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 APPENDIX. 769 Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-third day of June, in the [L. s.] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tive, and of the ndependence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. _ ANDREVW JOHNSON. By the President: W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. No. 45. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : June 21, 1865. A PRO CLAMATION. Wmmmes it has been the desire of the general government of the United PF¤¤ml>l¤· States to restore unrestricted commercial intercourse between and in the several states, as soon as the same could be safely done in view of resistance to the authority of the United States by combinations of armed insurgents; And whereas that desire has been shown in my proclamations of the twenty- ninth of April} one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the thirteenth of A’*“»PP- 76% June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the twenty~third of June, 768‘ one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five; And whereas 1t now seems expedient and proper to remove restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise trade and commercial intercourse between and within the states and territories west of the Mississippi River: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, ANDREW JOHNs0N, President of the Restrictions on United States, do hereby declare that all restrictions upon internal, domestic, Utd? WW2 °*.th° and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon the purchase and removal of xiizigpl R""` products of states and Ofparts of states and territories heretofore declared in ` insurrection, lying west the Mississippi River (excepting only those relatin to property heretofore purchased by the agents, or captured by or surrendered to the forces of the United States, and to the transportation thereto or therein, on private account, of arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is made, gray uniforms and gray cloth), are annulled; and I do hereby direct that they be forthwith removed; and also that the commerce of such states, and parts of states shall be conducted under the supervision of the regularly appointed officers of the customs, [who] shall receive any captured and abandoned property that may be turned over to them, under the law, by the military or naval forces of the United States, and dispose of the same in accordance with instructions on the sub`ect, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of June, in the [L. s.] year of our Lord one thousand egght hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United tates of America the ei¤ht§ninth. ANDREW J (IH SON. By the President : W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. No. 46. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: June 30, 1865.- A PROCLAMATION. W1-rmnnss the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the Preamble. United States declares that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them tégainst invasion and domestic violence; and whereas the President of the United tates is, by the constitution, made commandenin-chief of the army and navy, as i Executive order. See Post, p. 776. vox.. xm. PUB.- 65