ii • . i r^ ^ i^ i 
 
 revocation of au- ^^"^^ transportation shall expire ten days after date; and 
 thorities, certifi- all authorities, certificates, and permits, will be liable to 
 cates, and per- revocation by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the 
 ^^ ^' proper Supervising Special Agent, as the public in- 
 
 terests may require. 
 
 XXIV. Permits will be granted to Sutlers to transport to the regi- 
 
 ments sutlered by them such articles as they are au- 
 Sutlers' permits, thorized to sell, free of the five per cent, fee; but no per- 
 andupoDwhat '^"^ ^^^^^ ^^ granted to a Sutler except on presentation 
 conditions. to the proper permit officer of the original certificate 
 of his appointment from the commanding officer of his 
 regiment, 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 exceed- 
 ing $2,500 per month: nor for over two months supply at onetime; 
 nor for any goods except such as he is by law and War Department 
 orders allowed to deal in. 
 
 XXV. Supplies and other property belonging to the United 
 Supplies moving States for the use of the army or navy, moving under 
 
 under military military or naval orders, are excepted from the opera- 
 orders or iin iIq^-^ Qf these Regulations. Supplies for the army or 
 navy, furnished 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. 
 
 XXVI. In order to prevent, under the pretence of legitimate trade, 
 Restricted dis- ^}^^ conveyance of supplies which there is reason to be- 
 
 tiicts, notde- Heve are ultimately intended for persons in rebellion 
 
 clared in in- against the government, or for places under the con- 
 
 which*Tood^ ^^'°^ °^ insurgents, and to prevent undue accumulation 
 
 must be per- of goods at points in dangerous proximity to districts 
 
 mitted. under control of insurgents, transportation of any goods, 
 
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 wares, or merchandise, without the permit of a duly authorized 
 officer of this Department, is prohibited to any phice on the south 
 side of the Potomac River, or to any phice on the north side of the 
 Potomac and south of the Washington and Annapolis railroad, or on 
 the eastern sliore of the Chesapeake, or on the south side of the Ohio 
 River below Wheeling, except Louisville; or on the west side of the 
 Mississippi River below the mouth of the Des Moines, except St. 
 Louis, 
 
 XXVIL Permits for shipment of goods into districts or places with 
 
 ^ ,.^. which commercial intercourse is restricted, but which 
 
 Conditions upon , ., iiixi-- j_- i 
 
 which ffoods have not been declared to be m insurrection, may be 
 
 to restiifted granted by Collectors or Surveyors of customs, or other 
 districts may specially authorized officers of the Department located 
 epermi e . -^gg^j. ^j^g point of destination, in conformity with Regu- 
 lations 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 suffi- 
 cient evidence on those points by the Collector, Surveyor, or other 
 proper officer near the point of destination, to whom application 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 de- 
 cision or who grants the permit, and also to the Secretary. 
 
 XXYIII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation 
 
 from any place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, 
 
 No vessel or wares, or merchandise into any place, section, or State 
 
 o ei veiic e ^^^^ declared in insurrection, but with which commercial 
 
 shall cany . ' • i • i i 
 
 goods into.or intercourse has been or may be restricted, without the 
 
 put off goods permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury De- 
 
 in restncted partment, application for which permit may be made to 
 
 out permit. such authorized officer near the point of destination as 
 
 may suit the convenience 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 destination of such goods, 
 
 wares, and merchandise. 
 
 XXIX. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western 
 waters south of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters 
 ern "waters "^'^•t^^"^ or adjacent to any State or section commercial 
 must present intercourse with which now is, or may hereafter be, re- 
 manifest and stricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where 
 c eaiance, there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall 
 
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 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 Regulation 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 ex- 
 hibited 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, and 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 discharged; and the clearance and shipping permits 
 of all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the officer in com- 
 mand of any Naval vessel or military post whenever such officer may 
 require it. 
 
 XXX. To facilitate trade, and guard against improper trans- 
 
 portation, Agency Aids will be appointed by the proper 
 Agency Aids will Supervising Special Agent, or under his direction by an 
 ou cars'^'and -^-"^^istant Special Agent, from time to time, on cars, ves- 
 boats. sels, and boats, wdien 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 per- 
 mit, keeping 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, I'rom whom a permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods 
 shall be returned to the shipper under his direction. No permit 
 Avill 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 any- 
 thing on board for transportation during the trip, nor to land or dis- 
 charge anything at any point except that of ultimate destination 
 without proper permit. 
 
 XXXI. Boats and vessels may be cleared, and merchandise not 
 
 p, ,.,. prohibited may be permitted, from any port which has 
 
 Conditions on ^ i i i i i i • n i i 111 
 
 which clear- not been blockaded to any port winch has been block- 
 ances and per- aded but opened by proclamation, upon payment of such 
 mits may be £ggg qj^|„ .^^ were chargeable therefor before the block- 
 obtained from , •',, ,, I'j, -r. !,• -tr-tr-tr-rr 
 
 portnot block- f^de was declared, but subject to Kegulations AAAV, 
 
 aded to port XXXYI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL, and 
 
 opened by ^^pon giving bond not to land or discharge any of such 
 
 merchandise at any mtermedmte point, except under 
 
 permit authorized by these Regulations. But no goods, wares, or 
 
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 merchandise shall be shipped or transported from or out of such 
 opened port, except under permits granted upon compliance with 
 Regulations and Local Rules, and payment of the fees prescribed in 
 Regulation XLII. 
 
 XXXII. Applicants for permits to ship to any port or place affected 
 
 by the existing blockade, but occupied by United States 
 ^^p^ermitr^ ^to ^orces, must present, with their applic*ation, a certifi- 
 biockaded cate from the Department of War, or Department of 
 ports, how the Navy, either directly or through a duly authorized 
 ™ officer, that the articles are required for military or 
 
 nayal 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 proper officer one of the in- 
 voices, and direct the permitting of the transportation requested, and 
 forward the other invoice to the Assistant or Local Special Agent at 
 the port or place to wdiich the goods are to be permitted. The As- 
 sistant 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 inToice; and in case of any excess or eva- 
 sion of the permit, he will seize the whole shipment, and report the 
 facts forthwith to the Supervising Special Agent, that proceedings 
 may be taken for their forfeiture under the act of July 13, 1861, 
 May 20, 18G2, and March 12, 1863. 
 
 XXXIII. "Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by 
 , the proclamation of the President, licenses will be 
 
 Licenses maybe , t i ^i tt -^ i o. . /-i i i- ,• 
 
 granted by con- granted by the United fetates Lonsuls, on application 
 
 sills to block- by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign 
 aded ports re- pQi-^s to the ports SO opened, upon satisfactory evidence 
 that the vessel so licensed will convey no person, prop- 
 erty, 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 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, showing no viola- 
 tion of the conditions of the license. Any violation of the condi- 
 tions 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. 
 
 XXXIV. Vessels clearing fron domestic ports to any of the ports so 
 Clearances from opened will apply to the custom-house officers of the 
 
 domestic ports proper ports, in the usual manner, for licenses or 
 m;iy be grant- clearances under the Regulations heretofore established. 
 
 ed. ° 
 
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 XXXV. Whenever application is made to a Collector, or Surveyor 
 
 authorized tograntit, for a permit, license, or clearance, 
 Bonds maybe re- ^ either a foreign or domestic port, if for satisfactory^ 
 quired in cer- 11111 -i. i. j. au 
 
 tain cases. 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 parties 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 Sur- 
 veyor, conditioned that the said cargo shall be delivered at the des- 
 tination for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part there- 
 of shall be used in affording aid or comfort to any person or parties 
 in insurrection against the authority 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 con- 
 trol of the same, until after delivery to the proper consignee, and 
 the sale or other disposition, by him in good faith, of said cargo. 
 
 XXXVI. Collectors and Surveyors will refuse clearances and 
 
 permits to all vessels, or other vehicles, whether 
 ^^!!fn°ffin^^^.'' with or without cargo, destined for a foreign or 
 
 ^etu^ea in cer- . 1 i 1 11 1 ?• r 
 
 tain cases. domestic port, whenever they shall have satisrac- 
 
 tory reason to believe that such vessels or their cargoes, or any 
 part thereof, whatever may be their ostensible destination, are in- 
 tended for ports or places in possession or under control of insur- 
 gents against the United States. And if any vessel or other vehicle 
 for which a clearance or permit shall have been refused as afore- 
 said shall depart, or attempt to depart, for a foreign or domestic 
 port, without being duly cleared or permitted, such Collector, or Sur- 
 veyor, or the Supervising Special Agent, or Assistant 
 Vessels may be Special Agent, shall cause such vessel or vehicle to be 
 seized. seized and detained, 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. 
 
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 XXXVII. When any Collector, Surveyor, Supervising, Assistant, or 
 
 Local Special Agent, charged with the execution of 
 
 Merchandise, in these Regulations, and the laws authorizing them, shall 
 
 ity, liable to hnd within his proper limits any goods, wares, 
 
 reach insuig- or merchandise which, in his opinion, founded on 
 
 ents. owner to satisfactory evidence in writing, are in danger of 
 
 give one. l3eing 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. 
 
 If the required security be not given, such officer 
 
 o-iven, o-oods to shall promptly state the facts to the United States 
 
 be taken pos- marshal for the district within which such goods are 
 
 session of. situated; or if there be no United States marshal, then 
 
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 to the commander of a near militaiy post, whose clutv 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. 
 
 XXXVIII. No clearance or permit will be granted for the shipment 
 of prohibited articles, viz : cannon, mortars, tire-arms, 
 
 Prohibited arti- pis^tols, bombs, grenades, powder, saltpetre, sulphur, 
 balls, bullets, pikes, swords, boarding-caps, (always 
 excepting the quantity of the said articles which may be necessary 
 for the defence of the ship and of those who compo><e the crew,) sad- 
 dles, bridles, cartridge-bag material, percussion and other caps, cloth- 
 ing adapted for uniforms, sail-cloth of all kinds, hemp and cordage, 
 intoxicating drinks, other than beer and light native wines, or other 
 articles prohibited by the proper authorities, except upon certificate 
 and request under Regulation XXXII, or b}^ 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. 
 
 XXXIX. Every vessel, on approaching a gunboat or revenue 
 Vessels to report cutter, or vessel appearing to be such, before pro- 
 
 to gunboats or cceding further, shall bear up and speak said boat 
 
 revenue cut- or cutter, and submit to such examination as may be re- 
 ters. • 1 ' ■ -^ 
 
 quired. 
 
 XL. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transporta- 
 Violations of ^ion, violating Regulations or Local Rules, and all 
 these reguia- cotton, tobacco. or other merchandise shipped or trans- 
 tions, how ported or purchased or sold in violation thereof, will 
 punished. ^^ forfeited to the United States. If any false state- 
 
 ment be made or deception practiced in obtaining an Authority, Cer- 
 tificate, or Permit under these Regulations, such Authority, Certificate, 
 or Permit, and all others connected therewith or affected thereby, will 
 be absolutely void, and all merchandise purchased or shipped under 
 them shall be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of forfei- 
 'ture, 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, conductors, agents, drivers, and other persons connected 
 with the transportation of merchandise, or trading therein, is particu- 
 larly directed to the acts of July 13, 1861, May 20, 1862, and March 
 12, 1863, and to the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the 
 Navy hereto appended. 
 
 XLI. In cases where military or naval Commanders shall have 
 
 ordered all packages sent by friends to the officers and 
 
 Packages tooffi- soldiers of their command to be delivered only to desig- 
 
 cers and sol- , i • .1 1 n^ /• i i- j .1 
 
 diers how sent, 'i^tecl regimental or vessel officers for delivery to the 
 
 proper parties, such packages may be transported, with- 
 out Collector's or Surveyor's permits, by the Adams Express Com- 
 
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 pany, or other carriers having authority for that purpose from the 
 Secretary of the Treasury, on such carriers giving bond conditiouefl 
 to render a true account of all such packages by them transported, 
 and to carry no goods without proper permits, other than such packages. 
 XLII. The following fees are prescribed : 
 
 Fees for administering oath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. 
 
 for each Authority from agent 3 dolls. 
 
 for certificate of Local Special Agent 10 cents. 
 
 for each permit for purposes of trade 20 cents. 
 
 for each permit to purchase cotton in any insurection- 
 ary district, and to transport the same to any 
 
 loyal State per pound • • 4 cents. 
 
 for permit so to purchase and transport tobacco per hhd. 2 dolls, 
 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 shipment, 
 for each permit for individual, femily, or plantation sup- 
 plies, on every purchase over $20 and not over $50, 5 cents. 
 " over$50andnot over $100, 10 cents. 
 
 " over $100 15 cents. 
 
 For permits for individual, family, or plantation supplies, 
 not over twenty dollars in amount, no charge is allowed, 
 except for revenue stamps, on affidavits and certificates 
 in districts under restriction; and no charge, except five 
 cents for permit and five cents for each revenue stamp on 
 affidavit and certificate, is allowed in States declared in 
 insurrection. When purchases are less than five dollars, 
 the permit officer may dispense with aftidavits and cer- 
 tificates when no ground to suspect fraud or imposition 
 appears. 
 
 XLIII. Internal revenue stamps are required by law to be attached 
 
 to affidavits, certificates, and bonds, but not to any 
 
 Internal revenue other instruments or writings provided for by these 
 
 attached.^ ^ 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. 
 
 XLIY. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
 grant permits under these Regulations shall keep in his 
 Officers to keep q(^qq ^ record of every permit granted by him, show- 
 mits and fees iug the names of the owner, shipper, and consignee, 
 received, and the place from and to which each transportation is per- 
 make reports, j^itted, the character and invoice value of the merchan- 
 dise permitted, and shall transmit to the Secretary, and also to the pro- 
 per Supervising Special Agent, as near as possible on the first day 
 
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 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 permits 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 in- 
 voice 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. 
 
 XLV. All money received by each Assistant or Local Special Agent 
 
 shall be paid over as promptly as possible to the Super- 
 
 ^''Iistlnt"^'atd vising Special Agent, or to an Assistant Treasurer or 
 
 Local Special Designated Depository as directed by him, and so that 
 
 Agents to pay all receipts during each month shall be paid over before 
 
 over money as ^j^^ making of his required monthly report; and all 
 
 money received by each Supervising Special Agent or 
 
 Collector, Surveyor, or other officer authorized to grant permits, 
 
 under these Regulations, shall be promptly paid over to the Assistant 
 
 Treasurer or Designated Depository most convenient to him, and so 
 
 that all receipts for each month shall be so paid over before the 
 
 making of his monthly report. 
 
 XLVI. Every officer authorized to receive money under these Regu- 
 lations shall transmit to the Secretary on the first of 
 ized toreceive ^^^^^ month a report, stating in detail all moneys so re- 
 money to re- ceived by him during the preceding month, and from 
 port on first of what sources received, together with all expenses of 
 eack month, j^-g ^^^^ incidental to the execution of these Regula- 
 tions ; and if any money has been paid out or otherwise disposed of 
 by him during the month, an account thereof, and by what authority, 
 to whom, or for what purpose it was so paid or disposed of. with the 
 vouchers 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 Com- 
 missioner of Customs. 
 
 XLVII. Assistant Special Agents shall keep a record of all their 
 official transactions, showing specifically and in detail 
 ^Agents ^shaU ^very Authority given to traders, (Reg. XIV;) every 
 keep record, &c. Authority for the purchase of products, (XX;) every 
 inspection of trade store, and the results thereof, (XV;) 
 all appointments of Agency Aids onfcars, vessels, and boats, and the 
 compensation of each, (XXX;) all seizures in cases of excess or eva- 
 sion of permits to blockaded ports, (XXXII;) all seizures or detentions 
 of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, 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, 
 
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 on the first day of every month, transmit to the proper Supervising 
 Special Agent a transcript of such record, and all bonds or securities 
 received by them under these Regulations, (XIV, XX, XXXVII.) 
 
 XL VIII. Local Special Agents shall keep a record of every Authority 
 to trade or to purchase products presented by the 
 Local Special holder thereof, and of all certificates given to traders, 
 Agents shall ^^ ^^^, permits to purchase and transport products, 
 &c. ' (Reg. XIV;) of all permits for purchase and trans- 
 
 portation of supplies from trade store, and certificates 
 to buy supplies elsewhere than in trade district, (XVI;) of all per- 
 mits granted where 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 supplies, (XIX;) of all exceas 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, affidavits, and permits, (XII, XVI, XVII, 
 XIX, XLII ) And they will also, as. nearly as possible on the first 
 da}^ of every month, transmit to the proper Supervising Special Agent 
 a transcript of such record, and will deliver to such Agent all bonds 
 or securities received by them under these Regulations, (XXXVII.) 
 
 XLIX. Supervising Special Agents shall keep a record of all 
 Supervising Sue- their official transactions, showing fully the name 
 ciai Agents shall and location of each Local Special Agent and Agency 
 keep record, &c. ^j(j appointed by them, and the compensation of 
 each, (Reg. IV;) of conferences with Generals commanding Depart- 
 ments and designations of trade and supply districts, (IX, X;) of all 
 Authorities given for trade stores, stating the date, name of trader, 
 localit}^, and amount of goods authorized, (XIV;) of the inspection of 
 trade stores and the results, (XV;) of all trade stores authorized 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, Certificates, and Permits, (XXIII;) of 
 all information touching any goods or transactions given to other offi- 
 cers of the department, (XXVII;) of all appointments of Agency Aids 
 upon cars, vessels, and boats, (XXX;) of all seizures and detentions of 
 vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, after clearance 
 has been refused, (XXXVI;) of all securities required and received 
 of owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to in- 
 surgents, 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 pre- 
 vious 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. 
 
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 L. These Regulations shall supersede those of March 31, 1863, 
 and all others conflicting herewith, affecting commer- 
 Eegulations ^u- ^.j^| intercourse with States declared in insurrection; 
 others." and all permits hereafter granted by any officer of the 
 
 Treasury Department will be granted in pursuance of 
 them and of the Local Rules authorized by them, or by virtue of au- 
 thority hereafter given by the Secretary of the Treasury; but all 
 permits granted and acts done in pursuance of former Regulations 
 shall be valid and effectual until the 15th day of October, 1863, 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 GOVERNMENT 
 OF THE KRVKRAL SPKClvL AGENTS AND AGEn!(^Y AIDS APPOIMIED IN PUR- 
 SUANCE OK THH: a T OF 12TH M-^RCH, 186:i, ENTITLED " AN ACT TO PROVIDE 
 FORTHECOLLKCIIONT 0^ ABANDONED PROPER IT. AND FOR THE PREVEMTION 
 OF FRAUDS IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES." 
 
 I. The territory of the United States designated as in insurrection 
 against the lawful government of the United States by 
 .Territory di- tjie Proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862, to 
 trictscaUed Soe" '^^^'^^h Special Agents have been assigned to receive and 
 cial Agencies. collect abandoned and captured property, is divided 
 into districts called Special Agencies, numerically desig- 
 nated and described as folloAVs, viz : 
 
 The First Special Agency comprises the district of the Uni- 
 ted States west of the Alleghany mountains, known 
 Special Agen- ^j^^ Valley of the Mississippi, and extending south- 
 
 cies named and • i i i c i i j- *'l i 
 
 described. ward SO as to include so much or the btates oi 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 West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany moun- 
 tains. 
 
 The Third Special Agency comprises the State of North Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 The Fourth Special Agency comprises the States of South Car- 
 olina, 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 additiontd Special Agencies shall be established, they will be 
 numerically designated in the order of their establishment. And if 
 the boundaries of agencies already established shall be changed, due 
 notice thereof will be given. 
 
 IL Supervising Special Agents and Assistant Special Agents will 
 be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
 aeeuts^°^ '^"^ ^ Local Special Agents and Agency Aids will be appointed 
 by Supervising Special Agents, or under their direc- 
 tion by Assistant Special Agents, subject to the approval of the Sec- 
 retary, to carry into effect the said Act and these Kegulations. 
 
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 III. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents are authorized and 
 directed to receive and collect all abandoned and cap- 
 izecfan/directed tiired property found within their respective Agencies 
 to collect and re- and within the lines of military occupation by the 
 ceive all abaa- United States forces, except such as has been used or 
 proper y. ^^^^ intended to be used for waging or carrying on war 
 against the United States, viz: arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats or 
 other water craft and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and 
 munitions of war. 
 
 TV, Abandoned property is of two descriptions: 
 
 First; That which has been or may be deserted by 
 
 c^Ser'^'V'^!''! the owners; and, 
 
 erty. Second; That which has been or may be voluntarily 
 
 abandoned by the owners to the civil or military au- 
 thorities 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. 
 
 V. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents will exercise due dili- 
 gence in receiving and collecting, within the Agency 
 Special Agents ^^ which they have been respectively assigned, all 
 
 Will collect nnct iiii ii iii* 
 
 receive property, abandoned and captured property ; and on taking pos- 
 and make and session of any such property, will immediately make 
 keep a true re- ^^^^ keep a full and correct record of all the facts or 
 
 cord and account .,,/.. , , , i , i 
 
 of expenses. iniormation 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 property and the owner or claimant thereof, and any state- 
 ments they may make in connexion therewith ; by whom such 
 property was captured or abandoned ; by whom received or col- 
 lected; 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 particular 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 collec- 
 tion, 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 
 
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 so received and collected will be delivered, another to the Secretary 
 of the Treasury, and the third will be retained by the Assistant 
 Special Agents for their files. 
 
 VI. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents will receive within 
 
 Agents will their respective Agencies any property from persons 
 
 receive volnnta- wlio offer voluntarily to abandon the same; and shall 
 
 rily ab>ndoned gjye a receipt therefor to the person so abandoning it, 
 
 live^"^ ^receip"s, ^^' ^^ ^^^^' ^^^ ^®'' ^gent, in the following form: 
 
 and take stipula- 
 tions. 
 
 " Received of , of tlie county of ... . , in tlie 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 received as abandoned property, to be forwarded to 
 
 , and disposed of in accordance with the act of Congress, approved 
 
 March 12, 1863." 
 
 And shall 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, the Agent shall 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 prupeity 
 
 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 sucli 
 
 property, subject to the deductions prescribed by the act approved March 12, 1862, and 
 the fees designated by the XIV Regulation prescribtd by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
 September 11, 1863. 
 
 And I hereby acquit and discharge the said ,...., 
 
 and all otiier 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 traus- 
 poriin^ or disposing of it. 
 
 Ad in case of any loss or damage to the said property in its transportation or other- 
 wise, neiilier the government of the United States nor any of its Agents shall be held 
 responsible therefor." 
 
 A record of ail property so received and of the expenses incurred in 
 connexion therewith shall be made and copies transmitted, and the pro- 
 perty shall be disposed of, in the manner prescribed in Regulation V. 
 3c 
 
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 YIL Supervising and Assistant Special Agents -will receive and 
 collect abandont'd property from any officer or private of 
 lect'and' n"cH ve *^'® regular or volunteer forces of the United States, or 
 from officers and any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the 
 privates, sailors United States, upon the inland waters of the United 
 or marines, jiban- g^^^^g ^yj^Q may take or receive any such abandoned 
 
 doned propiTty, ' „ •' . ,. ''.. ^• ^ ■ j. 
 
 and give nceipt. i)roperty. trom persons m such insurrectionary districts, 
 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 : 
 
 "Received o> 
 
 estimated at $ 
 
 taken or received and lield by him as abandoned property ia 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 pur- 
 suance of certain acts of Congress, approved July l.'J, 1861, May 20, 18()2, and March 12, 
 1863. The said jiroperty to be transi)orted and dis( osed of under the Regulations of the 
 Secretary of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the autliority confeiTed on him by 
 said acts." 
 
 Three copies of said receipt shall be made, one of wliich 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. 
 
 YllL Supervising and AssistantSpecial Agents will collect and receive 
 of any officer or private, or person employed in or with 
 
 Captured property the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, 
 in hands of ofiicers ;iny property held by him Avhich shall have been cap- 
 turned' over" and tAired in any district declared to be in insurrection 
 receipt given. against the United States, except such as shall be re- 
 
 (piired ibr military use of the United States forcesj 
 and air property so held by them shall be received by the Agent aa 
 captured propert}', leaving all questions concerning the class to which 
 it belongs for after consideration; and they shall also receive Avith 
 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: 
 
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 " Received of 
 
 estimated at $ 
 
 captured by the forces of the United States, and claimed to be the property of . 
 
 which property 1 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 
 Secretary 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. 
 
 IX. When any part of the goods or property received or collected 
 by any Supervising or Assistant Special Agent is de- 
 Property requir- manded for public use, and a requisition therefor is 
 be appraisecraud Presented, signed by the General commanding De- 
 delivered over. partment, or by som* other officer authorized by 
 such Commander of Department, the Special Agent 
 having such property in charge shall select three competent and 
 disinterested persons, to be approved by such officer, who shall 
 make oath for the faithful discharge 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." 
 
 I 
 
 Which certificate shall be certified by the Special Agent and by 
 the officer receiving said property; and the goods or property so ap- 
 praised shall be delivered over to the officer appointed to receive it ; 
 and the Special Agent shall in all such cases require from the offi- 
 cer or agent receiving said goods or property a receipt in the follow- 
 ing form: 
 
 •' Received of 
 
 alleged to have 
 
 been collected or received by him as abandoned or captured, and which has been this day 
 
 appraised by . ., 
 
 f '. . . 
 
 appraisers appointed with my approval, to be worth . . . dollars, which property has 
 been delivered to me by said Ageit to be appropriated to the public use, as provided in the 
 second section of the Act of Congress, approved March 12, 1863, entitled ' An act to provide 
 for the collection of abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary 
 districts within the United States.' " 
 
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 And he sLall keep a record of all expenses incurred on account of 
 said property ; 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 prescribed and directed in Regu- 
 lation Y. 
 
 X. In all cases where property of a perishable nature, whether 
 
 captured or abandoned, shall be collected or received 
 
 Disposition of by the proper Agents of this Department, and its imme- 
 
 perishable pro- ^[^y^Q q.^\q jg required by the interest of all concerned, 
 
 as "cannot be such Agent shall, where practicable, forward it without 
 
 transported. delay to the nearest place designated 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 forth- 
 w^ith cause it to be sold at auction to the highest bidder; all such ship- 
 ments to be accompanied by a statement as required by Regulation V. 
 If, from the character of the property, it shall be impracticable so 
 to transport 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 Y, 
 together with the certificate of appraisal, taken in triplicate, and the 
 account of sales, and hold the proceeds subject to the direction of the 
 Supervising Special Agent for that Agency. 
 
 XI. In case of furniture, family pictures, equipage, clothing, or 
 
 household effects, abandoned or captured, and col- 
 House furniture ig^^g^ Qj. i-eceived by Special Agents, they will 
 and family effects. -i i i xi r x v j j 
 
 cause the prescribed record thereot to be made and 
 
 transmitted, and will store such property on the premises where 
 found, wdienever 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 fur- 
 ther 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 untransportable 
 property. In case such property is in nse at hospitals, or for any 
 military purpose, they will cause such property to be appraised and 
 treated as property required for public use, as directed in Regula- 
 tion IX. 
 
 XII. When property is liable to be lost or destroyed in conse- 
 
 „ . . quence of its location being unknown to the Special 
 bupervising { , r , i i , • '^ ^ 
 
 Special Agents Agents, or Iroin other causes, and parties propose, for 
 
 may contract for compensation, to collect and deliver it into the hands 
 
 collectmg and ^f g^ch agents at points designated by them, Super- 
 
 erty'^^by'^ other "v-Jsing Special Agents may contract, on behalf of the 
 
 parties. 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 pro- 
 
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 ceeds 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 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 
 be collected, the locality whence to be obtained, and all the facts and 
 circumstances connected with it, particularly as to its ownership. 
 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. 
 
 Before payment to any contractor under any contract made in pur- 
 suance of this regulation, he shall execute a bond, with 
 given by con- penalty equal to the amount stipulated to be paid to 
 tractor indemni- him, and with sureties satisfactory to the Supervising 
 fying the gov- Special Agent, indemnifying the United States against 
 all claims to the property delivered on account of dam- 
 ages 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. 
 
 Should a case arise in the opinion of the Supervising Special Agent 
 
 justifying the payment of a larger percentage than one 
 
 centals selms'to <iuarter of the proceeds of the property, he will make 
 
 be proper, Hgent a statement of the facts and circumstances and the 
 
 to refer the case reasons in his opinion justifying such additional allow- 
 
 e ecre aiy. r^^^Q^ .^^^^ refer the same to the Secretary for instructions. 
 
 And for the purpose of getting possession of and transporting to 
 
 Local Special market as much of the captured and abandoned property 
 
 Agents and as possible Avithin the lines of the military forces of 
 
 Agency Aids to ^\^q United States, Supervising Special Agents or 
 
 be appointed. ^ggigtant Special Agents under their direction, will 
 
 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. 
 
 XIII. No property collected or received as captured or abandoned 
 under the act of March 12, 1863, shall be released by 
 Agents not to ^ Ac'ent except by special authority from the Sec- 
 release property, fi-.trUj. ^ ■ • 
 or permit its re- retary of the Treasury to any persons claiming own- 
 
 movai, or grant ership of sucli property ; nor shall any permit be given 
 personal favors, ^^ g^^j^ Agents to individuals to remove such property; 
 t^es'^ot^ author'- noi* shall any liability be incurred or assumed, or con- 
 ized by regula- tract be made on the part the United States by such 
 tiois. Agents, except as authorized by these Regulations. 
 
 No personal favor shall in any case be extended to one 
 individual or party rather than another. 
 
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 XIV. Supervising Special Agents will pay or cause to be paid, out 
 
 of the general fund arising from the sale of all property 
 Necessary ex- 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 out of the proceeds 
 of each lot or parcel one and one half per centum thereof for the pay- 
 ment 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 em- 
 ployes, auctioneers, printing, and advertising, a carefully stated, 
 account of which will be kept by such Agents, showing in detail all ex- 
 penses paid out of this fund arising from such charge; and unless un- 
 avoidably prevented, they will take vouchers for all expenditures made 
 under this Regulation, and transmit the same Avith 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 sum 
 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. 
 
 XV. All property collected and received, other than such as is 
 
 described in Regulations X and XI, and such as may 
 
 Property to be \)q appropriated to public use, shall be transported to 
 
 lovaf^*taies and ^^^^ places in the loyal States as shall be designated 
 
 sold at auction, 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 auction to the highest bidder, for United States notes, 
 pursuant to notice previously published of the time and place of sale. 
 
 XVI. Each Supervising Special Agent or other person, as aforesaid, 
 
 shall make a full record of each lot or parcel of property 
 Specilu^AK^nt^ coming to his possession, in tlie manner prescribed by 
 to make report. 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, ac- 
 companying the same with receipts or other vouchers for all moneys 
 paid out by him. All balances remaining in his hands shall be depos- 
 ited in the Treasury from time to time, as directed by the Secretary. 
 
PROCLAMATIOIS OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 AUGUST 16, 1861. 
 By the President of fJte 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, 
 which 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 provide for calling 
 forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insur- 
 rections, 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 in- 
 surgents 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 under 
 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 insurrection been suppressed b}^ said States : 
 
 JSow, 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 tlie inhabit- 
 ants of the said States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North 
 Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis- 
 sippi, 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 
 maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may 
 be, from time to time, occupied and controlled by forces of the United 
 States engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents,) are in a state of 
 insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial in- 
 tercourse between the same 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 ; 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 
 
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 the Secretary of the Treasur}'-, or proceeding- to anj 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 
 Proclamation, all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part to 
 any citizen or inhabitant 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 military 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 declared 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 or forfeiture, which the said Secretary is 
 authorized by law to grant if, in his judgment, the special circum- 
 stances of any case shall require such remission. 
 
 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 sixteenth day of Aiigus.t, in 
 P -, the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and of 
 '- ■ '-^ the Independence of the United States of America the eighty- 
 sixth. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 By the President : 
 
 William H. Seward, SecTetainj of State. 
 
 JULY 1, 1862. 
 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. 1862, entitled "An act for the collec- 
 tion of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United 
 States, and for other purposes," it is made the duty of the President 
 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 Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louis- 
 iana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and 
 the State of Virginia, except the following counties: Hancock, Brooke, 
 Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleas- 
 ants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, 
 Roane, Calhoun, Gilmore, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, 
 Randolph, Mason. Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, 
 Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are now 
 in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil author- 
 ity of the United States is obstructed so that the provisions of the 
 
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 ' ' Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the interest on 
 the public debt, and for other purposes," approved Auf2;ust fifth, 
 eighteenhundredand 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 at the 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. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 By the President: 
 
 F. W. Sewaed, Acting Secretary of State. 
 
 MARCH 31, 1863. 
 
 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, 1861, declare that 
 the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, 
 North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, 
 Mississippi, and Florida (except the inhabitants of that part of Vir- 
 ginia 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 States, 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 insurrection 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 ex- 
 ceptions aforesaid, 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 inter- 
 course authorized by said act with the loyal citizens of said States : 
 
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 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, Tennes- 
 see, 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 in- 
 tercourse, not licensed and conducted as provided in said act, be- 
 tween the said States and the inhabitants thereof, with the excep- 
 tions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the 
 United States, is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insur- 
 rection 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, Avithout the license and permisison 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 
 r -, 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. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 By the President : 
 
 William H. Seward, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
LICEXSE OF TRADE BY THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 Washington, Executive Mansion, 
 
 March 31, 1863. 
 
 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 commercial intercourse between the inhabitants 
 of such States as should by proclamation 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 hostility 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 regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; and 
 whereas it appears that a partial restoration of such intercourse be- 
 tween the inhabitants of sundry places and sections heretofore de- 
 clared in insurrection in pursuance of said act and the citizens of the 
 rest of the United States will favorably afiFect the public interests : 
 
 Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
 States, exercising 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 Secre- 
 tary of the Treasury, bearing even date with these presents, or in 
 such other regulations as he may hereafter, with my approval, pre- 
 scribe . 
 
 ABRAHAM LIXCOLX. 
 
ACTS or CONGRESS. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes. 
 
 Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
 States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever it shall, in the 
 judgment of the President, by reason of unlawful combinations of per- 
 sons in opposition to the laws of the United States, become impracti- 
 cable to execute the revenue laws and collect the duties on imports 
 by ordinary means, in the ordinary way, at any port of entry in any 
 collection district, he is authorized to cause such duties to be col- 
 lected 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 obliga- 
 tions of collectors at ports of entry ; and the Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury, with the approbation of the President, shall appoint such number 
 of weighers, gangers, measurers, inspectors, appraisers, and clerks, 
 as may be necessary, in his judgment, for the faithful execution 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 im- 
 ports, and collection of duties, shall apply to the ports of entry so 
 constituted in the same manner as they do to ports of entry estab- 
 lished by the laws now in force. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if, from the cause mentioned 
 in the foregoing section, in the judgment ^f the President, the reve- 
 nue from duties on imports cannot be effectually collected at any port 
 of entry in any collection district, in the ordinary way and by the 
 ordinary means, or by the course provided in the foregoing section, 
 then aud in that case he may direct that the custom-house for the 
 district be established in any secure place within said district, either 
 on land or on board any vessel in said district or at sea near tho 
 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 car- 
 goes arriving within or approaching said district, until the duties 
 imposed b}^ law on said vessels and their cargoes 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 desire 
 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 
 
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 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 Avritten permit to proceed to the port so designated : 
 And provided, furilLer, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, with 
 the approbation of the President, make proper regulations for 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. 
 
 Sec. 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 officers 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 combination, or ass'emblage orf" per- 
 sons, too great to be overcome by the officers of the customs, it shall 
 and ma}^ be lawful for the President, or such person or persons 
 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 tlie custody thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. And he 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 eflectually 
 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, Avarehous- 
 ing, 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 from beyond the United 
 States, or having on board any articles subject to duties, shall enter 
 or attempt to enter any such port, the same, together with its tackle, 
 apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to the United States. 
 
 Sec. 5. And he it further enacted, That whenever the President, in 
 pursuance of the provisions of the second section of the act entitled 
 "A.n act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws 
 of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to re- 
 peal the act now in force for that purpose," approved February t#^enty- 
 eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-live, 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 insurgents claim to act under the authority of any State 
 or States, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the per- 
 sons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, 
 or in the part or parts thereof in which said combination 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 proclama- 
 
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 tion, to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or 
 part thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insur- 
 rection against the United States ; and thereupon all commercial 
 intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and 
 the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be un- 
 lawful 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 conveying persons to or from 
 such State or section, be forfeited to the United States : Provided^ 
 hotvever, That the President may, in his discretion, license and permit 
 comm^'cial 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 appoint such officers, at places where officers of the customs are 
 not now authorized by law, as may be needed to carry into effect such 
 licenses, rules, and regulations ; and officers of the customs and other 
 officers shall receive for services under this section, and under said 
 rules and regulations, such fees and compensation as are now allowed 
 for similar service under other provisions of law. 
 
 Sec. 6. And be 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, ^ny ship or vessel belonging in whole 
 or in part to any citizen or inhabitant 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 for- 
 feited to the United States. 
 
 Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, 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 cut- 
 ters in service, to employ in aid thereof such other suitable vessels 
 as may, in his judgment, be required. 
 
 - Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the forfeitures and penalties 
 incurr#d by virtue of this act may be mitigated or remitted, in pur- 
 suance of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Treasury by 
 the act entitled "An act providing for mitigating or remitting the 
 forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing 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. 
 
 Sec. 9. And be it further enacted. That proceedings on seizures for 
 forfeitures under this act may be pursued in the courts of the United 
 States in any district into which the property so seized may be taken 
 
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 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 
 
 Supplementary to an act approved on the thirteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
 one, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other 
 purposes." 
 
 Be it enacted hy 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 merchandise, 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 granted 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 circumstances of the case, to require 
 a bond to be executed by the master or thp owner of the vessel, in 
 a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and with sureties 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 railroad, turnpike, 
 or other road or means of transportation within the United States, 
 of any goods, wares, or merchandise, of whatever character, and 
 whatevtr 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 danger 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 
 
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 so to do, to require reasonable security to be given that goods, wares, 
 or merchandise shall not be transported to any place under insur- 
 rectionary 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 Tresury, 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 to the United States. 
 
 Sec. 4. Jnd be it further enacted, That the proceedings for the 
 penalties and forfeitures accruing under this act may be pursued, and 
 the same may be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury 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. A^id be it further enacted, That the proceeds of all penal- 
 ties and forfeitures 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 provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in 
 insurrectionary districts within the United iStates. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 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 first, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two : 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 
 w^ater craft, and the furniture, forage, military supplies, or muni- 
 tions of war. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any part of the goods or 
 property received or collected by such agent or agents may be appro- 
 priated to public use on due appraisement and certificate thereof, or 
 forwarded to any place of sale within the loyal States, as the public 
 
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 interests may require ; and all sales of such property shall be at auc- 
 tion to the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into 
 the treasury of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the treas- 
 ury may require the special agents appointed under this act to give a 
 bond with such securities and in such amount as he shall deem neces- 
 sary, and to require the increase of said amounts, and the strenghen- 
 ing of said security, as circumstances may demand ; and he sbiall also 
 cause a book or books of account to be kept, showing from whom such 
 property was received, the cost of transportation, and 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 residue of such pro- 
 ceeds, 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 disposi- 
 tion thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That all property coming into 
 any of the United States not|^eclared 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 clearance by the proper officer of the 
 Treasury Department, shall be confiscated to the use of the govern- 
 ment of the United States. And the proceedings for the condemna- 
 tion and sale of any such property shall be instituted and conducted 
 under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the mode pre- 
 scribed by the eighty-ninth and ninetieth sections of the act of March 
 second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to reg- 
 ulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And any 
 agent or agents, person or persons, by or through whom such prop- 
 erty shall come within the lines of the United States unlawfull}^, as 
 aforesaid, shall be judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 
 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 ac- 
 cruing under this act may be mitigated or remitted in the mode pre- 
 scribed by the act of March three, seventeen hundred 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 further 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 proclamation of the 
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 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 maj' determine. 
 
 Sec. 6. And be 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 
 Unite^ 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 re- 
 fuse or neglect so to do, he shall be tried by a court-martial and shall 
 be dismissed from the service, or, if an officer, reduced to the ranks, 
 or sufier such other punishment as said court shall order, with the 
 approval of the President of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 7. And be 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. 
 
ORDER 
 
 SECRETARY OF WAR. 
 
 General Orders No. 88.] 
 
 War Department, 
 Washington, Blarch 31. 1863. 
 
 For the purpose of more effectually preventing all commercial in- 
 tercourse with insurrectionary States, except such as shall be author- 
 ized- in pursuance of law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and 
 efficient action in conducting such intercourse as shall be so author- 
 ized, 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 ii hereby ordered — 
 
 That no officer of the army of the United States, nor other person 
 connected therewith, shall authorize or have any interest in the trans- 
 portation of any goods, wares, or merchandise (except supplies be- 
 longing to or contracted for by the United States, designed for the 
 military or naval forces thereof, and moving under 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 Treasury De- 
 partment) into any State declared by the President to be in insur- 
 rection ; nor authorize nor have any interest in the purchase or sale 
 therein of any goods or chattels wares or merchandise, cotton, to- 
 bacco, or other product of the soil thereof ; nor the transportation 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 con- 
 ducted under the regulations of Mie Secretary of the Treasury, un- 
 less under some imperative military 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. 
 
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 11. 
 
 It is furtlier ordered that every officer or private, or person em- 
 ployed in or with the regiUar or volunteer forces of the United 
 States, who nuiy receive or have under his control any property 
 which shall have been abandoned b}^ the owner or owners, or cap- 
 tured 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 ap- 
 pointed 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, control, 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 property or the proceeds thereof. Arms, munitions of war, 
 forage, horses, mules, wagons, beef cattle, and supplies which are 
 necessary in military operations, shall^be turned over to the proper 
 officers of the ordnance, or of the quartermaster, or of the commis- 
 sary departments, respectively, for the use of the army. All other 
 property abandoned or captured or seized, as aforesaid, shall be de- 
 livered 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 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 thereto; and if requested by him 
 so to do, tliey 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 re- 
 ceiving 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, iipon request of a duly authorized 
 agent of the Treasury .Department, render a written report, with in- 
 voices thereof, to said agent, in which he will specify the arms, sup- 
 plies, 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 disp^osed of. 
 
 And in case a sale of any such propery 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 
 
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 when and where and by and to whom sold, and the amount received 
 therefor, and what disposition was made of the proceeds. 
 
 And all ofificers of the army 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. 
 
 III. 
 
 All commanders of military departments, districts, and posts, will, 
 upon receipt of this order, revoke all existing orders within their re- 
 spective commands conflicting or inconsistent herewith, or which 
 permit or prohibit or in any manner interfere with any trade or trans- 
 portation conducted under the regulations of the Secretary of the 
 Treasury; andtheir attention is particularly directed to said regula- 
 tions, prescribed March 31, 1863, and they will respectively make 
 such orders as will insure strict observance of this order throughout 
 their respective commands. 
 
 All expenses of transporting property herein referred to will be 
 reported by the officers of the quartermaster's department, who fur- 
 nish such transportation, to the agents of the Treasury Department, 
 and also, through the ordinary channels, to the quartermaster general 
 at Washington, in order thatmhe said expenses may be reimbursed 
 from the proceeds of sales of such transported propertv- 
 
 EDWIN M. STANTON, 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 War Department, 
 
 September 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 
 March 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. 
 
ORDER 
 
 SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, 
 
 Navy Department, 
 Washington^ 3Iarch 31, 1863. 
 For the purpose of more effectually preventing all commercial in- 
 tercourse with insurrectionary States, except such as shall be author- 
 ized 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 Con- 
 gress 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 hereb#brdered — 
 
 That no officer of the navy 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, 
 belonging to or contracted for by the United States, designed for 
 the military or naval forces thereof, and moving under military or 
 naval orders, and except also sutlers' supplies and other things neces- 
 sary 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 insur- 
 rection; nor authorize nor have any interest in the purchase or sale 
 therein of any goods or chattels, wares or merchandise, cotton, to- 
 bacco, or other products of the soil thereof; nor the transportation 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 con- 
 ducted under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless 
 under some imperative military 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 officers of the navy of the United States and other persons con- 
 nected therewith will render such aid in carrying out the provisions 
 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 manifest injury to the public service. 
 
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 li- 
 lt 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 in any district declared to be in insur- 
 rection against the United States, including all property seized in any 
 such district, under naval orders, excepting only such as shall be re- 
 quired for the use of the naval forces of the United States, and as is 
 excluded by the act of March 12, 1863, shall promptly turn over all 
 such property 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 vouchers showing title to such property, or the right 
 to the possession, control, or direction thereof; and he shall make 
 such order, indorsement, or writing as he has power to make to en- 
 able such agent to take possession of such property, or the proceeds 
 thereof. Arms, munitions 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 abandoned, 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 
 Tjsual and necessary invoices, receipts or vouchers therefor, and 
 shall make regular returns thereof as prescribed by the navy regula- 
 tions. The receipts of the agents of the Treasury Department shall 
 be vouchers for all property delivered to them. And whenever called 
 upon b}^ the said 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 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 thereof, and of the receipts, in- 
 voices, and vouchers therefor. 
 
 And every officer of the navy of the United States hereafter re- 
 ceiving abandoned, or captured, or seized property in any insurrec- 
 tionary 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 Secretar}^ of the 
 Treasury as aforeeaid, 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 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, he will so state, and will 
 describe the property so sold, and will state when and where, and by 
 atid to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, and what dis- 
 position was made of the proceeds. 
 
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 And all officers of the navy of the United States will, at all times, 
 render to the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Ti'easury 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 by the officers who furnish the transportation to the agent 
 of the Treasury Department, and also, through the proper channels, 
 to the Navy Department at Washington, 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 of this order, revoke all existing orders throughout their 
 respective commands conflicting or inconsistent herewith, or which 
 permit, or prohibit, or in any manner interfere with any trade or 
 transportation conducted under the regulations of the Secretary of 
 the Treasury not understood as applying to auy lawful maritime prize 
 by the naval forces of the United States ; and their attention is par- 
 ticularly directed to said regulations, prescribed March 31, 1863, and 
 they will respectively make such orders as will insure strict observ- 
 ance of this order throughout their respective commands. « 
 
 GIDEON WELLES, 
 
 Secretary of the Navy. 
 
 Navy Department, 
 
 September 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 superseding the Regulation of March 31, 
 1863; and they will in all respects observe the order of this Depart- 
 ment, dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said Revised Regula- 
 tions, as if the same had been originally promulgated with reference 
 to them. 
 
 GIDEON. WELLES, 
 
 Secretary of the Navy. 
 
 
ADDTTMAL REGULATIONS 
 
 CON'CERNIXG 
 
 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE 
 
 WFTII AND IN 
 
 STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION. 
 
 JANUAKY 26, 1864. 
 
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EXECUTIVE. ORDER 
 
 Executive Mansion, 
 Washington, January 26, 1864. 
 
 I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, having seen 
 and considered the Additional Regulations of Trade prescribed by 
 the Secretar}^ of the Treasury, and numbered EI, LII, LIII, LIV, LV, 
 and LVI, do hereby approve the same ; and I further declare and 
 order that all property brought in for sale in good faith, and actually 
 sold in pursuance of said Regulations LII, LIII, LIV, LV, and LVI, 
 after the same shall have taken effect and come in force as provided 
 in Regulation LVI, shall bo exempt from confiscation or forfeiture to 
 
 the United States. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
ADDITIONAL EEGULATIONS OF TllADE, 
 
 Treasury Department, January 23, 1864. 
 
 LI. — The Commanding General having expressed the opinion, in reply to a 
 letter addressed to him by the Secretary of the Treasury on the 16th instant, 
 that restrictions on trade in the States of Missouri and Kentucky may now be 
 safely removed, and the Secretary of War, in his letter of this day, January ~r^^Jy^ 
 23, 1864, having approved that opinion, the 'JEMseatieii Regulation of Trade es- sCjcCfi 
 tablished, with other Regulations, on the 11th of September, 1863, is so far 
 modified that all restrictions on trade in the States of Missouri and Kentucky 
 are annulled and abrogated; and all products and goods may be freely taken 
 into and transported within the said States as in time of peace : Provided, how- 
 ever, That no products or goods shall be taken from said States, or either of 
 them, into any State declared to be in insurrection, or to any port in said State 
 heretofore blockaded which has been or may be opened, except in compliance 
 with the Regulations of September 11, 1863. 
 
 Restrictions upon trade in, to, or from other States, and also upon the trade 
 with States in insurrection and parts of said States, especially on the Missis- 
 sippi and other navigable rivers, will be removed whenever, in the opinion of 
 the President, such removal shall be found compatible with the military mea- 
 sures necessary for the suppression of the rebellion. 
 
 S. P. CHASE, 
 
 Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 ADDITIONAL EEGULATIONS OF TRADE, 
 
 To take effect when promulgated under authority of the President by Generals 
 commanding departments. 
 
 Treasury Department, January 26, 1864. 
 
 LII. — All persons being or residing in any of the States declared to be in in- 
 surrection, whether within or beyond the lines of national military occupation, 
 may freely bring any goods or products from within the State iu which he may 
 reside to any place within such lines where there is a Supervising Special Agent 
 or Assistant Special Agent of the Treasury Department, for sale or other disposi- 
 tion ; and so much of any Regulation heretofore established as requires the 
 obtaining of any previous authority or permit for bringing goods and products 
 to the place of sale is hereby rescinded. 
 
 LIII. — In all cases vv'here the owner of the goods and products so brought 
 in for sale shall reside within the lines of national military occupation, and shall 
 take the oath prescribed by the Proclamation of the President, dated December 
 8, 1863, and is not excepted from the amnesty granted by the said Proclama- 
 tion, or proved by ailfidavits to the satisfaction of the Supervising Special Agent 
 or Assistant Special Agent to be disloyal and hostile to the United States, such 
 owner or his a""ent may receive the price of his goods and products without 
 
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 deduction, except for dues ;ind fees to tlie Goverumeut under tlie Regulations 
 of September 11, 1S63, or lie may convey such goods and products, having 
 paid said dues and fees, utider proper permit, to such other place as he 
 may choose for sale or other disposition; but whenever the owner of said 
 goods and products shall not reside within the lines of national military 
 occupation,. such goods and products shall be sold by the Supervising Special 
 Agent or Assistant Special Agent; and all such sales of such goods and products 
 shall take place on Monday of each week, at the place of receipt, and shall 
 include all complete lots on hand at the time of sale. And the Supervising 
 Special Agent or the Assistant Special Agent, as the case may be, shall pay to 
 said owner or his agent, if said owner shall have taken said oath, and is not 
 excepted from said amnesty nor proved to be disloyal and hostile, twenty -five 
 per cent, of the gross proceeds of said sales, and shall pay the remainder of 
 such proceeds, after deducting necessary and proper expenses of sale and one 
 per cent, as his additional compensation, into the Treasury of the United States, 
 and shall give to the owner of each lot sold, or his agent, a receipt or certificate 
 describing the property. But the aggregate compensation of no Supervising 
 Special Agent or Assistant Special Agent shall exceed the sum of five thousand 
 dollars per annum, or at that rate for a less period; and each Supervising Special 
 Agent and Assistant Special Agent charged with the receipt and payment of 
 any money under any Regulation of the Treasury Department, shall give bond 
 to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the sum of fifty thousand 
 dollars for the faithful performance of his duties as such Supervising Special 
 Agent or Assistant Special Agent, and for the punctual payment into the Trea- 
 sury of the United States, of all sums by him received and req\iired by law or 
 Regulations to be so paid. 
 
 LIV, All sales, whether private or public, shall be for notes of the United 
 States or Treasury Notes, exclusively, and all proceeds of goods and products 
 paid into the Treasury under the foregoing Regulation shall be restored without 
 interest to the owner of the goods and products sold, in case he shall establish, 
 on the return of peace and the full practical restoration of the authority of the 
 Union, his title to said goods and products, and that since the sale thereof he 
 has conducted himself in all respects as a good and loyal citizen of the United 
 States, and has done nothing inconsistent with the terms of the oath prescribed 
 by the President's Proclamation of amnesty. 
 
 LV. Nothing in either of the foregoing Additional Regulations shall authorize 
 the conveyance of supplies beyond the lines of national military occupation, or, 
 except under the Regulations of September 11, 1863, within said lines. 
 
 LVI. The foregoing Regulations, numbered LII, LIU, LIV, LV, shall take 
 effect and be in force within the lines of the several military departments in the 
 insurrectionary States, whenever the Generals commanding said departments 
 shall, respectively, under authority from the President, and by proper orders 
 promulgate the same. 
 
 S. P. CHASE, 
 Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
EXECUTIVE OKDER. 
 
 Executive Mansion, 
 Washington, February 2,^1864. 
 
 I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United .States, having seen 
 and considered the Additional Regulation of Trade prescribed by 
 the Secretary of the Treasury^ and numbered LVII, do hereby 
 approve the same. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 ADDITIONAL REGULATION OF TKADE. 
 
 Treasury Department, February 2, 1864. 
 
 LVII. — The Secretary of War iia\ing transmitted to this Department, a letter 
 of the Commanding General, expressing the opinion, in reply to a letter ad- 
 dreS'Sed to him by the Secretary of the Treasury on the I6th ultimo, that restric- 
 tion.s on trade in thf State of West Virginia, within the National military lines 
 may now be safely removed, the Twenty-sixih Regulation of Trade, established, 
 with other Regulations, on the 11th of September, 1863, is so far modified \\it% 
 all restrictions on trade in ihe State of West Virginia within said lines are an- 
 nulled and abrogated ; and all products and goods may be freely taken into and 
 transported within the above mentioned portion of said State as in time of peace. 
 Provided, however, that no products or goods shall be taken from said State into 
 any State declared to be in insurrection, or to any port in any such State here- 
 tofore blockaded, which has been or may be opened, except in compliance with 
 the Regulations of September 11, 1863. 
 
 S. P. CHASE, 
 ' Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
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