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 APPENDIX. 731 tants of that fpart of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany Mountains and of such other parts 0 that state and the other states hereinbefore named as micrht main- Vol. xii. p. 1262. tain a legal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or might be, dom 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, comin from any of said states, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the Ifnited States, without the license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same to or from said states, with the exceptions afore-» said, would be forfeited to the United States : And whereas, experience has shown that the exceptions made in and by said Proclamation embarrass the due enforcement of said act of July 13, 1861, and the proper regulation of the commercial intercourse authorized by said act with the loyal citizens of said states : Now, therefore, I, ABBA11AM Lmcomr, President of the United States, do Exccptignsin hereby revoke the said exceptions, and declare that the inhabitants of the States P";°l“m“*‘°“ "°‘ of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, volsgébitants of Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight coun- ce,,,,,,, s,,,;,,,` ties. of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and except, also, the ports of New declared to be Orleans, Key \Vest, Port Royal, and Beaufort in North Carolina,) are in a state 1¤¤¤5¤¤”€€¤0¤· of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse not Commercial licensed and conducted as provided in said act between the said states and the intercourse pr<>— inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other states l§l’“°d» “X°°Plv 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 Cotton and other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from any of said states, <£h61'fPYf9¢]l¤°*·$» with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, or proceed— u;’iés:"§;t°dv ing to any of said states, with the exceptions aforesaid, without the license and ’ ` permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, will, together wth the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be forfeited to the United States. kln witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be atlixed. Done at the city of Washington,sthis second day of April, A. D. eighteen [L. S.] hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: VVILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, No. 3. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: April 20, 1868. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by the act of congress approved the 31st day of December, last, Preamble. the State of West Virginia was declared to be one of the United States of 1862 ch 6_ America, and was admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original v01_ xiii_ P: 63;} states in all respects whatever, upon the condition that certain changes should be duly made in the proposed constitution for that state : And whereas proof 0 a compliance with that condition, as required by the second section of the act aforesaid, has been submitted to me: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, ABRAHAM Lmconu, President of the Act ¤$i¤¥fif¥i¤g United States, do hereby, in pursuance of the act of congress aforesaid, declare W§i°tV";g‘;‘“.““ and proclaim that the said act shall take effect and be in force from and after ?0,c€,;’s,;,5 m sixty days from the date hereof: days from, ,3;,4;,