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 [N0. 1.] ’* ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF ALUCRICA, Apru16, 1868' T0 Am. ro wnou rmass rnssmvrs sinm. coms, GREETINGZ Know ye that, whereas a paper bearing date the thirty-first day of December preamble_ last, purporting to be an agreement between the United States and one Bernard Keck, for immigration of persons of African extraction to a de endency of the Republic of Hayti, was signed by me on behalf of the part og the Erst part; but whereas the said instrument was and has since remained, incomplete, in consequence of the seal of the United States not having been thereunto affixed; and whereas I have been moved by considerations, by me deemed sufficient, to withhold my authority for aliixing the said seal. Now therefore be it known that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of Sapnature of the United States, do hereby authorize the Secretary of State to cancel my W6 ¤'<>§ld¤¤t of signature to the instrument aforesaid. ghtgtuuéomd Done at Washington, this sixteenth day of April, in the year of our 8gT9:8mm¥':mh [sian,.] Lord 1863. Om, Bernard ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Ifrack, cancelled By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. No. 2. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by the Constitution of the United States, the executive power is Preamble. vested in a President of the United States of America, who is bound by solemn oath faithfully to execute the office of President, and to the besfof his ability to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; and is by the same instrument made C0mmander—in·Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and is required to take care that the laws be faithfully executed; _ _ _ _ _ _ , And whereas, by the same Constitution, it is provided that the said Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall  made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land, and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby; _ _ _ _ And whereas in and by the same Constitution the Judicial power of the United States is vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as here to make the list complete.
 * This Proclamation, omitted by oversight to be published with other contemporaneous ones, is printed