The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-19
Trade with the SOuths :
Rules and Regulations Concerning
. 4Commercial olntercVrse with y.
q isurrectfOnary States.sw es ,3s9b.oa
TREASURY DEippTT. DEPT. Nav

TREASURY UEPT., Mays, 1862,
With view of carrying out the purposes of
order bearing date Of April 20, 1856, ~ to re-
lieve all loyal citizens and well disposed per-
sons residing in insurectionary States from
unnecessary commercial restrictibns, and to
encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits,
the following regulations are prescribed, and
will hereafter govern commercial intercourse
between the States of Tennessee, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, ,east
of the Mississippi river, heretofore declared in
instruction, and the loyal States ia!sg5s
FWst-Alld commercial transactions under
these regulations shall be conducted under the
supervision of officers of customs and others
acting as officers of customs. I'D 59e9
Second Prohibited Articles.-The following
articles are prohibited, and none such win be
allowed to be transported to or within any State
heretofore declared in insurrection, except on
government account, viz. Arms, ammunition,
all articles from which ammunition Is manu-
featured, gray uniforms and cloth. locomotives,
cars, railroad iron, and machinery for operating
railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, fand in
struments for operating telegraph lines.
Third-Ansounts Of Products AUo,ced, and
Places to aohich such may be Irnasported.-I
having been determined and agreed upon by
the proper officers of the War and Treasury
: Departments, in accordance with the require.
uQcutS vi bOCttO0 uluC, VI tuc 6CL VI July q,
1864, that the amount of goods required to sup
ply the necessities of the loyal persons residing
! In the insurrectionary States, within the mill
tary lines of the United States forces, shall be
an amount equal to the aggregate OF the appli-
cations therefor; and that the places to which
such goods may BIZ taken, shall be all places in
such lines that may be named In the several
applications for transportation thereto; it is
therefore directed that clearance shall be grant
Led, on application by any loyal citizen, for all
goods not prohibited, In such amounts and to
such places which, under the revenue and
collection laws of the United States. have been
created ports of entry and delivery in coastwise
trade, as the applicant may desire. gsa NJ I
Fourth-C lear@ce.-Befor any vessel shall
be cleared for any port within the insurrec-
tionary States, or from one port to another
therein, or from any such port to q port in the
loyal States, the master Of every such vessel
ehall present to the proper officer of customs
q manifest of her cargo, which manifest shall
set forth the character of the merchandise
composing said cargo. and If showing no pro.
hibited articles, shall be certified to by such
Fyfih-AryiUal and Discharge of Car0o IN an
InsuyrectimUy StGe.-On the arrival of any
such vessel at the port of destination, Il shall
| be the duty of the master thereof forthwith to
present to the proper officer of the customs
the certified manifest other cargo, whereupon
the officer shall cause the vessel to be dis
charged, under his general supervision; and If
the cargo is found to correspond with the mani.
fest, certificate to thai effect shall be given
to the master. Iffhere shall be found any pro-
hibited articles they shall be seized and held
subject to the orders of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the officer shall forthwith report
to the department all the facts of the case and
any such vessel arriving from any foreign port,
or from any domestic port, without proper
clearance, or with contraband articles, shall.
with her cargo, be seized and held as subject to
condscation under the laws Of the United
States. =
Sirsh--Lmdisg sitb;s and Depdrtuye from an
. lnsu7echios0y State. Vessels In ports within
an issunectonary State, not declared, open to
the commence given, shall be authorized to
purchase goods at any other supply store
within the hsurectionary States, or at such
other point as be may select The party re-.
ceivfng slch license, shall pay therefor the
license fe prescribed by the Internal Revenue
Law. -, 80 s'sD a
. ssvesA -Sagpy sores. Persons desiring to
keep supply store at any place within an In
surTecdonary State, shall make application
therefore to the nearest officer of the Treasury
Department, which application shall set forth
that the applicant II loyal to the government
of tho linked States, and upon being con-
WINGED Of such loyalty, a license for such sup