place in the United
States shall be permitted to enter such port or place and to discharge
her cargo, and afterwards forthwith to depart without molestation; and
any such vessel, if met at sea by any United States ship, shall be
permitted to continue her voyage to any port not blockaded.

6. The right of search is to be exercised with strict regard for the
rights of neutrals, and the voyages of mail steamers are not to be
interfered with except on the clearest grounds of suspicion of a
violation of law in respect of contraband or blockade.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington on the 26th day of April, A.D. 1898, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-second.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 26: See p. 201.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas an act of Congress was approved on the 25th day of April,
1898,[27] entitled "An act declaring that war exists between the United
States of America and the Kingdom of Spain;" and

Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for
temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States
in time of war and for other purposes," approved April 22, 1898, the
President is authorized, in order to raise a volunteer army, to issue
his proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the Army of the
United States:

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and the laws, and
deeming sufficient occasion to exist, have thought fit to call forth,
and hereby do call forth, volunteers to the aggregate number of 75,000
in addition to the volunteers called forth by my proclamation of the 23d
of April, in the present year,[28] the same to be apportioned, as far as
practicable, among the several States and Territories and the District
of Columbia according to population and to serve for two years unless
sooner discharged. The proportion of each arm and the details of
enlistment and organization will be made known through the War
Department. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of May, A.D. 1898, and of
the Independenc