GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 74. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, April 26, 1865. 
Extension of the military lines of the United States. 
General Orders, No. 70, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 
April 17, 1865, is amended to read as follows: 
Ordered, That the military lines of the United States be extended to 
include within them the States of Virginia and Tennessee, and that all 
military restrictions 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 instru- 
ments for operating telegraphic lines, which articles are contraband of 
war; and all trade in, and importation thereof, within the limits afore- 
said, is absolutely prohibited. 
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: 
W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.