Proclamation 148

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, 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;

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

, 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.

, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

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.

[] By the President: , Secretary of State.