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iron and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instruments for operating telegraph lines.
II..All existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above named, be and the same are hereby revoked; and that no military or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged therein, under proper authority, pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury.

ANDREW JOHNSON.
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V..MAY 22, 1865 - REOPENING OF PORTS, EXCEPT FOUR IN TEXAS; DISALLOWING BELLIGERENT RIGHTS IN CERTAIN CASES; AND REMOVING CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE.
[[italic]] By the President of the United States of America. [[/italic]]

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by the Proclamation of the President of the eleventh day of April last, certain ports of the United States therein specified, which had previously been subject to blockade, were, for objects of public safety, declared, in conformity with previous special legislation of Congress, to be closed against foreign commerce during the national will, to be thereafter expressed and made known by the President; and whereas events and circumstances have since occurred which, in my judgment, render it expedient to remove that restriction, except as to the ports of Galveston, La Salle, Brazoa de Santiago, (Point Isabel,) and Brownsville, in the State of Texas:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States, do hereby declare that the ports aforesaid, not excepted as above, shall be open to foreign commerce from and after the first day of July next; that commercial intercourse with the said ports may, from that time, be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and in pursuance of such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. If, however, any vessel from a foreign port shall enter any of the before-named excepted ports in the State of Texas, she will continue to be held liable to the penalties presribed by the act of Congress, approved on the thirteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the persons on board of her to such penalties