The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
WASHINGTON.
Grants Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, October 8, 1870.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, on the 22d day of August, 1870,
my PROCLAMATION was issued enjoining neu-
trality in the present war between France
and the NOrth-German Confederation and
its allies, and declaring, so far as there
seemed to be any necessity, the respective
rights and obligations of the belligerent
powers and of the citizens of the United
States; and whereas, subsequent informa-
| tion gives reason to apprehend that armed
! cruisers of the belligerents may be tempted
TO abuse the hospitality accorded 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, |, Ulysses 5 Grant, Presi
! dent of the United States of America, do
| hereby proclaim and declare, that any
| frequenting of the waters within the Ju ris-
| diction Of the United States by armed
vessels of either belligerents whether they
are public ships or privateers, for the
purpose of preparing for hostile operati
| or as ports of observation, upon ships of
war, or privateers, or merchant vessels of
| either of the belligerents lying within the
| jurisdiction of the United States must be
! regarded as unfriendly and offensive, and in
| violation of that neutrality which it is the
| determination of this Government to
| observe, and to that end that the hazard and
| inconvenience of such apprehended prac-
tices may be avoided, l further proclaim and
declare that from and after the 18th day of
! October instant, aud during the continuance
of the present hOstilitieS between France
and the North German Confederation and
its allies, no ship of war or privateer Of
either beIligerent shall be permitted to make
use of any port, harbor or roadstead or
| other waters within the jurisdiction of the
United States as station or place Of resort
for any war-like purposes or for the purpose
| of obtaining any facilities of war-like
| equipment, and no ship of war or prIvateer
of either belligerent shall be permitted to
sail out Of or leave any port, haTbOr, ETC.,
or water subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States, from which vessel of the
other beligerent, whether the same shall be
a snip of war, priVateer or merchant ship,
shall have previously departed until after
the expiration of at least twenty four hours
from the departure of such last mentioned
| vessel beyond the Jurisdiction of the United
States If any ship of war or privateer of
either belligerent shall after the time this
notification takes effect, enter any port, etc
Cf the United States such vessels shall be
required to depart and put to sea within
twenty four hours after her entrance In such
ports, ETC., except in case of stress of
weather, or of the requiring of provisions,
or Of things necessary for the subsistence
of her crew, or for repairs; in either of
which cases the authorities of the port or
of the nearest port as the case may be,
shall require the vessel to put to sea as soon
as possible after the expiration of such
period of twenty-four hours, without
permitting her to take In supplies beyond
what may be necessary for immediate use,
and no such vessel, which may have been
permitted to remain within the waters OF
of the United States for The purpose of
repair shall continue within such port
harbor etc, for longer period than "a
hours after her necessary repairs, shall have
been completed, unless within such twenty
four hours a vessel, whether ship of war,
privateer or merchant ship of the other
belligerent, shall have departed therefrom
In which case the time limited for the
departure of such ship Of war or priyateeI
shall be extended so far as may be necessary
to secure an interval of not less than twenty
four hours between such departure, anC
that of any ship of war, etc, of the belhg
erent, which may have previously quilted
Z the same port harbor, roadstead or Other
waters, No ship of war or privateer o
either belligerer shall be detained In any
port, harbOr, etc, more than twenty -four
hours, by reason of the successive departure
: more than one vessel of the other belliger
ent, but if there be several vessels of eaci
of the belligerents in the same port, etc.
the order of their departure shall be 81
arranged as to afford the opportunity 0
leaving alternately to the vessels of the
, respective belligerents and to cause the leas
L detention consistent with the objects of th'
proclamation. No ship of war, or privatee
| of either of the beIligerents shall be per
| IL y. Ea h
, Jurisdiction of the United States, to take il
supplies except provisions and such Othe
things as may be requisite for the subsistence
of her crew, and except so much coat Oni.
as may be sufficient to carry such vessels
if without sail power, to the nearest Eu
ropean port or her own country or in case
the vessel IS rigged to go under sail, ant
may also be propelled by steam power, thel
| with half the coal which she would b
entitled to receive, if dependent on stear
alone and no coal shall be again supplies
to any such ship of war or privateer In tn
same or any other port, etc, without specIa
provision, till after the expiration Of thre
J. months from the time such may have bee
&c supplied to her within the waters OF tn
United States, unless such ship shall, sine
J last thus supplied, have entered an Europea
OF port, the government to which she belongs
In testimony whereof, l have hereunt
set my hand and caused the great seal of th
United States to be affixed. Done at th
city of Washington this, 8th day of OctObe
in the year of our Lord one thousand eigt
'F hundred and seventy, and of the IndepenC
ID anee of the United States of America th
he ninety-ffth.
ly (Signed) T. ). GRANT.
ly By the President.
sr HAMILTON FISH. Secty of State
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