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PROCLAMATION S. 849 New, Ehf51‘8foI‘€, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of theUnited States of Evidence received Arneriea, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby deelare that I have re- °f ]““Y" °° ?“‘"'¥` eeived satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliamentof Great Britain tmmy mm °H°°°` and the Legislature of Nevrfoundlnnd have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of the said treaty, as contained in articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth of said treaty. 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-ninth day of May, in the year [ AL-] of our Lord one thousand eighthundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-eighth. By the President: U· S· GRANT HAMILTON Frsu, Secretary of State. N 0. 8. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Sepia 15,18;% ' A PROCLAMATION. `"`"""""" Whereas it has been satisfactorily represented to me that turbulent pmm,1,].,, and disorderly persons have combined together with force and arms to overthrow the State government of Louisiana, and to resist the laws and constituted authorities of said State; und 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 ennnot be convened, against domestic violence; and Whereas it is provided in the laws of the United States that, in all eases of insurrection in any State or of obstruction to thelaws 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 eannot be eonvened, to call forth tho militia of any other State or — States, or to employ such pmt of rthe land and naval forces, as shall he judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing suehiinsurrcetion or causing the laws to be duly executed; and Whereas the legislature of said State is not now in session and cannot be convened in time to meet the present emergency, and the executive of said State, under section 4 of article IV of theC0nstitution of the United States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has therefore made application to me for such part of the military ioreo of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State and the citizens thereof against domestic violence, mid to enforce the due execution of thelews; and » Whereas it is required that, whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith by proclamation command such insurgents to disperse and retire penceably to their respective homes within ai limited time: -Now, therefore, 1, ULYss1as_S. GRANT, Pi·esident_of the United States, _·i·u.—n¤1e».t and do hereby make proclamation, and command said turbuient and dns- 5i¤¤<»r<i~¤}·¥;j i•¤¤‘¤¤¤¤¤ orderly persons to disperse and retire peueeebly to their respective abodes within tivo days from this date, and hereafter to submit them- ` selves to the laws and constituted authorities of said State; and 1 invoke the nid and co-operation of ali good citizens thereof to uphold law und preserve the public peace. · · In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. _ Done at the city of V\’ashington this fifteenth day of Septeinber, in [SEAL] the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seyenty-tour, and ' of the Independence of the United States the ninetyrnnithf By the President: U` b' U `AL ` 1I1mi10s0N Fisn, · ' Secretary of Slate. Vol. 18, pt. JL-W5-L