Whereas experience has shown that the exceptions made in and by said proclamation embarrass the due enforcement of said act of July 13, 1861, and the proper regulation of the commercial intercourse authorized by said act with the loyal citizens of said States
Proclamation 98—Suspension of Commercial Trade with Certain States in Rebellion
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