Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-10
A PROCLA NATION.
By the Governor:
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, July 8.

The forces concentrated here have been brought into your midst to sustain the civil authorities and to see to it that the causeess blockade of the states highways, and the use less suffering and wrong which result from It to the ieople of Alabama, are brought to an end' aod life and liberty and property pro- tected
 Now, therefore, I, Thomas c. Jones. gov ernor of Alabama, do issue this proclamation. invoking the aid and cooperation of all law abiding citizens to that end.
 It Is also right that the people be informed of certain provisions of law which will be forced, and which all good citizens will will ingly obey.
 1. Under section 4711 of the code of Ala bama. when the military are called into active service of the state, it is lawful to prohibit all persons from occupying, or passing on any street, road or place in the vicinity of any mob, or any place where the same may be threatened, or where the m ilitia or state troops may be for the time being, and otherwise to regulate the passage and occupancy Of such streets and places; and any person failing to depart from any prohibited place, or street, uSn warned to do so, may be fued not more than 1000, and imprisoned in the county jail, and inc i;SS iIS makes it the duty of the officer in cnnmand of ffe troops to arrest such persons at once.
 2. Under section 47l3 IVY coue' when troops stationed aVund'S guas'ttnls l any public building or other place, 1t is lawfuf+~ prescribe boundaries within the vicinity or such building or place within which persons shall not come or remain and any person coming within such limits, without per mis- sion, and refusing to depart after being ordered to do so, is punishable by imprlson- ment in the county jailfor 300 days, if sue h offense is committed in the day time; and, if committed in the night time, it is felony, punis shable by imprisonment in the peniten- tiary for not more than two years
 8. Section 47O6 of the code mak es it felony for any person composing or taking part in any rout, tumult. mob or unlawful assembly, to refuse to disperse when commanded to do so, and any person remaining in any such as- sembly after being ordered to disperse or leave is guilty of a felony, and may be impris- oned in the penitentiary for not more than two years.
 1. Under section 47o5 of the code, the mlli- tary as well as the civil officers may command persons in riotous, unlawful assemblages to disperse, and set forms of word is neces- sary, nor is any notice required when the giv- ing of 1t would put the officer in danger of great bodily harm, or where such 'unlawfdl assemblage or mob is engaged in the perpe- tration or commission of violence, or assault ing or attacking any civil officer, or any per- son lawfully called to aid in the preservation of the peace, or otherwise engaged in acts of violence to persons or prop perty."
 5. ection 47o7 of the code leaves it to the discretion of the civil and military authorities (unless they are bound by special orders from the governor, in which case his orders shal Il be obeyed) to 'ttake such steps and make such disposition for the dispensing of mobs and unlawful assemblages as they may deem proper to that end.' If deemed advisable they may fire upon mobs as the best means of dispensing them without first trying other means, and the officers and soldiers and the civil and military authorities under the law are expressly held "guiltless in such cases" " unless the killing is wanton murder, without any sembIance of excuse or justification.
 6. Section 47OS of the code makes it a fel- ony, punishable by from two to five years im- prisonment in the penitentiary, for any one to assault, fire upon or throw any missile at or against any of the state troops or civil officers or other persons employed in aiding them when they are called iuto active service of the state.
 T. Section 4710 of the code makes 1t the duty of all persons in an assembly when any such act of hostility has been committed, to disperse and retire at once, without any or der, and if any person forming part of an as- semuly knows, or has good reason to believe, that an assault has been made upon any bod y of state troops, or any missiles thrown al
  dered, he is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than a year; and il he remain in such assemblage after being commanded to disperse, he is guilty of fel- ony, and may be imprisoned in the peniten- tiary for not more than two years. $. Under existing conditions, the tracks, stations, shops, right of way and other prop erty of the railroads are the places where law lessness and collision are most likely to oc- 10 and of the streets leading to them and their vicinity. as well as of right of way, stations, etc, will be regulated and defined as may seem proper and necessary, and all persons prohibited from going in the vicinity, or entering there- upon, except such as have lawful business thereon. Persons violating these regulations will be punished as prescribed in the fore going statutes
 9. The presence of crowds of sight-seers and law-abiding citizens about stations or where the troops are stationed Is often mis- taken by the lawless for sympathy and oncour- agement, and taken advantage of to promote tumult while it embarrasses the officers of law and involves the innocent as we'll as the guilty in the consequences of collision. In the duty now assigned them the troops are furnished with ball cartridges, and the firing of a sentinel in self-defense, or in the execu tion of his duty, or a bayonet charge or other effort in the dispersion of lawless assem- blages, may result in injury to the innocent. I, therefore, enjoin upon all good citizens to keep away from the troops, railroad stations and property, unless required to visit them on business.
 10. It is the history of every strike under considerations such as now exist that, sooner or later, persons engaged in it. or others taking advantage of it, indulge in acts of law lessness and violence. This a law of universal experience and we cannot hope to escape 1t. It is proper, therefore. to make known to all at while it the xi esi "a