GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 70. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, April 17, 1865. 
Extension of the Military Lines of the United States. 
Ordered: That the military lines of the United States be extended to 
include within them the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, 
Florida, North Alabama, and Tennessee, and that all military restric- 
tions upon internal trade within said lines are annulled, except in 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 telegraphiclines, which articles are contraband of war; and all 
trade in, and importation thereof, within the limits aforesaid, is 
absolutely prohibited. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.