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[[bracket]] GENERAL ORDERS. NO. 137. [[/bracket]]
WAR DEPARTMENT
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
[[italic]] Washington, August 31, 1865. [[/italic]]

The following Proclamations of the President of the United States, in relation to restrictions on trade, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

I..August 28, 1865.-REMOVING RESTRICTIONS ON ARTICLES CONTRABAND OF WAR.
[[italic]] By the President of the United States of America. [[/italic]]

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, by my Proclamations of thirteenth and twenty-fourth of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, removing restrictions, in part, upon internal, domestic, and coastwise intercourse and trade with those States recently declared in insurrection, certain articles were excepted from the effect of said Proclamations as contraband of war; and whereas the necessity for restricting trade in said articles has now, in a great measure, ceased: It is hereby ordered that on and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, all restrictions aforesaid be removed, so that the articles declared by the said Proclamations to be contraband of war may be imported into and sold in said States, subject only to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- [L.S.] five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, [[italic]] Secretary of State. [[/italic]]