The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-19
Trade with the South.
Rules and Regulations Concerning
Commercial cuntercFlrse with !p.
J lsurrectiOn0ry states. q oE LII %
TREASURY DEPT, May g, 1856

TREASURY DEPT, Nays, 1865.
With view of carrying out the purposes of
the Executive, as expressed in his executive
order bearing date of April 20, 1866, "to re-
lieve all loyal citizens and well disposed per-
sons residing in insuTectionary States from
unnecessary commercial restrictiDns 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
insurrection, and the loyal States: isr,.s.
Ftrst-All commercial transactions under
these regulations shall be conducted under the
supervision of officers of customs and others
acting as officers of customs. iaa rsrs
Second-Prohibited Articles-The following
articles are prohibited, and none such will be
allowed to be transported to or within any State
heretofore declared in Instruction, 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, and in
struments for operating telegraph lines.
Third-Amounts of Products AHc,ced and
Places to which such may be Ir0asported-It
having been determined and agreed upon by
the proper officers of the War and Treasury
Departments, in accordance with the require
ments of section nine, of the act of July 2,
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
ed, 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.
Fourth ledrdnce.-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
shall present to the proper officer of customs
a manifest of her cargo, which manifest shall
composing said cargo, and If showing no pro.
hibited articles, shall be certified to by such
officers of customs. >
" F;fth-A,ricdl and Discharge of CARGO in an
Insuyrectionoy Stdte.-On the arrival of any
such vessel at the port of destination, it shall
be the duty of the master thereof forthwith to
present to the proper officer of the customs
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 that effect shall be given
to the master. If there 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
confscation under the laws of the United
States.
= Sizzh-Lmding ,citsia and Departure from ON
Inswrection0y Stdte-Vessels in ports within
an iBsunectionary State, not declared open to
the commerce given, shall be authorized to
purchase goods at any other supply store
within the insurrectionary States, or at such
other point as he may select The party re.
ceiving sich license, shall pay therefor the
license fee prescribed by the Internal Revenue
Law. if1
SerenA- Suppy stores. Persons desiring to
keep supply store at any place within an In
surrecfonary State, shall make application
therefore to the nearest officer of the Treasury
Department, which application shall Sc. forth
that the applicant Is loyal to the government
of the United States, and upon being con-
WINGED of such loyalty, license for such sup