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The Adjutant-General will issue immediately the
necessary instructions to carry this order into effect.
By order of the President of the United States:
EDWIN M. STANTON,
_Secretary of War_.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
_Washington, D.C., May 31, 1865_.
To-morrow, the 1st of June, being the day appointed for special
humiliation and prayer in consequence of the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln, late President of the United States, the Executive Office and
the various Departments will be closed during the day.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
_President of the United States_.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 107.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
_Washington, June 2, 1865_.
_Ordered_, That all military restrictions upon trade in any of the
States or Territories of the United States, except in articles
contraband of war--to wit, arms, ammunition, gray cloth, and all
articles from which ammunition is manufactured; locomotives, cars,
railroad iron, and machinery for operating railroads; telegraph wires,
insulators, and instruments for operating telegraphic lines--shall cease
from and after the present date.


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