The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-24

A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas in and by the second section of an
act of Congress passed on the 9TH day OF june
A. D. 1862, entitled C An act for the collection OF
the United States and for other purposes" 1t is
made the duty of the President to declare, on or
before the first day of July then next following,
by his proclamation, in what States and parts OF
States insurrection exists:
Now therefore, be it known that l, Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States OF Amer
ca do hereby declare and proclaim that the
Stae of SouJh- Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Ala
bama Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Vir-
ginia, except the following counties: Hancock,
Brooke Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monon-
galia Preston, Taylor, Peasants, Tyler, Ritchie,
Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, jackson, Writ
Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lew
is, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam,
Kanawha. Clay, Nicholas, Cabel, Wayne Roone,
Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette and Raleigh,
are now in inSurrectiOn and rebellion, and by
reason thereof the civil authority OF the United
States is obsructed so that the provisions of the
Act to provide increased revenue from imports,
to pay the interest on the public debt and tor
other purposes" approved August fifth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, cannot be peaceably exc
cuted, and that the taxes legally chargeable upon
real estate under the act last aforesaid, lying
within the States and parts of States as aforesaid
together with penalty of fifty per centum of
said taxes, shall be lien upon the tracts or lots
of the same, severally charged, till paid.
In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed
Done at the City of Washington, this
first day of July, in the year of our
r.. ST. Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, and of the independence of
the United States of America the egh-
ty-siXth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY the President:
F. W. Seward, Acting Sec. State.
No. Is.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
In pursuance of the sixth section of the act of
of Congress entitled "An act to suppress insur-
rection, and to punish treason and rebellion to
seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and
for other purposes" approved July II, 1862, and
which act, and the joint resolution explanatory
thereof, are herewith published; l, ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, President of the United States, do
hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within
the contemplation of said sixth section to cease
participating in, aiding, countenancing, abet-
ting the existing rebellion any rebellion, against
the Government of the United States, and to
turn to their proper allegiance to the United
States, pain of the forfeitures within and by
said sixth section provided.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this twen-
ty-ifth day of July, in the year of our
Il. s. Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, and of ihe Independence of the
United States the eightyseventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.