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manifest, a certificate to that effect shall be given to said master.

If there shall be found on board any prohibited articles, such articles shall be seized and held subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the officer shall forthwith report to the Department all the facts of the case; and any such vessel arriving from any foreign port, or from any domestic port without a proper clearance, or with contraband articles on board, shall, with the cargo, be seized and held as subject to confiscation under the laws of the United States.

VI. LADING WITHIN AND DEPARTURE FROM AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE.

Vessels in ports within an insurrectionary State, not declared by proclamation open to the commerce of the world, shall be laden under the supervision of the proper officer of this Department, whose duty it shall be to require, before any articles are allowed to be shipped, satisfactory evidence that upon all merchandise so shipped, the taxes and fees required by law and these regulations have been paid or secured to be paid, which fact, with the amount so paid, shall be certified upon the manifest before clearance shall be granted; and if, upon any article so shipped, the fees and internal revenue taxes, or either, shall only have been secured to be paid, such fact shall be noted upon the manifest, and the proper officer at the port of destination of such vessel shall hold the goods until all such taxes and fees shall be paid according to law and these regulations.

VII. SUPPLY STORES.

Persons desiring to keep a supply store at any place within an insurrectionary State, shall make application therefor to the nearest officer of the Treasury Department, which application shall set forth that the applicant is loyal to the Government of the United States; and upon filing evidence of such loyalty, a license for such supply store shall forthwith be granted: and the person to whom the license is given shall be authorized to purchase goods at any other supply store within the insurrectionary States, or at such other point in the United States as he may select.

The party receiving such license shall pay therefor the license fee prescribed by the Internal Revenue Law.

VIII. EXEMPTED ARTICLES.

All articles of local production and consumption, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, butter, ice, eggs, fresh meat, wood, coal, &c., may, without fee or restriction, be freely transported and sold at such points within an insurrec tionary State as the owner thereof may desire.

IX. SHIPMENT OF PRODUCTS OF AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE.

All cotton not produced by persons with their own labor, or with the labor of freedmen or others employed and paid by them, must, before shipment to any port or place in a loyal State, be sold to and resold by an officer of the Government especially appointed for the purpose, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President; and, before allowing any cotton or other product to be shipped or granting clearance for any vessel, the proper customs officer, or other persons acting as such, must require from the purchasing agent or the internal revenue officer a certificate that cotton proposed to be shipped has been resold by him, or that twenty-five per cent. of the value thereof has been paid to such purchasing agent in money, and that the cotton is thereby free from further fee or tax. If the cotton proposed to be shipped is claimed and proved to be the product of a person's own labor or of freedmen or others employed and paid by them, the officer will require that the shipping fee of three cents per pound shall be paid or secured to be paid thereon.

If any product other than cotton is offered for shipment, the certificate of the internal revenue officer, that all internal taxes due thereon have been collected and paid, must be produced prior to such products being shipped or cleared; and if there is no internal revenue officer, then such taxes shall be collected by the customs officer, or he shall cause the same to be secured to be paid as provided in these Regulations.

X. INLAND TRANSPORTATION.

The provisions of these regulations, necessarily modified, shall be considered applicable to all shipments, inland

to or within insurrectionary States by any means of transportation whatsoever.

XI. CHARGES.

Goods not prohibited may be transported to insurrectionary States free.

The charges upon all products shipped or transported from an insurrectionary State, other than upon cotton, shall be the charges prescribed by the internal revenue laws. Upon cotton, other than that purchased and resold by the Government, three cents per pound, which must be credited by the officer collecting, as follows, viz: two cents per pound as the internal tax, and one cent per pound as the shipping fee. All cotton purchased and resold by the Government shall be allowed to be transported free from all fees and taxes whatsoever.

XII. RECORDS TO BE KEPT.

Full and complete accounts and records must be kept, by all officers acting under these regulations, of their transactions under them, in such manner and form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs.

XIII. LOYALTY A REQUISITE.

No goods shall be sold in an insurrectionary State by or to, nor any transaction held with any person or persons not loyal to the Government of the United States.

Proof of loyalty must be the taking and subscribing the following oath of evidence, to be filed, that it or one similar in purport and meaning, has been taken, viz:

"I, do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and all laws made in pursuance thereto."

FORMER REGULATIONS REVOKED.

These regulations shall take effect and be in force on and after the 10th day of May, 1865, and shall supersede all other Regulations and Circulars heretofore prescribed by the Treasury Department concerning commercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, all of which are hereby rescinded and annulled.

HUGH MCCULLOCH,

Secretary of the Treasury.

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON CITY, May 9, 1865. The foregoing rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in conformity with acts of Congress relating thereto, having been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. ANDREW JOHNSON.

ADDRESS TO COLORED PEOPLE.

On Thursday, May 11th, 1865, President Johnson gave an audience to a number of colored men. They were introduced by Rev. E. Turner, the President of the National Theological Institute for Colored Ministers, the centre of whose operations are in the city of Washington. Mr. Turner said, in the course of his address, that some of them were members of the Institute and pastors of churches, while others had been preaching to their own people in different sections of Virginia, coming in contact with a colored population of, probably not less than two or three hundred thousand souls, thus exerting a healthful influence on their social and moral condition. He gave to the President a copy of the resolutions passed by them with reference to the assassination of President Lincoln, and expressive of their gratitude for the Emancipation Proclamation, and their loyalty to the constituted authorities, etc.

President Johnson, in response, remarked that it was scarcely necessary for him to repeat what his course had been in relation to the colored man, as everybody within the reach of information had already been made acquainted with it. It was known that though he was born and raised in a slave State, and had owned Slaves, yet he had never sold one and they have all gone free. There was a difference in the responsibility which persons who reside in the slave States have to take on the subject of emancipation from those who reside out of them. It was very

easy for men who live beyond their borders, to get up a sympathy and talk about the condition of colored persons when they knew nothing about it. Their great sympathy was not reduced to practice. It was known that there were men in the South, notwithstanding the two classes once occupied the position of master and servant, who felt a deep interest in their welfare, and did much to ameliorate the condition of the Freedmen. He repeated that it would be unnecessary for him to make a profession of what he had done on the subject of Emancipation, for which he met with taunts, frowns and jibes, and incurred all kinds of dangers to property, life and limb. He claimed no merit for this, because he was only carrying out the principles he always entertained, namely, that man could not hold property in man. And he was the first who stood in a slave community and announced the fact that the slaves of the State of Tennessee had as much right to be free as those who claimed them as their property. When the tyrant's rod is bent, and the yoke broken, the passing from one extreme to the other, from bondage to freedom, is difficult, and in this transition state, some think they have nothing to do but fall back upon the Government for support, in order that they may be taken care of in idleness and debauchery. There was an idea which those whom he addressed ought to inculcate, namely, that freedom simply means liberty to work and to enjoy the product of a man's own toil, and how much he may put into his stomach and on his back. He meant this in its most extensive sense. Gentlemen in Congress and people of the North and South, talk about Brigham Young and debauchery of various kinds existing among the Mormons, but it was known that four millions of people within the limits of the South have always been in open and notorious concubinage. The correction of these things is necessary in commencing a reform in the social condition, and

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