The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-10-14
PROCLAMATION.
By the President Of the Untted States: 4
DsorIo,D1y3os,

By the President of the Un,ted States: 4
Proclamation.
WHEREAS, on the 22d day Of August, 1870,
my proclamation was issued enioining neu-
trality in the present war between France and
the North German Confederation and its allies
and declaring, so far as then seemed to be ne
cessary, the respective rights and obligations
of the beligerent powers and of citizens of
the United States; and
WHEREAS, Subsequent information gives
reason to apprehend that armed cruisers of the
beligerents may be tempted to abuse the hos
pitslityaccorded to them in the ports, harbors,
roadsteads and other waters OF the United
States; by making such waters subservient to
the purposes of war.
Now, therefore, 1, Ulysses S. Grant, Presi-
dent of the United States of America, do here
by proclaim and declare that any frequenting
and use of waters within the jurisdiction OF
the United States by armed vessels of either
belligerent, whether public ships or prlvateers,
for the purpose of preparing for hostile opera
tions, or as posts of observation upon ships of
war or privateers or merchant vessels of other
belligerenis lying within or being about to en-
ter, the jurisdiction of the United States must
be regarded as unfriendly and offensive and
in violation of that neutrality which 1t IS the
determination Of this government to observe
and to the end that the hazard and inconyen-
fence of such apprehended practices may be
avoided, further proclaim and declare that
from and after the 18th day OF October inst.
and during the continuation Of the present
hostillities between France and the North
German Confederation and its allie, no ship of
war OF privateer of either beligerent shall be.
permitted to make use of any port, harbor,
roadstead, or other waters within the jurisdic-
ton of the United States, as a station or place
of resort for any warlike purpose or for the
purpose of obtaining any facilities for warEke
equipment; and no ship of war or privateer of
either beligerent shall be permitted to sail out
of, or have any port, harbor, roadstead IN wat
ers subject to the jurisdiction Of the United
States, from which a vessel Of either belhger-
ent, whether the same shall be a ship of war,
a priyateer, or a merchant ship shall have pre-
viously departed until after the exgiration of
at least twenty-four hours from the departure
of such last mentioned vessels beyond the jur-
isdiction of the United States.
"If any ship of war or privateer Of either
beliperent shall, after the time this notitica-
ton takes effect, enter any port, harbor or
roadstead or waters of the United STATES, such
vessels shall be required to depart and put to
sea within twenty-four hours after her en-
trance into such port, harbor, roadstead OF
waters except in case of stress of weather, or
of her requiring provisions or things necessary
for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs;
in either of which cases the authorities OF the
port OF of the nearest port, as the case may be,
shall require her to put to sea as quick as pos
sible after the expiration Of such period of
twenty-four hours, without permitting her to
take in supplies beyond what may be necessary
for her immediate wants. And no such vessel
which NAV have been permitted to remain
within the waters of the United States for the
purpose of repair within such port, harbor,
roadstead, OF waters, for longer period than
twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs
shall have been completed, unless within such
twentv-four hours a vessel, whether a ship of
war, privateer or merchant ship of other bel
hgerents shall have departed therefrom, In
which case the time limited for the departure |
of such ship of war or priveteer shall be ex-
tended so far as may be necessary to secure an !
interval of not less than twenty-four hours be- |
tween such departure and that of any ship of |
war, privateer, or merchant ship of other bel |
igerents which may have previously quit such |
port, harboT, roadstead or other waters; no |
ship of war or privateer of either belhgerent |
shall be detained in any port, harbor, road |
stead, or other waters OF the United States |
more than twenty-four hours, by reason of |
successive departures from such port, harbor, |
roadstead, or other waters OF more than one |
vessel Of either belligerent but If there be sew
erai vessels of each or either of the two belli- /
NSHSeoSCeAeA1
or waters, the order of their departure shall |
be so arranged as to afford the opportunity of |
leaving alternately to the vessels Of the res
pective belligerents, and to cause the least de-
tention consistent with the objects of the pro-
clamation No ship of war or privateer of |
either belHgerent shall be permitted while in |
any port, harbor, roadstead or waters within |
the jurisdiction of the United States to take |
in any supplies. except provisions and such |
other things as may be requisite for the SUBJ |
sistence of her crew, and except so much coal /
only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel /
if without sail power, to the nearest Europe |
an port of her own country, or in case the ves-
sci is rigged to 90 under sail and may also be |
with steam power than with one half |
the quantity of coal which she would be entit-
led to receive if dependent upon steam alone,
and no coal shall be again supplied to any
such ship of war or privateer in the same or
any other port, harbor, roadstead or waters of
the United States, without special permission,
until after the expiration or three months from
he time when such coal may have been last
supplied to her within the waters OF the Unit
ed States, unless such ship of war OF privateer
jince last thus supplied have entered on Eur
,pean port OF the government to which she be-
ongs.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my
land, and caused the seal of the United States
o be affixed. Done at the City of Washing
on; this Sth day Of October, in the year Of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy
md OF the Independence Of the United States
# America the ninety-hfth'
TSigned.l o.. S. GRANT.
3y the President:
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