COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 1863. The first, second, and third of the Reg- the following general circular to the agent at The territory of the United States designated as in insurrection against the lawful Government of the United States by the Proclamation of the President, July 1st, 1862, to which special agents have been as signed to receive and collect abandoned and captured property, is divided into districts called Special Agencies, numerically designated and described as follows, viz.: The First Special Agency comprises the district of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains, known as the Valley of the Mississippi, and extending southward so as to include so much of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as is, or may be occupied by national forces operating from the North. The Second Special Agency comprises the State of Virginia, and so much of West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany mountains. The Third Special Agency comprises the State of North Carolina. The Fourth Special Agency comprises the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The Fifth Special Agency comprises the States of Texas and Louisiana, and so much of the States of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, as is, or may be within the lines of the national forces operating from the South. If additional Special Agencies shall be established, they will be numerically designated in the order of their establishment. And if the boundaries of agencies already established shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. Supervising Special Agents and Assistant Special Agents will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and Local Special Agents and Agency Aids will be appointed by Supervising Special Agents, or under their direction by Assistant Special Agents, subject to the approval of the Secretary, to carry into effect the said Act and these Regulations. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents are authorized and directed to receive and collect all abandoned and captured property found within their respective Agencies, and within the lines of military occupation by the United States forces, except such as has been used or was intended to be used for waging or carrying on war against the United States, viz.: arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats or other water craft and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and munitions of war. The Regulations required the special agents to collect and receive property, and make and keep a true record and account of expenses; to receive voluntarily abandoned property, give receipts, and take stipulations; to collect and receive from officers and privates, sailors and marines, abandoned property, and give receipts; captured property in the hands of officers or others was to be turned over and receipts given; property required for public uses was to be appraised and delivered over; perishable property was to be sold; household furniture and family effects to be stored; agents might contract with others for the collection and delivery of property; a bond was to be given by the contractor to indemnify the Govaids ernment; local special agents and agency were to be appointed; necessary expenses were to be paid; property to be transported to loyal States and sold, except household effects, perishable property, and that taken for public use. On the 3d of July, the Secretary addressed TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 3d, 1803. SIR: I have received your letter of the 5th of June, from Memphis, and also those of previous dates from Cincinnati, relative to the collection of abandoned and captured property within the States heretofore declared to be in insurrection. In reply, I think it important to direct your attention, in the first place, to the general distinctions under which all property, subject to the disposition of national officers within the district under your supervision, may be arranged. There may be said to be four classes of such property, viz.: abandoned, captured, commercial, and confiscable. First; Abandoned property is of two descriptions, (1st), that which has been deserted by the owners; and (2d), that which has been voluntarily abandoned by them to the civil or military authorities of the United States. Such property is to be collected or received by the special agents of this department, and sold under the authority of the Act of March 12th, 1863; and the proceeds, after deducting the expenses of transportation and sale, and other expenses attending the collection and disposition thereof, are to be deposited in the Treasury, subject to award by the Court of Claims. Before this Court, claimants to such property, or the proceeds thereof, have the right, under the Act, to prefer their claims at any time after the sale, and before the expiration of two years from the close of the war. No guaranty can be given to owners of abandoned property in respect to the time when, or the persons to whom proceeds will be paid. Second; Captured property is understood to be that which has been seized or taken from hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United States, and is to be turned over, with certain exceptions named, to the Special Agent of this Department, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 12th, 1863. All property taken possession of by military or naval forces and turned over to Special Agents, must be regarded as prima facie captured property. Such prop erty you will receive and direct to be sold, and will cause the proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury, subject to the future award of the Court of Claims. Captured property which is held as lawful prize by the navy is not to be turned over to the Department Agents, nor to be in any way controlled by them. Third; Commercial property is that which has been or may be sold and purchased under the license of the President, through permits granted by the officers of the Treasury Department. Fourth; Confiscable property is that which belongs to certain classes of persons, as recited in the Confiscation Act of July 17th, 1862, and is liable to seizure and condemnation by judicial proceedings in the manner prescribed by that act. Great care must be exercised in properly classifying all property, that the provisions of the law applicable remembered that with the property included in the to each class may be complied with; and it must be fourth class, unless found deserted and abandoned, the Agents of the Treasury Department have no authority to interfere. The execution of the Confiscation Act is confided by its express terms to the President, by whom the Attorney-General has been charged with the direction of all seizures and proceedings under it. It must be remembered, also, that all property coming from insurrectionary districts into loyal States, or in reversed direction, or being transported within or to insurrectionary districts, in contravention of law or Departmental Regulations, is forfeited or forfeitable; and that it is the duty of the Agents of the Department, as well as of other proper officers, to enforce the forfeitures thus incurred; but property thus forfeited or forfeitable must not be confounded with confiscated or confiscable property, which is to be proceeded against and disposed of under the Act of July 17th, 1862, or with prize-money captured by the navy, and sub ject to disposition under the direction of Prize Commissioners and Courts. In respect to property embraced in the first class, namely, abandoned property, it is to be observed that no agent is authorized to make any other assurance than that property, voluntarily abandoned, shall be faithfully disposed of, under the law, so as to secure, as far as practicable in the existing condition of the country, the rights of owners. No authority is given, or intended to be given, to agents to make any promises of special immunities or advantages not specified in the law. In respect to both descriptions of abandoned property, whether found deserted or voluntarily abandoned, the law authorizes the payment of such expenses as must necessarily be incurred in its collection, or receipt and disposition. You will, therefore, pay all such expenses, including fees, taxes, freights, storage, charges, labor, and other necessary expenses, out of the general fund arising therefrom; being careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet expenditures, and to charge each particular lot or parcel, with the amount of expense pertaining to it, and, unless unavoidably prevented, to take vouchers therefor, to be filled with the account of sales in this Department. Where property is liable to be lost or destroyed, in consequence of its location being unknown to the Special Agent, or from other causes, and parties propose, for compensation, to collect and deliver it into the hands of the Agents of this Department, at points to be designated by them, you may contract for the collection and delivery thereof, on the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty-five per cent. of the proceeds of the property; which percentage must be full compensation for all expenses of whatever character incurred in collecting, preparing, and delivering such property at the points indicated. Prior to any contract being entered into, each party proposing must submit, in writing, a statement, as near as may be, giving the kind and amount of property proposed to be collected; the location whence to be obtained; and all the facts and circumstances connected with it, particularly as to its ownership: and any contract made in pursuance of this authority will be restricted, either to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named localities, which is preferred, or when circumstances clearly justify, to the general collection and delivery of all abandoned property in limited districts, not greater in any case than one parish or county, and not more than one district to be assigned to one contractor. Before payment to any contractor for services in fulfilment of any contracts made in pursuance of this authority, a bond equal to the amount stipulated to be paid must be given by him, indemnifying the United States against all claims to the property delivered, on account of damages by trespass or otherwise, occasioned by the act of connivance of the contractor, and against all claims that may arise on account of expenses incurred in the collection, preparation, and transportation of said property to the points designated in said contract. Should cases arise justifying, in your opinion, the allowance of a larger percentage than that_herein authorized, you will refer such cases to this Department, accompanied by a statement of the facts and circumstances connected therewith, together with such views and opinions of your own as you may think proper to submit for my consideration. If property of a perishable nature is found abandoned, and its immediate sale is required by the interest of all concerned, it may be disposed of as provided for by regulations. You will aim to mitigate as far as possible, and will in no case do anything avoidable to augment the calamities of war. In relation to the captured property, you will observe the same directions, as far as they may be applicable, as to its receipt and subsequent disposition, as are prescribed in relation to abandoned property. In relation both to captured and abandoned prop perty, you will remember that no release must be granted to persons claiming ownership of property which has come into the possession of the Agents of the Department as abandoned, captured, or forfeited; nor must any permits be granted to individuals to remove such property; nor inust personal favors, in any case, be extended to one individual or party rather than to another; nor must any liabilities be assumed or contracts made on the part of the United States not clearly warranted by law and the Departmental Regu lations made in pursuance to law. In case furniture, or other movable property of like character, is abandoned or captured, you will cause it to be retained and left on the premises where fourd whenever it can be done with safety; otherwise, if practicable, and not attended with too great cost, you will have it safely stored and properly marked and numbered, and will report the facts to this Department and await further directions. Your principal embarrassment will doubtless arise from questions relating to property of the third class, or commercial property. The general purposes which, under the acts charging me with the regulation of the restricted commercial intercourse permitted by the President, I have kept steadily in view, have already been sufficiently explained in general regulations and in letters. They may be briefly stated thus: (1) To allow within districts in insurrectionary States, when the authority of the Government is so completely reestablished, in your judgment, sanctioned by that of the commanding general, as to warrant it, and between such districts and loyal States the freest commercial intercourse compatible with prevention of supplies to persons within rebel lines. (2) To allow beyond such districts, but within the lines of our military occupation such intercourse sanctioned by the commanding general, as may be required to supply the inhabitants with neces saries, but to allow no other until the complete reestablishment of the national authority shall warrant it; and (3) To allow no intercourse at all beyond the national and within the rebel lines of military occupa tion; across these lines there can be no intercourse except that of a character exclusively military. The limits of the districts within which the most general trade may be allowed must necessarily be prescribed by you, after full conference with the commanding Generals of Departments, whenever such confer ence is practicable, and these should be so clearly and distinctly marked by known geographical boundaries, or by the enumeration of counties, as to leave no uncertainty as to their course or comprehension. The limits of the regions within which necessaries may be supplied cannot be so clearly defined, but must be ascertained as well as possible from the commanding generals, and the power to permit any supplies withia them must be exercised with great caution. There does not seem to me to be so much danger in intercourse which does not involve the furnishing of supplies. If, for example, any person desires to bring cotton, tobacco, sugar, turpentine, or other property, already purchased, or to be purchased for money only, from any place within the lines of our military occupation, I can see no objection to his being permitted to do so, subject to the fees and obligations specified in the General Regulations, on his giving a bond in a sufficient sum, and with sufficient sureties, conditioned that no military, naval, or civil officers or persons, prohibited by law, or by orders of the President, or of the Secretaries of War or Navy, or of military or naval commanders having proper authority, from being 0terested in such property, whether purchased or to be purchased, shall be so interested therein. Intercourse such as this might, it seems to me, be safely permitted, almost, if not quite, coextensively with our lines of military occupation. Should this view meet the approval of the generals commanding Departments within your Agency, the question of intercourse within the doubtful region between what may be called the commercial and the military line would be reduced to a question of money. the quantity of supplies allowed to be furnished for It is impossible at once to arrive at the best possible ways of accomplishing the great objects which Congress had in view in the several acts relating to commercial intercourse; but if these objects themselves be kept steadily in view, namely, (1st) non intercourse between loyal States or districts, and States or districts controlled by insurgents; and (2d) modified intercourse between the loyal States or districts, and States or districts partially regained to the Union, the best modes of accomplishing them will gradually disclose themselves. You will diligently observe the course of events, and hear attentively all suggestions made by respectable, and loyal citizens, and report to me whatever may seem to you proper for consideration in establishing or modifying the Regulations of the Department. Nothing occurs to me as needing to be now added, except that hereafter the Supervising Special Agents may establish, in conjunction with, or obedience to, the Generals commanding Departments, lines within which trade, more or less limited, may be carried on without awaiting my sanction, taking care, however, to give as general notice as practicable, through the press and otherwise, of the establishment or modification of such lines. All action under this authority must be immediately and specifically reported to the Department. With great respect, S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. The following letter from Gen. Grant was written in relation to the above instructions of the Secretary: HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, VICKSBURG, Miss., July 21st, 1803. In. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: SIR: Your letter of the 4th instant to me, enclosing copy of a letter of same date to Mr. Mellen, special agent of the Treasury, is just received. My Assistant Adjutant-General, by whom I shall send this letter, is about starting for Washington; hence I shall be very short in my reply. My experience in West Tennessee has convinced me that any trade whatever with the rebellious States is weakening to us at least thirty-three per cent. of our force. No matter what the restrictions thrown around trade, if any whatever is allowed it will be made the means of supplying to the enemy what they want. Restrictions, if lived up to, make trade unprofitable, and hence none but dishonest men go into it. I will venture to say that no honest man has made money in West Tennessee in the last year, while many fortunes have been made there during the time. The people in the Mississippi Valley are now nearly subjugated. Keep trade out for a few months, and I doubt not but that the work of subjugation will be so complete, that trade can be opened freely with the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; that the people of these States will be more anxious for the enforcement and protection of our laws than the people of the loyal States. They have experienced the misfortane of being without them, and are now in a most happy condition to appreciate their blessings. No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me; but my position has given me an opportunity of seeing what would not be known by persons away from the scene of war, and I venture, therefore, to suggest great caution in opening trade with rebels. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT, Maj.-Gen. On the 11th of September, the Secretary of the Treasury issued Revised Regulations for the government of the limited commercial intercourse, licensed by the President, with the inhabitants of States and parts of States declared to be in insurrection. The Revised Regula tions were as follows: The same districts and doned property. Supervising special agents agents were appointed as for collecting abanwere to make local rules, to be carried out by assistant special agents, local and special agents, and agency aids. Permits, certificates, and clearances were required for the transportation of all goods to or from insurrectionary States; collectors and surveyors could grant permits; all intercourse beyond the line of military occupation was prohibited; no clearance or permit allowed to blockaded ports; supervising special agents were authorized to designate the trade districts, also supply districts, without the limits of trade districts, on the approval of the commanding general, the manner of making applications for the permits prescribed; provisions for the establishment of trade stores in trade districts; authorized traders forbidden to wholesale, except at Memphis and Nashville; supplies for families permitted on evidence of their necessity, not exceeding one month; supplies might be purchased by all loyal persons; every person applying for permits to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise, was required to 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 Department 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." No payment can be made in gold, bullion, or foreign bills. Permits and certificates were to be renewed every thirty days; every vessel or vehicle must have a permit, and boats on Western waters a manifest and clearance; agency assistants were to be appointed on cars and boats. The following fees were prescribed: Fees for administering eath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. Fees for each authority from agent.. 3 dolls. Fees for certificate of Local Special Agent........ 10 cents. Fees for each permit for purposes of trade.. 20 cents. Fees for each permit to purchase cotton in any insurrectionary district, and to transport the same to any loyal State, per pound.. Fees for permit so to purchase and transport tobacco, per bhd.. Fees for permit so to purchase or sell and transport to or from such district other products, goods, wares, or merchandise, five per centum on the sworn invoice value thereof at the place of ship ment. 4 cents. 2 dolls. is allowed in States declared in insurrection. When purchases are less than five dollars, the permit officer may dispense with affidavits and certificates when no ground to suspect fraud or imposition appears. The internal revenue stamps required were for affidavits, five cts., certificates, eight cts., bonds, twenty-five cts. Other regulations related to details which are unimportant. Under these general regulations, there were prescribed special rules for the First, Second, &c., Special Agency districts. The First Special Agency district comprised the valley of the Mississippi. On the 23d of December, the following rules were adopted for this dis trict: RULE I. The First Agency is divided into Districts designated and described as follows: The Wheeling District comprises that part of the Agency embraced in the State of West Virginia, excepting the counties upon and south of the Kanawha river. The Lexington District comprises that part of the State of Kentucky south of the restricted line, as hereinafter indicated in Rule VII., and east of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, excepting the counties of Pike, Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Carter, and Boyd. The Louisville District comprises that part of the First Agency north of the State of Tennessee, east of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which is not embraced in the Wheeling and Lexington Districts, as above described. The Cairo District comprises that part of the Agency west of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, north of the State of Tennessee, and east of the Mississippi river. The St. Louis District comprises that part of the Agency west of the Mississippi river, and north of the south line of the State of Missouri, except the counties embraced in the Springfield District, as hereinafter described. The Springfield District comprises the counties of Vernon, Cedar, Polk, Dallas, Laclede, Wright, Webster, Green, Dade, Barton, Jasper, Lawrence, Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Maney, Stone, Barry, Newton, McDonald, in the State of Missouri, and that part of the State of Arkansas north of the White river and west of the Big Black river. The Helena District comprises the counties of Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Chicot, and Ashley, in the State of Arkansas, and also those counties in the said State upon and east of the Big Black river, and upon and east of the White river, from its junction with the Big Black to its mouth, except the counties of Crittenden and Mississippi. Also the counties of Tunica, Bolivar, Washington, and Coahoma, in the State of Mississippi. The Little Rock District comprises that part of the State of Arkansas not included in the Helena and Springfield Districts, as above described. The Knoxville District comprises that part of the State of Tennessee known as East Tennessee. The Nashville District comprises that part of the State of Tennessee west of the Knoxville District, and east of the Tennessee river, and so much of Alabama as lies north of the Tennessee river. The Memphis District comprises that part of the State of Tennessee west of the Tennessee river, the north tier of counties in the State of Mississippi, and Mississippi and Crittenden counties in the State of Arkansas. The Vicksburg District comprises so much of the State of Mississippi as lies north of the mouth of the Big Black river, and is not embraced in the Memphis and Helena Districts, as above described; and so much of the State of Louisiana as lies north of the mouth of the Big Black river, and east of the Washita. The Natchez District comprises the territory within the lines of the army operating from the north, which lies south of the Districts above designated. II. An Assistant Special Agent for each District above named will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, whose duties, under the Regulations, will be prescribed by the letter of appointment, or as may be therein directed. appointed by the Assistant Special Agents for their reIII. Local Special Agents and Agency Aids will be spective Districts, but in all cases these appointments must be forthwith reported to the office of the Supervising Special Agent for approval, stating the date location of each. Compensation will in no case be alwhen service commenced, rate of compensation, and lowed for service performed more than twenty days before notice of the appointment is received at the of fice of the Supervising Special Agent. IV. All reports required to be made by Local Special Agents, under the Regulations, must be made as therein required, on or before the third day of every month, and Assistant Special Agents will remove any Local Agent failing in this. V. Any Surveyor failing to make the reports required by the Regulations at the time specified therein, will be promptly reported to the office of the Supervising Special Agent, by the Assistant Special Agent of the District, that his default may be at once brought to the attention of the Secretary. VI. All reports required under the Regulations from Assistant and Special Agents must be made and forwarded to the office of the Supervising Special Agent, before the tenth day of each month. Any failure to do this will be reported to the Secretary. VII. In order to prevent, under pretence of legiti mate trade, the conveyance of supplies which are intended for persons in rebellion against the Gove ment, or for places under the control of insurgents, and also to prevent undue accumulation of goods at points in dangerous proximity to districts under the control of insurgents, it is found necessary to restrict, temporarily, the trade with certain parts of States not declared in insurrection, from which the insurgents could be otherwise conveniently supplied; therefore, no merchandise designed for sale will be permitted to go to any place in the State of West Virginia, on or south of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, between Oakland and Grafton, nor to either of those places, nor to any place on or south of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, between Grafton and Parkersburg, nor to either of those places, nor to any place on the south side of the Ohio river, between Parkersburg and the mouth of the Big Sandy; nor to any place in the State of Kentucky, upon or south of a line drawn from the Big Sandy to Bowling Green, thence to the northeast corner of Logan county, thence along the northern boundary of Logan, Todd, Christian, and Trigg counties, to the Cumberland river, thence down that river to its mouth, including all that part of Kentucky west of said river; nor to any place in the State of Missouri, on or south of the Missouri river, except the counties. of St. Louis, Jefferson, St. Genevieve, Perry, and Franklin; except upon and in pursuance of the certifi cate of the proper Local Special Agent, and the letter of appointment and instructions to such Agent will in all cases indicate the amount of merchandise he will be allowed to recommend for his district. VIII. The only officers authorized to permit the transportation of merchandise into such restricted districts, or to any insurrectionary State within the first Special Agency, are the Surveyors at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, Ev ansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, St. Louis, Nashville, and Memphis. IX. Family supplies may be permitted to go into restricted districts in loyal States, by either of the above named officers in their discretion, or by the Local State Agent most convenient to the residence of the family requiring them. X. The transportation of merchandise into such restricted districts for sale, will only be permitted upon the certificate of the Local Special Agent into whose district it is desired to transport the merchandise. XI. No trade, either in buying or selling, will be authorized in any State declared in insurrection, except within lines hereinafter designated, under Regulation IX. XII. No sale of merchandise therein can be made except by traders authorized under the Regulations to establish trade stores. XIII. Trade stores will not be established at any place within a State declared in insurrection, until it shall be agreed by the military commander of the department, or of the army corps district in which such place is situated, after conference between him and the Supervising Special Agent, or such Assistant Special Agent as shall be designated by him for that purpose, that the same may be done, XIV. After a place has been so agreed upon, if it is a military post, no supplies shall be allowed to go therefrom except upon the permit of the proper Local Special Agent, countersigned by the commander of the post, or some person authorized by him for that pur pose. XV. The monthly amount of goods that may be permitted to any trading post, shall be agreed upon between the proper Assistant Special Agent and the commanding officer of the army corps district in which such trading post is situated. The maximum amount that may be authorized to any individual or firm shall also be agreed upon, and this shall not exceed $3,000 per month, unless the commanding officer for military reasons desires it to be larger, and if such reasons exist, all persons trading there shall be equally affected thereby. If the monthly amount allowed to any trade store is not all taken up by the trader during the month, he may be allowed all deficiencies upon any future application during the continuance of his authority. XVI. Persons living within the lines of national military occupation, must obtain permits for the purchase of supplies at such trade stores, on application to the nearest Local Special Agent, with a memorandum in duplicate of the supplies desired, and on making and filing with him the affidavit prescribed in Regulation XVI. The Local Special Agent will, on receiving such application and affidavit, in case no fraud appear, attach one memorandum of the supplies to the application and affidavit, and file the same; and will attach the other memorandum, countersigned by him, to a permit, and deliver it to the applicant, charging and receiving the following fees therefor: If the sum is under $5, he will dispense with Affidavit and Certificate, and only charge for Per mit.. If the sum is over $5, and not over $20, he will charge for Permit, 5 cents; Revenue Stamp on affidavit, 5 cents. If the sum is over $20, and not over $50, Permit 5 cents, Affidavit 10 cents, Revenue Stamp on Affidavit 5 cents... sum is over $30, and not over $100, Permit 10 cents, Affidavit 10 cents, Revenue Stamp on Affidavit 5 cents... 5 cents. 10 cents. 20 cents. 25 cents. If the sum is over $100, Permit 15 cents, Affidavit 10 cents, Revenue Stamp on Affidavit 5 cents. 30 cents. XVII. Persons desiring to obtain supplies elsewhere than at the nearest trade store, will make and file the same application and affidavit with the nearest Local Special Agent, and obtain from him a certificate and recommendation directed to the Permit Officer nearest the place of proposed purchase of supplies; and the Local Special Agent will grant such certificate and recommendation, and charge therefor as follows: If the sum is not over $20, for the Revenue Stamp on Affidavit 5 cents, do, on Certificate 5 cents. and the officer granting Permit will charge 5 cents.... 15 cents. If the sum is over $20, and not over $50, for Affidavit 10 cents, Certificate 10 cents, Revenue Stamp on Certificate 15 cents, on Affidavit 5 cents, and the officer granting Permit 5 cents. 45 cents. XVIII. In order to equalize assessments on all goods transported to States and parts of States declared in insurrection, persons obtaining permits to purchase family or plantation supplies in States so declared, in addition to the fees prescribed will be required to pay five per cent. on the sworn invoice value of such family and plantation supplies. XIX. Trade stores will be authorized only by the Assistant Special Agent of the District in which they are to be established, or upon his recommendation by any other Assistant Special Agent in the First Agency, or by the Supervising Special Agent. XX. No purchase of products of States declared in insurrection within the First Agency can be made therein, except under the authority to the purchaser provided for in the Regulations. XXI. Every authority for the purchase of products shall distinctly designate the place at which or the limits of the district within which such purchase may be made, and no authority shall be issued to parties beyond the limits and boundaries designated in Rule XXIV. XXII. Authority to purchase the products of that portion of States declared in insurrection within the First Agency, and within the boundaries named in Rule XXIV., will be given by any Assistant Special Agent therein, or at the office of the Supervising Special Agent. XXIII. After the designation of boundaries under Regulation IX., boats without supplies on board may be cleared by the Surveyor nearest the destination thereof, to anywhere therein, with persons on board authorized to purchase products within the District to which they are cleared, provided that the clearance of each boat for such purpose shall state definitely where it is permitted to go, and shall be countersigned with the approval of the military officer in command at the place of clearance nearest to its destination. Boats with supplies on board can only be cleared for named places until after the supplies are discharged; after such discharge they may proceed as other boats, under the original clearance, but all such clearances shall also be approved by the commanding officer at the place of clearance. All clearances must state by whom the boat is chartered, if chartered, or for whom it is to transport products to market. XXIV. The limits and boundaries of the Trade Districts in the First Agency after conference with the Generals commanding the Departments therein, are hereby designated as follows, as provided in Regulation IX. The plantations on both sides of the Mississippi throughout the Agency; the counties upon and north of the Tennessee river in the State of Alabama; the counties of Warren, Issequena, Yazoo, Washington, Sunflower, Bolivar, Coahoma, Tunica, De Soto, Marshall, Tippah and Tishamingo, in Mississippi; the parishes of Tensas, Madison, and Carroll, in Louisiana; so much of the State of Arkansas as lies upon the north of the Arkansas river; all that part of the State of Tennessee lying west of the Tennessee river; and so much of the counties of Stewart and Montgomery as lies north of the Cumberland river; so much of the county of Cheatham as lies north of the Harpeth river; Robertson, Davidson, and so much of the Williamson and Maury as lies north of the Harpeth river and east of Hillsboro Pike, north of Duck river and east of the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad; Bedford, Rutherford, Sumner, Macon, Warren, Coffee; so much of Franklin as lies east of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad; Marion, Grundy; so much of Marshall as lies |