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 1262 APPENDIX. N0. 9. August 16, 1861 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. rreamme. Wunnnas, on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the President of the United States, in view of an insurrection against the Layvs, Constitution, and Government of the United States, which had hrohen out within the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississipnn, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act, entxt ed "An 1795, cn, 35, Act to provide for calling iorth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, SHIP Vol. i. p.424. press insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purp0se,” approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety- five, did call forth the militia to suppress said insurrection, and to cause the laws of the Union to be duly executed, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President; and, whereas, such insurrection has since broken out, and yet exists, within the States of Virginia, North _Carolma, 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 repudxated 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 by said States: Iuhgbitgufg of Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, certain States _ in pursuance of an act of Congress, apprdved July thirteen, eighteen hundred $i°°lm`°d_V’ be m and sixty-one, do hereby declare that the inhabitants of the said States of Geor- ·¤q·gg;¤g·g¤5 gis., South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, A,,;,,  gg_` Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, (except the inhabitants of that part of the State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany mountains, and of such other parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as may 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 commu-cis] States, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabiintercourse there- tants thereoi with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and with P¤'0hibi*°d· other parts of the United States is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such Good, gm, insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed; that all goods and chattels, forfeited., wares and merchandise, coming from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, without the special license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to Ships, Src., or from said States, with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the United States; forfeited after and that from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this proclamation, all £“°°¤ *1*5*- ships and vessels belonging in whole or in art to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said States, with said exceptions, fgund at sea., or in any port of the United States, will be forfeited to the United States; and I hereby enjoin upon Duty afdisn-ice all district attorneys, marshals, and officers of the revenue and of the military attorneys, mer- and naval forces of the United States to be vigilant in the execution of said act, $h”·l’· &°· and in the enforcement of the penalties and thrfeitures imposed or declared by it; leaving any party who may think himself aggrieved thereby to his a plica- Remission of tion to the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any penalty or i20rfeit- Peilggttzh 3 8 ure, which the said Secretary is authorized by law to grant if} in his judgment, Ame  25.,_* § ‘ the special circumstances 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 August, in the [r,. s.] year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Indo. pendence of the United States of America the eirrhty-sixth. ABRABAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. Smwann, Secretary of State.