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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 thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, [L.S.] and of the Independence of the United states of America the eighty-ninth. 
Andrew Johnson 
By the President: William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
III...June 24, 1865. - Removing restrictions on trade west of the Mississippi River.
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation. 
Whereas, it has been the desire of the General Government of the United States to restore unrestricted commercial intercourse between and in several States, as soon as the same could be safely done in view of resistance to the authority of the United States by combinations of armed insurgents; 
And whereas, that desire has been shown in my proclamations of the twenty-ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the thirteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the twenty-third of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five;
And whereas, it now seems expedient and proper to remove restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise trade and commercial intercourse between and within the States and Territories west of the Mississippi river: 
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United states, do hereby declare that all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon the purchase and removal of products of States and parts of States and Territories heretofore declared in insurrection, lying west of the Mississippi river, (excepting only those relating to property heretofore purchased by the agents or captured by or surrendered to the forces of the United States, and to the transportation thereto or therein, on private account, of arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is made, gray uniforms and gray cloth,) are annulled; and I do hereby direct that