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be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this Sec
SEAL ond day April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eixty six, and OF the Independence of the
United States of America the ninetieth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President;
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
No.a.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, 1t has become known to me that
certain evildisposed persons have, within the
territory and Jurisdiction of the United States,
begun and set on foot and have provided and
prepared and are still engaged in providing aud
preparing means for military expedition and
enterprise, which expedition and enterprise is to
be carried on from the territory and Jurisdiction
of the United States against colonies, districts
and people of British North America within the
dominions of tue United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, with which said colonies,
districts and people and Kingdom the United
States are at peace;
And whereas the proceedings aforesaid consti-
tute high misdemeanor, forbidden by the laws
of the United States as well as by the law of ma
tiOnS:
Now, therefore, for the purpose of preventing
the carrying on of the unlawful expedition and
enterprise aforesaid from the territory and Juris-
diction of the United States and to maintain the
public peace, well as the national honor, and
enforce obedience and respect to the laws of the
United States, /, ANDREW JOHNSON, President OF
the United States to admonish and warn all good
citizens OF the United States against taking part
in or in anywise aiding, countenancing or abet,
ting said unlawful proceedings; and do eXhort
all Judges magistrates, marshas and officers in
the service of the United States to employ all
their lawful authority and power to prevent and
arrest and bring to justice all persons who may
be engaged therein.
And pursuant to the act of Congress in such
6e nrOyided 7 furthermore
thorize and empower Major-General George G.
Meade, Commander of the Military Division of
the Atlantic, to employ the land and naval forces
OF the United States and the militia thereof, to
arrest and prevent the setting on foot and car
rying on the expedition and enterprise aforesaid.
In testimony 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
[sEAL. sixth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sXty-siX, and of the Independence of
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS war is existing in the Republic of
Mexico, aggravated by foreign military inter
yention;
And whereas the United States, in accordance
with their settled habits and policy, are neutral
power in regard to the war which thus aff1icts
the Republic of Mexico;
And " WhereaS it has become known that one of
the belligerents in the said war, namely, the
Prince MaXimilian, who asserts himself to be
Emperor in Mexico, has issued decree in regard
to the port OF MatamOras, and other Mexican
ports which are in the occupation and possession
of another of the said belgerents, namely, the
United States of Mexico, which decree is in the
following words -
"The port of Matamoras and all those of the
northern frontier which have withdrawn from
aheir obedience to the government, are closed to
foreign and coasting traffic during such time as
the empire of the law shall not be therein rein
stated.
CART. I'd. Merchandise proceeding from the
said ports on arriving at any other where the eX-
else of the Empire is collected, shall pay the du
ties on importation, introduction, and consump
ton; and on satisfactory proof of contravention
shall be irremissibly contiscated. Our Ministry
of the Treasury is charged with the punctual eX
ecutiOn of this decree.
''Given at Mexico, the 9th of July, 1866"
And whereas the decree thus recited by de-
claring belligerent blockade unsupported by
competent military or naval force, is in violation
of the neutral rights of the Unieed States as de-
fined by the law of nations, as well of the
treaties existing between the United States of
America :lnd the aforesaid United States of Mex
leo:
Now, therefore, I, ANDREW JOHNSON, Presi-
dent of the United States, do hereby proclaim
and declare, that the aforesaid decree is held, and
will be held, by the citizens of the United States
to be absolut ely null and void, against the gov
ernment and citizens of the United States will
be dsallowed.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington the sew
[sEAL.l enteenth day of August, in the year of
our LoId one thousand eighteen hnn-
drcd and siXty-siX, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of
America the ninety-first
ANDREW JOHNSON
WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Secretary Of State.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
OF AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, by proclamations of the fifteenth
and nineteenth of April. eighteen hundred and
slXty-ene, the President of the United States, in
virtue OF the power vested in him by the Consti-
tuition and the Laws, declared that the laws of
the Ua1ted States were opposed, and the eXecu-
tion thereof obstructed, in the Estates of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida Mississippi
Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too pow
erful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of
Judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in
the marshas by law;
And whereas, by another proclamation, made
on the sixteenth day of August, in. the same
year, in pursuance of an act Of Congress APPROX
ed July thirteen, one thousand eighteen hundred
and sixty-one the inhabitants of the States of
Georgia. Sonth Carolina, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, and Florida, Except the in
habitants of that part of the State of Virginia
lying west of the Allegheny Mountains, and ex-
cept also the inhabitants of such other parts of
that State, and the other States before named as
might contain loyal adhesion to the Union and
Constitution nliUht frnn