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they be forthwith removed; and also, that the commerce of such States and parts of States shall be conducted under the supervision of the regularly appointed officers of the customs, [who] shall receive any captured and abandoned property that may be turned over to them, under the law, by the military or naval forces of the United States, and dispose of the same in accordance with instructions on the subject, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury.
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-fourth day of June, in 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:
W. HUNTER, [[italic]] Acting Secretary of State. [[/italic]]

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IV..APRIL 29, 1865 - EXECUTIVE ORDER REMOVING RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE, EXCEPT IN ARTICLES CONTRABAND OF WAR, IN CERTAIN STATES.

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
[[italic]] Washington, April 29, 1865. [[/italic]]

Being desirous to relive all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing in insurrectionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is hereby [[italic]] Ordered: [[/italic]]
I..That all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse be discontinued in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi river shall be embraced within the lies of national military occupation, excepting only such restrictions as are imposed by acts of Congress and regulations in pursuance thereof, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President; and excepting also from the effect of this order the following articles contraband of war, to wit: arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is manufactured, gray uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad