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 3d. 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 7th. Section of the Act of Congress of the 3d 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.
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Done at the City of Washington, this Tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.