The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-05


portant order was issued this evening:
DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI,
st. Louis, March 3, 1862.
In order that commerce may follow, with
shs 2qStfGeaa f6lqsfo 81 TIE t6f6k the fSrIoMR-
ing regulations are established for the pres
ent conduct of restored intercourse between
loyal sections of the Department of Missouri
and the country on the Tennessee and Cum
berland rivers: ~ a#
First. Steamboats, and other water craft,
running in the trade and travel of those
rivers. to or from the port Of st. Louis, or
any other port within this military depart
ment, must, ia addition to the customary
registration and enrolment required by the
revenue laws of the United States, take out
special license for this renewed intercourse,
which is now provided in regulations, es-
tablished January last, for trade and trans
portation of the Mississippi river.
Second. Such special license must be is
sued by the Superintendent of Transporta-
ton, in the city of st. Louis, but can be
applied for to any Surveyor of Customs,
within the Department, whose certificate
that all requisite conditions have been COM
piled with by the applicants, must accom-
pany the application when forwarded to the
Superintendent aforesaid.
Third Boats engaging in trade and trans
portation under such license are of course
subject to the revenue laws of the United
States, and must comply fully and faithful
ly with the regulations and instructions of
the Treasury Department, now 10 force, or
which may hereafter be adapted for the con-
troll of commercial intercourse of the sec
tions under view.
To render uniform, customs now in a
measure governing trade and travel of the
interior, and to subserve ends of order and
law, it is further directed
FIRST That the permit system, made
necessary by persistent efforts of persons in
loyal States who sympathize with those en-
gagged in rebellion, and by pedlars and cor
rupt trafficers, many of whom come from
disloyal States and sections expressly for
this purpose, to smuggle goods, medicines
and other supplies to insurrectionists, shall
be enforced on the Tennessee and Cumber-
land as it is on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers.
Second That examination and sealing
baggage of travellers introduced mainly by
| frequent aud illegal conveyance of packages
and letters to and fro, between North and
| South, after rebellion had destroyed the
postal facilities of the latter section, be
extended by custom house ofieers.- So =se
| embrace the country On the Tennessee and
| Cumberland rivers.
Third. That water craft, railroad cars
and all ordinary wheeled vehicles be,
until otherwise ordered, prohibited from
carrying into the country on these rivers,
| baggage not sealed and merchandise not
covered by custom house permits or shipped
by military authority
These orders are issued only as a meas
ure of safety to guard against illegal or
[ improper intercourse, aud not intended to
| impose additional expenses or burthens OF
any kind upon trade or to impede or annoy,
or in any manner interfere with legitimate
and proper transportation or travel. Con-
sequently-First. No charge will be made
by the Superintendent of transportation for
the license taken out for the time being.
Second. Blank forms will be supplied to
the several surveyors of customs within
this Department, without cost, to parties
making application for license. Surveyors
aforesaid will use literally, though eau
tiously, the discretion with which they are
entrusted, in the issues of permits to cover
goods, wares and merchandise going for
ward for commerce or family supply.
Surveyors and other officers of customs,
if resisted in the proper discharge of their
duty, will call for aid upon the commando T
of the nearest military post or encamp-
ment, and at places where there are no Gus
tom house, officers or agents, such cora