50 U.S.C. § 208 — Licensing or permitting commercial intercourse with State or region in insurrection

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This law lets the President license trade with a state or region declared to be in insurrection, but only to supply loyal residents' needs or let them sell goods they produced themselves. Goods can only move in and out through places and amounts the military and Treasury have agreed to in writing.

This section is one continuous provision. The President can, at his discretion, license and permit trade with part of a state or region declared to be in insurrection. This is allowed only as far as needed to supply the necessities of loyal residents living within the lines actually occupied by U.S. military forces, as marked by the local commanding general's published order. It also lets people living within those lines bring or send to market, in the loyal states, products they made with their own labor or with the labor of freedmen or others they employed and paid, following the rules set up for this. No goods can be taken into, or moved within, a state declared in insurrection except to and from places, and up to monthly amounts, that the department's commanding general and an officer designated by the Secretary of the Treasury have agreed to in writing beforehand. This trade is limited to whatever articles, time period, and people the President, at his discretion, thinks best serve the public interest, and, wherever the President licenses it, it must follow the rules the Secretary of the Treasury sets.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

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.

Source credit: (R.S. § 5304.)

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