New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-26
NECTRALITY.
Proclamation by the President.

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| the United States reside within the terri
tories or dominions Of each of said belliger-
| ents, and carry on commerce, trades or
| other business pursuits therein, protected
| by the faith Of treaties; and
Whereas Great numbers of subjects Of
or citizens Of each of the belligerents, reside
within the territory or jurisdiction of the
United States, and carry on commerce,
trade or other business pursuits therein;
and
Whereas, The laws of the United States,
without interfering with the free express
sion OF opinion and sympathy, or with the
open manufacture and sale of arms or mu-
nitions of war, nevertheless impose on all
persons who may be within their territory
or jurisdiction the duty Of an impartial nesr
trality during the existence of the contest.
Now. therefore, /, Ulysses S. Grant, Pres
ident of the United States, in order to pre-
serve the neutrality of the United States,
and of their citizens, and of persons within
their territory and jurisdiction, and to en-
force their laws, and III order that all per
sons being warned of the general tenor of
the laws and treaties of the United States
in this behalf, and of the law of nations,
may be thus prevented from an uninten-
tional violation of the same,
Do hereby declare and proclaim that by
the act passed on the twentieth day OF
April, A. D. 1918, commonly known as the
neutrality law, the following acts are for
hidden to be done, under severe penalties,
within the territory and jurisdiction of the
United States, to wit
l. Accepting and exercising a commission
to serve either of said belligerents, by land
or by sea, against the other belligerent.
2. Enlisting or entering into the service of
either of said belligerents as soldier, as a
marine, or o seaman, on board OF any YES
sci of war, letter of marque or privateer.
3. Hiring or retaining another person to
enlist or enter himself in the service of
either of the said belligerents as soldier.
or marine, or seaman, on board of any yes
sci of war, letter OF marqne OF priyateer.
4. Hiring another person to go beyond
the limits or jurisdiction of the United
States, with intent to be enlisted as afore-
said. ---.
5. Hiring another person to 90 beyond
the limits of the United States, with in
tent to be entered into service as before
said.
6. Retaining another person to 90 be-
yond the limits of the United States with
intent to be enlisted as aforesaid.
!. Retaining another person to go beyond
the limits of the United States with inten-
tiOn to he entered into service, as before
said. But the said restriction is not to be
construed to extend to a citizen or subject
of either bclligerent. who, being transient
ly within the United States, shall, on board
of any vessel of war which at the time of
| its arrival within the United States was
fitted and equipped as such vessel of war.
| enlist or enter himself, or have or retain
another subject or citizen of the same belli-
gerent who is transiently within the
United States. to enlist or enter himself to
serve such belligerent on board such vessel
of war, if the United States shall then be
at peace with such belligerent.
8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting
to hit out or arm, or procuring to be fitted
out and armed, or knowingly being con-
cerned in furnishing, fitting out Or arming
of any ship or vessel with intent that such
ship or vessel be employed in the service of
either of said belligerents.
9. Issuing or delivering commission
| within the territory or jurisdiction of the
United States for any ship or vessel to
the intent that she may be employed as
aforesaid.
TO- Increa sing or augmenting, or procur-
ing to be increased or augmented. or know
ingly being concerned in increasing or aug
menting the force of any ship-ofwar,
cruiser or other armed vessel, which at the
time of her arrival within the United States
was a ship-of-war, cruiser, or armed vessel.
in service Of either of said belligerents, or
belonging to subjects or citizens of either.
vessel, or by changing those on board Of
her for guns of larger calibre etc, or by
addition thereto of any equipment solely
applicable to war.
H. BEGINNING or setting on foot, or pro-
viding or preparing means for any military
expedition or enterprise to be carried from
the territory or jurisdiction of the United
States against the territory or dominions OF
said belligerents.
And | do further declare and proclaim
that. by the nineteenth article of the treaty
of amity and commerce, which was concluded
between his majesty the King of Prussia
and the United States of America, on the
eleventh day of July, 1899, which article
was revived by the treaty OF May l, 1923,
between the same parties, and IS still IN
force, it was agreed that the vessels of war,
public and private, Of both parties. shall
carry freely, wheresoever they please, the
vessels ana effects taken from their enemies
without being obliged to pay any duties,
charges or fees to officers of the admiralty.
of the stoms, or any others; nor shall
prizes be arrested, searched or put under
legal process when they come to and enter
ports of the other party; but may be freely
carried out again at any other time by their
captains to the places expressed in their
commissions, which the commanding officer
of such vessel shall be obliged to show. -
And l do further declare and proclaim
that it has been officially communicated to
the government of the United States by the
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the North German Confeder-
alton. at Washington that private property
on the high seas will be exempt from seizure
by the ships of his majesty the King OF
Prussia, without regard to reciprocity.
And do further declare and proclaim
that it has been officially communicated to
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the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his majesty the Emperor
of the French. at Washington, that orders
have been given that in the conduct OF the
war the commanders of the French forces
on land. and on the seas. shall scrupulOusly
observe toward neutral powers the rules
of international law, and they shall strictly
adhere to the principles set forth In the de
claration of the Congress OF Paris, of the
sixteenth of April, 1856, that is to say
|. That privateering is and remains abol-
ished.
.. That the neutral flag covers the enemy's
goods, with the exception Of contraband Of
war.
s. That neutral goods, with the exception
of contra band of war, are not liable to cap
ture under the encmy's flag.
A. That blockade, IN order to be bind
inc, must be effective-that is to say, main
tained by force sufficient really to prevent
access to the coast of the enemy ; and that
although the United States have not adhered
to the declaration of 1856, the vessels of his
majesty will not seize the enemy's property
found on board of q vessel of the United
States, provided that property is not con-
traband Of war.
And I do further declare and proclaim
that the statutes of the United States and
the laws of nations alike require that no
person within the territory and jurisdiction