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798 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 50, 51, 52. ower, in the execution of the lawsrconimanding all citizens of the United States in said Territory to aid and assist the officers in the performance of their duties; offering to the inhabitants of Utah, who shall submit to the laws, a free pardon for the seditions and treasons heretofore by them committed; warning those who shall persist, after notice of IZIIIS proclamation, m the_ present rebellion against the United States, that they must expect no further lemty, but look_ he rigorously dealt with according to their deserts; and declaring that the military forces now in Utah, and hereafter to be sent there, will not be withdrawn until the inhabitants of that Territory shall manifest a proper sense of the duty which they owe to this government. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the scal of the United States to be allixed to these presents. _ Done at the city of Washington, the sixth day of April, one thousand [L. s.] eight hundred and fifty-eight, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-second. JAMES BUCHANAN BY r11E PRESIDENT : LEWIS CASS, Secretary of Stale. No. 51. 6‘bnvening an Extraordinary Session of the Senate. June 14, 1858. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. IVHEREAS an extraordinary occasion has occurred, rendering it necessary and proper that the Senate of the United States shall be convened to receive and act upon such communications as have been or may be made to it on the part of the Executive: Now, therefore, I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fifteenth day of this month, at twelve o’c ock at noon of that day, of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, [I S] this fourteenth day of June, anno Domini, 1858, and of the indepen- "dence of the United States the eighty-second. JAMES BUCHANAN. BY THE PRESIDENT : L LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State. N0. 52. Respecting an apprehended Invasion of Mcaragzaa. October 30,185s. BY JAMES BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : A PROCLAMATION. WVHEREAB information hasreached me fromsources which I cannot disregard thatccrtam persons, in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States are malring 3T!id11!’d attempt to set on foot a military expedition within their territory ggamst lhcaikagua, a foreign State,_with which they are at peace. In order to arse money or equipping and maintaining this expedition, persons connected therewith, as I have reason to believe, have issued and sold bonds and other contracts plcdging the public lands of Nicaragua and the transit route through its territory, asa security for theirredeinption and fulfilment. bogpse hojnlc design of this expeditionlis rendered manifest by the fact that these an contracts can be of no possible value to their holders, unless the pros-