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surrendered, but are to be sent to these headquarters 

 for trial and punishment by martial law. 



The Major-General commanding the Department 

 will not hesitate to exercise to the fullest extent the 

 authority he possesses, under the rules of law, re- 

 cognized by all civilized States, in regard to persons 

 organizing" hostile expeditions within neutral terri- 

 tory, and fleeing to it for an asylum after committing 

 acts of depredation within our own, such an exercise 

 of authority having become indispensable to protect 

 our cities and towns from incendiarism, and our peo- 

 ple from robbery and murder. 



It is earnestly hoped that the inhabitants of our 

 frontier districts will abstain from all acts of retalia- 

 tion on account of the outrages committed by rebel 

 marauders, and that the proper measures of redress 

 will be left to the action of the public authorities. 

 By command of Maj.-Gen. DIX. 



D. T. TAX BCBEN-, Col. and A. A. G. 



This order was modified by the President, as 

 appears by the following : 



HEADQCAETERS DEPABTMECT or THE EAST. I 

 NEW YOEK CITY, Dec. 17, 1S64. ' ) 

 General Orders So. 100. 



The President of the United States having disap- 

 proved of that portion of Department General Order 

 S'o. 97, current series, which instructs all military 

 commanders on the frontier, in certain cases therein 

 specified, to cross the boundary line between the 

 United States and Canada, _and* directs pursuit into 

 neutral territory, the said instruction is hereby re- 

 voked. In case, therefore, of any future marauding 

 expedition into our territory from Canada, military 

 commanders on the frontieV will report, to these 

 headquarters for orders before crossing the boundary 

 line in pursuit of the guilty parties. 



By command of Maj.-Gen. DIX. 



D. T. YAX'BCEEX, Col. and A. A. G. 



On the same day the following order of the 

 President was issued, requiring all persons en- 

 tering the United States from the British prov- 

 inces to produce a passport : 



DEPABTMEXT OF STATE. WASUIKGTOX, Dec. 17. 1*>~4. 



The President directs that, except immigrant pas- 

 sengers directly entering an American port by sea, 

 henceforth no traveller shall be allowed to enter the 

 United States from a foreign country without a pass- 

 port. If a citizen, the passport must be from this 

 Department, or from some United States minister or 

 consul abroad ; and if an alien, from the competent 

 authority of his own country; the passport to be 

 countersigned by a diplomatic agent of the United 

 States. This regulation is intended to apply espe- 

 cially to persons proposing to come to the United 

 States from the neighboring British provinces. Its 

 observance will be strictly enforced by all officers, 

 civil, military, and naval, in the service "of the United 

 States, and the State and municipal authorities are 

 requested to aid in its execution. It is expected, 

 however, that no immigrant passenger, coming in 

 manner aforesaid, will be obstructed, or any other 

 persons who may set out on their way hither before 

 intelligence of this regulation could reasonably be 

 expected to reach the country from which the v "may 

 have started. WILLIAM H. SEWABD. 



This order was a cause of much embarrass- 

 ment to the passengers travelling from the Vest 

 over the Grand Trunk Railway to New York, 

 and very seriously diminished the number of 

 them. It also diminished the number of those 

 passing from Canada to the United States by 

 all the public routes. It was suspended as to 

 the Canadas in March ensuing. 



The instr actions of Her Majesty's govern- 

 ment to Lord Monck, the governor-general of 



Canada, directed him " to be guided by the de. 

 cision of the proper legal authorities in the 

 province, whether the persons in custody ought 

 or ought not to be delivered up under the- 

 Treaty of Extradition. If that decision shall 

 have been that they ought, Her Majesty's gov- 

 ernment would entirely approve Lord Monck's 

 acting on this decision. But if, on the contra- 

 ry, the decision shall have been that they ought 

 not, Her Majesty's government consider that 

 the opinion of Lord Monck's legal advisers 

 should be taken, whether, upon the evidence, 

 and other information in the possession of the 

 Canadian government, these persons may not 

 properly be put upon their trial on a charge of 

 misprision and violation of the Royal preroga- 

 tive, by levying war from Her Majesty's domin- 

 ions against a friendly power." 



The fugitives were recaptured, some on the 

 British side of the St. Lawrence, and some in 

 the State of New Hampshire. Those in the 

 custody of the Canadian authorities have been 

 again put on their trial. Evidence was pre- 

 sented showing that the leader, Young, was a 

 duly commissioned officer of the Confederate 

 army, his commission bearing the signature of 

 Jefferson Davis. 



On May llth, early in the morning, Don 

 Jose Augustin Arguelles an officer of the 

 Spanish army, who with his wife was sojourn- 

 ing in the city of New York, was seized by 

 authority of the President, and secretly con- 

 veyed to a steamer in that port bound for Ha- 

 vana, Cuba, and which immediately sailed for 

 the place of its destination. Some days elapsed 

 before the fact was known even to his wife, 

 who at that time learned that he had been 

 arrested and sent to Havana. Great interest 

 was taken in the case, and an official statement 

 was published, setting forth that Col. Arguelles 

 was formerly the Lieutenant-Governor of the 

 district of Colon, in the Island of Cuba, and 

 that he effected the capture of a large cargo of 

 African negroes illegally lan,ded within that 

 district on the 20th of November last. The 

 Captain General, it is said, was highly pleased 

 with his zeal, and paid him fifteen thousand 

 dollars for his share of the prize-money usually 

 allowed to captors of such expeditions. Argu- 

 elles subsequently obtained a leave of absence 

 of twenty days, upon his representation that 

 the object of his journey to New York was to 

 purchase the Spanish journal published in that 

 city called " La Cronica." 



It is represented by the Captain General that 

 after the departure of Arguelles from Cuba it 

 was discovered that he and other officers of the 

 district of Colon had retained and sold into 

 slavery one hundred and forty-one negroes 

 captured by them. Some of these negroes, it 

 is said, were sold at seven hundred dollars, and 

 others at seven hundred and fifty dollars each. 

 It is further represented that the Superior 

 Court of the island, having exclusive jurisdic- 

 tion over such causes, had taken cognizance of 

 this case, and required the presentation of Don 



