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nce have made it no longer necessary to continue the prohibition of the departure for her destination of the gunboat _Fusyama_, built at New York for the Japanese Government, it is consequently ordered that that prohibition be removed. The Secretary of the Treasury will therefore cause a clearance to be issued to the _Fusyama_, and the Secretary of the Navy will not allow any obstacle thereto. ANDREW JOHNSON. [From the Daily National Intelligencer, June 13, 1865.] CIRCULAR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S OFFICE, _Washington, June 7, 1865_. By direction of the President, all persons belonging to the excepted classes enumerated in the President's amnesty proclamation of May 29, 1865, who may make special applications to the President for pardon are hereby notified that before their respective applications will be considered it must be shown that they have respectively taken and subscribed the oath (or affirmation) in said proclamation prescribed. Every such person desiring a special pardon should make personal application in writing therefor, and should transmit with such application the original oath (or affirmation) as taken and subscribed before an officer authorized under the rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of State to administer the amnesty oath prescribed in the said proclamation of the President. JAMES SPEED, _Attorney-General_. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, _Washington, D.C., June 9, 1865_. It is represented to me in a communication from the Secretary of the Interior that Indians in New Mexico have been seized and reduced into slavery, and it is recommended that the authority of the executive branch of the Government should be exercised for the effectual suppression of a practice which is alike in violation of the rights of the Indians and of the provisions of the organic law of the said Territory. Concurring in this recommendation, I do hereby order that the heads of the several Executive Departments do enjoin upon the subordinates, agents, and employees under their respective orders or supervision in that Territory to discountenance the practice aforesaid and to take all lawful means to suppress the same. ANDREW JOHNSON. GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL ORDERS, No. 356. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, _Washington, July 5, 1865_. I. Before a military commission which convened at Washington, D.C., May 9, 1865, pursuant to paragraph 4 of Special Orders, No. 211,
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