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heart and one mind implore the Divine guidance in the ways of national virtue and holiness. In testimony 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 twenty-eighth day of October, in [L. S.] the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tive, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: , Secretary of State.

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No. 51.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

A PROCLAMATION.

, by the Proclamation of the President of the United States, of the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus was, in certain cases therein set forth, suspended throughout the United States;

And whereas the reasons for that suspension may be regarded as having ceased in some of the states and territories :

Now therefore be it known, that I,, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare, that the suspension aforesaid and all other proclamations and orders suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in the states and territories of the United States, are revoked and annulled, excepting as to the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

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 first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President:

, Secretary of State.

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No. 52.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

To all to whom these presents may come, greeting:

Dec. 18, 1865. Preamble_ ye, that whereas the congress of the United States on the 1st of February last passed a resolution which is in the words following, namely :

" A resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several states a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States.

Ame, P_ 561 "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be (proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by