The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-08
WILLIAM H. sEwAaD, Secretary Of Stats.
No. 25.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAHA1lOIS
WHrRKAs the twenty first section of the act Of Con-
erss approved on the third instant entitled Gan act to
amend the several acts heretofore passed to provide TOR
the enrolling and calling out the national forces and for
other purposes requires that In addition TO the other
lawful penalties of the crime of desertion from the mill
tary naval service all persons who have deserted the
military or naval service of the United States who shall
not return to said service report themselves to pro-
vost marshal within sixty days after the proclamation
hereinafter mentioned, shall be deem-d and taken to
have voluntary renquished 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 profit under the United States of
exercising any rights of citizens thereof; and all per-
sons who shall hereafter desert the military naval
service and all persons who being duly enrolled shall
depart the jurisdiction of the district in which he
rolled or go beyond the limits of the United States with
intent to avoid any draft into tho military naval
vice. duly ordered shall be liable to the penalties of this
section And the President is hereby authorized and
aured forthwith the passage of this act issue his
proclamation setting forth the provisions this section
n which Proclamation the President is requested
notify all deserters returning within sixty days aore
said that they shall be pardoned condition of return
ing to their regiments and companies or to such other
organizations as they may be assigned to until they
shall have served for period of time equal to their
original term of enlistment"
Now, therefore, be it known that l. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
President of the United States do issue this my Proca
nation as required by said act ordering and requiring
all deserters to return to their prper posts and do
hereby notify them that all deserters who shall within
sixty days from the date of this Proclamation Wis on
before the tenth day of May 1885, return to service
condition that they return to their regiments and
companies or to such other organizations they may be
assigned to, and serve the remainder of their original
term OF enlistments and in addition thereto period
equal to the time lost by desertion
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand,
and caused the seal Of the United States be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh day
r, of March, in the year of Lord thousand
- eight hundred and sixty-ive, and of the indie
pendence of the United States the eightyninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
No. 81.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAIM TON
WHEREAS reliable information has been received that
hostile Indians within the limits of the United States
have been furnished with arms and munitions of by
persons dwelling in contermnous foreign territory and
thereby enabled to prosecute their savage warfare
upon the exposed and settlements of the frontier
Now, therefore, be it known that l. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
President of the United States of America do hereby
proclaim and direct that all persons detected in that
tia at the military post and if convicted shall
receive the punishment due to their deserts.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth
day of March, in the year of our Lord one thou
L.. sand eight hundred and sixty-fve, and of the
Independence Of the United States the eighty
ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary Of STATE.