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 APPENDIX. _ 753 may be assigned to, and serve the remainder of their original terms of enlistment, an, 111 addition thereto, a period equal to the time lost 7 desertion. In testimony whereof, I ave hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of Washington,» this eleventh day of March, in the [L. s.] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. ABIRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. No. 28. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Mm1i17,1scs. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, reliable information has been received that hostile Indians within p,.,,,mb],,_ the limits of the United States have been liirnished with arms and munitions of war by persons dwelling in conterminous foreign territory, and are thereby enabled to prosecute their savage warfare upon the exposed and sparse settle ments of the frontier. Now, therefore, be it known that I, AnnA¤AM LINCOLN, President of the p,,,.,,,,,,, ,,,,._ United States of America,. do hereb proclaim and direct that all persons nisning hostile detected in that nefarious traffic shall he arrested and tried by court-martial at Indians within the nearest military post, and, if convicted, shall receive the punishment due to *h°,[“H“g* °f Um their deserts. _ ggizrmgagsbe In witness whereof; I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the ,,,,,,,,;,,,1, gw_ United States to be affixed. Done at the cit of Washington, this seventeenth day of March, in the [L. s.] year of our Herd one thousand eight hundred and sixty-Eve, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. Smwnn, Secretary of State. No. 29. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: April 11, ms. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by my Proclamations of the nineteenth and twenty-seventh days p,-,,,,m;,k,_ of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the orts of the United ,_ States in the States of Vir inia, North Carolina, South Carndina, Georgia, Flor-  X"' pp' 1258* ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, were declared to be subject to ` blockade; but whereas the said blockade has, in conse uence of actual military occupation by this government,  ince been conditionally set aside or relaxed in respect to the ports of Norfolk and Alexandria, in the State of Virginia; Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina; Port 1toyal, in the State of South Carolina; Pensacola and Fernandina, in the State of Florida; and New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana; And whereas, by the fburth section of the act of congress, approved on the 1861,   3, [4. thirteenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “£n act further v°l· **1- P- 57· to provide for the collection of duties on imports and for other purposes,"•the Igresident, for the reasons therein set forth, is authorized to close certain ports o entry: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, ABRAHAM Lmc0LN, President of the certain ports United States, do hereby proclaim that the ports of Richmond, Tappahannock, ¤l¤¤¤ A-