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 APPENDIX. .. PROCLAMATIONS. No. 1. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: April 20, 1871. A PROCLAMATION. Wnmnmns objects of interest to the United States require that the Senate preamble_ should be convened at twelve o’c1ock on Wednesday, the tenth day of May next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive. New therefore I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States, have Extraordinary considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring that an S¤¤¤$0¤ of the extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene I§°“,&“·‘ cggvgggf for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on Or ay ’ ' Wednesday, the tenth day of May next, at twelve o’clock on that day, of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight [SEAL.] hundred and seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-fifth. U S GR NT .. A. By the President: HAMILTON Fxsu, Secretary of State. N0. 2. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: May 3, 1871. A PROCLAMATION. Tim act of Congress, entitled "An act to enforce the provisions of the Attention of fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other thzpevpfy ¤¤U°d purposes," approved April 20, A. D 1871, being a law of extraordinary public i°18;,“:,;_ 2z_ importance, I consider it my duty to issue this my proclamation calling the A,,,,;,, I3_ attention of the people of the United States thereto; enyoxning upon all good citizens and especially upon all public officers, to be zealous in the enforcement Enforcement thereof; and warning all persons to abstain from committing any of the acts g‘:"°°f'°”J°'“°dr thereby prohibited. _ ` This law of Congress ap lies to all parts of the United States, and w1ll_be Lawtobe enenforced everywhere, to the extent of the powers vested in the Executive. *);;:2 °V°U· Brit inasmuch as the necessity therefor is well known to have been caused chiefly W ‘ by persistent violations of the rights of citizens of the United States, by combinations of lawless and disaffected persons in certain localities lately the thea- ‘ tre of insurrection and military conflict, I do particularly exhort the people _People_m cer- 0f those parts of the country to suppress all such eombinatmns by their own vol- *¤:;¤uE>§1*;:;;>*°*°x_ untary efforts through the agency of local laws, and to maintain the rights of P Y