The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-03
the w Fre.lasp II SEWARD Secretary of State
No. 90.
AMERICA!
A PROCLAMATION

ny THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the twenty first section OF the act OF Con-
re. onnroyed on tho third instant, titled IAN act to
nan The several acts heretofore passed. TO provide Tor
ria enrolling and calling out the national forces and for
Pup0fo fedu s crime Of dessron from the m
ar naval service all persons who have deserted the
mary or naval service Of the United States who shall
moi return TO said service or report themselves to pro-
marshal within sixty days after the proclamation
hereinafter mentioned shall be deem and taken to
have voluntary renquished and forfeited their rights Of
t,enshp and their rights to become citizens and such
dasarfars shall be forever incapable OF holding any
oes of trust or profit under the United States, or of
exercising any rights of citizens thereof and all per.
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 is
rolled or go beyond the limits Of the United States with
infant TO avoid any draft into the military naval
vice duly ordered shall he liable to the penalties of this
section And the President Is hereby authorized and
qured forthwith on the passage Of this act 10 issue Ills
proclamation setting forth the provisions of this section,
Ia which Proclamation the President 10 requested TO
notify all deserters returning within sixty days afore
said that they shall be pardoned on condition Of return
ing to their regiments and companies to such other
organizations they may be assigned to- until they
shall have served for period Of time equal to their
original term of enlistment"
Now therefore, be II known that ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President OF the United States do issue TIL; my Proea
nation required by said act ordering and requiring
all deserters to return to their prpor posts and do
hereby notify them that all deserters who SHALL within
sixty days from the date of this Proclamation viz on or
before the tenth day of May 1885, return service
port themselves to provosnarshal shall be pardoned
condition that they return to their regiments and
companies to such other organizations they may be
assigned to- and the remainder of their or gina
term Of enlismens, and IN addition thereto period
equal to the time lost by desertion.
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 eleventh day
?, of March, In the year Of our Lord one thousand
I'D eight hundred and sixty-fve, and OF the indie
pendenee of the unitedStstes the eighty,niGth.
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
No. q.
BY THE PREsIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROcLAM MA TON
WHEREAS reliable information has been received that
hostile Indians within the limits of the United States
havo been furnished with and munitions OF by
persons dwelling In contermnous foreign territory and
are thereby enabled to prosecute their savage warfare
upon tho exposed and sparse settlements of the frontier
President Of the United States Of America, do hereby
proclaim and direct that all persons detected in that
iarious traffic shall be arrested and tried by courtmar
tal at the nearest 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 ut the city of Washington this seventeenth
day of March, In the year Of our Lord one thou
1. g.. sand eight hundred and sixtyive, and of the
Independence Of the United States the eighty.
ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President;
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.