“Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase” (Library of Congress)
From The New-York Times May 2, 1865:
AN IMPORTANT MISSION.; Chief Justice Chare Reorganizing the Southern Courts-The Freedom of Commerce.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 1.
Chief Justice CHASE was one of a small party who left here at 8 o’clock this evening, in a special vessel, to visit the seaboard cities as far as Galveston if it be found accessible, and thence back to New-Orleans and up the Mississippi.
Chief Justice CHASE’s mission is an important one, and includes, among other things, the reorganization of the United States Courts in the South.
W.P. MELLEN, General Supervising Agent of the Treasury Department, left upon the same vessel, with instructions to see that the President’s proclamation, removing restrictions upon commercial intercourse, etc., be fully and promptly carried out.
