accident it was not presented to the President of the Senate for his signature. Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress, other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was designed to correct, have been discovered in the law, and it is now thought most expedient to include all the necessary corrections in one act or resolution. The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 5, 1865. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT, City Point, Va.: Richard T. Jacob, Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, is at the Spotswood House, in Richmond, under an order of General Burbridge not to return to Kentucky. Please communicate leave to him to pass our lines, and come to me here at Washington. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 6, 1865, Lieutenant-General GranT, City Point: If there is a man at City Point by the name of Waterman Thornton who is in trouble about desertion, please have his case briefly stated to me and do not let him be executed meantime. A. LINCOLN. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, January 7, 1865. TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I transmit to Congress a copy of two treaties between the United States and Belgium, for the extinguishment of the Scheldt dues, etc., concluded on the twentieth of May, 1863, and twentieth of July, 1863, respectively, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Brussels on the twenty-fourth of June last; and I recommend an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions thereof relative to the payment of the proportion of the United States toward the capitalization of the said dues. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TO SCHUYLER COLFAX. HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX, EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 9, 1865. Speaker of the House of Representatives. SIR: I transmit herewith the letter of the Secretary of War, with accompanying report of the Adjutant-General, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives, dated December 7, 1864, requesting me "to communicate to the House the report made by Col. Thomas M. Key of an interview between himself and General Howell Cobb on the fourteenth [15th] day of June, 1862, on the banks of the Chickahominy, on the subject of the exchange of prisoners of war.' I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PROCLAMATION CONCERNING COMMERCE, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A Proclamation. Whereas the act of Congress of the twenty-eighth of September, 1850, entitled "An act to create additional collection districts in the State of California, and to change the existing districts therein, and to modify the existing collection districts in the United States," extends to merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States, in the manner prescribed in the act of Congress of the third of March, 1845, which designates certain frontier ports through which merchandise may be exported, and further provides "that such other ports situated on the frontiers of the United States, adjoining the British North American provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may have extended to them the like privileges on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and proclamation duly made by the President of the United States, specially designating the ports to which the aforesaid privileges are to be extended;" Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, do hereby declare and proclaim that the port of St. Albans, in the State of Vermont, is, and shall be, entitled to all the privileges in regard to the exportation of merchandise in bond to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States, which are extended to the ports enumerated in the seventh section of the act of Congress of the third of March, 1845, aforesaid, from and after the date of this proclamation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one [SEAL] thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL B. F. BUTLER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 10, 1865. MAJOR-GENERAL BUTLER, Fort Monroe, Va.: No principal report of yours on the Wilmington expedition has ever reached the War Department, as I am informed there. A preliminary report did reach here, but was returned to General Grant at his request. Of course, leave to publish cannot be given without inspection of the paper, and not then if it should be deemed to be detrimental to the public service. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL B. F. BUTLER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 13, 1865. MAJOR-GENERAL BUTLER, Fort Monroe, Va.: Yours asking leave to come to Washington is received. You have been summoned by the Committee on the Conduct of the War to attend here, which, of course, you will do. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR JOHNSON. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 14, 1865. GOVERNOR JOHNSON, Nashville, Tennessee: Yours announcing ordinance of emancipation received. Thanks to the convention and to you. When do you expect to be here? Would be glad to have your suggestion as to supplying your place of military governor. A. LINCOLN. |