The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-05-20
OPENING or TuE SOUTHERN
PORTS.

- . $50 wv VI - - ENA ~ ~ IN
PORTS.
The official documents connected with
llhe opening of The southern ports--an
event which marks the decided supremacy
Of the national arms--haye peculiar IN.
lefest ;--
/ PROCLAMATION By TUE PRESIDENT
Whereas, BY my probation Of The nine.
ieenth Of April, one thousand eight hund.
/ red and sixty-one, twas declared that the
ports Of certain states, including those Of
Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina,
Port Royal, IN the state Of South Carroll.
ma, and Now Orleans, in the State Of Louis.
ana. were, for reasons therein sci forth. in
iended q be placed under blockade and.
whereas, The said ports Of Beaufort, Port
Royal and New Orleans have since been
bloekaded but as the blockade of the
same ports may now be safely relaxed with
advantage to the interests OF commerce:
Now, therefore, be i, known that !, An.
IRAnAM LINCOLN, President Of the United
States, pursuant TO The authority in me
vested by the fifth section of the act of
] Congress, approved on the 18Th Of July
last, entitled "An act further TO provide
/ for the collection OF doties on imports, and
for other purposes" do hereby declare that
The blockade Of the said ports of Beaufort,
Port Royal, and New Orleans, shall so far
cease and determine, from and after the
first day Of June next, that commercial in.
tercourse with those ports, except as 10
persons and things aud information con-
traband Of war, may, from that time, DO
carried on, subject TO the laws of the Unit.
ed States, and to the Limitations and In
pursuance Of the regulations which arc
scribed by the secretary Of the treasury in
his order Of this date, which is appended
/ to this proclamation.
In witness whereof have hercunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the Unit.
cd States to be affixed.
! Done at the City Of Washington, this
twentieth day Of May, in The year
/ L. s. Of our Lord one thousand eight
/ hundred and si1ty-two, and of the
independence Of the United States
the cightysixth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
William II. Seward, Secretary Of State.
SECRETARY CHAsE's CIRCULAR.
/ TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May II, 1862.
REGULATIONS RELATING TO TRADE wirn Ponrs
OPENED BY PROCLAMATION.
+ First To vessels clearing from foreign
ports, and destined to ports opened by tic
proclamation Of the president Of the United
States, OF this date, namely, Beaufort in
North Carolina, Port Royal in South Car
olna, and New Orleans in Louisiana, IL
censes will be granted by consuls Of tho
United States, upon satisfactory evidence
that the vessels SO licensed will convey
no person, property or information contra.
/ band of war, either 10 or from the said
ports-which licenses shall be exhibited
/ to the collector Of the port TO which said
vessels may be respectively bound, immc-
diaiely on arrival, and il required, to any
officer in charge OF the blockade and on
leaving either Of the SAID ports, every
vessel will be required 10 have clearance
/ from the collector Of the customs accord
ing 70 law, showing tha; there has been no
violation Of the conditions of the license.
Any violation Of the said conditions will
involve the forfeiture and condemnation
Of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion
Of all parties concerned from any further
privilege Of entering the United States
during the war, for any purpose whatever.
Secoad.--Tovesseis ofthe United States
clearing coastwise for the ports aforesaid,
license can only be obtained from the
treasury department.
! 1Hird.-In all other respects the exist.
ing blockade remains in full force and
effect MS hitherto established and maintains
cd nor is ii relaxed by the proclamation
except IN regard 10 the ports to which the
lrelaxat.on is by that instrument expressly
applied. (SignedJ
s. p. CHASE, Sec. Of the treasury.
In addition TO the ports thus opened, il
is said that in few days Norfolk, New
bern, and probably Richmond and Mobile
will be opened, 10 be followed within
month probably by Savannah, Charleston,
Pensacola. and Galveston.
Tie United States commissary at New
York has been ordered to load tho steam
ship Ocean Queen with supplies for the
starving people Of New Orleans, and dis
patch her Immediately. The merchants
are also preparing to ship cargoes of such
articles rs are uow in pressing demand in
the recovered cities, and the new southern
trade viii soon be quite brisk. There is
no doubt that a great amount Of cotton has
been destroyed, bot the bulk Of last years
crop still remains, and il viii soon be
brought forward when the needy planters
find they can safely Do il, and get real
money for il.
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