The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session of the Forty
Third CONGRESS-.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA-A PROCLAMA-
TION.
Whereas, under the pretence that Will
liam p. Kellogg, the present executive of
Louisiana, and the officers associated with
him in the State administration, were not
duly elected, certain turbulent and disor-
derly persons have combined together
with force and arms to resist the laws and
constituted authorities of said State; and
Whereas it has been duly certified by
the proper local authorities, and judicially
determined by the inferior and supreme
courts of said State, that said officers are
entitled to hold their offices respectively,
and execute and discharge the functions
thereof; and
Whereas Congress, at its late session,
upon a due consideration of the subject,
tacitly recognized the said executive and
his associates then, as now, in Office, by
refusing to take any action with respect
thereto; and
whereas it is provided in the Constitu-
tion of the United States that the United
States shall protect every State in this
or of fSe S eEecnfsve when b | the eaislatnre
cannot be convened, against domestic v1o-
lence; and
Whereas it is provided in the laws of the
Uuited States, that in all cases of insurrec-
ton in any State, or of obstruction to the
laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the Pres
ident 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
OIneT SIaI6 OF Stdte1S, OE 10 61IpkDy SUCH
part of the land and naval forces as shall
be judged necessary for the purpose OF sup
pressing such fnsurrectiOn or causing the
laws to be duly executed; and
Whereas the legislature of said State Is
not now in session, and cannot be con-
vened in time to meet the present emer-
gency; and the executive Qf said state, un-
der section of article " of the Constitu-
ton of the United States, and the laws
passed in pursuance thereof, has, there
fore made application to me for such part
of the military force of the United States
as may be necessary and adequat TO pro
tect said State and the citizens thereof
the due execution of the laws: and
Whereas 1t Is required that whenever II
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
respective homes within a limited time:
| Now, therefore. /, ULYSSES 8. GRANT
President of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command said
| turbulent and disorderly persons to dis
perse and retire peaceabiy to their respect.
and hereafter to submit themselves to the
] laws and constituted authorities of said
/ State; and invoke the aid and cOopera.
| tion of all good citizens thereof to uphold
| law and preserve the public peace.
| In witness whereof have hereunto sci
my hand, and caused the seal of the Unit
| ed States TO be afflxed.
Done at the city of Washington this
| twenty-second day of May, in the year oi
| our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy
| three. and of the Independence of the
| United states the ntnety-seventh.
By the President: U. S. GRANT.
| j. G. BANCROFT DAVIS,
| ActtJlQ Secretary Of State.