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 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 1. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: April 26, 1879. A PROGLAMATION. \Vhereas, it has become known to me that certain evil disposed per- .r·mamb1s. sons have within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, begun and set on foot preparations for an organized and forcible possession oi, and settlement upon the lands of what is known as the Indian Terr1tory,_west of the State of Arkansas, which Territory is designated, recognized and described by the treaties and laws of the United States, andby the Executive Authorities, as Indian Country and as such, is only subject to occupation by Indian tribes, officers of the Indian Department, military posts and such persons as may be privileged to reside and trade therein under the intercourse laws of the United States. And whereas those laws provide for the removal of all persons residing and trading therein, without express permission of the Indian Department and agents, and also of all persons whom such agents may deem to be improper persons to reside in the Indian Country: Now, therefore, for the purpose of properly protecting the interests of Sewing in me the Indian nations and tribes, as well as of the United States in said ¥··•li=¤¤ '|`·*¤‘i*<>¤W· Indian Territory, and of duly enforcing the laws governing the same, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, P1'CSl(1G1.lD of the United States, do admonish and warn all such persons so intending or preparing to remove upon said lands or into said Territory, without permission of the proper agent of - the Indian Department, again st any attempt to so remove or settle upon any of the lands of said Territory; and I do futher warn and notify any and all such persons who may so offend, that they will be speedily and immediately removed therefrom by the agent according to the laws made and provided; and if necessary the aid and assistance of the military forces of the United States will be invoked to carry into proper execution the laws of the United States herein referred to. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 8661 of the United States to be aiiixed. _ _ _ Done at the city of Washmgton, this twenty-sixth day of April, m the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, [L. s.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred `and third. RUTHEBFORD B. HAYES. ` By the President: Wm. M. Evkners, Secretary of State. 797