to the nearest Collector or Surveyor, who, upon being satisfied that it has been properly granted, will issue a permit to the holder for the transportation of the articles specified therein; but in cases where the supplies are purchased at a trade store, and there is no authorized Collector or Surveyor within five miles thereof, the Local Special Agent nearest to such trade store may grant such permit, retaining the certificate and delivering the permit to the applicant. Except in cases mentioned in this Regulation and Regulation XVI, no permit will be granted by any Local Special Agent. District. XVIII. Upon the request of the General commanding DepartWhen trade store ment, the proper Supervising Special Agent may may be author- authorize the establishment of one or more trade ized in Supply stores in any city or town of a Supply District, under the same Regulations as trade stores are established in Trade Districts, and subject to military orders; but the Authority to establish any such store may be revoked, and the store discontinued by the Supervising Special Agent whenever the public interest may require it. When products be to may brought market, and on what conditions sup plies may be taken home. XIX. After any Trade or Supply District shall have been estab. lished, loyal and well-disposed persons residing therein may bring their products to market, unless prohibited. by Regulation, Rule, or military order, and may be permitted by the proper Collector or Surveyor, on payment of prescribed fees, to sell the same for money other than gold or silver, and to take back to their respective homes so much of the proceeds of products so sold in individual, family, or plantation supplies, as shall be certified by the Local Special Agent nearest to the residence of such person to be necessary for the use or consumption of the individual, family, or plantation, for a period not exceeding two months next ensuing, if residing within the limits of a Trade District, or one month if within the limits of a Supply District; and any attempt to take back more than the quantity so certified will debar the party all further privilege to bring products to market or to trade. Products may be purchased under prescribed conditions. XX. All proper and loyal persons may apply in the prescribed form to the proper Supervising Special Agent, or an Assistant Special Agent designated by him, for authority to purchase, for money other than gold or silver, any of the products of the country within the lines of Na- ca tional military occupation in his Agency, except when rea prohibited by order of the General commanding Department or other es special military order, and to transport the same to market; and-on making and filing with such Agent an affidavit, in the prescribed form, an and executing a bond with penalty and sureties to be approved by said Agent, and conditioned that he will pay or secure all fees required by Regulations, that he will not purchase products at any place other than that named in the Authority, or engage directly or 4 pre indirectly in prohibited trade, and that no military, naval, or civil officer or person prohibited by law or by order of the President, or of military or naval commanders having proper authority, from being interested in the property purchased by him, shall be so interested therein the Supervising Special Agent, or Assistant Special Agent designated by him, if he deems it expedient, may authorize the proper officer to permit, on payment or security of the prescribed fees, the purchase and transportation of products as applied for, except articles prohibited. Upon presentation of such Authority to any officer named in Regulation VI, he may issue a permit for the purchase, transportation and sale of products specified, in pursuance of the terms of the Authority; but before delivering it, he will require the scribed fees to be paid, or a bond therefor to be executed to the United States with penalty, and sureties approved by him, conditioned that the fees for each shipment made under the permit shall be paid to him or some other proper officer at the time or within ten days after such shipment shall be made; and that immediately after the making of any shipment by land or water under the permit, notice of such shipment shall be forthwith given to the officer issuing the permit, which notice shall specify the date and place of shipment, and contain or be accompanied by a description of the property and the marks thereon, and a statement of its destination and the route thereto; and that upon its arrival at any port where there is an officer of customs, a similar report shall be forthwith made to him. If any person obtaining a permit, and paying the fees therefor, shall purchase or transport no merchandise under the same or a less quantity than is permitted, the fees paid, or the proper proportion thereof, shall be refunded on application and due showing to the proper Supervising Special Agent. Any neglect on the part of the person permitted to purchase and transport, or of any one acting for him, to comply with Regulations and Local Rules, or with the conditions of the bond to the permit officer, shall work immediate forfeiture of all rights under the Authority or permit, and any property purchased or transported under the same after such neglect shall be forfeited to the United States. XXI. Every permit to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise within any place or section in a State hereConditions upon tofore declared in insurrection, after commercial interwhich permits to purchase course therewith shall have been permitted by the Sec. products may retary of the Treasury, and every permit to transport be issued. the same thereto, therein, or therefrom, shall clearly define the character and quantity of the merchandise so permitted to be sold, purchased, or transported, and the place or section within which the same may be purchased or sold, and to and from which the same may be transported; and each person shall, before receiving such permit, make affidavit that he is in all respects loyal and true to the government of the United States; that he will faithfully conform to the Proclamations and orders of the President of the United States, and of the Military Governors and Generals exercising authority under him, and to Departmental Regulations authorized by law; and that he will at all times, by his conduct and conversation, and by every other means he can properly use, aid in suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. XXII. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section heretofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely Transportation of, or payments in, prohibited, except for military purposes, and under coin or bullion military orders, or under the special license of the strictly prohib- President. And no payment of gold or silver or foreign bills of exchange shall be made for cotton or other merchandise within any such State or section. All cotton or other merchandise purchased in any such State or section, to be paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or silver, or foreign bills of exchange, shall be forfeited to the United States. ited. Permits XXIII. Authorities to purchase products, unless renewed, and all Certificates of Local Special Agents recommending permits for transportation, shall expire thirty days after date. Limitation and for transportation shall expire ten days after date; and thorities, certifi- all authorities, certificates, and permits, will be liable to cates, and per- revocation by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the proper Supervising Special Agent, as the public in revocation of au mits. terests may require. Sutlers' permits, how obtained and upon what conditions. XXIV. Permits will be granted to Sutlers to transport to the regi ments sutlered by them such articles as they are authorized to sell, free of the five per cent. fee; but no permit will be granted to a Sutler except on presentation to the proper permit officer of the original certificate of his appointment from the commanding officer of his regiment, countersigned by the Division commander thereof, and an application and affidavit in the form prescribed. Transportation shall not be permitted to any Sutler for an amount of goods exceeding $2,500 per month; nor for over two months supply at one time; nor for any goods except such as he is by law and War Department orders allowed to deal in. XXV. Supplies and other property belonging to the United Supplies moving States for the use of the army or navy, moving under under military military or naval orders, are excepted from the operaorders or un tion of these Regulations. Supplies for the army or der contract. navy, furnished under contract, will be permitted free of charge, upon the certificate of the proper military or naval officer that such supplies are required and are to be shipped in fulfilment of an actual existing contract with the government. XXVI. In order to prevent, under the pretence of legitimate trade, the conveyance of supplies which there is reason to betricts, not de- lieve are ultimately intended for persons in rebellion clared in in against the government, or for places under the consurrection, to trol of insurgents, and to prevent undue accumulation which goods of goods at points in dangerous proximity to districts. must be permitted. under control of insurgents, transportation of any goods, Restricted dis wares, or merchandise, without the permit of a duly authorized officer of this Department, is prohibited to any place on the south side of the Potomac River, or to any place on the north side of the Potomac and south of the Washington and Annapolis railroad, or on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or on the south side of the Ohio River below Wheeling, except Louisville; or on the west side of the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Des Moines, except St. Louis. XXVII. Permits for shipment of goods into districts or places with which commercial intercourse is restricted, but which which goods have not been declared to be in insurrection, may be to restricted granted by Collectors or Surveyors of customs, or other districts may specially authorized officers of the Department located be permitted. near the point of destination, in conformity with Regu lations and local rules; and Collectors or Surveyors at any other port or place, when applied to by parties wishing to make shipments into such districts or places, if satisfied of the loyalty of such parties and the good faith of the proposed transaction, may furnish certificates to that effect, which will be received as sufficient evidence on those points by the Collector, Surveyor, or other proper officer near the point of destination, to whom application for permits will be made by the shipper, and by whom, on compliance with Regulations and Local Rules, such permits will be granted; and all questions of detention or seizure of goods en route to points above indicated will be decided by the Collector or Surveyor at the last port to be passed before entering a restricted district. Any information touching the character of any goods or transaction in the possession of any officer of this Department likely to be useful in such decisions should be promptly forwarded to the officer on whom rests the decision or who grants the permit, and also to the Secretary. other vehicle in, restricted XXVIII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation from any place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, No vessel or wares, or merchandise into any place, section, or State not declared in insurrection, but with which commercial shall carry goods into,or, intercourse has been or may be restricted, without the put off goods permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury De districts with partment, application for which permit may be made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the convenience of the shipper. Nor shall any vessel, boat, or other craft, or vehicle used for transportation, put off any goods, wares, or merchandise, at any place other than that named in the permit or clearance as the place of destination of such goods, wares, and merchandise. out permit. Boats on west ern waters XXIX. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or section commercial intercourse with which now is, or may hereafter be, restricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall must present manifest and clearance. be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo, and a clearance, obtained to proceed on its voyage; and when freights are received on board at a place where there is no Collector or Surveyor, as hereinafter provided in Regulation XXX, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an officer, if required by him, and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cargo exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there is such an officer, if required by him; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Immediately on arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging any part of the cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the Surveyor of such port, or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be discharged; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any Naval vessel or military post whenever such officer may require it. Agency Aids will be appointed on boats. cars and XXX. To facilitate trade, and guard against improper transportation, Agency Aids will be appointed by the proper Supervising Special Agent, or under his direction by an Assistant Special Agent, from time to time, on cars, vessels, and boats, when desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which Aids will have free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed, and will allow proper way freights to be taken on board without permit, keeping a statement thereof, and reporting the same to the first officer to be passed on the trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper under his direction. No permit will be granted for transportation into or within any State or district. under restriction, or declared in insurrection, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such Aids, or by private conveyance specified in the permit, or on boats, vessels, or cars bonded not to receive anything on board for transportation during the trip, nor to land or discharge anything at any point except that of ultimate destination. without proper permit. Conditions on XXXI. Boats and vessels may be cleared, and merchandise not prohibited may be permitted, from any port which has which clear- not been blockaded to any port which has been blockauces and per- aded but opened by proclamation, upon payment of such mits may be fees only as were chargeable therefor before the blockobtained from port not block ade was declared, but subject to Regulations XXXV. aded to port XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL, and opened upon giving bond not to land or discharge any of such proclamation. merchandise at any intermediate point, except under permit authorized by these Regulations. But no goods, wares, or by |