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 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 1. · BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. May 5, 1877. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the final adjournment of the Forty-fourth Congress without Preamble. making the usual appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1878, presents an extraordinary occasion requiring the President to exercise the power vested in him by the Constitution to convene the Houses of Congress in anticipation of the day fixed by law for their next meeting: Now, therefore, I, Rnrnnnronn B. HAYES, President of the United Convening Con States, do, by virtue of the power to this end in me vested by the Con- ermstitution, convene both Houses of Congress to assemble at their respective chambers at 12 o’clock noon on Monday the fifteenth day of October next, then and there to consider and determine such measures as, in theirl wisdom, their duty and the welfare of the people may seem to demzln. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to he affixed. Done at the city of Washington this fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and tirst. · R. B. HAYES. By the President: Wm. M. EvA1z·rs, Secretary of State. No. 2. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. July 18, 1871. A PBOCLAMATION. Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that Preamble. the United States shall protect every State in this Union, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive, (when the Legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence; And whereas the Governor of the State of West Virginia has represented that domestic violence exists in said State at Martinsburg and at various other points along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in said State, which the authorities of said State are unable to suppress; And whereas the laws of the United States require that in all cases of insurrection in any State or of obstruction to the laws thereof, whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the President, he shall forthwith by proclamation command such insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time: · (803)