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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 208. Licensing or permitting commercial intercourse with State or region in insurrection
The President may, in his discretion, license and permit
commercial intercourse with any part of such State or section, the
inhabitants of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, so
far as may be necessary to authorize supplying the necessities of
loyal persons residing in insurrectionary States, within the lines
of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States,
as indicated by published order of the commanding general of the
department or district so occupied; and, also, so far as may be
necessary to authorize persons residing within such lines to bring
or send to market in the loyal States any products which they shall
have produced with their own labor or the labor of freedmen, or
others employed and paid by them, pursuant to rules relating
thereto, which may be established under proper authority. And no
goods, wares, or merchandise shall be taken into a State declared
in insurrection, or transported therein, except to and from such
places and to such monthly amounts as shall have been previously
agreed upon, in writing, by the commanding general of the
department in which such places are situated, and an officer
designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose. Such
commercial intercourse shall be in such articles and for such time
and by such persons as the President, in his discretion, may think
most conducive to the public interest; and, so far as by him
licensed, shall be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of
rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
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