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Done at the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy[SEAL.] four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth. U. S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,

Secretary of State.

No. 11.

Dec. 21, 1874.

Preamble.

Turbulent and disorderly persons

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every State in the Union, on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence; and

Whereas it is provided by the laws of the United States that, in all cases of insurrection in any State, or of obstruction to the laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), to call forth the militia of any other State or States, or to employ such part of the land and naval force as shall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed; and

Whereas the legislature of the State of Mississippi, now in session, have represented to me, in a concurrent resolution of that body, that several of the legally elected officers of Warren County, in said State, are prevented from executing the duties of their respective offices by force and violence that the public buildings and records of said county have been taken into the possession of, and are now held by, lawless and unauthorized persons-that many peaceable citizens of said county have been killed, and others have been compelled to abandon, and remain away from, their homes and families-that illegal and riotous seizures and imprisonments have been made by such lawless persons-and, further, that a large number of armed men from adjacent States have invaded Mississippi to aid such lawless persons, and are still ready to give them such aid; and

Whereas it is further represented as aforesaid, by said legislature, that the courts of said county cannot be held, and that the Governor of said State has no sufficient force at his command to execute the laws thereof in said county and suppress said violence, without causing a conflict of races and endangering life and property to an alarming extent; and

Whereas the said legislature, as aforesaid, have made application to me for such part of the military force of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State and the citizens thereof against the domestic violence hereinbefore mentioned, and to enforce the due execution of the laws; and

Whereas the laws of the United States require that, whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military force for the purposes aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time:

Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United in Mississippi com- States, do hereby command said disorderly and turbulent persons to manded to disperse. disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within five days from the date hereof, and that they refrain from forcible resistance to

the laws, and submit themselves peaceably to the lawful authorities of said county and State.

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 twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-four, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the ninetyninth.

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Whereas objects of interest to the United States require that the Senate should be convened at twelve o'clock on the fifth day of March next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive:

Feb. 17, 1875.

Preamble.

Proclamation to

the United States.

Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declar- convene Senate of ing 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 fifth day of March next, at twelve o'clock at noon on 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 the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord [SEAL.] one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth. U. S. GRANT.

By the President:

HAMILTON FISH,

Secretary of State.

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