A P P E N D I X. No. 1. Sept. 24, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. Wnanmas, it has become necessary to call into service not only volunteers but also portions of the militia of the states by draft in order to suppress the insurrection existin in the United States, and disloyal persons are not adequately restrained {by the ordinary processes of law from hindering this measure and from giving aid and comfort in various ways to the insurrection : Rebels and Now, therefore, be it ordered, First.-That during the existing insurrection and ¢h9i¤‘_¤b<=¤<>¤‘S as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their ‘g.’ll;§1t§€awS to aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volmnéubjgct to untecr enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, martial mW_ affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law and liable `to trial and punishment by courtsmartial or military commissions: Habeas corpus Second. —— That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respect to all per- S¤SP<i¤d€d as to sons arrested, or who are now, or hereafter during the rebellion shall be, im- “"“” P°“°“S‘ prisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, military prison, or other place of confinement by any military authority or by the sentence of any court-martial cr military commission. 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 twenty-fourth day of September, [L. S.] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAMZ LINCOLN. By the President: _ WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. No. 2. April 2, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. WHEREAS, in pursuance of the act of congress, approved July 18, 1861, I did, by Proclamation dated August 16, 1861, declare that the inhabitants of the 1861, ch. 3. States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala- Vvl- xii- p- 257· bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, (except the inhabi-
