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 APPENDIX. 953 titled "An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States," and the persons composing such combinations and conspiracies were commanded to disperse and to retire peaceably to their homes within five days from said date; And whereas by my proclamation of the seventeenth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus were suspended in the counties named in said proclamation; And whereas the county of Marion was named in said proclamations as one of the counties in which said unlawful combinations and conspiracies for the purposes aforesaid existed, and in which the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus were suspended; And whereas it has been ascertained that in said county of Marion said combinations and conspiracies do not exist to the extent recited in said proclamations; And whereas it has been ascertained that unlawful combinations and couspiracies of the character and to the extent and for the purposes described in said proclamations do exist in the county of Union in said State: — Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States of Revocation of America, do hereby revoke, as to the said county of Marion, the suspension of the suspensirm of the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus directed in my said proclamation me ""l°°n’”b”S of the seventeenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; ;$;;f‘;; "tm Ma` And I do hereby command all persons in the said county of Union composing South Bgrgiinay the unlawful combinations and conspiracies aforesaid to disperse and to retire Persons compeaccably to their homes within five days of the date hereof, and to deliver p<>Si¤g ¤¤}l¤Wf"¤I either to the marshal of the United States for the district of South Carolina, or §;’ml’}"*¥°PS· to any of his deputies. or to any military officer of the United States within Goghé!] SEQ; said county, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises, and other means and (jaroiljayordered implements used, kept, possessed, or controlled by them for carrying out the to disperse, 8:c., unlawful purposes for which the combinations and conspiracies are organized. uml deliver up In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the ‘l‘°“` “""”> &°‘ United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of Washington this third day of November, in the year of [SEAL] our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and of the ‘ Independence of the United States of America the rgnegi-s§gXNT By the President: Hsmiuou Fxsn, Secretary of State. N0. 7. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. . . · I. YVHEREAS by an act of Congress, entitled "An act to enforce the provisions ¥§$f:n;i,?22_ of the iourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for Ante, p. 1a. other purposes? approved the twentieth day of April, anno D-Omllll one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, power is given to the President of the United States, when, in his judgment, the public safety shall require it, to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus in any State or part of a State, whenever combinations and conspiracies exist in such State or part of a State for the purpose of depriving any portion or class of the people of such State of the rights, privileges, immunities, and protection named in the Constitution of the United States, and secured by the act of Congress aforesaid; and whenever such combinations and conspiracies do so obstruct and hinder the execution of the lavvs of any such State, and of the United States, as to deprive the people aforesaid of the rights, privileges, immunities, and protection &i.0I'GS{1ld,·8.¥'\d do ppp0SG and obstruct the laws of the United States and their due execution, and impede and obstruct the due course of justice under the same; and whenever such combinations shall be organized and armed, and so numerous and powerful as to be able by violence either to overthrow or to set at defiance the constituted authorities of said State and of the United States within such State; and whenever, by reason of said causes, the conviction of such offenders and the giveservation of the public peace shall become in such State or part of a tate unpracticable :