Evening star., 1898-04-22
HAVANA HARBOR
TO Be BlOCkaded BY
]. S. WarshDs.
A FORMAL PROCLAMATION
Notification to the Powers of the
Intention.
SPECIAL CABINET MEETING
Prepared by Attorney General and
Signed by President.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT
Notification to the Powers of the
Intention.
SPECIAL CABINET MEETING
Prepared by Attorney General and
Signed by President.
TENT OF THE DOCUMENT

The following proclamation in re-
gard to the blockade of Cuba was is
sued at the State Department this
afternoon at 40 o'clock:
By the President of the United
States-A Proclamation:
Whereas, by a joint resolution
passed by the Congress and ap-
proved April 20. 1893, and commu-
nicated to the government of Spain,
it was demanded that said govern
ment at once relinquish its authority
and government in the Island of
Cuba, and Withdraw its land and
naval forces from Cuba and Cuban
waters: and the President OF the
United States was directed and en-
powered to use the entire land and
naval forces of the United States,
and to call into the actual service of
the United States the militia of the
several states to such extent as might
be necessary to carry said resolution
into effect; and,
Whereas. in carving into effect
said resolution, the President of the
United States deems il necessary to
set on foot and maintain a blockade
of the north coast OF Cuba, including
all ports on said coast between Car
denas and Bahia Honda and the port
of Cieniuegos, on the south coast of
Cuba;
Now, therefore, l, William Nc
Kinley, President of the United
States, in order to enforce the said
resolution, do hereby declare and
proclaim that the United States of
America have instituted and will
maintain a blockade OF the north
coast OF Cuba, including ports on
said coast between Cardenas and
Bahia Honda and the port of Glen
fuegos on the south coast of Cuba,
aforesaid, in pursuance of the laws
OF the United States and the law Of
nations applicable TO such cases.
An efficient force will be posted
so as TO prevent the entrance and exit
of vessels from the ports aforesaid.
Any neutral vessel approaching any
OF said ports, or attempting to leave
the same, without notice or knowl-
edge of the establishment of such
blockade, will be duly warned BY the
commander OF the blockading forces,
who will indorse on her register the
fact and the date of such warning
where such Endorsement was made,
and if the same vessel shall again at
tempt TO enter any blockaded port
she will be captured and sent to the
nearest convenient port for such pro-
ceedings against her and her cargo
as prize as may be deemed advisable.
Neutral vessels lying in any of said
ports at the time of the establishment
of such blockade will be allowed thir-
ty days to issue therefrom.
In witness whereof | have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington.
this ed day of April, AID. 1898, and
of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and twenty
second.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
By the President.
JOHN SHERMAN,
Secretary of State.
British Admiralty orders.
LONDON. April 22.--The British admir-.
atty has ordered that the bills Of iadlng ot
all ships carrying naval stores shall he 40.