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The original documents are located in Box 4, folder "Clemency - List of Amnesty or
Pardon Proclamations in History" of the Philip Buchen Files at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 4 of the Philip Buchen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
1/9/75
To:
Jay
From: Eva
Here's the copy of the
report from the Defense
Department concerning amnesty
pardons in American History.
I have a copy in the file also, O,
FORD :- LIBRARY 03RALD
Thursday 1/9/75
9:40 Jay called to ask for the report that came over from the
Defense Department when we started working on the
amnesty program -- which listed all prior amnesties of
previous Presidents -- everything from George Washington on. ....
(in a red bound legal folder - bound with a clip.)
I had two copies, so gave one to Patsy to take to him.
FORDO : 07V830 LIBRARY
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38 USC 711. 773; AR soa 2: DA Pam 608 2. par. 122
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bio conditions (AR 635-5, par. 7(b)(3)).
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does not bar payment if there an-
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tration are not payable to (1)a person
which the claim may be predicated
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benefits administer by the Veterans
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Any person guilty of mutiny spying or
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Veteran: Rights. Benefits and Oblige
deserter. as alien during
desertion, who. because of consci-
tions. DA Pam 360 and Federal
period of hostilities. 38 USC 3103 A
entious objections. returns to perform
Benefits for Veterans and Dependents.
discharge (1) by acceptance of an un-
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to wear the uniform shall forfeit all
4. Dependents in overseas areas may be
martial (2) for mutiny spying. (3) for
rights National Service Life Insur
returned to the United States.
felony offense involving moral turpi-
ance and Servicemen's Group Life in
tude. (4) for willful and persistent mis-
surance. 38 USC 711, 773
5.
The statutes provide that the veteran
conduct. or (5) for homosexual acts
must have served "henestly and faith-
will be considered to have been Issued
List of Amnesty or Pardons' Proclamations In American History
Date
Proclaimed by
Persons to whom granted
Cite
1. July 10, 1795
Washington
i
Whiskey Insurrection
1 Messages and Papers of
(several hundred)
the Presidents 181 (-Rich. ed).
2. May 31, 1800
Adams
Pennsylvania Insur-
Id. at 303
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rectionists
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3. Cct. 15, 1807
Jefferson
Deserters
Id. aty 425
4. Feb. 7, 1812
Id. at 512
038470
Occ. 8, 1812
Madison
Deserters
Id. at 514
June 17, 1814
Id. at 543
S. Feb. 6, 1815
Madison
Pirates who fought in
Id. at 558
War of 1812
6. June 12, 1830
Jackson
Deserters
2 Messages 499.
(War Dept.)
7. March 10, 1863
Lincoln
Deserters
6 Messages 163
8. December 8, 1863
Lincoln
Rebels if withdraw
Id. at 213
support from enemy and
take oath of allegiance
9. May 29, 1865
Johnson
Rebels if take oath of
Id. at 310
allegiance
September 7, 1867
Johnson
asame
Id. at 547
1. July 4, 1868
Johnson
full, except those under
Id. at 655
indictment for treason
or for adhering to enealy
ink the
Date
Proclaimed by
Persons to whom granted
Cite
12. Dccember 25, 1868
Johnson
full, if submit to the
Id. at 708.
authority of the govern-
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ment
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13. December 1, 1873
Grant
Descrters (Recommended
No citation found
(War Dept.)
that Congress remove
GERALD
political disabilities a
$3, 14 Amend.
14. Jan. 4, 1893
Harrison
Mormons
9 Messages 368
15. Sept. 25, 1894
Cleveland
Mormons
Id. at 510
16. July 4, 1902
T. Roosevelt
Philippine Insur-
Richardson, Messages (Devitt
rectionists
Supplement) at 392.
17. June 14, 1917
Wilson
5000 Deserters and
40 Stat. 1672 (part II)
draft violators
18. March 5, 1924
Coolidge
Deserters
43 Stat. 1940 (part II)
19. December 23, 1933
F. Roosevelt
Violaters of draft of
48 Stat. 1725 (part II)
espionage laws
20. December 25, 1946 Truman
draft evaders
E.O. 9814, 3 C.F.R. 594 (Dec. 23, 1946)
Exec. Procl. No. 2762, 3 C.F.R. 145
(Dec. 23, 1947)
1
drid about the 8th.
May. Nor has the govern-
any thing but News-paper accounts of the order you
to. Yours ever and Affectly.28
To THE EARL OF DUNDONALD
Philadelphia, July 9, 1795.
My Lord: By Mr. Jay I had the honor to receive your, Lord-
S
ships favor of the 9th. of April, accompanying your treatise
"on the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture
and chemistry." The work must be curious and interesting, and
for your goodness in sending it to me, I pray your Lordship to
accept the best thanks of Your etc.
To JAMES RENNELL®
Philadelphia, July 9, 1795.
Sir: I have been favored with your letter of the 29th. of April,
accompanying your Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan, with
engravings &ca. for your kindness in sending which I entreat
you to accept my best thanks.
I have not had leisure yet to look over them, with attention:
but I am persuaded that there is a fund of interesting informa-
tion to be found in the work: for the mean of coming at which
I am extremely thankful. I am etc.
[N.Y.P.L.]
PROCLAMATION
July 10, 1795.
Whereas the commissioners appointed by the President of
the United States to confer with the citizens in the western
From the Hamilton Papers in the Library of Congress.
20
Archibald Cochrane, (ninth) Earl of Dundonald.
"English geographer and Fellow of the Royal Society.
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WHISKY INSURRECTION
233
counties of Pennsylvania during the late insurrection which
prevailed therein, by their act and agreement bearing date the
2d day of September last, in pursuance of the powers in them
vested, did promise and engage that if assurances of submis-
sion to the laws of the United States should be bona fide given
by the citizens resident in the fourth survey of Pennsylvania, in
the manner and within the time in the said act and agreement
specified, a general pardon should be granted on the roth day
of July then next ensuing of all treasons and other indictable
offenses against the United States committed within the said
survey before the 22d day of August last, excluding therefrom,
nevertheless, every person who should refuse or neglect to sub-
scribe such assurance and engagement in manner aforesaid, or
who should after such subscription violate the same, or will-
fully obstruct or attempt to obstruct the execution of the acts
for raising a revenue on distilled spirits and stills, or be aiding
or abetting therein; and
Whereas I have since thought proper to extend the said par-
don to all persons guilty of the said treasons, misprisions of
treasons, or otherwise concerned in the late insurrection within
the survey aforesaid who have not since been indicted or con-
victed thereof, or of any other offense against the United States:
Therefore be it known that I, George Washington, President
of the said United States, have granted, and by these presents
do grant, a full, free, and entire pardon to all persons (except-
ing as is hereinafter excepted) of all treasons, misprisions of
treason, and other indictable offenses against the United States
committed within the fourth survey of Pennsylvania before
the said 22d day of August last past, excepting and excluding
therefrom, nevertheless, every person who refused or neglected
to give and subscribe the said assurances in the manner afore-
said (or having subscribed hath violated the same) and now
FORD
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234
WRITINGS OF WASHINGTON
[JULY
standeth indicted or convicted of any treason, misprision of
treason, or other offense against the said United States, hereby
remitting and releasing unto all persons, except as before ex-
cepted, all penalties incurred, or supposed to be incurred, for
or on account of the premises.⁸¹
To REVEREND CLEMENT CRUTTWELL"
Philadelphia, July IO, 1795.
Revd. Sir: It has so happened, but really I can hardly tell
how, that I have been very deficient in not acknowledging at
an earlier period the receipt of your obliging favor of the Ist.
of May last year, accompanying a copy of the Works of the ven-
erable Bishop of Sodor and Man;* which, agreeably to the
Will of the late Doctor Wilson (his Son) you had the goodness
to send me.84
Accept now, I pray you Sir, my thanks for the part you have
executed in this business; and the assurances that my not hav-
ing done it before did not proceed from want of respect to the
memory of the Author, his son, or yourself; but to mere acci-
dent. With very great respect I am etc.
[N.Y.P.L.]
To SIR JOHN SINCLAIR
Philadelphia, July IO, 1795.
Sir: I could not omit so favorable an opportunity, as the
departure of Mr. Strickland affords me, of presenting my best
22 From Richardson's Messages and Papers of the Presidents. He copied it from
Sparks's, who states that this proclamation was not made public until August 6. No
copy of the proclamation is now found in the Washington Papers.
33 An English author and compiler. He published Bishop Wilson's Bible in 1785,
and Works in 1781.
as Rev. Thomas Wilson's (Bishop of Sodor and Man) Works were published in 1781,
the Bishop having died in 1755. Rev. Thomas Wilson, son of Bishop, died in 1784.
"Washington's copy of the Bishop of Sodor and Man's Bible, which accompanied
the Bishop's Works, is now in the Library of Congress. Cruttwell's letter of May x,
1794 is in the Washington Papers.
DEREID FORD LIBRARY
2
John Adams
303
intercourse may be safely renewed, and to make proclamation thereof
accordingly; and it is also thereby further enacted that the whole of the
island of Hispaniola shall, for the purposes of the said act, be considered
as it dependence of the French Republic; and
Whereas the circumstances of certain ports and places of the said
island not comprised in the proclamation of the 26th day of June, 1799,
are such that I deem it expedient and for the interest of the United
States to remit and discontinue the restraints and prohibitions imposed
by the said act in respect to those ports and places in order that a com-
mercial intercourse with the same may be renewed:
Therefore I, John Adams, President of the United States, by virtue
of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby remit and discontinue
the restraints and prohibitions imposed by the act aforesaid in respect to
all the ports and places in the said island of Hispaniola from Monte
Christi on the north, round by the eastern end thereof as far as the port
of Jacmel on the south, inclusively. And it shall henceforth be lawful
for vessels of the United States to enter and trade at any of the said ports
and places, provided it be done with the consent of the Government of
St. Domingo. And for this purpose it is hereby required that such
vessels first enter the port of Cape François or Port Republicain, in the
said island, and there obtain the passports of the said Government, which
shall also be signed by the consul-general or consul of the United States
residing at Cape François or Port Republicain, permitting such vessel to
go thence to the other ports and places of the said island hereinbefore
mentioned and described. Of all which the collectors of the customs
and all other officers and citizens of the United States are to take due
WASHINGTON
notice and govern themselves.
In testimony, etc.
JOHN ADAMS.
[From Annals of Congress, Seventh Congress, second session, 1552.]
PROCLAMATION.
By JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Whereas the late wicked and treasonable insurrection against the just
authority of the United States of sundry persons in the counties of North-
ampton, Montgomery, and Bucks, in the State of Pennsylvania, in the
year 1799, having been speedily suppressed without any of the calamities
usually attending rebellion; whereupon peace, order, and submission to
the laws of the United States were restored in the aforesaid counties, and
the ignorant, misguided, and misinformed in the counties have returned
to a proper sense of their duty, whereby it is become unnecessary for the
public good that any future prosecutions should be commenced or car-
ried on against any person or persons by reason of their being concerned
in the said insurrection:
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
304
Messages and Papers of the P idents
Wherefore be it known that I, John Adams, President of the United
for and entel
States of America, have granted, and by these presents do grant, a full,
island, and
free, and absolute pardon to all and every person or persons concerned
shall also be
in the said insurrection, excepting as hereinafter excepted, of all treasons,
consult residit
misprisions of treason, felonies, misdemeanors, and other crimes by them
licain, permit
respectively done or committed against the United States in either of the
of the said
said counties before the 12th day of March, in the year 1799, excepting
other officers
and excluding therefrom every person who now standeth indicted or con-
govern thems
victed of any treason, misprision of treason, or other offense against the
Given und
United States, whereby remedying and releasing unto all persons, except
at
as before excepted, all pains and penalties incurred, or supposed to be
[SRAL.] 18c
incurred, for or on account of the premises.
fift
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States of America,
at the city of Philadelphia, this 2 IST day of May, A. D. 1800,
By the Pre:
[SHAL.]
and of the Independence of the said States the twenty-fourth.
J. M
JOHN ADAMS.
By JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States passed on
the 27th day of February last, entitled "An act further to suspend tilc
Gentlemen of I
commercial intercourse between the United States and France and the
Immediately
dependencies thereof," it is enacted that at any time after the pass-
in Philadelphi
ing of the said act it shall be lawful for the President of the United
removal of the
States, by his order, to remit and discontinue for the time being, when-
have been exe
ever he shall deem it expedient and for the interest of the United States,
ducted the ord
all or any of the restraints and prohibitions imposed by the said act in
I congratula
respect to the territories of the French Republic, or to any island, port,
Congress at t1
or place belonging to the said Republic with which, in his opinion, a
late you, gentl
commercial intercourse may be safely renewed, and to make proclama-
Although there
tion thereof accordingly;' and it is also thereby further enacted that the
90 complete as
whole of the island of Hispaniola shall, for the purposes of the said act,
this inconvenie
be considered as a dependence of the French Republic; and
It would be
Whereas the circumstances of the said island are such that, in my
for the first tim
opinion, a commercial intercourse may safely be renewed with every part
Ruler of the U
thereof, under the limitations and restrictions hereinafter mentioned:
May this teri
Therefore I, John Adams, President of the United States, by virtue of
city may that P
the powers vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby remit and discontinue
stancy and self
the restraints and prohibitions imposed by the act aforesaid in respect
name it bears b
to every part of the said island, so that it shall be lawful for vessels of
country may si
the United States to trade at any of the ports and places thereof, pro-
forever!
vided it be done with the consent of the Government of St. Domingo;
It is with yo
and for this purpose it is hereby required that such vessels first clear
the District of
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FORD & LIBRARY BERALD
Thomas Jefferson
425
[From the National Intelligencer, October 19, 1807.]
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas information has been received that a number of individuals
3
who have deserted from the Army of the United States and sought shel-
ter without the jurisdiction thereof have become sensible of their offense
and are desirous of returning to their duty, a full pardon is hereby pro-
claimed to each and all of such individuals as shall within four months
from the date hereof surrender themselves to the commanding officer of
any military post within the United States or the Territories thereof.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 15th day of October,
A. D. 1807, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the thirty-second.
TH: JEFFERSON.
By the President:
JAMES MADISON,
Secretary of State.
SEVENTH ANNUAL MESSAGE.
OCTOBER 27, 1807.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
Circumstances, fellow-citizens, which seriously threatened the peace'
of our country have made it a duty to convene you at an earlier period
than usual. The love of peace SO much cherished in the bosoms of our
citizens, which has SO long guided the proceedings of their public coun-
cils and induced forbearance under SO many wrongs, may not insure our
continuance in the quiet pursuits of industry. The many injuries and
depredations committed on our commerce and navigation upon the high
seas for years past, the successive innovations On those principles of pub-
lic law which have been established by the reason and usage of nations
as the rule of their intercourse and the umpire and security of their rights
and peace, and all the circumstances which induced the extraordinary
mission to London are already known to you. The instructions given
to our ministers were framed in the sincerest spirit of amity and modera-
tion. They accordingly proceeded, in conformity therewith; to propose
arrangements which might embrace and settle all the points in difference
between us, which might bring us to a mutual understanding on our
neutral and national rights and provide for a commercial intercourse on
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558
Messages and Papers of the Presidents
quarters O
PROCLAMATIONS.
of a consi
row and it
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
nor the lea
It had
A PROCLAMATION.
dangers 0
The two Houses of the National Legislature having by a joint resolu-
duty, had
tion expressed their desire that in the present time of public calamity
rataria, ne
and war a day may be recommended to be observed by the people of the
clandestin
United States as a day of public humiliation and fasting and of prayer
caused the
to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessing
obtained t
on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace, I have deemed it proper
only rema
by this proclamation to recommend that Thursday, the 12th of January
plary puni
next, be set apart as a day on which all may have an opportunity of vol-
But it li
untarily offering at the same time in their respective religious assem-
sincere per
blies their humble adoration to the Great Sovereign of the Universe, of
cause for
confessing their sins and transgressions, and of strengthening their VOWS
hibited in
of repentance and amendment. They will be invited by the same solemn
fidelity.
occasion to call to mind the distinguished favors conferred on the Amer-
enemy in
ican people in the general health which has been enjoyed, in the abun-
have aide
dant fruits of the season, in the progress of the arts instrumental to their
States can
comfort, their prosperity, and their security, and in the victories which
jects of a
have so powerfully contributed to the defense and protection of our
It has
country, a devout thankfulness for all which ought to be mingled with
assembly
their supplications to the Beneficent Parent of the Human Race that He
to the ben
would be graciously pleased to pardon all their offenses against Him; to
And in
support and animate them in the discharge of their respective duties;
tion of all
to continue to them the precious advantages flowing from political insti-
Madison, ]
tutions SO auspicious to their safety against dangers from abroad, to their
mation, he
tranquillity at home, and to their liberties, civil and religious; and that
of all offer
He would in a special manner preside over the nation in its public coun-
of the said
cils and constituted authorities, giving wisdom to its measures and success
thereof or
to its arms in maintaining its rights and in overcoming all hostile designs
with forei
and attempts against it; and, finally, that by inspiring the enemy with
present yes,
dispositions favorable to a just and reasonable peace its blessings may
itants of 1
be speedily and happily restored.
the said is
Given at the city of Washington, the 16th day of November, 1814, and
every pers
of the Independence of the United States the thirty-eighth.
himself the there
[SEAL.]
JAMES MADISON.
of the States
defense of
thereof as
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
And I
A PROCLAMATION.
and prosec
Among the many evils produced by the wars which with little inter-
or persons
mission have afflicted Europe and extended their ravages into other
with to be
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
James Madison
559
quarters of the globe for a period exceeding twenty years, the dispersion
of a considerable portion of the inhabitants of different countries in sor-
row and in want has not been the least injurious to human happiness
nor the least severe in the trial of human virtue.
It had been long ascertained that many foreigners, flying from the
dangers of their own home, and that some citizens, forgetful of their
duty, had cooperated in forming an establishment on the island of Bar-
rataria, near the mouth of the river Mississippi, for the purposes of a
clandestine and lawless trade. The Government of the United States
caused the establishment to be broken up and destroyed, and having
obtained the means of designating the offenders of every description, it
only remained to answer the demands of justice by inflicting an exem-
plary punishment.
But it has since been represented that the offenders have manifested a
sincere penitence; that they have abandoned the prosecution of the worse
cause for the support of the best, and particularly that they have ex-
hibited in the defense of New Orleans unequivocal traits of courage and
fidelity. Offenders who have refused to become the associates of the
enemy in the war upon the most seducing terms of invitation and who
have aided to repel his hostile invasion of the territory of the United
States can no longer be considered as objects of punishment, but as ob-
jects of a generous forgiveness.
It has therefore been seen with great satisfaction that the general
assembly of the State of Louisiana earnestly recommend those offenders
to the benefit of a full pardon.
And in compliance with that recommendation, as well as in considera-
tion of all the other extraordinary circumstances of the case, I, James
Madison, President of the United States of America, do issue this procla-
mation, hereby granting, publishing, and declaring a free and full pardon
of all offenses committed in violation of any act or acts of the Congress
of the said United States touching the revenue, trade, and navigation
thereof or touching the intercourse and commerce of the United States
with foreign nations at any time before the 8th day of January, in the
present year 1815, by any person or persons whomsoever being inhab-
itants of New Orleans and the adjacent country or being inhabitants of
the said island of Barrataria and the places adjacent: Provided, That
every person claiming the benefit of this full pardon in order to entitle
himself thereto shall produce a certificate in writing from the governor
of the State of Louisiana stating that such person has aided in the
defense of New Orleans and the adjacent country during the invasion
thereof as aforesaid.
And I do hereby further authorize and direct all suits, indictments,
and prosecutions for fines, penalties, and forfeitures against any person
or persons who shall be entitled to the benefit of this full pardon forth-
with to be stayed, discontinued, and released; and all civil officers are
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here
required, according to the duties of their respective stations, to
mended tc
carry this proclamation into immediate and faithful execution.
solemnity
Done at the city of Washington, the 6th day of February, in the year
Almighty
1815, and of the Independence of the United States the thirty-
the blessir
[SEAL.]
ninth.
No peoj
JAMES MADISON.
of the Gre
By the President:
people of
JAMES MONROE,
them to 0
Acting as Secretary of State.
great fami
all the dif
[From Niles's Weekly Register, vol. 7, p. 397.]
days. U1
JAMES MADISON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
pursuits 1
pendence
To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
was attair
Whereas a treaty of peace and amity between the United States of
interpositi
America and His Britannic Majesty was signed at Ghent on the 24th
into the
day of December, 1814, by the plenipotentiaries respectively appointed
bled their
for that purpose; and the said treaty having been, by and with the ad-
character
vice and consent of the Senate of the United States, duly accepted,
nated by a
ratified, and confirmed on the 17th day of February, 1815, and ratified
And to t1
copies thereof having been exchanged agreeably to the tenor of the said
indebted 100
treaty, which is in the words following, to wit:
which are
[Here follows the treaty.]
It is foi
of the ble
Now, therefore, to the end that the said treaty of peace and amity may
in April
be observed with good faith on the part of the United States, I, James
gious
Madison, President as aforesaid, have caused the premises to be made
and their
public; and I do hereby enjoin all persons bearing office, civil or military,
their hom
within the United States and all others citizens or inhabitants thereof
Given
or being within the same faithfully to observe and fulfill the said treaty
and every clause and article thereof.
[SEAL.]
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of February,
A. D. 1815, and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the
By
United States the thirty-ninth.
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
JAMES MONROE,
Where:
Acting Secretary of State.
of the United
the State
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
provide,
against the
A PROCLAMATION.
pily at POLICY
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States have
stores, product
by a joint resolution signified their desire that a day may be recom-
honest an
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the meas
PROCLAMATION
obtaining
In test
[From Niles's Weekly Register, vol. 1, p. 448.]
[SEAL.]
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.
By the
Whereas information has been received that a number of individuals
who have deserted from the Army of the United States have become
4
sensible of their offense and are desirous of returning to their duty, a
full pardon is hereby granted and proclaimed to each and all such indi-
viduals as shall within four months from the date hereof surrender
By
themselves to the commanding officer of any military post within the
United States or the Territories thereof.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
Where
affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
two Hot
Done at the city of Washington, the 7th day of February,
be obser
[SEAL.]
A. D. 1812, and of the Independence of the United States the
as a day
thirty-sixth.
Wher
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
denomii
JAMES MONROE,
time the
Secretary of State.
occasion
the inju
[From Annals of Congress, Twelfth Congress, part 2, 2223.]
I do
conveni
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Soverei
A PROCLAMATION.
homage
which 1
Whereas the Congress of the United States, by virtue of the consti-
of seeki
tuted authority vested in them, have declared by their act bearing date
of reper
the 18th day of the present month that war exists between the United
cations
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and
the An
the United States of America and their Territories:
would
Now, therefore, I, James Madison, President of the United States of
His ble
America, do hereby proclaim the same to all whom it may concern; and I
of just
do specially enjoin on all persons holding offices, civil or military, under
of our
the authority of the United States that they be vigilant and zealous in
should
discharging the duties respectively incident thereto; and I do moreover
from t]
exhort all the good people of the United States, as they love their country,
would
as they value the precious heritage derived from the virtue and valor of
Give
their fathers, as they feel the wrongs which have forced on them the last
[SE/
resort of injured nations, and as they consult the best means under the
By
blessing of Divine Providence of abridging its calamities, that they exert
themselves in preserving order, in promoting concord, in maintaining the
authority and efficacy of the laws, and in supporting and invigorating all
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499
America, do hereby declare and proclaim that such evidence has been
received by me, and that by the operation of the act of Congress passed
on the 29th day of May, 1830, the ports of the United States are from the
date of this proclamation open to British vessels coming from the said
British possessions, and their cargoes, upon the terms set forth in the
said act. The act entitled "An act concerning navigation," passed on
the 18th day of April, 1818, the act supplementary thereto, passed the
15th day of May, 1820, and the act entitled "An act to regulate the com-
mercial intercourse between the United States and certain British ports,"
passed the 1st day of March, 1823, are absolutely repealed, and British
vessels and their cargoes are admitted to an entry in the ports of the
United States from the islands, provinces, and colonies of Great Britain
6
on or near the North American continent and north or east of the United
States.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 5th day of Octo-
ber, A. D. 1830, and the fifty-fifth of the Independence of the United
States.
ANDREW JACKSON.
By the President:
M. VAN BUREN,
Secretary of State.
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June I2, 1830.
ORDER 29.
The following general order has been received from the War Depart-
ment. It is published for the information of all concerned:
DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
Washington, June 12, 1830.
GENERAL ORDER.
Congress at their last session passed an act repealing SO much of the
military law as imposes the penalty of death on those who in time of
peace" shall be found guilty of the crime of desertion. To give com-
plete effect to the benevolent designs of said act, and that the Army may
be correctly informed, it is hereby proclaimed that a free and full pardon
is extended to those who at the date of this order stand in the character
of deserters. All who are under arrest for this offense at the different
posts and garrisons will be forthwith liberated, and return to their duty.
Such as are roaming at large and those who are under sentence of death
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s
are discharged, and are not again to be permitted to enter the Army, nor
1111
at any time hereafter to be enlisted in the service of the country. It is
desirable and highly important that the ranks of the Army should be
fe
composed of respectable, not degraded, materials. Those who can be SO
in
lost to the obligations of a soldier as to abandon a country which morally
cit
they are bound to defend, and which solemnly they have sworn to serve,
I
are unworthy, and should be confided in no more.
se
By order of the President of the United States:
W
JOHN H. EATON,
in
Secretary of War.
111
Communicated by order of Alexander Macomb, Major-General Com-
manding the Army.
R. JONES, Adjulant-Gencral,
wl
SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE.
lo
DECEMBER 6, 1830.
th
Fellow-Citisens of the Senate and House of Representatives:
se
The pleasure I have in congratulating you upon your return to your
su
constitutional duties is much heightened by the satisfaction which the
condition of our beloved country at this period justly inspires. The
beneficent Author of All Good has granted to us during the present
year health, peace, and plenty, and numerous causes for joy in the won-
derful success which attends the progress of our free institutions.
With a population unparalleled in its increase, and possessing a char-
acter which combines the hardihood of enterprise with the considerateness
of wisdom, we see in every section of our happy country a steady improve-
ment. in the means of social intercourse, and correspondent effects upon
fo
the genius and laws of our extended Republic.
The apparent exceptions to the harmony of the prospect are to be
referred rather to inevitable diversities in the various interests which
enter into the composition of SO extensive a whole than to any want of
attachment to the Union-interests whose collisions serve only in the end
de
to foster the spirit of conciliation and patriotism so essential to the pres-
ervation of that Union which I most devoutly hope is destined to prove
imperishable.
of
In the midst of these blessings we have recently witnessed changes in
the condition of other nations which may in their consequences call for
the utmost vigilance, wisdom, and unanimity in our councils, and the
exercise of all the moderation and patriotism of our people.
The important modifications of their Government, effected with so
Abraham Lincoln
163
1862.
PROCLAMATIONS
nly 4,
[From Final Report of the Provost-Marshal-Geueral (March 17, 1866), p. 218.]
1862.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.
1862.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 10, 1863.
In pursuance of the twenty-sixth section of the act of Congress enti-
tled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for
Var.
other purposes," approved on the 3d day of March, 1863, I, Abraham
Lincoln, President and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy
of the United States, do hereby order and command that all soldiers
63.
enlisted or drafted in the service of the United States now absent from
their regiments without leave shall forthwith return to their respective
omi-
regiments.
11 for
And I do hereby declare and proclaim that all soldiers now absent
7
were
from their respective regiments without leave who shall, on or before
N.
the Ist day of April, 1863, report themselves at any rendezvous desig-
nated by the general orders of the War Department No. 58, hereto
aunexed, may be restored to their respective regiments without punish-
863.
ment, except the forfeiture of pay and allowances during their absence;
and all who do not return within the time above specified shall be ar-
ig the
ed in
rested as deserters and punished as the law provides; and
sub-
Whereas evil-disposed and disloyal persons at sundry places have
ion of
enticed and procured soldiers to desert and absent themselves from their
cases,
regiments, thereby weakening the strength of the armies and prolonging
callant
the war, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and cruelly exposing the
gallant and faithful soldiers remaining in the ranks to increased hard-
ships and danger:
dy 18,
I do therefore call upon all patriotic and faithful citizens to oppose and
1862.
resist the aforementioned dangerous and treasonable crimes, and to aid
in restoring to their regiments all soldiers absent without leave, and to
assist in the execution of the act of Congress for enrolling and calling
out the national forces, and for other purposes," and to support the proper
authorities in the prosecution and punishment of offenders against said
act and in suppressing the insurrection and rebellion.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.
Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of March, A. D. 1863,
and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
ppi
By the President:
fians.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
N.
Secretary of War.
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GENERAL ORDERS
58.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, March 10, 1863.
I. The following is the twenty-sixth section of the act "for enrolling and calling
out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863:
"SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That immediately after the passage of this
act the President shall issue his proclamation declaring that all soldiers now absent
from their regiments without leave may return, within a time specified, to such place
or places as he may indicate in his proclamation, and be restored to their respec-
tive regiments without punishment, except the forfeiture of their pay and allowances
during their absence; and all deserters who shall not return within the time so speci-
fied by the President shall, upon being arrested, be punished as the law provides."
II. The following places* are designated as rendezvous to which soldiers absent
without leave may report themselves to the officers named on or before the Ist day
of April next under the proclamation of the President of this date.
III. Commanding officers at the above-named places of rendezvous, or, in the absence
of commanding officers, superintendents of recruiting service, recruiting officers, and
St
mustering and disbursing officers, will take charge of all soldiers presenting them-
selves as above directed and cause their names to be enrolled, and copy of said roll
will, on or before the 10th day of April, be sent to the Adjutant-General' of the Army.
The soldiers so reporting themselves will be sent without delay to their several
regiments, a list of those sent being furnished to the commanding officer of the regi-
ment and a duplicate to the Adjutant-General of the Ariny. The commanding officer
of the regiment will immediately report to the Adjutant-General of the Army the
receipt of any soldiers so sent to him.
By order of the Secretary of War:
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the
supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs
of men and of nations, has by a resolution requested the President to
designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation; and
Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their
dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and
transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine
repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime
truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that
those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord;
And, insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like indi-
viduals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world,
may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now
desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our
Omitted.
Abraham Lincoln
213
PROCLAMATIONS
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF" AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas in and by the Constitution of the United States it is provided
that the President shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for
offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment;'' and
Whereas a rebellion now exists whereby the loyal State governments
of several States have for a long time been subverted, and many per-
sons have committed and are now guilty of treason against the United
States; and
Whereas, with reference to said rebellion and treason, laws have been
enacted by Congress declaring forfeitures and confiscation of property
and liberation of slaves, all upon terms and conditions therein stated, and
also declaring that the President was thereby authorized at any timé
thereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have partici-
pated in the existing rebellion in any State or part thereof pardon and
amnesty, with such exceptions and at such times and on such conditions
as he may deem expedient for the public welfare; and
8
Whereas the Congressional declaration for limited and conditional par-
don accords with well-established judicial exposition of the pardoning
power; and
Whereas, with reference to said rebellion, the President of the United
States has issued several proclamations with provisions in regard to the
liberation of slaves; and
Whereas it is now desired by some persons heretofore engaged in said
rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States and to reinaugu-
rate loyal State governments within and for their respective States:
Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do pro-
claim, declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by
implication, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter
excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them,
with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves and in
property cases where rights of third parties shall have intervened, and
upon the condition that every such person shall take and subscribe an
oath and thenceforward keep and maintain said oath inviolate, and
which oath shall be registered for permanent preservation and shall be
of the tenor and effect following, to wit:
I,
do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will
henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will in like manner abide
by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion
with reference to slaves, SO long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void
by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court; and that I will in like manner
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ab
y and faithfully support all proclamations of t1 esident made during the
To av
exiseng rebellion having reference to slaves, so long amt SO far as not modified or
mation,
declared void by decision of the Supreme Court. So help me God.
States W
The persons excepted from the benefits of the foregoing provisions are
tained.
all who are or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of
whether
the so-called Confederate Government; all who have left judicial stations
seats con
under the United States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have
not to an
been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government
lamation
above the rank of colonel in the army or of lieutenant in the navy; all
national
who left seats in the United States Congress to aid the rebellion; all who
been sub
resigned commissions in the Army or Navy of the United States and
State go
afterwards aided the rebellion; and all who have engaged in any way in
them; ar
treating colored persons, or white persons in charge of such, otherwise
gest, wit
than lawfully as prisoners of war, and which persons may have been found
other pos
in the United States service as soldiers, seamen, or in any other capacity.
Given
And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever,
[SEAL.]
in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten-
nessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina,
a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast
By the
in such State at the Presidential election of the year A. D. 1860, each
having taken the oath aforesaid, and not having since violated it, and
being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing immedi-
By
ately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall
reestablish a State government which shall be republican and in nowise
contravening said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government
Where
of the State, and the State shall receive thereunder the benefits of the
May, 182
constitutional provision which declares that "the United States shall
cerning d
guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government
duties on
and shall protect each of them against invasion, and, on application of
satisfacto
the legislature, or the executive (when the legislature can not be con-
by the go
vened), against domestic violence."
of tonnag
And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that any pro-
upon ves
vision which may be adopted by such State government in relation to
the produ
the freed people of such State which shall recognize and declare their
United 8
permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be
authorize
consistent as a temporary arrangement with their present condition as
nating di
a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the
shall be
National Executive.
said forei
And it is suggested as not improper that in constructing a loyal State
ported in
government in any State the name of the State, the boundary, the subdi-
or from
visions, the constitution, and the general code of laws as before the rebel-
from the
lion be maintained, subject only to the modifications made necessary by
United S
the conditions hereinbefore stated, and such others, if any, not contra-
vessels be
vening said conditions and which may be deemed expedient by those
aforesaid,
framing the new State government.
Where:
Abraham Lincoln
215
To avoio
'sunderstanding, it may be proper to say
this procla-
mation, SO far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to
States wherein loyal State governments have all the while been main-
tained. And for the same reason it may be proper to further say that
whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to
seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective Houses, and
not to any extent with the Executive. And, still further, that this proc-
lamation is intended to present the people of the States wherein the
national authority has been suspended and loyal State governments have
been subverted a mode in and by which the national authority and loyal
State governments may be reestablished within said States or in any of
them; and while the mode presented is the best the Executive can sug-
gest, with his present impressions, it must not be understood that no
other possible mode would be acceptable.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the 8th day of De-
[SEAL.]
cember, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the eighty-eighth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 24th of
May, 1828, entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An act con-
cerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost' and to equalize the
duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," it is provided that upon
satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the United States
by the government of any foreign nation that no discriminating duties
of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the said nation
upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon
the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the
United States or from any foreign country, the President is thereby
authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that the foreign discrimi-
nating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are and
shall be suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of the
said foreign nation and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise im-
ported into the United States in the same from the said foreign nation
or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect
from the time of such notification being given to the President of the
United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of
vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as
aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer; and
Whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me through
FORDO is LIBRARY GERALD
") The
the 25 per cent upon purchases of cotton be rem ved. All provisions
States and the
of
nternal-revenue law will be carried into ct under the
proper
By and faithfu
officers.
U.r cristing re
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
The follow
of the United States to be affixed.
proclamation
[SEAL].
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of May, A. D.
First. All
1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America
officers or
the eighty-ninth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
federate gov
By the President:
Second. i
W. HUNTER,
the rebellior
Acting Secretary of State.
Third. A
tended Conf
9
Betitenant is
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Fourth.
the rebellion
A PROCLAMATION.
Fifth. Al
Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of Decem-
in the Arm:
ber, A. D. 1863, and on the 26th day of March, A. D. 1864, did, with the
rebellion.
object to suppress the existing rebellion, to induce all persons to return
Sixth. A
to their loyalty, and to restore the authority of the United States, issue
lawfully as
proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to certain persons who had,
As officers,
directly or by implication, participated in the said rebellion; and
Seventh.
Whereas many persons who had so engaged in said rebellion have,
state
since the issuance of said proclamations, failed or neglected to take the
9
benefits offered thereby; and
education
Whereas many persons who have been justly deprived of all claim to
the United
amnesty and pardon thereunder by reason of their participation, directly
Ninth.
or by implication, in said rebellion and continued hostility to the Gov.
States in in
ernment of the United States since the date of said proclamations now
Tenth.
desire to apply for and obtain amnesty and pardon.
protection
To the end, therefore, that the authority of the Government of the
lines into
United States may be restored and that peace, order, and freedom may
rebellion.
be established, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do
Eleventh
proclaim and declare that I hereby grant to all persons who have, directly
the comme
or indirectly, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter
who have
excepted, amnesty and pardon, with restoration of all rights of property,
gaged in d
except as to slaves and except in cases where legal proceedings under
and rivers
the laws of the United States providing for the confiscation of property
Twelfth
of persons engaged in rebellion have been instituted; but upon the con-
benefits he
dition, nevertheless, that every such person shall take and subscribe the
KIT civil cell
following oath (or affirmation) and thenceforward keep and maintain
naval auth
said oath inviolate, and which oath shall be registered for permanent
of persons
preservation and shall be of the tenor and effect following, to wit:
viction.
I,
do solemnly swear (or affirm), in presence of Almighty God, that I
Thirteer
will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
bellion and
Andrew Johnson
3rr
States 11 Union of the States thereunder, and that I will i e manner abide
mit
y support all laws and proclamations which have en made during
visting rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God.
The following classes of persoris are excepted from the benefits of this
damation:
First. All who are or shall have been pretended civil or diplomatic
officers or otherwise domestic or foreign agents of the pretended Con-
federate government.
Second. All who left judicial stations under the United States to aid
the rebellion.
Third. All who shall have been military or naval officers of said pre-
tended Confederate government above the rank of colonel in the army or
lieutenant in the navy.
Fourth. All who left seats in the Congress of the United States to aid
the rebellion.
Fifth. All who resigned or tendered resignations of their commissions
in the Army or Navy of the United States to evade duty in resisting the
rebellion.
Sixth. All who have engaged in any way in treating otherwise than
Lawfully as prisoners of war persons found in the United States service
as officers, soldiers, seamen, or in other capacities.
Seventh. All persons who have been or are absentees from the United
States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.
Eighth. All military and naval officers in the rebel service who were
educated by the Government in the Military Academy at West Point or
the United States Naval Academy.
Ninth. All persons who held the pretended offices of governors of
States in insurrection against the United States.
Tenth. All persons who left their homes within the jurisdiction and
protection of the United States and passed beyond the Federal military
lines into the pretended Confederate States for the purpose of aiding the
rebellion.
Eleventh. All persons who have been engaged in the destruction of
the commerce of the United States upon the high, seas and all persons
who have made raids into the United States from Canada or been en-
gaged in destroying the commerce of the United States upon the lakes
and rivers that separate the British Provinces from the United States.
Twelfth. All persons who, at the time when they seek to obtain the
benefits hereof by taking the oath herein prescribed, are in military, naval,
or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds of the civil, military, or
naval authorities or agents of the United States as prisoners of war,
or persons detained for offenses of any kind, either before or after con-
viction.
Thirteenth. All persons who have voluntarily participated in said re-
bellion and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over $20,000.
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irteenth. All persons who have taken t11 th of amnesty as pre-
of enablis
scribed in the President's proclamation of December 8, A. 1863, or
miscriby
an oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States since the
logal citi
date of said proclamation and who have not thenceforward kept and
:, Abdres
maintained the same inviolate.
Chief of
Provided, That special application may be made to the President for
William
pardon by any person belonging to the excepted classes, and such clem-
where du
ency will be liberally extended as may be consistent with the facts of the
endre and
case and the peace and dignity of the United States.
convention
The Secretary of State will establish rules and regulations for admin-
people of
istering and recording the said amnesty oath, so as to insure its benefit
the the I
to the people and guard the Government against fraud.
with autl
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
supervity
of the United States to be affixed.
Camlina
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 29th day of May, A. D.
Construm
1865, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-
on will el
ninth.
and its 1"
ANDREW JOHNSON.
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By the President:
De betcal
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
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By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
the ext M
A PROCLAMATION.
th
Whereas the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of
of
the United States declares that the United States shall guarantee to every
intere the
State in the Union a republican form of government and shall protect
effective
each of them against invasion and domestic violence; and
them and
Whereas the President of the United States is by the Constitution
graing 1)
made Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, as well as chief civil
New Cove
executive officer of the United States, and is bound by solemn oath faith-
And :
fully to execute the office of President of the United States and to take
Fast.
care that the laws be faithfully executed; and
1
Whereas the rebellion which has been waged by a portion of the peo-
about
ple of the United States against the properly constituted authorities of
unjuired
the Government thereof in the most violent and revolting form, but
terms the
whose organized and armed forces have now been almost entirely over-
au
come, has in its revolutionary progress deprived the people of the State
Second
of North Carolina of all civil government; and
of the "
Whereas it becomes necessary and proper to carry out and enforce the
Digartment
obligations of the United States to the people of North Carolina in secur-
Toint.
ing them in the enjoyment of a republican form of government:
Now, therefore, in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed
upon me by the Constitution of the United States and for the purpose
Andrew Johnson
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usains:
B
HE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICA.
recome
des, to
A PROCLAMATION.
of the
it case
Whereas in the month of July, A. D. 1861, the two Houses of Con-
The cur.
yess, with extraordinary unanimity, solemnly declared that the war then
visting was not waged on the part of the Government in any spirit of
have
appression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose
Caro
d overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions
here of
of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitu-
a law.
tion and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights.
of the
of the several States unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects should
be accomplished the war ought to cease; and
it such
Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of Decem-
here of
Ser, A. D. 1863, and on the 26th day of March, A. D. 1864, did, with
the objects of suppressing the then existing rebellion, of inducing all
ites, do
persons to return to their loyalty, and of restoring the authority of the
manner
United States, issue proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to all
vs; and
persons who had, directly or indirectly, participated in the then existing
nt, civil
rebellion, except as in those proclamations was specified and reserved; and
ws and
Whereas the President of the United States did on the 29th day of May,
and to
A.D. 1865, issue a further proclamation, with the same objects before
ent and
mentioned, and to the end that the authority of the Government of the
United States might be restored and that peace, order, and freedom
Savy to
might be established, and the President did by the said last-mentioned
United
proclamation proclaim and declare that he thereby granted to all persons
judg.
who had, directly or indirectly, participated in the then existing rebellion,
10
States,
except as therein excepted, aninesty and pardon, with restoration of all
tates to
rights of property, except as to slaves, and except in certain cases where
judg.
legal proceedings had been instituted, but upon condition that such per-
ith the
sons should take and subscribe an oath therein prescribed, which oath
uppiness
should be registered for permanent preservation; and
levotion
Whereas in and by the said last-mentioned proclamation of the 29th
ul their
day of May, A. D. 1865, fourteen extensive classes of persons therein
tion is
specially described were altogether excepted and excluded from the bene-
law, to
its thereof; and
preserve
Whereas the President of the United States did, on the 2d day of
April, A. D. 1866, issue a proclamation declaring that the insurrection
to be
was at an end and was thenceforth to be SO regarded; and
and.
Whereas there now exists no organized armed resistance of misguided
tember,
ritizens or others to the authority of the United States in the States of
SON.
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas, and the laws can
be sustained and enforced therein by the proper civil authority, State or
Federal, and the people of said States are well and loyally disposed, and
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have
ormed, or, if permitted to do so, will con
1
in their legisla-
ner abide by an
tion to the condition of affairs growing out of the amendment to the
made during th
Constitution of the United States prohibiting slavery within the limits
help me God.
and jurisdiction of the United States; and
The followi
Whereas there no longer exists any reasonable ground to apprehend
of this proclai
within the States which were involved in the late rebellion any renewal
May, 1865, na
thereof or any unlawful resistance by the people of said States to the Con-
First. The
stitution and laws of the United States; and
President, the
Whereas large standing armies, military occupation, martial law, mili-
tended Confede
tary tribunals, and the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habcas
in foreign state
corpus and the right of trial by jury are in time of peace dangerous to
the service of
public liberty, incompatible with the individual rights of the citizen,
rank or title al
contrary to the genius and spirit of our free institutions, and exhaustive
above that of e
of the national resources, and ought not, therefore, to be sanctioned or
States while n
allowed except in cases of actual necessity for repelling invasion or sup-
escing in the re
pressing insurrection or rebellion; and
Second. All
prisoners of was
Whereas a retaliatory or vindictive policy, attended by unnecessary
disqualifications, pains, penalties, confiscations, and disfranchisements,
in the military
now, as always, could only tend to hinder reconciliation among the pen-
Third. All p
ple and national restoration, while it must seriously embarrass, obstruct.
fits of this proc
and repress popular energies and national industry and enterprise; and
ment or custody
and all persons
Whereas for these reasons it is now deemed essential to the public
tion of the late
welfare and to the more perfect restoration of constitutional law and
spiracy in any n
order that the said last-mentioned proclamation so as aforesaid issued on
In testimony
the 29th day of May, A. D. 1865, should be modified, and that the fall
have
and beneficent pardon conceded thereby should be opened and further
affixe
extended to a large number of the persons who by its aforesaid excep
[SEAL.]
Don
tions have been hitherto excluded from Executive clemency:
A. D.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of
Ameri
the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the full pardent
By the Preside
described in the said proclamation of the 29th day of May, A. D. 1865,
WILLIA
shall henceforth be opened and extended to all persons who, directly
or indirectly, participated in the late rebellion, with the restoration of all
privileges, immunities, and rights of property, except as to property
with regard to slaves, and except in cases of legal proceedings under the
By THE PR
laws of the United States; but upon this condition, nevertheless, that
every such person who shall seek to avail himself of this proclamation
shall take and subscribe the following oath and shall cause the same on
Whereas it has
be registered for permanent preservation in the same manner and mith
w the proclamati
the same effect as with the oath prescribed in the said proclamation
August, 1866, dec
of the 29th day of May, 1865, namely:
existed in the St:
June, 1865, instea
I,
do solemnly swear (or affirm), in presence of Almighty Gol or
I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution we
Now, therefore,
United States and the Union of the States thereunder, and that I will in like
United States, do
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549
lier
sh' y and faithfully support all laws and proclam is which have been
made during the late rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So
he
help me God.
its
The following persons, and no others, are excluded from the benefits
nd
of this proclamation and of the said proclamation of the 29th day of
May, 1865, namely:
First. The chief or pretended chief executive officers, including the
President, the Vice-President, and all heads of departments of the pre-
tended Confederate or rebel government, and all who were agents thereof
in foreign states and countries, and all who held or pretended to hold in
the service of the said pretended Confederate government a military
to
rank or title above the grade of brigadier-general or naval rank or title
above that of captain, and all who were or pretended to be governors of
ive
States while maintaining, aiding, abetting, or submitting to and acqui-
or
escing in the rebellion.
Second. All persons who in any way treated otherwise than as lawful
prisoners of war persons who in any capacity were employed or engaged
ary
in the military or naval service of the United States.
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Third. All persons who at the time they may seek to obtain the bene-
fits of this proclamation are actually in civil, military, or naval confine-
ment or custody, or legally held to bail, either before or after conviction,
and all persons who were engaged, directly or indirectly, in the assassina-
blie
tion of the late President of the United States or in any plot or con-
spiracy in any manner therewith connected.
In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and
have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto
affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 7th day of September,
A. D. 1867, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the ninety-second.
By the President:
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it has been ascertained that in the nineteenth paragraph
of the proclamation of the President of the United States of the 20th of
August, 1866, declaring the insurrection at an end which had theretofore
existed in the State of Texas, the previous proclamation of the 13th of
June, 1865, instead of that of the 2d day of April, 1866, was referred to:
that
the
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that the said words " 13th
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655
PROCLAMATIONS.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas in the month, of July, A. D. 1861, in accepting the condition
of civil war which was brought about by insurrection and rebellion in
several of the States which constitute the United States, the two Houses
of Congress did solemnly declare that that war was not waged on the
part of the Government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose
of conquest or subjugation, nor for any purpose of overthrowing or inter-
fering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but only
to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution of the United
States and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpaired, and that SO soon as those objects
should be accomplished the war on the part of the Government should
cease; and
Whereas the President of the United States has heretofore, in the
spirit of that declaration and with the view of securing for it ultimate
and complete effect, set forth several proclamations offering amnesty and
pardon to persons who had been or were concerned in the aforenamed
rebellion, which proclamations, however, were attended with prudential
reservations and exceptions then deemed necessary and proper, and which
proclamations were respectively issued on the 8th day of December, 1863,
on the 26th day of March, 1864, on the 29th day of May, 1865, and on
the 7th day of September, 1867; and
Whereas the said lamentable civil war has long since altogether ceased,
11
with an acknowledgment by all the States of the supremacy of the
Federal Constitution and of the Government thereunder, and there no
longer exists any reasonable ground to apprehend a renewal of the said
civil war, or any foreign interference, or any unlawful resistance by any
portion of the people of any of the States to the Constitution and laws
of the United States; and
Whereas it is desirable to reduce the standing army and to bring to a
speedy termination military occupation, martial law, military tribunals,
abridgment of the freedom of speech and of the press, and suspension of
the privilege of habeas corpus and of the right of trial by jury, such
encroachments upon our free institutions in time of peace being danger-
ous to public liberty, incompatible with the individual rights of the
citizen, contrary to the genius and spirit of our republican form of gov-
ernment, and exhaustive of the national resources; and
Whereas it is believed that amnesty and pardon will tend to secure a
complete and universal establishment and prevalence of municipal law
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and
or 11 conformity with the Constitution of the ited States, and
Jenkins, jr., as
to remove all appearances or presumptions of a retal tory or vindictive
speaker of the
policy on the part of the Government attended by unnecessary disquali-
senate, and Wi
fications, pains, penalties, confiscations, and disfranchisements, and, on
paper was tran
the contrary, to promote and procure complete fraternal reconciliation
utive Office, T
among the whole people, with due submission to the Constitution and
therein signs h
laws:
Whereas on
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the
President, whic
United States, do, by virtue of the Constitution and in the name of
the 4th day of
the people of the United States, hereby proclaim and declare, uncondi-
of W. W. Hold
tionally and without reservation, to all and to every person who, directly
North Carolina
or indirectly, participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, excepting
known as artic
such person or persons as may be under presentment or indictment in
tives of the ge
any court of the United States having competent jurisdiction upon a
instant, and is
charge of treason or other felony, a full pardon and amnesty for the
secretary of the
offense of treason against the United States or of adhering to their
of the senate;
enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights of prop.
Tod R. Caldw
erty, except as to slaves, and except also as to any property of which
Jo. W. Holden,
any person may have been legally divested under the laws of the United
Now, therefc
States.
United States
In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and
of Congress afc
have caused the seal of the United States to be. hereunto
the ratification
affixed.
of North Caroli
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 4th day of July, A. D.
In testimony
1868, and of the Independence of the United States of America
have
the ninety-third.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
[SEAL.]
Do
1868,
By the President:
the 11
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
By the Presio
WILLI
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
By THE P
Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to admit the States
of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and
Florida to representation in Congress," passed on the 25th day of June,
1868, it is declared that it is made the duty of the President, within ten
Whereas by
days after receiving official information of the ratification by the legisla-
of North Carol
ture of either of said States of a proposed amendment to the Constitute
Florida to repr
tion known as article fourteen, to issue a proclamation announcing that
1868, it is decla
fact; and
days after recei
Whereas the said act seèms to be prospective; and
ture of either of
Whereas a paper purporting to be a resolution of the legislature of
known as artich
Florida adopting the amendment of the thirteenth and fourteenth articles
and
of the Constitution of the United States was received at the Department
Whereas on
of State on the 16th of June, 1868, prior to the passage of the not of
President, which
Congress referred to, which paper is attested by the names of Horatio
July 15, 1868, at
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By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
On the 24
A PROCLAMATION.
Congress of
Whereas the President of the United States has heretofore set forth
President of
several proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to persons who had
which the S
been or were concerned in the late rebellion against the lawful authority
trial. On th
of the Government of the United States, which proclamations were sev-
upon by the
erally issued on the 8th day of December, 1863, on the 26th day of March,
sented to the
1864, on the 29th day of May, 1865, on the 7th day of September, 1867,
A. Bingham,
and on the 4th day of July, in the present year; and
min F. Butlei
Whereas the authority of the Federal Government having been rees-
deus Stevens
tablished in all the States and Territories within the jurisdiction of the
the Whole.
United States, it is believed that such prudential reservations and excep-
tions as at the dates of said several proclamations were deemed necessary
IN TH
and proper may now be wisely and justly relinquished, and that an uni-
versal amnesty and pardon for participation in said rebellion extended to
ARTICLES E
all who have borne any part therein will tend to secure permanent peace,
UNITED S1
order, and prosperity throughout the land, and to renew and fully restore
PLE OF TID
confidence and fraternal feeling among the whole people, and their re-
OF THE U:
spect for and attachment to the National Government, designed by its
IMPEACHM
patriotic founders for the general good:
IN OFFICE.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by
ARTICLE I
the Constitution and in the name of the sovereign people of the United
on the 21st di
States, do hereby proclaim and declare, unconditionally and without res-
of Columbia,
ervation, to all and to every person who, directly or indirectly, participated
office,
in the late insurrection or rebellion a full pardon and amnesty for the
care tha
12
offense of treason against the United States or of adhering to their ene-
of the C
mies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges,
ing for the I°6
and immunities under the Constitution and the laws which have been
the Departme
made in pursuance thereof.
duly appointe
In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and
of the Senate
have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto
Johnson, Pres
affixed.
1867, and dur
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 25th day of December,
Edwin M. Sta
A. D. 1868, and of the Independence of the United States of
day of the ne
America the ninety-third.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
of December,
By the President:
such suspensi
F. W. SEWARD,
and the nam
Acting Secretary of State.
12
office tempora
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14
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas Congress by a statute approved March 22, 1882, and by stat-
utes in furtherance and amendment thereof defined the crimes of bigamy,
polygamy, and unlawful cohabitation in the Territories and other places
within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States and prescribed a
penalty for such crimes; and
Whereas on or about the 6th day of October, 1890, the Church of the
Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, through its
president issued a manifesto proclaiming the purpose of said church no
longer to sanction the practice of polygamous marriages and calling upon
all members and adherents of said church to obey the laws of the United
States in reference to said subject-matter; and
Whereas it is represented that since the date of said declaration the
members and adherents of said church have generally obeyed said laws
and have abstained from plural marriages and polygamous cohabita-
tion; and
Whereas by a petition dated December I9, 1891, the officials of said
church, pledging the membership thereof to a faithful obedience to the
laws against plural marriage and unlawful cohabitation, have applied to
me to grant amnesty for past offenses against said laws, which request a
very large number of influential non-Mormons residing in the Territories
have also strongly urged; and
Whereas the Utah Commission in their report bearing date Septem-
ber 15, 1892, recommend that said petition be granted and said amnesty
proclaimed, under proper conditions as to the future observance of the
law, with a view to the encouragement of those now disposed to become
law-abiding citizens; and
Whereas during the past two years such amnesty has been granted
to individual applicants in a very large number of cases, conditioned
upon the faithful observance of the laws of the United States against
unlawful cohabitation, and there are now pending many more such ap-
plications:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
14
by virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby declare and grant a full
aninesty and pardon to all persons liable to the penalties of said act by
reason of unlawful cohabitation under the color of polygamous or plural
marriage who have since November I, 1890, abstained from such unlaw-
ful cohabitation, but upon the express condition that they shall in the
future faithfully obey the laws of the United States hereinbefore named,
and not otherwise. Those who shall fail to avail themselves of the clem-
ency hereby offered will be vigorously prosecuted.
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369
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 4th day of January,
[SRAL.]
A. D. 1893, and of the Independence of the United States the
one hundred and seventeenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JOHN W. FOSTER, Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is provided by section 24 of the act of Congress approved
March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for
other purposes"-
That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve
in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public
lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial
value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation
declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
And whereas the public lands in the State of California within the lim-
its hereinafter described are in part covered with timber, and it appears
D,
that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving
said lands as a public reservation:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by section 24 of the aforesaid act
of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby
reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation
all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate
in the State of California and within the boundaries particularly described
as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the northeast corner of township five (5) south, range
thirty (30) east, on the first (Ist) standard parallel south, Mount Diablo
meridian, California; thence westerly along said first (Ist) standard par-
allel to the northwest corner of township five (5) south, range twenty-one
(21) east; thence southerly on the range line between ranges twenty (20)
and twenty-one (21) east to the southwest corner of township six (6)
south, range twenty-one (21) east; thence easterly on the township line
between townships six (6) and seven (7) south to the southeast corner
of township six (6) south, range twenty-one (21) east; thence southerly
on the range line between ranges twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22)
east to the southwest corner of township seven (7) south, range twenty-
two (22) east; thence easterly along the township line between town-
ships seven (7) and eight (8) south to the southeast corner of township
seven (7) south, range twenty-two (22) east; thence southerly along the
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
hand and caused the seal
of the United States of America to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of July, 1894,
[SEAL.]
and of the Independence of the United States the one hun-
dred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
W. Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas Congress by a statute approved March 22, 1882, and by stat-
utes in furtherance and amendment thereof defined the crimes of bigamy,
polygamy, and unlawful cohabitation in the Territories and other places
within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States and prescribed a
penalty for such crimes; and
Whereas on or about the 6th day of October, 1890, the Church of the
Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, through its
president issued a manifesto proclaiming the purpose of said church no
longer to sanction the practice of polygamous marriages and calling upon
all members and adherents of said church to obey the laws of the United
States in reference to said subject-matter; and
Whereas on the 4th day of January, A. D. 1893, * Benjamin Harrison,
then President of the United States, did declare and grant a full pardon
and amnesty to certain offenders under said acts upon condition of future
obedience to their requirements, as is fully set forth in said proclamation
of amnesty and pardon; and
Whereas upon the evidence now furnished me I am satisfied that the
members and adherents of said church generally abstain from plural mar-
riages and polygamous cohabitation and are now living in obedience to
the laws, and that the time has now arrived when the interests of public
justice and morality will be promoted by the granting of amnesty and
pardon to all such offenders as have complied with the conditions of said
proclamation, including such of said offenders as have been convicted
under the provisions of said act:
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States,
by virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby declare and grant a full
ammesty and pardon to all persons who have in violation of said acts com-
mitted either of the offenses of polygamy, bigamy, adultery, or unlawful
cohabitation under the color of polygamous or plural marriage, or who,
15
having been convicted of violations of said acts, are now suffering depriva-
tion of civil rights in consequence of the same, excepting all persons who
have not complied with the conditions contained in said executive proc-
lamation of January 4, 1893.
See pp. 368-369.
Grover Cleveland
5II
In witn
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
sed the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of September,
A. D. 1894, and of the Independence of the United States the
one hundred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
W. Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
The American people should gratefully render thanksgiving and praise
to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, who has watched over them with
kindness and fostering care during the year that has passed; they should
also with humility and faith supplicate the Father of All Mercies for con-
tinued blessings according to their needs, and they should by deeds of
charity seek the favor of the Giver of Every Good and Perfect Gift.
Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby
appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November instant, as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer to be kept and observed by all the people
of the land.
On that day let our ordinary work and business be suspended and let
us meet in our accustomed places of worship and give thanks to Almighty
God for our preservation as a nation, for our immunity from disease and
pestilence, for the harvests that have rewarded our husbandry, for a re-
newal of national prosperity, and for every advance in virtue and intelli-
gence that has marked our growth as a people.
And with our thanksgiving let us pray that these blessings may be
multiplied unto us, that our national conscience may be quickened to a
better recognition of the power and goodness of God, and that in our na-
tional life we may clearer see and closer follow the path of righteousness.
And in our places of worship and praise, as well as in the happy re-
unions of kindred and friends on that day, let us invoke divine approval
by generously remembering the poor and needy. Surely He who has
given us comfort and plenty will look upon our relief of the destitute
and our ministrations of charity as the work of hearts truly grateful and
as proofs of the sincerity of our thanksgiving.
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States, which I have
caused to be hereto affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington on the 1st day of November,
A. D. 1894, and of the Independence of the United States the
one hundred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 13, 14.
1257
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States
Regulations to take
effect March 1, 1895.
of America, do, hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by Sec-
tion 3 of the Act aforesaid, proclaim the first day of Marcb, 1895, as Post, p. 1259.
the day on which the said Act approved August 19, 1890, as amended
by the Act approved May 28, 1894, shall take effect.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this thirteenth day of July one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-four and of the Inde-
[SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and nine-
teenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND
By the President:
W.Q.GRESHAM
Secretary of State.
[No. 14.]
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
September 25, 1894.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas Congress by a statute approved March 22d 1882, and by
Preamble.
statutes in furtherance and amendment thereof, defined the crimes of
Vol. 22, p. 30.
bigamy, polygamy and unlawful cohabitation in the Territories and
other places within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and
prescribed a penalty for such crimes; and
Whereas, on or about the sixth day of October, 1890, the Church of
the Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, through
its President, issued a manifesto proclaiming the purpose of said Church
no longer to sanction the practice of polygamous marriages and calling
upon all members and adherents of said Church to obey the laws of the
United States in reference to said subject matter; and
Whereas on the fourth day of January, A. D. 1893, Benjamin Harri-
son, then President of the United States, did declare and grant a full
Vol. 27, p. 1058.
pardon and amnesty to certain offenders under said acts upon condition
of future obedience to their requirements as is fully set forth in said
proclamation of amnesty and pardon; and
Whereas upon the evidence now furnished me I am satisfied that the
members and adherents of said Church generally abstain from plural
marriages and polygamous cohabitation and are now living in obedience
to the laws, and that the time has now arrived when the interests of
public justice and morality will be promoted by the granting of amnesty
and pardon to all such offenders as have complied with the conditions,
of said proclamation, including such of said offenders as have been
convicted under the provisions of said act,
Now Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States,
Pardon and amnenty
to Mormons commit-
by virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby declare and grant a ting polygamy, etc.
full amnesty and pardon to all persons who have in violation of said
acts committed either of the offences of polygamy, bigamy, adultery or
unlawful cohabitation under the color of polygamous or plural marriage,
or who, having been convicted of violations of said acts, are now suffer-
ing deprivation of civil rights in consequence of the same, excepting
all persons who have not complied with the conditions contained in said
Exceptions.
executive proclamation of January the fourth, 1893.
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 25th day of September in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred ninety four,
[SEAL] and of the independence of the United States the one hun.
dred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVEL
By the President
W. Q. GRESHAM
Secretary of State.
510
Messages and Papers of the Presidents
n testimony whereof I have hereunto set and and caused the
seal
of the United States of America to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of July, 1894,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hun-
dred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
W. Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas Congress by a statute approved March 22, 1882, and by stat-
utes in furtherance and amendment thereof defined the crimes of bigamy,
polygamy, and unlawful cohabitation in the Territories and other places
within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States and prescribed a
penalty for such crimes; and
Whereas on or about the 6th day of October, 1890, the Church of the
Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, through its
president issued a manifesto proclaiming the purpose of said church no
longer to sanction the practice of polygamous marriages and calling upon
all members and adherents of said church to obey the laws of the United
States in reference to said subject-matter; and
Whereas on the 4th day of January, A. D. 1893, * Benjamin Harrison,
then President of the United States, did declare and grant a full pardon
and amnesty to certain offenders under said acts upon condition of future
obedience to their requirements, as is fully set forth in said proclamation
of amnesty and pardon; and
Whereas upon the evidence now furnished me I am satisfied that the
members and adherents of said church generally abstain from plural mar-
riages and polygamous cohabitation and are now living in obedience to
the laws, and that the time has now arrived when the interests of public
justice and morality will be promoted by the granting of amnesty and
pardon to all such offenders as have complied with the conditions of said
proclamation, including such of said offenders as have been convicted
under the provisions of said act:
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States,
by virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby declare and grant a full
ammesty and pardon to all persons who have in violation of said acts com-
mitted either of the offenses of polygamy, bigamy, adultery, or unlawful
cohabitation under the color of polygamous or plural marriage, or who,
having been convicted of violations of said acts, are now suffering depriva-
tion of civil rights in consequence of the same, excepting all persons who
have not complied with the conditions contained in said executive proc.
lamation of January 4, 1893.
* See pp. 368-369.
Grover Cleveland
5II
In wits
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and ised the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of September,
A. D. 1894, and of the Independence of the United States the
one hundred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
W. Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
The American people should gratefully render thanksgiving and praise
to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, who has watched over them with
kindness and fostering care during the year that has passed; they should
also with humility and faith supplicate the Father of All Mercies for con-
tinued blessings according to their needs, and they should by deeds of
charity seek the favor of the Giver of Every Good and Perfect Gift.
Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby
appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November instant, as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer to be kept and observed by all the people
of the land.
On that day let our ordinary work and business be suspended and let
us meet in our accustomed places of worship and give thanks to Almighty
God for our preservation as a nation, for our immunity from disease and
pestilence, for the harvests that have rewarded our husbandry, for a re-
newal of national prosperity, and for every advance in virtue and intelli-
gence that has marked our growth as a people.
And with our thanksgiving let us pray that these blessings may be
multiplied unto us, that our national conscience may be quickened to a
better recognition of the power and goodness of God, and that in our na-
tional life we may clearer see and closer follow the path of righteousness.
And in our places of worship and praise, as well as in the happy re-
unions of kindred and friends on that day, let us invoke divine approval
by generously remembering the poor and needy. Surely He who has
given us comfort and plenty will look upon our relief of the destitute
and our ministrations of charity as the work of hearts truly grateful and
as proofs of the sincerity of our thanksgiving.
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States, which I have
caused to be hereto affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington on the ist day of November,
A. D. 1894, and of the Independence of the United States the
one hundred and nineteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
16
[No. 29.]
July 4, 1902.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
A PROCLAMATION.
Preamble.
Whereas, Many of the inhabitants of the Philippine Archipelago
were in insurrection against the authority and sovereignty of the
Kingdom of Spain at divers times from August, 1896, until the cession
of the archipelago by that Kingdom to the United States of America,
and since such cession many of the persons so engaged in insurrection
have until recently resisted the authority and sovereignty of the United
States; and
Whereas, The insurrection against the authority and sovereignty of
the United States is now at an end, and peace has been established in
all parts of the archipelago, except in the country inhabited by the
Moro tribes, to which this proclamation does not apply; and
Whereas, During the course of the insurrection against the King-
dom of Spain and against the Government of the United States, per-
sons engaged therein, or those in sympathy with and abetting them,
committed many acts in violation of the laws of civilized warfare; but
it is believed that such acts were generally committed in ignorance of
those laws, and under orders issued by the civil or insurrectionary
leaders; and
Whereas, It is deemed to be wise and humane, in accordance with
the beneficent purposes of the Government of the United States
towards the Filipino peop e, and conducive to peace, order, and loyalty
among them, that the doers of such acts who have not already suffered
punishment shall not be held criminally responsible, but shall be
relieved from punishment for participation in these insurrections and
for unlawful acts committed during the course thereof by a general
amnesty and pardon;
Amnesty to Philip-
Now, therefore, be it known that I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Pres-
pine insurrectionists.
ident of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and
authority vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and
declare without reservation or condition, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, a full and complete pardon and amnesty to all persons in the
Philippine Archipelago who have participated in the insurrections
16
aforesaid or who have given aid and comfort to persons participating
in said insurrections for the offenses of treason or sedition and for all
offenses political in their character committed in the course of such
insurrections pursuant to orders issued by the civil or military insur-
rectionary authorities, or which grew out of internal political feuds
or dissensions, between Filipinos and Spaniards, or the Spanish author-
ities, or which resulted from internal political feuds or dissensions
among the Filipinos themselves during either of said insurrections.
Exceptions.
Provided, however, That the pardon and amnesty hereby granted
shall not include such persons committing crimes since May 1, 1902,
in any province of the archipelago in which at the time civil govern-
ment was established, nor shall it include such persons as have been
AMATIONS. Nos. 29, 30.
2015
heretofore
victed of the crimes of murder, rape, arson or
robbery, by any
or civil tribunal organized under the authority
of Spain, or of
States of America, but special application
Special application
may
be
made
to
the
proper authority for pardon by any person belong-
for pardon.
ing to the exempted classes and such clemency as is consistent with
humanity and justice will be liberally extended; and
Further provided, That this amnesty and pardon shall not affect the
Certain property
rights, etc., not
title or right of the Government of the United States, or that of the affected.
Philippine Islands to any property or property rights heretofore -used
or appropriated by the military or civil authorities of the Government
of the United States, or that of the Philippine Islands, organized under
authority of the United States by way of confiscation or otherwise; and
Provided further, that every person who shall seek to avail himself
Oath.
of this proclamation shall take and subscribe the following oath before
any authority in the Philippine Archipelago authorized to administer
oaths, namely:
"I,
, solemnly swear (or affirm) that I recognize and accept the
supreme authority of the United States of America in the Philippine Islands and
will maintain true faith and allegiance thereto; that I impose upon myself this
obligation voluntarily without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help
me God.'
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, the 4th day of July in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the
[SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-seventh.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
By the President:
JOHN HAY
Secretary of State.
[No. 30.]
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
July 16, 1902.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, in the State of Wyo-
Preamble.
ming, was established by proclamation dated May twenty-second,
Ante, p. 2003.
nineteen hundred and two, under and by virtue of section twenty-four
Vol. 26, p. 1103.
of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-one, entitled, An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for
other purposes", which provides, That the President of the United
States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or
Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public
lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether
of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President
shall, by public proclamation; declare the establishment of such reser-
vations and the limits thereof";
And whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved
Vol. 30, p. 36.
June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, An act
making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, and for other purposes", that The President is hereby author-
ized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may
hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modi-
fication may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such
reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve";
And whereas, the public lands in the State of Wyoming, within the
limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it
PROCLAMATIONS, 1917.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Civil
amnesty
pardon.
and Whereas a practice has existed for many years among the judges
Preamble.
of certain United States courts of suspending either the imposition or
Post, p. 1690.
the execution of sentences whenever, in their judgment, the circum-
stances warranted it, which practice is illegal as has been held by the
Supreme Court of the United States in a case entitled "Ex parte
United States, petitioner," known as the Killits case, decided
December 4, 1916; and
Whereas the practice was widespread, and many thousands of
persons are now at liberty under such suspensions, never having
served any portion of the sentences duly authorized and required
by the statutes; and
Whereas many of these persons are leading blameless lives and
have reestablished themselves in the confidence of their fellow
citizens, and it is believed that the enforcement of the law at this
late date would, in most instances, be productive of no good results;
and
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States, in recognition
of the necessity for meeting this situation, has stayed the mandate
in the Killits case until the end of the present term, to wit, until
about June 15, 1917:
Granted to persons
under certain suspend-
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President
ed
sentences,
etc., of of the United States of America, in consideration of the premises,
United States Courts.
divers, other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do
hereby declare and grant a full amnesty and pardon to all persons
under suspended sentences of United States courts liable to penalties
as aforesaid, where the sentences imposed were less than the period
between the date of imposition and June 15, 1917, and to all persons,
defendants in said courts, in cases where pleas of guilty were entered
or verdicts of guilty returned prior to June 15, 1916, and in which
no sentences have been imposed.
Respite in other cases
prior to December 4,
In all other cases of suspension either of the imposition or the
1916.
execution of sentence by judges of the United States courts occurring
prior to December 4, 1916, the date of the decision in the Killits case,
a respite of six months is hereby granted from June 15, 1917, in
order that the facts and merits of the respective cases may be investi-
gated and considered and appropriate action taken, where warranted,
by way of executive clemency.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto signed my name and
caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia this Fourteenth day of June in
the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
[SEAL] seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States
the one hundred and forty-first,
WOODROW WILSON
By the President:
ROBERT LANSING
Secretary of State.
17
June 18, 1917.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Alaska coal lands.
Preamble.
WHEREAS, the act of Congress approved October twentieth, nine-
Vol. 38, p. 742.
teen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act To provide for the leas-
ing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,"
CALVIN COOLIDGE
By the President:
CHARLES E. HUGHES
Secretary of State.
18#
March 5, 1924.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Amnesty and par-
WHEREAS, in and by the Constitution of the United States of
don.
Preamble.
America, it is provided that the President "shall have power to
grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States,
except in cases of impeachment"; and
R. S., sec. 1996, p. 350.
WHEREAS, Sections 1996 and 1998 of the Revised Statutes of the
Vol. 37, p. 356.
United States as modified by the Act of Congress approved August
22, 1912 (37 Stat. 356), prescribe that all persons thereafter deserting
the military or naval service of the United States shall be deemed to
have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship,
as well as their right to become citizens, and shall be forever incapable
of holding any office of trust or profit under the United States, or of
exercising any rights of citizens thereof, but that said provisions
"shall not apply to any person hereafter deserting the military or
naval service of the United States in time of peace"; and
WHEREAS, an armistice was signed with the Imperial Austro-
Hungarian Government on November 3, 1918, and with the Imperial
German Government on November 11, 1918, the effect of which was
to terminate hostilities; and
Vol. 42, p. 105.
WHEREAS, the war with the aforesaid foreign powers was not
formally at an end until July 2, 1921, as declared by a Joint Resolu-
tion of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
approved July 2, 1921, and by proclamations of the President of the
Vol. 42, pp. 1939, 1946.
United States of November 14, 1921, and November 17, 1921; and
WHEREAS, many persons who deserted from the military or
naval service of the United States on or after November 11, 1918,
and therefor were duly convicted of desertion committed in time of
war, are now leading blameless lives and have reestablished them-
selves in the confidence of their fellow citizens, and it is believed that
further application of the provisions of the Revised Statutes herein-
above set forth to their cases would in most instances be productive
of no good results and would be contrary to the spirit of those provi-
sions;
Granting amnesty
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, that I, Calvin Coolidge,
and pardon as to for-
feiture of citizenship,
President of the United States of America, in consideration of the
etc., by persons desert-
premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto
ingfrom Army or Navy
since armistice of the
moving, do hereby declare and grant amnesty and pardon to all
World War.
persons who have heretofore been or may hereafter be convicted of
desertion from the military or naval service of the United States in
time of war, committed during the war hereinbefore mentioned and
18
PROCLAMATIONS, 1924.
1941
on or since November 11, 1918, to the extent that there shall be,
and hereby are, fully remitted as to such persons any relinquishment
or forfeiture of their rights of citizenship as well as their right to
become citizens, and any incapacity to hold office of trust or profit
under the United States or to exercise any rights of citizens thereof,
which forfeitures and disabilities have heretofore been or may here-
after be incurred under the provisions of the sections of the Revised
Statutes hereinabove set forth by any such persons in consequence
of conviction of desertion committed in time of war as aforesaid.
FURTHERMORE, I do hereby proclaim, declare and make known
No other penalties
affected.
that nothing contained in this proclamation is intended to remove, or
to authorize the removal of, any charge of desertion which may now
be standing on the rolls or records of the United States in the case of
any person, or as pardoning, remitting or mitigating any penalties to
which any person has become, is now, or hereafter may become
liable, except as hereinbefore specifically provided.
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 fifth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-
[SEAL.] four, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty-eighth.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
By the President:
CHARLES E. HUGHES
Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
March 7, 1924.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, in and by Section 315 (a) of Title III of the Act of
Tariff on Wheat and
Wheat Products.
Congress approved September 21, 1922, entitled "An Act to provide
Preamble.
Statutory authoriza-
revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the tion.
industries of the United States, and for other purposes," it is among
Vol. 42, p. 941.
other things provided that whenever the President, upon investigation
of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the
growth or product of the United States and of like or similar articles
wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign coun-
tries, shall find it thereby shown that the duties fixed in this Act do
not equalize the said differences in costs of production in the United
States and the principal competing country he shall, by such investi-
gation, ascertain said differences and determine and proclaim the
changes in classifications or increases or decreases in rates of duty pro-
vided in said Act shown by said ascertained differences in such costs
of production necessary to equalize the same;
WHEREAS, in and by Section 315 (c) of said Act it is further
Vol. 42, p. 942.
provided that in ascertaining the differences in costs of production,
under the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of said section, the
President, in so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into con-
sideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including
wages, costs of material, and other items in costs in production of
such or similar articles in the United States and in competing foreign
countries; (2) the differences in the wholesale selling prices of domestic
and foreign articles in the principal markets of the United States;
(3) advantages granted to a foreign producer by a foreign government,
or by a person, partnership, corporation, or association in a foreign
country; and (4) any other advantages or disadvantages in competi-
tion;
PROCLAMATIONS, 1933.
1725
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 21st day of December, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three,
[SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America
the one hundred and fifty-eighth.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
By the President:
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Acting Secretary of State.
[No. 2067]
(GRANTING PARDON TO PERSONS CONVICTED OF CERTAIN WAR-TIME
OFFENSES]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
December 23, 1933.
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States of
Persons convicted of
certain war-time of-
America, it is provided that the President "shall have power to grant
fenses.
reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except
Preamble.
Provisions of the
in cases of impeachment", and
Constitution.
Whereas, various persons have been from time to time convicted
Violations specified.
in the courts of the United States of violations of certain statutes
enacted during the war between the United States and the Imperial
German Government and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Government,
to wit:
Section 3 of Title I of the Act approved June 15, 1917, entitled "An
Seditious acts, etc.
Act To punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the
Vol. 40, p. 219; U.S.C.
p. 1691.
neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish
Espionage, etc.
Vol. 40, p. 553.
espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United
States, and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 217); and said section as
amended by the Act approved May 16, 1918 (40 Stat. 553); or of a
conspiracy to violate the same;
Conspiracy to violate Section 5 of the Act approved on June 15, 1917,
Selective draft.
Vol. 40, pp. 80, 955.
entitled "An Act To authorize the President to increase temporarily
the Military Establishment of the United States" (40 Stat. 76); and
said Section as amended by the Act approved August 31, 1918 (40
Stat. 955); and
Whereas, the emergency contemplated by the aforesaid statutes has
long expired;
Now, Therefore, Be it Known, that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Full pardon granted,
if sentence imposed has
President of the United States of America, in consideration of the
been complied with.
premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto
moving, do hereby declare and grant a full pardon to all persons who
have heretofore been convicted of a violation of any of the foregoing
statutory provisions or of a conspiracy to violate the same, and who
have complied with the sentences imposed on them; provided, how-
Proviso.
Restriction.
ever, that such pardon shall not be construed to pardon such persons
for any offenses other than those designated herein, whether committed
prior or subsequently to the offenses herein designated.
19
1726
PROCLAMATIONS, 1933.
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 23rd day of December, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and
[SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the
one hundred and fifty-eighth.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
By the President.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Acting Secretary of State
[No. 2068]
MERCHANDISE IN BONDED WAREHOUSE, BONDED CARPET WooL
AND CAMEL HAIR, AND DRAWBACK EXPORTATIONS
December 30, 1933.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Bonded warehouses,
etc.
WHEREAS section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (ch. 497, 46 Stat.
Preamble.
590, 696) provides, in part:
Statutory authoriza-
tion:
"Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emer-
Vol. 46, p. 696.
gency to exist by reason of a state of war, or otherwise, he may
authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the continu-
ance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the performance
of any act
*
*
*
Emergency declared.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the
United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the aforesaid provisions, do hereby proclaim an
emergency to exist.
Time extended for
And I do further proclaim that it is necessary and proper, because
withdrawing merchan-
dise, imported during
of the emergency, that all merchandise (except grain) imported
1931, for warehousing.
Vol. 46, p. 744.
during the calendar year 1931 and entered for warehousing under
section 557 of the Tariff Act of 1930 be permitted to remain in ware-
house for a further period; and I therefore hereby authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury, until further notice, to extend the ware-
housing period for such merchandise for not more than one year from
and after the expiration of the three-year period prescribed in sections
Proviso.
557 and 559 of the Tariff Act of 1930: Provided, however, that in each
Conditions imposed.
and every case the Secretary of the Treasury shall require that the
principal on the warehouse-entry bond, in order to obtain the benefits
under the extension granted, shall either furnish to the Collector of
Customs for the district in which the merchandise is warehoused the
agreement of the sureties on such bond to remain bound under the
terms and provisions of the bond to the same extent as if no extension
were granted, or furnish an additional bond with acceptable sureties
to cover the period of extension.
Bonded wool, condi-
And I do further proclaim that it is necessary and proper, because
tionally free, for desig-
nated manufacture.
of the emergency, that as to all wool or hair of the camel imported
Time extended for
proof of use.
or withdrawn from bonded warehouse during the calendar year 1931
Vol. 46, p. 646.
conditionally free of duty, under bond, under paragraph 1101 of the
Tariff Act of 1930 for use in the manufacture of press cloth, camel's-
hair belting, rugs, carpets, or other floor coverings, or in the manu-
i
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nder and by virtue of the
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
d in me by the Consti-
unto set my hand and caused the seal
active status for not less tt
United St. tes and by
of the United States of America to be
have been or shall hereafte
and 24 of title 50 01
affixed.
ably discharged or separate
Code, do proclaim that
DONE at the City of Washington this
or separated under honorab
(6), (10), and (11), re-
21st day of December in the year of
from active service thereir
possession of certain pro-
our Lord nineteen hundred
however, that such pardon
by and the travel of alien
and forty-five and of the
construed to include the par
ribed and proclaimed by
Independence of the United
persons for any offenses for
No. 2525 of December 7,
States of America the one hundred and
viction has been obtained a:
rporated by reference into
seventieth.
of such entry, enrollment,
Nos. 2526 and 2527 of De-
HARRY S. TRUMAN
into service.
1. are hereby revoked. All
IN WITNESS WHERE
as of the aforesaid procla-
By the President:
hereunto set my hand and
remain in full force and
DEAN ACHESON,
seal of the United States of
Acting Secretary of State.
be affixed.
SS WHEREOF, I have here-
DONE at the City of
hand and caused the seal
this 24th day of December,
d States of America to be
PROCLAMATION 2676
of our Lord ninete
GRANTING PARDON TO CERTAIN PERSONS
[SEAL] and forty-five, and
he City of Washington this
WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES
dependence of the U
ecember in the year of our
of America the one hundre
OF THE UNITED STATES
nineteen hundred and
entieth.
-five, and of the Independ-
WHEREAS the Constitution of the
HARRY i
of the United States of
United States provides that the President
By the President:
one hundred and seventieth.
"shall have power to grant reprieves and
pardons for offenses against the United
DEAN ACHESON,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Acting Secretary of st
esident:
States, except in cases of impeachment";
and
BYRNES,
WHEREAS subsequent to July 29, 1941,
PROCLAMATION 2
ary of State.
there were inducted and enrolled in the
armed forces of the United States per-
GEORGE WASHINGTON CAR
OCLAMATION 2675
sons who had prior to their entry, induc-
WHEREAS it is fitting the
tion or enrollment been convicted of of-
the memory of George Washi
OF THE PROCLAMATION Sus-
fenses against the laws of the United
ver who contributed to the e:
IE INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINES
States or the Territory of Alaska, other
the agricultural economy of
N IN PORTS AND WATERS OF
than the laws for the government of the
ED STATES
Army and Navy; and
S by Proclamation No. 2500,
WHEREAS it appears that such con-
st 9, 1941, the President de-
victed persons who have or shall here-
proclaimed the International
after be honorably discharged or sepa-
Convention, signed by the
rated from the armed forces, or separated
lenipotentiaries of the United
with honor from active service therein,
America and certain other
after serving in active status for not less
it London on July 5, 1930,
than one year ought to have restored to
them the political, civil, and other rights
and inoperative in the ports
of which they were deprived by reason
of the United States of Amer-
of such conviction and which may not be
so far as the United States
restored to them unless they are par-
was concerned, for the dura-
doned:
existing emergency; and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
AS it appears that the con-
TRUMAN, President of the United States
pension of the said Interna-
of America, do hereby grant a full par-
I Lines Convention is no longer
don to all persons convicted of violation
or desirable:
of any law of the United States or of the
THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
Territory of Alaska, except the laws for
President of the United States
the government of the Army and the
do declare and proclaim that
Navy, who on or after the twenty-ninth
Proclamation No. 2500, dated
day of July, 1941, and prior to the date
1941, is hereby revoked, effec-
hereof, entered, enrolled in, or were in-
January 1, 1946.
ducted into the armed forces of the
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Chapter I-Proclamations
Proc. 2677
United States and who after serving in
through his diligent research as an agri-
e here-
active status for not less than one year
cultural chemist; and
he seal
have been or shall hereafter be honor-
to be
WHEREAS by a joint resolution ap-
ably discharged or separated therefrom,
proved December 28, 1945 (Public Law
or separated under honorable conditions
on this
290, 79th Congress), the Congress has
from active service therein: Provided,
year of
designated January 5, 1946 as George
however, that such pardon shall not be
hundred
Washington Carver Day and has au-
construed to include the pardon of such
of the
thorized and requested me "to issue a
United
persons for any offenses for which con-
proclamation calling upon officials of the
viction has been obtained after the date
Ired and
Government to display the flag of the
of such entry, enrollment, or induction
United States on all Government build-
into service.
ings on such day":
'RUMAN
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
NOW THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
hereunto set my hand and caused the
TRUMAN, President of the United States
seal of the United States of America to
of America, do hereby call upon officials
be affixed.
of the Government to have the flag of
DONE at the City of Washington
the United States displayed on all Gov-
this 24th day of December, in the year
ernment buildings on January 5, 1946
16
of our Lord nineteen hundred
in commemoration of the achievements
[SEAL] and forty-five, and of the In-
of George Washington Carver.
PERSONS
dependence of the United States
ED FORCES
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here-
of America the one hundred and sev-
unto set my hand and caused the seal
entieth.
of the United States of America to be
HARRY S. TRUMAN
n of the
affixed.
President
By the President:
DONE at the City of Washington this
rieves and
DEAN ACHESON,
28th day of December, in the year of
he United
Acting Secretary of State.
our Lord nineteen hundred and
achment";
[SEAL] forty-five and of the Independ-
ily 29, 1941,
PROCLAMATION 2677
ence of the United States of
America the one hundred and seventieth.
illed in the
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER DAY
States per-
HARRY S. TRUMAN
itry, induc-
WHEREAS it is fitting that we honor
the memory of George Washington Car-
By the President:
icted of of-
the United
ver who contributed to the expansion of
DEAN ACHESON,
laska, other
the agricultural economy of the nation
Acting Secretary of State.
ment of the
it such con-
shall here-
:ed or sepa-
or separated
vice therein,
S for not less
e restored to
1 other rights
ed by reason
h may not be
hey are par-
HARRY S.
United States
nt a full par-
ed of violation
tates or of the
it the laws for
Army and the
) twenty-ninth
ior to the date
in, or were in-
forces of the
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Chapter I-Proclamations
Proc. 2762
of 1930, as amended, shall be suspended,
Board and its recommendation that Ex-
except with respect to bundles of red-
ecutive clemency be granted in certain
cedar shingles.
of such cases; and
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here-
WHEREAS the Attorney General has
unto set my hand and caused the Seal
submitted such report to me with his ap-
of the United States of America to be
proval of the recommendation made by
affixed.
the Board with respect to Executive
DONE at the City of Washington this
clemency; and
sixteenth day of December, in the year
WHEREAS upon consideration of the
of our Lord nineteen hundred
report and recommendation of the Board
[SEAL] and forty-seven and of the In-
and the recommendation of the Attor-
dependence of the United States
ney General, it appears that certain per-
of America the one hundred and seventy-
sons convicted of violating the Selective
second.
Training and Service Act of 1940 as
HARRY S. TRUMAN
amended ought to have restored to them
the political, civil, and other rights of
By the President:
which they were deprived by reason of
ROBERT A. LOVETT,
such conviction and which may not be re-
Acting Secretary of State.
stored to them unless they are pardoned:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
PROCLAMATION 2762
TRUMAN, President of the United States
of America, under and by virtue of the
GRANTING PARDON TO CERTAIN PERSONS
authority vested in me by Article II of
CONVICTED OF VIOLATING THE SELECTIVE
the Constitution of the United States, do
TRAINING AND SERVICE AcT OF 1940 AS
hereby grant a full pardon to those per-
AMENDED
sons convicted of violating the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1940 as
WHEREAS by Executive Order No.
amended whose names are included in
9814 of December 23, 1946,1 there was
the list of names attached hereto and
established the President's Amnesty
hereby made a part of this proclamation.
Board, the functions and duties of which
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here-
were set out in paragraph 2 of the said
unto set my hand and caused the Seal of
Executive order as follows:
the United States of America to be
"The Board, under such regulations as it
affixed.
may prescribe, shall examine and consider
the cases of all persons convicted of violation
DONE at the City of Washington this
of the Selective Training and Service Act of
23rd day of December in the year of our
1940, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 301 ff.), or
Lord nineteen hundred and
of any rule or regulation prescribed under or
[SEAL] forty-seven, and of the Inde-
pursuant to that Act, or convicted of a con-
pendence of the United States of
spiracy to violate that Act or any rule or
America the one hundred and seventy-
regulation prescribed under or pursuant
second.
thereto. In any case in which it deems it
HARRY S. TRUMAN
desirable to do so, the Board shall make a
report to the Attorney General which shall
By the President:
include its findings and its recommendations
as to whether Executive clemency should be
ROBERT A. LOVETT,
granted or denied, and, in any case in which
Acting Secretary of State.
it recommends that Executive clemency be
granted, its recommendations with respect
LIST OF NAMES
to the form that such clemency should take.
Name, Date Convicted and U. S. District
The Attorney General shall report the find-
Court
ings and recommendations of the Board to
the President, with such further recom-
1. Aaron, Herbert Huston, October 20, 1942,
mendations as he may desire to make."
Eastern Arkansas.
and
2. Abernathy, Wilburn, September 22, 1944,
Northern Alabama.
WHEREAS the Board, after consider-
3. Abram, Joel, Jr., April 14, 1943, Southern
ing all cases coming within the scope of
West Virginia.
paragraph 2 of the said Executive order,
4. Ackerman, Paul Roland, December 27,
has made a report to the Attorney Gen-
1940, Oregon.
eral, which includes the findings of the
5. Adamy, Edward N., April 30, 1943, New
Jersey.
6. Addington, Norman Wallace, October 9,
13 CFR 1946 Supp.
1945, Eastern Kentucky.
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Title 3-The President
Chapter I
of the Supreme
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9814
Florida, Johnson
5. The Board shall cease to exist,
less otherwise provided by further
a District Court
ESTABLISHING AN AMNESTY BOARD To RE-
ecutive order, upon the submission of
na, as the Mem-
VIEW CONVICTIONS OF PERSONS UNDER
final recommendations to the Presid
earingen, former
THE SELECTIVE TRAINING AND SERVICE
by the Attorney General
Attorney Gen-
ACT OF 1940 AND To MAKE RECOMMEN-
cmber, of one of
DATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY WITH
HARRY S. TRUMA
unals established
RESPECT THERETO
THE WHITE HOUSE,
for the United
ion within Ger-
By virtue of the authority vested in me
December 23, 1940,
10 quadripartite
as President of the United States by sec-
trol Council for
tion 2 of Article II of the Constitution of
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9815
cember 20, 1945,
the United States, which provides that
No. 10, and pur-
"The
President
shall
have
AMENDING SECTION 7 OF EXECUTIVE
11 of the Charter
power to grant reprieves and pardons for
No. 9691 OF FEBRUARY 4, 1946, ENTIM
ilitary Tribunal,
offenses against the United States, except
"DIRECTING THE CIVIL SERVICE Co
tablished by the
in cases of impeachment," and in the
MISSION To RESUME OPERATIONS UNI
nited States of
interest of the internal management of
THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES. AND
Government of
the Government, it is ordered as follows:
THORIZING THE ADOPTION OF
Government
of
REGULATIONS DURING THE TRANSITION
1. There is hereby established a board
Great Britain
PERIOD"1
of three members, which shall be known
the Govern-
as the President's Amnesty Board. The
By virtue of the authority vested
Soviet Socialist
members of the Board shall be appointed
me by the Civil Service Act of
and punishment
by the President, who shall also designate
16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403), and section
of the European
its chairman.
of the Revised Statutes, and in the
and alternate
lirection of the
2. The Board, under such regulations
terest of the internal management
10 United States
as it may prescribe, shall examine and
the Government, the proviso of
ve on any of the
consider the cases of all persons con-
of Executive Order No. 9691 of Februa
4. 1946,2 is hereby amended to read
als above men-
victed of violation of the Selective Train-
ing and Service Act of 1940, as amended
follows:
the Alternate
(50 U. S. C. App. 301 ff.), or of any rule
"Provided, That no person shall
ed shall receive
or regulation prescribed under or pur-
tinue in employment under the
suant to that Act, or convicted of 3, con-
allowances for
of this section after the general
spiracy to violate that Act or any rule or
ermined by the
of Schedule A is promulgated, unless
regulation prescribed under or pursuant
IS may be pay-
position occupied by such person she
thereto. In any case in which it deems It
or funds avail-
have been included under Schedule
desirable to do so, the Board shall make
tment for such
This section shall not apply to
a report to the Attorney General which
filled by persons having a
shall include its findings and its recom-
competitive) civil service states."
late, the Secre-
mendations as to whether Executive
y General, and
clemency should be granted or denied,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
ware authorized
and, in any case in which terecommends
THE WHITE HOUSE,
sistance to the
that Executive clemency be granted, its
December 23, 1946.
rnate Member
recommendations with respect to the
performance of
form that such elemency should take.
ssign or detail
The Attorney General shall report the
EXECUTIVE ORDER 0316
findings and recommendations of the
heir respective
PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF
Board to the President, with such further
embers of the
TIES AND PERSONNEL
recommendations 2S he may desire to
requested for
ENERGY COMMISSION
make.
SO assigned or
3. The members of the Board shall
By virtue of the authority vested in
compensation
serve without compensation, but shall be
me by the Constitution and the
ises as may be
entitled to necessary expenses incurred
including the Atomic Energy Act of 1944
try of War and
and as President of the United States.and
in the performance of their duties under
appropriations
Commander in Chief of the Army and the
order.
War Depart-
Navy, it is hereby ordered and directed
All executi departments and
as follows:
agencies of the Government are
1. There are transferred to the Atomic
S. TRUNAN
and to ccoperate
Energy Commission all interests
with he Board in Its and to furnish
the Board all information
1946.
Tabulated to 791.1 of Title 5.
supre.
Chapter I-Proclamat
Proc. 3001
States of America, having in 1949 des-
WHEREAS there have entered, en-
ignated December 10 of that year and
rolled in, or been inducted into the armed
each succeeding year as United Nations
forces of the United States persons who
Human Rights Day,¹ do hereby call upon
had prior to their entry, enrollment, or
the people of the United States to cele-
induction been convicted of offenses
brate December 10, 1952, by studying
against the laws of the United States,
the Universal Declaration of Human
other than the laws for the government
Rights and the Constitution of the
of the armed forces of the United States;
United States, and the constitutions of
and
our States and territories, and by giving
WHEREAS it appears that such con-
thanks for the priceless heritage of lib-
victed persons who have been or shall
erty embodied in these great documents.
hereafter be honorably discharged or
We do not forget that in past years
separated from the armed forces, or
men in many lands have died to win
separated with honor from active serv-
these freedoms and preserve them for
ice therein, after serving in active status
our generation. It is to defend and safe-
for not less than one year subsequent to
guard these same freedoms that the
June 25, 1950 ought to be pardoned:
United Nations is resisting communist
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
aggression in Korea, and is seeking to
TRUMAN, President of the United States
promote the liberty and security of all
of America, do hereby grant a full pardon
peoples.
to all persons convicted of violation of
In this celebration let us join with
any law of the United States, except the
the peoples of the other free nations of
laws for the government of the armed
the world in recognition of our com-
forces of the United States, who prior to
mon purpose to defend and further the
the date hereof entered, enrolled in, or
rights and freedoms of all people as pro-
were inducted into the armed forces of
claimed in the Universal Declaration of
the United States and who after serving
Human Rights, and in so doing renew
in active status for not less than one year
our determination that here in our own
subsequent to June 25, 1950 have been or
land the great guarantees in our Bills of
shall hereafter be honorably discharged
Rights shall not be lost or weakened or
or separated therefrom, or separated
curtailed.
under honorable conditions from active
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here-
service therein: Provided, however, that
unto set my hand and caused the Seal of
such pardon shall not be construed to
the United States of America to be af-
include the pardon of such persons for
flxed.
any offenses for which conviction has
DONE at the City of Washington this
been obtained after the date of such
1st day of December in the year of our
entry, enrollment, or induction.
Lord nineteen hundred and
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here-
[SEAL] fifty-two, and of the Independ-
unto set my hand and caused the seal
ence of the United States of
of the United States of America to be
America the one hundred and seventy
affixed.
seventh.
DONE at the City of Washington this
HARRY S. TRUMAN
24th day of December, in the year of
By the President:
our Lord nineteen hundred and
[SEAL] fifty-two, and of the Independ-
DAVID BRUCE,
ence of the United States of
Acting Secretary of State.
America the one hundred and seventy-
seventh.
PROCLAMATION 3000
HARRY S. TRUMAN
GRANTING PARDON TO CERTAIN PERSONS
By the President:
WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES
DEAN ACHESON,
OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE JUNE 25,
Secretary of State.
1950
WHEREAS the Constitution of the
PROCLAMATION 3001
United States provides that the Presi-
GRANTING AMNESTY AND PARDON TO CER-
dent "shall have power to grant reprieves
TAIN PERSONS CONVICTED BY COURT-
and pardons for offenses against the
MARTIAL OF DESERTION FROM THE ARMED
United States, except in cases of im-
FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES
peachment"; and
WHEREAS section 2 of Article TT of
1 Proc. 2866, 3 CFR, 1949 Supp., p. 54.
the Constitution of the United States
Page 175
Proc. 3001
Title 3-The President
of America provides that the President
after be, dismissed or dishonorably dis-
"shall have power to grant reprieves and
charged from the armed forces of the
pardons for offenses against the United
United States:
States, except in cases of impeachment";
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
and
TRUMAN, President of the United States
WHEREAS section 306 of the Nation-
of America, under and by virtue of the
ality Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 1141) provides
authority vested in me by section 2 of
in part that a person who at any time
Article II of the Constitution of the
during which the United States is at war
United States of America do hereby
deserts the military or naval forces of
grant amnesty and pardon to all persons
the United States shall upon conviction
who have heretofore been, or may here-
thereof by a court-martial be ineligible
after be, convicted by court-martial of
to become a citizen of the United States,
desertion from any branch of the armed
and that such deserters shall be forever
forces of the United States in time of
incapable of holding any office of trust
war committed on or after August 14,
or of profit under the United States, or
1945, but prior to June 25, 1950, and also
of exercising any rights as citizens
to all persons who as a result of such
thereof; and
conviction have been, or may hereafter
WHEREAS section 401 (a) (g) of the
be, dismissed or dishonorably discharged
said Act, as amended by section 1 of the
from the armed forces of the United
act of January 20, 1944, 58 Stat. 4, pro-
States, to the extent that there shall be,
vides in part that any person who is a
and hereby is, fully remitted as to such
national of the United States, whether
persons any relinquishment, loss, or for-
by birth or naturalization, shall lose his
feiture of their rights (including the
nationality by deserting the military or
right to become a citizen of the United
naval forces of the United States in time
States), capacities, or nationality, in-
of war, provided that he is convicted
curred under the provisions of the said
thereof by court-martial and as a result
sections 306 and 401 (a) (g) of the
of such conviction is dismissed or dis-
Nationality Act of 1940 and the said sec-
tions 314 and 349 (a) (8) of the Immi-
honorably discharged from the service
of such military or naval forces; and
gration and Nationality Act as a result
WHEREAS section 314 and section 349
of such conviction, or of such conviction
(a) (8) of the Immigration and Nation-
and dismissal or dishonorable discharge
ality Act (66 Stat. 241, 268) contain sub-
from the armed forces of the United
States.
stantially the same provisions as those
contained in the said sections 306 and
Nothing in this proclamation shall be
401 (a) (g), respectively, of the Nation-
construed as removing, or as authorizing
ality Act of 1940, and are expressly ap-
the removal of, any charge of desertion
plicable to desertion from the air forces,
which may now be pending on the rolls
as well as the military and naval forces,
or records of the United States in the
of the United States; and
case of any person, or as pardoning,
WHEREAS active hostilities in World
remitting, or mitigating any penalties
War II terminated on August 14, 1945,
to which any person is now, or may
but the last of the states of war existing
hereafter become, liable except as here-
at that time was not formally and legally
inbefore specifically provided.
terminated until April 28, 1952; and
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here-
WHEREAS no active hostilities existed
unto set my hand and caused the Seal of
between August 14, 1945, and June 25,
the United States of America to be
1950, the date of the Korean invasion;
affixed.
and
DONE at the City of Washington on
WHEREAS it appears that it would be
this 24th day of December in the year of
in the public interest to grant amnesty
our Lord nineteen hundred and
and pardon, to the extent hereafter indi-
[SEAL]
fifty-two, and of the Independ-
cated, to all persons who deserted from
ence of the United States of
the armed forces of the United States
America the one hundred and seventy-
on or after August 14, 1945, and prior to
seventh.
June 25, 1950, and consequently were, or
HARRY S. TRUMAN
may hereafter be, convicted by court-
martial of desertion committed in time
By the President:
of war, and to all persons who as a result
DEAN ACHESON,
of such conviction were, or may here-
Secretary of State.
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PROCLAMATION.
IMP
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
On 1
A PROCLAMATION.
Congre
Whereas the President of the United States has heretofore set forth
Preside
several proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to persons who had
which
been or were concerned in the late rebellion against the lawful authority
trial.
of the Government of the United States, which proclamations were sev-
upon b
erally issued on the 8th day of December, 1863, on the 26th day of March,
sented
1864, on the 29th day of May, 1865, on the 7th day of September, 1867,
A. Bin;
and on the 4th day of July, in the present year; and
min F.
Whereas the authority of the Federal Government having been rees-
deus S
tablished in all the States and Territories within the jurisdiction of the
the W1:
United States, it is believed that such prudential reservations and excep-
tions as at the dates of said several proclamations were deemed necessary
and proper may now be wisely and justly relinquished, and that an uni-
versal amnesty and pardon for participation in said rebellion extended to
ARTICI
all who have borne any part therein will tend to secure permanent peace,
UNIT
order, and prosperity throughout the land, and to renew and fully restore
PLE
confidence and fraternal feeling among the whole people, and their re-
OF T
spect for and attachment to the National Government, designed by its
IMPE
patriotic founders for the general good:
IN O:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by
ARTI
the Constitution and in the name of the sovereign people of the United
on the
States, do hereby proclaim and declare, unconditionally and without res-
of Colu
ervation, to all and to every person who, directly or indirectly, participated
office, a
in the late insurrection or rebellion a full pardon and amnesty for the
care the
offense of treason against the United States or of adhering to their ene-
of the (
mies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges,
ing for
and immunities under the Constitution and the laws which have been
the Def
made in pursuance thereof.
duly ap
In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and
of the s
have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto
Johnsoi
affixed.
1867, at
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 25th day of. December,
Edwin
A. D. 1868, and of the Independence of the United States of
day of t
America the ninety-third.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
of Dece
By the President:
such su
F. W. SEWARD,
and the
Acting Secretary of State.
office te
21
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697
1, 1869.
ever, to which it is unnecessary to advert my judgment make it advis-
able to communicate to the Senate the copy referred to in advance of the
gether with
arrival of the original instrument.
compliance
ANDREW JOHNSON.
sting such
ent in rela
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 18, 1869.
1864
To the Senate of the United States:
HNSON.
The resolution adopted on the 5th instant, requesting the President
to transmit to the Senate a copy of any proclamation of amnesty made
by him since the last adjournment of Congress, and also to communicate
15, 1869.
to the Senate by what authority of law the same was made," has been
received.
ency of con.
I accordingly transmit herewith a copy of a proclamation dated the
ondon on the
25th day of December last. The authority of law by which it was made
of the United
is set forth in the proclamation itself, which expressly affirms that it was
nited States
issued "by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by the Con-
migrated or
stitution, and in the name of the sovereign people of the United States,"
ed States of
and proclaims and declares unconditionally and without reservation,
SHINSON.
to all and to every person who, directly or indirectly, participated in the
late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for the offense
of treason against the United States, or of adhering to their enemies dur-
15, 1869.
ing the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges, and immu-
nities under the Constitution and the laws which have been made in
its ratifica-
pursuance thereof."
Treat Britain,
The Federal Constitution is understood to be and is regarded by the
an arbiter of
Executive as the supreme law of the land. The second section of article
Great Britain
second of that instrument provides that the President shall have power
the United
to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States,
is expected
except in cases of impeachment." The proclamation of the 25th ultimo
the steamer
is in strict accordance with the judicial expositions of the authority thus
ver, to which
conferred upon the Executive, and, as will be seen by reference to the
sable to com-
accompanying papers, is in conformity with the precedent established by
the arrival of
Washington in 1795, and followed by President Adams in 1800, Madison
OHNSON.
in 1815, and Lincoln in 1863, and by the present Executive in 1865, 1867,
and 1868.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
I' 15, 1869.
WASHINGTON, January 20, 1869.
of its ratifica-
To the Senate of the United States:
Great Britain,
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, made in com-
nt of all out-
pliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th ultimo, requesting
respectively.
information in reference to the payment of rent for the use of the build-
be forwarded
ing known as the Libby Prison, in the city of Richmond, Va.
instances, how.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Andrew Johnson
655
PROCLAMATIONS.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas in the month of July, A. D. 1861, in accepting the condition
of civil war which was brought about by insurrection and rebellion in
several of the States which constitute the United States, the two Houses
of Congress did solemnly declare that that war was not waged on the
part of the Government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose
of conquest or subjugation, nor for any purpose of overthrowing or inter-
fering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but only
to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution of the United
States and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpaired, and that SO soon as those objects
should be accomplished the war on the part of the Government should
cease; and
Whereas the President of the United States has heretofore, in the
spirit of that declaration and with the view of securing for it ultimate
and complete effect, set forth several proclamations offering amnesty and
pardon to persons who had been or were concerned in the aforenamed
rebellion, which proclamations, however, were attended with prudential
reservations and exceptions then deemed necessary and proper, and which
proclamations were respectively issued on the 8th day of December, 1863,
on the 26th day of March, 1864, on the 29th day of May, 1865, and On
the 7th day of September, 1867; and
Whereas the said lamentable civil war has long since altogether ceased,
with an acknowledgment by all the States of the supremacy of the
Federal Constitution and of the Government thereunder, and there no
longer exists any reasonable ground to apprehend a renewal of the said
civil war, or any foreign interference, or any unlawful resistance by any
portion of the people of any of the States to the Constitution and laws
of the United States; and
Whereas it is desirable to reduce the standing army and to bring to a
speedy termination military occupation, martial law, military tribunals,
abridgment of the freedom of speech and of the press, and suspension of
the privilege of habeas corpus and of the right of trial by jury, such
encroachments upon our free institutions in time of peace being danger-
ous to public liberty, incompatible with the individual rights of the
citizen, contrary to the genius and spirit of our republican form of gov-
emment, and exhaustive of the national resources; and
Whereas it is believed that amnesty and pardon will tend to secure a
complete and universal establishment and prevalence of municipal law
Messages and Papers of the Presidents
and
ordei conformity with the Constitution of the
ed States, and
Jenkins, jr., as p
to remove all appearances or presumptions of a retaliatory or vindictive
speaker of the as
policy on the part of the Government attended by unnecessary disquali-
senate, and Willia
fications, pains, penalties, confiscations, and disfranchisements, and, on
paper was transn
the contrary, to promote and procure complete fraternal reconciliation
utive Office, Tall:
among the whole people, with due submission to the Constitution and
therein signs him
laws:
Whereas on th
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the
President, which
-
United States, do, by virtue of the Constitution and in the name of
the 4th day of Ju
the people of the United States, hereby proclaim and declare, uncondi-
of W. W. Holden,
tionally and without reservation, to all and to every person who, directly
North Carolina, W
or indirectly, participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, excepting
known as article
such person or persons as may be under presentment or indictment in
tives of the gener
any court of the United States having competent jurisdiction upon a
instant, and is att
charge of treason or other felony, a full pardon and amnesty for the
secretary of the hc
offense of treason against the United States or of adhering to their
of the senate; and
enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights of prop-
Tod R. Caldwell,
erty, except as to slaves, and except also as to any property of which
Jo. W. Holden, as
any person may have been legally divested under the laws of the United
Now, therefore,
States.
United States of A
In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and
of Congress aforesa
have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunts
the ratification of
affixed.
of North Carolina i
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 4th day of July, A. D.
In testimony who
1868, and of the Independence of the United States of America
have caus
the ninety-third.
[SEAL.]
Done a
ANDREW JOHNSON.
1868, and
By the President:
the ninet
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
By the President:
WILLIAM
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
By THE PRESI
Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to admit the States
of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and
Florida to representation in Congress," passed on the 25th day of June,
1868, it is declared that it is made the duty of the President, within tem
Whereas by an ac
days after receiving official information of the ratification by the legisls
of North Carolina,
ture of either of said States of a proposed amendment to the Constitute
Florida to represent
tion known as article fourteen, to issue a proclamation announcing that
1868, it is declared t1
fact; and
days after receiving
Whereas the said act seems to be prospective; and
ture of either of said
Whereas a paper purporting to be a resolution of the legislature el
known as article four
Florida adopting the amendment of the thirteenth and fourteenth articles
and
of the Constitution of the United States was received at the Department
Whereas on the IS
of State on the 16th of June, 1868, prior to the passage of the nct
President, which lett
Congress referred to, which paper is attested by the names of Horaths
July 15, 1868, and wa:
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residents
the 25 per cent upon purchases of cotton be removed. All provisions
of the internal-revenue law will be carr into effect under the proper
officers.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL].
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of May, A. D.
1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the eighty-ninth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
W. HUNTER,
Acting Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of Decem-
ber, A. D. 1863, and on the 26th day of March, A. D. 1864, did, with the
object to suppress the existing rebellion, to induce all persons to return
to their loyalty, and to restore the authority of the United States, issue
proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to certain persons who had,
directly or by implication, participated in the said rebellion; and
Whereas many persons who had SO engaged in said rebellion have,
since the issuance of said proclamations, failed or neglected to take the
benefits offered thereby; and
Whereas many persons who have been justly deprived of all claim to
amnesty and pardon thereunder by reason of their participation, directly
or by implication, in said rebellion and continued hostility to the Gov.
ernment of the United States since the date of said proclamations now
desire to apply for and obtain amnesty and pardon.
To the end, therefore, that the authority of the Government of the
United States may be restored and that peace, order, and freedom may
be established, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do
proclaim and declare that I hereby grant to all persons who have, directly
or indirectly, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter
excepted, amnesty and pardon, with restoration of all rights of property,
except as to slaves and except in cases where legal proceedings under
the laws of the United States providing for the confiscation of property
of persons engaged in rebellion have been instituted; but upon the con-
dition, nevertheless, that every such person shall take and subscribe the
following oath (or affirmation) and thenceforward keep and maintain
said oath inviolate, and which oath shall be registered for permanent
preservation and shall be of the tenor and effect following, to wit:
I,
, do solemnly swear (or affirm), in presence of Almighty God, that I
will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
Andrew Johnson
311
States and
Union of the States thereunder, and that I will
ke manner abide
" faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during
the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God.
The following classes of persons are excepted from the benefits of this
proclamation:
First. All who are or shall have been pretended civil or diplomatic
officers or otherwise domestic or foreign agents of the pretended Con-
federate government.
Second. All who left judicial stations under the United States to aid
the rebellion.
Third. All who shall have been military or naval officers of said pre-
tended Confederate government above the rank of colonel in the army or
lieutenant in the navy.
Fourth. All who left seats in the Congress of the United States to aid
the rebellion.
Fifth. All who resigned or tendered resignations of their commissions
in the Army or Navy of the United States to evade duty in resisting the
rebellion.
Sixth. All who have engaged in any way in treating otherwise than
lawfully as prisoners of war persons found in the United States service
as officers, soldiers, seamen, or in other capacities.
Seventh. All persons who have been or are absentees from the United
States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.
Eighth. All military and naval officers in the rebel service who were
educated by the Government in the Military Academy at West Point or
the United States Naval Academy.
Ninth. All persons who held the pretended offices of governors of
States in insurrection against the United States.
Tenth. All persons who left their homes within the jurisdiction and
protection of the United States and passed beyond the Federal military
lines into the pretended Confederate States for the purpose of aiding the
rebellion.
Eleventh. All persons who have been engaged in the destruction of
the commerce of the United States upon the high seas and all persons
who have made raids into the United States from Canada or been en-
gaged in destroying the commerce of the United States upon the lakes
and rivers that separate the British Provinces from the United States.
Twelfth. All persons who, at the time when they seek to obtain the
benefits hereof by taking the oath herein prescribed, are in military, naval,
or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds of the civil, military, or
naval authorities or agents of the United States as prisoners of war,
or persons detained for offenses of any kind, either before or after con-
viction.
Thirteenth. All persons who have voluntarily participated in said re-
bellion and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over $20,000.
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Fourteenth. All persons who have taken the oath of amnesty as pre-
of en
scribed in the President's proclamation of December 8, A. D..1863, or
wher
an oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States since the
loyal
date of said proclamation and who have not thenceforward kept and
1. A1
maintained the same inviolate.
Chic
Provided, That special application may be made to the President for
will
pardon by any person belonging to the excepted classes, and such clem-
who
ency will be liberally extended as may be consistent with the facts of the
rules
case and the peace and dignity of the United States.
conv
The Secretary of State will establish rules and regulations for admin-
peop
istering and recording the said amnesty oath, SO as to insure its benefit
for 1
to the people and guard the Government against fraud.
with
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
nece
of the United States to be affixed.
Card
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 29th day of May, A. D.
Gov
1865, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-
as "
ninth.
and
ANDREW JOHNSON.
recti
By the President:
be h
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
said
Secretary of State.
men
subs
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
tion
come
A PROCLAMATION.
befo
Whereas the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of
nan
the United States declares that the United States shall guarantee to every
latu
State in the Union a republican form of government and shall protect
of e
each of them against invasion and domestic violence; and
tion
Whereas the President of the United States is by the Constitution
pos
made Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, as well as chief civil
the
executive officer of the United States, and is bound by solemn oath faith-
fully to execute the office of President of the United States and to take
care that the laws be faithfully executed; and
Whereas the rebellion which has been waged by a portion of the peo-
visi
ple of the United States against the properly constituted authorities of
enj
the Government thereof in the most violent and revolting form, but
ngi
whose organized and armed forces have now been almost entirely over-
her
come, has in its revolutionary progress deprived the people of the State
of North Carolina of all civil government; and
of
Whereas it becomes necessary and proper to carry out and enforce the
De
obligations of the United States to the people of North Carolina in secur-
ing them in the enjoyment of a republican form of government:
app
Now, therefore, in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed
ret
upon me by the Constitution of the United States and for the purpose
the
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st, to be a captain in the Navy on the
erved list from the 12th
August, 1854, the date when he was entitled to his regular promotion
had he not been overslaughed. It is due to this officer to state that he
was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability hav-
ing occurred in the discharge of his duties; and prior to his misfortune
he bore the reputation of an efficient and correct officer, and subsequently
has evinced a willingness to perform whatever duties were assigned him.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WASHINGTON, March S, 1865.
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 6th instant, requesting the
return of a certain joint resolution, * I transmit a report from the Secretary
of State.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
PROCLAMATIONS.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the twenty-first section of the act of Congress approved on
the 3d instant, entitled "An act to amend the several acts heretofore
passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces and
for other purposes," requires that, in addition to the other lawful penal-
ties of the crime of desertion from the military or naval service, all per-
sons who have deserted the military or naval service of the United States
who shall not return to said service or report themselves to a provost-
marshal within sixty days after the proclamation hereinafter mentioned
shall be deemed and taken to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited
their rights of citizenship and their rights to become citizens, and such
deserters shall be forever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit
under the United States or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof;
and all persons who shall hereafter desert the military or naval serv-
ice, and all persons who, being duly enrolled, shall depart the jurisdiction
of the district in which lie is enrolled or go beyond the limits of the United
States with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval service
duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of this section. And the
President is hereby authorized and required, forthwith on the passage
of this act, to issue his proclamation setting forth the provisions of this
section, in which proclamation the President is requested to notify all
Entitled Joint resolution in relation to certain railroads."
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279
th
serters returning within sixty days as afor id that they shall be par-
111
oned on condition of returning to their regiments and companies or to
such other organizations as they may be assigned to until they shall have
served for a period of time equal to their original term of enlistment:"
ie
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of
ly
the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as required by said act,
ordering and requiring all deserters to return to their proper posts; and
I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days
from the date of this proclamation, viz, On or before the 10th day of
May, 1865, return to service or report themselves to a provost-marshal
shall be pardoned, on condition that they return to their regiments and
companies or to such other organizations as they may be assigned to
he
and serve the remainder of their original terms of enlistment and in addi-
ry
tion thereto a period equal to the time lost by desertion.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
[SRAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 11th day of March,
A. D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States the
eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
on
re
A PROCLAMATION.
nd
11-
Whereas reliable information has been received that hostile Indians
within the limits of the United States have been furnished with arms and
munitions of war by persons dwelling in conterminous foreign territory,
it-
and are thereby enabled to prosecute their savage warfare upon the ex-
posed and sparse settlements of the frontier:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and direct that all
persons detected in that nefarious traffic shall be arrested and tried by
court-martial at the nearest military post, and if convicted shall receive
the punishment due to their deserts.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
ed
of the United States to be affixed.
ice
[SRAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 17th day of March,
he
A. D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States the
eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
is
By the President:
all
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
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By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITE TATES OF AMERICA.
ABR
A PROCLAMATION.
To a
A1
Whereas it has become necessary to define the cases in which insurgent
to CI
enemies are entitled to the benefits of the proclamation of the President
sul 0
of the United States which was made on the 8th day of December, 1863,
and
and the manner in which they shall proceed to avail themselves of those
const
benefits; and
Hunt
Whereas the objects of that proclamation were to suppress the insur-
rection and to restore the authority of the United States; and
try is
a for
Whereas the amnesty therein proposed by the President was offered
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with reference to these objects alone:
of sa
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,
Tb
do hereby proclaim and declare that the said proclamation does not apply
Char
to the cases of persons who at the time when they seek to obtain the
mit
benefits thereof by taking the oath thereby prescribed are in military,
allow
naval, or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds, or on parole of
and
the civil, military, or naval authorities or agents of the United States
to be
as prisoners of war, or persons detained for offenses of any kind, either
In
before or after conviction, and that, on the contrary, it does apply only
to those persons who, being yet at large and free from any arrest, con-
finement, or duress, shall voluntarily come forward and take the said
oath with the purpose of restoring peace and establishing the national
[SEA
authority. Prisoners excluded from the amnesty offered in the said proc-
lamation may apply to the President for clemency, like all other offenders,
and their applications will receive due consideration.
I do further declare and proclaim that the oath prescribed in the afore-
By
said proclamation of the 8th of December, 1863, may be taken and sub-
scribed before any commissioned officer, civil, military, or naval, in the
service of the United States or any civil or military officer of a State or
Territory not in insurrection who by the laws thereof may be qualified
for administering oaths. All officers who receive such oaths are hereby
authorized to give certificates thereon to the persons respectively by
whom they are made, and such officers are hereby required to transmit
the original records of such oaths at as early a day as may be convenient
W
to the Department of State, where they will be deposited and remain in
1861
the archives of the Government. The Secretary of State will keep a
laws
register thereof, and will on application, in proper cases, issue certificates
oppe
of such records in the customary form of official certificates.
ment
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
coun
seal of the United States to be affixed.
law;
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 26th day of March,
W
A. D. 1864, and of the Independence of the United States the
and
eighty-eighth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
the S
By the President:
w
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
the
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Amnesty to Prisoners
IOI
Every department of the government was para-
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, February 12, 1862
11 red by treason. Defection appeared in the Senate,
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
in the House of Representatives, in the cabinet, in the
I transmit to Congress a copy of a special treaty
Federal courts; ministers and consuls returned from
between the United States and his Majesty the
foreign countries to enter the insurrectionary councils,
or land or naval forces; commanding and other offi-
King of Hanover for the abolition of the state
cers of the army and in the navy betrayed the councils
dues, which was signed at Berlin on the 6th
or deserted their posts for commands in the insurgent
of November last. In this treaty, already ap-
forces. Treason was flagrant in the revenue and in
proved by the Senate and ratified on the part
the post-office service, as well as in the Territorial
of the United States, it is stipulated that the
governments and in the Indian reserves.
sums specified in Articles III and IV to be paid
Not only governors, judges, legislators, and minis-
to the Hanoverian government shall be paid at
terial officers in the States, but even whole States,
Berlin on the day of the exchange of ratifica-
rushed, one after another, with apparent unanimity,
tions.
into rebellion. The capital was besieged, and its con-
I therefore recommend that seasonable provi-
nection with all the States cut off.
sion be made to enable the executive to carry
Even in the portions of the country which were
this stipulation into effect.
most loyal, political combinations and secret societies
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
were formed, furthering the work of disunion; while,
from motives of disloyalty or cupidity, or from excited
passions or perverted sympathies, individuals were
AMNESTY TO POLITICAL OR STATE PRISONERS
found furnishing men, money, and materials of war
WAR DEPARTMENT, February 14, 1862.
and supplies to the insurgents' military and naval
The breaking out of a formidable insurrection,
forces. Armies, ships, fortifications, navy-yards, ar-
based on a conflict of political ideas, being an event
senals, military posts and garrisons, one after another
without precedent in the United States, was necessarily
were betrayed or abandoned to the insurgents.
attended by great confusion and perplexity of the pub-
Congress had not anticipated and so had not pro-
lic mind. Disloyalty, before unsuspected, suddenly
vided for the emergency. The municipal authorities
became bold, and treason astonished the world by
were powerless and inactive. The judicial machinery
bringing at once into the field military forces superior
scemed as if it had been designed not to sustain the
in numbers to the standing army of the United States.
government, but to embarrass and betray it.
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Amnesty to Prisoners
103
Foreign intervention, openly invited and indus
agencies, and detained in military custody, when
triously instigated by the abettors of the insurrection,
necessary, no to prevent them and deter others from such
became imminent, and has only been prevented by the
practice of strict and impartial justice, with the most
practices. Examinations of such cases were instituted, and
perfect moderation, in our intercourse with nations.
some of the persons so arrested have been discharged
The public mind was alarmed and apprehensive,
from time to time, under circumstances or upon con-
though fortunately not distracted or disheartened. It
ditions compatible, as was thought, with the public
seemed to be doubtful whether the Federal Govern-
ment, which one year before had been thought a
safety. Meantime a favorable change of public opinion has
model worthy of universal acceptance, has indeed the
occurred. The line between loyalty and disloyalty
ability to defend and maintain itself.
is plainly defined; the whole structure of the govern-
Some reverses, which perhaps were unavoidable,
ment is firm and stable; apprehensions of public dan-
suffered by newly levied and inefficient forces, dis-
ger and facilities for treasonable practices have di-
couraged the loyal, and gave new hopes to the insur-
minished with the passions which prompted heedless
gents. Voluntary enlistments seemed about to cease,
persons to adopt them. The insurrection is believed
and desertions commenced. Parties speculated upon
to have culminated and to be declining.
the question whether conscription had not become
The President, in view of these facts, and anxious
necessary to fill up the armies of the United States.
to favor a return to the normal course of the adminis-
In this emergency the President felt it his duty to
tration, as far as regard for the public welfare will
employ with energy the extraordinary powers which
allow, directs that all political prisoners or state
the Constitution confides to him in cases of insurrec-
prisoners now held in military custody be released on
tion. He called into the field such military and naval
their subscribing to a parole engaging them to render
forces, unauthorized by the existing laws, as seemed
no aid or comfort to the enemies in hostility to the
necessary. He directed measures to prevent the use
United States.
of the post-office for treasonable correspondence. He
The Secretary of War will, however, at his discre-
subjected passengers to and from foreign countries to
tion, except from the effect of this order any persons
new passport regulations, and he instituted a blockade,
detained as spies in the service of the insurgents, or
suspended the writ of habeas corpus in various places,
others whose release at the present moment may be
and caused persons who were represented to him 29
deemed incompatible with the public safety.
being or about to engage in disloyal or treasonable
To all persons who shall be so released, and who
ractices to be arrested by special civil as well 25 mili-
shall keep their parole, the President grants an am-
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[Feb. 16
1862]
Lette
nesty for any past offenses of treason or disloyalty
tant service to the
which they may have committed.
the coast of North
Extraordinary arrests will hereafter be made under
Believing that n
the direction of the military authorities alone.
would more fully (
By order of the President:
of the law, or be m
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
fluence as an exam
that Louis M. Gol
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, February 15, 1862
thanks of Congress
To the Senate and House of Representatives
displayed in the
of the United States: The third section of the
commanded by
1
"Act further to promote the efficiency of the
Burnside in the ca
navy," approved December 21, 1861, provides:
the destruction of I
and 10th of Februa
That the President of the United States, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have
the authority to detail from the retired list of the
NOTE CONCERNING
navy, for the command of squadrons and single ships,
such officers as he may believe that the good of the
I shall be oblig
service requires to be thus placed in command; and
such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the
Treasury will in hi
President of the United States they shall receive a
such instructions il
vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gal-
trabands as may se
lantry in action against an enemy, be restored to the
active list, and not otherwise.
LETTER TO
In conformity with this law, Captain Louis
EXE
M. Goldsborough, of the navy, was nominated
WASHIN
to the Senate for continuance as flag-officer in
Major-General
command of the North Atlantic blockading
You have Fort I
squadron which recently rendered such impor-
shall be overwhelm
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 189, 190, 195. 1862. 589
petency of witnesses in the courts of the United States, in trials at common
law, in equity, and admiralty.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of section twenty-nine Jurors in capi-
of an act entitled " An act to establish [the] judicial courts of the United
tal cases.
States," approved September twenty-four, seventeen hundred and eighty- 1789, ch. 20, § 22.
nine, as requires, in cases punishable with death, twelve petit jurors to be Vol. i.
p.
88.
summoned from the county where the offence was committed, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed.
APPROVED, July 16, 1862.
CHAP. CXC. An Act prohibiting the Confinement of Persons in the Military Ser- July 16, 1862.
vice of the United States in the Penitentiary of the District of Columbia, except as a
Punishment for certain Crimes, and to discharge therefrom certain Convicts by Sentence of
Courts-martial, and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter no person in the
When persons
military service of the United States, convicted and sentenced by a court- in military ser-
martial, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary of the Dis- fined in peniten-
vice may be con-
trict of Columbia, unless the offence of which such person may be convicted tiary.
would by some statute of the United States or at common law, as the same
exists in the said District, subject such convict to said punishment.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all such persons in the military
When such per-
service, as aforesaid, who have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, con-
sons now therein
victed and sentenced by a court-martial for any offence which, if tried
may be dis-
charged.
before the criminal court of said District, would not subject such person
to imprisonment in said penitentiary, and who are now or may hereafter
be confined therein, shall be discharged from said imprisonment, upon
such terms and conditions of further punishment as the President of the
United States may, in his discretion, impose as a commutation of said
sentence.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the application of any Mode of dis-
citizen of the United States, supported by his oath, alleging that a person charge.
or persons in the military service, as aforesaid, are confined in said peni-
tentiary under the sentence of a court-martial for any offence not punish-
able by imprisonment in the penitentiary by the authority of the criminal
court aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the judge of said court, or, in case
of his absence or inability, of one of the judges of the circuit court of said
District, if, upon an inspection of the record of proceedings of said court-
martial, he shall find the facts to be as)alleged in said application, imme-
diately to issue the writ of habeas corpus to bring before him the said
convict ; and if, upon an investigation of the case, it shall be the opinion
of such judge that the case of such convict is within the provisions of the
previous sections of this act, he shall order such convict to be confined
in the common jail of said District, until the decision of the President of
the United States as to the commutation aforesaid shall be filed in said
court, and then such convict shall be disposed of and suffer such punish-
ment as by said commutation of his said sentence may be imposed.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no person convicted upon the
Convicts by
decision of a court-martial shall be confined in any penitentiary of the
court-martial not
to be confined in
United States, except under the conditions of this act.
penitentiary.
APPROVED, July 16, 1862.
CHAP. CXCV. - An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to
seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes.
July 17, 1862.
Post, p. 627.
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FORD
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who shall Treason, how
hereafter commit the crime of treason against the United States, and shall punished.
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THI
be adjudged guilty thereof, shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if any,
Sec
shall be declared and made free or, at the discretion of the court, be
State
shall be imprisoned for not less than five years and fined not less than ten
said, a
thousand dollars, and all his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made
the gc
free ; said fine shall be levied and collected on any or all of the property.
shall
Post, p. 627.
real and personal, excluding slaves, of which the said person so convicted
given
was the owner at the time of committing the said crime, any sale or con-
tenan
veyance to the contrary notwithstanding.
State
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall hereafter
son
Engaging or
incite, set on foot, assist, or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against
Presi
rebellion assisting, against &c., in the authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or shall give aid
And
the United
or comfort thereto, or shall engage in, or give aid and comfort to, any such
expir
States,
how
pun- existing rebellion or insurrection, and be convicted thereof, such person
procl
ished.
shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years,
any
or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and by the liberation of
prop
all his slaves, if any he have; or by both of said punishments, at the
desc
discretion of the court.
S
Disqualified to
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person guilty of either
and
hold office.
of the offences described in this act shall be forever incapable and dis-
so
qualified to hold any office under the United States.
rem
This act not to
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be con-
affect those
strued in any way to affect or alter the prosecution, conviction, or punish-
the
guilty before, un-
less, &c.
ment of any person or persons guilty of treason against the United States
par
before the passage of this act, unless such person is convicted under this
be
act.
cee
President to
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, to insure the speedy termi-
rea
cause the seizure
nation of the present rebellion, it shall be the duty of the President of the
reb
of the estate, &c.
United States to cause the seizure of all the estate and property, money,
der
stocks, credits, and effects of the persons hereinafter named in this sec-
and
tion, and to apply and use the same and the proceeds thereof for the
pai
support of the army of the United States, that is to say
of rebel officers,
First. Of any person hereafter acting as an officer of the army or
sh:
navy of the rebels in arms against the government of the United States.
an
of President or
Secondly. Of any person hereafter acting as President, Vice-Presi-
de
other officer of 80-
dent, member of Congress, judge of any court, cabinet officer, foreign
of
called confeder-
minister, commissioner or consul of the so-called confederate states of
V(
ate states,
America.
of governor,
Thirdly. Of any person acting as governor of a state, member of a
&c., of any of the
convention or legislature, or judge of any court of any of the so-called
said states,
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confederate states of America.
of certain per-
Fourthly. Of any person who, having held an office of honor, trust, or
sons holding offi-
profit in the United States, shall hereafter hold an office in the so-called
ces of honor, &c.
confederate states of America.
Same subject.
Fifthly. Of any person hereafter holding any office or agency under the
government of the so-called confederate states of America, or under any
of the several states of the said confederacy, or the laws thereof, whether
such office or agency be national, state, or municipal in its name or char-
Proviso.
acter: Provided, That the persons, thirdly, fourthly, and fifthly above
described shall have accepted their appointment or election since the date
of the pretended ordinance of cecession of the state, or shall have taken
an oath of allegiance to, or to support the constitution of the so-called
confederate states.
of certain per-
Sixthly. Of any person who, owning property in any loyal State or
sons aiding, &c.,
the rebellion.
Territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, shall here-
Sales of such
after assist and give aid and comfort to such rebellion and all sales,
property to be
transfers, or conveyances of any such property shall be null and void;
void.
and it shall be a sufficient bar to any suit brought by such person for the
What shall be
possession or the use of such property, or any of it, to allege and prove
bar to suits.
that he is one of the persons described in this section.
VENTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 195. 1862.
591
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person within any Property, &c.,
State or Territory of the United States, other than those named as afore- of States persons in rebel- in
said, after the passage of this act, being engaged in armed rebellion against lion, engaged,
the government of the United States, or aiding or abetting such rebellion, &c., in the
rebel-
shall not, within sixty days after public warning and proclamation duly to give
lion, not ceasing
such
aid
given and made by the President of the United States, cease to aid, coun- within sixty days
tenance, and abet such rebellion, and return to his allegiance to the United after proclama-
tion by the Pres-
States, all the estate and property, moneys, stocks, and credits of such per- ident, liable to
son shall be liable to seizure as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the seizure, &c.
President to seize and use them as aforesaid or the proceeds thereof.
And all sales, transfers, or conveyances, of any such property after the Sales, &c.
void.
expiration of the said sixty days from the date of such warning and
proclamation shall be null and void and it shall be a sufficient bar to
any suit brought by such person for the possession or the use of such
property, or any of it, to allege and prove that he is one of the persons
described in this section.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That to secure the condemnation
Proceedings to
and sale of any of such property, after the same shall have been seized,
secure condem-
nation, &c., of
so that it may be made available for the purpose aforesaid, proceedings in such property.
rem shall be instituted in the name of the United States in any district court
thereof, or in any territorial court, or in the United States district court for
the District of Columbia, within which the property above described, or any
part thereof, may be found, or into which the same, if movable, may first
be brought, which proceedings shall conform as nearly as may be to pro-
ceedings in admiralty or revenue cases, and if said property, whether
real or personal, shall be found to have belonged to a person engaged in
rebellion, or who has given aid or comfort thereto, the same shall be con-
demned as enemies' property and become the property of the United States,
and may be disposed of as the court shall decree and the proceeds thereof
paid into the treasury of the United States for the purposes aforesaid.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the several courts aforesaid
Power of courts
shall have power to make such orders, establish such forms of decree in such cases.
and sale, and direct such deeds and conveyances to be executed and
delivered by the marshals thereof where real estate shall be the subject
of sale, as shall fitly and efficiently effect the purposes of this act, and
vest in the purchasers of such property good and valid titles thereto.
And the said courts shall have power to allow such fees and charges of
their officers as shall be reasonable and proper in the premises.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who
Certain slaves
shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the
to be deemed cap-
United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escap-
tives of war and
to be set free.
ing from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army ;
and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming
under the control of the government of the United States ; and all slaves
of such persons found on [or] being within any place occupied by rebel
forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall
be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude,
and not again held as slaves.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That no slave escaping into any Escaped slaves
State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall not to be
surren-
dered, unless
be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except
claimant shall
for crime, or some offence against the laws, unless the person claiming said
make oath that
fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service
the alleged owner
is loyal, &c.
of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has not borne
arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given
aid and comfort thereto and no person engaged in the military or naval
service of the United States shall, under any pretence whatever, assume
to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor
of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on
pain of being dismissed from the service.
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SEVENTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 195, 196, 197. 1862.
THIR
President
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United
term X
employ persons
African descent
States is authorized to employ as many persons of African descent as
apon,
to
suppress rebel- he may deem necessary and proper for the suppression of this rebel.
vessel
lion.
lion, and for this purpose he may organize and use them in such manner
Unites
as he may judge best for the public welfare.
and W
Colonization of
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United
under
freed slaves.
States is hereby authorized to make provision for the transportation. color
five y
nization, and settlement, in some tropical country beyond the limits of the
agree
United States, of such persons of the African race, made free by the pro-
accoun
visions of this act, as may be willing to emigrate, having first obtained
them
the consent of the government of said country to their protection and set-
any
tlement within the same, with all the rights and privileges of freemen.
of the
President may
SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the President is, hereby an
desire
proclaim
amnesty thorized, at any time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons
Sz
and pardon.
who may have participated in the existing rebellion in any State or part
State
thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions and at such time and
mand
on such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public welfare.
ever
SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the courts of the United
sh"
Courts may is-
sue process to
States shall have full power to institute proceedings, make orders and
been
carry this act
into effect.
decrees, issue process, and do all other things necessary to carry this act
agen
into effect.
and
APPROVED, July 17, 1862.
foreig
from
after
17, 1862. CHAP. CXCVI. - An Act to authorize Payments in Stamps, and to prohibit Circulation
slave
July
of Notes of less Denomination than One Dollar.
A
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Postage and
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
CHAI
other stamps to
Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to furnish to the Assistant
be furnished in
exchange for
Treasurers, and such designated depositaries of the United States as may
B
United States
be by him selected, in such sums as he may deem expedient, the postage
State
notes;
and other stamps of the United States, to be exchanged by them, on
Tre:
application, for United States notes and from and after the first day
nam
and may be re-
of August next such stamps shall be receivable in payment of all dues
Rob
ceived for dues to
to
the United States less than five dollars, and shall be received in
in si
the United States
less than 85.
exchange for United States notes when presented to any Assistant
A
Treasurer or any designated depositary selected as aforesaid in sums
not less than five dollars.
Cata
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day
Circulation,
of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, no private corporation,
&c.,
of
notes less banking association, firm, or individual shall make, issue, circulate, or
than $1, as mon- pay any note, check, memorandum, token, or other obligation, for a
ey, prohibited.
less sum than one dollar, intended to circulate as money or to be re-
of
ceived or used in lieu of lawful money of the United States and
pul
every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof in any district
um
for
Penalty
or circuit court of the United States, be punished by fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or
pro
office
by both, at the option of the court.
add
APPROVED, July 17, 1862.
An
rea
July 17, 1862. CHAP. CXCVII. An Act to amend an Act entitled " An Act to amend an Ad -
del
1819, ch. 101.
titled An Act in Addition to the Acts prohibiting the Sluve Trade.'n
pli
Vol. iii. p. 532.
Be it enacted by. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
del
1860, ch. 136.
Ante, p. 40.
States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be
per
lawful for the President of the United States to enter into arrangement,
eig
The President
the
may arrange for
by contract or otherwise, with one or more foreign governments having
the employment,
&c., in the West
possessions in the West Indies or other tropical regions, or with their
me
Tr
Indies, &c., for
duly constituted agent or agents, to receive from the United States, for a
CHAP. 388.
the establishment of post-offices at military
posts or camps.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That during the continuance
of the existing war the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion,
establish a temporary post-office at any military post or camp for the
purpose of supplying the officers and troops there encamped with
mails, the location of which post-office may at any time be changed to
Detail of officer as any other post or camp. On the establishment of such post-office he
postmaster.
shall cooperate with the Secretary of War or officer commanding such
post or camp for the purpose of securing the detail of an officer of the
Regular or Volunteer Army of suitable rank to act as postmaster, who
-bond of.
shall, when the exigency will permit, execute a bond to the United
States as such, and of a sufficient number of noncommissioned officers
Clerks.
and privates to act as clerks in said post-office, who shall serve as such
without additional salary, pay, or compensation other than that attach-
-oath.
ing to their rank and position in the Army. Each of said persons
shall, before eutering upon the discharge of his duties, take the oath
Civilian postmaater. prescribed for persons employed in the postal service. In any case
where it is deemed impracticable by the military authorities to detail
persons from the Army to act as postmaster or clerks the Postmaster-
-compensation of.
General is authorized to appoint a civilian as postmaster, and also to
make a special order allowing to him reasonablecompensation for clerical
services and to meet the necessary expenses of said office, as well as a
proportionate increase of salary to the postmaster during the period of
such extraordinary business as may attach to his office, under the pro-
R. S., sec. 3863, p.
visions of section thirty-eight hundred and sixty-three, Revised Statutes,
754.
Money orders.
payable out of the appropriations for the postal service. He may also
provide for the issue and payment of money orders at any post-office
established under the provisions of this Act, after the postmaster shall
have given bond as required by law.
Post-office supplies.
SEC. 2. That the Postmaster-General shall supply to post-offices refer-
red to in the preceding section all necessary postage stamps, stamped
Regulations.
envelopes, postal cards, and other supplies of whatever description. He
may also prescribe regulations for the conduct of the business at such
post-offices in conformity, so far as the same may be applicable, to the
regulations relating to the ordinary postal service.
Branch post-offices.
SEC. 3. That in any case where, in the judgment of the Postmaster-
General, any military post or camp can be better and more economically
supplied by a branch post-office, he may, without reference to its dis-
tance from the main office, establish the same, and meet the expenses
thereof by special order, as in the case of post-offices referred to in the
preceding section.
Approved, June 6, 1898.
June 6, 1898.
CHAP. 389.-An Act To remove the disability imposed by section three of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Removalof disabili-
ties of persons who
States of America in Congress assembled, That the disability imposed
have engaged in in-
by section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
surrection againstthe
United States.
the United States heretofore incurred is hereby removed.
Approved, June 6, 1898.
June 7, 1898.
CHAP. 390.-An Act To provide an American register for the steamship China.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Steamship China.
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
-grauted American
register.
Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to. cause the foreign-built
steamship China, owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, to be
registered as a vessel of the United States.
Approved, June 7, 1898.
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FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. CH. 193, 194. 1872.
May 22, 1872.
CHAP. схсш. - An Act to remove political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Article
of the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Certain politi-
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concur-
cal disabilities
removed from all
ring therein), That all political disabilities imposed by the third section of
persons, except,
the fourteenth article of amendments of the Constitution of the United
&c.
States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators
Vol. XV, p. 709.
See Post, P 956.
and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses,
pendix, pp. viii.,
officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States,
ix.
heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.
APPROVED, May 22, 1872.
May 22, 1872. CHAP. CXCIV. - An Act making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Service
of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and
for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Consular and
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and
diplomatic appro-
priations for
the-same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending
year ending
the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, out of any money
June 30, 1873.
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter ex-
pressed, namely:
Envoys and
For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to
ministers pleni-
Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five
potentiary.
hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars.
To Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China, and Italy, at twelve
thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars.
To Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand
dollars.
Ministers resi-
For ministers resident at Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium,
dent.
Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Ecuador, Colum-
bia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragun, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras,
and Salvador, Hawaiian Islands, and the Argentine Republic, at seven
One minister
thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and forty-two thousand
resident for
five hundred dollars: Provided, That on and after June thirty, eighteen
Guatemala,
hundred and seventy-three, there shall be but one minister resident ac-
Costa Rica, &c.,
and his resi-
credited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Sálvador, and Nicaragua,
dence.
and that the President be authorized to select the place of residence for
See Post, p. 471.
the minister in any one of those States.
Uruguay and
For minister resident at Uruguay, also accredited to Paraguay, eleven
Paraguay.
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Hayti and
For salary of minister resident and consul-general at Hayti, seven
Liberia.
thousand five hundred dollars.
For minister resident and consul-general at Liberia, four thousand
dollars.
Secretaries of
For salaries of secretaries of legation at London, Paris, and Berlin, at
legation, and as-
sistants.
two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, seven thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Private
To enable Robert C. Schenck, minister to Great Britain, to employ a
amanuensis for
Robert C.
private amanuensis, according to joint resolution approved January
Schenck:
eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, two thousand five hun-
Vol. xvi. p. 590.
dred dollars.
For salaries of secretaries of legation to Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico,
Russia, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, ten thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of assistant secretaries of the legations to France, Great
Britain, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand
dollars.
Interpreters.
For salary of the secretary of legation (acting also as interpreter) to
China, five thousand dollars.