Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 7th day of May, A.D. 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
STATE DEPARTMENT, June 20, 1861.
The LIEUTENANT-GENERAL COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES:
You or any officer you may designate will, in your discretion, suspend the writ of habeas corpus so far as may relate to Major Chase, lately of the Engineer Corps of the Army of the United States, now alleged to be guilty of treasonable practices against this Government.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
The COMMANDING GENERAL, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES:
You are engaged in suppressing an insurrection against the laws of the United States. If at any point on or in the vicinity of any military line which is now or which shall be used between the city of New York and the city of Washington you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus for the public safety, you personally, or through the officer in command at the point where resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.