The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-14
VOL. XIX---NO. al

elsred that certain ports of the United
States which had been previously closed
against foreign commerce, should,
with certain specified exceptions, be
reopened to such commerce on and after
the lst day of July next subject to the
laws Ofthe States, and in pursuance of such
regulations as may te prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Whereas, am informed that dangerous
combinations against the laws of the Uni.
ted States no longer exist within the State
of Tennessee, and that the insurrection
heretofore existing within said State has
been suppressed within the boundaries
thereof, the authority of the United States
is undisputed, and that such officers of the
United States as have been duly commits
stoned are in the undisputed exercise of
their oficisl functions; now there be it
known that I, Andrew johnson, President
ofthe United States do hereby declare that
all restrictions upon internal, domestic and
coast intercourse and trade, and upon the
removal of the products of the States here
Lofore declared in insurrection, reserving
and excepting only thUse relating to con-
trsband war as hereinafter recited, and also
those which relate to the reservation of
rights of the United States to property in
the territory of an enemy heretofore
imposed in the tenitory of the United States
east of tie Mississippi river are annulled
end do hereby direct that they be forth
with removed; that on and after the lst
day of July next sll restrictions upon for
eign commerce with said ports, with the
exception Of the reservation aforesaid, be
removed, and that the commerce of said
States shall be conducted under the super.
vision of regularly appointed officers of the
customs, provided by law, and such officers
Of customs shall receive any captured or
abandoned property that msy be turned
over to them under the law by the military
ornsvsl forces of the United States and dis.
pose of such property as shall De directed
by the Secretary of Treasury.
The following articles contraband of
war are excepted from the effects of this
proclamation: arms, ammunition, all sr-
ticles from which ammunition is made,
and gray uniforms and cloth; and here
by, also, proclaim and declare the insurree-
tion, so far as relates to the State Of Ten.
nessee and the inhabitants of said State of
Tennessee as recognized and constituted
under their recently adopted Constitution,
and reorganization, and accepted by them,
is issuppressed; and therefore, also, that all |
known disabilities and disqualiacstions at
tsching to said Stste and the inhabitants
thereof consequent upon any proc
lsmations issued by the virtue of the 9TH
Section of the Act entitled San Act fur
ther to provide for collection Of duties on |
imports and for other purposes" approved |
the 18th day of July, 1868, are removed;
but nothing herein contained shall be con-
sidered or constructed IS in any wise chang
iEg or impairing any of the penalties and
under the laws of the United States, or
any Of the provisions, restrictions or
lamstiou basring date of the 2ssh day of |
May, 1865; or as impairing, excepting reg
ulations, for the suspension Of the hRbess |
corpus, and the exercise Of the military !
law in Gases where it shall be necessary
for tie general public safety and vel
fare during the existing insurrectien,
nor shall this proclamation affect |
or in any way impair any laws here tofore |
passed by Congress and duly approved by
the President or any proclamation or or.
der issued by him during the aforesaid in
surreciion sbolishing slavery, whether of
persons or property, but on the contrary,
all such laws and proclamstlons heretofore
made or issued or expressly declared to be
in full force and virtue.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city Of Washington this thirteenth day of
June, in year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-hve, and of the
independence of the United States the
eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President W. H. SEwARD.
NEW YORK, June I3.
GALLAGHER's ExCHAEGE.
Gold 1423<.
New York Centrsl, %; Erie, 70;
Hudson, 1861, Reading, 95; old Southern,
62zS Illinois Central 122; Pittsburgh 81;
Cleveland and Toledo 1OO]z; Rock Island
9s5E; North Western, 251z; do. preferred,
81; Ohio Ger, 25; MariPOsa, 1O2<; Canton,
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