Friends with contacts in the local police force told him, he said, that if he applied for Russian documents he would be arrested, despite an amnesty proclamation during Mikhail S. Gorbachev's tenure as leader.

A few months later President Lincoln issued an amnesty proclamation granting full pardon to all political prisoners upon the condition that they take and keep the oath of allegiance.

After the end of the Civil War, Young was excluded from President Andrew Johnson's amnesty proclamation.

And Father Aristide formally made an amnesty proclamation on Sunday, a step that paves the way for the Parliament to create an independent police force.

As a Confederate Army officer over the rank of colonel, Ross was also exempted from President Andrew Johnson's amnesty proclamation of May 29, 1865.

In others various amnesty proclamations allowed the guilty to skate prosecution.

The government provided under this constitution being looked upon as provisional merely, was never recognized by Congress, and in 1865 the returned Confederates, restored to citizenship by the President's amnesty proclamation, soon got control of almost all the State.

When the Battle of Alamance ended in defeat for the Regulators, Governor William Tryon issued a series of amnesty proclamations for combatants and rioters, from which Thomas Person was specifically excluded, even though he was not present at the battle.

News of Admiral Howe's amnesty proclamation was met with some surprise, as its terms were more lenient than the hardliners in the government expected.

Meanwhile President Buchanan responded to rising criticism by publicly appointing two commissioners, Lazarus Powell and Ben McCulloch, to carry an amnesty proclamation to the Mormons.