. HAYES.

[Footnote 2: Addressed to Federal officers generally.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 7, 1877_.

By virtue of authority conferred upon the President of the United
States by the provisions of section 2132, Revised Statutes of the
United States, as follows:

The President is authorized, whenever in his opinion the
public interest may require the same, to prohibit the
introduction of goods, or of any particular article, into
the country belonging to any Indian tribe, and to direct
all licenses to trade with such tribe to be revoked and all
applications therefor to be rejected. No trader to any other
tribe shall, so long as such prohibition may continue, trade
with any Indians of or for the tribe against which such
prohibition is issued--

the introduction into the Indian country, for the purpose of sale or
exchange to or with Indians, of any breech-loading firearms, and of
any special ammunition adapted to such arms, and the sale and exchange
to Indians in the Indian country of any such arms or ammunition, is
hereby prohibited; and it is hereby directed that all authority under
any license to trade in such arms or ammunition is hereby revoked.

The introduction into the country or district occupied by any tribe of
hostile Indians, for the purpose of sale or exchange to them, of arms
or ammunition of any description, and the sale or exchange thereof to
or with such Indians, is hereby prohibited; and it is hereby directed
that all license to trade in arms or ammunition of any description
with such tribe be revoked.

By virtue of section 2150, Revised Statutes, as follows:

The military forces of the United States may be employed in
such manner and under such regulations as the President may
direct--

* * * * *

Third. In preventing the introduction of persons and property
into the Indian country contrary to law, which persons and
property shall be proceeded against according to law.

* * * * *

All military commanders are hereby charged with the duty of assisting
in the execution of the above order and of Executive order of November
23, 1876,[3] the provisions of which are extended to include all
Indian country within the Territories of Idaho, Utah, and Washington
and the States of Nevada and Oregon.

R.B. HAYES.

[Footnote 3: See pp. 398-399.]

SPECIAL SESSION MESSAGE.

WASHINGTON, _October 15,