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APPENDIX. 771 to confiscation, and enforce the administration of justice within said state in all matters within the cognizance and jurisdiction of the federal courts. Sixth. That the Secretary of the Navy take possession of all public property belonging to the Navy Department within said geographical limits, and put in operation all acts of congress in relation to naval affairs havinv application to the said state. ° Seventh. That the Secretary of the Interior put in force the laws relating to the Interior Department applicable to the geographical limits aforesaid. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of June, in the year of [L. s.] our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: W1LL1AM H. Snwnan, Secretary of State. No. 47. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: July 13, 1865. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the Pfwmble United States declares that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion and domestic violence; and whereas the President of the United States is, by the constitution, made commander-in-chief of the army and navy, as well as chief civil executive officer of the United States, and is bound by solemn oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed ; and whereas the rebellion, which has been waged by a portion of the people of the United States against the properly constituted authorities of the government thereof, in the most violent and revolting form, but whose organized and armed forces have now been al~ most entirely overcome, has, in its revolutionary progress, deprived the people of the State of Florida of all civil government; and whereas it becomes necessary and proper to carry out and enforce the obligations of the United States to the people of Florida, in securing them in the enjoyment of a republican form of government: Now, therefore, in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed upon me by the Constitution of the United States, and for the purpose of enabling the loyal peo le of said state to organize a state' government, whereby justice may be established, domestic tranquillity insured, and loyal citizens protected in all their rights of life, liberty, and property, I, Aunnnw Jonusou, President of the United States, and commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William Marvin provisional governor of the State of Provisional Florida, whose duty it shall be, at the earliest practicable period, to prescribe €°Y€¥¤°; ¤P· Such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for convening a con- E.';;';;?; °" vention, composed of delegates to be chosen by that portion of the people of said His duty and state who are loyal to the United States, and no others, for the purpose of alter authority. ing or amending the constitution thereof; and with authority to exercise, within the limits of said state, all the powers necessary and proper to enable such loyal people of the State of Florida to restore said state to its constitutional relations to the federal overnment, and to present such a republican form of state government as wi§ entitle the state to the guarantee of the United States therefor, and its eople to protection by the United States against invasion, in- · i surrection, and domestic violence; Provided that, in any election that may be Quuiwatwusf hereafter held for choosing delegates to any state convention as aforesaid, no ;?;e°;:§;‘;;S6f?;‘l;° person shall be qualined as an elector, or shall be eligible as a·member of such c0m,&mi0n_ convention, unless he shall have previously taken and subscribed the oath of BHIDGSGY, as set forth in the President’s Proclamation of May 29, A. D. 1865, and is a voter qualiiied as prescribed by the constitution and laws of the State Of Florida in force immediately before the 10th day of January, D. 1861, the date of the so-called ordinance of secession ; and the said convention, when con-