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Alexandria Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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From Milan headquarters, General Murat decrees regulations for merchant vessels entering Leghorn port: limited to health inspections, free military passage but French formalities required. Port command given to the Queen's governor, who must report daily and enforce export bans on ammunition and enemy supplies. Contradictory orders revoked.
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ORDER OF THE DAY.
The General in Chief decrees
1. That the merchant vessels which enter the Port of Leghorn shall only be subject to the visit of the health officer: they may enter and go out without impediment from the military authority, but conforming themselves to the formalities required in regard to the Commissary of the French republic.
2. The command of the Port of Leghorn is consigned to the authority of the governor of her majesty the reigning Queen. Yet the governor shall be obliged to give every day an account of what passes in the Port to the commanding general, and to put strictly into execution the existing and future orders respecting the prohibition of exporting ammunition and other articles deemed proper for victualling the enemy.
3. All orders contrary to these dispositions are revoked.
(Signed)
MURAT.
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Primary Location
Leghorn
Event Date
25th Frimaire 12
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port command transferred to queen's governor with daily reporting and strict enforcement of export prohibitions on ammunition and enemy victualling articles; contrary orders revoked.
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General in Chief Murat issues order regulating merchant vessels in Leghorn: subject only to health officer visits, free from military impediments but must follow French Commissary formalities. Port authority given to the reigning Queen's governor, requiring daily reports to the commanding general and execution of bans on exporting ammunition and enemy supplies.