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PROCLAMATIONS, 1921. 2247 the amounts are due will be re orted by the district land office to the General Land Office for cancellation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia. this 11th day of August, in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and twenty-one and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and Forty-sixth. » Wannmz G Hannme By the President: Cnanuis E. Huomis Secretary of State. A PROCLAMATION Br rim Pnmsmmrr or rm: UNITED S·rA·rns. WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of West V-H'g1Dr `a has re re- D°*¤°°**°"*°'°¤°°i¤ sented that domestic violence exists in said State which the author- Wiisrlixiiliiiim ities of said State are imable to suppress; and WHEREAS, it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect each State in this Union, on application of the legislature, or of the executive when the legislature can not be convene against domestic violence· and , WHEREAS, the law of the United States in pursuance of the above it is provided that in all cases of insurrection m any State or of obstruction to the laws thereof it shall be lawful for the President of the United States on ap lication of the legislature of such State or of the executive when thellegislature cannot be convened to call forth the militia of any other State or States or to em lov such part of the land and naval forces of the United States as siliall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection an causing the laws to e uly executed; and _ WHEREAS, the legislature of the State of West Virginia 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 the Constitution of the United States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has made due application to me in the premises for such part of the military forces of the United States as may be neces- Sary and adequate to protect the State of West Virginia and the citizens thereof a ainst domestic violence and to en orce the due execution of the Eiwsg and _ WHEREAS, it is required that whenever it may be necessary, in_the gudgment of the President, to use the military orces of the United tates for the purposes aforesaid he shall forthwith by proclamation command such iusu ents to dis erse and retire peaceably to their reslpective homes wil-gin a limiteg time; _ OW, THEREFORE, I, WARREN G. HARDING, President of s,,§_Z,"f,‘,§"§,,‘lQc‘lj’“,‘§, ,,,§§fZ the United States, do hereby make proclamation and I do hereby com- {g°gg;gg'EP'°°°°d*¤€S mand all persons engaged in said unlawful and insurrectionary pro- ' ceedmgs to disperse and retire pcaceably to their respective abodes on or before 12 o’clock noon of the lst day of September, 1921, and hereafter abandon said combinations and submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of said State; And I invoke the aid and cooperation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the laws and reserve the public peace. IN WITNESS WIFEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed.