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1032 r1zocLAMAT1oNs. Nos. 32, sa. [N 0. 32.] BY THE Punsrnmzr or THE UVNITED STATES or Arvrnurcm. A PROOLAMATION. July 30, 1892. Preamble. Whereas, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages, of persons, it has become impraeticable, in llly judgment, to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within the State and District of Wyoming, the United States Marshal, after repeated eiibrts, being unable by his ordinary deputies, or by any civil posse which he is able to obtain, to execute the process of the United States Courts, U,,;,,,;,,] ,,_.,,,,,,,,. Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of l>l¤¤¤¤ *3,, Wymjzs the United States, do hereby command all persons engaged in such pmt. resistance to the laws and the process of the courts of the United States to cease such opposition and resistance and to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before Wednesday, the third day of August next. In witness 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 thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. ` BENJ HA1z1z1soN By the President: Jomv W. Foscrmz. Secretary of State. [No. _ BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or AMERIUA. A PROGLAMATION. August 18, 1892. "jQ,,f,`,Q,',,W Wliereas, by an act of Congress approved July 26, 1892, entitled "An Aw. 1:.267. act to enibrce reciprocal commercial relations between the United States and Canada-, and thr other purposes," it is provided *"1‘hat. with a view of securing reciprocal advantages for the citizens, ports, and vessels of the United States, on and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever and so often as the President shall be satished that the passage through any canal or lock connected with the navigation of the Saint Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, or the water ways connecting the same, of any vessels of the United States, or of cargoes or passengers in transit to any port of the United States, is prohibited or is made diiiieult or burdensome by the imposition of tolls or otherwise which, in view of the free passage through the St. Marys Falls Canal, now permitted to vessels of all nations, he shall deem to be reciprocally unjust and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to suspend, by proclamation to that etleet, for such time and to such extent (including absolute prohibition) as he shall deem just, the right of free passage through the Saint Marys Falls Canal, so tiir as it relates to vessels owned by the subjects of the government so discriminating against the citizens, ports, or vessels of the United States, or to any cargoes, portions of