804 PROCLAMATIONS. W¤r¤i¤g_¤11 per- Now, therefore, I, Ruruanronn B. IIAYEs, President of the United °°“° *°.d°“‘?“ from States, do hereby admonish all good citizens of the United States, and ?,;”$;;;°V;;]:?:° all persons within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, ` against aiding, couutenancing, abetting, or taking part in such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all persons engaged in, or connected with, said domestic violence and obstruction of the laws, to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes, on or before twelve o’clock noon of the nineteenth day of July instant. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to he aiiixed. Done at the city of Wiishingtoii this eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and second B. B. HAYES. By the President: F. W. SEWAED, Acting Secretary of State. No. 3. July 2],137; BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every State in this Union, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive, (when the Legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence; And whereas the Governor of the State of Maryland has represented that domestic violence exists in said State, at Cumberland, and along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in said State, which the authorities of said State are unable to suppress; And whereas the laws of the United States require that in all cases of insurrection in any State or of obstruction to the laws thereof, whenever in the judgment of the President it becomes necessary to use the military forces to suppress such insurrection or obstruction to the laws, he shall forthwith by proclamation command such insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time: Warning an per- Now, therefore, I, RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, President of the United sous todesist from States, do hereby admouish all good citizens of the United States and $*°¤§i°¤*‘§’ V(;°1°”°° all persons within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, m "Y Magainst aiding, countenancing, abetting, or taking part in such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all persons engaged in or connected with said domestic violence and obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before noon of the twentysecond day of July instant. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-rst day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- [SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and second. R. B. HAYES. By the President: Wm. M. EvAE*rs, Secretary of State.
