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[CITE: 50USC208]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 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.

(R.S. Sec. 5304.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5304 derived from acts July 13, 1861, ch. 3, Sec. 5, 12 
Stat. 257; July 2, 1864, ch. 225, Sec. 9, 13 Stat. 377.
