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COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 



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 re- 

 lated to details which are unimportant. 



Under these general regulations, there were 

 prescribed special rules for the First, Second, 

 &c., Special Agency districts. The First Spe- 

 cial Agency district comprised the valley of 

 the Mississippi. On the 23d of December, 

 the following rules were adopted for this dis- 

 trict : 



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, ex- 

 cepting 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 here- 

 inafter indicated in Rule VII., and east of the Louis- 

 ville 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 em- 

 braced in the Wheeling and Lexington Districts, as 

 above describe_d. 



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 fine 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, Web- 

 ster, Green, Dade, Barton, Jasper, Lawrence, Chris- 

 tian, 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 Ar- 

 kansas, 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, Boli- 

 var, Washington, and Coahoma, in the State of Missis- 

 sippi. 



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 

 Biz Black river, and is not embraced in the Memphis 

 ana 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 lor 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. 



III. Local Special Agents and Agency Aids will be 

 appointed by the Assistant Special Agents for their re- 

 spective Districts, but in all cases these appointments 

 must be forthwith reported to the office of the Super- 

 vising Special Agent for approval, stating the date 

 when service commenced, rate of compensation, and 

 location of each. Compensation will in no case be al- 

 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 Spe- 

 cial 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 re- 

 quired by the Regulations at the time specified there- 

 in, will be promptly reported to the office of the Super- 

 vising 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 for- 

 warded to fte 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 in- 

 tended for persons in rebellion against the Govern- 

 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 coun- 

 ties, 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 dis- 

 tricts, or to any insurrectionary State within the first 

 Special Agency, are the Surveyors at Pittsburg, Wheel- 

 ing, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, Ev- 

 ansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, St Louis, Nashville, 

 and Memphis. 



IX. Family supplies may be permitted to go into re- 

 stricted 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 



