. A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents . dent ofthe United States, hereby enjoin all naval, military, and civil officersof the United States diligently to endeavor, by all lawful means, to arrestthe said cruisers and to bring them into a port of the United States, inorder that they may be prevented from committing further depredationson commerce and that the persons on board of them may no longer enjoyimpunity for their crimes. And I do further proclaim and declare that if, after a reasonable timeshall have elapsed for this proclamation to become known in the ports ofnati
. A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents . dent ofthe United States, hereby enjoin all naval, military, and civil officersof the United States diligently to endeavor, by all lawful means, to arrestthe said cruisers and to bring them into a port of the United States, inorder that they may be prevented from committing further depredationson commerce and that the persons on board of them may no longer enjoyimpunity for their crimes. And I do further proclaim and declare that if, after a reasonable timeshall have elapsed for this proclamation to become known in the ports ofnations claiming to have been neutrals, the said insurgent cruisers andihe persons on board of them shall continue to receive hospitality in thesaid ports, this Government will deem itself justified in refusing hospi-tality to the public vessels of such nations in ports of the United Statesand in adopting such other measures as may be deemed advisable towardvindicating the national sovereignty. —? 0 0 E Q. :;: IS ^ o ra T3 c ^_ OS o 0) O) c 4) i E t 0) 5 I I. a. CC i \ Andrew Johnson 3507 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the sealof the United States to be •, Done at the city of Washington, this loth day of May, A. D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of Americathe eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: W. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State. By the President of the United States of America,a Whereas by the proclamation of the President of the i ith day of Aprillast certain ports of the United States therein specified, which had previ-ously been subject to blockade, were, for objects of public safety, declared,in conformity with previous special legislation of Congress, to be closedagainst foreign commerce during the national will, to be thereafter ex-pressed and made known by the President; and Whereas events and circumstances have since occurred which, in myjudgment, render it expedient to remove that re
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