By the President of the United States: A Proclamation caption title, followed

by 12 paragraphs of text by Andrew Johnson

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Washington, DC: October 12, 1865. Broadside proclamation with a blank integral leaf, 13 x 8 1/4 inches, signed in type by Andrew Johnson, countersigned in type by Acting Secretary of State W. Hunter. At the head of the tile is a short printed note in brackets, October 12, 1865 -- Ending Martial Law in Kentucky . This reconstruction era proclamation, ending martial law in Kentucky, in part: when the civil war was flagrant, and when combinations were in progress in Kentucky for the purpose of

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