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 APPENDIX. 741 No. 14. BY THE PRESIDENT O·F THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: March 26, 1864. Post, p. 758. A PRO OLAMATION. WHEREAS, it has become necessary to define the cases in which insur ent Preamble. enemies are entitled to the benefits of the proclamation of the President ofg the United States, which was made on the eighth day of December, 1863, and the AM, P- 737- manner in which they shall proceed to avail themselves of those benefits; And whereas the objects of that proclamation were to suppress the insurrection aud to restore the authority of the United States; and whereas the amnesty therein proposed by the President was offered with reference to these objects alone: Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of Ampssg P’°°' America, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said proclamation does not k*£;u°i1 ,(°;e,,_ apply to the cases of persons who, at the time when they seek to obtain the ben- Som §g,St,,dy_ eiits thereof by taking the oath thereby prescribed, are in military, naval, or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds, or on parole of the civil, military, or naval authorities, or agents of the United States, as prisoners of war, or persons detained for offences of any kind, either before or a ter conviction, and that on the contrary, it does apply only to those persons who, being yet at large, and free from any arrest, confinement, or duress, shall voluntarily come forward and take the said oath, with the purpose of restoring peace and establishing the national authority. Prisoners excluded from the amnesty offered in the said proclama- P1‘iS0¤¢1`¤ Hwy tion may apply to the President for clemency, like all other offenders, and their gggggdgggdgr application will receive due consideration. clemency_ I do further declare and proclaim that the oath prescribed in the aforesaid Oath maybe proclamation of the 8th of December, 1863, may be taken and subscribed before taken berm, any commissioned officer, civil, military, or naval, in the service of the United whom. States, or any civil or military officcr of a state or territory not in insurrection, who, by the laws thereof, may be qualified for administerinv oaths. All otiicers who receive such oaths are hereby authorized to give certificates thereon C¤1‘ti6¤¤¢¤¤· to the persons respectively by whom they are made, and such officers are hereby required to transmit the original records of such oaths at as early a day as may be convenient, to the Department of State, where they will be deposited and _ remain in the archives of the government. The Secretary of State will keep a R?gls;'Y °f register thereof, and will, on application, in proper cases, issue certificates of such rm W °°' records in the customary form of official certificates. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be adixed. Done at the city of Washington, the twenty-sixth day of March, in the [L. S.] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States the eichty-eighth. - ABRAHATLI LINCOLN. By the President: Wu.LrAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of Stale. No. I5. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. May 19, 1864. T0 ALL Wn0M IT MAY CONCERN2 AN exequatur bearing date the third day of May, 1850, having been issued to Charles Hunt, a citizen of the United States, recognizing him as Consul of f, Belgium, for St. Louis, Missouri, and declaring him free to exercise and enjov such functions, powers, and privileges as are allowed to the consuls of the most i