ssembly.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States
of America, in pursuance of the aforesaid joint resolution, do hereby
appoint Friday, October 21, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of
the United States. On that day let the people, so far as possible, cease
from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express
honor to the discoverer and their appreciation of the great achievements
of the four completed centuries of American life.

Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment.
The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and
salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly
appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the
day's demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse
in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth
the patriotic duties of American citizenship.

In the churches and in the other places of assembly of the people let
there be expressions of gratitude to Divine Providence for the devout
faith of the discoverer and for the divine care and guidance which has
directed our history and so abundantly blessed our people.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 21st day of July, A.D. 1892, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JOHN W. FOSTER,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, and
assemblages of persons it has become impracticable, in my judgment, to
enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the
United States within the State and district of Wyoming, the United
States marshal, after repeated efforts, being unable by his ordinary
deputies or by any civil posse which he is able to obtain to execute the
process of the United States courts:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the
United States, do hereby command all persons engaged in such resistance
to the laws and the process of the courts of the United States to cease
such opposition and resistance and to disperse and retire pe