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Salmon P. Chase, Printed Trade Regulations [With Endorsement by Lincoln] 1, May 20, 1864
Additional Regulations Concerning Commercial Intercourse With and In States Declared in Insurrection. The regulation that Lincoln amends reads as follows: “LVI. The foregoing regulations, numbered LII, LIII, LIV, LV, shall take effect and be in force within the lines of the several military departments in the insurrectionary States, whenever the Generals commanding said departments shall, respectively, under authority from the President, and by proper orders promulgate the same.”
No person engaged in trade, and proceeding in strict accordance with the publishe[d] Regulations of the Treasury Department upon that subjec[t] and promulgated according to the Regulation numbered LVI, and being the last on pag[e] 6. to the left opposite this, shall be hindered or delayed therein, by the Army or Navy, or any person or persons connected therewith.
A. Lincoln
May 20, 1864