The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.
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Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
The expediency of any legislation on the subject is submitted for your consideration.
Provost-marshals and marshals of the United States will arrest and commit to military custody all such offenders as shall disregard this order, whether they have passports or not, and they will be detained in such custody until the end of the war, or until discharged by subsequent orders of the President.
the President directs that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passports shall be modified, and so much thereof as relates to persons entering this country from Canada shall be rescinded, saving and reserving the order in all other respects in full force





