To Salmon P. Chase and Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
Washington, 5th May, 1864.
The Secretaries of the Treasury and of War, are hereby authorized and required, so far to relax the order pro[hi]biting the exportation of horses from the United States, as to allow the exportation of such horses, as have been bought for the personal use of the Emperor of the French and the Captain General of Cuba.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] DS, DNA FS RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. See Lincoln's order of September 4, 1863, supra.