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Abraham Lincoln: “Any person having the certificate of a purchasing agent, as prescribed by Treasury Regulations, VIII, is authorized to…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 1864
Any person having the certificate of a purchasing agent, as prescribed by Treasury Regulations, VIII, is authorized to pass, with the necessary means of transportation, to the points named in said certificate, and to return therefrom with the products required for the fulfillment of the stipulations set forth in said certificate.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Executive Order—Concerning the Purchase of Products in Insurrectionary States

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