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 954 APPENDIX. And whereas such unlawful combinations and conspiracies for the Purposes aforesaid are declared by the act of Congress aforesaid to be rebellion against the Government of the United States; And whereas, by said act of Congress, it is provided that, before the President shall suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, he shall first have made proclamation commanding such insurgents to dis Jerse; And whereas on the third day of the present month of November the President of the United States did issue his proclamation, reciting therein, among other things, that such combinations and conspiracies did then exist in the county of Union, in the State of South Carolina, and commanding thereby all persons composing such unlawful combinations and conspiracies to disperse and retire peaceably to their homes within five days from the date thereof, and to deliver either to the marshal of the United States for the district of South Carolina, or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States within said county, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises, and other means and implements used, kept, possessed, or controlled by them for carrying out the unlawful purposes for which the said combinations and conspiracies are Organized; ind whereas the insurgents engaged in such unlawful combinations and conspiracies within the county aforesaid have not dispersed and retired peaceably to their respective homes, and have not delivered to the marshal of the United States, or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States within said county, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises, and other means and implements used, kept, possessed, or controlled by them for carrying out the unlawful purposes for which the combinations and conspiracies are organized, as commanded by said proclamation, but do still persist in the unlawtul combinations and conspiracies aforesaid: writ or hgbggg Now, therefore, I, Umrssms S. GRANT, President of the United States of eumus suspended America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the m 'm°¤ °°lm*Y» United States and the act of Congress aforesaid, do ereby declare that, in my S°“th C“’°h““‘ judgment, the public safety especially requires that the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus be suspended. to the end that such rebellion may be overthrown, and do hereby suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus within the county of Union, in said State of South Carolina, in respect to all Eersons arrested by the marshal of the United States for the said district of Sout Carolina, or by any of his deputies, or by any military otncer of the United States, or by any soldier or citizen acting under the orders of said marshal, deputy, or such military officer within said county, charged with any violation of the act of Congress aforesaid during the continuance of such rebellion. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of Washington this tenth day of November, in the year [SEAL] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy—0ne, and of the ' Independence of the United States of America the mnet —sixth. U.  GRANT. By the President: Hminron Fisn, Secretary of State. N o. 8. Dec. 19, ,1871, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. preamble, Wrmmus satisfactory information has been received by me, through Don Mauricio Lopez Roberts, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Spain, that the government of that country has abolished discriminating duties heretofore imposed on merchandise imported from all other countries, excepting the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, into Spain and the adjacent islands, in vessels of the United States, said abolition to take effect from and after the first day of January next: Diseriminatiug Now, therefore, I, Urvssns S. Gnanr, President of the United States of dutiespn guar- America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by an act of Congress, of the °ha“‘y€“ gw 7th day of January, 1824, and by an act in addition thereto, of the 24th day of $$315 pj; May, 1828, do hereby declare and proclaim that on and after the said first day cept, gw_, {0 bg of J auuary next, so Ong as merchandise imported from any other country, ex-