The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-11
New Trade Regulations.


TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 1.
In order to carry into effect the Ex-
ecutive order issued April %, 1865, di-
recting the removal of restrictions
upon internal, domestic, and coastwise
intercourse with the States of Tennes~
see, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina, and with such parts of the
States of Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, East of the
Mississippi river, as shall be designated
by the respective department COM
manders as being within the lines of
national military occupation, the fol
lowing instructions are issued:
l. All Collectors of Customs at ports
on the Atlantic coast within the loyal
States, and the Collectors of such ports
within States heretofore declared in In
surrectiOn, as have been opened by
proclamation of the President, are des-
ignated as permit officers, under sec
ton of the Regulations, series July,
1864, with power to authorize the trans
portstiOn of goods, other than those
specified as contraband Of war, in the
above cited Executive order, to all
ports within the States and parts of
States above mentioned, in such vessels
only as are authorized by law TO en-
gage in the coasting trade of the United
States.
, These collectors, and all other
permit officers named in said section,
are authorized and required to issue
permits for the transportation OF goods
in such ports in the manner and form
required by the aforesaid regulation,
charging and collecting the permit fee
therein prescribed.
8. When any vessel duly authorized
to engage in the coasting trade, arri-
wing from any of the ports in the in
surrectionary States, shall enter any of
the ports referred to in the first section
hereof, with cargo duly permitted by
the permit officer of any port affected
by the said Executive order, such Yes~
sci and cargo shall be treated as upon
lawful voyage, and be entitled to all
the rights and privileges of vessels and
Cargoes in the ;oasting trade.
H. MCCULLoCH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The following is the section referred
to above, designating who may grant
permits;
II. The officers of the Treasury De-
partment to be authorized under in
structions from the Secretary to per-
NIT supplies to be transported to loyal
persons residing in insurrectionary
States or parts of States with which
commercial intercourse has been or
may be licensed by the President, un-
der regulations of the Secretary Of the |
Treasury, are the Surveyors of Gus !
toms at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati,
Madison, Louisville, New Albany, |
Evansville, Paducah Cairo, Quincy, ST.
Louis, Nashville, Memphis, and Bal6-
more, the Collectors of Customs at |
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, |
Georgetown, Alexandria, Beaufort, in |
North Carolina, Port Royal, in South |
CarOlina, brownsville and New Or
leans. Other officers will be des-
ignsted to grant permits, should |
the public interests require II,
end the officers above-named viii re-
spectively grant permits to such ports,
places or districts only as shall be des-
ignated in the letter of instructions
from the Secretary of the Treasury.
The permit fee is that established in
tle following clause:
Fees for permit to transport to or from
such district other products, goods,
wares or merchandise, three per cen
tum on the sworn invoice value thereof
at the place of shipment
CIRCULAR TO SUPERVISING LOCAL AND AS
sIsTANT SPECIAL AGENTS AT PORTS WITHIN
INsURRECTIONARY STATES
Treasury DEPARTMENT, May T.
Military restrictions having been re-
moved upon the transportation of mer-
chandise, into the following named
states and parts of States heretofore
declared In Insurrection, viz Tennes.
see, Virg MA, North Carolina and South |
Carolina, and so much Of the States |
of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana lying east OF the Mississippi |
River as shall be declared to be within
the lines OF military occupation. Comp
trolleTs OF Customs OF the several ports
III the loyal States and of such ports
in the insurrectionary States as have
been opened to the commerce of the
world, have been declared permit Off
GERS, and authorized and directed to
permit and clear such merchandise
not prohibited as shall be requested,
copy of which authority and direction
Is hereto attached.
On the arrival of any vessel with a
cargo so permitted and cleared, at any
port within an insurrectionary State, it
will be the duty of the special agent to
require her manifest to be delivered
to him, and the vessel to be discharged
under his general supervision and if
on examination there is found mer-
chandise not duly entered on the man
ltest and permitted, or any prohibited
articles, which articles must be seized
and the facts promptly reported to this
department; all articles shipped from
any port in an insurrectionary State
must be manifested, and a permit
therefor duly granted by the proper
special agent No goods can be trans
ported from an insurrectionary port
except as authorized by the ninth sec
tion of the act of July 2, 1864, and such
as have have been resold by the gov
eminent II. MCCULLoCH,
Secretary of the Treasury.