Rutherford B. Hayes: Executive Order

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Executive Order
December 31, 1877

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JAMES H. COGGESHALL, Esq.,

Marshal of the United States for the

District of Rhode Island, Providence, R. I

SIR: By virtue of the authority conferred upon me by section 5287 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and in execution of the same, you are hereby empowered and directed to take possession of the steamer Estelle, now or lately lying at Bristol, in Rhode Island, and to detain the same until further orders from me concerning the same, and to employ such portion of the land and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary for that purpose.

R.B. HAYES

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=68628.

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