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Rutherford B. Hayes: “I do hereby warn all persons engaged in or connected with said obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably…”

On the recordOctober 6, 1878
I do hereby warn all persons engaged in or connected with said obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before noon of the 13th day of October instant.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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Proclamation 240—Law and Order in the Territory of New Mexico

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