Grant, President of the United States,
do hereby make proclamation and command all turbulent and disorderly
persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes
within ten days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves
to the lawful authority of said executive and the other constituted
authorities of said State; and I invoke the aid and cooperation of
all good citizens thereof to uphold law and preserve public peace.
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 15th day of May, A.D. 1874, and of
the Independence of the United States the ninety-eighth.
[SEAL.]
U.S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by the thirty-third article of a treaty concluded at Washington
on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States and Her Britannic
Majesty, it was provided that--
Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX of this treaty shall
take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into operation
shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain,
by the parliament of Canada, and by the legislature of Prince Edwards
Island on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on
the other.
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