Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-19
An Order Relating 10 Trade with
Southern Ports.

7 w ASHINGTON, May lo.-IOe IOllOW1nR
circular of instructions TO officers Of the
customs and agents acting as officers of the
customs, have just been issued:
~ TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, May l6, 1865
In REORGANIZATION of the rules and reg
ulationsconcerning commercial intercourse
with insurrectionary States, known as the
series OF May 9th, 1865, all officers acting
hereunder are directed to cause as little
annoyance as possible to parties Interested
in such commercial intercourse, and other
wise to carry out the purposes of the execu-
tive in removing all the restrictions upon
such commerce that the most liberal con-
struction of the law will permit.
Inasmuch as the military lines of occu-
patton in the district west OF the Mississippi
river have not been extended, nor the trade
there affected by the proclamation o. the
President of April 20, 1865, the regulations
of July 20, 1863 are still in force, so far as
applicable to the territory west Of the
Mississippi. .. -..," .......
BY the Sd section of the regulations of
May 8, the necessity for applications to this
department for permits or authority to clear
goods for any part of the insurrectionary
States east of the Mississippi, either coast
wise or inland, is obviated, and consequent
ly no such permits or authority will be is
sued. Collectors and others are di-
rected to clear all goods not specifically
declared eontraband by the I'd section of
said regulations.
While all such shipments must be made
under the supervision of an officer of the Gus
toms, where there are such, or other proper
officer, to prevent the transportation of any
articles declared contraband, no duty or
other fee will be charged except such as
may be prescribed by law for the entrance
or clearance of vessels. .t
When cotton, the production of an in
snrrectionary State, having been sold and
re-sold by purchasing agent VI tile Guv-
ernment, is offered for shipment, the certifi-
cate of such purchasing agent is only re-
quired. ..-
If the cotton so offered is claimed and
proved to be the product of persons own
labor or of freedmen or others employed
or paid by them the shipping fee of cents
per pound must be paid to the officer under
whose supervision the shipment is made.
If any products other than cotton are Of
fered for Shipment the certificate of Col
lector of Internal Revenue that the internal
taxes prescribed by law have been duly
| paid thereon, must be produced before it is
| offered. ''.-
In consequence of there being no internal
revenue officer of the post or place of ship
ment the officer supervising the shipment
must collect such internal revenue due
thereon; or if the party shipping is unable
| to pay such internal revenue tax, the article
must be consigned to the Collector of Gus
toms, at the point of destination of the
vessel; and If the bills of landing and the
manifest of the vessel exhibit the fact that
such internal tax has not been paid, and
on the arrival of any vessel at her port, the
Collector of the Customs thereof will re-
quire such internal tax to be paid to him
before allowing the delivery of the article
Ion which such tax has accrued and become
payable.
No vessel will be allowed to unload at
any port except such as shall be made on
the manifest as one of her ports of destina-
tion, without the authority of the Secretary
of the Treasury; and no goods will be de-
livered at any port whatever until all sucf
taxes are paid r.s
Until the Custom officers are duly ap
pointed, special agents will act as such, ant
when acting in that capacity will sign
Especial Agent and Acting Custom Off
cer."
Captured and abandoned property vii
be treated as directed in regulations of Ju
ly l, 1864.
[Signedl II. MCCULLocH,
Secretary of the Treasury.